Back to Home

God & Science Forum Message

Forums: Atm · Astrophotography · Blackholes · Blackholes2 · CCD · Celestron · Domes · Education
Eyepieces · Meade · Misc. · God and Science · SETI · Software · UFO · XEphem
RSS Button

Home | Discussion Forums | God and Science | Post
Login

Be the first pioneers to continue the Astronomy Discussions at our new Astronomy meeting place...
The Space and Astronomy Agora
Doesn't Work In QM

Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To
Posted by Harvey on January 26, 2002 01:54:36 UTC

Alex,

Here are Newton's 'laws':

***An object will continue in its state of motion unless acted on by an external force***

Violation: (QM) Quantum tunneling illustrates that a particle can be at rest and automatically 'tunnel' through a barrier.

***An object acted on by an external force will change its momentum in the direction of the acting force. The stronger the force the greater the change in momentum (F= dp/dt)***

Violation: (QM) According to Newton dp/dt-F is equal to zero. According to the quantum mechanics this expression corresponds to a quantum operator which cannot be equal to the zero operator.

***For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.***

Violation: (QM) For every action there is a high probability that there is an equal and opposite reaction but that probability is less than 1.

Newton's laws are not valid universally.

Warm regards, Harv

Follow Ups:

Login to Post
Additional Information
Google
 
Web www.astronomy.net
DayNightLine
About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | Contact & Comments | Privacy Policy
Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2024 John Huggins All Rights Reserved
Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post.
"dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET"
are trademarks of John Huggins