> This makes it possible to combine two areas of physics that previously had little to do with each other: classical quantum physics and nuclear physics.
Is quantum physics now considered part of classical physics? If so then man, time flies!
Is quantum physics now considered part of classical physics? If so then man, time flies!
> It is consistent with both the principles of quantum mechanics and the theory of special relativity, and was the first theory to account fully for special relativity in the context of quantum mechanics.
What we don't have is a grand unified theory (a single set of rules that generates both theories), but we can consider relativistic effects in QM theories, and (I assume) vice versa.
IIRC nuclear physics was largely phenomenological with a lot of observations that had simple models fit to them without being able to reduce those to the particle physics models. This might be about establishing a link between the phenomenological nuclear models and the fundamental QM models.