On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 16:02, Craig Dickson wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > My favorite quote from Stephen Hawking is one where he was contrasting > his view of quantum theory with that of Roger Penrose in a Scientific > American article several years ago. He wrote (this may not be word > perfect, as I no longer have the article), "Roger doesn't like quantum > theory because he doesn't believe that a cat can be dead and alive at > the same time. He thinks that can't correspond to reality. But I don't > know _anything_ about reality. All I care about is that a theory can be > used to successfully predict the results of experiments. By that > standard, quantum theory has been very successful."
I'm inherently(sp?) suspicious of any theory which is only really understood by a half-dozen people. Many parts of Quantum Theory meet that criteria. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ ron.l.johnson | | | | "For me and windows it became a matter of easy to start | | with, and becoming increasingly difficult to be produc- | | tive as time went on, and if something went wrong very | | difficult to fix, compared to linux's large over head | | setting up and learning the system with ease of use and | | the increase in productivity becoming larger the longer I | | use the system." | | Rohan Nicholls , The Netherlands | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
