On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote:
> "And no, Relativity and QM have -not- been joined into a -single cohesive theory-."
>
> You have to qualify this.
No, I don't.
> General relativity has not been unified with quantum mechanics in any
> way that is universally accepted yet, but the superstring and M-Theory
> cats may be closing in.
We aren't playing horse-shoes or handgrenades. Almost doesn't count.
> Special relativity is of course a completely diferent story.
That's the almost there, you're flogging a dead horse here.
> Double whaledreck (I actually never heard that phrase before...)
Read Brunner, it's an actual word. It's what's left over after all the
good stuff at a whaling station has finished with a carcass.
> First of all, an intermediate vector boson is not even remotely a photon,
It sure as hell ain't a Fermion...
Let's take the definition of a boson from "Q is for Quantum" (pp. 58,
ISBN 0-297-81752-3):
A particle which obeys Bose-Einstein statistics. All bosons have integer
spin (1, 2, and so on). They are the particles associated with the
transmission of forces (for example, the photon carries the
electromagnetic force)....
I believe we're done here.
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