Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time

NewScientist ^ | 8/9/10 | Anil Ananthaswamy

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[IamConservative]

Particle Physics gives me a hadron.

Sometimes I think being smart enough to think about subjects like this beyond the realm of just understanding would be a great burden.

[Shady]

How did that electron meet up with that proton in the first place, and where did THEY come from?

[tx_eggman]

OK, I’ve read the article ... now my head hurts.

[Richard Kimball]

Sometimes I think being smart enough to think about subjects like this beyond the realm of just understanding would be a great burden.

Don't I know it.

[cripplecreek]

It is a burden.

[William of Barsoom]

We have all heard that Einstein determined that space and time were actually aspects of the same thing: Spacetime. And we’ve all seen the “world-line” funnels, and the super-C forbidden action zones and suchlike, so we know in an important sense, space IS time.

Since from the Science of econimics we also know that time is money, does it follow that space, therefore is money?

[Another but related subject:]
My former partner was fond of observing that, “time is money, but it ain’t cash.”

[mainsail that]

"OK, I’ve read the article ... now my head hurts."
What part don't you understand there pal >

[InterceptPoint]

I expect that the String Theory Lobby will not be happy with this development. Personally I like it since it is testable, a feature that seems to be lacking in ST.

[bigbob]

General Theory ver. 2.0!

[stefanbatory]

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[Mad Dawgg]

Freepers have known for years that space/time is not where the real mysteries reside. It is well known on this site that the real answers will be found in the mǿǿse/cheese continuum.

Ask Laz or C.D.

[paulycy]

"the mǿǿse/cheese continuum"

[TheThinker]

I don’t think GR and Quantum mechanics can be reconciled by such tricks. We’re missing some facts, some kind of measurement needed to reconcile the two theories.

[skinkinthegrass]

Freepers have known for years that
space/time is not where the real mysteries reside.

timetravel....HA! HA!
staying on FR over two hours....real time travel!

[mikrofon]

Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar.

One says, ‘I think I’ve lost an electron.’

The other says ‘Are you sure?’

The first says, ‘Yes, I’m positive.’

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Oddly enough, the value of this idea is less that it might provide a great theory, than that it challenges existing theory, and forces its reexamination.

This is the underlying problem with such theories. As soon as they are accepted, they become barriers, like walls. All you can do is to build up the wall further. You cannot transcend it without destroying it. Fortunately, the taller a wall gets, the less stable it becomes, contributing to its own destruction.

And this is a great general theory of knowledge, by the way.

As far as the subject goes, I rather like the idea of space-time, and I think that this theory gives it short shrift, in the quest to discover the gravity particle, which may or may not exist.

Just because mass and gravity affect time-space doesn’t mean they are the same things. In fact, it implies that mass and gravity transcend time-space, and affect space-time so strongly that it is bent into their mass and gravity dimension.

[mikrofon]

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Particle Physics gives me a hadron."

You should be pants'd for saying that.