Re: Fox News: UFOs/UAPs are real

In alt.paranormal Dawn Flood <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sure.  I do not believe that fire-breathing dragons are real, and 
> therefore, the "shoe" (or, rather, sandal, in my case) fits!
> Dawn

You seem to have many outdated ideas.

-- 
Newton's second law in the form F = ma works with extraordinary
precision for everyday speeds and scales. It breaks down in two
regimes:

Very high speeds (approaching c): Special relativity replaces ma with
d(gmv)/dt, where g = 1/ SQRT (1 - v?/c?). For v << c, g ~= 1 and we
recover F = ma. The LHC protons are travelling at 0.9999997c -- for
those, relativistic corrections are enormous and F = ma would give
completely wrong predictions.

Atomic and subatomic scales: quantum mechanics governs the behaviour of
particles at the scale of atoms. Position and momentum can't both be
known precisely (Heisenberg uncertainty principle). The classical
trajectory described by F = ma simply doesn't exist at quantum scales
-- you have probability amplitudes and wavefunctions instead.

-- Physics Funamentals, 2026