• qnfo@futurology.todayOP
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    1 day ago

    Thank you for your unqualified opinion. Physics hasn’t managed to solve its problems and gets caught up in its own illogical contradictions (string theory, dark matter, quantum foam, really?!) so what’s wrong with metaphysics?

    Quantization is part of the problem: it’s a limitation of our measurement construct not an underlying truth of the universe. I’d gladly share additional research but it seems you’ve already made up your mind, so I can’t force you not to remain ignorant.

    • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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      1 day ago

      Metaphysics has bigger questions to ponder and doesn’t apply to physics. It’s a branch of philosophy, not science.

      And quantization was the solution to an even bigger problem in physics, the ultraviolet catastrophe.

      We know that matter and energy are quantized because that’s the only reasonable explanation for why blackbody radiation is distributed like it is. The classical Raleigh-Jeans law, which accurately predicts thermal radiation frequency at low temperatures, fails to do so for higher temps. Only quantizing the emission of photons produces blackbody radiation predictions which match our experiments.