Urr, nope, but thinking about this can help find the truth. From this teaching: “You could say that the history of the book of Genesis is kind of like the opposite of our belief in a 14 billion years ago Big Bang, considered to be out of date and foolish, but perhaps with more wisdom than we thought. Perhaps even Genesis is set for its own type of revolutionary rereading.”
Reverse the Big Bang, Find Genesis Within — Spiritual Sunshine: A Swedenborgian Community Online
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The complete question was: Is it true that all matter is simply condensed energy? Does that mean that the Big Bang was pure energy and coalesced into matter? Physicist: Pretty much. If you can get…
Matter isn’t stored energy but t does have energy, called “rest energy.” What distinguishes matter-energy from other forms of energy is that all matter has inertia and is subject to the force of gravity when at rest as well as when in motion.
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Metasurfaces allow for vast possibilities of light control. Here, the authors demonstrate on-demand engineering and realization of a broad family of two-dimensional phase singularity sheets and transverse polarization singularity sheets, opening up new aspects of light-matter interaction.
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Oh no, this video just opened my mind to singularities of all shapes and in multiple dimensions, not just points or lines, but sheets and blocks. No? This is the video I saw the idea of ringularities on. By Science Asylum. Highly recommended:
“Time is related to the space coordinates, but they are not equivalent. Pythagoras’s theorem treats all coordinates on an equal footing (see Euclidean space for more details). We can exchange two space coordinates without changing the length, but we can not simply exchange a space coordinate with time: they are fundamentally different.
It is an entirely different thing for two events to be separated in space and to be separated in time. Minkowski proposed that the formula for distance needed a change. He found that the correct formula was actually quite simple, differing only by a sign from Pythagoras’s theorem:
Where c is a constant and t is the time coordinate.[Note 2] Multiplication by c, which has the dimensions L T −1, converts the time to units of length and this constant has the same value as the speed of light.”
My question is: where does the negative sign come from ?”
In this article of Wikipedia, about spacetime interval, from which I post some extract here below, it is said (in bold the part concerning my question): “After Einstein derived special relativity formally from the (at first sight counter-intuitive) assumption that the speed of light is the same t.... Read more
Aha! But according to another idea on Ideamill, your head has travelled further than your feet – and moving through space also warps spacetime – so maybe it evens up?
In that case, the question still stands: from the head’s perspective has it REALLY lived longer than the feet, AND from the feet’s perspective have they REALLY lived longer than the head.
Your head has travelled further than your feet - IdeaMill
OMG. These silly “science” writers just love throwing wormholes in to the equation – but the nature of the Universe is amazing enough without having to sex it up with crappy conjecture. When will we learn?
Five ways to travel through time - Cosmos Magazine
“Maybe the most effective weapon in WWII was the friends we made along the way” I found this comment someone made over a year ago – it really resonated with me. It’s on a Lindybeige video comments list.
Putin knows how many weapons the US has around the world. He wants you to know too – which is better than showing off that they have/want/will make more..
World War 3 will wipe out civilisation, Putin warns adding World War 4 will be ‘will fought with sticks and stones’
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Penrose thinks that there is some real, physical “collapse” of a quantum superposition as objects grow big enough for gravity to become a significant part of the picture. Therefore: quantum mechanics might break down when confronted with gravity – when objects get big enough to “feel” significant gravitational force – so quantum mechanics needs modifying or reinterpreting.
General relativity is a theory of gravitation that was developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915. According to general relativity, the observed
When I was a depressed teenager in a naff town I would have volunteered for a cryo prison, if I got let out as soon as I reached the future. Better if you could convince your family to come with you though. Too late now.
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The idea that the universe splits into multiple realities with every measurement has become an increasingly popular proposed solution to the mysteries of
Scientific American, making it sound like Carroll is the only guy to belive quantum mechanics is real and not just an idea: “Aim an instrument at the electron to determine where it is, and you’ll find it in just one place. You might reasonably assume that the wave function is just a statistical approximation of the electron’s behavior, which can’t be more precise because electrons are tiny and our instruments crude. But you would be wrong, according to Carroll. The electron exists as a kind of probabilistic blur until you observe it, when it “collapses,” in physics lingo, into a single position.”
Interesting, in the description he says “Most entanglement videos discuss the concept just using Bell States, which were first discussed by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen, in their paper on the EPR Paradox. These states are special cases that allow us to understand what an entangled quantum state is most easily, but they aren’t the general case. I wanted to discuss the general case here, and what it specifically means to have an entangled state.”
Bell Test debunked – they are not entangled – its not that seeing one glove makes the other’s wave function collapse, just that if this one is a right hand glove, then the other is known to be a left hand glove – no spooky action, no magic, get over it.
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Time doesn’t really exist, its just an emergent phenomenon we believe we percieve – according to Julian Barbour. Well, that’s his solution to the problem of time in physics and cosmology. Yep it’s as simply stated as it is radical.
I think Sean is doing us all a major favour by pushing this idea in order to help us start asking the right questions again. Bless him if he doesn’t even fully ‘believe’ in many worlds, but is championing it at risk of being a fall-guy for the benefit of future generations of physicists. For this, he needs a stack of medals. And yes, giving credit to Everrett makes him seem respectful for ousted thinkers of the past – but he has a difficult task in explaining many worlds to layman, like me, without confusing us by adding the maths. (Btw America, unlike the universal wave function there is more than just one math).
Why hasn’t he convinced my confused but open mind yet? Well, after watching and listening to everything I can find that he works tirelessly to put out (including the BBCs infinite monkey cage that just added more woo) and especially his fab great courses plus series on time (actually it was about entropy, but hey…) I talked to a bunch of people and many get “stuck” on the same handful of points he raises. None of us could find answers to a few things he states time and again, without actually explaining them in a way that resolves our questions – for example:
1 – Maybe entangled electrons are just like a pair of socks. You know, one is a righty so you can infer the other is a lefty – without any information travelling spookily. If this isn’t the case, I need to know which experiment actually shows they are undecided wave functions before they collapse into left or right (or spin up and down)?
2 – Different worlds that “don’t talk to each other” is a phrase he uses a lot but that is just a phrase, he doesn’t describe what this really means, like the Copenhagen interpretation it glosses over without giving a satisfactory explanation, just a soundbite, no? and if the world splits rather than makes new worlds, wouldn’t it already be thinner than the equivalent of a ‘many worlds’ plank length already. How far can this actually go without sharing out all the universe’s energy?
3 – He explains how the observation problem is totally misunderstood because people think it involves humans observing things, which will cause the wave function to collapse, ie decoherence. He explains that any particle of light or matter, or whatever, that can ‘sense’ where a particle is (or which way it is spinning for example), is enough to count as an observation. However, I have problems understanding when it is that light or matter DOESN’T sense another particle’s spin or position. Ie when is it where a wave function doesn’t collapse? Maybe he means only light that has never landed on something? (yet).
I would love him to take 5 minutes out to answer these as I am “in” if he can explain what he means properly without going into Hawking mode and just clicking the same phrases out again and again. However, I don’t think a couple of tweets would do the job.
Too shy to ask but if anyone can shed any ‘light’, on this ‘matter’ let me know. I will keep following his every word to see if he goes into more detail without adding maths. If you ever get to talk to him, thank him for all the hard work and inspiration. PS that blasted cat is surely an x cat now – stop flogging it in universities, just admit you don’t know the answers, thats what everyone else does, surely a university would be the first to express this, its what inspires new minds to come up with new ideas.
Sean Carroll Thinks We All Exist on Multiple Worlds
In his book Something Deeply Hidden, the physicist explores the idea of Many Worlds, which holds that the universe continually splits into new branches.
The idea that the universe splits into multiple realities with every measurement has become an increasingly popular proposed solution to the mysteries of
Just doesn’t cut it for me, I mean inventing more universes just to solve a small problem in our own seems like a cop out… and this is exactly the type of false solution we should avoid falling into, maybe just admit we don’t know the answer yet?
Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum
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at the same space and time as our own. The existence of the other worlds makes it
possible to remove randomness and action at a distance from quantum
theory and thus from all physics.
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Sean Carroll’s take on what is wrong with QM and why he believes many worlds is the simplest explanation of why physics has been barking up the wrong tree for almost a century. To be fair, it explains a lot but not everything we need to know in order to make progress.
This month marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which outlines principles of space, time and gravity. Einstein’s November 1915 presentation…
However, our guy is better than your guy.
Urr, nope, but thinking about this can help find the truth. From this teaching: “You could say that the history of the book of Genesis is kind of like the opposite of our belief in a 14 billion years ago Big Bang, considered to be out of date and foolish, but perhaps with more wisdom than we thought. Perhaps even Genesis is set for its own type of revolutionary rereading.”
Or we sprouted from a hole in another universe… read this https://medium.com/the-infinite-universe/the-big-bang-may-be-a-black-hole-inside-another-universe-79ce12613c60
Glad they mention the singularities are problems with our math, not with the universe – which is an often mistake some educators make online.
Same. interchangeable means the same in a way.
Gravity isn’t what you think though.
Matter is just stored energy that makes time go slower
(3 upvotes)Gravity is just time curving into space
(3 upvotes)Hard to find a definitive answer according to this https://www.askamathematician.com/2010/01/q-is-it-true-that-all-matter-is-simply-condensed-energy/
Matter isn’t stored energy but t does have energy, called “rest energy.” What distinguishes matter-energy from other forms of energy is that all matter has inertia and is subject to the force of gravity when at rest as well as when in motion.
True, this kid is telling us we thought it PUSHES us to the earth. Oh well.
And Gravity Creates Something From Nothing!
Agreed. gravity is just the curvature of spacetime. Newton would have loved this if only we could have told him.
They still teach that gravity is a fundamental force, when they know it isn’t. Enough already.
Matter is just stored energy that makes time go slower
(3 upvotes)Gravity is just time curving into space
(3 upvotes)Veritasium also mentioned them, watch this too.
Read about singularity sheets here (just don’t lose any sleep over them – heh) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24493-y?proof=t%C2%A0
interesting idea but not a thing, according to Akademe Foundation., worth a read though, the mind boggles.
Oh no, this video just opened my mind to singularities of all shapes and in multiple dimensions, not just points or lines, but sheets and blocks. No? This is the video I saw the idea of ringularities on. By Science Asylum. Highly recommended:
“Time is related to the space coordinates, but they are not equivalent. Pythagoras’s theorem treats all coordinates on an equal footing (see Euclidean space for more details). We can exchange two space coordinates without changing the length, but we can not simply exchange a space coordinate with time: they are fundamentally different.
It is an entirely different thing for two events to be separated in space and to be separated in time. Minkowski proposed that the formula for distance needed a change. He found that the correct formula was actually quite simple, differing only by a sign from Pythagoras’s theorem:
Where c is a constant and t is the time coordinate.[Note 2] Multiplication by c, which has the dimensions L T −1, converts the time to units of length and this constant has the same value as the speed of light.”
My question is: where does the negative sign come from ?”
its more than an idea, but i guess it was an idea before it was an equation. Brian Cox does well explaining this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkCWywO93b8
…. as mentioned in a “closer to truth” youtube video.
Aha! But according to another idea on Ideamill, your head has travelled further than your feet – and moving through space also warps spacetime – so maybe it evens up?
In that case, the question still stands: from the head’s perspective has it REALLY lived longer than the feet, AND from the feet’s perspective have they REALLY lived longer than the head.
OMG. These silly “science” writers just love throwing wormholes in to the equation – but the nature of the Universe is amazing enough without having to sex it up with crappy conjecture. When will we learn?
Love this pic, didn’t read the article though.
“Maybe the most effective weapon in WWII was the friends we made along the way” I found this comment someone made over a year ago – it really resonated with me. It’s on a Lindybeige video comments list.
Einstein didn’t know about light sabres.
Great video, but what will be the next best killer indeed? Chemical, Biological, Viral, Digital?
Putin knows how many weapons the US has around the world. He wants you to know too – which is better than showing off that they have/want/will make more..
Penrose thinks that there is some real, physical “collapse” of a quantum superposition as objects grow big enough for gravity to become a significant part of the picture. Therefore: quantum mechanics might break down when confronted with gravity – when objects get big enough to “feel” significant gravitational force – so quantum mechanics needs modifying or reinterpreting.
The next Einstein, and Wheeler, need to think SMALL…
Was a great idea… til quantum mechanics.
Gravity isn’t a force, and Einstein was wrong – just still the best explanation we have at the moment.
Can it uncurve though? I guess you would need something with negative mass in order to flatten it back out again, no?
Or just make them “think” they have served thousands of years- found this, which I read years ago. These drugs are a real time killer for sure.
reminded me of the penitentiary planet in Alien from a while back
When I was a depressed teenager in a naff town I would have volunteered for a cryo prison, if I got let out as soon as I reached the future. Better if you could convince your family to come with you though. Too late now.
Arvin Ash is having a bash …
OMG it’s worse than that, we’re dead Jim – “The Multiverse Idea Is Rotting Culture”
It’s SCIENCE jim, but not as we KNOW it.
Scientific American, making it sound like Carroll is the only guy to belive quantum mechanics is real and not just an idea: “Aim an instrument at the electron to determine where it is, and you’ll find it in just one place. You might reasonably assume that the wave function is just a statistical approximation of the electron’s behavior, which can’t be more precise because electrons are tiny and our instruments crude. But you would be wrong, according to Carroll. The electron exists as a kind of probabilistic blur until you observe it, when it “collapses,” in physics lingo, into a single position.”
Manyworlds is a trick of the mind – disputed and pretty much debunked in his own podcast.
Interesting, in the description he says “Most entanglement videos discuss the concept just using Bell States, which were first discussed by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen, in their paper on the EPR Paradox. These states are special cases that allow us to understand what an entangled quantum state is most easily, but they aren’t the general case. I wanted to discuss the general case here, and what it specifically means to have an entangled state.”
Bell Test debunked – they are not entangled – its not that seeing one glove makes the other’s wave function collapse, just that if this one is a right hand glove, then the other is known to be a left hand glove – no spooky action, no magic, get over it.
child’s play…
Interesting, as Einstein once said: “Time and space are modes by which we think, and not conditions in which we live”
Time doesn’t really exist, its just an emergent phenomenon we believe we percieve – according to Julian Barbour. Well, that’s his solution to the problem of time in physics and cosmology. Yep it’s as simply stated as it is radical.
I think Sean is doing us all a major favour by pushing this idea in order to help us start asking the right questions again. Bless him if he doesn’t even fully ‘believe’ in many worlds, but is championing it at risk of being a fall-guy for the benefit of future generations of physicists. For this, he needs a stack of medals. And yes, giving credit to Everrett makes him seem respectful for ousted thinkers of the past – but he has a difficult task in explaining many worlds to layman, like me, without confusing us by adding the maths. (Btw America, unlike the universal wave function there is more than just one math).
Why hasn’t he convinced my confused but open mind yet? Well, after watching and listening to everything I can find that he works tirelessly to put out (including the BBCs infinite monkey cage that just added more woo) and especially his fab great courses plus series on time (actually it was about entropy, but hey…) I talked to a bunch of people and many get “stuck” on the same handful of points he raises. None of us could find answers to a few things he states time and again, without actually explaining them in a way that resolves our questions – for example:
1 – Maybe entangled electrons are just like a pair of socks. You know, one is a righty so you can infer the other is a lefty – without any information travelling spookily. If this isn’t the case, I need to know which experiment actually shows they are undecided wave functions before they collapse into left or right (or spin up and down)?
2 – Different worlds that “don’t talk to each other” is a phrase he uses a lot but that is just a phrase, he doesn’t describe what this really means, like the Copenhagen interpretation it glosses over without giving a satisfactory explanation, just a soundbite, no? and if the world splits rather than makes new worlds, wouldn’t it already be thinner than the equivalent of a ‘many worlds’ plank length already. How far can this actually go without sharing out all the universe’s energy?
3 – He explains how the observation problem is totally misunderstood because people think it involves humans observing things, which will cause the wave function to collapse, ie decoherence. He explains that any particle of light or matter, or whatever, that can ‘sense’ where a particle is (or which way it is spinning for example), is enough to count as an observation. However, I have problems understanding when it is that light or matter DOESN’T sense another particle’s spin or position. Ie when is it where a wave function doesn’t collapse? Maybe he means only light that has never landed on something? (yet).
I would love him to take 5 minutes out to answer these as I am “in” if he can explain what he means properly without going into Hawking mode and just clicking the same phrases out again and again. However, I don’t think a couple of tweets would do the job.
Too shy to ask but if anyone can shed any ‘light’, on this ‘matter’ let me know. I will keep following his every word to see if he goes into more detail without adding maths. If you ever get to talk to him, thank him for all the hard work and inspiration. PS that blasted cat is surely an x cat now – stop flogging it in universities, just admit you don’t know the answers, thats what everyone else does, surely a university would be the first to express this, its what inspires new minds to come up with new ideas.
Many worlds has many problems, not quite debunked but not understood either.
Just doesn’t cut it for me, I mean inventing more universes just to solve a small problem in our own seems like a cop out… and this is exactly the type of false solution we should avoid falling into, maybe just admit we don’t know the answer yet?
another good cause ‘stein would have approved of… https://www.theatomproject.org/en/
Campaign for nuclear disarmament donations page, go for it, change the world. put bullies like trump (and any arms dealing us president) to shame.
as if Trump could think for himself. history repeats and just gets worse…
Sean Carroll’s take on what is wrong with QM and why he believes many worlds is the simplest explanation of why physics has been barking up the wrong tree for almost a century. To be fair, it explains a lot but not everything we need to know in order to make progress.
Einstein’s general relativity might one day be the key to unlocking interstellar space travel!
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Some people might question the theory, but Einstein go so many things right!
The general relativity theory was one of the hottest discoveries of the 20th century and it made Albert Einstein into a household name.