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3 Sep 2024 21:18:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quantum physics  
From: Darren New
Date: 24 Jul 2010 11:37:36
Message: <4c4b08c0$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
>> Le 24/07/2010 07:57, Warp nous fit lire :
>>> Neeum Zawan <fee### [at] festercom> wrote:
>>>> Electrons aren't waves. They aren't simple particles either. Why can't
>>>> they just teach it that way?
>>>   It would be nice to know what they are, not only what the aren't.
>>>
>> They are electrons. Now, you wanted a seizable simile... sorry, no such
>> thing at your scale.
> 
>   You can't use the word being defined in its definition. That's a
> circular definition.

Well, they're electrons. QM describes how they behave. They don't behave 
like anything else. They are (insert all of QM theory here).

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    C# - a language whose greatest drawback
    is that its best implementation comes
    from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.


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