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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>To Hans, regarding gravitation:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Yes, in those hundreds of conversations in the
<FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">1960s at UC, many opinions were presented
about Quantum and Gravitation. Nearly all of those converssations ended
with a logical issue. We all agreed that gravitation was a "continuous
function" while all Quantum concepts included a "time dependence" in order to
produce the many Wave functions. Nearly all of the conversations,
including those which included Nobel Laureates ended with that issue which we
felt was insoluble.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>On a possibly related matter, we all regularly did
lab experiments. In contemplating the early decades of Quantum thinking,
and many other issues, we often discussed that our equipment generally took
millionths of a second to produce a photographic image. We often laughed
that most of our experiments took so long to occur that at the speed that
electrons orbited their nuclei, they certainly always did billions of orbits
before we could ever get any image. A common concern was that if electrons
mutually (electrically) interacted, we would never see any results except for
"final results". after billions of orbits of mutual perturbations.
So all of our experiments always showed "fixed parameters" uch a Pauli and the
rest always found. THEY concluded that Quantum arguments necesarily
applied. Later in my life, I wonder if we just had "slow eyes" and
mutual perturbation was occurring every orbit. In our solar system, the
asteroids have orbited billions of times during the lifetime of the solar
system, and we see Kirkwood Gaps. The Galilean moons have orbited billions
of times and we see interesting effects which seem to be due to mutual
perturbations. The question might be, if we could only observe the solar
system every billion years or so, would we not be aware of mutual perturbations
and we might believe in Bode's Law regarding the planets (current)
locations? My question is that maybe Quantum arguments might not actually
be valid for this sort of reasoning.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We students all dreamed of creating experimental
apparatus which was a billion times fasster than we have. None so
far.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Carl Johnson</FONT></DIV>
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