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by thiagotomei 2828 days ago
Quantum mechanics is not based on special relativity at all. In fact, you can show that you can write Hamilton-Jacobi's equation (purely Classical Mechanics) as a limiting case of Schrodinger's equation.

It is true that QM came about initially as a problem with the quantization of the electromagnetic field, but that was a bit of an accident.