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mikkupikkutoday at 1:29 AM3 repliesview on HN

Newtonian physics is good enough for almost everything that humans do. It's not good for predicting the shit we see in telescopes, and apparently it's not good for GPS, although honestly I think without general relativity, GPS would still get made but there'd be a fudge factor that people just shrug about.

For just about anything else, Newton has us covered.


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z3phyrtoday at 7:22 AM

Microchips? A lot of quantum physics is applied here from the top of my mind.

idiotsecanttoday at 4:19 AM

Oh sure, nothing major. Just transistors, lasers, MRI, GPS,nuke power, photovoltaics, LEDs, x-rays, and pretty much anything requiring maxwells equations.

Nothing major.

cozzydtoday at 3:19 AM

quantum mechanics (also very much not Newtonian) is much more important to our day-to-day lives.

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