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Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics by bawolff on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:32AM (#33272126)
How is this not begging the question? "The universe is the universe" is not a satisying answer to, well, any question really.
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Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics by slowmovintarget on Thursday October 20, 2022 @05:50AM (#33272541)
It is not expressing a tautology, it is saying the universe is a single quantum field. Basically, a single coordinate in some Hilbert space.
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Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics by bawolff on Thursday October 20, 2022 @06:00AM (#33272574)
And the consequences of that are what precisely? For that matter, what would the consequences be if it wasn't true?
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Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics by ur-whale on Thursday October 20, 2022 @06:22AM (#33272695)
>It is not expressing a tautology, it is saying the universe is a single quantum field

Probably should have said that, then.

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Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics by slowmovintarget on Thursday October 20, 2022 @08:14AM (#33273474)
Well... it did. I couldn't distinguish quantum monism from Everettianism with my lay-person's understanding of the physics. I've gobbled up Sean Carroll's Biggest Ideas in the Universe video series on YouTube, and read his popular books on the matter, but that's the extent of my knowledge.
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Re:Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics by mxkopy on Thursday October 20, 2022 @07:07AM (#33272947)
X = X doesn’t seem to be either, but it took some thousands of years for us to grasp the ramifications of such a statement
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