On 10 June 2014 05:14, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/9/2014 3:00 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > QM is the only theory (or scheme of theories) which has not been refuted > for more than a century. All others theories in physics have been shown > wrong in less than few years, when they are not suspected to be wrong at > the start (wrong does not imply "not useful" in some context). > > General relativity, the theory of gravity and spacetime, is equally > venerable. It's only thought to be "wrong" (i.e. approximate) because to > be exact it would conflict with quantum mechanics. >
Yes, and Special Relativity is even more venerable and only thought to be wrong in similarly exacting situations - e.g. if space-time is not continuous. -- 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/d/optout.
