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Re: Parallel Universe



John Denker wrote:

Isaac Newton achieved the same goal in far fewer words when
he said "Hypotheses non fingo." That is, if you try to
imagine the rules of QM as being implemented in terms of
gears and machinery, you will never get it right ... just
as you will never be able to properly describe the operation
of the Maxwell equations in terms of "lines of force".


I have read that Maxwell literally tried to explain his electromagnetic
theory in terms of "gears and machinery," well at least gears (like
differential gears), but I never heard that he got it right.

Hugh Logan