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For forums, classes and other activities, contact the Socialist Action SOCIALISTACTION FEBRUARY 1992 23 Dear editors, For Cliff Conner: I have followed your series on dialectical materialism with great interest. Many of your examples teach points clearly and forrefully-for instance, the observa.ion in the December installment on dialectics that things in the French Revolution were not good for one class and bad for another, but rather that developments for each class for both good and bad.
In the same article, you use evidence about subatomic things to make the point that their motion is contradictory. However, while their motion defies mechanical views, most interpretations of the rules of quantum mechanics are mystical and anti-dialectical.
We are told that when we measure the momentum and position of an electron, there is a realm of absolute uncertainty to the amount of Planck's constant, and Baltimore P.O. Box 16005 Baltimore, MD 21218 Boston P.O. Box 1046 GMF Boston, MA 02205 (617) 497-0230 Chicago P.O. Box 578428 Chicago, IL 60657 (312) 327-5752 Cincinnati P.O. Box 20109 Cincinnati, QH 45221 (513) 751-1597 Cloveland P.O. Box 6151 Cleveland, OH 44101 (216) 429-2167 Dotrolt P.O. Box 1613 Detroit, MI 48231 Kanans City P.O. Box 32543 Westport Station, Kansas City, MO 6411' For information about other areas, contact the national office of Socialist Action at (415) 821-0458. branch in your area! because we have reached a limit of law-governed motion.
It is not a question of popular distortion of sólid science. The problems exist in theoretical physics. The best criticisms and suggestions I've seen are in David Bohm's, "Causality and Chance in Modern Physics." Chapter Three is about quantum physics.
C.D., Oakland, Calif.
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