Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 16:39:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Matthew J Dubuque <virtual-AT-leland.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: BLAKE & THE MODERNS (1)


On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Rahul Mahajan wrote:

> Mattie,
>
>         I haven't seen what you said about QM, but I thought I'd offer a
> clarification. Heisenberg did not get a Nobel Prize for his "view" of
> quantum mechanics. First, he got it for creating quantum mechanics, i.e.,
> he was the first to set up (a part of) the formalism and the framework in
> which the problems at hand could be solved. Second, you may not be aware
> that the uncertainty principle is a trivial mathematical consequence of the
> formalism of QM. Physicists don't always have to speculate about
> epistemology; sometimes they can derive it.
>
> Also, mentioning the Nobel Prize to show Heisenberg's importance is like
> saying Newton was a great man because he was knighted.
>
> Rahul
>
>
>
Rahul-

    fair enough.  but winning a Nobel Prize is relevant to (though perhaps
not dispositive of) whether one's work should be accurately characterized
as "drivel".

 	what do you think of bohm's response to the copenhagen
interpretation?


matthew dubuque

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