Posted: Feb 22, 2018 4:29 pm
Thommo wrote:Destroyer wrote:Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity just won't succumb to reconciliation, no matter how hard scientists strive... Maybe there really are two distinct behaviors within a single entity. How strange and irrational is that!!!
If that was the case, the difference would be that one would observe particles behaving in accordance with General Relativity on very small (sub Planck length) scales and quantum effects on macroscopic scales.
What actually happens is that each theory is definable incorrect on those scales. There's no doubt which theory makes the correct predictions, only one accords with observation. This is not unlike Galilean Relativity disagreeing with Special Relativity at high speeds. All that happens is one theory is shown to be correct (or empirically adequate depending on one's philosophy of science).
Not if One was simply disguised as the other.