Hacker NewsAre the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?
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Soh Kam YungArticle by Philip Ball.
"All attempts to quantize GR have so far produced unsatisfactory answers, says Igor Pikovski of Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. But he and others are asking a potentially simpler question: not what is the quantum theory of gravity but whether gravity is quantum mechanical at all."
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v19/18
Bernd von Mallinckrodt 🦋Exploring an #ontologyOfoscillation …
may therefore offer a unifying research perspective worth examining at the intersection of relativity and #quantumtheory.
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Online Marketing ScoopsWhy Even Physicists Still Don’t Understand Quantum Theory 100 Years On
Wiktor Mazin. Credit: Wiktor Mazin, Quantum Fractal Artist Everyone has their favourite example of a trick that reliably gets a certain job done, even if they don’t really understand why. Back in the day, it might have been slapping the top of your television set when the picture went fuzzy. Today, it might be turning your computer off and on again. Quantum mechanics the most successful and important theory in modern physics is like that. It works wonderfully, explaining things from lasers […]https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2025/11/22/physicists-still-dont-understand-quantum-theory/
Hilbert space: Treating functions as vectors
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Philo Sophies✨ #Correlation between #psychology 🧠 and #physics ⚛️ – What does that mean?
In our #Zoomposium with physicist and psychologist #WaltervonLucadou, we talk about the fascinating intersection between #consciousness, #quantum physics, and #parapsychology.
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Carlos Tomas GrahmIt’s funny — Bell’s inequality didn’t break physics so much as it broke our confidence in knowing what physics is.
Maybe that’s the real frontier: realizing that certainty itself is the variable. ⚛️🧠💫✨
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Alexander KnochelYang and Mills were originally barking up the wrong tree when it came to the application of their idea, trying to implement it as a symmetry between protons and neutrons.
The application of their ideas to what we today call the standard model came more than 10 years later through Sheldon Glashow, and Steve Weinberg and Abdus Salam for the weak interactions; And then even later for the strong interactions via Gell-Mann, Zweig, Fritzsch
Yang-Mills theory famously has the property that, unlike the photon in electrodynamics, it is forbidden for its bosons to possess any mass - it would be much easier to bestow mass upon the photon of electrodynamics via the Stückelberg mechanism (named after none other than Ernst Carl Gerlach Stückelberg von Breidenbach zu Breidenstein und Melsbach, unsung hero of quantum electrodynamics), but such shortcuts of generating mass are not possible in Yang-Mills-theory without seriously breaking things.
According to legend, this led to a historic clash between the Yang-Mills-team and acerbic father of quantum mechanics and pitiless axe of reason, Wolfgang Pauli, who let Yang-Mills-theory die from public humiliation after a talk by remarking that it predicts massless bosons which are clearly not present in nature.
What Wolfgang Pauli could not have known - the simplest and most elegant way to have masses for bosons in Yang-Mills-Theory, it turned out later, is the Higgs-mechanism, and the rest, as you know, is science history...
Rest in Peace, Frank Yang!
I had the privilege to get my masters at his institute at SUNY that bears his name, although I did not meet him during my time there as he was visiting China at the time - my claim to Yang fame thus remains that I got to fill out my tax paperwork sitting in his office, and I think we stole one issue of CERN courier addressed to his name ;)
While he got his Nobel prize for the prediction of parity violation, the context in which quantum field theorists and particle physicists will probably encounter his name most often is for Yang-Mills-Theory, the mathematical framework which describes the strong and weak interactions in the standard model of particle physics, named after Yang and Robert Mills who unfortunately died 26 years ago..
If you don't know it, you can imagine Yang-Mills-Theory as having several copies of the electromagnetic field ( eight in the case of the strong interactions, and three in the case of weak interactions) in parallel, and have them all interact with each other. There is a unique way to achieve this in four spacetime dimensions which allows for the dynamics observed in Gluons and the W, Z bosons with the photon, and that is Yang-Mills-Theory.
It would be fair to say that Yang-Mills-Theory is the foundation of how we understand most of the fundamental forces in modern physics.
