Splitting Time from Space—New Quantum Theory Topples [sic] Einstein's Spacetime

ScientificAmerican ^ | Dec 2009 | Zeeya Merali

[Daffynition]

You're on your own. I'm all set. I have my gravy separator for the holiday and beyond.

[Daffynition]

BWAHAHAHA! Don't be late for class!

[Daffynition]

It's being worked on.

[jamaksin]

... And then the experimentalists (that "Scientific Method" thingy) step in, maps the sphere into an airfoil (viz., Complex Analysis), multiples by zero (an essential step), and then adds the answer (The Crucial Moment).

Problem(s) solved - of course, your mileage my vary.

[Skooz]

bfl

[Daffynition]

I’m wondering what Brian Greene has to say about this. I’m pressed for time right now, but will search later. ;)

[happinesswithoutpeace]

lulz

[happinesswithoutpeace]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBJbzYxCC5I

[R. Scott]

And he turned to the class, exclaiming “See how simple it is?”

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e39UmEnqY8

[4Speed]

ping

[Hot Tabasco]

I wonder what these guys talk about when they get together on Super Bowl Sunday?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

F=ND³
The next step.

[Hot Tabasco]

I’m a big Cohen fan, thanks

[happinesswithoutpeace]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IasKqCQYIrg

[aruanan]

Along with Sergei M. Sibiryakov, also at EPFL, and Oriol Pujolas of CERN near Geneva, Blas has reformulated Hořava gravity to bring it back into line with general relativity. Sibiryakov presented the group’s model in September at a meeting in Talloires, France.

Sounds like Michael Mann and his bunch's approach.

Gia Dvali, a quantum gravity expert at CERN, remains cautious. A few years ago he tried a similar trick, breaking apart space and time in an attempt to explain dark energy. But he abandoned his model because it allowed information to be communicated faster than the speed of light.

“My intuition is that any such models will have unwanted side effects,” Dvali thinks. “But if they find a version that doesn’t, then that theory must be taken very seriously.”

Oh, geez. Let's make sure that it doesn't result in telling us something that we don't want to know or believe or is different from what we expected, like experimental results that demonstrate the speed of gravity is many times that the speed of light.

[Daffynition]

[happinesswithoutpeace]

lulzing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnnDG2k_NDU

[happinesswithoutpeace]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-1BmZAbicE

[jamaksin]

Umm ... nothing like a plucked string, albeit a very small and vibrating string, messing with "branes" in Riemann Space.

I sense a whole lot of tensors a'comin! -;}}