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chung van gog

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bluesky is my private diary. on a journey to gain courage and align heart mind body and soul. he/him. 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🗝️🕊️ 🦢 🤍

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chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 4d

Updated version: I post about my life experience, nerdy math and physics things, amateur philosophy takes, books I'm reading, politics, good music, occasional blog posts, games & game variants, and whatever else catches my fancy

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · Jul 22

i post about my life experience, abstract or concrete, about poker variants & theoretical analysis, amateur philosophy takes, good music, and occasional blog posts <3

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 8m

For later: Whitehead, process philosophy, categorical quantum mechanics, quantum calculus. ☺️

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 58m

need to reflect on it more :)

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 58m

∣Ψ⟩ ∈ H_{phys} ⊂Cyl^∗, with origin in H_{AL}?

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 1h

woah!!! OAM entanglement is like the coolest fact about entanglement I learned in a long time!!!

two humble photons can be entangled in oh-so-many ways!!!!

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2h

okay mixed signals cerncourier.com/mixed-signal...

Mixed signals from X17 – CERN Courier

A decade after the initial report of the ATOMKI anomaly, MEG II and PADME present conflicting findings on the proposed X17 boson.

cerncourier.com

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2h

wait what??? i'm reading the wikipedia article now, and something really seems to be very weird here??? there might be an X17 particle??? why does no one bother to tell me such essential facts????

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2h

Something's up with beryllium-8 decay?

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2h

I find it plausible that there really exist things even darker than dark matter. Dark forces, dark particles, dark radiation, dark fields.....

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2h

i love the periodic table!

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2h

i'm (over)simplifying with the "people thought" part, but you get my gist.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2h

I find this plausible.

1. There are galaxies that are outside our observable horizon! We will never even be able to know they exist!

2. Neutrinos are highly nontrivial. For a long time, people thought they were just a mathematical fiction!

3. Dark matter is nontrivial

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2h

I find this plausible.

1. There are galaxies that are outside our observable horizon! We will never even be able to know they exist!

2. Neutrinos are highly nontrivial. For a long time, people thought they were just a mathematical fiction!

3. Dark matter is nontrivial

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2h

Something's up with beryllium-8 decay?

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2h

Woah i just learned about hidden sectors! There might be vast swaths of reality that we cannot observe, and might not even be able to observe in principle!

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2h

Or, closer to home Aimathematics and Aiphysics, in which entire branches of math and physics are developed by extremely far advanced AI on supercomputers. So advanced that we cannot hope to comprehend it as humans.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3h

If this sounds unlikely to you, imagine that humans eventually manage to communicate with advanced aliens. And they would give us useful knowledge that might, eg, be used to design rockets.

This might lead to a discipline called alienetics!

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2h

Another argument for the necessity of epistemic humility

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 2h

In sum, this is simply another epistemological problem besides the problem of incomplete understanding within current disciplines

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3h

Another argument: disciplines require technology! Even math requires papyrus or some alternative!

So if we are technologically incomplete, why would we be complete in disciplines?

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3h

Again, if these seems implausible, just wind back the clock 200 years! We missed *many* disciplines to understand reality correctly!

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3h

What I am trying to say is that either (a) we have all necessary disciplines to understand reality at all (but how could we possibly know that??) or (b) we cannot even in principle understand reality sufficiently with our current incomplete disciplines.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3h

And thus that, seen from that vantage point, we currently *don’t* have all the disciplines we need to understand the cosmos!

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3h

In alienatics, what is most important is philology. That the (terabytes of) message from these aliens is properly archived and interpreted. It might be much more powerful than either our physics or our math at that time.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3h

If this sounds unlikely to you, imagine that humans eventually manage to communicate with advanced aliens. And they would give us useful knowledge that might, eg, be used to design rockets.

This might lead to a discipline called alienetics!

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3h

And that, moreover, these new disciples might (a) be, quantitavely and qualitatively, be different from physicals and mathematics, and (b) prove extraordinarily useful to understand reality.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3h

Let’s keep the analysis fairly holistically. We now have physics (including cosmology, HEP), and mathematics (many branches).

But there would no reason, a priori, to suppose that there won’t be more if humans continue to evolve.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3h

In human history, the disciplines through which we understand reality have evolved over time. From natural philosophy, to philosophy and physics, to further, different branches of physicals, and so on.

chung van gog @umbralcuboids.com · 3h

Here is something to think about: the missing discipline problem.