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Originally Posted by dickloraine
I think "wrong" is a bit to strong. Maxwells formulas are still completely correct, as long as you don't expect them to work in quantum processes. We just can now explain electro-mavnetism, weak and strong force with just one theory. But you won't use quantum-mechanic theory to build a light bulp. The same is true for example for chemestry. You should be able to calculate that from quantum physics, but that doesn't make chemistry wrong.
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Which is why I added "incomplete". There are retroactive caveats to both Newton and Maxwell and sooner or later we will find caveats to Einstein. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
(And, actually, back in my school days we did apply quantum physics to physical chemistry. Some of the derivations were kinda neat.)