5 ms·
A radical new idea erases quantum theory’s weird uncertainties
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- 317070 7y agoDoes someone have the whole article? It looks very interesting!
- throwaway1239Mx 7y agoIt's likely a teaser for his new book - don't have access to the whole article, but see: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/19/714600205/einsteins-unfinished-revolution-looks-at-the-quantum-physics-and-reality-problem https://www.npr.org/2019/04/19/714600205/einsteins-unfinishe... as an alternative.
- menotyou 7y agoThere is a nice youtube video but in German. Maybe translated subtitle will help the less einlighted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnJPy-lsZKQ&list=PLS5j2nq7AgUtv7r7Ry4hsb4FZcCVvUXVn&index=45&t=0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnJPy-lsZKQ&list=PLS5j2nq7Ag...
- waypoint100 7y agoIf it's Lee Smolin, you can't take it seriously
- selimthegrim 7y agoThis must be a throwaway account for Jacques Distler.
- bb88 7y agoCould you expand on this?
- normalhuman 7y agoPlease avoid ad hominem and explain your problem with the idea.
- tabtab 7y agoIf 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.
- DebtDeflation 7y agoI 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 same sort of construct could explain what's happening in both quantum mechanics - particles popping into and out of existence are in reality just moving along an extra dimension that is not accessible to us (our entire reality is a single point on that dimension), and general relativity - spacetime is warping "into" that other dimension (think about the analogy of gravity where a bowling ball distorts the surface of a trampoline, there has to be one additional dimension beyond the trampoline surface for it to warp into). Of course, I'm probably way off base and just thinking nonsense.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- hprotagonist 7y agoThis sounds like http://www.math.brown.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/welcome.html http://www.math.brown.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/welcome.html
- snak 7y agoArticle is behind a paywall...