What Physicists Have Been Missing /BY SABINE HOSSENFELDER/

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What Physicists Have Been Missing
An exciting new theory reconciles gravity and quantum physics.
I think it’s wrong. But I may be too.
BY SABINE HOSSENFELDER February 2, 2024
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But today, the foundations of physics are a sleepy place. We’re still chewing on the same problems
that we had a century ago—and all that chewing hasn’t made them any more digestible.
What is dark matter? What does quantum mechanics really mean? And why does gravity
refuse to cooperate with quantum physics? These are problems that, when I can’t sleep,
I like to think have already kept Einstein up at night.
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Problems:
1- What is “quantum gravity"?
/Gravity is an extremely weak force on small scales compared to the EM forces./
2- What is an electron?
To a request to explain what an electron really is supposed to be we can only answer,
“It is part of the A B C of physics”. /Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington/
3- Is it possible to cure “incurable infinities”?
'' So we really do not know exactly what it is that we are assuming that gives us
the difficulty producing infinities. A nice problem ! However, it turns out that
it is possible to sweep the infinities under the rug , by a certain crude skill ,
and temporarily we are able to keep on calculating. '' / Richard Feynman/
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The troubling situation in physics was described even earlier (in 2006)
by Lee Smolin in his book “The Problem with Physics”:
“. . . at least one big idea is missing. How do we find that missing idea?”
/ Page 308. Lee Smolin /

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the Nobel, said at the time the standard model of physics which underpins the scientific understanding of the universe “rests on the existence of a special kind of particle: the Higgs particle. This particle originates from an invisible field that fills up all space.

“Even when the universe seems empty this field is there. Without it, we would not exist, because it is from contact with the field that particles acquire mass. The theory proposed by Englert and Higgs describes this process.”
https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... es-aged-94
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1- Book, "Fundamentals":
" The lifetime of a Higgs particle is about 10^-22 seconds, or a tenth of trillionth of a billionth of a seconds." /page 177, by Frank Wilczek/
Higgs bosons are unstable particles and therefore cannot be fundamental particles.
2- This "an invisible field that fills up all space." is cosmic vacuum.
“Even when the universe seems empty . . ." . . . "empty" is cosmic vacuum
3- The humble cosmic vacuum, the source of everything, have been missing by scientists.
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The lifetime of a Higgs particle is about 10^-22 seconds, or a tenth of trillionth of a billionth of a seconds." /page 177, by Frank Wilczek/
Higgs bosons are unstable particles and therefore cannot be fundamental particles.

So far this is only certainly known to be true for the isolated particle in a highly artificial experimental environment. What additional arguments are required to prove that it must also be true on a cosmic or universal scale?

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So far this is only certainly known to be true for the isolated particle in a highly artificial experimental environment. What additional arguments are required to prove that it must also be true on a cosmic or universal scale?

The Higgs particle was discovered "in a highly artificial experimental environment"
of a very pure vacuum, which is similar to the cosmic vacuum on a universal scale.
Without pure vacuum, the LHC is useless machine.

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The lifetime of a Higgs particle is about 10^-22 seconds, or a tenth of trillionth of a billionth of a seconds." /page 177, by Frank Wilczek/
Higgs bosons are unstable particles and therefore cannot be fundamental particles.

So far this is only certainly known to be true for the isolated particle in a highly artificial experimental environment. What additional arguments are required to prove that it must also be true on a cosmic or universal scale?

https://physics.stackexchange.com/quest ... s-it-decay

This is a good start for someone who wants to understand why an "elementary particle" can decay - and why decaying doesn't necessarily mean it's not fundamental. I really like what Chiral Anomaly has to say.

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What Physicists Have Been Missing
An exciting new theory reconciles gravity and quantum physics.
I think it’s wrong. But I may be too.
BY SABINE HOSSENFELDER February 2, 2024
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But today, the foundations of physics are a sleepy place. We’re still chewing on the same problems that we had a century ago—and all that chewing hasn’t made them any more digestible. What is dark matter? What does quantum mechanics really mean? And why does gravity refuse to cooperate with quantum physics? These are problems that, when I can’t sleep, I like to think have already kept Einstein up at night.

According to a Wiki article regarding the collapse of the quantum wavefunction...

The von Neumann–Wigner interpretation, also described as "consciousness causes collapse", is an interpretation of quantum mechanics in which consciousness is postulated to be necessary for the completion of the process of quantum measurement.

That interpretation also played a role in shaping the popular metaphysical assertion that...

..."Consciousness Creates Reality."

Now add to that the fact that if the Copenhagen Interpretation (Niels Bohr/Werner Heisenberg) proclaims that so-called quantum "particles" have no specific attributes (such as spin or position, for example) until a measurement is made, and only exist as spread-out (superpositioned) waves (or fields) of potential particles prior to measurement,...

...it therefore suggests that we are literally creating the particles we find in our measuring devices because our measuring devices are designed in such a way that they literally shape the particles into their specific forms from the waves of what Heisenberg called "potentia."

In other words, instead of our measuring devices "discovering" particles, they literally create them from a nebulous substance that Heisenberg called a ghostly "raw potentia" that isn't actually "real" itself, and can only be designated as something we call "real" after a measurement is made.

And the point is that if human consciousness mentally designs and then creates the measuring devices out of the same nebulous (non-real) substance that the particles are then created from by the measuring devices,...

...then it can be logically concluded that consciousness (mind) really does seem to be creating what we call "reality."
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..."Consciousness Creates Reality."
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..."Mathematics Creates Reality."