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Joel_Mckay 5 hours ago

The Physics models tend to shake out of some fairly logical math assumptions, and can trivially be shown how they are related.

"How Physicists Approximate (Almost) Anything" (Physics Explained)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGUMC19IISY

If you are citing some crank with another theory of everything, than that dude had better prove it solves the thousands of problems traditional approaches already predict with 5 sigma precision. =3

topaz0 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This isn't crank stuff, and operates on different kinds of problems/scales than "grand unified theory" type cranks. This is about emergent statistical order in complex interacting systems of sufficient size, not about the behaviors of the individual particles or whatever.

topaz0 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Universality broadly construed is well understood since the 70s. Particular universality classes are newer and will likely continue to be discovered, but they all come to be in a qualitatively similar way.

topaz0 27 minutes ago | parent [-]

If anyone has genuine interest, this review from shortly after the clarifying development of renormalization group theory might be a nice place to start: https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.46....

Joel_Mckay 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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blurbleblurble 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Dude you don't know what you're talking about and it shows. They're describing something super fundamental akin to a statistical distribution and how it shows up in a lot of places. That's it. That's all. Nothing crank about it.

kitd 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The pattern was first discovered in nature in the 1950s in the energy spectrum of the uranium nucleus, a behemoth with hundreds of moving parts that quivers and stretches in infinitely many ways, producing an endless sequence of energy levels. In 1972, the number theorist Hugh Montgomery observed it in the zeros of the Riemann zeta function(opens a new tab), a mathematical object closely related to the distribution of prime numbers. In 2000, Krbálek and Šeba reported it in the Cuernavaca bus system(opens a new tab). And in recent years it has shown up in spectral measurements of composite materials, such as sea ice and human bones, and in signal dynamics of the Erdös–Rényi model(opens a new tab), a simplified version of the Internet named for Paul Erdös and Alfréd Rényi.

Are they also cranks? Seems it at least warrants investigation.

Joel_Mckay 4 hours ago | parent [-]

>Are they also cranks?

That is a better question. =3

nkrisc 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What does “5 sigma precision equals 3” mean?

magicalhippo 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

=3 is a cat face[1] smiley, the period preceding it ends the sentence.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons

Joel_Mckay 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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nkrisc 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It was a serious question but I see I should not expect an answer.

throawayonthe 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

not sure if you're joking but it's an emoticon:

=3

look at it like a sideways face of a cartoon cat, with 3 being the mouth shape

so their actual sentence ends at the period

nkrisc 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ok, I see it now. I thought the period was a typo and they were trying to write some sort of expression.

I still don’t understand why the emoticon is there or its purpose but whatever.

Joel_Mckay 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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Cheers =3

nkrisc 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t have autism, but thanks. Ending a (every, apparently) comment with “=3” is not normal so I mistook its meaning.

magicalhippo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Apparently there's a lot of dogs[1] that like to pretend they're cats. I just roll with it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...

tux3 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Please stop jumping to conclusions about what diagnoses you think other people have.

That is not helping.

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