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| | scottaaronson.blog

So I've written an article about the above questionfor PBS's website---a sort of tl;dr version of my 2005 survey paperNP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality, butupdated with new material about the simulation of quantum field theories and about AdS/CFT. Go over there, read the article (it's free), then come back here to talk about it if...
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Merging quantum mechanics and gravity is a famously hard physics problem. Explaining why merging quantum mechanics and gravity is hard is, in turn, a very hard science communication problem. The more popular descriptions tend to lead to misunderstandings, and I've posted many times over the years to chip away at those misunderstandings. Merging quantum mechanics...
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Matt Strassler [April 12, 2012] It is common that, when reading about the universe or about particle physics, one will come across a phrase that somehow refers to ``matter and energy'', as though they are opposites, or partners, or two sides of a coin, or the two classes out of which everything is made. This
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An exchange of messages with Sabine Hossenfelder about the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics has helped me sharpen my vi...
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