Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-02-09, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 14:56 +0100, Martin P. Hellwig wrote: >>>> Propagate, travel, what's the difference? >>>> >>> Unfortunately, I didn't study any of this but I sure do remember the >>> answer one drunk physic said to me in a bar when I ask him the question: >>> "Does light travel or propagate?" >>> He answered: "Depends on how you see light." >>> He must have studied philosophy too :-) >> Quantum mechanics are closely related to philosophy. > > I've never understood that claim. You can philosophize about > anything: biology, math, weather, the stars, the moon, and so > on. I don't see how QM is any more related to philosophy than > any other field in science.
Any science with sufficient room for uncertainty (no pun) will immediately be claimed as evidence for every pseudo-theory ever imagined over a bowl of bad weed. "Particles can tunnel anywhere? Ahh, that must be how the telepaths are doing it." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
