Re: The Usual Heinlein Thing

dwight.thieme@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 7, 7:25 pm, "DH" <dark_hel...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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from the article you link to:
Max Planck was the first to propose the Planck length, a base unit in a
system of measurement he called natural units. By design, the Planck length,
Planck time, and Planck mass are such that the physical constants c, G, and
all equal 1 and thus disappear from the equations of physics. Although
quantum mechanics and general relativity were unknown when Planck proposed
his natural units, it later became clear that at a distance equal to the
Planck length, gravity begins to display quantum effects, whose
understanding would seem to require a theory of quantum gravity. Note that a
such a distance scale, the uncertainty principle begins to intrude on one's
ability to make any useful statements about what is actually happening.

Planck length predates quantum mechanics.


_Max Planck_ predates QM (well, some consider him the grandfather).
Doofus. _Later_ it was realized that, yes, it does have quite a lot
to do with QM. In fact, right about the time when QM was being
formulated.

Try to get a little education before you post, boy.


Attention Pot! Mr. Kettle advises you that you have the identical shade!

I point and laugh at you. Someone shows up, demonstrates that not just Max Planck, but THE PLANCK LENGTH ITSELF, pre-dates QM. Where your ENTIRE ARGUMENT rests on the idea that Planck Length WOULD NOT EXIST without QM. Yet the reference CLEARLY states that the calculation of the length ITSELF was done BEFORE either Relativity of QM.

So you are utterly, 100%, inarguably WRONG, yet here you are, leaping like a bloody hooked trout from the water and denying it's even happened. "No, I MEANT to bite that hook! I LOVE the feel of barbed steel in my mouth! And anyway, it's not really on a line! It just LOOKS that way to you stupid stupid people!"






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