How spacetime is built by quantum entanglement "A collaboration of physicists and a mathematician has made a significant step toward unifying general relativity and quantum mechanics by explaining how spacetime emerges from quantum entanglement in a more fundamental theory. The paper announcing the discovery by Hirosi Ooguri, a Principal Investigator at the University of Tokyo's Kavli IPMU, with Caltech mathematician Matilde Marcolli and graduate students Jennifer Lin and Bogdan Stoica, will be published in Physical Review Letters as an Editors' Suggestion "for the potential interest in the results presented and on the success of the paper in communicating its message, in particular to readers from other fields." Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-05-spacetime-built-quantum-entanglement.html#jCp
Nitro, couldn't find your "interesting books" thread so I place this here. Mine is ordered, thought of you http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/artificialintelligence/index.xhtml also: take this quiz below http://news.sciencemag.org/scientif...cial-intelligence-movies?intcmp=collection-ai
Study may have found evidence of alternate, parallel universes "Prepare to have your mind blown. An astrophysicist says he may have found evidence of alternate or parallel universes by looking back in time to just after the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago. While mapping the so-called "cosmic microwave background," which is the light left over from the early universe, scientist Ranga-Ram Chary found what he called a mysterious glow, the International Business Times reported..." www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/study-may-have-found-evidence-of-alternate-parallel-universes/ar-BBmNQ3a
It is interesting that the spirit of String Theory was anticipated by Dirac when he studied monopoles and for the first time, and Topology entered Physics in an obvious way.
Awesome thread, Nitro! Are you familiar with Michio Kaku? I find him pretty interesting, but for some reason, after watching one of his articles regarding time, and how the mind perceives it, I still can't find a way to stay in my winning trades just a little longer. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE73E48C4D227E053
Thanks I like it too. Yes I very much enjoy Michio. Who doesn't know Michio? He is not only accurate, but entertaining in his explanations. And, he likes to take a sweep at all areas of science. He doesn't know as much about those as he does about Physics, but he sees it as an opportunity to get you excited about any science. I enjoy his books too!
Probably a good course. A bit of prerequisites, but I say if you don't have them but have the interest, you can pick up the math needed as you go by filling in the cracks in between sessions. https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/QMSE01./Autumn2015/about