Tag: questions
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How big might real wormholes be?
AFAICT, there is no actual evidence for real wormholes existing, they are merely interesting ideas not obviously forbidden by known physics. That said, they are fun to think about. Quoth Wikipedia: “The quantum foam hypothesis is sometimes used to suggest that tiny wormholes might appear and disappear spontaneously at the Planck scale and stable versions…
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Baryon asymmetry
One day, I might learn enough physics that my questions don’t sound like nonsense to physics graduates. Today is not that day — my working assumption is I sound like a freshman at best, and a homeopath at worst, and will remain so until I put numerical simulations of standard results in general relativity, quantum…
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Post-scarcity
There are many different ways to discuss “post-scarcity”. The traditional idea is that all material goods are available at no cost, kinda like the replicators in Star Treks TNG and DS9. However, even in the Trek universe, replicators used power, and this allowed replicator rationing to be a plot point in Star Trek Voyager. Even…
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To believe falsely
“If there were a verb meaning ‘to believe falsely’, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.” —Ludwig Wittgenstein Would “confusion” not be such a first person, present indicative? Or am I confused about the meaning of the Wittgenstein quote? (Update a few days later: Turns out I forgot the phrase “cognitive dissonance”,…
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