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Old May 17, 2005, 02:41 pm   #4 (permalink) (top)
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There are less than 100 people (and that number may be to large) in the world who have a firm grasp of QM. The rest of us are just curious hobbyists to greater or lessor degrees.
Are you talking about QM the explanation or QM the phenomena?

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Even Rodger Penrose does not claim to have a firm grasp on the subject. He has interesting ideas and some well founded suspicions on where the next areas of investigations will lead, but fully understands that some current ideas will have to be scrapped when new theories are tested and lend their weight to the picture.
Why is Penrose considered some kind of authority on the matter? My understanding is that he is distinguished in mathematics not physics. Why defer to him in matters of QM and not someone like Feynman who at least received the Nobel Prize in physics for his work in the area.

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