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What I don't understand about this example with Hyperion is a) Wouldn't Hyperion's orientation be influenced much more by Saturn and its many moons on their ma
by rsp1984 4y ago
What I don't understand about this example with Hyperion is
a) Wouldn't Hyperion's orientation be influenced much more by Saturn and its many moons on their many orbits than by dust and photons?
b) Wouldn't it then boil down to "just" an n-body problem (for which we know no closed form predictions exist -- yet is still perfectly "classical" in nature)?
In other words, why involve dust and photons and wave functions and entanglement when the answer could simply be "it's an n body problem so we simply can't predict its orientation"?
- samus 4y agoMy guess is that this is an example of the struggle between proponents of different interpretations of Quantum Mechanics. There are rather a lot of them, even though they all try to explain the same theory. The whole issue eerily reminds me of the debates between proponents of different theories of the relationship between God and Jesus (trinitarians, nontrinitarians and so on). Unless they yield testable predictions, there will not be an end to them.
- bufferoverflow 4y agoQM is far worse than an N-body problem. You can trivially model an interaction of 2 or 3 particles as bodies, at a given precision. But when you consider them as waves, you have to compute an insane amount of information. Example: https://youtu.be/0kXGb0_-1iY https://youtu.be/0kXGb0_-1iY And precision is another undefined thing. Is particle's speed / position continuous or quantized? Or in case of QM, is there a resolution to the waves? Or is it all infinitely precise?
- unrealp 4y agoPerfect. This is exactly what I thought when I watched the video yesterday. There will also be local variations in saturn's gravity.