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A new Boson?
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Alex, make a prediction when you think the quantum entanglement dilemma will be successfully explained.
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.  RE: A new Boson?
December 17, 2015 at 9:01 pm
(This post was last modified: December 17, 2015 at 9:02 pm by Cyberman.)
I'm not a boson smasher, I'm a boson smasher's mate...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 RE: A new Boson?
December 18, 2015 at 1:46 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2015 at 1:46 am by Alex K.)
(December 17, 2015 at 6:48 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Alex, make a prediction when you think the quantum entanglement dilemma will be successfully explained. There already are explanations for it, for example Everett's relative state ( "Many Worlds") interpretation of quantum mechanics and others. The trouble is that they don't seem to make different experimental predictions, and so we don't know which is the right one. Now, maybe quantum gravity research will point us towards one particular scenario. But I don't seriously expect to know for sure which is the correct interpretation of quantum mechanics in my lifetime.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
RE: A new Boson?
December 18, 2015 at 3:00 am
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Next trick q.
Which do you believe will be solved first. The q entanglement dilemma or Eintein's failed unified field theory. {my money's on you solving both!} The quinella will pay a fortune!
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Know God, Know fear. RE: A new Boson?
December 18, 2015 at 3:23 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2015 at 3:33 am by Alex K.)
I think Einstein's unified field theory is hopeless, because he was lagging behind the current developments in fundamental physics already in his day (1950s), and instead kept sticking to his principles what the world *should* be like according to his tastes (as an example, he kept insisting that the universe should be static for purely aesthetic reasons, despite that not really making sense if one thinks about it, and only reluctantly changed is position). By now, his ideas about unification are so out of date that no one seriously considers them. Imagine: he barely lived to see Quantum Electrodynamics properly developed (published 6 years before his death), and never knew about the nature of the weak force which was resolved in the 80s (and to a certain extent, in 2012, with the topic of this very thread possibly changing the story again), let alone the strong force. His picture of the world was much too simple. A similar fate happened to Heisenberg who tried to build a unified field theory for protons and electrons, which appears nonsensical from a modern perspective because protons are not fundamental objects. Some of the stuff Einstein did with other people (Kaluza-Klein theory in higher dimensions) has reappeared in a much more general form in Superstring Theory. The trouble with finding a unified theory, be it fields or strings or whatever, is that if nothing very surprising happens to exist which completely changes the game (such as extra space dimensions), the phenomena of quantum gravity are not really observable in the lab, and only very indirectly in big bang cosmology. So, which is the right theory has been hard to determine for lack of good data, and speculation has run rampant in all kinds of directions without good empirical guidance. That is another thing that might not be resolved any time soon. It really depends on how kind nature is to us...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
Seems as good a time and place as any to put this here...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
RE: A new Boson?
December 18, 2015 at 4:06 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2015 at 4:08 am by Alex K.)
That song is brilliant both musically as well as for the science. I don't know anything comparable really. Having worked on strings, this is hilarious.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
Brian May would love it, given his astrophysics doctorate, but I don't know if he's ever seen it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
RE: A new Boson?
December 18, 2015 at 4:17 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2015 at 4:17 am by Alex K.)
I mean, this really goes down to the technical details and current developments with some inside jokes, really, really awesome. When the AdS/CFT part came up, I just cracked up.
Kääääähler Käääähler LOL
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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