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...we have no theory of quantum gravity.

Not true. Although its not very developed.

Loop quantum gravity has already been used to derive a more general version of the Bekenstein-Hawking expression for the entropy of a Schwarzschild black hole.

[newheart]

"On that basis, a human body contains enough mass to create a 1,000-megaton explosion. "

I sure hope the Muslims don't get wind of this Baryon annihilation thing. Could give a whole new meaning to the term suicide bomber.

[Excellence]

In the beginng God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void...

Someone please draw for me a formless void.

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

I can understand how one could make a connection between physics and spirituality.

I do not see how one can claim that physics proves Christianity or any other specific religion.

[Stultis]

LOL! Tipler gets a little loonier (and more dogmatically so) every year. At the same time he has secularists smiling indulgently and slowly backing away, he’s got to be pissing off believers (at least those who scratch the surface) with his assertions that Divine Miracles are just parlor tricks with particle beams!

[Gene Eric]

>> Physicists today, he says, are not supposed to believe in God. But he does, ...

The statement is misleading, and reinforced by the conjunction could be interpreted as:

“Physicists are supposed to disbelieve in God.”

[sitetest]

Shades of Teilhard.

[mjp]

This has not been a good week for atheists.

the opossum data supports intelligent design's prediction that junk DNA sequences aren't random, but important genetic material. The stretches of "junk DNA" flanking hardworking genes are not junk at all. But the study goes further, indicating for the first time that the vast majority of the 3 billion "letters" of the human genetic code are busily toiling at an array of previously invisible tasks. Intelligent Design has Long Predicted This Day. Proponents of intelligent design have long maintained that Neo-Darwinism's widely held assumption that our cells contain much genetic "junk" is both dangerous to the progress of science and wrong.

What were the consequences of their failure to suspect function for junk-DNA? The article explains how there may be real-world medical consequences of the failure to presume function for non-coding DNA:

But much of it seems to be playing crucial roles: regulating genes, keeping chromosomes properly packaged or helping to control the spectacularly complicated process of cell division, which is key to life and also is at the root of cancer. .... [S]everal recent studies have found that people are more likely to have Type 2 diabetes and other diseases if they have small mutations in non-gene parts of their DNA that were thought to be medically irrelevant.

Could neo-Darwinism have stopped science from investigating the causes of these medical problems? It seems beyond dispute that the Neo-Darwinian paradigm led to a false presumption that non-coding DNA lacks function, and that this presumption has resulted in real-world negative consequences for molecular biology and even for medicine.

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High Energy Physics - Theory

Title: Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything

Authors: Frank J. Tipler

(Submitted on 24 Apr 2007)

Abstract: I argue that the (extended) Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and the renormalizable Feynman-Weinberg theory of quantum gravity comprise a theory of everything. I show that imposing the appropriate cosmological boundary conditions make the theory finite. The infinities that are normally renormalized away and the series divergence infinities are both eliminated by the same mechanism. Furthermore, this theory can resolve the horizon, flatness, and isotropy problems of cosmology. Joint mathematical consistency naturally yields a scale-free, Gaussian, adiabatic perturbation spectrum, and more matter than antimatter. I show that mathematical consistency of the theory requires the universe to begin at an initial singularity with a pure $SU(2)_L$ gauge field. I show that quantum mechanics requires this field to have a Planckian spectrum whatever its temperature. If this field has managed to survive thermalization to the present day, then it would be the CMBR. If so, then we would have a natural explanation for the dark matter and the dark energy. I show that isotropic ultrahigh energy (UHE) cosmic rays are explained if the CMBR is a pure $SU(2)_L$ gauge field. The $SU(2)_L$ nature of the CMBR may have been seen in the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. I propose several simple experiments to test the hypothesis.

Subjects:	High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
Journal reference:	Reports on Progress in Physics, volume 68 (2005), pp. 897--964
Cite as:	arXiv:0704.3276v1 [hep-th]

Submission history

From: Frank Tipler [view email]
[v1] Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:44:28 GMT (408kb,D)

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