Posted on 05/26/2021 8:19:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
I was in the forest and heard a tree fall like no one was there..................
I thought aether was something you huffed in a rag to get really messed up?
I stand corrected. Also, there is a saying going around that has been attributed to a number of people, one being the ever popular Odon Von Horvath, that although genius has its limits stupidity is infinite. Congress being one example.
Listen to the talk—brilliant and amazing guy.
The difficulty in reconciling Einstein’s General Relativity with quantum mechanics is because GR is a classical, background dependent theory, and QM is not.
In classical theories there is an assumed background, i.e. spacetime, that is independent of the experiment being done. This is eliminated with QM that defines all phenomena in terms of statistical fluctuations that are modelled mathematically in the Schrodinger wave equation.
At small enough lengths (quantum scale) the gravitational force interacts with the other forces in a unified way and the classical problems like singularities are resolved. That’s what the math from string theory suggests at this point but we don’t have the tools to verify this prediction at this time.
Did you pay the Einstein family for the copyright license for that pic? I hear they’re rather nasty about unauthorized uses of Uncle Albert’s likeness.
I’m leading toward a vibrational model of the universe.
Matter is an extremely fast vibration with a very small wavelength.
Energy is the same vibration but spaced out more on wavelength.
I think it allows for God in that he’s the overarching embodiment of the universe and explains how he can be everywhere and omniscient. Heaven is just a different chord if you will.
“I actually don’t think it is possible for humans to really understand how the universe works.”
I agree. Some scientist/philosophers have concluded that further exploration reveals only increasing complexity - far more new questions than answers to the old ones.
Better microscopes will reveal finer elements, etc..
Precisely. It’s why the laws of physics—no matter what they are—apply to everything that exists. Period. Full stop.
Our models of the laws of physics can be wrong. But finding something that apparently “breaks” them is just the way we discover that fact.
Interaction defines existence.
I’m not sure what the old philosophy is, other than to say, if something exists only for you, then you’re just crazy or foolish. If it exists for everyone, but for no thing, it’s mass hysteria. But if things in the world that we interact with react to it, then we call it real.
But maybe we’re just imagining that, too.
This is all really simple. We live in a massive computer simulation. The pixel size is the Plank length. The speed of light is a reflection of the maximum processing power. God is the programmer. This doesn’t make any of us less real.
No, not kidding - can explain more if anyone is interested
Read up on Eddington’s analysis of the results of the eclipse in 1919 used to verify Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Read about that 40 years ago. Quite interesting.
“Religion”: a belief system shared by a lot of people
“Cult”: a belief system shared by only a few people
“Insanity”: a belief system unique to one individual.
“A lot” and “A Few” of course being a matter of politics and armed might as much as reason or logic.
Because Einstein is science, and Global Warming is religion.
Because they embrace all things anti-Semite
Bingo!
Same old... Same old...
Grant funds running low? Question Albert to gain notoriety...
LOL!
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