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From: Robert J. Kolker
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 16:46

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Tom Roberts wrote:

> I agree that QM is incredibly interesting, and requires a much more 
> fundamental change in our perception of the world than does SR, or even GR.

Actually, we can't change our perceptions (they are hardwired 
physiologically) but we can change our -expectations-. There is no 
fundamental reason why regularities seen at man-scale should obtain in 
microscopic domains, particularly subatomic domains. Once one disabuses 
himself that man-scale experience is decisive, all inclusive and THE 
source of truth, the strangness of quantum theory is a lot less upsetting.

It is like a rube from Kansas City visiting Paris. Why should he expect 
the folks in Paris to speak English with a midwestern accent?

Bob Kolker

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