But there's approximately other unsurprising dimension of the leftists' denial of their loss: attacks on the mathematics. While Scott Aaronson sent thousands of dollars to sponsor a recount inwards iii states (WI, MI, PA; leftists' dealing with the taxpayer coin is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than wasteful when they move out far front end of the steering wheel), Brian Greene included himself alongside the embarrassingly sore losers past times questioning the U.S. republic itself:
Clinton right away leads pop vote past times over 2,000,000. Electoral college hinged on 55,000 voters inwards 3 states. Curious season of democracy.
— Brian Greene (@bgreene) November 23, 2016
Well, that's a painful tweet, Brian, 1 that shows how sick political positions are considered normal inwards the Western universities.
I take away maintain tried to explicate to him that "democracy" by together with large way "the participation of the most full general populace at power" but the detailed implementation of this full general concept requires additional laws together with the U.S. implementation involves the electoral votes. There's nada non-democratic close this recipe: the "demos" even together with thence rules past times picking a sensible number of electoral votes etc. During the presidential elections, the U.S. republic is defined past times the rules involving the electoral votes. The rules involving the electoral votes aren't a "curious" season of republic but the "U.S." season of democracy, perchance the world's most celebrated season of democracy.
Leftists are used to bending together with twisting the rules whenever they tin (also changing the rules during the game) – e.g. when they are selectively hiring women or people of coloring or other privileged groups at the U.S. universities or when they harass conservatives inwards the Academia – together with they look to endure shocked that the same muddied tricks can't endure easily done afterwards the presidential elections.
At whatever rate, Brian Greene together with many others quest out that Hillary Clinton ultimately won the pop vote past times nearly 2 1 1000 one thousand votes. They implicitly claim that Hillary would take away maintain move out the president if the pop vote were the quantity that mattered.
Except that this decision is unjustifiable. What mattered were the electoral votes together with Trump won 306-to-232, a rattling company victory (not surprising given his authorisation inwards 30-against-20 of the U.S. states). I pointed out that Donald Trump's tweet close the same number
If the election were based on full pop vote I would take away maintain campaigned inwards N.Y. Florida together with California together with won fifty-fifty bigger together with to a greater extent than easily
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2016
was far to a greater extent than intelligent than Brian's tweet. You know, Donald Trump non alone realizes that the upshot of the election depended on the rules. But he fifty-fifty knows what he would take away maintain done if the rules had been different. If the pop vote mattered, he wouldn't worry close getting swing states which would endure irrelevant. Instead, he would organize rallies at places with lots of people together with a corking potential to brand a departure inwards the pop vote. He quotes New York, Florida, together with California as the iii relevant states. Trump would even together with thence lose New York together with California but it wouldn't affair together with he would larn many to a greater extent than votes from them.
In a sense, Donald Trump's political intelligence seems to endure non 1 but two categories higher upwardly Brian's. He non alone realizes that the rules affair for the ideal campaigning together with the result. He has also see close the manner how the campaigning should endure adjusted assuming dissimilar rules to accomplish the desired outcome.
You know, I can't endure whatever for sure that Trump would take away maintain won the elections if the pop vote were decisive. But I am for sure that the supposition that Hillary would take away maintain won it – because she "won" it inwards the organization where the pop vote isn't of import – is only logically invalid. It's as justifiable or unjustifiable as the disputation that the winner would in all likelihood endure the same nether whatever rules.
This is a physics weblog together with I can't resist to portion an analogy. You may run across that the touchstone of "Trump's pop vote" together with "Trump's electoral votes" interfere with each other. If Trump focuses on the former, he may larn a dissimilar resultant than if he focused on the latter, together with vice versa. This seems rattling analogous to the touchstone of the seat together with momentum inwards quantum mechanics. If yous mensurate the position, yous unavoidably influence or modify the particle's momentum, together with vice versa. So yous can't accurately mensurate the seat together with the momentum at the same time.
The seat together with momentum are complementary. Mathematically, the dubiety regulation applies to these ii because\[
xp - px \neq 0.
\] In the analogy, Trump's pop vote \(N_P\) together with his number of electoral votes \(N_{EV}\) may endure said to endure complementary as well. If nosotros took the analogy seriously, nosotros would have\[
N_P N_{EV} - N_{EV} N_P \neq 0.
\] If yous wish to take away maintain a challenger where the pop vote matters, yous must laid a "measurement procedure" that includes the campaigning of both candidates who are trying to maximize the pop vote – or the departure betwixt their pop vote together with their opponent's pop vote. This campaigning changes the landscape – approximately people larn persuaded at the rallies etc. – together with thence yous tin no longer mensurate the number of electoral votes together with claim that the resultant is the same as it would take away maintain been if no campaigns designed to growth the pop vote had always taken place. And vice versa.
I would move out further. I hollo back that it's correct to say that it's non exactly a metaphor. \(N_{P}\) together with \(N_{EV}\) are literally complementary inwards the quantum mechanical feel together with if yous seat operators for these quantities that deed on the Hilbert space, they volition non commute with 1 another. If true, this disputation way that \(N_{EV}\) is sensitive to the relative phases of the probability amplitudes inwards a reason of \(N_P\) eigenstates together with vice versa. It may audio surprising that elections are "intrinsically quantum mechanical" but if yous were able to define such operators uniquely (and I hateful operators that mensurate the elections together with allow the campaigning spell the candidates know the rules), I hollo back it would endure unavoidable that they don't commute with each other.
At the end, inwards practice, I hollo back that these nonzero commutators can't endure made specific because you can't define the operators \(N_P\) together with \(N_{EV}\) uniquely. And because the details yous ask to refine basically depend on the initial state, yous can't actually define whatever state-independent operators at all together with the word close the nonzero commutators becomes mathematically meaningless.
At whatever rate, there's a feel inwards which Donald Trump has shown a meliorate agreement of quantum mechanics than Brian Greene. More practically, Donald Trump together with his exertion take away maintain shown meliorate skills inwards the optimization of campaigning than Hillary together with her comrades. They had a skillful see which places had a run a peril together with which places mattered – incidentally, their estimates were far to a greater extent than accurate than those of the would-be professional person polling agencies together with large newspapers – together with they focused their activities on the correct places.
It seems that Hillary together with her comrades were completely ignorant close this whole concept of micro-management. They were hoping that they would win form of everywhere, inwards a landslide, together with they don't take away maintain to produce much for the success. This is how Hillary has lived the volume of her life. She has gotten almost anything she needed without whatever particular efforts. But yous know, this mental attitude oftentimes fails to function whenever approximately fair rules are enforced impartially together with this is basically the illustration of the U.S. presidential election.