science

This is such a thought provoking read.

One of my buddies is an astrophysicist just finishing his PhD candidacy and he's in the final thrust

When we have time to get together and talk, a lot of our dialogue centers around the fact that all the things that physics considers to be "real" are emergent artifacts, turbulent vortices in a way, that arise from transformations that cannot exist within the resolution of our current domain.

Fundamental physics is kind fked right now because I think nothing is real and that's hard to accept.

It seems like there is only a unified blob, and the only things that are actually "real" are rotating reference frames, potential gradients & one operation which is addition. From the rotation of reference frames arises the operator (direction) which is addition, and from that arises gradient. Another way of saying it is that the entire universe is an illusion arising from one giant rotating blob.