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From: brooks@maddog.llnl.gov (Eugene Brooks)
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Subject: Re: EFLOP architectures: when and for how much?
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Date: 29 Oct 90 02:34:56 GMT
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In article <2588@ux.acs.umn.edu> dhoyt@vx.acs.umn.edu writes:
>Special relativity does not produce the same answers as quantum dynamics.  As
>correct as (general) relativity seems on a macro scale, it fails at the micro
>scale.  What often trips people up is thinking of an electrons (or photons) as
>a particles, when in fact, they are not.  They are waves. (Chemists and physists
>tend to disaggre with each other here.)  The achiral nature of ammonia
Electrons and Photons are not either (classical) particles or (classical) waves.
They posses features of both, however.  If you want to know what an electron is
don't ask a Chemist!

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