Re: Upended quantum physics in the news

In article <45ktm1F74imaU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Robert J. Kolker <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lee Jay wrote:

Glenn wrote:

That our personal computers work does not evidence that quantum
mechanics is "basically correct".


Trivia question. What simple device is owned by virtually everyone in
the modern world (I have hundreds of them) and wouldn't work *at all*
without a totally counter-intuitive property of quantum mechanics, and
what is that property?

A transistor?

Bob Kolker

Yet another right answer.

The transistor was developed from the concept of positrons, and
applied to solid state physics, resulting in charged holes. All
quantum mechanics.

Kim0, (And I am a quantum mechanic, by the way.)

Kim0



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