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Two Days of Polchinski Puzzles - Of Particular Significance
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Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Does Loop Quantum Cosmology make the black hole information loss problem worse rather than...
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Physicists Mourn Joe Polchinski, Developer of Deep Ideas and Paradoxes | Quanta Magazine
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| | The theoretical physicist Joe Polchinski, who died February 2, left a tremendous professional and personal legacy, says a friend and collaborator.
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The Problem of Quantum Gravity Is the Problem of High-Energy (Density) Quantum Gravity | 4 gravitons
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| | I've said something like this before, but here's another way to say it. The problem of quantum gravity is one of the most famous problems in physics. You've probably heard someone say that quantum mechanics and general relativity are fundamentally incompatible. Most likely, this was narrated over pictures of a foaming, fluctuating grid of space-time....
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Quantum mechanics for everyone - diff × weyl
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| This post explains quantum mechanics (QM) without any advanced math. Unlike most introductions, I will focus on the interpretation of QM: what the objects in the theory mean and how they fit into a broader philosophy of doing physics. Specifically, I explain why the Von Neumann-Wigner interpretation, a variant of the standard Copenhagen interpretation, is...