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OTHER ISSUES. “But there are many interpretative issues about quantum theory, such as entanglement and non-locality, which we need not engage here.” https://lnkd.in/dMm_YkR View in LinkedIn

ONLY DEFINED BY RELATION. “So much the worse, it seems, for the relationist tradition, stemming from Leibniz through Berkeley and Mach, of denying that space, time (and space-time), and their parts, are objects; and of conceiving them instead as a system of spatiotemporal relations between bodies. For the bodies have become diaphanous and omnipresent fields, which are themselves complicated structures of properties and relations among spacetime points.” https://lnkd.in/dMm_YkR View in LinkedIn

SPACETIME AS OBJECTS. “And so it is natural to presume that all these are to be construed as properties of (and relations between) points, or higher-order properties and relations. In short, we arrive at the doctrine now called ‘substantivalism’: that spacetime points are genuine objects, indeed are the basic objects of physical theory.” https://lnkd.in/dMm_YkR View in LinkedIn

EMERGENCE. “The deceptive picture: Emergence is not a process in time. But this ‘emergence’ is not a process in time: Hartle and Hawking’s proposed ‘framework’, and others such as Vilenkin’s, stands in no temporal relation to classical spacetime, or any of its parts (regions or points), even very early ones.” https://lnkd.in/dMm_YkR View in LinkedIn

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HAWKING RADIATION. “The origin of the ‘Euclidean’ approach to quantum gravity lies in Hawking’s remarkable discovery in 1974 that a black hole will radiate particles with a thermal spectrum via a quantum-mechanical process.” https://lnkd.in/dMm_YkR View in LinkedIn

HIVE MIND. Mass communication “is defined as the transfer, among groups, of information that a single individual could not pass to another.” (Renowned Harvard ant entomologist EO Wilson). Equivalent to the ant collective subconscious. https://lnkd.in/dmfn9qW View in LinkedIn

SPECIAL CASE. “The GSL is the only guise in which the second law has a chance of retaining both its validity and its usefulness for regions of the universe near black holes.” (GSL = the generalized second law of thermodynamics). https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn

DERIVATIVE CONJECTURE. “Logically related is a second conjecture, the generalized second law of thermodynamics (GSL): The sum of the black-hole entropy and the common (ordinary) entropy in the black-hole exterior never decreases.” https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn

AREA AS ENTROPY. “We have conjectured that this last analogy is more than formal, namely, that the area of a black hole expressed in suitable units may be regarded as the black-hole entropy — entropy in the sense of information about the black-hole interior inaccessible to exterior observers.” https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn