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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As Mattias Desmet said, "science adapts its theories to reality, but ideology adapts reality to its theories."
Must be time to rethink our theories.
In fact all three could be true.
The conjecture could be false, the cosmos could be very different then we suppose and string theory could be wrong.
Considering all of this is what science is actually is all about.
Deut. 29:29: The secret things belong to God...
They tie themselves into pretzels to deny God.
I don’t think that was intended to be Gnostic.
bump
I thought The Hokey Pokey was what it's all about.
The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It
Since the universe is not real, how could it not be possible?
This is where “Impossible Burgers” come from.
That’s OK, we’ve got the climate all figured out.
Check in with God, he made the place. Universe as we know of it, sure as hell isn’t some random event, that popped out of nowhere.
Where did all the Hydrogen come from?
I believe the answer is 42
So Long and Thanks For All The Fish!
Right answer. Wrong universe.
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.
One of the first crises of this sort was when the Pythagoreans realized that the the square root of 2 is irrational. It was so earthshaking that this finding was kept hidden and secret for many years. Today, irrational numbers are not a bother.
Another "impossible" situation was the square root of -1. Today we have an interpretation of that, and all electrical engineers are quite comfortable using the square root of -1, as part of an "imaginary number". In reality these numbers are not "imaginary" at all, but offer a way of describing the reality of electrical circuits.
I'm sure that someday the "string theorists" will find a plausible interpretation of their results.
How do they know it is smooth and flat?
If something has absolutely no effect on anything, then in what sense does it exist, as far as anything else is concerned? The matter seems intuitive to me.
Or possibly, just possibly, they are wrong
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