From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 23:19:07 MST
Superb article from Daugh. Yet it doesn't seem to satisfy. Why? Because very
few of the theorists will dare speculate on the "implications" of this
research.
What does it mean, that the universe was conjured-up out of mathematics? A
mathematical substrate, a matrix, a Creator? No examples, in the article, by
Professor Roveli regarding, how scientists must alter their view-to what?
Still a greart article. Thanks.
In a message dated 12/20/1999 8:22:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
daugh@home.msen.com writes:
> The universe, in this view, is conjured up from pure mathematics. And
> the old idea of space and time as the stage on which everything
> happens no longer seems to apply.
>
> "If we believe what we really have discovered about the world with
> quantum mechanics and general relativity, then the stage fiction has
> to be abandoned," Dr. Rovelli said, "and we have to learn to do
> physics and to think about the world in a profoundly new way. Our
> notions of what are space and time are completely altered. In fact, in
> a sense, we have to learn to think without them."
>
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