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>From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
Subject: Re: Ignore QM and be happy
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In article <1991Dec25.061455.29709@news.media.mit.edu> minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
>I must have missed this.  Can you review how Eccles shows that QM
>effects are important, say, as compared to thermal effects, for
>anything so large as a vesicle?

Well, there's one thing a lot of people miss.  The distinction between
quantum effects and thermal effects is not covariant in a curved space.

That means just like with gravity vs. inertia, the dividing line distinguishing
between the two is relative to the observer's state of motion (and choice of
coordinate system).

That sorta answers the question through the back door.


