Some rough working notes, me thinking out loud: "The varieties of material existence": http://cognitivemedium.com/vme pic.twitter.com/g66P85yiVZ
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And some speculation about whether the notion of fundamental particles even makes sense, since there are systems in which it's possible to give two equivalent descriptions in terms of entirely different sets of fundamental particles.pic.twitter.com/r2FsiRkrdS
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Do you mean just in the standard sense that says the standard model (or whatever we should be using) is the fixed point of some RG flow from whatever the correct Planck-scale theory is?
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I'm saying something very different. I'm speculating that depending on the phase of matter the experimenter lives in, they may see very different fundamental particles and forces (even at 10^-16 m, not the Planck scale). And so those "fundamental" particles & forces, well, aren't
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