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At Multiverse Impasse, a New Theory of Scale
- walterbell 12y ago2008 Discover Magazine explanation of Multiverse Theory, http://discovermagazine.com/2008/dec/10-sciences-alternative-to-an-intelligent-creator http://discovermagazine.com/2008/dec/10-sciences-alternative...
- jerf 12y ago"Illusion" really needs to be stylistically banned from these sorts of articles. Derived quantities are not "illusions", and no amount of figuring by our particle physicists will do anything to "mass". It just means it may be a derived quantity from some more fundamental things, which is fully interesting enough in its own right without having to invoke the sophomoric wonder that this, that, the other, and everything is an "illusion". (What if we're just dreaming the illusion that you're a butterfly dreaming the illusion of mass arranged in the illusory shape of man dreaming he's an illusion? That's, like, deep man... pass the Doritos.)
- cgs1019 12y agoBuried deep inside the article is a link to this preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.4226 http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.4226