how fucked up would nature be if the bulk (emergent/macroscopic) properties of matter weren’t related to the properties of their microscopic constituents
the renormalization group tells us the macroscopic world is essentially decoupled from the short distance physics though .. there's a huge degeneracy in field theories that can describe a given macroscopic world .. still one would expect there to at least exist such a relation
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Yeah even given the decoupling you want to say that there exist causal mechanisms at shorter distances responsible for the goings on at longer distances. A failure of decoupling is one thing; it makes computations difficult but it’s not impossible to overcome. On the other hand..
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if the two weren’t related at all I can’t imagine anything but chaos, and it also seems almost inconceivable that there could be no relation
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