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- From: m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White)
- Subject: Re: Compelling Mysteries (II)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.164914.3284@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:49:14 GMT
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- Cameron Randale Bass writes:
- > I wonder if some of those people
- > will oblige me by posting what they believe to be compelling
- > mysteries or pressing problems in their particular field.
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- You don't have to look very far for compelling mysteries...
- How about the two-slit electron diffraction experiment?
- Yes, yes, I know the math, but it's just so... weird!
- Fyneman (I think) said of it: "It is the only mystery". And
- how about Alley and Wickes' delayed-choice photon
- switching experiments? I mean, just what is reality,
- anyway? A quote from my undergrad physics prof said it best:
- "Nobody every really understands quantum physics,
- they just get used to it".
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- * These are my opinions only.*
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