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>From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
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Subject: Re: Quantum mechanics (no AI here, sorry)
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Date: 3 Jun 92 20:04:25 GMT
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In article <1992Jun3.192513.27263@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark 
William Hopkins) writes:
>There's big, obvious, gaping holes in QM!
>
>The biggest of them all is that it can't explain gravity.
>The second is that it can't explain the dimensional or topological
>structure of spacetime.
>The third is that it can't explain why this dimensionality is 3+1.
>The fourth is that it can't explain the origin or significance of the Planck
>units.
>The fifth is that it can't explain why or how the continuum breaks down at
>Planck scales.
>The sixth is that it can't explain the origin of the Universe or its fate!
>
>Need I go on?  The list is endless.

I'll add some to your list: It can't explain why electrons have the mass
they do; it can't explain the three-body problem; it can't explain 
population genetics; and it can't explain Cubism.

What I meant by a hole was a case where QM theory predicts one thing and
experimental evidence contradicts it; as for instance the Michelson-Morley
experiment, the photoelectric effect, the black-body radiation curve,
and the problem of the electron's orbit contradicted the predictions 
of classical physics.


