Don Page - What is Quantum Cosmology?

“Quantum” is the theory of the utterly small. “Cosmology” is the study of the utterly large. They combine, remarkably, when in the very early universe the entire universe was far smaller than the smallest particle.What does it mean to describe the universe as a ‘quantum wave function’? What are the quantum features of space and time?



Don N. Page is a Canadian theoretical physicist at the University of Alberta, Canada.


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[brianhay]

I had to stop at the half way point to digest this idea. I'm not sure if I'm onboard but it's fascinating.

[tac]

I wish I had more produce to fry up for my homemade Teriyaki chicken tonight. Of course I could go to the store but I am settled in for the evening. It's not a big deal, I'll be fine. On a side note Its almost impossible to find Sriracha hot sauce anywhere in America right now. Lets see.... what else... I bought a nice antique brass lamp at Goodwill today. It reminded me of a lamp my grandma used to have so I bought it. Have a good evening and we'll talk soon.

[idegteke]

Wait, wait, wait, what is cosmology to start with – and how can it be different from the quantum cosmology? Is the first nothing but a subset of the latter or vice versa?

[yourlogicalnightmare]

I put quantum gasoline in my quantum car to drive on quantum country roads and look at quatum trees and birds. I'll probably stop at a quantum diner and have some quatum eggs and hashbrowns with my quantum pancakes

[idegteke]

You say that our world (or size range) from which we, embedded into our protein capsule, are trying to gradually discover the beyond is more important than the sub-sub-atomic phenomena, the apparent black holes and all the apparently different weirdness we watch in disbelief, and the most solid fact we know about them is that they undeniably exist AND they are a subset of our world?

[Sajuuk]

Cosmology sounds more and more like philosophy in our contemporary world.

[steviejd]

At what point does quantum reality give way to our classical world? Is there such a point?

[jeffamos]

I can relate to inflation. Had some beans for dinner.

[jamesruscheinski]

might time be outside universe and energy inside universe for expansion of universe and time / energy uncertainty of quantum fields?

[sanjuansteve]

I’ve been saying since 2013 that it seems extremely obvious that all electrons and photons are in orbit with a dark matter particle.

Based on Fermilab and other recent findings, I now think electrons are made of an electron neutrino entangled in orbit with a dark matter muon neutrino, explaining their erratic orbits around nuclei and explaining superposition and uncertainty.

I think photons are a pair of electrons entangled in orbit together in apparent an axial or helical polarizable wave-like movement depending on the direction of their rotation as they travel. This explains the double slit experiment for example and the speed of the rotation explains electromagnetic wavelengths (and visible colors, etc).

What do you think of this Mudfossil University video?:
‘’Light Duality Solved and Seen’’, Sep 29, 2022

[idegteke]

I can imagine a language in which these answers mean something like this: it might not be my fault to miss this plane, I really set the alarm correctly, I’ve only forgotten about charging the battery...

[idegteke]

– Do you mind a chat?
– What is mind?

[SRAVALM]

Time to watch 'Interstellar' again.

[jamesruscheinski]

human imagination of vast reality beyond universe has to do with quantum fields?

[michaelshortland]

It is impossible to have a finite number however big in an infinite universe.

[chayanbosu]

In quantum mechanics a subatomic perticle can exists at many places at the same time, In Bhagbat God Sri Krishna shows Brambhya that He exists not only in this universe but at a same time He exists in Golok Vrindabon also and there time can not be passed.

[rumibumi]

Law is law. If its small, its big. Law is law. Your base is wrong. Rethink what you call light and magnet.

[douglinze]

Great interview…. Gigantic Realities… Just in ours, our individual island states/consciousness is huge… I’m just glad that I followed my heart in my experiments, thousands and thousands of calculations and lucid “netscraping”… 100% victory… not “1-single doubt”… Unbreakable Perfection built into Creation… Liquid Light for the Win…

[davidrandell]

QM classicalized in 2010: Juliana Mortenson website Forgotten Physics uncovers the ‘hidden variables ‘ and constants and the bad math of Wien, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Einstein, Debroglie, Planck, Bohr etc. So, no.

[timwoodruff]

I usually love the interviews but this one seemed incoherent after a few minutes