Re:Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?
by vl on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:45PM
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> just as we can't say that GR describes the behaviors of particles
Sure it does - gravitational lensing, etc.
Re:Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?
by tsimionescu on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:28AM
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I guess more precisely, GR can't predict the interactions between particles, only the interaction of particles with gravitational fields. But GR can't predict the behavior of two colliding electrons - it will make similar predictions to classical physics, not the Schroedinger equation.
Yes, absolutely agreed. My point was simply that we don't know how QM extends to macroscopic objects, not that there must be some hard boundary (though we can't exclude the possibility that there exists some hard boundary at some level of energy, just as we know that the Standard Model doesn't describe matter at certain high energies).
Until we have some unification of GR and QM, we can't say for sure that QM describes the macroscopic world, just as we can't say that GR describes the behaviors of particles. Most likely we will at some point find such a model, and find out exactly how QM applies to large systems - perhaps with some limits to uncertainty, similarly to how c acts as a limit to speeds.