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Here's another passage that might be of interest: Thirty Years Since Parity Non-Conservation: A SYMPOSIUM FOR T. D. Lee...

Here's a passage that might be of interest: p.52-53 (Selected papers, 1945-1980, with commentary, C.N. Yang, Freeman, 1983) Commentary...

Yes I did a two parter in the anecdotes of physics thread see...

Amazing age and amazing number of contributions. I wonder if we will ever know why he was not in terms with Lee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Chen-Ning ( photo from http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~yang/ )...

We won't know that for sure until we have a confirmed theory of quantum gravity. :wink:

Retaking this point. So basically the only idea here is that gravitational-based collapse is maybe not like the quantum mechanics we...

Oh right! It was the "quantum gravity" terminology that threw me off. Proving or disproving gravitational-based collapse does not mean...

I don't think the research program referred to is to use quantum gravity to explain the brain specifically. I think it is to use quantum...

Just for sake of everything, I am not equating noncomputablity with nondeterminism, I am saying that quantum computing does not give you...

This is what I find hand-wavy. It is well know that a classical computer can simulate anything a quantum computer can do (just in more...

It is not impossible that more years (decades?) of AI development will lead to conscious physical systems In which the underlying...

I can see why searching for quantum phenomena in the brain would be encouraged or at least interesting to look into it. But I cannot...

He also correctly predicted Yaghi in Chemistry!

I do not think group or field theory is essential in the sense that most books on Galois theory will introduce the important concepts. I...