We return to reviewing Sabine Hossenfelder’s, a.k.a. Old Hoss’s, new book Existential Physics. First part (many worlds), second part (entropy). If you knew all there is to know about hydrogen alone, and again of oxygen alone, you would not be able to describe all there is to know about water. Something happens when the two chemicals are joined: they form a new substance, with properties both similar and strangely, even bizarrely, unlike those found in hydrogen or oxygen alone. The hydrogen and oxygen disappear into the water, lose their qualities, and become One New Thing.
"There is not a single known exception to this rule. There is not even a consistent theory for such an exception."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but no one has been able to reconcile quantum physics with what we observe on the cosmic level. Specifically gravity, which is the weakest of the four fundamental forces, somehow at scale becomes the most powerful force in the physical universe.
....except even there, scientists observed that the motion of spiral galaxies does not correspond to predictions made by the Law of Gravitation. So they conjured up a substance, dark matter, that has precisely the properties required to explain what we observe and erase all anomalies.
The only problem with dark matter is that it has never been observed and we have no idea what it is, and there's a good chance that it does not exist.
So apart from a couple of minor discrepancies, about minor things like the origin of the universe, the origin of life on Earth, the nature of consciousness and the fundamental nature of the universe, Hoss is right and physics is correct, complete and unimpeachable.
💬 free will [...] does exist. It is why I said “It does exist.”
No bluff detected. An elegant proof if there ever was one 👌
“Because the physical part of our brain is demonstrably the thing we use to make decisions…”
What is this "we" she speaks of?
Who is this "user" of brains?
Probably something emergent. Like the way a fart emerges from a bull's asshole before the main event.
So if Old Hoss' theory is reduced to garbage, it is an example one of the best established facts about nature?
I loved the video! Choose a number between 1 to 5 was an eye opener!
I also will use the water idea somewhere along the line thanks.
The more these planners force a fix the farther they get from reality.
Thanks.
"There is not a single known exception to this rule. There is not even a consistent theory for such an exception."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but no one has been able to reconcile quantum physics with what we observe on the cosmic level. Specifically gravity, which is the weakest of the four fundamental forces, somehow at scale becomes the most powerful force in the physical universe.
....except even there, scientists observed that the motion of spiral galaxies does not correspond to predictions made by the Law of Gravitation. So they conjured up a substance, dark matter, that has precisely the properties required to explain what we observe and erase all anomalies.
The only problem with dark matter is that it has never been observed and we have no idea what it is, and there's a good chance that it does not exist.
So apart from a couple of minor discrepancies, about minor things like the origin of the universe, the origin of life on Earth, the nature of consciousness and the fundamental nature of the universe, Hoss is right and physics is correct, complete and unimpeachable.
Everyone loves cheat codes.