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My favorite thought experiment: if you think you’ve found the smallest thing in the universe, then what is it made out of?
by alexfromapex 7y ago
My favorite thought experiment: if you think you’ve found the smallest thing in the universe, then what is it made out of?
- kragen 7y agoThe demiurge.
- nobrains 7y agoWaves
- caconym_ 7y agoItself
- mikekchar 7y agoTurtles
- kromem 7y agoConsidering the whole difference between classical and quantum is continuous vs discrete numbers, it's kind of like saying "how many whole pies are in a half of a pie"?
- krastanov 7y agoYou would have to be more careful with that statement. It is a bit of a misnomer that quantum mechanics is inherently discrete and classical is not. There are plenty of examples of continuous descriptions in quantum mechanics (e.g. an oscillator in the coherent state basis, which is an extremely commonly used model). And plenty of examples of discrete behavior in classical mechanics (modes of oscillation, standing waves, etc). In the case of light, most of the "discreteness" of the quantum description is already present in the classical case. More importantly, there is plenty of the continuous description left in the quantum model.
- sideshowb 7y agoSize itself is an emergent phenomenon, if you can reduce it to entanglement the question goes away
- mindcrime 7y agoÆther