Originally Posted By: Bill S.
Originally Posted By: Bill S
The energy involved in an exchange of particles must be kinetic energy,


How do you exchange anything without movement?

My understanding of kinetic energy is that it is the energy of movement


See the problem is you want your classic phyisical world :-)

Under QM your classic physical world doesn't exist
(http://www.popsci.com/science/article/20...ically-possible)

See the energy just jumps from one location to another which is not movement in your classic sense, which sort of contradicts your statement.

So now your problem becomes how did the energy do the jump under a kinetic/potential energy view. The only way I can see you can do it is to have those things outside space itself.

This is the frustration GR has with QM is GR is a descriptive of spacetime but QM simply refuses to play by those rules yet we know they describe some of the same things and must merge at some point.

Last edited by Orac; 08/15/11 03:30 AM.

I believe in "Evil, Bad, Ungodly fantasy science and maths", so I am undoubtedly wrong to you.