Fundamental?

Quantum physics?

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---“Is quantum physics fundamental?

… I highly doubt it.”

• Jed Anderson, EnviroAI

“Aristotelian and Newtonian physics wasn’t found to be fundamental …

… just 1universe in the Universe?

… “I highly doubt it.”

• Jed Anderson

… does anything underly quantum physics?

… “I highly think so.”

• Jed Anderson

FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS?

The continual iconoclastic evolution in our cosmological understanding …

• Aristotelian Physics (345 BC)

• Universe is made of 5 elements: earth, air, fire, water, and aether. Objects have natural motions: those of earth and water tend to fall; those of air and fire, to rise.

• Galilean Physics (1592)

• Galileo determines first laws of motion by experimentation

• Develops the concepts of: velocity, force, and inertia

• natural state of motion is uniform motion or rest

• objects fall at same rate regardless of mass

• Keplerian Physics (1609)

• Kepler produces first kinematic description of orbits

• Each object moves in an elliptical orbit

• Newtonian Physics (“Classical Physics” (1687)

• Newton provides dynamical description of universe, using:

1. acceleration
2. momentum
3. conservation laws

[Jed description: Everything on an xyz axis in space-time]

• Quantum Physics (“Modern Physics) (1931)
• Particles are waves and vice-versa
• Probability is all we ever know
• Measurement determines reality

[Jed description: Everything is probabilities]

• ______? (“Post-Modern” Physics)(____)

Reverse Engineering the Universe

---“I think physics is about done with reductionism. It’s taken us a long way, but the next jump in physics I think will unleash much higher levels in imaginative heuristics.”- Jed Anderson

---“As usual, nature’s imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep.” - Richard Feynman

FUNDAMENTAL UNIVERSE?

The continual iconoclastic evolution in our cosmological understanding …

• Our Earth is round not flat (this notion of a round earth is contrary to intuition and most of our everyday experience) - 500 B.C. (Pythagorus) [Eratosthenes calculated circumference in 240 B.C. and of course Columbus didn’t sail off the edge of the earth when he tried it almost 2000 years later]
• Our Earth isn’t the center of the universe[earth rotates around the sun] - 240 B.C. (Aristarchus) [Calculations by Copernicus in 1532 and astronomical observations by Galileo in 1632]
• Our sun isn’t the center of the universe[stars are other suns] - 450 B.C. (Anaxagoras) [Bruno in 1584 and then Angelo Secchi proved through spectroscopy in 1860]
• Our galaxy isn’t the center of the universe - 964 (Azophi) [Later Kant, Messier, Shapley, and finally Edwin Hubble … January 1, 1925”The day we discovered the universe”]
• Our universe isn’t the center of the Universe [or Multiverse]- _____?

… “To think that our big bang was the only bang would seem at this point to me to be a bit narrow-minded, anthropocentric, andin contradiction to the continual iconoclastic evolution in our cosmological understanding.”

• Jed Anderson, EnviroAI

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How many universes?Interview with Steven Weinberg, recently deceased University of Texas Professor and Nobel Prize Winner in Physics.

How many universes? Interview with Max Tegmark, MIT Professor of Physics.

@misc{anderson_2022_fundamental,
  author = {Jed Anderson},
  title  = {Fundamental?},
  year   = {2022},
  url    = {https://jedanderson.org/posts/fundamental},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-05-13}
}

Anderson, J. (2022). Fundamental?. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/posts/fundamental

Anderson, Jed. "Fundamental?." Jed Anderson, June 14, 2022, https://jedanderson.org/posts/fundamental.