Quantum Theory & Our Understanding of Everything
The philosophy of science has sought to introduce order into the chaos of existence by replacing supernatural and mystical with reason, logic and frameworks. Like most of our progress as a species-…
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Once we take their quantum property into account, space and time changes dramatically. Space is granular, because one of the characteristics of quantum theory is to show that continuous things have often a granular structure, like light, which is a cloud of photons. Similarly, time cannot be anymore understood ad an external independently flowing entity. Time is just he counting of granular happenings in nature.
— Carlo RovelliTheoretical physicist known for loop quantum gravity research and popular science writing
The theory describes only the way objects interact with one another, without indicating what happens between one interaction and the next one.
— Carlo RovelliTheoretical physicist known for loop quantum gravity research and popular science writing