Thanks guys. Timo, that was particularly useful. I'm a philosopher really, and am doing an essay on Pierce; a father of pragmatism and advocate of the scientific method. The pragmatist theory of truth is generally that a hypothesis only makes sense in terms of a willingness to undertake certain...
Well, yes. Maybe it would help if I told you why I'm asking these questions. I am just confused as to why we can't have both quantum and relativity- why do we need unification? Are there any non- aesthetic (i.e. experimental) reasons for preferring a unified theory?
I might be wrong...
But things like this suggest some sort of problem...
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Hi,
Not totally top notch on physics- I just studied it till in school till I was 18. I am aware, however, that there is some sort of incommensurability of the two main strands of theoretical physics- quantum and relativity. Could someone please tell me what that is?
And more to the point...