Steve Giddings - Events in Quantum Mechanics and Relativity

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Quantum mechanics, the best theory of the very small, and general relativity, the best theory of the very large, are deeply incompatible. One way to compare and contrast the two is by discerning the nature of an “event” in each. It is very different.
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Dr. Steve Giddings is a researcher and professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, specializing in theoretical physics. His current research includes investigating the quantum nature of spacetime, and what happens to information that is sent into black holes.
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  • @snappycattimesten
    @snappycattimesten17 күн бұрын

    Impressive microphone wind control.

  • @dr_shrinker
    @dr_shrinker18 күн бұрын

    Unlike thermal fields, gravity feels very homogenous. It seems like gravity is super discreet like Planck lengths; much smaller than quarks and electrons. I believe the key to understanding gravity is to understand what space-time is made of.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski860214 күн бұрын

    what happens to causation in black hole, as time and space reverse?

  • @christophergame7977
    @christophergame797718 күн бұрын

    Thinking in terms of the whole universe is delusion of grandeur.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski860214 күн бұрын

    does observer have anything to do with causation?

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski860214 күн бұрын

    how does causation with time more than space relate to gravity / relativity space-time?

  • @ywtcc
    @ywtcc18 күн бұрын

    Differentiating between observer and observee is a puzzle that has stumped philosophers since Plato. It's an even deeper question than natural philosophy, and physics. Personally, I think it's best to conclude that the reason this question has been posed for so long is because it's unresolvable. Fear not, we have some mathematics for dealing with this situation. The inability to differentiate between observer and observee shows up in the measurements as non determinism. This is how non determinism is admitted into physics. This type of non determinism exists at the intersection of theory and reality, when the two concepts can no longer be differentiated, to varying degrees. In this view, quantum mechanics describes the result of the observer projecting their theories of position/momentum, or time/energy onto reality, and observing the interaction. Observation must always contain some act of projection. This is why the data comes in pairs. The problem of ontological uncertainty has largely been resolved. We have good theories of the boundaries of ontologies the human mind can grasp. We also have good theories of the boundaries of ontologies artificial and quantum minds can grasp. Then, the non determinism remaining in the theories must have its source in observational uncertainty. From the perspective of science, observational uncertainty is the more fundamental uncertainty! Isn't that profound! Observational uncertainty, or non determinism, does the work of compression from reality space to theory space. It's a nonsensical proposition that theory space would have higher complexity than reality space. It's non determinism that allows theory space to form its simplifications.

  • @simonhibbs887

    @simonhibbs887

    18 күн бұрын

    I may b wrong, but I think what you're talking about there is the observer effect, which is the issue in classical mechanics that any observation perturbs the system being observed. This introduces a degree of uncertainty in the measurement. That assumes a discrete local reality that we have limited access to as a result of uncertainties introduced by our measurements of it. Uncertainty in Quantum Mechanics is quite different, local realism has been definitively excluded by the experimental verification of violations of the Bell inequalities. While Heisenberg himself thought that his uncertainty principle in QM was a straightforward result of the observer effect, this is not the case. It may still be that QM will prove to be entirely deterministic if some variation of superdeterminism is ever verified, but that would also have some profoundly counterintuitive consequences.

  • @ywtcc

    @ywtcc

    18 күн бұрын

    @@simonhibbs887 This kind of uncertainty pre exists QM and the sciences. It's the problem of Plato's cave. The innovation I'm proposing is away from a Western individualist conception of ontological uncertainty being primary. Instead, observational uncertainty is primary, experienced even by beings with limited capacity for ontological uncertainties. We can have a scientific discussion about the boundaries of ontology, given advances in psychology and mathematics. We are not constrained by Cartesian individualistic idealism. It's not actually possible to verify a theory as entirely deterministic in the conception of theory space I'm advancing. Theory space is a subset of reality space. Mathematical uncertainty is bounded by the number of symbols allowed for expression. It doesn't look like an entirely deterministic theory makes any sense whatsoever, if this is what the relationship is!

  • @evaadam3635

    @evaadam3635

    18 күн бұрын

    Humans possess free immortal souls with the power of free will to choose what to believe that makes them accountable. This is why humans are unique... .. Animals have no free souls but are only driven by natural instincts beyond its control, not free and so not accountable. The word "SELF" that humans commonly used to define their being is your free immortal soul... ...Self is a recognition of independence from the physical world including independence from our physical bodies... A robot, or computer, driven by its programmed switches can not have a sense of independence, no different than animals that are driven by natural instincts as its program.. ...but human beings can freely feel or sense this independence which shows clearly that we are NOT ALL PHYSICAL ! From understanding the light that I received, our selves are our free immortal souls sent here for a chance of salvation through faith... ... but you only have ONE SELF which is your free conscious immortal soul who never sleeps, always awake, who is the free entity who can independently observes dreams. There is no such thing as SUB-SELF or SUB-CONSCIOUS that Godless Materialists are trying to confuse you with, to weaken your faith.....

  • @simonhibbs887

    @simonhibbs887

    18 күн бұрын

    @@ywtcc How is this form of uncertainty different from the observer effect? It seems like the same thing, and therefore distinct from quantum uncertainty.

  • @r2c3
    @r2c318 күн бұрын

    usually we can describe a natural physical phenomenon after experiencing it in some form... and the problem seems to be the difficulty of experiencing an "event" in the quantum level 🤔

  • @longcastle4863
    @longcastle486316 күн бұрын

    Why does gravity need to be unified with the other forces?

  • @patrickguy8797
    @patrickguy879716 күн бұрын

    Rien compris et l'intrication dans tout cela ?

  • @user-uz8ly4im6n
    @user-uz8ly4im6n16 күн бұрын

    It’s a shame Giddings dances around Lawrence’s questions. I heard him ‘responding’ without ‘answering’ anything substantive or even inventively proposed. *** If the QM Standard Model of initial cosmology - the sequence of what Forces get instantiated and when is accurate… with Gravity being the only one unaccounted for -- that situation (which Giddings pretty well described as THE unaccomplished hole in physics) … something is strange and very problematic with that QM Std Model !!! **** What would that be !?!!!??? . . . It is that Gravity is the FIRST of the 4 ‘fundamental’ forces to arise! .. to enact. *** That the most accepted model of the instantiation of the universe has Gravity being the lone “outlier” property~dynamic … undescribed, unaccounted for, seemingly incompatible with other forces! … that makes no sense. *** The DEEP question Lawrence should be asking physicists ~ cosmologists is: Are “dimensions” (otherwise now labeled ‘spacetime’) really essentially -Quantum- ???? rather than infinitesimally smooth ‘continua’ !! ???? !!! Gravity is a gradient - architected from Spacetime. If the ‘source material’ of Gravity is dimensional (!)(?)?!) … then of course they are having trouble trying to force depictions of Gravity to be “quantum” first … even if ‘smoothing functions’ are necessary to cosmetically make 1:06 it fit. !!!! @jnrose2 [04/18/24]. **** AND … nothing Prof Giddings said here even remotely addressed Observation as a capability or function OF Quantum Mechanics … let alone the ‘observed’ (dbl inflected activity) influence that “observation” affects particle~wave duality presentations. (!) 🫣😏😄

  • @hakiza-technologyltd.8198
    @hakiza-technologyltd.819816 күн бұрын

    Hahaha

  • @EROSNERdesign
    @EROSNERdesign18 күн бұрын

    How can you explain and understand the workings of the Universe without knowing how gravity works....it's like making a chocolate cake but not having the chocolate ..

  • @simonhibbs887

    @simonhibbs887

    18 күн бұрын

    We start off from a position of not knowing how anything works, but still seem to have managed to figure out a fair bit.

  • @EROSNERdesign

    @EROSNERdesign

    18 күн бұрын

    Perhaps we are just as the Buddha was, situated in a walled garden but one day we look over the walls and see the real world.

  • @michaelerdmann4447

    @michaelerdmann4447

    18 күн бұрын

    Finite Quanta and Infinite Gravita

  • @brothermine2292
    @brothermine229218 күн бұрын

    It's strange that they talk as if there's no issue with Locality in plain quantum mechanics (without gravity). Bell's Theorem shows that QM can be local only if the Reality axiom or the Measurement Independence axiom is false, and many physicists think it makes more sense to drop the Locality axiom than drop either of those. The DeBroglie-Bohm interpretation of QM is an example of a a nonlocal interpretation of QM.

  • @simonhibbs887

    @simonhibbs887

    18 күн бұрын

    That's quite right, but Quantum Field Theory is local in a different sense, in that it takes it as axiomatic that the results of spacelike separated events do not depend on their temporal order. What you're talking about is state locality, as in entanglement, which is a slightly different concern. It is quite possible these are related in ways we don't understand yet though.

  • @Maxwell-mv9rx
    @Maxwell-mv9rx18 күн бұрын

    Fundamental question in Quantum mechanics is Law of physic keep out How figuret It out pictures itself. Unpredictable consciousness NOT pictures physic reality. What is about this guys concern Quantum mechanics? Nothing. Rambling . Absolutetly.

  • @evaadam3635
    @evaadam363518 күн бұрын

    "Events in Quantum Mechanics" Awareness with FREE WILL is not an event of Quantum Baloney but the power of the Holy Spirit over His infinite Spiritual World that has no beginning and no end.. ..we humans have the supernatural power of awareness with free will because our immortal souls are free splits of the Holy Spirit able to freely choose what to believe and to act on this belief that makes us all accountable... We are actually Gods in small ways that is why we are the Observers with limited power over the observees... This is also why humans are unique compared to all unaccountable animals... .. Animals have no free souls but are only driven by natural instincts beyond its control, not free and so not accountable. The word "SELF" that humans commonly used to define their being is your free immortal soul... This is also why Materialists love to define themselves as just animals because they hate accountability.. ...Self is a recognition of independence from the physical world including independence from our physical bodies... A robot, or computer, driven by its programmed switches can not have a sense of independence, no different than animals that are driven by natural instincts as its program.. ...but human beings can freely feel or sense this independence which shows clearly that we are NOT ALL PHYSICAL ! From understanding the light that I received, our selves are our free immortal souls sent here for a chance of salvation through faith... ... but you only have ONE SELF which is your free conscious immortal soul who never sleeps, always awake, who is the free entity who can independently observes dreams. There is no such thing as SUB-SELF or SUB-CONSCIOUS that Godless Materialists are trying to confuse you with, to weaken your faith... In other words, Quantum Mechanics is nothing but pure baloney concocted by Godless souls who is unable to explain their baloneys, who probably have reached the dead-end of material science, so to justify and maintain their sense of NO ACCOUNTABILITY that they hold for dear life no matter what...

  • @JB_inks

    @JB_inks

    18 күн бұрын

    There's always at least one comment like this on every video. BORING!

  • @evaadam3635

    @evaadam3635

    17 күн бұрын

    @@JB_inks a Godless life is a meaningless depressing boring life... I understand..

  • @tomjackson7755

    @tomjackson7755

    17 күн бұрын

    @@JB_inks Often he makes several posts of this nonsense on these videos.

  • @bozdowleder2303

    @bozdowleder2303

    17 күн бұрын

    But the thing is that libertarian free will cannot be reconciled with Christian Theism because when you believe that God knows the future you also believe that the future is fixed. Whereas QM leaves open the possibility that in fact the future has yet to develop. It does not rule out the possibility that the future is fixed but it leaves open an alternative possibility. So if one wants to believe in free will, QM is a better bet than theism

  • @glennmiller7840

    @glennmiller7840

    17 күн бұрын

    Just saying something doesn't make it true. A rambling string of baseless assertions will only engage those who are similarly inclined to believe things for no reason.

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