The more you understand, the less it makes sense.
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mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Quantum physics: because the universe doesn’t give a shit if you understand it.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 week ago
No no no. Quantum Physics: the more you understand about the universe, the less it gives a shit if it makes any sense.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
A fractal meta uncertainty principle would help explain why “chromodynamics” is allowed to exist.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 week ago
Man I only took through QED. QCD is where shit goes from freaky to “what the fuck reality, stop drinking”
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That’s what I’m on about! The deeper you look, the more it’s like “Matter just does stuff, okay?!”
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Well, looks like it does exist indeed.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 week ago
OP is aware that it does exist. In quantum physics, a lot of the questions of “why does it exist” are difficult to overcome. The answer simply is “it just does.”
We can prove the math, we see the experimental evidence. The math comes long before the experiments. The problem is that “why” doesn’t work at this scale.
For a frictionless spherical cow in a vacuum, if you apply a force vector to it, it will accelerate in that direction, until you stop applying the force; at which point it will continue on that vector at the last velocity it reached. “Why” this occurs is do to energy, and energy conservation.
“Why do massless fermions spontaneously break chiral symmetry?” We can prove it through the math, we can experimentally observe it. But “why” doesn’t have a real answer. The answer is “it just does.”
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
the more and less you understand about the universe, the more and less it does and does not give a shit and makes more and less sense.