Well, if you get some mathematics explaining why universe destruction results in exactly the numbers known from quantum physics, then maybe it gets interested.
Sorry, I have no specific path to follow, other than to first study quantum physics on its own (all the equations with the complex numbers etc.) before inventing your own theory of why it is what it is. First get to know what, then speculate about why. Otherwise you are at risk of getting quantum physics wrong, and then inventing reasons for your wrong understanding of the quantum physics, which is a lose/lose situation (either you can’t find a good explanation, or you succeed to find an “explanation” for something that is actually not true). If you get familiar with the standard university-level quantum physics, then your hypotheses get the chance to be actually useful.
Making a wrong hypothesis is the inevitable risk, but seeing people waste energy inventing explanations for something that is not true, that’s quite sad. (I am now thinking on one long lecture I attended at Mensa, where a guy “disproved theory of relativity” by proposing a theory that was obviously wrong for trivial reasons; it actually predicted that particles would move quite differently parallel to some absolute space axes x,y,z than diagonally. Since there are no obvious “straight” and “diagonal” directions in our universe, his hypothesis was completely wrong regardless of whether Einstein was right or wrong about some technical detail.)
So yeah. the gold standard is. of course. scientific prediction. My idea is very far away from such a thing! I actually do have some background in quantum mechanics (I have a physics minor :P) and at one point actually did have some understanding of Hamiltonian Operators and eigenstates and bra-ket notation. However that’s a far cry from the sort of needed mathematics to really understand the implications of what I’m talking about (this is why they say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing)! What I do have is enough knowledge to tentatively pose that my idea doesn’t contradict what we’ve actually seen in experiments (so I don’t think it’s trivially wrong).
I’m not too worried about proposing a possible explanation first then asking what it can explain. That may seem like a backwards way of doing things, but it might be a way to approach problems from a different angle. My guess is (having not read much scientific biography it’s hard to say) there were probably some scientists who developed the key ideas of their breakthroughs prior to completing formal training in their field. Besides, it’s a lot more effort for me to learn all this stuff then to just ask the question on on Internet forum!
I’m also not worried about becoming that Mensan. That dude put too much emotional stakes into being right about that. He is completely emotionally invested in the correctness of his idea and his own brilliance over Einstein. I’m keenly aware of the fact that I’m just some dude throwing some half-baked idea onto an Internet forum. I’m not at all worried if people think it’s crazy or wrong. And I’m not worried if it is wrong! What worries me more is if people don’t think it’s worth the time of day or is completely uninteresting. That would make me sad but not hugely sad, just kinda sorta sad. My contention is merely the idea is interesting enough to take somewhat seriously.
Well, if you get some mathematics explaining why universe destruction results in exactly the numbers known from quantum physics, then maybe it gets interested.
Sorry, I have no specific path to follow, other than to first study quantum physics on its own (all the equations with the complex numbers etc.) before inventing your own theory of why it is what it is. First get to know what, then speculate about why. Otherwise you are at risk of getting quantum physics wrong, and then inventing reasons for your wrong understanding of the quantum physics, which is a lose/lose situation (either you can’t find a good explanation, or you succeed to find an “explanation” for something that is actually not true). If you get familiar with the standard university-level quantum physics, then your hypotheses get the chance to be actually useful.
Making a wrong hypothesis is the inevitable risk, but seeing people waste energy inventing explanations for something that is not true, that’s quite sad. (I am now thinking on one long lecture I attended at Mensa, where a guy “disproved theory of relativity” by proposing a theory that was obviously wrong for trivial reasons; it actually predicted that particles would move quite differently parallel to some absolute space axes x,y,z than diagonally. Since there are no obvious “straight” and “diagonal” directions in our universe, his hypothesis was completely wrong regardless of whether Einstein was right or wrong about some technical detail.)
So yeah. the gold standard is. of course. scientific prediction. My idea is very far away from such a thing! I actually do have some background in quantum mechanics (I have a physics minor :P) and at one point actually did have some understanding of Hamiltonian Operators and eigenstates and bra-ket notation. However that’s a far cry from the sort of needed mathematics to really understand the implications of what I’m talking about (this is why they say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing)! What I do have is enough knowledge to tentatively pose that my idea doesn’t contradict what we’ve actually seen in experiments (so I don’t think it’s trivially wrong).
I’m not too worried about proposing a possible explanation first then asking what it can explain. That may seem like a backwards way of doing things, but it might be a way to approach problems from a different angle. My guess is (having not read much scientific biography it’s hard to say) there were probably some scientists who developed the key ideas of their breakthroughs prior to completing formal training in their field. Besides, it’s a lot more effort for me to learn all this stuff then to just ask the question on on Internet forum!
I’m also not worried about becoming that Mensan. That dude put too much emotional stakes into being right about that. He is completely emotionally invested in the correctness of his idea and his own brilliance over Einstein. I’m keenly aware of the fact that I’m just some dude throwing some half-baked idea onto an Internet forum. I’m not at all worried if people think it’s crazy or wrong. And I’m not worried if it is wrong! What worries me more is if people don’t think it’s worth the time of day or is completely uninteresting. That would make me sad but not hugely sad, just kinda sorta sad. My contention is merely the idea is interesting enough to take somewhat seriously.