If all photons travel at the speed of light, then why are two photons traveling in opposite directions relative to each other also traveling at the speed of light? Why don’t the speeds add up?
This note is a preparation for the next one, which will pose a more complex question. The answer is actually quite simple. And the short answer is that it is precisely because the photon itself travels at the speed of light.
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Several years ago, I realized that the human mind often falls into a trap. If something isn’t clear, it causes discomfort. But understanding and analyzing it takes time, so placeholders in the form of mystifications and favored ideas are often inserted in place of the unclear, without critical analysis.
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Mass determines inertial and gravitational properties. In my previous post, I described a model that clearly explains the gravitational attraction due to the Higgs field. But I didn’t write anything about the inertial component.
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Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced today that he does not want to celebrate his birthday because he recognizes that the era of free internet access is ending. He also stated that freedom and privacy will also soon be a thing of the past.
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We are all familiar with the model of gravity, which is an elastic surface on which balls are placed. I just came across a model of the Higgs field that consists of a regular grid of spheres. If a particle passes freely between them, it remains massless. If it doesn’t, it pushes them apart and gains mass. And the more the particle pushes these spheres apart, the more mass it gains. The model is good, but it does not explain gravity.
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Read more: A model of how the Higgs field gives particles mass
For many years I have been interested in the question of how the universe performs calculations. Why our calculations require colossal resources. It is very difficult for us to model not only the absorption of a star by a supermassive black hole, but even the behavior of an ordinary, at first glance, liquid. What can I say about liquids? Even an atom more complex than hydrogen is difficult to model. And the more accurate our model, the more impossible our calculations become. But in nature, even in familiar conditions, an incredible number of interactions occur. And in space the scale of events is even more colossal. And somehow no lags are noticeable.
It would seem a difficult question. And our minds cannot understand how this can be realized. However, it seems that everything is very simple. If we accept that all matter we perceive is a perturbation of quantum fields, then everything comes down to the superposition of waves in quantum fields.
P.S. If only it were so simple to understand what quantum entanglement is…
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The crisis on our planet is becoming visible to more and more people. The imminent adoption of an international pandemic agreement. Preparation of an international trade agreement. An increase in points on the planet where military operations take place. What is happening and who is to blame? Perhaps parliamentary hearings in the US Congress entirely dedicated to UFOs have something to do with this. Let’s try to figure it out.
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Read more: How many reptilians currently sit in the world government?
Mankind is quite conservative, and very wary of new technologies. This conservatism is evolutionary justified. Over hundreds of millions of years, the development of new opportunities was slow, our ancestors had hundreds of thousands of years for psychological adaptation. Now a lot of fears are connected with neural networks. But in order to understand this question, one must first understand the difference between organic life and mechanisms.
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Even today, the competition of chatbots demonstrates the amazing abilities of AI. But who is AI? Where is the line between mind and life? It would seem a simple question, because strictly formally, AI clearly cannot be recognized as alive. However, the biological virus is not recognized as living by a significant part of the scientific community, but fundamentally it uses the same mechanisms as the human body. In the same way, the first replicators would hardly have been perceived as alive by us. But in the process of further evolution, these replicators gave rise to all the existing diversity of life. But in the process of further evolution, these replicators gave rise to all the existing diversity of life. And what the competition of corporations will lead to (smaller companies do not have the capacity to develop full-fledged AI, but they can generate new breakthrough ideas) is now impossible to predict. We can both create a competitor that will replace our species, so we can create a partner that occupies a new ecological niche. There is another possibility that we will leave AI as just a tool, but this probability is quite small, since it requires us to have huge intelligence ourselves.
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Events in the world are developing so rapidly that for more than six months I could not publish new articles. Constantly new information appeared that forced us to radically rethink my view of many things. Some of the goals that I pursued by starting a blog turned out to be false.
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It is difficult for me to continue other cycles until my readers understand my terminology and understand my basic concepts. Of course, I can be wrong. I can cover one part of the process, however I try to look at issues from all angles.
It will be easier to understand if you start consideration from ancient times when the system was simple and understandable.
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The development of society and the development of life have much in common. Many laws of evolution are valid in both cases. But also fundamental differences. Nature has a lot to learn, since the most advanced mechanisms on the planet are biological systems. But living systems also have disadvantages, the main one is a complex of low speed and limited energy. A living system cannot smelt metals, but primitive technology can.
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Benjamin Franklin once said:
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
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It is immediately clear that there is no obvious alternative. But this does not mean that the capitalism we are accustomed to is preserved. The transition to the 6th technological paradigm, which has already begun, dictates the need for radical changes. But first, let’s look at possible alternatives to capitalism.
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Read more: Post-capitalism. Part 2 — Is there anything to choose from?
We are now living in an era of great change. The modern capitalist system is facing a systemic crisis. The previous crises were not so critical, as there were markets on the planet not included in the common system, there was area for expansion. Now almost the entire planet lives in the capitalist paradigm, even if somewhere the economic system is called something else. All minor exceptions are so small that their absorption will not solve the problem at all. Resources for their absorption will require much more than will be received as a result.
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Read more: Post-capitalism. Part 1 —What is the problem with capitalism?