Huh? Not sure what the first part of your comment means but I’ll give it a go…
Quantum mechanics basically explains all interactions between particles/waves (take your pick, it’s all the same) except gravitational interactions. You can use the laws of QM to solve any problem you’d have if you were studying electromagnetism, in fact you can derive versions of EM directly from QM. EM will start breaking down at small scales, we’re talking 10^-9 m ish. It’ll still be accurate, you’ll just notice your data will be off from your calculations the smaller you go. You can exploit QM effects to be tangible/visible on larger scales, but it takes some work. QM only starts breaking down at the Planck scale, which is suuuuuuper small. We can’t observe anything that small yet so it kinda doesn’t matter. It’d be nice if we had a theory that did, though.
The first part was me being humbled by the intellectual conversation and it going way over my head so I said the dumbest thing I could think of to level it out. But then I reread it and learned something. Planck scale being built up from minimum units? I’m assuming this is what string theory is attempting to do? Also don’t you find it kind of stupid that the largest size is 10m^26 and the smallest is 10m^-35 and we naturally observe the universe closest to 10m^0? Like we’re right in the middle of that? Seems obvious that looking in each direction and hitting a wall is analogous to naturally looking into the distance and only being able to see so far and looking closely and only being able to see so far.
Oh yeah, that’s super interesting! I think our understanding of the universe (and conseqentially, our theories) are a byproduct of our place in the universe. If we were on a smaller scale and still had the same intelligence, perhaps we could peer deeper in one direction, at the cost of the other. I think there could be infinte complexity hiding just beyond our reach.
Huh? Not sure what the first part of your comment means but I’ll give it a go…
Quantum mechanics basically explains all interactions between particles/waves (take your pick, it’s all the same) except gravitational interactions. You can use the laws of QM to solve any problem you’d have if you were studying electromagnetism, in fact you can derive versions of EM directly from QM. EM will start breaking down at small scales, we’re talking 10^-9 m ish. It’ll still be accurate, you’ll just notice your data will be off from your calculations the smaller you go. You can exploit QM effects to be tangible/visible on larger scales, but it takes some work. QM only starts breaking down at the Planck scale, which is suuuuuuper small. We can’t observe anything that small yet so it kinda doesn’t matter. It’d be nice if we had a theory that did, though.
The first part was me being humbled by the intellectual conversation and it going way over my head so I said the dumbest thing I could think of to level it out. But then I reread it and learned something. Planck scale being built up from minimum units? I’m assuming this is what string theory is attempting to do? Also don’t you find it kind of stupid that the largest size is 10m^26 and the smallest is 10m^-35 and we naturally observe the universe closest to 10m^0? Like we’re right in the middle of that? Seems obvious that looking in each direction and hitting a wall is analogous to naturally looking into the distance and only being able to see so far and looking closely and only being able to see so far.
Oh yeah, that’s super interesting! I think our understanding of the universe (and conseqentially, our theories) are a byproduct of our place in the universe. If we were on a smaller scale and still had the same intelligence, perhaps we could peer deeper in one direction, at the cost of the other. I think there could be infinte complexity hiding just beyond our reach.