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echo: holysmoke
to: CINDY HAGLUND
from: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
date: 2005-01-14 07:50:26
subject: Famous Quote

->  CH>   Interesting. You want to try to explain why?

->  MK> He didn't like the implications of it as it threw a major screw into
->  MK> the "Unified Field Theory" he was working on. 
However he may yet get

->  OH. That would make sense. My theory or no Theory. Not very
->  scientific of him is it. But as said he was a victim of the times.

->  MK> the last laugh given the "religiousness" of things
like "String
->  MK> Theory" which cannot be tested and therefore are highly
criticized as
->  MK> being non-scientific.  Just because the math works doesn't mean it's
->  MK> right.  Kind of like how people play with
->  MK> statistics to "prove" some lame point.

->   Stirng theory does sound like nonsense. But hey I love "Quantum
->   Leap" (The tv show). It's a fun to specualte on type of concept
->   at any rate.

Quantum theory may _seem_ to be nonsense to macro-scale 
observations and common sense but without it AND
general relativity the two most known ways to observe
reality don't play well together,

I recommend "The Elegant Universe" a NOVA eposode.
I've seen this series a number of times and will
see it yet more.

->  MK>  RS>> It is known that in his contempt for QM, he said
flat out, "God
->  MK> does  RS>> not play dice with the universe."

He's say the universe plays dice today.
Single photon two slit experiments demonstrate  clearly
and simply one can only predict to 50 percent accuracy
the outcome of the experiment.

  
->  CH>  Methinks he was a man as many great men have been and are:
->  CH>  victims of the social political pressures of their time.

->  MK> The opposite is true in this case.  He just didn't like most people's
->  MK> idea of who God is.  He admitted to being a believer but not all that
->  MK> religious about it.
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