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Re: QM and GR.

From Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity, sci.physics
Subject Re: QM and GR.
Date 2016-07-25 16:45 +1000
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On 23/07/2016 1:39 PM, Tom Roberts wrote:
> On 7/16/16 7/16/16   12:31 AM, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> There cannot be two different correct theories, because if they're
>> different,
>> they'll sometimes give different answers, and at least one would have
>> to be wrong.
>
> Sure there can, as long as they predict the same result(s) for the
> experiments.
>
> Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian mechanics are all quite different
> theories, yet they all predict exactly the same result for any
> experiment within their domain (which is common to all).

I'd tend to regard them as different manifestations of the same 
underlying theory.

>
> Closer to this newsgroup, SR and LET are quite different theories, yet
> they predict the same results for any experiment within their common
> domain.

They are mathematically the same. LET is just derived differently, based 
on the assumption of something that the theory doesn't include, and 
doesn't describe.

Sylvia.

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Re: QM and GR. Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-07-22 22:39 -0500
  Re: QM and GR. Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2016-07-23 08:14 +0200
    Re: QM and GR. Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-23 10:43 -0500
      Re: QM and GR. "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-07-23 13:29 -0700
        Re: QM and GR. benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-07-23 17:24 -0400
          Re: QM and GR. "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 05:00 -0700
    Re: QM and GR. Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-07-23 12:33 -0500
      Re: QM and GR. Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2016-07-23 22:41 +0200
        Re: QM and GR. Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2016-07-24 07:12 +0200
        Re: QM and GR. Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2016-07-26 09:21 +0200
      Re: QM and GR. Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2016-07-27 07:11 +0200
    Re: QM and GR. edprochak@gmail.com - 2016-07-25 10:11 -0700
  Re: QM and GR. Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-07-25 16:45 +1000
    Re: QM and GR. Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-07-25 16:46 +1000
    Re: QM and GR. Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 11:08 +0200
    Re: QM and GR. Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-07-25 12:28 -0500
      that & this noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 19:46 -0700
        Re: that & this noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-07-28 19:21 -0700
      Re: QM and GR. wugi <brol@brol.be> - 2016-07-26 12:11 +0200
        Re: QM and GR. Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-07-27 12:11 -0500
          Re: QM and GR. Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2016-07-29 10:20 +0200
            Re: QM and GR. Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-29 07:13 -0500
            so sad, that M. is known only for his slogan about a mere phase-space noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-07-29 09:03 -0700
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                Re: Nature programmed you to choose one over the other. Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2016-08-09 23:53 +0200
                da tum noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-08-19 11:06 -0700
                Re: Nature programmed you to choose one over the other. benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-08-09 18:17 -0400
                Re: _Nothing_ can change the future, present or past. chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-08-09 06:51 -0500
                Re: _Nothing_ can change the future, present or past. benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-08-09 17:51 -0400
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