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Miscellaneous What-Have-You => That's interesting, man. That's fucking interesting => Topic started by: DigitalBuddha on February 17, 2013, 06:03:17 AM

Title: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: DigitalBuddha on February 17, 2013, 06:03:17 AM
Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos

"The Fabric of the Cosmos," a four-hour series based on the book by renowned physicist and author Brian Greene, takes us to the frontiers of physics to see how scientists are piecing together the most complete picture yet of space, time, and the universe. With each step, audiences will discover that just beneath the surface of our everyday experience lies a world we'd hardly recognize - a startling world far stranger and more wondrous than anyone expected.

Brian Greene is going to let you in on a secret: We've all been deceived. Our perceptions of time and space have led us astray. Much of what we thought we knew about our universe - that the past has already happened and the future is yet to be, that space is just an empty void, that our universe is the only universe that exists - just might be wrong.

Mind boggling, dudes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce1ols-lOTU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce1ols-lOTU)

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Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: cckeiser on February 17, 2013, 02:01:50 PM
The quantum universe is just as much an illusion as everything else. It is just another choice of something to believe in; something we use to create the illusion that we can know anything at all.
No one ever promised Reality must be sane, to assume so, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, is madness.

QuoteWhen we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. -
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: Hominid on February 17, 2013, 02:35:34 PM
Ya, these theories are conjured up just to explain the unexplainable. No two physicists agree on any of it. 
Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: milnie on February 17, 2013, 03:49:34 PM
Yeah dudes. Ultimately, a spade is still a spade
Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: DigitalBuddha on February 17, 2013, 03:51:42 PM
Sounds like Brian Green is saying that the Pope only shits in the woods if someone is there to observe it. Am I wrong? OK then. ;)
Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: Hominid on February 17, 2013, 07:31:59 PM
If a poop falls in the forest, will anybody hear?
Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: cckeiser on February 17, 2013, 07:58:39 PM
Quote from: Hominid on February 17, 2013, 07:31:59 PM
If a poop falls in the forest, will anybody hear?

That depends dude....is it a wave or a particle? 8)
Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: Hominid on February 17, 2013, 08:17:35 PM
Many particles I'm thinking. I've never watched my feces collapse...  ;)

Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: cckeiser on February 17, 2013, 08:26:17 PM
Quote from: Hominid on February 17, 2013, 08:17:35 PM
Many particles I'm thinking. I've never watched my feces collapse...  ;)



Damn....I suffer from IBS....I have collapsed many a wave function!!
and yes....it definitly makes a sound! ;D
Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: cckeiser on February 17, 2013, 08:28:20 PM
Shit! Notice how this topic had collapsed down to bodily functions? 8)
Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: Hominid on February 17, 2013, 08:51:21 PM
Something we can all relate to I suppose.
Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: cckeiser on February 17, 2013, 08:54:38 PM
Quote"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means
nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction
between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

Letter to the family of his lifelong friend Michele Besso, after learning of his
death, (March 1955) as quoted in Science and the Search for God Disturbing the
Universe (1979) by Freeman Dyson Ch. 17 "A Distant Mirror" ; also quoted at
Einstein's God (NPR)
Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: Hominid on February 17, 2013, 08:56:25 PM
That's, like, his opinion man..
Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: cckeiser on February 20, 2013, 03:35:07 PM
New shit has come to light dudes.

Fred Alan Wolf: Part 1 Complete Shamanic Physics -- A Thinking Allowed DV
http://youtu.be/yufAa4oFyug (http://youtu.be/yufAa4oFyug)

Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: BikerDude on February 20, 2013, 03:56:51 PM
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Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: cckeiser on February 20, 2013, 04:30:17 PM
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Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: Hominid on February 20, 2013, 05:44:00 PM
I thought that was religion..
Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: cckeiser on February 20, 2013, 09:19:26 PM
Quote from: Hominid on February 20, 2013, 05:44:00 PM
I thought that was religion..

Sure sounds like it doesn't it....8)
Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: DigitalBuddha on February 21, 2013, 01:38:45 AM
"Black cat?" Sounds to me like vagina. ;D
Title: Re: Quantum Mechanics: Fabric of the Cosmos
Post by: wuliheron on June 17, 2013, 02:45:38 PM
Green is a cool dude for sure, but holographic theories like string theories are a spaghetti mess and always have been since shortly after the discovery of super symmetry first established them. They're like the universe poking fun a physicists who refuse to give up the idea they can have a this really far out beautiful psychedelic theory that at least resembles relativity which Einstein described as a "beautiful jewel". Physicists really love all that mathematical perfection they sometimes describe as "elegant simplicity" which dates back to Plato who was so attached to beauty he used his influence to have all Democritus' books burned as "Ugly and demeaning" because he suggested everything could be random. Anyway, the problem with these is every time someone invents one experiments eventually show is really another theory seen from a different angle and the new theory is even more beautiful. To make matters worse, they just keep finding an astronomical number of possible theories! It's like the void laughing back at you for being too attached.

Quantum Darwinism and Quantum Chaos theories just got their first experimental confirmation though and look like more fun than a barrel full of monkeys!