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John Baez</br> | John Baez</br> | ||
Ed Witten</br> | [[Ed Witten]]</br> | ||
Luis Alvarez Gaume</br> | Luis Alvarez Gaume</br> | ||
Dan Freed</br> | [[Dan Freed]]</br> | ||
Jose Figueroa O’Farril | Jose Figueroa O’Farril | ||
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The quantum is real. It’s mysterious. It’s mind blowing. And as a result it provides jobs and something to talk about when the classical theory is stagnant. But the dream of quantum theories that are born quantum never materialized. We still quantize classical theories, for all our posturing about needing to take classical limits of quantum theories. | The quantum is real. It’s mysterious. It’s mind blowing. And as a result it provides jobs and something to talk about when the classical theory is stagnant. But the dream of quantum theories that are born quantum never materialized. We still quantize classical theories, for all our posturing about needing to take classical limits of quantum theories. | ||
Witten in particular popularized the notion that the incompatiblity between General Relativity and the Standard Model is a Classical vs Quantum problem. He’s wrong. | [[Ed Witten|Witten]] in particular popularized the notion that the incompatiblity between General Relativity and the Standard Model is a Classical vs Quantum problem. He’s wrong. | ||
The Classical GR theory is already incompatible with the Classical Standard Model. The incompatibility is already classical: NOT Quantum. | The Classical GR theory is already incompatible with the Classical Standard Model. The incompatibility is already classical: NOT Quantum. | ||