On 28 Aug, 02:20, Brent Meeker <meeke....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> > the door is opened to some grander metaphysical speculation
> > concerning the nature of the world. For example, it is often noted
> > that physics characterizes its basic entities only extrinsically, in
> > terms of their relations to other entities, which are themselves
> > characterized extrinsically, and so on. The intrinsic nature of
> > physical entities is left aside. Some argue that no such intrinsic
> > properties exist, but then one is left with a world that is pure
> > causal flux (a pure flow of information) with no properties for the
> > causation to relate.
>
> ?? Is momentum an intrinsic orextrinsicproperty of an electron?
Yes, very much extrinisic since it is actually momentum relative to
something else
>What
> about spin?
Yes, again it has to be measured against a magnetic field.
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Received on Fri Aug 28 2009 - 01:58:35 PDT