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In a Numerical Coincidence, Some See Evidence for String Theory
https://www.quantamagazine.org ^
| January 21, 2022
| Natalie Wolchover
Posted on 01/21/2022 12:44:34 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv; Kevmo; Wonder Warthog; SuperLuminal
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posted on
01/21/2022 12:45:20 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
One could also conclude that it’s evidence for Something Else who’s name is much shorter than “string theory.”
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posted on
01/21/2022 12:48:40 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: Steely Tom
Yes......................
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posted on
01/21/2022 12:51:35 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
In a Numerical Coincidence, Some See Evidence for String Theory The number wasn't 42, was it?
Thanks for all the fish...
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posted on
01/21/2022 12:52:44 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Red Badger
And they’ll take down any Einstein statues, too.
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posted on
01/21/2022 12:53:30 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
( )
To: Red Badger
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posted on
01/21/2022 12:53:39 PM PST
by
algore
To: Yo-Yo
The number wasn't 42, was it?Doubt they were theorizing about Jackie Robinson.....
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posted on
01/21/2022 12:58:12 PM PST
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for criminals.)
To: Red Badger
Oy, Vey!
Presumptive values. accepted facts (and here I thought facts were, and must be, by nature, an immutable truth?)
Scheme- lots of them, it seems, are necessary to fill in all the gaps.
Yeah, call me the “classical skeptic” of all this “science” (theory, really, as most if not all is either assumed or based on a certain set of premises that are self-limiting to one philosophical position....).
But anyway, where would we be without brilliant minds like Ray Bradbury and others of like genre?
Sure, we are observing unique and hard-if-not-impossible to define things in the world and universe around us, but once the premise as to how and why are focused solely on chance and accident, then other more enthralling options are by force of consensus, eliminated.
I am sure and certain that there is more to the story than this (hint, a story requires an author and a storyteller....).
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posted on
01/21/2022 12:58:36 PM PST
by
Manly Warrior
(US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
To: Yo-Yo
What’s yellow and dangerous?
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posted on
01/21/2022 12:59:16 PM PST
by
pdunkin
To: Red Badger
I stopped reading. Maybe I am not interpreting the semantics or perhaps it's poorly written, but why would you ever be surprised when "To bootstrap is to deduce new facts about the world by figuring out what’s compatible with known facts" gives you results similar to "Their bootstrapped number closely matched the prediction for the number made by string theory"??? It sounds to me like two similar (if not the same) ways to arrive somewhere theoretically.
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posted on
01/21/2022 12:59:54 PM PST
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: Hot Tabasco
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:00:25 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Hot Tabasco
No, it’s a reference to Hitchhiker’s Guide.
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:01:29 PM PST
by
maro
(MAGA!)
To: Red Badger
Sorry, it’s “number nine, number nine.”
5.56mm
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:01:58 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
(Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
To: Red Badger
To: Red Badger
String, it’s simple.
If it has two ends, it’s string.
If it has no ends, it’s a loop.
If it has more than two ends,
it means you’re on a party line.
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:05:37 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Red Badger
I refuse to comment on the grounds that it may institutionalize me...
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:07:28 PM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
To: Red Badger
I heard a technical discussion of that topic on NPR with Kamala Harris and AOC trying to make the difficult concepts understandable to us common folks. I couldn’t follow./S
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:11:47 PM PST
by
frank ballenger
(You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
To: deoetdoctrinae
I know that cat.
His name is Schrodinger.
5.56mm
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posted on
01/21/2022 1:19:55 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
(Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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