A Different Universe
by Robert B. Laughlin · first published 2005
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I strongly encourage anyone who is thinking about this to read: "A Different Universe" by Robert Laughlin. This is one of his main concerns of modern science, and although its kind of a muddled argument he thinks that the emergent phenomena captured by photographs are entirely misapplied…
on “What are “actual pictures” of atoms actually pictures of?” ↗There are less reductive forms of materialism. For the view of a Nobel prize physics laureate see A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down by Robert B. Laughlin. From the philosophy world, read Manuel DeLanda or Alicia Juarrero.
on “Haunted by the ghosts of materialism” ↗…principles using mathematical models. This is not a conjecture or speculation, but a fact. See eg. Wheeler's "More is different", ("More is really different" by another author), or R. Laughlin's book Different Universe which with simple logic shows physical laws cannot be build from first principles, because, well, "more is different" (emergent phenomena acquire characteristics not in the original constituents). Lets…
on “Alien Mathematics” ↗…quantum Hall effect) on right track and is his work any way relevant to what is currently happening? The Theory of Everything, R. B. Laughlin and David Pines http://www.pnas.org/content/97/1/28.full A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down, R. B. Laughlin https://www.amazon.com/Different-Universe-Reinventing-Physic... http://large.stanford.edu/publications/
on “Physicists Uncover Geometric ‘Theory Space’” ↗