Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space
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Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space
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Re: Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space
#2Can someone try to ELI5 this for me?
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#3didn't read it - and certainly wouldn't understand it if i did - but it does gel nicely with my internal pseudoscientific ponderings about the universe. nice! (this is part tongue-in-cheek and part serious; i often wonder: "what if we are simply tumbling along some "existential gravity" in a higher dimension?")
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#4Arisibalt trudged to the kitchen and busied himself at the keg. "I'd better fortify myself," he explained, to no one in particular, "as I am condemned to spend the remainder of the evening drawing light bubbles."
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#5Someone just finished reading Neal Stephenson’s Anathem...
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#6Is this a, uh, thing that's going around?
I'm a physics undergrad who published, and the idea of boson field(s) being the source of all physics has been really top of mind. Maybe it's just a consequence of Higg's being discovered finally.
Re: Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space
#7Someone just finished reading Neal Stephenson’s Anathem...
This abstract also describes a central plot point to Greg Egan's "Schild's Ladder".
Re: Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space
#8Can someone try to ELI5 this for me?
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Re: Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space
#9Can someone try to ELI5 this for me?
There is a very excellent tutorial on this subject in Anathem, but Neal Stephenson. Great book too; definitely worth reading.
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