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by drewfis 815 days ago
Makes me wonder if there's even smaller building blocks of the universe. Smaller than Photons, Gluons, Neutrinos, Electrons, Quarks and we just can't 'zoom in' enough to know about them.
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[Stephen Wolfram sits up.]
Does it matter, if they have no discernible difference or effect than our current “simpler” models?
If our 'fundamental' physics is actually emergent from a lower layer then we might expect that our laws are actually leaky abstractions. Very occasionally things at the lower level will happen in an unusual way that causes the laws of physics to be broken at our level.
That is in fact what quantum physics showed.