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*"This encouraged Newton to invent the concept of instantaneous changes in motion quantities at one instant of time (velocity and acceleration). These ideas were necessary for the key concept of Newton's Laws of Motion: the invention of his concept of momentum of an aggregated body | |||
quantity of motion. This involved the algebraic product of an invariant quantity (mass) and the instantaneous (numerical) value of the velocity, at one instant of time. However, the continuum mathematical limit (zero time separation) has NO correspondence in experimental determinations of velocity but this has not prevented the momentum concept from playing a central role in the mathematics of both classical mechanics and quantum theory. All the problems of QM can be traced to this implicit assumption, as reflecting both macroscopic and microscopic reality."" | |||
*[https://www.academia.edu/32912974/PROBLEMS_OF_QUANTUM_MECHANICS_QM.2_ The Problems of Quantum Mechanics] | *[https://www.academia.edu/32912974/PROBLEMS_OF_QUANTUM_MECHANICS_QM.2_ The Problems of Quantum Mechanics] | ||
Revision as of 07:17, 25 September 2019
- "This encouraged Newton to invent the concept of instantaneous changes in motion quantities at one instant of time (velocity and acceleration). These ideas were necessary for the key concept of Newton's Laws of Motion: the invention of his concept of momentum of an aggregated body
quantity of motion. This involved the algebraic product of an invariant quantity (mass) and the instantaneous (numerical) value of the velocity, at one instant of time. However, the continuum mathematical limit (zero time separation) has NO correspondence in experimental determinations of velocity but this has not prevented the momentum concept from playing a central role in the mathematics of both classical mechanics and quantum theory. All the problems of QM can be traced to this implicit assumption, as reflecting both macroscopic and microscopic reality.""