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A radical new idea erases quantum theory’s weird uncertainties

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Re: A radical new idea erases quantum theory’s weird uncertainties

#12

If it's Lee Smolin, you can't take it seriously

Please avoid ad hominem and explain your problem with the idea.

If that person has a reputation for unsubstantiated claims or vague fluffy headline grabbers, we do want to know, but we would like specific links to prior works or reviews so we can judge their actual trollativity level ourselves.

Re: A radical new idea erases quantum theory’s weird uncertainties

#14

I remember reading a thought experiment awhile back (it was in the context of a discussion on Multiverse theory) about what it would look like for beings in a two dimensional universe when a three dimensional sphere intersected their two dimensional reality (essentially nothing, followed by a point, followed by a circle that first expands then contracts, then a point, then nothing). I couldn't help but wonder if this…

This sounds like http://www.math.brown.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/welcome.html
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