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This kind of terminology soup speculation isn’t helpful. Don’t muddy the waters when you don’t know enough to add anything of value.
by colechristensen 4y ago
This kind of terminology soup speculation isn’t helpful. Don’t muddy the waters when you don’t know enough to add anything of value.
- Koshkin 4y agoThe article itself isn’t much better: If space is made of entanglement, then the puzzle of quantum gravity seems much easier to solve: instead of trying to account for the warping of space in a quantum way, space itself emerges out of a fundamentally quantum phenomenon.
- zachf 4y agoI have a PhD in a closely related field and I'm not sure what you mean--this sentence is well-formed and basically correct, if slightly simplified to appeal to laymen.
- wrycoder 4y ago“If space is made of entanglement, then it emerges out of a fundamentally quantum phenomenon.” This makes sense to you?
- zachf 4y agoIts the part that you omitted from your summary that makes the statement nontrivial—the idea that the metric theory (poetically, the warping of space) is only valid as a low energy effective description, and the general case does not have a classical interpretation even in a limit. To put it another way: the quantum theories that are best understood are the ones that are similar to a classical field theory, but that’s not the case here.
- wrycoder 4y agoIt appears that when I eliminated inessential verbiage, what remained was a tautology.