Re: knowledge
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 16:02, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
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> 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.
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