Thanks Ed Witten and the rest. All that meaning and order, being broken down into tiny fragments of truth, that you now can’t reconsider. Great stuff, chaos and calmness are nigh.
Is Theoretical Physics Wasting Our Best Living Minds On Nonsense?
Physics is broken again. Spending our money and brains when we could be unravelling life and consciousness. When will mechanics stop fiddling and allow the rest of us the resources we need to unlock the mystery of evolution and our minds as we rise to the heavens?
‘The Universe Speaks in Numbers’ – Interview 5 - Graham Farmelo
EDWARD WITTEN Edward Witten is widely regarded as the pre-eminent theoretical physicist of the past four decades. Based at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he has made dozens of path-breaking contributions to both physics and mathematics. Listen to the interview Witten at lunch…
It’s not right (yet) though as they say, superstring theory is not even wrong. Here Witten admits its been a longer journey to disprove his theory than he thought it would. Heh.
Physics Titan Still Thinks String Theory Is “On the Right Track”
At a 1990 conference on cosmology, I asked attendees, who included folks like Stephen Hawking, Michael Turner, James Peebles, Alan Guth and Andrei Linde, to nominate the smartest living physicist.
Surely Galileo’s concept of inertia was first? no? Ie an object in a state of motion possesses an “inertia” that causes it to remain in that state of motion unless an external force acts on it.
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.
'Quantum Entanglement for Babies' is a colourful and simple introduction to one of nature's weirdest features. Entanglement has puzzled even the world's greatest scientists. Maybe with an early start, baby will be the first to understand it!
Thanks Ed Witten and the rest. All that meaning and order, being broken down into tiny fragments of truth, that you now can’t reconsider. Great stuff, chaos and calmness are nigh.
Physics is broken again. Spending our money and brains when we could be unravelling life and consciousness. When will mechanics stop fiddling and allow the rest of us the resources we need to unlock the mystery of evolution and our minds as we rise to the heavens?
It’s not right (yet) though as they say, superstring theory is not even wrong. Here Witten admits its been a longer journey to disprove his theory than he thought it would. Heh.
It has to be right – because anyone can change it to suit pretty much ANY future finding – not really science but an answer all the same
Gallileo’s concept was different from Newtons, dunno who had the idea first but that’s a different thing altogether.
Surely Galileo’s concept of inertia was first? no? Ie an object in a state of motion possesses an “inertia” that causes it to remain in that state of motion unless an external force acts on it.
linking to Ash, who knows a thing or two about Mass
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…