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Jan 20, 2007, 6:40 AM

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Re: [petsfed] two parallel lines can cross!!!
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Dammit !!! I never get it right the forst time, and you replied before I was done editing... Please read for changes/additions. Unsure

My fault... I'm retarded bro... So retarded, I was working on that posts off and on for hours. Crazy


And yes... Physical reality is very bizzare. But it is that fact that makes it so interesting. In fact, many times reality "fails Occam's Razor" as well. (simple reflection according to QED as just one example, and most of all quantum mechanics))

Another example:
petsfed wrote:
And in the case of a single photon, classically it must follow a single path, and that path is a straight line in terms of the geometry of the universe.
Actually, a single photon can take any of an infinate number of paths, and even the double slit experiment shows this. What we see "classically" is the emergent result of many photon taking the same path, reiforcing eachother, and the other ones canceling each other out... So 'classically' we go for what fits Occam's Razor and our intuition, but the reality is much more bizzare and complex. Remember, still to thgis day, "classically" Newton's equations are correct... But Relativity showed that our classical laws needed modification, and that modification does not fit Occam's Razor at first glance.

Note... QED is the most accurately measured and confirmed theory in history, and has been confirmed on an order of 10^-43 I believe, and that was in Feynman's time, and he described its accuracy as measuring the distance from LA to NY with an accuracy of the width of a human hair.


(This post was edited by rrradam on Jan 20, 2007, 7:13 AM)



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