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Posted on December 14, 2007

Is Quantum Theory the Most Bastardized Theory of Physics?

Murray Gell-Mann always makes me laugh. Via Asymptotia here is what Murray said while giving a Ted talk:

I won’t go into a lot of stuff about quantum mechanics and what it’s like and so on…you’ve heard a lot of wrong things about it anyway!

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Posted on December 5, 2007

A Central Non-premise of Quantum Theory

His Squidiness points to a real whopper of a silly article titled “Was Einstein Wrong About Special Relativity?” by Darrell Williams who is listed as a “Mathematician” and a “graduate of Arizona State University.”
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Posted on November 24, 2007

"Space-Time" to Call Mystics on Their Misuse of Quantum Theory

Well it is certainly true that Mystics and quantum physicists speak the same language, that language most probably being Mandarin, English, or Hindi, but I’m guessing that’s probably not what they meant by that title. I should have stopped reading at the title, but instead I actually scanned down the page.
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