On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > For laymen, quantum mechanics (QM) is very hard to understand; even > Einstein had trouble with it. > Einstein had objections to its implications and apparent incompleteness. He was completely comfortable with how it was used to make successful predictions. > Experimenting with QM is even more difficult. If you look at results, they > go away or become invalid. > QM is the most predictive theory over the widest range of dimensions in history. It has certain odd implications, but in its simple application as tool to predict the outcome of experiments, it is perfectly well understood and completely unambiguous, even if statistical in nature. > Workers in the field have spent decades repeatedly redoing the double slit > experiment, sometimes called Young's experiment, each trying to glean some > new revelation into how the world of the small works. > Investigation of entanglement keeps a lot of people fascinated. That's true. But that doesn't make the theory less useful. There are even two major QM theories competing with each other; each having > its own lists of acolytes; and each with differing implications for the > view of the cosmos. > Not sure what you're referring to here. Surely not the heisenberg and schrodinger formulations, since they have been shown to be mathematically equivalent. And if you're referring to more philosophical interpretations like the Copenhagen interpretation, it's important to understand that these are more for peace of mind. In the applications of the theory to interactions, the predictions are not ambiguous. > Most people will not accept LENR in principle because they cannot accept > QM as meaningful in their everyday experience: it is just too weird. > That's nonsense. Everything around us depends on QM, and most people accept everything around us. People won't accept LENR because the evidence sucks. Light a match and they'll agree there's heat. Plug in an ecat, and wait 2 hours for a cup of tea, and no one's gonna think it's a big deal. And as for scientists, especially physicists, quantum weirdness has never been a barrier to accepting phenomena. They are skeptical of LENR for the same reason: the paucity of good evidence.
