Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 13:54:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Drew Bittner <drewbitt at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Newton or einstein?
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- Ern <elilley at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Driving down the road (pe=1/2mv^2) I was thinking
> about how we live in a newtonian world, and that
> quantum physics is really besides the point.
>
> Of course, I was listening to a cd at the time.
>
> So, what do you think? Is Einstien irrelant in
> everday life? Do we live in a locally deterministic
> universe?
>
> Ern
> Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless

Quantum physics, for most of us and for the time
being, falls into the category of "interesting to know
but what does that have to do with the price of gas?"
Much like the origins of the universe, speculation
about same universe's eventual heat death vs.
contraction toward singularity, life on other planets
and so on, it has little real significance to the
average joe. On that basis, Newton's good enough.

Drew

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