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Seeing this article is rather bittersweet. I came to a similar conclusion in my college years but I never pursuit it further. Taking Quantum Physics in college

Seeing this article is rather bittersweet. I came to a similar conclusion in my college years but I never pursuit it further. Taking Quantum Physics in college was a life changing experience and it reshaped how I viewed the world. I was always obsessed by time and one afternoon it became clear. I explained my variation not as a cup of coffee but a handful of dice. Essentially every tick of time is rolling these dice. And the variation of dice from one combination to the next is the arrow of time. Like one of the authors in this article, I got the most amount of resistance from physics major. For most part they had a dogmatic view of anything that they had not studied yet. If it wasn't in their books then it didn't exist. I also came to the conclusion time travel as depicted in the movies will never happen. It can happen randomly in a smaller body but for anything large the arrow of time is almost impossible to reverse.

andbberger 13y ago
There's good reason you got the most amount of resistance from physics majors. Intuition won't help you with theoretical physics. The only understanding is that achieved through studying the math in depth. Unless you've developed the formalism (in which case you'd be the subject of this article), you haven't reached any conclusions. Hate to break it to you. There's no such thing as pedagogical theoretical physics- no shortcut to understanding physics.
- salimmadjd 13y ago
  How did you assume I took quantum chemistry in college and was asked by my prof to join his lab without having any math background, or to be the #1 student in my physics class of 300, or was a member of 3 person team that won our state math championship. Not to mention scoring high enough to make it to the chemistry Olympiad, but ultimately being rejected once realizing US citizenship was required....
oofabz 13y ago
> variation of dice from one combination to the next is the arrow of time How can a sequence of random numbers introduce a preferred direction? Randomness has the same properties backwards and forwards, and random numbers are not dependent on one another. You are presupposing the arrow of time to explain the arrow of time. You say you roll the dice every tick of time, but what makes the tick? Why does it tick in the direction it does? The dice do not explain such things.

andbberger 13y ago

There's good reason you got the most amount of resistance from physics majors. Intuition won't help you with theoretical physics. The only understanding is that achieved through studying the math in depth. Unless you've developed the formalism (in which case you'd be the subject of this article), you haven't reached any conclusions. Hate to break it to you. There's no such thing as pedagogical theoretical physics- no shortcut to understanding physics.

salimmadjd 13y ago
How did you assume I took quantum chemistry in college and was asked by my prof to join his lab without having any math background, or to be the #1 student in my physics class of 300, or was a member of 3 person team that won our state math championship. Not to mention scoring high enough to make it to the chemistry Olympiad, but ultimately being rejected once realizing US citizenship was required....

oofabz 13y ago

> variation of dice from one combination to the next is the arrow of time How can a sequence of random numbers introduce a preferred direction? Randomness has the same properties backwards and forwards, and random numbers are not dependent on one another. You are presupposing the arrow of time to explain the arrow of time. You say you roll the dice every tick of time, but what makes the tick? Why does it tick in the direction it does? The dice do not explain such things.