Posted on 12/19/2015 7:19:11 AM PST by C19fan
The Universe we know and love — with Einstein’s General Relativity as our theory of gravity and quantum field theories of the other three forces — has a problem that we don’t often talk about: it’s incomplete, and we know it. Einstein’s theory on its own is just fine, describing how matter-and-energy relate to the curvature of space-and-time. Quantum field theories on their own are fine as well, describing how particles interact and experience forces. Normally, the quantum field theory calculations are done in flat space, where spacetime isn’t curved. We can do them in the curved space described by Einstein’s theory of gravity as well (although they’re harder — but not impossible — to do), which is known as semi-classical gravity. This is how we calculate things like Hawking radiation and black hole decay.
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I’m sure that Sheldon on the Big Bang will clear this up next year.
God does not play dice.
Isn’t this all just theory anyway? Quantum mechanics experiments just seem to result in more questions. Maybe God doesn’t want us to know.
All that matters is whether any of these prove or are caused by anthropogenic global warming.
Woodwind Theory?
Always get excited reading these articles.
Going to dust of my microscope and telescope and work on these problems today.
You need shorter and more flexible pieces of string.
My version of string theory is testable. If she has big ones and the bikini string didn’t break then it is valid.
Note: From now on until the character problem is fixed on FR I am just going to read the title and make inane comments. This follows on my tradition of simply making inane comments for no reason.
The corollary of string theory is thong theory.
So said Einstein.
But on a quantum level God does nothing but dice with the universe.
The alternative is a universe where every action, no matter how great or small, is utterly fixed by the clockwork mechanics of the universe.
That pretty much eliminates free will.
Sheldon Cooper likes string theory, so I don’t.
Yes, he does. And he throws them in places where you can’t see them. [That’s the historical response]
They probably said the same thing about the Bohr atom.
There is no flat space if matter exists within it. Wherever matter exists, space is warped.
But can they be connected. I personally think they should all be disconnected.
The crisis, as Ellis and Silk tell it, is the wildly speculative nature of modern physics theories, which they say reflects a dangerous departure from the scientific method.
Many of today’s theorists - chief among them the proponents of string theory and the multiverse hypothesis - appear convinced of their ideas on the grounds that they are beautiful or logically compelling, despite the impossibility of testing them.
Ellis and Silk accused these theorists of ‘moving the goalposts’ of science and blurring the line between physics and pseudoscience. ‘The imprimatur of science should be awarded only to a theory that is testable,’ Ellis and Silk wrote, thereby disqualifying most of the leading theories of the past 40 years. ‘Only then can we defend science from attack.’
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151216 ... f-science/
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Thanks C19fan.
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