Posted on 06/01/2015 12:19:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
John Forbes Nash Jr. was a mathematical genius who had his life chronicled in the movie A Beautiful Mind. One of Nash’s colleagues says that just days before he died in a New York taxi cab accident, he had discussed his latest and possibly most brilliant discovery to date. Mathematician Cédric Villan says that Nash told him that he had replaced Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and that the new equation would further explain quantum gravity.
The Daily Mail reports that on May 20, 2015, just three days before the tax cab accident that would take his life, Nash spoke to his friend and fellow mathematician Cédric Villan in Norway. Villan says that Nash was excited about a new discovery which he said would replace Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Though specific details on the equation were not given, Villan says that Nash’s equation would further explain quantum gravity in a way that Einstein’s did not.
Sadly, Nash would pass away on his journey back home from Norway after speaking to Villan. It was noted that Nash had just left the airport and was taking the taxi back to his home when the fatal taxi cab accident occurred. Both John Nash and his wife would pass away in the accident. Now Villan says he will be “looking into” Nash’s claims that he had found a replacement to the Theory of Relativity.
“I will certainly look into it. He explained it to me. He thought he had discovered a replacement for the equation.”
In addition to promising to look into the works left behind by Nash, Villan also took a moment to praise Nash for his contributions to the mathematics community and that he was honored to be the chairman at a lecture given by Nash.
“He qualifies as a genius. I had the honor of being the chairman at a lecture he was giving. He told about the equation he had tried to devise in his study of general relativity. He was summarizing the problem with difficult equations. It was amazing.”
The world may be mourning the loss of “a beautiful mind,” but the contributions to the scientific community may not be over for Nash. If Cédric Villan has his way, we may also be able to uncover the last gift Nash left by piecing together his final work. Do you think that Nash’s equation could replace Einstein’s Theory of Relativity?
I was in Barnes & Noble once discussing some point about how the mind works with a Chinese student (he was taking linguistics, on top of learning English, and I had a TESOL certificate), and a man sitting nearby said that the key to discovering anything is “asking yourself questions” and seeing what pops out.
I think you’re on the right track, either way!
Correction:
I wrote above: “Of course if v=c, time would be precisely the same for both observers, as there would be no relative motion between them. They would be “at rest” with respect to each other.”
Make that if v=0
depends on what is perceived as ‘v’ .. if ‘v’ equals ‘m’ or mass as ETL is implying all posts in the last hour, by myself, are not valid.
Refinement of the theory of general relativity? Maybe.
Replacement? I highly doubt it.
You can't travel through something that isn't there.
Time travel occurs around us all the time. ie, moving clocks tick out time more slowly than our own stationary ones. It's already been proven that highly accurate atomic clocks, one on the ground, the other in an airplane, ticked out (very slightly) different times. In other words, people on the plane aged slightly more slowly than people on the ground. The effect becomes more and more substantial as one moves towards light speed. At light speed (impossible), time would (mathematically at least) stand still, and the people on the plane would not have aged at all. Meanwhile, on the ground, theoretically, millions of years couild have passed.
I'm glad you clarified that. I spent several seconds wondering what the heck the theory of a consumer electronics manufacturing company has to do with the relative flow of time/speed of light compared between a moving object and a stationary object.
Not that GE never does relativity related work--I'm sure it does, being a major developer of new electronics devices.
which opens up a whole new can of worms ... ET and UFOs could be a future which ET and the UFOs unfortunately found themselves in the past ...
(Loosely paraphrasing Einstein) We choose to perceive time because we can't comprehend everything happening at once.
I never implied v (relative velocity) = m (mass).
wonder if ET, if arrived, could get back home? Poor ET ... or ET with time travel?
thank you for the clarification ...
You know, you can create your own time machine. To move ahead in time (age more slowly than your surroundings) you simply need to accelerate. Acceleration is a defined as a change in velocity, velocity being a 2-component vector quantity, combining speed AND direction. A change in either speed or direction results in acceleration. In short, if you can run around around in a tight circle fast enough (at a significant fraction of light speed)(without getting too dizzy) you would jump ahead in time. You would see the world around you zipping by in time, just like in the classic Jules Verne film, The Time Machine.
Speaking of “time”, check out the time of our posts 54 and 55. They are to the second identical.
Steven Hawking made another successful getaway from the scene of the crime.
That equation IIRC is known as the Lorentz time dilation equation. 8 believe there are other variants for mass increase and length elongation.
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
I didn’t realize equations could be “replaced”
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