The universe - smooth or chunky? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, November 06, 2015, 21:26 (3304 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Towards the end of the article, the author comments: “Even if Hogan [the quantum mechanics champion] is right, his space-chunks have to average out to the smooth reality we experience every day. Even if Smolin is wrong, there is an entire cosmos out there with unique properties that need to be explained - something that, for now at least, quantum mechanics alone cannot do.”
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> All Is Smooth, or All Is Chunky? Order or Disorder? Planned or Higgledy-Piggledy? I guess we'll just have keep watching that space....-Great article. Thanks. I see stuff like this all the time. "Strings" were an attempt to solve this, but they don't work except in theoretical math, not experiments. We need another Einstein, but he is nowhere to be found. Ruth Kastner comes close with her conjecture about transactional analysis across a quantum-membrane-like relationship between our reality and the quantum layer of reality.