Morality at the Planck Scale: A Chat with Stuart Hameroff
Part of an ongoing discussion with serious thinkers about life, the universe, and everything.
Part of an ongoing discussion with serious thinkers about life, the universe, and everything.
What is so unusual about Antony Valentini? Just this: he’s resurrected a theory that undoes the central tenet of quantum mechanics, and gives relativity theory a good punt to left field as well.
Might it be our time in history to begin honoring the birth of the elements?
Sherrilyn Roush, an assistant professor of philosophy at Rice University, takes on the philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics. She is extraordinarily intelligent on cosmology. Physicists, open the golden doors, usher her in.
The incompatibility of relativity and quantum mechanics is of great interest, particularly in light of recent advances in string theory.
For the first time it is feasible to suggest that we could follow quantum weirdness as far as everyday dimensions, and find out whether anything new intrudes.
In order to get a consistent picture of nature we need to use quantum mechanics to describe the geometry of spacetime. In other words, we should construct a quantum theory of gravity.
A possible answer to John Wheeler’s question: Why the quantum?
Find out more about how quantum computing might be done.
As a theoretical physicist, one would really like to elucidate the mathematical structure of this transition and to identify the essential features of quantum mechanics that make it so robust and inevitable.