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#1 2005-06-27 01:16:35

Mitchy T
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Quantum or reality

Would you rather have the ordinary rules and laws of physics present in your day to day life...or would you prefere to have the unpredictable rules that apply to sub atomic particles in quantum phyiscs???


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#2 2005-06-27 20:19:05

Chris
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Re: Quantum or reality

Those "unpredictable" rules make up everything we see on the macro-scale. The "ordinary rules" of everyday experience are derived from quantum mechanics. Otherwise, QM would not be very useful.

(BTW, the rules of QM are not unpredicatable. Sometimes the results are to a degree.)

I no what you mean, though. What would happen if, say, Planck's constant was 11 rather than 6E-34? Check out the Mr. Thompkins series of books by Roger Penrose. He explores that very question in a very humorous fashion. And the physics is all acurate.


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#3 2005-06-29 00:28:44

Mitchy T
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Re: Quantum or reality

HA ha ha that Mr. Thompson has a very interesting outlook  on qm and i thought his first book (The only one ive bought so far) was brilliant


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#4 2005-07-06 02:56:20

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Re: Quantum or reality

I don't know. This world is great and all, but I think I would like the crazyness of the world with a large planks constant. Like in the Elegant Universe where they showned the "H bar" smile


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