THEY DEFINITELY ARE IN MIAMI
Why More Physicists Are Starting to Think Space and Time Are ‘Illusions’
(Thanks to Robert Moats, who asks "Can I get my permanent school record expunged of all those F's I got in my physics classes?")
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January 31, 2023
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Entanglement also explains what happens when I store my Christmas lights in a box.
Posted by: GJ | January 31, 2023 at 07:42 AM
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." — Douglas Adams
Posted by: Ed. | January 31, 2023 at 07:42 AM
So the blog is real, but Dave is an illusion?
Posted by: the ghost of Albert Einstein | January 31, 2023 at 07:49 AM
@RM: That won't be necessary as you didn't really go to school, (it was just an illusion), but what does this imply for Shreodinger's cat?
Posted by: the ghost of Descartes | January 31, 2023 at 07:55 AM
I'll venture to say that cold and hot are illusions as well.
Posted by: Timothy Leary | January 31, 2023 at 07:56 AM
Like sawing a woman in half?
Posted by: Burt Macklin, FBI | January 31, 2023 at 09:44 AM
Dr. Leary, we're in the middle of an ice storm here, and I can assure you that cold is damn real. You, Doctor, must be on something.
Posted by: Rod | January 31, 2023 at 10:24 AM
"when space and time disappear, a unified One emerges."
Get to the point. I already knew all this.
Posted by: man tom | January 31, 2023 at 10:30 AM
Explains why my wife is never ready to leave the house on time.
Posted by: wanderer2575 | January 31, 2023 at 10:35 AM
wander2575 maybe it's because she cherishes every moment she spends alone with you?
Okay that's not why but it's something to think about.
Posted by: nursecindy | January 31, 2023 at 10:43 AM
Doug Henning, physicist
Posted by: Clankie | January 31, 2023 at 11:38 AM
It's just another trick.
Posted by: Sisyphus the physicist | January 31, 2023 at 11:51 AM
Aliens are still real, though, right?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 31, 2023 at 12:11 PM
Speaking of illusions, watch me pull a rabbit out of mu hat!
Posted by: Bullwinkle | January 31, 2023 at 12:18 PM
So, basically everything that is, isn't.
Got it.
Posted by: pogo | January 31, 2023 at 01:19 PM
Meanie: On Mars, it's us.
Posted by: Clankie | January 31, 2023 at 01:25 PM
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all
Posted by: Joni Mitchell | January 31, 2023 at 01:43 PM
@Clankie - Is there even a Mars? I once thought so....
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 31, 2023 at 02:30 PM
I demand that world-renowned magicians Penn&Teller be called in to call BS on this - they probably have seen all illusions and all illusionists that can be. Also, I have seen Obi Wan Kenobi do the Jedi Mind Trick on screen so I am wary of anything that stinks of mass hypnosis. So would you believe a bunch of scientists (of undeclared grade point averages) pull an illusionist's trick such as this? Sort of like going to a quack doctor because they are cheaper. Hey, Quack Scientists - you see them on TV all the time hawking health pills. Have yet to see one selling extended car warranties though but maybe they might consider that a fertile field. Soon to appear on a
TV near you - Nobel Prize winning scientists attesting to the car coverage.
Posted by: Pullet Surprise | January 31, 2023 at 02:46 PM
Of course, this goes back to that great existential question debated in the late 1990s:
It depends on what IS is.
Posted by: Rod | January 31, 2023 at 03:26 PM
I think the physicists are inferring that "is" isn't.
Posted by: cfjk | January 31, 2023 at 04:56 PM