26-06-03 20:59, g wrote:
>>To quote Niels Bohs, it's crazy enough to be true.
>
> Or an ancient scholar, Tertullian: "Credo, quia
> absurdum." (I believe it, coz it's absurd. :))
There's an important difference betweem Bohr and Tertullian. Quantum
theory is "crazy" because some of its aspects appear absolutely
counterintuitive; but it's logically consistent, its predictions turn
out to be correct, and it has survived all attempts to falsify it
empirically. If you learn enough, you can _understand_ it, and you don't
have to rely on blind faith to accept it: the physicists believe it,
'coz it works. Toutes proportions gardées, the same is true of the
derivation in question.
Piotr