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Demystifier reacted to Matterwave's post in the thread High School A simple Black Hole question I can't find an answer for with
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I realize this is a popular science level answer and focusing on the Schwarzschild solution is totally fine. But just pointing out for... -
Demystifier replied to the thread High School A simple Black Hole question I can't find an answer for.An answer at a level of popular physics. Because our theory of gravity, called general relativity, says that gravity is not merely... -
Demystifier replied to the thread Undergrad The countability paradox of computable numbers.No, that's not the definition of the computable number. Sure, all computable numbers have this property, but the converse is not true... -
Demystifier replied to the thread A review of Max Tegmark's book Our Mathematical Universe.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation -
Demystifier reacted to gentzen's post in the thread Graduate Obtaining NRQM from QFT: Issues, Folklores and Facts by Padmanabhan with
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Padmanabhan doesn't claim this. Art Hobson is the one who believes this. I guess Padmanabhan's textbook on QFT and his long paper (58... -
Demystifier replied to the thread A review of Max Tegmark's book Our Mathematical Universe.The map is not the territory. But Tegmark assumes that it is, and then develops this assumption to its logical conclusion. For me, it's... -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Obtaining NRQM from QFT: Issues, Folklores and Facts by Padmanabhan.Yes, but the field cannot be something that removes all the conceptual problems of NRQM. First, in NRQM the position is an observable... -
Demystifier reacted to Muu9's post in the thread Quantum Textbook Sequence Request: Entering B.Sc. Physics (Theoretical Focus) with
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This seems to be meant to be read after a first quantum physics course -
Demystifier replied to the thread Quantum Textbook Sequence Request: Entering B.Sc. Physics (Theoretical Focus).Since you are interested in foundational topics, such as MWI, I highly recommend Norsen... -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Musing on the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics.Gibbs and Boltzmann entropy are not the same, but in thermal equilibrium they have the same value. For some foundational, philosophical... -
Demystifier replied to the thread High School Quantum field theory vs. super string theory?.All. -
Demystifier replied to the thread High School Quantum field theory vs. super string theory?.Even without AdS/CFT correspondence, QFT is obtained from string theory as an approximation, in the limit in which wavelength is much... -
Demystifier replied to the thread High School Cold fusion.Nope. -
Demystifier replied to the thread Graduate Obtaining NRQM from QFT: Issues, Folklores and Facts by Padmanabhan.It depends on what you mean by RQM. If by RQM you mean Bjorken & Drell 1, then yes, you can obtain it from Bjorken & Drell 2. But in... -
Demystifier reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Is the quantum wave function a real object or a mathematical tool? with
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For the MWI, yes, the wave function is the fundamental reality, everything else is emergent. However, I don't think that's true for the...