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Re:Quasiparticles and the Miracle of Emergence by tfgg on Monday November 02, 2015 @07:06PM (#10496397)
> It seems physicists in general have not had much to say in response to this idea

Huh? My impression is that the notion that the current laws of physics are an effective field theory of some more fundamental theory is pretty widespread and mainstream.

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Re:Quasiparticles and the Miracle of Emergence by mathgenius on Monday November 02, 2015 @09:51PM (#10497106)
Sure, maybe I am not channelling Laughlin very well. Perhaps it was his general pessimism that any deeper theory could be derived from the emergent phenomenon. It was a while since I read that book.
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