Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:28:00 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Newton or einstein?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> elilley at mindspring.com 5/12/2005 4:04:37 PM >>>
>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?

Or... Waldrop's "...The World, as We Know't" set in the 18th century
where phlogiston is real and an experiment ends the world.

mjw