I read that when it came out and remember none of it but my favorite recent conspiracy (articulated if not also by Jesse Michels, American Alchemy) says something like string theory was invented as a distraction to get academics away from continuing to work on and publicize anti gravity science that was seeded by studying alien craft. I think he traces a UFO in the know type military guy who oversaw anti gravity type stuff and then interest abruptly stops as they get near cracking it. Simultaneously, his professor son pushes string theory across universities. May have some of that wrong but there’s a sense of that, and as of late there’s a huge pushback against string theory because more and more scientists think it’s essentially unfalsifiable and perhaps meaningless, not to mention a huge drain on tax payer money 😂
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Dr Gerald Pollack at University of Washington was talking about the anti-gravity research lately, how a lot of it moved to labs in Mexico or something like that. Anyway, he was starting to look at bird flight through that lens recently. It’s interesting.
We've proven quantum entanglement and it's been demonstrated experimentally with photons, electrons, top quarks, molecules and even small diamonds. The use of entanglement in communication, computation and quantum radar is an active area of research and development I'm interested in. Einstein referred to the effects of entanglement as "spukhafte Fernwirkung" or "spooky action at a distance", meaning the acquisition of a value of a property at one location resulting from a measurement at a distant location.
If you want to go down a fun rabbit hole, search for the double slit experiment. One of the most intriguing aspects of the experiment is that even when particles like electrons are fired one at a time through the slits, they still create an interference pattern, suggesting that the act of observing the particle (just looking at them) somehow affects its behavior! The double slit experiment is an example of the counterintuitive nature of quantum mechanics, where particles can behave like waves and the outcome of an experiment can be influenced by the sheer act of observation.
Yeah things linked by something faster than light, and the observer determining reality— both a nightmare for science based on current physics and a belief in objective reality outside the experimenter’s subjective experience.
People still haven’t really internalized these experiments to this day.
Agreed. Quantum mechanics has profound implications that many people struggle to grasp!
I definitely don’t. As a working applied scientist it creeps me out so I only think about it on my free time if I’m absolutely out of other things to waste thought on. Won’t be surprised if we find a consciousness link to reality soon.
It's all consciousness related. We'll find this out (again) soon, and re-learn what has long been forgotten.