--- title: 'Fundamental?' slug: 'fundamental' date: 2022-06-14 type: 'post' status: 'published' tags: ['faith', 'constant-contact-archive'] abstract: 'Quantum physics? ‌ ---"Is quantum physics fundamental? . . . I highly doubt it." - Jed Anderson, EnviroAI "Aristotelian and Newtonian physics wasn''t found to be fundamental . . . . . .' license: 'CC-BY-4.0' author: 'Jed Anderson' co_authors: [] canonical_url: 'https://jedanderson.org/posts/fundamental' original_source: 'Constant Contact campaign' supporting_files: [] --- Quantum physics? ‌ ---"Is quantum physics fundamental? . . . I highly doubt it." - Jed Anderson, EnviroAI ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-01.gif) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-02.png) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-03.gif) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-04.gif) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-05.gif) "Aristotelian and Newtonian physics wasn't found to be fundamental . . . ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-06.gif) . . . just 1universe in the Universe? . . . "I highly doubt it." - Jed Anderson . . . does anything underly quantum physics? . . . "I highly think so." - Jed Anderson ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-07.gif) FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS? The continual iconoclastic evolution in our cosmological understanding . . . - Aristotelian Physics (345 BC) - [Universe is made of 5 elements](https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001BQyiS-xnM33eozdnkt_dd6nSRSkCfn9h5lril9657rpp7-nmhJAsA7aJ_CSUg1YojaFBWb0msyc1kwqZhkomSGjz2a964Pa9DIMljtmdc2WuGG6ftkFZPfzViL700GBX0oPJGH-ipAAEKu__QYi08BD85nEDk28kRF6TCkoN-6TOpfNEkTKO7Q==&c=&ch=): 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)(\_\_\_\_) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-08.gif) 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 ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-09.gif) ---"As usual, nature’s imagination far surpasses our own, as we have seen from the other theories which are subtle and deep." - Richard Feynman ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-10.gif) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-11.jpg) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-12.gif) 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]- \_\_\_\_\_? ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-13.gif) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-14.jpg) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-15.jpg) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-16.jpg) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-17.jpg) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-18.jpg) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-19.jpg) . . . "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 ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-20.png) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-21.png) ‌ ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-22.gif) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-23.gif) [![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-24.png)](https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001BQyiS-xnM33eozdnkt_dd6nSRSkCfn9h5lril9657rpp7-nmhJAsAyqsepah_UCarkRP-5OxC3-HTuC63300K7cwSUIrupo3jFdHqcK3kMSLbhMdJhShqWdYbN4rV5c6ZuM2UMpT7-dtZNLfA8sUn5GIrLDGQAPHBXuHCn7I2l99b-dWp-DOafprNmrOxyiA3sDMk9XllFnGFZkLgmVV7A==&c=&ch=) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-25.gif) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-26.gif) How many universes?[Interview](https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001BQyiS-xnM33eozdnkt_dd6nSRSkCfn9h5lril9657rpp7-nmhJAsAwbLYP9xKdMMDG63KPfPUIjNTJuuHsYDIHsk632BfgqEiINpeLNxcGjKG9v4RdH0rWbK4tL0yogUMkyomPoS0N-XbEztf0I3FQ==&c=&ch=) with Steven Weinberg, recently deceased University of Texas Professor and Nobel Prize Winner in Physics. ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-27.gif) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-28.gif) [![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-29.png)](https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001BQyiS-xnM33eozdnkt_dd6nSRSkCfn9h5lril9657rpp7-nmhJAsAyqsepah_UCarkRP-5OxC3-HTuC63300K7cwSUIrupo3jFdHqcK3kMSLbhMdJhShqWdYbN4rV5c6ZuM2UMpT7-dtZNLfA8sUn5GIrLDGQAPHBXuHCn7I2l99b-dWp-DOafprNmrOxyiA3sDMk9XllFnGFZkLgmVV7A==&c=&ch=) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-30.gif) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-31.gif) How many universes? [Interview](https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001BQyiS-xnM33eozdnkt_dd6nSRSkCfn9h5lril9657rpp7-nmhJAsAyqsepah_UCarkRP-5OxC3-HTuC63300K7cwSUIrupo3jFdHqcK3kMSLbhMdJhShqWdYbN4rV5c6ZuM2UMpT7-dtZNLfA8sUn5GIrLDGQAPHBXuHCn7I2l99b-dWp-DOafprNmrOxyiA3sDMk9XllFnGFZkLgmVV7A==&c=&ch=) with Max Tegmark, MIT Professor of Physics. ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-32.gif) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-33.gif) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-34.png) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-35.png) ![](/images/posts/fundamental/img-36.gif)