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Re:String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof by munchler on Friday December 12, 2025 @02:45PM (#46247965)
I think that’s highly debatable. For example, dark matter particles with testable properties could be a prediction of a ToE. Or the ToE could resolve the quantum measurement problem (collapse of the wave function) in a testable way.
Re:String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof by yablak on Friday December 12, 2025 @03:08PM (#46248244)
What's the "quantum measurement problem"? And why is it a problem? I get the wave function collapses when you measure bit. But which part of this do you want to resolve in a testable way?
Re:String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof by munchler on Friday December 12, 2025 @03:28PM (#46248463)
It’s the question of how the wave function collapses during a measurement. What exactly constitutes a “measurement”? Does the collapse happen instantaneously? Is it a real physical phenomenon or a mathematical trick?
Re:String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof by yablak on Friday December 12, 2025 @04:20PM (#46249115)
I thought that what constitutes a measurement is well understood; it's just the entanglement between the experiment and the observer, and the process is called decoherence - and the collapse itself is a probabilistic process as a result.

AFAIK an EoT is not required to design experiments to determine if it's a real physical phenomenon vs. a mathematical trick; people are trying to think up those experiments now (at least for hidden variable models of QM).

Re:String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof by munchler on Friday December 12, 2025 @04:43PM (#46249357)
Re:String Theory Inspires a Brilliant, Baffling New Math Proof by canjobear on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:40PM (#46251159)