RE: MD "Is there anything out there?"

From: Mark Steven Heyman (markheyman@infoproconsulting.com)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2005 - 14:52:41 GMT

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    Hi Rich,

    Nice to hear from you again, and thanks for the courteous and
    thoughtful commentary.

    On 3 Jan 2005 at 20:25, Richard Loggins wrote:

    MSH said: "The whole of quantum physics depends upon
    this simple equation. It is the basic equation of any wave motion, a
    wave on water, the sound waves coming from an air raid siren, or
    electromagnetic radiation."

    rich:
    Oh come on. you must be joking. You can't really believe everything
    you read on the internet.

    msh says:
    LOL. Well, yes, obviously I've over-simplified things to make my
    point in a few paragraphs. But you've made the simplification more
    extreme by limiting my point to the two sentences above. The fact is
    that equations in the form I've described are found throughout the
    physical sciences, and are especially obvious in any discussion
    surrounding the Schroedinger equation, which was the first thing
    that gave people confidence in such a crazy system as quantum
    mechanics.

    As for your comment about the internet as a source of information, I
    don't believe anything I read there, or anywhere else, unless I can
    discover independent corrorboration. But why should reading an
    article, say, on The Scientific American website be any less reliable
    than reading the magazine itself?

    Finally, I should emphasize that I'm not suggesting that these
    equations somehow prove that God exists and that she's a
    mathematician. My point is that the correlation between math and
    physical reality is more than just measuring things, then tweaking
    equations till they are useful.
     

    Thanks,
    Mark Steven Heyman (msh)
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