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Right but that's why I don't understand the article. Now it was written in 1938 and all this shit was cutting edge science. I know that classical physicists weren't happy with quantum physics because the root of quantum physics is "everything you thought you knew was wrong". We don't know why on atomic scales most laws of physics break down. We just know they do and guys like Fermi, Rutherford, Pauli, Lorentz, Casimir, de Broglie, etc. were writing the rules from scratch.
Maybe the author of this article was one of those people. Deutsche Physik, which is what this writer sounds like he supports, was frankly a mistake and the reason all the atomic bomb creators ended up in America. Quantum physics was new and not well understood but nearly a hundred years later and it's still stood up, which means the detractors had to be wrong.
Well if the math works, the math works. And unfortunately nobody else has a better explanation.
Agreed. Although at this level I don't know if some of the ideas describe reality or merely satisfy equations from someone's math notes. "Dark matter" is a good example of this. Before COVID I thought science was self-correcting, now, even if a lot of high-level physics is wrong, I'm not sure we will ever find out.
Maybe the author of this article was one of those people. Deutsche Physik, which is what this writer sounds like he supports, was frankly a mistake and the reason all the atomic bomb creators ended up in America. Quantum physics was new and not well understood but nearly a hundred years later and it's still stood up, which means the detractors had to be wrong.
Well if the math works, the math works. And unfortunately nobody else has a better explanation.