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   > i.e. like super-string theory.   
   >   
   > I.e., continuum mechanics. (Super-classical, super-standard.)   
   >   
   >   
   > Born ends "The Restless Universe" with something like "under   
   > our observables, the universe quivers", yet, on the one hand   
   > it's full of potential, on the other, not a theory of potentials.   
   >   
   > So, a potentialistic theory with things like Bohmian mechanics   
   > is considered a wider world though that Born rule is what it is.   
   >   
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   Yes, different lens, and of course I couldn't detect any personal touch   
   Born had made in that book. I may not do that even if I read it now   
   cause the lens is the same lens.   
      
   I just looked the book up (the English version) and remembered that it   
   was full of images and interesting drawings, etc, probably what made it   
   to our house in the first place. With that title, and such strange,   
   amusing images inside, my artist brother _would_ fall for it. You know,   
   kind of like Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach way of making the book   
   sell to a large audience.   
      
   It was sweet to read.   
      
   In Tehran University, physics dept, it was common knowledge that Sears   
   Zemansky was like a "sweet story" compared to our horrible, almost   
   sadistic texts. Hehe :)   
      
   That was not exaggeration! We did read SZ from begin to end like a sweet   
   story. Too bad it was not our course text. We weren't that blessed. I   
   don't know the evolution of Sears Zemansky and what it has turned into,   
   in these days.   
      
   The French physics culture of "rigor first, explanations next" cost them   
   the DNA discovery, by the way. Rosalind Franklin was French educated. So   
   Watson won the game while being well behind her. It's too old; it's not   
   the best way to neither learn concepts, nor to do R&D with. Common sense   
   always goes a long way.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)