Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality

Re:Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality by baxtr on Thursday October 30, 2025 @01:45AM (#45756771)

> My intuition is that the overall flow of time really could be like the rotation of the sky every day. It’s a majestic, immense phenomenon, but it’s actually an illusion. This is a totally perspectival understanding of the second law of thermodynamics. It’s real in the same sense that the rotating sky is real, but it’s real only with respect to us.

And later:

> Our community has wasted a lot of time searching after speculative ideas. What we need instead is to digest the knowledge we already have. And to do that, we need philosophy. Philosophers help us not to find the right answers to given questions, but to find the right questions to better conceptualize reality.

I think it’s odd that a physicists proposes a new theory without suggesting experiments that could falsify the theory.

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Re:Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality by sanskarix on Thursday October 30, 2025 @01:51AM (#45756797)

That second quote hits hard. Physics got so good at answering questions that people forgot to check if they were asking the right ones. Same thing happens in tech - we're really good at optimizing for metrics, terrible at asking if those metrics matter.

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Re:Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality by prox on Thursday October 30, 2025 @02:21AM (#45756943)

This falls in line with the absolute rarity of questioning your own assumptions. In my experience few do.

The amount of people looking outward only is too damn high, as the saying goes.

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Re:Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality by hdhxjfkek on Thursday October 30, 2025 @03:27AM (#45757297)

pretty much all experiments that could have been done were done

and you can rearrange equations to make them better fit together without needing new experiments

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