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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It may work for those who live in Classical space-time but for those of us living in Hard Rock space-time the theory falls apart pretty quickly.


7 posted on 02/18/2018 7:18:53 PM PST by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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To: TigersEye

because not everyone is into twistor-theory...

Sir Roger Penrose: Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
Copernicus Center
January 1, 2017
https://youtu.be/kS1A5dJdOvI
(1:43:05)

Arguing that string theory has veered away from physical reality by positing six extra hidden dimensions, Penrose cautions that the fashionable nature of a theory can cloud our judgment of its plausibility. In the case of quantum mechanics, its stunning success in explaining the atomic universe has led to an uncritical faith that it must also apply to reasonably massive objects, and Penrose responds by suggesting possible changes in quantum theory. Turning to cosmology, he argues that most of the current fantastical ideas about the origins of the universe cannot be true, but that an even wilder reality may lie behind them. Finally, Penrose describes how fashion, faith, and fantasy have ironically also shaped his own work, from twistor theory, a possible alternative to string theory that is beginning to acquire a fashionable status, to “Conformal Cyclic Cosmology,” an idea so fantastic that it could be called “conformal crazy cosmology.”


8 posted on 02/18/2018 7:25:48 PM PST by Voption
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