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froeb

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    Comment #34865740

    Alright fair enough, I'm not an expert on how those work. I was under the impression that there is quite a bit of work that has to be done to turn a path integral into something am…

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    Comment #34865725

    This is a pretty common misconception of path integrals from how Feynman explains them to a non-physicist audience. The path integral formulation cannot work from a particle-based …

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    Comment #34865580

    It isn't the only way. I would argue that the "sum over paths" is more of a convenient language for categorizing QFTs than an actual statement of physical reality. Path integrals h…

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    Comment #34848995

    The textbook black hole is unphysical though, it assumes spacetime is asymptotically flat. As far as I can tell, the paper's claim is that if you do black holes more realistically,…

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    Comment #34848739

    In physics at least, it's been my experience that even though the percentage of women physics professors is low, almost every one is an above-average researcher. They are certainly…

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    Comment #34842825

    Supernova simulations are especially interesting too. I have heard them described as the only time in physics when all 4 of the fundamental forces are important. The explosion can …

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    Comment #34842441

    A lot of crazy sounding physics theories involve some non-trivial tweak to the laws of physics as we know them (e.g. the Alcubierre drive, many exotic dark matter theories, ...) so…

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    Comment #34842319

    Her criticism doesn't have much substance though, she says explicitly she can't follow one of the main arguments of the paper. I skimmed the paper myself, and it is quite esoteric,…

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    Comment #34809991

    I took some time to skim the original paper and learned about cosmological coupling for the first time! My understanding is that black hole solutions in an expanding spacetime have…

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    Comment #34808860

    This is a pretty confusing article. I think the conventional understanding is that dark energy is associated with empty space itself. Is this article discussing a proposed mechanis…