Carrol Cox wrote:
> charles moyer wrote:
>
> "apparent immateriality of quantum physics and the apparent
> irrationality of relativity theory"

I missed that, but I object.  Nothing is more material than quantum
physics, a hodgepodge of mathematics which seems to do a good job of
predicting the observed material results of experiments; the violently
counterintuitive nature of what the math seems to be telling us is a
symptom of materiality - the world is what it is, not what we think it
is, and if what it is seems weird, well that's just the way it is.
Similarly for relativity theory, it's weird all right but there's
nothing irrational about it.  And we lack alternatives.  And it is a
good thing to try to understand the world. -Tim