I pretty much took the day off work yesterday, due to a lingering cold that seems to have caught me on the flight back from Singapore (thanks, woman directly behind me who had to most awful sounding cough intermittently - I suspect you as the source), then got into a social media semi-argument with someone who had read Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe book a decade or more ago and didn't really know about the "string wars" in physics in the 2000's and was reluctant to accept that Greene still promotes a too optimistic view of string theory's prospects.
Anyway, this led to me watching a lot of YouTube physics content, and reminded me that I had never watched enough of the channel Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal. It's really, really good.
Some of the content on The Institute of Art and Ideas YouTube page is very good on physics, too. (It reminded me that Roger Penrose thinks string theory is both "ugly" - contrary to claims by Greene that it's beautiful- and a complete waste of time.)
To suggest just one video I liked watching yesterday from those channels - I thought that Jacob Barande's summary of how quantum physics developed was well worth listening to:
I don't yet understand his take on the "reality" of the wavefunction, etc, for which I have to watch his full interview which goes for 2 1/4 hours! I do think, though, that this issue of the way to understand the fundamentals is a really important topic.
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Thanks for the link Steve. In my retirement I've been coming at modern physics from the mathematical side, my PhD was in algebraic topology back in the mid 1980s and I have been pleasantly surprised at how relevant much of that general area has turned out to be. But the philosophy side is definitely worth a look, I might even chase up the full 2+ hours!
Lawrence
I've seen that and other discussions of the collapse. It is such a fundamental issue that I don't know why some continue to extrapolate with multiverse, multiworld, and string theory meanderings without solving this question.
Good channel, but because of the above meanderings on shaky foundations I don't follow the physics discussions too much.
Helium was discovered first on the sun. But that was in 1868. A long time before any of these quantum frauds showed up to ruin physics.
This fellows history of science seems okay but his early statements are utter bullshit and the kind of infinite gobbledygook that is produced as soon as you lock in ridiculous lies like aether denial.
The ridiculous lies are aether denial. Noethers conservation laws. The basic tenets of relativity. These are hammered in with malice. If you deviate from them you have to lavish great praise on these losers or you will be punished.
So suppose you send a Mozart tune through the air using microwave 17cm at three times the speed of light?
You have just destroyed a string of their lies? You are about to be demonised and fired. What to do? You have to quickly claim you sent the information through a worm hole and then stay quiet. That’s a good enough suck up to keep drawing a salary.
There may be some progress made when kids get hold of AI that can draw pictures for them. They can start with knocking up a proton with a diamond like lattice made of positrons and electrons. Once the kids get this lattice animation in front of them and sees how much it explains they might be able to this century plus idiocy to a close.
A protons internal structure consists of 919 positrons and 918 electrons arranged pretty close to the way carbon atoms are arranged in a diamond.
To approximate it start with a positron at the centre. Then four electrons in a cube shape outside that. Now it won’t be an exact cube shape. But if you keep building up cubes then at one point shave off the corners too distant from the centre you will get all the right numbers.
When the kids go to do this with the help of AI they will be able to tweak angles and distances and building block rules to see why this particular arrangement is the only one stable at sea level ambient electrical conditions.
Now clearly these protons can’t be built at sea level because under these conditions pristine electrons and positrons destroy each other.
New matter creation happens in the voided area at the centre of planets where the iron-nickel core is supposed to be. It’s in an environment of very powerful negative electrical pressure. Electrons created in this environment have the same charge and mass but are smaller in volume.
Earth is a particularly efficient creator of new matter in comparison to its existing volume. You could say we have hit a sweet spot.
I did a lot of work with AI yesterday tryimg to produce an internal model of the proton.
What we came up with was radically different from the diamond lattice and much more interesting. The AI assures me that the 919 positron and 918 electrons structure is indeed hyper-stable and can’t have that stability with any more or any less of each. It has a positron spine with all these nested helical electrons and once it gets to proton weight all the positrons are protected as if by a Faraday cage.
Sounds fascinating. I wish I could visualise it. Obviously the Jew fantasy of such complex structures condensing from pure energy in an infinitesimal time in the opening micro moment of a creation myth is the worst horseshit ever.
Once you give up on this crap science all this interesting stuff comes out. Like how birds take two SiO2 molecules in silica and perform pure alchemy. Some of the Si molecules are close together.
The bird does something that tells the two silicone atoms that they want to become one nickel atom. But they can’t achieve that. In the process of rearranging the silica spins off into two calcium atoms. One phosphorous atom. And one oxygen atom. Along with the four oxygen atoms that were already there. Absolutely brilliant for us that the birds are totally disrespectful to these quantum losers.
The upshot is that we live on a planet with too much sand and not enough birds. If we knew what was good for us we would trash all the pesticides so that the birds had more insects to eat. We would have cause trash the wind farms. get rid of battery chickens and let chickens roam around everywhere.
It’s stunning what we are missing out on. Those birds can eat sand produce calcium in their eggs and dhit high quality phosphates while also giving us masses of oxygen. We should trash all this quantum crap and focus on bird crap instead. Since the most stupid chicken is smarter than any quantum physicist.
Let’s correct that. We are assuming 3SiO2 + H → Ca + 3O2 + P + N …. The Calcium is proven. The phosphorous is highly suggested and probably can be readily proven. The oxygen goes without saying. The nitrogen is just a remainder and fully speculative. We need a physics medal for chickens.
Do we ever wonder how whales get fresh water in their system? You would think they would need to hang around river outlets and would be dying of thirst all the time.
I think they use fission. They probably take the chlorine atom in salt and turn it into structured water.
Cl goes to H3O2. That would solve the problem.
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