begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 09:26:50AM -0800: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 08:48:55AM -0800, m ike wrote: > > > quantum mechanics is non-linear physics. > > > > keyword: is > > What does "non-linear" mean? That it's not continuous? I thought that > was the point.
IIRC, in a linear system, f(x) + f(y) = f(x + y); in a non-linear system, this doesn't have to be true. I don't think continuity is a requirement one way or the other. -Stewart "IANAM" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
