IU mathematician offers unified theory of dark matter, dark energy, altering Einstein field...

Indiana University ^ | Sept. 6, 2012 | NA

[beethovenfan]

Darn, they beat me to it.

[Pharmboy]

Thanks for this. My daughter, an undergraduate astrophysics major, will be interested in this...I will send it on. I am not smart enough to understand this stuff... I’m a biology guy.

[winodog]

Is it possible that gravity is not what we have thought it was?
Or more likely, that there is more to it ?

[piytar]

Ya heard it here first: gravity is as about strong as the electromagnetic force, but it is counter by a nearly as strong repulsive force from dark energy.

/seriously, been playing with the math

[piytar]

Ya heard it here first: gravity is as about strong as the electromagnetic force, but it is counter by a nearly as strong repulsive force from dark energy.

/seriously, been playing with the math

[dalebert]

PING

[fhayek]

As admitted amateur who is nontheless fascinated by all this stuff, have always believed that one day it will be shown that gravity is NOT a property of matter, but that matter is a property of gravity.

[pelican001]

Yeah, right. I’m sure that you are playing with high level tensor analysis (sarc). And I’m also sure that nobody is impressed by your lame attempt to sound smart.

[thecodont]

Interesting theory.

[headsonpikes]

My physics prof at UBC back in ‘62 was Friedrich Kaempfer, leading proponent of the opposing graviton theory, positing gravitational particles.

I’m not able to have a dog in this fight, however, not “’aving me Latin”, as it were..

[jamaksin]

Yup, dimensionality was always fun - a “quartad” being of rank 4 and having 51 components was even more fun!

[mikrofon]

Wang said negative energy produces attraction while the positive energy produces a repelling force

Just don't mix them together...

[piytar]

Whoa, did I strike some sore spot there? Graudate degree in engineerig focused on QM, moved to other things. Still play.

Why so hostile?

[piytar]

I will admit my tensor analysis sucks. Had a hard time with eignstates at first. Playing with a lower level set of issues, mostly pinned on why current theories estimate vacuum energy to be MUCH stronger than it apparently is. (See From Eternity to Here by Carrol for a great layman’s discussion.)

Why did that offend you so much?

[Chode]

the addition of a second-order covariant derivative of a scalar potential field,

[muawiyah]

For those who allatime go off their nut about Liberal Arts, this particular mathematics department is part of the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences ~ their core majors in that college are: http://college.indiana.edu/programs/ ~ interesting that the top end Chinese mathematicians are edging out into cosmology

[stormhill]

I will consider believing in dark energy/matter when physicists prove to my satisfaction that they haven't just underestimated the mass of the black hole at the center of every galaxy.
Of course this is simplistic but it explains all the missing matter in the universe.

[Unknowing]

Wow! Now to design a predictive theory.

The scalar potential field is kind of revolutionary, as it seems to assert what I'll term a pre-actual physical reality. Maybe what John Bell described as “information.”

This Ma and Wang theory (sounds so very wrong in Amelican Engrish) may want for a “neutral” as well as the “positive/negative” manifestations. Not only for dark matter. For, as we know, in quantum mechanics the results of key experiments differ when the fact of observation is introduced. Vide Schrodinger’s Cat.