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> it's made up of other, more fundamental things Then explain those things and prove they exist. Otherwise this just sounds like bullshit. There’s a differenc
by nemo44x 4y ago
> it's made up of other, more fundamental things
Then explain those things and prove they exist. Otherwise this just sounds like bullshit.
There’s a difference between observing thermodynamics (and not trying to answer why but rather how we observe it - big difference!) and writing equations we can measure and just saying “it’s emergent” to “…” things we are unable to answer “I don’t know to”.
- doctor_eval 4y agoThat seems to be exactly what they are trying to do: > Lee Smolin is working on an idea where the building blocks are events where momentum is exchanged.Space, and hence position, is an emergent phenomena. It’s perfectly OK to speculate that perhaps gravity, say, is not fundamental, but instead emerges from interactions or whatever at a lower layer that we haven’t yet identified. What word would you use?
- Maursault 4y ago> Otherwise this just sounds like bullshit? Yet it is very compelling bullshit that stands up to intense scientific scrutiny.[1] [1] https://einstein.stanford.edu/content/relativity/a11332.html https://einstein.stanford.edu/content/relativity/a11332.html