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I have been fascinated how once we figure out the relationship between quantum mechanics and relativity, we will be Gods. Is it just a matter of misinterpretat

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• madhadron 7y ago
  > once we figure out the relationship between quantum mechanics and relativity, we will be Gods. Huh?
  • emerongi 7y ago
    I feel like the author of that comment looks at it kind of like the discovery of the electron: once we learn how to control it, we can achieve things that were never possible before.
• gerbilly 7y ago
  I don't see that we'd be gods. I mean classical mechanics is well understood¹ but it's not like it allows people to move mountains and fly out the window at will etc... 1: Aside from the problem of turbulence.
• jerf 7y ago
  At this point, it is not terribly likely that any such breakthrough is going to surprise us all that much at the engineering level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_principle If it does, I rather suspect it's going to take something like a Kardeshev level 2 [1] civilization to be able to take any advantage of it... and that may still not be enough. Learning isn't knowing isn't doing isn't engineering. To take a much, much simpler example, just because you very likely know the rules of chess does not make you a grandmaster. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
• aeternum 7y ago
  One of the latest theories is that quantum entanglement basically is what we perceive as "spacetime" and "distance". https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2019/quantum-origin-spacetime https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2019...