Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of lead nucleus suggests

Re:Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of... by Tomminn on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:54PM (#26964487)

I really like this take, but on a weird philosophical way I gotta disagree. The surface of the earth has by a long shot the most difficult physics in the universe we know about.

Try to imagine a model that predicts the things going on there.

At least the neutron star probably has some scale at which it starts to looks homogeneous.

This, btw, is a pretty good marketing strategy for condensed matter physics (and indeed, biology and chemistry [1]):

"The most interesting physics in the universe takes place on the surface of earth."

[1] Biology and Chemistry are literally subdisciplines of physics so large we call them different names. And they're subdisciplines which are only so large because the surface the earth exists. Without the surface of the earth as part of the universe, as far as we know biology wouldn't exist, and chemistry would probably still be nothing more than a medium-sized subdiscipline of physics.

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Re:Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of... by fggg444 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:57PM (#26964524)

if free will is to be believed, then it can't be modeled, right?

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Re:Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of... by Tomminn on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:59PM (#26964540)

I mean, free will isn't to be believed. But if you wanna, be my guest. If quantum mechanics is to be believed, then the model is certainly probabilistic at best, so you'll have enough wiggle room for it.

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Re:Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of... by stevenhuang on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @10:19PM (#26964703)

Even granting the weirdness of quantum mechanics there may not be any wiggle room, as random will is not free will.

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Re:Neutron stars may be bigger than expected, measurement of... by Tomminn on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:19PM (#26965154)

Oh don't you know that acts of free will only take place in the subset of chains of cause and effect that can be traced to the (decoherence-induced) collapse of a quantum state, and also just happen to turn out to be perfectly randomly distributed samples of the particular distribution quantum physics predicts for that situation?

Free will of the gaps lives on [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

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