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  1. Xref: sparky talk.abortion:49326 talk.religion.misc:21950 alt.atheism:21961 sci.skeptic:20138
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  3. Path: sparky!uunet!uchinews!ellis!hau4
  4. From: hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu (sven  hauptfeld)
  5. Subject: Re: Reconciling OT with NT
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov23.224554.16761@midway.uchicago.edu>
  7. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  8. Reply-To: hau4@midway.uchicago.edu
  9. Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
  10. References: <1992Nov16.032613.11967@netcom.com> <1ead9cINN8a5@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> <1992Nov17.173850.14175@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
  11. Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:45:54 GMT
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  14. In article <1992Nov17.173850.14175@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
  15. >In article <1ead9cINN8a5@horus.ap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S658.uucp (Frank O'Dwyer) writes:
  16. >>Did you all have the same problem with wave-particle duality?
  17. >>Lemme see.  Light is particle and light is wave.  I cannot reconcile these
  18. >>ideas without throwing out all preconceived notions.  You say wave and
  19. >>I say particle, let's call the whole thing off.
  20. >
  21. >Sigh.  More quantum pseudoscience.
  22. >
  23. >Light acts like a particle sometimes and like a wave sometimes.
  24.  
  25. Wrong. Light acts like light. Always. "Particle" and "wave" are just our
  26. idealized notions, and in different situations they describe light (or
  27. leptons, mesons, baryons...) with different accuracy.
  28.  
  29.     Sven
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