{
  "id": "1211.7122",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2012-11-29T23:44:10.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-11-29T23:44:10.000Z",
  "title": "Patterns in the fabric of nature",
  "authors": [
    "Steven Weinstein"
  ],
  "comment": "Submission to the 2012 FQXi essay contest \"Which of Our Basic Physical Assumptions Are Wrong?\". 11 pages including figures and references. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0812.0349",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "gr-qc",
    "physics.hist-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "From classical mechanics to quantum field theory, the physical facts at one point in space are held to be independent of those at other points in space. I propose that we can usefully challenge this orthodoxy in order to explain otherwise puzzling correlations at both cosmological and microscopic scales.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2012-11-29T23:44:10.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quantum field theory",
      "microscopic scales",
      "physical facts",
      "independent",
      "usefully challenge"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 11,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1204977,
      "adsabs": "2012arXiv1211.7122W"
    }
  }
}