Thank you. So, while there is no clear demarcation between quantum and classical realms, there is a limit to the ability of an experimentalist to mathematically model more complex systems. There is no clear demarcation, but rather a sharply attenuated segue between realms. As the mass/energy of...
This is a wide ranging and incisive discussion that prompts a question.
There is a YouTube video in which a physics post-doc uses the Schrodinger equations to calculate the energetics of “a speck of dust in a light breeze”. He determined that such a speck of dust was outside the quantum realm...
Yes. Anywhere you look in 'nature' you find cycles of energy & materials driven by some sort of energy gradient. Put a rock in a laminar fluid flow and numerous eddies appear. Planets, pistons, pulse - cyclical dynamics is a numerous class. One expects that a thirty-six page article (that does...
The online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a lengthy article on Causal Models. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causal-models/
In this article the word 'cycle' appears twice in non-substantive fashion. Given the prevalence of cycles in many kinds of dynamics, I am curious why it does...
Thanks.
I watched a tutorial in which a post doc worked through the math suggesting that there is a mass/energy bound to the quantum realm. By his reckoning, a speck of dust floating in a light breeze is outside the quantum realm by twenty orders of magnitude. Not sure I have expressed it...
[Moderator's note: spin off from previous thread due to topic change.]
Reading here that in QM it is not possible to explicitly define path, yet it seems in the everyday world that path can be sufficiently defined so as to land a rover on Mars. Is that ultimately illusory or is there a point of...
[Moderator fixed mangled quote]
I appreciate your putting in larger context without a complete dismissal.
This is apparently the author's first published paper and I made an effort to check it out and found the following at:
https://mdpi.altmetric.com/details/19598166#score
"This research...
Quite possibly you are correct; however from a broader, more general perspective it is possible to view cyclical, iterative dynamics as a means of integrating opposing forces of change and constraint within a dynamical system. Accepting that paradigm the dynamics of tractor and the pizza vehicle...
There is a paper here: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/19/5/188
And a lengthy article here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-theory-of-reality-as-more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts-20170601/
The general argument concerns causal emergence and whether all causal agency arises directly from the micro...
Perhaps this is a window on a very deep principle of a universe that exhibits cyclical dynamics over spatiotemporal scales that vary by many orders of magnitude and that occur in a myriad of diverse physical mechanisms. The common cause is yet to be appreciated.
"By default, mathematical reasoning is understood to take place in a deterministic mathematical universe. In such a universe, any given mathematical statement (that is to say, a sentence with no free variables) is either true or false, with no intermediate truth value available. Similarly, any...
And events with a probability of exactly one, what then? In a deterministic universe the state of the universe at one moment follows directly from the state of the universe at any prior time with a probability of exactly one. Anything less and the wheels come off. Is that the case?
Thank you. I have already sent an inquiry to a Mentor at a physics forum and well see what he says. The nature of question is indicated in my last post to this thread, roughly the degree to which emergence can affect a clockwork, micro-determinism. I am curious as to your views as a biologist.