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Old April 28th 06, 03:52 AM posted to alt.astronomy,alt.fan.art-bell,alt.usenet.kooks
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Default Roger Penrose: QM, It Just Doesn't Make Sense!

Double-A wrote:

Roger Penrose, leading physicist at Oxford, and winner of the Wolf
Prize for Physics in 1988 with Stephen Hawking, says QM just doesn't
make sense:


"However, Penrose said his biggest and most controversial argument is
with quantum mechanics. "You might say, 'Quantum mechanics?
That's one of the major advances of the 20th century,'" he said.
"But it just doesn't make sense."

The so-called "measurement problem" of quantum mechanics, he said,
is evidence that something is wrong at some level in the equation.
Penrose explained that he believes quantum mechanics goes sour where it
comes into combination with Einstein's theory of general relativity.

"It's a very uneven marriage, saying that space-time structure has
to yield to quantum mechanics, and that's it," he said. "I think
there's good reason that quantum mechanics itself will have to give,
and that the correct theory will involve give on both sides.""


http://www.stnews.org/News-197.htm

Perhaps God doesn't play dice after all!

Double-A


Did you read the first and last sentences of the quote?

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