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So often used as an excuse, the number of times this has been used in lieu of a shoulder shrug.
Over to you Mr. Bohm.
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“Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.”
- Marx
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-Lennon
I hope quoting Lennon and Marx won't bring down the wrath of the moderator for being political.
- Marx
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-Lennon
I hope quoting Lennon and Marx won't bring down the wrath of the moderator for being political.
Well... the first word of his quote is misinterpreted a lot. I'll give you that.
The article in your link only sets the record straight on that first word. The article all but confirms that he was wrong with the rest of this quote.
It doesn't detract anything from the fantastic work he did and the genius he was, but yeah, Einstein meant that the foundation of quantum mechanics just couldn't be right. And it's really beginning to look like he was just wrong..
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” --famous author
Quantum physics are right. It's simply our understanding of how the universe is constructed is what is in error. We just don't know enough yet. We may never know enough. Quantum physics jibe with micro and macro physics. It has to because macro physics are based on micro physics and micro physics are based on quantum physics. Therefore macro physics are based (even if indirectly) on quantum physics. The problem is we don't understand all the relational links as of yet. Once we do understand all of those relational links, we'll be able to create a universe like our own. If we can't, then we don't really understand how what we are trying to build goes together.
"Man who push pram push luck!"
Life is deadly, no one gets out alive.
Best to keep your silence and let people think you're an idiot, than to speak and remove any doubt.
To infinity and beyond!
Never surrender, never give up!
I know of only two things that are infinite, the size of the Universe and the stupidity of mankind...and I'm not so sure about the Universe.
Best to keep your silence and let people think you're an idiot, than to speak and remove any doubt.
To infinity and beyond!
Never surrender, never give up!
I know of only two things that are infinite, the size of the Universe and the stupidity of mankind...and I'm not so sure about the Universe.
As a quick commentary, the Universe is currently suspected to be infinite but it may well be finite but boundless.
Finite but boundless? That seems to be a contradiction in terms.
Not necessarily. It's also curved, remember? And curvature into higher dimension can look infinite in lower ones.
Take a sphere, for example. It's very finite in three dimensions, but for two-dimensional being living on the surface it will seem infinite.
So if universe is a three-dimensional space curved into fourth dimension (not time, but proper fourth spatial dimension) it IS infinite for us, yet it may very well have boundaries.
The idea you have is right but I think you got things the other way around. It'd seem limitless or boundless and yet finite. In the example of the sphere there are no 2D barriers but clearly the surface is finite.
It's a quantum dilemma! ~ Bohr
Or 11 dimensions. ~ Every CERN panel operator
All the gravity is living somewhere. We just haven't found it yet. ~ Bohm
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And so is the space. If you go on far enough (was it 10120LY? I'M not sure now) you're going to run out of possible quantum states of matter and the universe will, for all intents and purposes, start to "repeat itself"
That, to me, is a definition of finite but boundless space. Like on a sphere you can go forever, although its surface isn't infinite, so you could in space.
I'd definetly love it.