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To: snarks_when_bored
Heck, I rolled my eyes up when she tried to equate either special or general relativity with "cultural" relativity. What the devil?! All special relativity does is explain how to translate coordinate systems from one inertial reference frame to another, and general relativity does the same for reference frames that are accelerating or near a gravity well. Doofy, metaphysical wishy-wash has absolutely nothing to do with it.

And don't even get me started on the mystic spin these kooks try to apply to quantum mechanics.

Sure, we don't know EXACTLY how a particular particle will behave, but uncertainty is measured in a very definite, quantifiable way. Moreover, the laws of quantum mechanics that govern the statistical behavior of objects are precise to any scale on which we wish to test them. They are as hard, absolute and unchanging as the speed of light. Sure, no one can say where a given electron is at a specific moment, but we can tell you pretty much everything about its average position, momentum, velocity, and etc.

The math folks have already thrashed that silliness about Godel's proof.

This book and its accompanying article, are pure 100% unadulterated bunkum!

41 posted on 02/16/2005 9:50:50 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: Constantine XIII
Heck, I rolled my eyes up when she tried to equate either special or general relativity with "cultural" relativity. What the devil?!

I think (I hope!) that that's the reviewer, Rothstein, putting his spin on things. If not, then that's bad, very bad...

44 posted on 02/16/2005 9:55:03 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
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