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So you can build up a, say, 1d continuum with aleph1 0d points?
March 11, 2022 at 13:00
Which means non-local hidden variables are possible. Why should infinite lightspeed be a problem? As long as no information is propagated this should ...
March 11, 2022 at 12:55
The mathematician complaining about the hostile attitude towards hidden variables was John Nash, https://youtu.be/QUFe7M55NP8
March 11, 2022 at 12:39
Bohm was mocked "a hopeless fool", "aTrotskyte", a "communist conspiricist", "a traitor"... How can one not sympathize with his ideas? Seems he is the...
March 11, 2022 at 12:20
But why call hidden variables immature or related to being Trotskyan? Just look in this video... Its written in it. https://youtu.be/jRcYgcWE8vs No wo...
March 11, 2022 at 12:15
I think the nature of reality will always remain a mystic mystery somehow. Maybe the basics of nature are geometric structures made of hidden variable...
March 11, 2022 at 12:02
https://www.nist.gov/customcf/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=919863
March 11, 2022 at 11:42
What he means with "almost" spontaneously?
March 11, 2022 at 11:37
Well, hidden variables offer an answer. They are non-local variables. Bohm was ridiculed for it. He was literally called names by his contemporaries (...
March 11, 2022 at 11:34
So not all paths are taken at once but parts of paths. Feynman made it confusing himself.
March 11, 2022 at 11:11
Confusing indeed! Let's say the electron just explores all possible paths to reach for other particles to interact with. It goes through one slit and ...
March 11, 2022 at 11:02
I could be wrong, but doesn't e^{-iHt} describe a rotation of a complex vector as time goes on? The magnitude of this vector, is proportional to the p...
March 11, 2022 at 10:42
Infinity is the spatial edition of eternity. It has a long history. An eternal history.
March 11, 2022 at 09:35
Space is infinite. There is no end to it. The universe expands in it. Accelerated even. Will it come to a sudden stop because space ends?
March 11, 2022 at 07:31
Haha! He couldn't find his shaving gel. Space is hard to shave....
March 11, 2022 at 06:46
Space! What else? Could harbor Gremlins...
March 11, 2022 at 06:37
I even answered it for you 180booze! Hidden variables to stop the regress and send it backwards.
March 11, 2022 at 06:34
Exactly! Wigner's friend and all that. Only hidden variables offer a realistic escape. Objective collapse.
March 11, 2022 at 06:27
Then you understand it wrongly. That's exactly what not is meant. An observer is always conscious. An apparatus stays in superposition till an observe...
March 11, 2022 at 05:58
The very definition of a paradox is that it can be resolved. The true paradox, that is.
March 11, 2022 at 05:36
What about Occam's shaving gel? Makes the razor run smooth... Shave those needless hairs away! Smoooooth.....
March 11, 2022 at 05:27
It's the question if this is the case.
March 11, 2022 at 05:22
Paradoxes seem to contradict expectation. On solving them, they're not paradoxal anymore.
March 11, 2022 at 05:17
True. But that doesn't mean you can't consider them objective reality. You gotta think something is real. Other people see something different as real...
March 11, 2022 at 05:14
No genes or memes, nor God or laws of nature, can tell me what to do or how to think.
March 11, 2022 at 05:07
Memes are screaming for procreation like genes? A curious case, dear Watson...
March 11, 2022 at 04:19
It shows, again, the connection between zero (zero entropy at the start) and infinity (maximum entropy of the photon/neutrino gas at the end).
March 11, 2022 at 00:12
What have zeroes and ones gotta do with QM? The zeroes and ones are nowhere to be seen in a wavefunction. You can represent the wavefunction by ones a...
March 10, 2022 at 23:55
What was your question again?
March 10, 2022 at 23:43
Ha! It's God luring behind the wavefunction...
March 10, 2022 at 23:41
Maybe it's all farted in existence accidentally. The farter apologized to their fellow gods for that... "prrrrr... bang!" "Sorry guys!"
March 10, 2022 at 23:40
Thinking about laws of physics is often a sign of mental illness. As an aphorism, that is.
March 10, 2022 at 23:32
In fact there is. Every new big bang spawns a different universe. But where does the element of randomness come from? If all gaps are closed, what els...
March 10, 2022 at 23:30
Ha! :up:
March 10, 2022 at 23:01
A circle can in fact be squared. Take four points between thumb and finger, and stretch the curved lines straight. Now that's philosophy!
March 10, 2022 at 22:59
They in fact are. But there is an intelligence needed to bring that eternal infinity into existence. The laws themselves are to dumb for that.
March 10, 2022 at 22:57
Because laws of nature can't create themselves.
March 10, 2022 at 22:49
Gods weren't created. They have always existed. Why should they be created? How can you research this?
March 10, 2022 at 22:41
Then where did we and the universe come from? Even when eternal?
March 10, 2022 at 21:39
Isn't the fact that we and the universe exist proof?
March 10, 2022 at 21:36
"If" they exist? How else can it be?
March 10, 2022 at 21:30
Why should God be omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent monster in the first place?
March 10, 2022 at 21:22
That relationship depends on the idea and the ideas used by the majority and the people these ideas blossom in. I have done some research on this abou...
March 10, 2022 at 21:01
The gods live in a similar world as ours. With animals, mountains, stars and seas. An eternal world which they (re)created. If we can't lift huge ston...
March 10, 2022 at 19:52
"Seem" indeed, because I don't mix them. I just say there are hidden variables. Unfashionable, exciting lots of irrational underbelly feelings, just a...
March 10, 2022 at 19:45
You see hidden variables as classical variables? Don't think so. They are non-local. Classical variables are local, except maybe tidal forces but they...
March 10, 2022 at 19:41
"Desperate"... Typical. Bohm was called names by his contemporaries. But he was right. If anyone was desperate, it was Everest. Or Rovelli, for that m...
March 10, 2022 at 19:33
Okay. That's all I asked. Which means they offer an explanation. In BQM, the wavefunction just collapses. As a matter of fact, experiments can be done...
March 10, 2022 at 19:31
Gods made us, the world, and all creatures in the image of their world. Which means they are not omnipotent because no creature is. They have an extra...
March 10, 2022 at 19:24
Our body lies between the brain world and the physical world. What if the self is just the body?
March 10, 2022 at 17:20