Recent content by pines-demon

Isn’t that how we justify the whole Standard Model Lagrangian? What’s new here?

Yes I did a two parter in the anecdotes of physics thread see https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/interesting-anecdotes-in-the-history-of-physics.1059261/

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

Retaking this point. So basically the only idea here is that gravitational-based collapse is maybe not like the quantum mechanics we know (beyond Standard Model) so that it could allow noncomputability? I feel like this is like looking for the God of the gaps but replacing God by consciousness.

Oh right! It was the "quantum gravity" terminology that threw me off. Proving or disproving gravitational-based collapse does not mean that it reveals anything about quantum gravity (unification of QFT/GR) right? Maybe in a sense it does but I would keep the terms separate.

Just for sake of everything, I am not equating noncomputablity with nondeterminism, I am saying that quantum computing does not give you noncomputability, and does not give you nondeterminism either. You would have to argue what is uncomputable in quantum mechanics for that to work, under...

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 steps) so anything quantum is computable. UNLESS according to objective collapse interpretations like Penrose's, the collapse is truly random. But then, it does...

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 even fanthom how quantum phenomena in the brain could have any link to consciousness, and even Penrose is very handwavy about this.

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 think I used Postnikov back in the time.

And the last one:

UC Berkeley press with John Clarke

Martinis press conference at UC Santa Barbara:

Yeah but I do not get it.