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As former amateur physicist, who read a couple books over the years :) To me it's quite simple. We haven't detected what is causing the waves that the particle of light is riding on. The particle of light is like a surf board, riding a wave and will always hit the shore in the interference pattern. Einstein and Bohr were both right. What has been the wrong assumption over the years is that the light is generating the…
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That makes the assumption that there exists a simpler view of physics that will result in more productivity. IMO, some of the smartest people that have ever lived, live right now. Mainly because we have more humans alive than ever before. The amount of brain power working to find these simpler models is breath taking, yet we aren't seeing the elegant simple solutions fall out like we once did. I don't think that's a…
If the brain power is focused in the "wrong" direction or all the smart people are constantly looking under the same set of "street lamps" it doesn't matter how many there are. Unconventional thinking is hard you can't force it solely with numbers arguably quite to the contrary: a large agglomeration of scientists can systematically enforce a proportionally larger conformity pressure. It is a hard balance to strike b…
As former amateur physicist, who read a couple books over the years :) To me it's quite simple. We haven't detected what is causing the waves that the particle of light is riding on. The particle of light is like a surf board, riding a wave and will always hit the shore in the interference pattern. Einstein and Bohr were both right. What has been the wrong assumption over the years is that the light is generating the…
Assuming that it is true, what is the clock/cpu speed?
As former amateur physicist, who read a couple books over the years :) To me it's quite simple. We haven't detected what is causing the waves that the particle of light is riding on. The particle of light is like a surf board, riding a wave and will always hit the shore in the interference pattern. Einstein and Bohr were both right. What has been the wrong assumption over the years is that the light is generating the…
Assuming that it is true, what is the clock/cpu speed?
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So what is dark matter? This thing that keeps galaxies bound that we cannot see but can only observe the effects… I think the hunt for it will push us into new territory. That being said, as you say there has been nothing yet found that violates GR/QFT.
The leading candidate for dark matter is that it's a soup of particles that interact gravitationally, but not via the electromagnic or strong nuclear force. If we're very, very lucky, it might interact via the weak nuclear force, which means there exists a slim theoretically possibility that we might be able to observe it interacting via the weak nuclear force. That being said, even if it does interact via the weak n…
Arbitrarily advanced is pretty strong in a world where some people think dyson sphere scale stuff could be real.
As former amateur physicist, who read a couple books over the years :) To me it's quite simple. We haven't detected what is causing the waves that the particle of light is riding on. The particle of light is like a surf board, riding a wave and will always hit the shore in the interference pattern. Einstein and Bohr were both right. What has been the wrong assumption over the years is that the light is generating the…
We just like to make metaphors to put this thing in a box that we can't understand. But perhaps at its most fundamental level it will defy comprehension or even definition.
[0] In the philosophical sense; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_(philosophy)
[1] https://syncedreview.com/2020/04/17/stephen-wolfram-the-path...
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If the brain power is focused in the "wrong" direction or all the smart people are constantly looking under the same set of "street lamps" it doesn't matter how many there are. Unconventional thinking is hard you can't force it solely with numbers arguably quite to the contrary: a large agglomeration of scientists can systematically enforce a proportionally larger conformity pressure. It is a hard balance to strike b…
I think it's easy to underestimate the extent to which the greatest minds have also turned to every weird permutation you could think of. Personally I figure we'll probably find some deeper theory just since the Standard Model still has its issues and gravity isn't rolled in yet, but there's every reason to think that this problem is hard , not just untried. Much of the most interesting work in the last century has b…
If one wanted to cast doubt upon, if not "debunk", his idea from the science of the times, it would not have been difficult to do so (see: Tycho Brahe). And that was on an issue that was likely some orders of magnitude less complex than the one we may be facing today. The implication of that being that the "right" answer may initially seem to have more holes than swiss cheese. I think it's very safe to say that relativity, undoubtedly the monolith to which all scientists aspire, was an exception and not the rule in the march of discovery, in its reception/clarity.
As former quantum physicist, I find it little troubling to read "quantum theory has reached a dead end" in specific reference to the interpretation of quantum mechanics. Most quantum physicists could not care less about how quantum mechanics is interpreted when it makes highly accurate quantitative predictions, and there are still plenty of interesting open problems for quantum theory (e.g., related to the practical…
I read somewhere that quantum mechanics is the most tested of all scientific theories. And it has been shown to be right, every time. Hawking espoused this idea he called “model dependent realism”. The idea is that every human understanding of reality is model-dependent, that is, it is not “reality” that we truly understand (we can’t) but rather in every case we have some model of reality that is useful in particular…
"The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called "model agnosticism" and holds that any grid we use to organize our experience of the world is a model of the world and should not be confused with the world itself. Alfred Korzybski, the semanticist, tried to popularize this outside physics with the slogan, "The map is not the territory." Alan Watts, a talented exegete of Oriental philosophy, restated it more vividly as "The menu is not the meal."
As former amateur physicist, who read a couple books over the years :) To me it's quite simple. We haven't detected what is causing the waves that the particle of light is riding on. The particle of light is like a surf board, riding a wave and will always hit the shore in the interference pattern. Einstein and Bohr were both right. What has been the wrong assumption over the years is that the light is generating the…
Clocks are not required at all, even for digital computers. They only make designing computers a lot simpler.