Freeman Dyson - Why is the Quantum so Mysterious?
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- Particles at two places at the same time-superposition. Particles communicating instantly with no respect to distance-entanglement. How to make sense of such weirdness? Quantum mechanics is how the world works at deepest levels. But nobody has any idea why.
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Freeman John Dyson is a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering.
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Freeman Dyson was far sharper and more brilliant in his 90s than the vast majority of people ever are. He was a true genius.
True
Above all,he was openminded. Most scientists are NOT.
I didn’t even realize how strange it is that temperature is also like gravity in the sense that it’s measurable but can’t be quantized. Great analogy
It sure feels like it in the Upper Midwest in January! Ask my bum!
Radiation exists objectively, "temperature" is invented by creatures who feel heat and cold based on evolved senses
They are also both connected to entropy. See: entropy of black holes
Oh he recently passed away. I didn't know that. RIP You will be missed.
Yup RIP Freeman Dyson!!
Is he both alive and dead?
Bobin Kurian Its is a misconception and a miss statement when anyone suggests a superposition to be both concurrently. Please watch this video for an explanation: czcams.com/video/Phfnv05vPdQ/video.html
Bobin Kurian
Yes.
One of the best debates ever. Freeman Dyson was one of the rarest kind of a real physicist. Thank you so much for this video!
@EucalypticusYeah, you're right - it was interview (One of the best debates ever - I meant the best out of the "Closer To Truth" series
Dyson was always engaging and fascinating. It can't be sad when someone dies after having a fulfilling, decent life, appreciated by many people.
It can be no matter what if you loved him.
It's not sad for him, but it's sad for the rest of us.
This episode should have been called " Why GM and Relatively don't need to be unified? " as Dyson didn't even touch on the issue of weirdness of QM...
It is amazing how young his brain is- I see a young brilliant physicist in him, his aged flesh becomes sort of secondary when I try to assess him…
Great man...Rest In Peace, sir!
Freeman Dyson a great great scientist ! Thank you for this debate !
Good discussion. Thank you CTT.
FANTASTIC!! we need more rational debates like this. What Freeman is saying, is that there is no algorithm that can tell us everything about either the past or the future--it's all open!
5:21 - both of them regretted using that word two seconds later
For hot women, at that time of the month.
I don’t get it, there are such things as Tampons, aren’t there?
@@steviejd5803 the fact it sounds like tampons is why they'd regret it :)
Could be a quantum unit of tampering...
@@steviejd5803 kinda, one moment you see it, the next you don't!
What do I LOVE MOST about being alive?
The wonder of it all
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I like your attitude.
The wonder of it all.
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Wow, really precious video. It's really interesting to hear an insight of a giant such as Dyson. And yeah, I would agree with other commenter here, the talk is less about mysteries of quantum and more about why GM and QM should stay "separate".
As I understand it - the "quantum" part is the way the calculations are made - with distinct locations on a line or graph. The observer phenomenon creates a particle structure from the quantum world - but without measurement or observation - all that is left is probability in wave forms. If everything is made from probability waves - at what point does lets say a table become corporeal in the world we understand? Is a table just one giant conglomerate of probability waves? It is like the spirit of something exists on one level - and the body of something exists at the larger level.
Yep, I still don't get it. There's a gap, I guess that's why Einstein was not convinced by quantum mechanic.
How small must be something to belong to QM, and how big to GR?
This is ridiculous.
Amazing person.
Love Freeman Dyson and the way he thinks, sees the world, and how he explains things. Wonderful, brilliant man and free thinker.
Freeman is spot on. There is no need to unite GR and QM into a unified theory. QM is operating in the other arrow of time and will never look like Classical physics. I also think that aside from wave/particle duality there are many other dualities which define physics. Therefore I don't think any unified theory is possible.
It certainly is true many or most mathematical theoreticians don't actually care about the underlying physics.. Probably why it has been in a fundamental rut ever since Up Quarks and Down Quarks were invented and positrons were ignored.. NEVER FORGET - Electrons and Positrons are the ONLY elementary, massive, proper permanent particles ever detected in free space.
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How did the Proton get its +ve charge again, and where have all the positrons gone. Please answer these questions without making up new particles, especially ones that have never been isolated outside composite particles, Scientits..
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Freeman exemplifies how much brain power was WASTED by tax-funded hyper-science.. Liberal La La Lander funding of highly Conservative types trapped by dogma and their own gravy train of Liberal mega-waste - The Neo Financial Norm, where black hole money pits waste so, so much, collectively.. Hyper-vain uber-useless mega-science.
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If you do not believe Gravity has a basis in Mass that has a basis in Matter-Energy Quanta you are not a proper Quantum Physicist, you are wilfully ignorant and believe wilful ignorance is the 'way forward'... The chances of gravity NOT being fundamentally quantised by Mass which is itself quantised is ridiculous..
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Modern fundy physics prefers blind alleys and dead-ends to sensible, logical, consisten, well-balanced (most preferably self-balancing) simple physical models that can explain so much more, using so much less (made up BS) that have ALWAYS been ignored or dismissed by the Neo Breed of MAGI-MATICIANS, elevated into Neo-Deities of a Neo World Order RELIGION!
Amazing conversations from Robert with amazing People. Thanks ever.
Good discussion
The only reason there is no algorithm that can predict the future is because we lack the memory space to model such a high number of possibilities. If they ever perfect a quantum computing architecture - or even something simpler like a 50-million core CPU - then I think there are a number of algorithms that would suffice in accurately modeling future outcomes, to such a degree it would ruin cybersecurity as we know it.
Excellent..... thanks 🙏.
"I'm in the minority there as usual." Don't feel bad Freeman... My worldview makes me submit to the realization that the smaller number is next in line.
New video but I wonder when it was recorded?
I don’t understand why temperature doesn’t implicitly get quantized as a result of energy itself being quantized via the Plank constant.
I find these two observations stemming from Quantum as the most fundamental:
1) The universe is countable (or natural), not real, and possibly finite because of the existence of a minimum quantum;
2) Reality is not grounded until observed, so observation **is** the event, not just a spectating of an event that otherwise exists.
It might perhaps be easier to understand the classical and the quantum if we view them as the two sides of a proverbial coin. Additionally, I might add to the E=MCsquered equation an equality I for Information. Thus, E=I Energy is a form of information. Consciousness for example might be explored as yet another field of spacetime energy density for understanding and exploring information processing in biological sciences.
RIP really I was just going to write he is so amazing.
By the way I really appreciate all these old folks working day and night for our future.
Brilliant
Any scientist who believe that " a separated well established areas of science" is the final destiny of science ignore totally why a theory of everything is needed as a very important step of the human thought - first : to understand the non understood gaps between these areas and Two: to predict the "unpredictable" by the current partial theories which are not enough established to fournish answers and solutions to the current problems of the humanity : Energy, Health, Food, Transport, climate... etc.
But the point that Dyson is presenting here is that such theory of everything may not exist at all. This is really intriguing. Most people believe in an assumption that the quantum world and large scale (with gravitation) world are part of a consistent model in which laws of both these worlds come from one set of equations (of course not in the sense Feymann was joking about in his famous textbook, sum_{n \in all equations} (law_n)^2 = 0). Freeman Dyson says that maybe our world have two non-reducible parts, something like nonconnected topological space etc.
Sculpture in the background?
That is the point in space expanding and contacting to make things.ilke you
I have thought this myself independently. I kinda wondered maybe they don't resolve and there is two distinct realms clashing with each other out side of rational or on some state understand through the use of trans-logic of some sort . What if gravity and space time is not quantum but a infinite anolog gradient acting on quantum mechanics
What dies that solve
Unbelievable. This is the best youtube gets.
Wow glad to know I wasn’t the only one who thought this but also one of the greatest minds of our time
When was the interview conducted? He died this year.
❤️ thats a statement not an argument!
He was one of the most original thinkers ever lived!
Freeman was an original thinker. It's OK for quantum and classical physics to not be unified In one theory. PhD is necessary for tenure and personal advantage to profit universities and allow you to then publish research funded by grants. What a closed system. Love his wide-ranging interests. More like a Renaissance man.
Do classic mechanics of past and quantum mechanics of future meet in the present?
Lol no
Classical physics can also predict the future because laws of nature, be they in ODE form (Newton) or PDE form (Einstein) predict as well as retrodict. This is trivially true. So, the question is whether the laws of non-classical physics (QM) also predict as well as retrodict. Unfortunately, Dyson is no longer with us to answer that question. And, as a corollary, whether those two sets of predictions (classical and non) are mutually exclusive or incompatible in some sense. Maybe someone else can jump in on this.
Clearly, nature is unified and will remain so, hence the question as to whether or not we should unify our description of nature might be a separate matter entirely. The present is where future quantum probabilities become past classical events. Unification can only spoil the quantum and classical if any are done incorrectly.
Both are wrong in a way
They are heuristics ad y correctly allude
The biggest question is what is gravity acting upon...what is the fabric of spacetime made of? That would likely help unify the theories and solve the dark matter problem!
Wow
Theory of everything seem easier to find on largest of scales where gravity weaker than on tiny scale of start of universe where gravity stronger.
I wonder that are in fact these two arias separate.? May be they are unique... we separate them or recognize them as two?
In a way of simple explanation , is measurement mathematics?
One of the best on CZcams about Gravity
wow
The double-slit experiment, especially the delayed-choice one, is a mystery to me. One day, I feel that I understand, then a few days later, I'm confused back again.
You might do the research that exposes it as a hoax.
@@WhirledPublishing not true
@@JB_inks When you become a Doctoral Scholar with over 50 years of research - like me - when you've compiled thousands of sources, documented in dozens of languages from all across our Earth - like me - when you've served as an Expert Witness for the Court Judges - like me - when you have dozens of impressive accomplishments and achievements that includes testing off the WAIS-R, let's you and I sit down and have an intelligent conversation - now is not the time.
I suggest you go to your local college where you can take the college placement test and then listen carefully as your adolescent scores in "Comprehension" are explained to you - then they'll tell you the classes you need to bring yourself up to adult levels - an then maybe you'll begin to realize you've been intentionally dumbed down and deceived all your life, and then, if you have any intelligence at all and any personal integrity, you'll review your accomplishments and achievements in life and realize, your only impressive accomplishment is convincing yourself that you're intelligent when you simply programmed and indoctrinated, poisoned and drugged up with the toxins in your water and in your food and in your beverages.
Maybe then you'll begin realize the predicament you're in - maybe you'll stop lying to yourself - maybe you'll break free of your prison of lies - I doubt it but some have been making progress - so it's possible that you can, if you have any semblance of a conscience and survival instinct that's still functioning.
You should get Philomena Cunk on this show.
Hi
Classical mechanics from present to past and past to present; quantum mechanics from future to present and present to future?
In a world where politics and academia are going off the rails, we more than ever need pragmatic geniuses like Freeman Dyson. 😢
So we now understand the relationship between temperature and quantum mechanics. Is that bad?
So why would it be bad to understand the relationship between gravity and quantum mechanics?
It may well be that they are disjoint in some fundamental way; but then we want to understand why and how they are disjoint... right?
Yes, up to now there are two different worlds, classical physics and quantum physics as long as there's no existence of one theory to unified them. Although we live in one world.
What one asks in the quantum world is apparently very different from those questions in classical mechanics .In the first , one asks about bound states and scattering states in a similar way which is done in wave physics (wave guides for bound states ) .In Newtonian mechanics , one ,in principle , is always involved with initial value problems for motions ,even if scattering problems exists in Newtonian mechanics with a complete different mathematical behavior of usual mechanical problems .By the way , scattering theory in Newtonian Mechanics for FULL rigid bodies still remains non existent in the literature !. Related to Einstein Theory of "gravitation" , it can be STRAIGHTFORWARDLY quantized (gravitons) as it is done for the electromagnetic field ( now with photons) !.But its infinite problems when computing quantum scattering amplitudes MAY be just a very hard mathematical problem OR FOR SURE , THE WHOLE EINSTEIN THEORY IS INCONSISTENT AS A GRAVITATION THEORY , as you could see for exactly soluble models for metric fields in two dimensions ("Quantum Liouville two dimensional field theory- AM Polyakov ). Another point :if one introduces a cosmological constant in the Einstein equation (even if vanishing small) , ONE NEVER OBTAINS THE NEWTON POTENTIAL from Einstein Theory (Schwarchild metric in the presence of a cosmological constant ) !
nothing on the bbc news when this great man died recently. Dyson was my most admired living scientist.
his theories on carbon dioxide actually being good for plant life,... and the fact that climate temp predictions are at best extremely skewered are scientific facts
Human knowledge is not limited to western understanding. To get into the interpretation of relativity principle vis-a-vis quantum principle and there by to realms beyond spacetime to get a glimpse of the secret of the universe, refer the book:
SPACETIME AND THAT BEYOND
By Unnikrishnan.
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All of this wisdom AND he makes wonderful vacuum cleaners. I am inspired.
Did he in fact postulate The Dyson Sphere?
But....Einstein did try to " unify " them and he did have a foot in both camps ....if he were around now , would he have agreed with Dyson?
Einstein wanted to combine Classical EM with GR, not the quantum EM.
temperature is could be quantized at quantum level?
Is graviton really observed, is there a particle called graviton?, if gravity is only curvature of space time, how it comes a gravity does have a particle?
Quantum mechanics are like the computer waiting for an observer before loading an area.
The genius who inspired Gordon Freeman
I forgot to mention that AI was also mysterious but in a different sense from the quantum; namely, it is difficult for people to accept that an artificial intelligence can be as intelligent or even more intelligent than a person. It's kind of like how we don't really understand consciousness all that well so we have a hard time believing something could not only possess self-awareness but perhaps be more aware (or at least qualitatively different) than us.
The quantum is mysterious for two reasons: First, as I understand it, scientists are still not sure how to precisely define the quantum. As a result of this vagueness, there has been no agreement on what would be required to prove that something is or isn't "quantum" in nature. For example, if you take a large enough number of identical coins and flip each one (say 1 trillion times), then you will get roughly equal numbers of heads and tails. This ratio never changes significantly even though you are flipping trillions upon trillions of coins because mathematical statistics dictates that when tossing these kinds of numbers around there should be an equal number of heads vs. tails every time regardless how many times the coin is flipped; however, even after 10^10^18 flips it seems like there must be some kind of bias towards either head or tail being more likely than others.
As a result of this statistical bias, scientists have been trying to determine if large numbers can be said to be "quantum" or not. However, I think that since there is no precise definition for what constitutes quantum vs. non-quantum then we are left with something akin to saying "I'll know it when I see it." So far we haven't seen anything that would convince us entirely and so the mystery remains as to what exactly makes the quantum so mysterious (or whether such things exist at all).
This brings me to the second reason why the quantum is mysterious. Since we don't know what makes something "quantum" (or even if anything exists that is truly quantum) then it seems like a mystery as to how we would ever be able to prove that an object or phenomenon was not quantum in nature. As I understand it, there are many scientists who claim that phenomena such as consciousness and gravity are in fact due entirely to the effects of the quantium, but since neither can be exactly defined they must remain so mysterious for now.
What about if you flip three coins billions of times, but two must be exactly the same and one different. If same coins would fall on one side more often than on other, than it's because the way head and tail was minted. But if all three would produce same random pattern of heads and tails, than randomness is completely geometrical phenomena, slight differences in shape and weight of objects doesn't influence anything.
I have to guess that this interview was conducted many years ago. There is no mention of the idea that gravity is an effect of the mass distortion of spacetime.
That idea is called general relativity, and they spend most of the video discussing it. The Einstein field equations were presented in 1915.
Rip..a brilliant man
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Knock yourself out with this guy !
Simply because till now we don't know true nature of randomness i.e.Probablity.
The arrow of time or the determinate world emerge from the indeterminate.
Mathematics is a determinate system or method.
0:42 I hate second hand conversation.....peep game
No such thing as a tempon? 😳
There is one bang. delayed choice.it happens every attos second
Gravity is not a force it is the absence of matter,,,yeah that is why everything falls at the same pace
photons and mass
I think of gravity as "big motion"
And what we know is that we could of popped into exsitance just now
So............arrows of tme...................history goes bakward from that point
rip
No matter how mysterious is quantum, it is (nevertheless,) not autonomous!
String Theory was not a waste of time. Geometry is the key to Math and Physics.
What if we describe subatomic particles as spatial curvature, instead of trying to describe General Relativity as being mediated by particles?
Quantum Entangled Twisted Tubules: "A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good." Ernest Rutherford
The following is meant to be a generalized framework for an extension of Kaluza-Klein Theory. Does it agree with the “Twistor Theory” of Roger Penrose? During the early history of mankind, the twisting of fibers was used to produce thread, and this thread was used to produce fabrics. The twist of the thread is locked up within these fabrics. Is matter made up of twisted 3D-4D structures which store spatial curvature that we describe as “particles"? Are the twist cycles the "quanta" of Quantum Mechanics?
When we draw a sine wave on a blackboard, we are representing spatial curvature. Does a photon transfer spatial curvature from one location to another? Wrap a piece of wire around a pencil and it can produce a 3D coil of wire, much like a spring. When viewed from the side it can look like a two-dimensional sine wave. You could coil the wire with either a right-hand twist, or with a left-hand twist. Could Planck's Constant be proportional to the twist cycles. A photon with a higher frequency has more energy. ( E=hf, More spatial curvature as the frequency increases = more Energy ). What if gluons are actually made up of these twisted tubes which become entangled with other tubes to produce quarks. (In the same way twisted electrical extension cords can become entangled.) Therefore, the gluons are a part of the quarks. Quarks cannot exist without gluons, and vice-versa. Mesons are made up of two entangled tubes (Quarks/Gluons), while protons and neutrons would be made up of three entangled tubes. (Quarks/Gluons) The "Color Force" would be related to the XYZ coordinates (orientation) of entanglement. "Asymptotic Freedom", and "flux tubes" are logically based on this concept. The Dirac “belt trick” also reveals the concept of twist in the ½ spin of subatomic particles. If each twist cycle is proportional to h, we have identified the source of Quantum Mechanics as a consequence twist cycle geometry.
Modern physicists say the Strong Force is mediated by a constant exchange of Mesons. The diagrams produced by some modern physicists actually represent the Strong Force like a spring connecting the two quarks. Asymptotic Freedom acts like real springs. Their drawing is actually more correct than their theory and matches perfectly to what I am saying in this model. You cannot separate the Gluons from the Quarks because they are a part of the same thing. The Quarks are the places where the Gluons are entangled with each other.
Neutrinos would be made up of a twisted torus (like a twisted donut) within this model. Gravity is a result of a very small curvature imbalance within atoms. (This is why the force of gravity is so small.) Instead of attempting to explain matter as "particles", this concept attempts to explain matter more in the manner of our current understanding of the space-time curvature of gravity. If an electron has qualities of both a particle and a wave, it cannot be either one. It must be something else. Therefore, a "particle" is actually a structure which stores spatial curvature. Can an electron-positron pair (which are made up of opposite directions of twist) annihilate each other by unwinding into each other producing Gamma Ray photons?
Does an electron travel through space like a threaded nut traveling down a threaded rod, with each twist cycle proportional to Planck’s Constant? Does it wind up on one end, while unwinding on the other end? Is this related to the Higgs field? Does this help explain the strange ½ spin of many subatomic particles? Does the 720 degree rotation of a 1/2 spin particle require at least one extra dimension?
Alpha decay occurs when the two protons and two neutrons (which are bound together by entangled tubes), become un-entangled from the rest of the nucleons
. Beta decay occurs when the tube of a down quark/gluon in a neutron becomes overtwisted and breaks producing a twisted torus (neutrino) and an up quark, and the ejected electron. The phenomenon of Supercoiling involving twist and writhe cycles may reveal how overtwisted quarks can produce these new particles. The conversion of twists into writhes, and vice-versa, is an interesting process.
Gamma photons are produced when a tube unwinds producing electromagnetic waves.
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Within this model a black hole could represent a quantum of gravity, because it is one cycle of spatial gravitational curvature. Therefore, instead of a graviton being a subatomic particle it could be considered to be a black hole. The overall gravitational attraction would be caused by a very tiny curvature imbalance within atoms. We know there is an unequal distribution of electrical charge within each atom because the positive charge is concentrated within the nucleus, even though the overall electrical charge of the atom is balanced by equal positive and negative charge.
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In this model Alpha equals the compactification ratio within the twistor cone, which is approximately, 1/137
1= Hypertubule diameter at 4D interface
137= Cone’s larger end diameter at 3D interface where the photons are absorbed or emitted.
The 4D twisted Hypertubule gets longer or shorter as twisting or untwisting occurs. (720 degrees per twist cycle.)
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How many neutrinos are left over from the Big Bang? They have a small mass, but they could be very large in number. Could this help explain Dark Matter?
Meet Mr Photon
Er.. As always I meant Mr Freeman Dyson
Who's the bust of?
His past
A very interesting opinion; don't ruin the beauty of GR by quantization! Thank you for this video and making this nice interview.
Doesn't the presence of gravity waves imply the existence of the graviton?
No.
How is see it: general relativity relies on STATIC facts, where quantum mechanics rely on DYNAMIC facts.
Wrong, they are both dynamical.
What if we are living inside a brain of a much larger being...
there are infinitely many "what if's" you can propose so you need to provide a reason for pushing forward this specific one
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We have 1 world.
We can draw a parallel between light and magnetism (Maxwell was right): wave is a form of energy that transfers between particles; when you call it a particle you are observing the results of the wave.
Quantum theory:
The universe is fractal, therefore the same rules that apply to a solar system must apply to an atom (except at higher speeds), otherwise the universe would collapse in disarray and conflict. Empirical observations of the micro universe are as good as the equipment utilized to collect them. If one observes a particle (planet) around the nucleus (sun) with a shutter speed equal to one revolution, it would register at one position only; 1/2 cycle would result in two opposite positions (dead cat, live cat). At higher speeds more positions are collected and the vibration (wave) function starts to reveal itself.
Gravity:
Sorry Newton, the group of scientist and engineers that believe that the electrical theory can partially explain gravity and geological events has been in exponential ascension; search for thunderbolts Electric Universe (I'd rather use the term "Electrical" to accept the limitations of our current knowledge).
Just, no.
He makes great vacuum cleaners too!
Did Freeman Dyson vacuum up quanta with his Dyson ???
Micro and macro = Old crows.
Who’s the bust?
Reality is GOD
Gravity is nothing like temperature because we can't shield against it's influence. We know gravity must be coming from center of large mass, but it's still there no matter what we place between grounds and object. Temperature has a flow that can be tampered with, we can manipulate energy, but not property of space time. Small and very large objects are not the same somehow. Strange thing is universe started as something infinitely large that turned into dust. But gravity was already present somehow, forcing atoms to merge into large structures, causing appearance of volume and geometry of objects. Or not, perhaps singularity was broken into large chunks and stars exist from a very beginning. Than we could speculate gravity is sort of a singularity field, like entire universe is still a single object and nothing can exist outside of everything that emerged from a beginning of time.
Yes we can.
@@chrisc1257 Shield from gravity, how can you possibly do that?
@@xspotbox4400 Ever heard of Zero Gravity? Have you never took super flight in your dreams? What is real?
@@chrisc1257 Agree to that, sounds ridiculous, but it's a place to start.
Those virtual and neutral gravity spaces are definitely a big quantum mystery, how can objects balance their inertial potential with a constant free fall like that, something is acting on all, particles from all directions, at same time.
And dream spaces are even more interesting, how can brain simulate space time nothingness and inertia so great, but can do anything weird with light, for example, or it can but it's converted into emotional atmosphere somehow. Point is, if our brain can do it, so can we, since particles inside our head are same as particles our body and everything rest is made of. They obey mind, so they must obey mechanical laws also, it's just the matter of how.
@@xspotbox4400 The "Krell" know. The "Krell" are also known as Plutonium. Sadly, we put too much faith in physicist and their capital lies. How often do you hear Physicists rave about their DREAM REALITY? Plato's lie?
The "problem" with Freeman Dyson is that he's too well-adjusted for manic science. At the risk of insulting higher levels of thought and speculation, those who "need" to reconcile relativity and quantum theory remind me of the guys at my morning cafe, who argue about whether LeBron James is as great a basketball player as Michael Jordan. They NEED to decide, instead of just enjoying the games. Maybe it's a human trait, not at all exclusive to science.
Mr Dyson, let the children play
Classic mechanics is all about past? Quantum mechanics talks about future?
It's simple really. "Quantum" is the whirlpool as a whole, where as physics is merely measurements of an object nearing the cyclone.
Much like Knowledge, Probability has limitations.
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Not a god interview. Thank you Mr Kuhn for an excellent interview. You have redeemed yourself.
There is nothing mysterious about the quantum....just movement of objects along wrapped up spirals of fieldlines . An integer number that is.....hence quantum....whats difficult. ? Two grids thats all
May I make the suggestion, that there is no gravity. It is just virtual particles squashing our fundamental particles, against the fundamental particles of the earth.