{"id":189039,"date":"2024-05-09T21:26:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T02:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/superfluid-spacetime-points-to-unification-of-physics"},"modified":"2024-05-09T21:26:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T02:26:20","slug":"superfluid-spacetime-points-to-unification-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/superfluid-spacetime-points-to-unification-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Superfluid spacetime\u2019 points to unification of physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superfluid-spacetime-points-to-unification-of-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since superfluid light exists in computers I think frankly we may already solve the theory of everything because the missing piece is infinity in all things which solves all future problems.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Thinking of spacetime as a liquid may be a helpful analogy. We often picture space and time as fundamental backdrops to the universe. But what if they are not fundamental, and built instead of smaller ingredients that exist on a deeper layer of reality that we cannot sense? If that were the case, spacetime\u2019s properties would \u201cemerge\u201d from the underlying physics of its constituents, just as water\u2019s properties emerge from the particles that comprise it. \u201cWater is made of discrete, individual molecules, which interact with each other according to the laws of quantum mechanics, but liquid water appears continuous and flowing and transparent and refracting,\u201d explains Ted Jacobson, a physicist at the University of Maryland, College Park. \u201cThese are all \u2018emergent\u2019 properties that cannot be found in the individual molecules, even though they ultimately derive from the properties of those molecules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Physicists have been considering this possibility since the 1990s in an attempt to reconcile the dominant theory of gravity on a large scale \u2014 general relativity \u2014 with the theory governing the very smallest bits of the universe\u2014quantum mechanics. Both theories appear to work perfectly within their respective domains, but conflict with one another in situations that combine the large and small, such as black holes (extremely large mass, extremely small volume). Many physicists have tried to solve the problem by \u2018quantizing\u2019 gravity \u2014 dividing it into smaller bits, just as quantum mechanics breaks down many quantities, such as particles\u2019 energy levels, into discrete packets. \u201cThere are many attempts to quantize gravity\u2014string theory and loop quantum gravity are alternative approaches that can both claim to have gone a good leg forward,\u201d says Stefano Liberati, a physicist at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since superfluid light exists in computers I think frankly we may already solve the theory of everything because the missing piece is infinity in all things which solves all future problems. Thinking of spacetime as a liquid may be a helpful analogy. We often picture space and time as fundamental backdrops to the universe. But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}