In Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin provocatively argues that the problems which have bedeviled quantum physics since its inception are unsolved and unsolvable, for the simple reason that the theory is incomplete. But it has some great advantages: it is an integral of the motion and has a real physical meaning as a property of the electromagnetic field, whereas the spin is defined as an angular momentum of an extensionless point, a rather mystical assumption”. Count Lee Smolin among the dissenters. Aside from his controversial views on science, Einstein was also outspoken against racism ('a disease of white people'), nationalism, and nuclear bombs, prompting FBI mastermind J Edgar Hoover to brand him an 'an extreme radical'. 40:00 Smolin talks about Schrödinger’s cat.
Let’s take a look.
But it reminds me of debates going on in Silicon Valley, where people realize that their past way of doing business is becoming ever less viable (not to mention Terminator threats) but end up funding innumerate salesmen of "principles for a people-centered internet" and folks who would paint happy faces representing love on the hard metal hulls of killer drones. That's what I thought this book was going to be about.
He obviously hasn’t read their 1935 paper on the quantization of the new field theory II. It doesn’t give us a description of electrons or photons either, or how we make electrons and positrons out of photons in gamma-gamma pair production. It is not, surprisingly, a boggy read at all, rather an energetic and breezy jaunt through as much of the philosophy of physics as its science, starting with a call to 'expunge this quantum insanity from our understanding of the world' and going on to give a history of the field that, as one reviewer put it, 'reads like Game of Quantum Thrones.' the other questions were: 1:00:16 Do you think humans can understand the universe? He said the special relativity speed limit applies to collider physics, but maybe it’s possible we could see information travelling faster than light. Lee Smolin, like Albert Einstein, Max Planck and others, is a scientific realist. So I don’t know how you can call it wrong just because there’s a lack of information. Llama Drama: A two-woman, 5,500-mile cycling adventure through South America (Anna's Adventures Book 3), Penguin Random House USA; Reprint Edition (7 April 2020), Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 May 2019. 18:08 Smolin talks about Max Born. Lee Smolin is a brave fellow. He’s moving in the right direction with all this, but there is just so much that he doesn’t know. It effectively says “look for the particle somewhere” and “I can tell you the probability of finding it there”. 2:41 Greg Dick: introduces Lee Smolin. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life, Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe, Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity, [A] compelling narrative about the development of different strands of quantum physics. Can cause and effect happen in reverse?
FFS. He talks about the square of the wave height, but he doesn’t know that when you measure a system, two wavefunctions interact. Still, diverse as they were, the matrix mechanicians were by 1927 all framing the new theory in terms of the radically anti-realist philosophy that Bohr preached. These are the very foundations of quantum mechanics.
In Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin provocatively argues that the problems which have bedeviled quantum physics since its inception are unsolved and unsolvable, for the simple reason that the theory is incomplete. But it has some great advantages: it is an integral of the motion and has a real physical meaning as a property of the electromagnetic field, whereas the spin is defined as an angular momentum of an extensionless point, a rather mystical assumption”. Count Lee Smolin among the dissenters. Aside from his controversial views on science, Einstein was also outspoken against racism ('a disease of white people'), nationalism, and nuclear bombs, prompting FBI mastermind J Edgar Hoover to brand him an 'an extreme radical'. 40:00 Smolin talks about Schrödinger’s cat.
Let’s take a look.
But it reminds me of debates going on in Silicon Valley, where people realize that their past way of doing business is becoming ever less viable (not to mention Terminator threats) but end up funding innumerate salesmen of "principles for a people-centered internet" and folks who would paint happy faces representing love on the hard metal hulls of killer drones. That's what I thought this book was going to be about.
He obviously hasn’t read their 1935 paper on the quantization of the new field theory II. It doesn’t give us a description of electrons or photons either, or how we make electrons and positrons out of photons in gamma-gamma pair production. It is not, surprisingly, a boggy read at all, rather an energetic and breezy jaunt through as much of the philosophy of physics as its science, starting with a call to 'expunge this quantum insanity from our understanding of the world' and going on to give a history of the field that, as one reviewer put it, 'reads like Game of Quantum Thrones.' the other questions were: 1:00:16 Do you think humans can understand the universe? He said the special relativity speed limit applies to collider physics, but maybe it’s possible we could see information travelling faster than light. Lee Smolin, like Albert Einstein, Max Planck and others, is a scientific realist. So I don’t know how you can call it wrong just because there’s a lack of information. Llama Drama: A two-woman, 5,500-mile cycling adventure through South America (Anna's Adventures Book 3), Penguin Random House USA; Reprint Edition (7 April 2020), Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 May 2019. 18:08 Smolin talks about Max Born. Lee Smolin is a brave fellow. He’s moving in the right direction with all this, but there is just so much that he doesn’t know. It effectively says “look for the particle somewhere” and “I can tell you the probability of finding it there”. 2:41 Greg Dick: introduces Lee Smolin. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life, Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe, Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity, [A] compelling narrative about the development of different strands of quantum physics. Can cause and effect happen in reverse?
FFS. He talks about the square of the wave height, but he doesn’t know that when you measure a system, two wavefunctions interact. Still, diverse as they were, the matrix mechanicians were by 1927 all framing the new theory in terms of the radically anti-realist philosophy that Bohr preached. These are the very foundations of quantum mechanics.
In Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin provocatively argues that the problems which have bedeviled quantum physics since its inception are unsolved and unsolvable, for the simple reason that the theory is incomplete. But it has some great advantages: it is an integral of the motion and has a real physical meaning as a property of the electromagnetic field, whereas the spin is defined as an angular momentum of an extensionless point, a rather mystical assumption”. Count Lee Smolin among the dissenters. Aside from his controversial views on science, Einstein was also outspoken against racism ('a disease of white people'), nationalism, and nuclear bombs, prompting FBI mastermind J Edgar Hoover to brand him an 'an extreme radical'. 40:00 Smolin talks about Schrödinger’s cat.
Let’s take a look.
But it reminds me of debates going on in Silicon Valley, where people realize that their past way of doing business is becoming ever less viable (not to mention Terminator threats) but end up funding innumerate salesmen of "principles for a people-centered internet" and folks who would paint happy faces representing love on the hard metal hulls of killer drones. That's what I thought this book was going to be about.
He obviously hasn’t read their 1935 paper on the quantization of the new field theory II. It doesn’t give us a description of electrons or photons either, or how we make electrons and positrons out of photons in gamma-gamma pair production. It is not, surprisingly, a boggy read at all, rather an energetic and breezy jaunt through as much of the philosophy of physics as its science, starting with a call to 'expunge this quantum insanity from our understanding of the world' and going on to give a history of the field that, as one reviewer put it, 'reads like Game of Quantum Thrones.' the other questions were: 1:00:16 Do you think humans can understand the universe? He said the special relativity speed limit applies to collider physics, but maybe it’s possible we could see information travelling faster than light. Lee Smolin, like Albert Einstein, Max Planck and others, is a scientific realist. So I don’t know how you can call it wrong just because there’s a lack of information. Llama Drama: A two-woman, 5,500-mile cycling adventure through South America (Anna's Adventures Book 3), Penguin Random House USA; Reprint Edition (7 April 2020), Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 May 2019. 18:08 Smolin talks about Max Born. Lee Smolin is a brave fellow. He’s moving in the right direction with all this, but there is just so much that he doesn’t know. It effectively says “look for the particle somewhere” and “I can tell you the probability of finding it there”. 2:41 Greg Dick: introduces Lee Smolin. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life, Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe, Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity, [A] compelling narrative about the development of different strands of quantum physics. Can cause and effect happen in reverse?
FFS. He talks about the square of the wave height, but he doesn’t know that when you measure a system, two wavefunctions interact. Still, diverse as they were, the matrix mechanicians were by 1927 all framing the new theory in terms of the radically anti-realist philosophy that Bohr preached. These are the very foundations of quantum mechanics.
Not enough. I thought some decades ago that replacing a particle/wave with a string might be the answer but unfortunately that has led us further astray. So he made it his mission to discover what the theory was missing to truly understand our objective reality. Joy Christan said Bell didn’t consider rotations, which do not commute. He doesn’t know that that’s why the principle is true. My rating of "liked it" reflects appreciating that I got an update on aspects of physics and learned about efforts to find alternatives to current quantum physics' "magical" aspects. But what? Smolin's easy to read book will be found useful and instructive by anyone interested in the puzzles of quantum mechanics, and their likely implications for the unification of relativity and quantum theory. His personal passion and honesty are inspiring. I rather thought the predictions were postdictions. Observables vs. Beables: “Einstein's Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum” by Lee Smolin Loved the way Smolin supports the entire edifice of his book by using just three simple rules and I quote: “Rule 0: The basic dynamical equation of quantum gravity, which expresses the absence of a global or universal time. His previous books include, A Crack in Creation: The New Power to Control Evolution, Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Hidden 95% of the Universe (Hot Science), Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, What is Real?
In Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, theoretical physicist Lee Smolin provocatively argues that the problems which have bedeviled quantum physics since its inception are unsolved and unsolvable, for the simple reason that the theory is incomplete. But it has some great advantages: it is an integral of the motion and has a real physical meaning as a property of the electromagnetic field, whereas the spin is defined as an angular momentum of an extensionless point, a rather mystical assumption”. Count Lee Smolin among the dissenters. Aside from his controversial views on science, Einstein was also outspoken against racism ('a disease of white people'), nationalism, and nuclear bombs, prompting FBI mastermind J Edgar Hoover to brand him an 'an extreme radical'. 40:00 Smolin talks about Schrödinger’s cat.
Let’s take a look.
But it reminds me of debates going on in Silicon Valley, where people realize that their past way of doing business is becoming ever less viable (not to mention Terminator threats) but end up funding innumerate salesmen of "principles for a people-centered internet" and folks who would paint happy faces representing love on the hard metal hulls of killer drones. That's what I thought this book was going to be about.
He obviously hasn’t read their 1935 paper on the quantization of the new field theory II. It doesn’t give us a description of electrons or photons either, or how we make electrons and positrons out of photons in gamma-gamma pair production. It is not, surprisingly, a boggy read at all, rather an energetic and breezy jaunt through as much of the philosophy of physics as its science, starting with a call to 'expunge this quantum insanity from our understanding of the world' and going on to give a history of the field that, as one reviewer put it, 'reads like Game of Quantum Thrones.' the other questions were: 1:00:16 Do you think humans can understand the universe? He said the special relativity speed limit applies to collider physics, but maybe it’s possible we could see information travelling faster than light. Lee Smolin, like Albert Einstein, Max Planck and others, is a scientific realist. So I don’t know how you can call it wrong just because there’s a lack of information. Llama Drama: A two-woman, 5,500-mile cycling adventure through South America (Anna's Adventures Book 3), Penguin Random House USA; Reprint Edition (7 April 2020), Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 May 2019. 18:08 Smolin talks about Max Born. Lee Smolin is a brave fellow. He’s moving in the right direction with all this, but there is just so much that he doesn’t know. It effectively says “look for the particle somewhere” and “I can tell you the probability of finding it there”. 2:41 Greg Dick: introduces Lee Smolin. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life, Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe, Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity, [A] compelling narrative about the development of different strands of quantum physics. Can cause and effect happen in reverse?
FFS. He talks about the square of the wave height, but he doesn’t know that when you measure a system, two wavefunctions interact. Still, diverse as they were, the matrix mechanicians were by 1927 all framing the new theory in terms of the radically anti-realist philosophy that Bohr preached. These are the very foundations of quantum mechanics.