• peoplebeproblems
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    ·
    5 days ago

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

      • peoplebeproblems
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        5 days ago

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

        • peoplebeproblems
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          5 days ago

          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.”

          • Radioactive Butthole@reddthat.com
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            5 days ago

            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.

            • peoplebeproblems
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              edit-2
              5 days 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.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      5 days 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.