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You Didn't Ask But Anyway: Wherein a bunch of physicists describe what is mostly the discontinuity between #QuantumMechanics and #Relativity. If I'd been there I'd hammered away at two elements- Time and scaling.We have to look at the primitives that get us to the #StandardModel. If it's not #QM or #Relativity...and it's not new physics, then what ? Whatever it is is gonna be embarrassing...because it's been there the whole #Time
https://youtu.be/dvVBNaZc_WE?si=3bFMy9WhWuVy_aB1
The quantum world: Dreams and delusions | Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder, Michio Kaku, and more!

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Mar 14, 2024 at 3:36amWeb
Show threadKilleansRow 🇺🇲 🇺🇦🍀Mar 14, 2024
...obviously the physics landscape in 2024 is not simplified if you followed things thru 2023. Probabilities still go to the #Astros for progress, they have the advantage wrt instrumentation , data...and particle accelerators bigger than anything on Earth. The other side of that is those things tend to misbehave in ways that frequently suggest we don't t know what we think we know.So much for clearing things up
Show threadKilleansRow 🇺🇲 🇺🇦🍀Mar 14, 2024
...now if we were to build an instrument sensitive enough to see so far into the cosmic past that we were actually able to see nonlinearities in time...possible anomalies of an inflationary regime...how long would it take for us to understand what we were looking at ?
Show threadKilleansRow 🇺🇲 🇺🇦🍀Mar 14, 2024
Here's another discussion on #QM #Relativity and #QuantumGravity, including Erik Verlinde working the string theory side.
https://youtu.be/dvVBNaZc_WE?si=3bFMy9WhWuVy_aB1
It's worth noting that missing from both these discussions is the perspective from particle physics -the links between mass and massless regimes, the force carriers, unification energies and the primary interactions between #Mass and #Spacetime. Maybe somebody missed a flight or something
The quantum world: Dreams and delusions | Roger Penrose, Sabine Hossenfelder, Michio Kaku, and more!

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Show threadKilleansRow 🇺🇲 🇺🇦🍀Mar 14, 2024
...also hats of to #SabineHossenfelder for an operational perspective that made these discussions a bit easier on non physics people in the audience but then ending with the Dim 4 manifold
Show threadmjMar 31, 2024

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I think the 'embarrassing part' being there the whole time is the most interesting - far more than any of the myriad trivial puzzle-solving bits added to the pile over the past several decades.

Not enough serious thought seems to be going into the idea that the odds seem highest that both theories are wrong in key areas. As you highlighted, there aren't that many fundamentals that affect both, & we should be focusing more on the relations of #time & #scaling, which operate quite differently between our principal abstract dimensions.

There's also a very good chance, imo, that the embarrassing part extends well beyond these 'pillars' of scientific models & thought. Both of them pointed clearly to the fact that 'classical' (previously just known as 'right') #physics concepts were not as we had pegged them, yet who among the noted scholars went backwards from there, as a detective would in order to solve a crime?

Instead, in proper pre-#Copernican fashion, they just set about adding layers of arbitrary #complexity in order to leave the past as-is, and race toward the next paper on some low-hanging fruit that supported the '#quantum revolution' that was now their defacto career title track.

No one has looked back since, I'm afraid.