On Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 1:07:33 AM UTC-5, Bruce wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 4:04 PM Philip Thrift <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 12:54:42 AM UTC-5, Brent wrote: >>> >>> On 9/6/2019 10:21 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >>> >>> >>> Sean Carroll is on a nationwide speaking tour now evangelizing Many >>> Worlds. >>> >>> What is the predictive power of Many Worlds? >>> >>> >>> None, unless someone can figure out how to derive Born's rule from >>> it...which I think is impossible. But it does go a way toward making the >>> story of measurement more consistent. >>> >>> Brent >>> >> >> >> Maybe. But the wider point is Sean Carroll's unlinking (strict) >> observability from science. >> >> >> https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2018/01/17/beyond-falsifiability/ >> >> (which many have exploded over). >> >> In Sean's world, if a vocabulary of unobservables fits into a scientific >> fabric somehow, then it's tenable. Maybe that's OK. Who knows. >> > > I do, And I can confidently tell you that it is all a load of foeted dingo > kidneys. > > Bruce >
There are lists of hypotheticals in physics, too many to keep track of. Lists of hypotheticals of physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hypothetical_elementary_particles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hypothetical_particles etc. e.g., Inflatons: "Just like every other quantum field, excitations of the inflaton field are expected to be quantized. The field quanta of the inflaton field are known as *inflatons*. Depending on the modeled potential energy density, the inflaton field's ground state may or may not be zero." @philipthrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/c9b2e73d-0229-42d3-8b5f-ebbdbd4d0414%40googlegroups.com.
