Re: a question about conservation and photons

Tom Roberts <tjroberts@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:dkafiq$o20
@netnews.net.lucent.com:

> bz wrote:
>> According to the Feynman lectures, EVERYTHING is particles.
>
> Yes. In fact, there has NEVER been an observation of any continuous,
> extended object. Except for poor and/or inaccurate observations (e.g.
> our everyday lives in which everything _appears_ to be continuous).
>

Time? Of course perhaps you object that it is not an object.





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bz

please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
infinite set.

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