The Universe Is Not Locally Real

[Kitan Etos]

[Jehanne]

Fantastic article! Without derailing this thread, it is interesting that one could get a PhD in physics, "have fun for five years, and then...be jobless." That outcome, of course, would feel very real, not to mention, painful.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Fantastic article!  Without derailing this thread, it is interesting that one could get a PhD in physics, "have fun for five  years, and then...be jobless."  That outcome, of course, would feel very real, not to mention, painful.

There’s a story (almost certainly apocryphal, since it’s also told about other people) that Ernest Rutherford was told by his academic advisors to take his degree in mathematics, because everything had already been discovered in physics.

Boru

[Mister Agenda]

I don't understand why particles being affected by other particles at a distance makes anything less real, but IANAP.

[Jehanne]

I don't understand why particles being affected by other particles at a distance makes anything less real, but IANAP.

Will this tee make me look fat?

[Mister Agenda]

It will and won't.

[zebo-the-fat]

Some days I feel like I'm not localy real!

[polymath257]

Yes, quantum mechanics is accurate. No, classical physics is not. So you can't understand the universe using classical ideas.

No, at the quantum level, things don't have definite properties between observations. Quantum mechanics is a probabilistic description and not a deterministic one.

No, there is no 'communication' between widely separated particles. There are correlations that are set up when the particles are formed.

[Ahriman]

My consciousness doesn't seem real.

[Angrboda]

I've decided to start learning Hmong and Spanish. Maybe it's time I acquired a decent grasp of physics as well. No time like the present to learn something new.