On 16 January 2014 16:16, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear LizR, > > What you wrote is missing something. Add "for each inertial frame..." to > ""everything" is a single point because there are no spatial dimensions". > I was trying to make sense of the suggestion that everything moves through space-time at c and that this implies that everything is in one location in time. > > We forget that we have to deal with multiple inertial frames when > considering real world scenarios. They are very close to synchrony and > alignment, but not exactly dead on parallel, thus we see 3 dimensions of > space. Don't forget that we cannot measure exact position, that is where > the uncertainty between position and momentum stuff comes in. We observe a > combination of position, energy and spin direction from which we infer the > conjugate properties of momentum duration and spin angle. > OK, but I wasn't trying to deal with real world scenarios, only that particular claim. > > QM is fun once one gets past the arcane math and understands it > (pace Feynman). :-) > I'm sure it is. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
