Eliah Kagan

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Apr 3	comment	Is this statement about quantum mechanics valid? "It might be found to be spin-up (along a particular axis)" and "it might be found to be spin-down (along that same axis" are not logically contradictory. Quantum mechanics doesn't conflict with traditional logic. It only appears to when people (sometimes unintentionally) construct wrong models of quantum mechanics that incorrectly inject classical assumptions.
Jul 15	awarded	Citizen Patrol
Jul 8	comment	Simple Experiment to Demonstrate Special Relativity But this does not require special relativity. Galilean relativity, which is part of Newtonian mechanics, fully explains this too. (Furthermore, as a mathematically simpler theory, Newtonian physics is a better and more elegant theory, if these are your only experimentally observed instances of relative motion. Of course, these are not the only such instances--for high speeds, we need special relativity. And special relativity is also immediately more elegant when we introduce electrodynamics.)
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