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Originally Posted by floatingslowly
quantum mechanics came about because the theory of relativity was found to be not as all-encompassing as it once was believed.
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You're confused. Quantum mechanics came along because relativity is perfectly predictive of the very large, but not the very, very small. And why? It's no fault of relativity's...it's just that we cannot see or measure subatomic particles that are so small and travel so fast. Thus, we get Planck's constant and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and so on to make the math work out as best as we know how and this more-or-less functional hodgepodge is known by the name of, yeah, you guessed it, quantum mechanics.
"God doesn't play dice." - Albert Einstein