• peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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    2 days ago

    It’s all fun and games until someone points out that anti-atoms are predicted to have identical properties to atoms.

    Then the whole chiral parity symmetry stuff gets involved, and you talk about quantized spacetime, and how come the entire universe is essentially perturbations on a continous universe spanning set of fields, and things start getting existential.

    I personally believe time is the real problem.

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      1 day ago

      Look into projection theory. a 3d object casts a 2d shadow, so a 4d object would cast a 3d shadow. The implications of that are wild.

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        1 day ago

        Are you referring to the holographic principal?

        My dad is a mathematician and loves to play with it. He’s got entire notebooks with it but unfortunately nothing profound (he was a professor for years). Mostly just proofs resulting in what’s already been published (not sure why, maybe he’s looking for something or just thinks it’s cool?)