2015-11-12, 00:47 | Link #1 |
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The Nature Of Reality/Existence
The 6 Most WTF Scientific Theories About Existence:
"The universe is a really strange place, and as science progresses, it just keeps looking weirder. So when fringe theories like the below come about, your first impulse is to laugh them off, but then you think, "Is it really that much stranger than what we know now?" So we're not saying that any of these mind-blowing theories about the nature of everything are accurate, we're just saying that they were proposed by people smarter than us, and it's fun to think about how ..." See: http://www.cracked.com/article_20484...existence.html ================================= There Is Growing Evidence that Our Universe Is a Giant Hologram: "If a friend told you that we were all living in a giant hologram, you’d probably tell him to lay off the kush. But incredibly, physicists across the world are thinking the same thing: That what we perceive to be a three-dimensional universe might just be the image of a two-dimensional one, projected across a massive cosmic horizon." See: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the...giant-hologram ================================= A New Way of Thinking About Spacetime That Turns Everything Inside Out: "One of the weirdest aspects of quantum mechanics is entanglement, because two entangled particles affecting each other across vast distances seems to violate a fundamental principle of physics called locality: things that happen at a particular point in space can only influence the points closest to it. But what if locality — and space itself — is not so fundamental after all? Author George Musser explores the implications in his new book, Spooky Action At a Distance." See: http://gizmodo.com/a-new-way-of-thin...ryt-1741498475 |
2015-11-18, 23:18 | Link #2 |
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Theory and Experiments suggest Space Time is made of
Quantum Entanglement: "Many physicists believe that entanglement is the essence of quantum weirdness — and some now suspect that it may also be the essence of space-time geometry. Mark Van Raamsdonk proposes a unification of quantum mechanics and gravity. Both quantum mechanics and gravity theories have been abundantly verified through experiment, yet the realities they describe seem utterly incompatible. Van Raamsdonk’s approach to resolving this incompatibility is strange. 'Entanglement' is the key: the phenomenon that many physicists believe to be the ultimate in quantum weirdness. Entanglement lets the measurement of one particle instantaneously determine the state of a partner particle, no matter how far away it may be — even on the other side of the Milky Way." See: http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/11/the...est-space.html |
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String Theory Might Merge With the Other Theory of
Everything: "Eight decades have passed since physicists realized that the theories of quantum mechanics and gravity don’t fit together, and the puzzle of how to combine the two remains unsolved. In the last few decades, researchers have pursued the problem in two separate programs—string theory and loop quantum gravity—that are widely considered incompatible by their practitioners. But now some scientists argue that joining forces is the way forward." See: http://www.wired.com/2016/01/string-...of-everything/ |
2016-06-02, 22:05 | Link #5 |
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Elon Musk believes we are probably characters in
some advanced civilization's video game: "By far the best moment of Recode's annual Code Conference was when Elon Musk took the stage and explained that though we think we're flesh- and-blood participants in a physical world, we are almost certainly computer-generated entities living inside a more advanced civilization's video game. Don't believe me? Here's Musk's argument in full:" See: http://www.vox.com/2016/6/2/11837608...ation-argument & http://motherboard.vice.com/read/elo...rse-hypothesis ================================ If the Universe is just a computer program, I wonder if the SysAdmins are named Beldandy, Skuld, Urd ...................... |
2016-10-08, 23:48 | Link #6 |
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Tech billionaires think we live in the Matrix
and have asked scientists to get us out: "Two of the technology world's most powerful billionaires are concerned we are living in a Matrix-style simulated world and are working with scientists to break us out. In an article in The New Yorker, writer Ted Friend explains that the idea of the "simulation hypothesis" has been on the rise among tech's elite. "Many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation hypothesis, the argument that what we experience as reality is in fact fabricated in a computer; two tech billionaires have gone so far as to secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation," Friend claimed. Neither of the billionaires were named in the piece." See: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-b...093735189.html |
2017-07-10, 22:31 | Link #7 |
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Basic Assumptions of Physics Might Require the
Future to Influence the Past: "One of the most well-accepted physical theories makes no logical sense. Quantum mechanics, the theory that governs the smallest possible spaces, forces our human brains to accept some really wacky, uncomfortable realities. Maybe we live in a world where certain observations can force our universe to branch into multiple ones. Or maybe actions in the present influence things earlier in time. A team of physicists did some thinking, and realized this latter idea, called retrocausality, is a consequence of certain interpretations of quantum mechanics, and therefore, certain interpretations of the nature of reality. Their new paper is more of a “what-if,” an initial look at how to make some of those quantum mechanical interpretations work. Some people I asked thought the work was important, some thought it didn’t matter. Others felt the authors’ interpretation of quantum mechanics avoids the problems posed by the new paper. But no matter what, quantum mechanics will force us to make some uncomfortable conclusions about the world." See: http://gizmodo.com/basic-assumptions...e-t-1796730487 |
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The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature:
"Furey had figured out how to build on a finding of Günaydin’s from 40 years earlier—a largely forgotten result that supported a powerful suspicion about fundamental physics and its relationship to pure math. The suspicion, harbored by many physicists and mathematicians over the decades but rarely actively pursued, is that the peculiar panoply of forces and particles that comprise reality spring logically from the properties of eight-dimensional numbers called “octonions.” See: https://www.wired.com/story/the-pecu...aws-of-nature/ |
2019-11-15, 01:53 | Link #10 |
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Quantum physics: our study suggests objective reality doesn’t exist:
"Alternative facts are spreading like a virus across society. Now it seems they have even infected science – at least the quantum realm. This may seem counter intuitive. The scientific method is after all founded on the reliable notions of observation, measurement and repeatability. A fact, as established by a measurement, should be objective, such that all observers can agree with it. But in a paper recently published in Science Advances, we show that, in the micro-world of atoms and particles that is governed by the strange rules of quantum mechanics, two different observers are entitled to their own facts. In other words, according to our best theory of the building blocks of nature itself, facts can actually be subjective." See: http://theconversation.com/quantum-p...t-exist-126805 |
2019-11-15, 11:04 | Link #11 |
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Most of the articles posted here are click bait at best, and fabrications at worst. If one is seeking good resources on quantum theory, Steven Hawking and Brian Greene both have excellent publications and books.
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2019-11-21, 07:46 | Link #12 |
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Indeed there is plenty of click bait out there.
For something better, I'd suggest watching these videos by Sabine Hossenfelder: https://www.youtube.com/user/peppermint78/videos Or see her blog: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/ |
2022-03-07, 15:39 | Link #13 |
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Black Holes Are Proof We’re Living in a Holographic Universe
"Black holes have a complex shape. Inside, gravity exists in three dimensions. But black holes are also connected to outside particles and magnetic fields that only exist in two dimensions. So how can a black hole exist in both two dimensions and three dimensions at the same time? Scientists say there’s a mathematical phenomenon at work here, called the “holographic duality theory.” Juan Maldacena, an Argentine theoretical physicist, discovered the concept in 1997, which states that events inside a space with gravity (like a black hole) are mathematically equivalent to gravity-free events on the surface of that space that involve particles." See: https://www.popularmechanics.com/spa...uality-theory/ |
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