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The warning on PBS Nova is heartbreaking! (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No no no. Quantum Physics: the more you understand about the universe, the less it gives a shit if it makes any sense.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

A fractal meta uncertainty principle would help explain why "chromodynamics" is allowed to exist.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Man I only took through QED. QCD is where shit goes from freaky to "what the fuck reality, stop drinking"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

That's what I'm on about! The deeper you look, the more it's like "Matter just does stuff, okay?!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well, looks like it does exist indeed. You never know for sure in that field.

A large body of experimental evidence for QCD has been gathered over the years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

OP is aware that it does exist. In quantum physics, a lot of the questions of "why does it exist" are difficult to overcome. The answer simply is "it just does."

We can prove the math, we see the experimental evidence. The math comes long before the experiments. The problem is that "why" doesn't work at this scale.

For a frictionless spherical cow in a vacuum, if you apply a force vector to it, it will accelerate in that direction, until you stop applying the force; at which point it will continue on that vector at the last velocity it reached. "Why" this occurs is do to energy, and energy conservation.

"Why do massless fermions spontaneously break chiral symmetry?" We can prove it through the math, we can experimentally observe it. But "why" doesn't have a real answer. The answer is "it just does."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Personally I'm a fan of the holographic principal. The universe is encoded on the event horizon of a black hole and our black holes create other universes. Then "why" just becomes a matter of waiting for the right conditions to come along, because with infinite universes it has to happen eventually.

PBS Space Time has done a LOT of videos on the topic. There's no experimental support for holography, but there is a ton of circumstantial and mathematical evidence to suggest that it is worth taking seriously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm a fan of it too. Actually I think my dad did a bunch of stuff when he was in grad school on holography.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

OP is aware that it does exist.

Yeah, but I wasn't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

the more and less you understand about the universe, the more and less it does and does not give a shit and makes more and less sense.