Reality is an Information System—And Physics Has Been Lying to You

  • dbtng@eviltoast.org
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    11 hours ago

    This is just Time Cube or the Carnicom Chemtrails site rehashed. Buncha bullshit. Sure, the author (found a name. Rowan Brad Quni) is discussing some actual physics concepts, but none of this is new or even controversial. Acting like information theory is some sort of conspiracy against reality is just not going to move any subject forward.

    Don’t bother trying to interpret their point.
    Here. Some actual info.

    Vijay Balasubramanian Space-Time: The Biggest Problem in Physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIqVnFtOSr4

    David Tong The Standard Model of Particle Physics: A Triumph of Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unl1jXFnzgo

    Or a younger David Tong doing what this unfortunate lunatic Quni was trying to do, breaking down your notion of reality and building it back up from fields. Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg

    • qnfoOP
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      7 hours ago

      It’s an honor to be called a “lunatic,” better than being ignored 🤣

      Perhaps you could put your thoughts in your own words rather than link to others as your rebuttal. If you’re going to lean on the standard model while ignoring its numerous failings, it seems equal lunacy to argue with a fellow crazy.

  • remotelove@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    It’s not a horrible write-up but it doesn’t do much to simplify things. If I had to explain these concepts as close to an ELI5 as I could, I would use less words.

    Photons have characteristics of both a wave and a particle. In many ways, it’s easier to think of a photon as an interaction point. As a wave propagates, any collision point could be thought of as a photon. You shake some electrons in one antenna, they create a wave through the air, the wave propagates until it hits another antenna and the photons are where that wave starts to shake another bunch of electrons.

    I am not quite sure what they were trying to explain about waveform collapse, TBH. There is just a probability curve about where a photon will “exist” at a specific time. You can’t predict the location of a photon, but you can observe it. There isn’t really a physical “collapse” of anything. The probability curve “collapses” into a single point once observed. There is no probability once something is observed. It’s there or it isn’t, so the math function has “collapsed”: There isn’t a need to calculate probability at that time.

    This is far from perfect, but it’s probably easier to digest. I don’t even want to know how much physics I broke with my descriptions, but I do know it’s easier to visualize.