This is one of those videos that just gives you pause… or lets you pause, and still makes you go … wow.
Sounds like something that would applied to quantum mechanics. Possibly how particles come into existence and out again after they collide. Could be a clue I think to the big bang.
Hey Logan could you ask people at CERN about this.
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Awesome video. Paradoxes like these are always super interesting. Its hard to even think about some of these concepts. Perhaps after watching this video a countable infinity times, I will fully understand.
definitely leaning on the side of it works on paper/math but not in practice, But hey what do I know, Technology and our understanding of things will change.
I could be wrong because I am no expert but it seems to talk more about the redundancy of information relating to something. I could see this used in some type of complex future device that could scan something and be able to recreate it with 100% accuracy. If I am wrong somebody let me know.
I prefer the Numberphile videos on infinity, much easier to grasp the subject the way they explain it, in my opinion.
I also recommend their videos on the (Riemann-)Zeta function - I only say -1/12... ;)
Basically this may aid sub atomic particle research, but doesn't scale well to larger systems. Take a sphere in the macro world, it doesn't have infinite points around the sphere, it's just a really spherical object. Each point on the sphere can be represented by an atom, you can't say that there are an infinite number of atoms around the sphere. Not all electrons even have spherical shells around the atom, only the s shell is spherical, the rest have different levels of symmetry. This is only really useful in objects that are perfectly spherical or circular, I can't say I know anything like that.
I have to admit I do NOT have the math for this, so I don't have a soap box to stand on... but, I did find it comprehensible due to his graphical assist. I do agree with replies about its relevance in our own universe/experience, and yet I am intrigued by the end comments referring to being possibly relevant at CERN. I do have to point out that I have spent time pondering the multi-verse ideas and am only able to express wonder and anticipation regarding the realm of the quark and even smaller particles and their physical properties. So, this allows me to hope that things are not only chaotic and entropic, but maybe even layered in a way. I spent some time last week, while driving the fucking truck just trying to wrap my head around "the Universe". Not being a religious person I find the concept of a never ending Universe that had no beginning (which I question... what if they're born as ours supposedly did, with a bang? The matter had to come from somewhere, and who's to say Universes can't tear... bump... or something?)
But, what ever.... the end is the beginning, and that is where/when I posted this vid.
So energy is creatable? Or rather duplicable?
Well, according to our physics its neither. Its there, and can't be created or destroyed, just changed. So, its a finite resource?