Posted on 10/27/2022 1:59:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A new conjecture in physics challenges the leading “theory of everything.”
On June 25, Timm Wrase awoke in Vienna and groggily scrolled through an online repository of newly posted physics papers. One title startled him into full consciousness.
The paper, by the prominent string theorist Cumrun Vafa of Harvard and his collaborators, conjectured a simple formula dictating which kinds of universes are allowed to exist and which are forbidden, according to string theory. The leading candidate for a “theory of everything” weaving the force of gravity together with quantum physics, string theory defines all matter and forces as vibrations of tiny strands of energy. The theory permits some 10500 different solutions: a vast, varied “landscape” of possible universes.* String theorists like Wrase and Vafa have strived for years to place our particular universe somewhere in this landscape of possibilities.
But now, Vafa and his colleagues were conjecturing that in the string landscape, universes like ours—or what ours is thought to be like—don’t exist. If the conjecture is correct, Wrase and other string theorists immediately realized, the cosmos must either be profoundly different than previously supposed or string theory must be wrong.
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10^500 not 10500
Many scientists are intelligent. Wise? Not so much.
Put some math on that!
O tempora, o mores!...Say it ain't so...Futility, entropy is thy name. Here comes the Big Crunch; I lift my weary eyes to CERN.
THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED!!!
realized, the cosmos must either be profoundly different than previously supposed or string theory must be wrong.
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Right on both counts.
Really really smart theorists have “proven” there is no such thing as free will and others say we live in a computer simulation (I like that theory the best).
Maybe its time to leave String Theory to cats. Re-sharpen our pencils and start over.
“...which are forbidden, according to string theory”
Well, “string theory” is not science, so neither is this.
They dont like doing that.
Academical dogmatic inertia.
They don’t like entire careers that turn out to be wrong.
“Not locally real” and “not real” are not interchangeable terms.
If I had known that this article was about a ball of twine, I would not have read it...
When you talk about “string theorists” you can visualize a Biden-Fetterman collaboration...
Well, it isn’t the first time a scientific explanation will be tossed out.
Prof. Jeffrey Kripal calls it the “cats in the library” problem.
The cats will never understand the books in the library—but both cats and the library are real.
P.S. Neither the cats nor the library are “good” or “evil”.
;-)
See? SEE???
(see tagline...)
My brain is sprained…😵💫
I don’t think Deut. 29:29 is intended to gnostic.Here the full quote:
Deuteronomy 29:29
English Standard Version
29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
You are a fluke of the universe.
You have no right to be here.
And whether you can hear it or not,
The universe is laughing behind your back.
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yeah something like that is written at the library at yale.
Good book out about that called “Is Atheism dead? by eric metaxas. he was a yale guy.
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