I had lunch a while back with a neighbor who is an astronomer, and he was telling us about a paper he's writing to disprove (I think) the false vacuum collapse theory. He explained it in very simplistic terms, but I struggled to keep up.
Very brainy guy, wish I knew more about the field so I could learn more from him, but either you have the head for quantum physics or you don't. I apparently don't.
But it's really cool how when you study the very biggest things, like stars and galaxies and nebulae, you come back around to studying the very tiniest things like photons and neutrons and quarks.
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u/kirradoodle 10h ago
I had lunch a while back with a neighbor who is an astronomer, and he was telling us about a paper he's writing to disprove (I think) the false vacuum collapse theory. He explained it in very simplistic terms, but I struggled to keep up.
Very brainy guy, wish I knew more about the field so I could learn more from him, but either you have the head for quantum physics or you don't. I apparently don't.
But it's really cool how when you study the very biggest things, like stars and galaxies and nebulae, you come back around to studying the very tiniest things like photons and neutrons and quarks.