(November 15, 2012 at 8:52 am)Daniel Wrote: You can use Newton's laws to fly spacecrafts all the way to the moon – in fact that's exactly what NASA did when they landed people on the moon. It's a "powerful approximation"... that doesn't make it correct though.
I made the case for you that QM is fundamental and that CM is a powerful approximation. All you then add is that CM is not correct. You're going to have to explain what you mean by CM isn't correct in light of the recent event where scientists used it to park a mini-van sized piece of equipment in an exact location on a moving and rotating body tens of millions of miles away. Seems correct to me.
Again, QM has not replaced CM as you assert.