#philosophyofphysics — Public Fediverse posts
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A Pendulum for the Multiverse: David Albert, Hugh Everett, and the Worlds We Never Feel
On my grandfather's porch in North Loup, Nebraska, the ground kept its promises. Summer evenings the floorboards held the day's heat, the corn stood in rows that ran clear to the horizon, and nothing in all that flat immensity so much as trembled. When a teacher first told me the Earth was spinning at close to a thousand miles an hour while racing around the Sun at sixty-seven thousand more, I pressed my bare feet against those boards and waited to feel the ride. The stillness came back like a verdict. Whatever the books claimed, my soles reported a stationary world, and a boy trusts his soles. Every child who has run that experiment has rebuilt, in miniature, the strongest objection the seventeenth century could throw at Copernicus. If the Earth turns, why does a dropped stone land at the foot of the tower and never a few feet to the west? Why does the gale of our orbital speed fail to strip the leaves from the trees? The objection deserved respect because it rested on evidence, on the honest testimony of every human body that had ever stood still. It took Galileo's ship, and then Newton's laws, to explain why that testimony, though honest, was worthless. […] -
@chemoelectric Action by simultaneous motion can easily be imagined, but could it not be a fault with the independent versus dependent idea of mechanised energy experiments? I’m thinking of energy being exclusively independent as in photons or dependent as in the projection of their wave like properties. In opposition to that, what matters is how matter interacts; so the properties of spin are constant across distances and do not contradict the relativity of time. Or to posit it from the dialectic of a philosophical standpoint, the abstract classification and reductionist division of sets is in opposition to the interdependent foundation of their categories. #PhilosophyOfPhysics #TheoreticalFoundations
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A well-presented explanation of the relevance of philosophy to physics.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-philosophy-of-physics-when-you-can-do-physics-itself
#AeonMagazine #PhilosopyOfScience #PhysicsTheory #PhilosophyOfPhysics #ShutUpAndCalculate #ScienceTheories #ScientificTheory #Philosodon
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A well-presented explanation of the relevance of philosophy to physics.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-philosophy-of-physics-when-you-can-do-physics-itself
#AeonMagazine #PhilosopyOfScience #PhysicsTheory #PhilosophyOfPhysics #ShutUpAndCalculate #ScienceTheories #ScientificTheory #Philosodon
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A well-presented explanation of the relevance of philosophy to physics.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-philosophy-of-physics-when-you-can-do-physics-itself
#AeonMagazine #PhilosopyOfScience #PhysicsTheory #PhilosophyOfPhysics #ShutUpAndCalculate #ScienceTheories #ScientificTheory #Philosodon
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A well-presented explanation of the relevance of philosophy to physics.
https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-philosophy-of-physics-when-you-can-do-physics-itself
#AeonMagazine #PhilosopyOfScience #PhysicsTheory #PhilosophyOfPhysics #ShutUpAndCalculate #ScienceTheories #ScientificTheory #Philosodon
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#RaymondTallis - Setting #Time Aright
What is the true #NatureOfTime? Is time #Real? #Fundamental or #Emergent?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51NdbR52dN4&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfTime #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfPhysics #Physics #Metaphysics #Reality #Pragmatism #CloserTuTruth #RobertKuhn
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Spooky Action at a Distance (#BellsInequality) - #SixtySymbols
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RiAxvb_qI4&ab_channel=SixtySymbols
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfPhysics #Physics #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #Entanglement #HiddenVariables #Locality #NonLocality #Einstein #Podolsky #Rosen #BradyHaran #MikeMerrifield #ProfMikeMerrifield #ProfessorMikeMerrifield #UniversityOfNottingham #NottinghamUniversity
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#JimHolt - What are #Breakthroughs in #Science ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLbQtJRk0Mw&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfPhysics #Physics #ScientificProgress #FoundationsOfPhysics #GR #GeneralRelativity #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #ManyWorlds #Determinism #HilbertSpace #HiddenVariables #Consciousness #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#SabineHossenfelder - Is #Science about to #End?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qSPy_HEJVU&ab_channel=BigThink
#Philosophy #Physics #PhilosophyOfPhysics #PhilosophyOfScience #GUT #GrandUnification #TheoryOfEverything #QM #QuantumMechanics #QuantumPhysics #QuantumComputing #QuantumTechnology #Measurement #Observation #StringTheory
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#SeanCarroll - The #Physics of #Entropy and the #OriginOfLife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz1n0RHwLqA&ab_channel=BigThink
#Science #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfPhysics #Order #Disorder #Microstates #Macrostates #LudwigBoltzmann #Thermodynamics #SecondLaw #SecondLawOfThermodynamics #2ndLaw #2ndLawOfThermodynamics #Boltzmann #Statistics #StatisticalMechanics #ThermalEquilibrium #HeatDeath #Complexity #Simplicity
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#LeeSmolin - Are the #LawsOfNature Always Constant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep7Td2hM3_g&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Science #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfPhysics #Cosmology #LawsOfPhysics #Laws #BigBang #TheBigBang #BigBangTheory #Multiverse #TheMultiverse #MetaLaw #MetaLaws #FineTuning #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
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#MaxTegmark - #ManyWorlds of #QuantumTheory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5dLggueuN8&ab_channel=CloserToTruth
#Science #Physics #QuantumPhysics #QM #QuantumMechanics #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfPhysics #EverettianQuantumMechanics #EverettianQuantumTheory #EverettianManyWorlds #Cosmology #Superposition #Branching #QuantumBranching #HilbertSpace #Time #Multiverse