Devac:

Something smells foul in this article. Aside of a rather sensational tone and sense of rushing through the steps, I find these particular sentences as ones that I would like to have explained:

    The stochastic fluctuations become increasingly significant as the number of degrees of freedom in the clumped system is increased. These fluctuations induce macroscopic objects to be localized, but now not only in space, but also in time!

Here is my problem: if adding more and more particles that will produce a higher number of degrees of freedom should make it more and more localized, how would that work for something like contained electron gas, plasma etc. Where does 'boundary' of one particle set/macroscopic object ends and a new one starts, for the purpose of judging what constitutes as this localized system? If it would be arbitrary it should show a difference between one large object and same large object divided into n-parts (after leaving it to approach equilibrium again). Isn't that precisely what physical theories should avoid in its formulations?

am_Unition?


posted 2885 days ago