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On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:28 PM, xponentrob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's not really productive to worry too much about what is real and what is
virtual, since there is no firm basis for the categorization. Particles are
a quantized bias in the field fluctuations that compose reality, and as
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Umyeah. Though I have
rob/xponent wrote:
Models make predictions. And over time models have made predictions
with greater accuracy and that cover more situations that previous
models failed. Mercury anyone?
Mercury's extra precession could be modeled using Classical Mechanics,
it was just a matter of
At 05:14 AM Monday 12/1/2008, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
rob/xponent wrote:
Models make predictions. And over time models have made predictions
with greater accuracy and that cover more situations that previous
models failed. Mercury anyone?
Mercury's extra precession could be modeled
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On 11/30/2008 5:30:23 PM, Dan M
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At 08:25 PM Saturday 11/29/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
(Although to be fair, classical mechanics does sum up pretty well what
we see on our scale. It's just right for the wrong reasons, is all. :)
Why is it for the wrong reasons? Some would say that if it leads
to predictions which match
On 11/30/2008 2:26:19 AM, Ronn! Blankenship ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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At 08:25 PM Saturday 11/29/2008, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
(Although to be fair, classical mechanics does sum up pretty well what
we see on our scale.
It's just right for the wrong reasons, is all. :)
Why is it for the
Rob wrote:
If physics were anything more than approximate, we would have final
answers to all our questions.
How? All physics does is model observations. Physics was created out of
Natural Philosophy by tabling the question of the reliability of
observations.
Now, you can use the results of
On 11/30/2008 5:30:23 PM, Dan M ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Rob wrote:
If physics were anything more than approximate, we would have final
answers to all our questions.
How? All physics does is model observations.
Models make predictions. And over time models have made predictions with
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16095-its-confirmed-matter-is-merely-v
On 11/29/2008 11:50:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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It's confirmed: Matter is merely vacuum fluctuations
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Rceeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We can understand philosophy much easier than maths, they are easier for us
to discuss and digest.
Hmmph. Your father apparently wasn't a philosophy professor.
Nick
J'ai faim, puisque je suis.
On Nov 29, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Rceeberger wrote:
Agree with what you are trying to say.
I think that as a magazine, NS is trying to engage lay folk and other
scientists whose expertise doesn't extend very far into QM. For most
of us
the metaphysics *is* the important aspect of QM.
It helps
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