New Theory Casually Upends Space and Time

Popular Mechanics ^ | Dec 10 2020 | Tim Collins

[BipolarBob]

BTW, is gravity an energy or a separate force in itself? >

There are plenty of very interesting YouTube videos (I prefer Arvin Ash myself). Gravity certainly acts like a force and can be measured like a force. It is considered a weak force though.

[Sirius Lee]

never crossing each other, and with no beginning or end point.

And are the autumn leaves turning to the color of her hair? Windmills of Your Mind/Steve McQueen cool glider action

[outofsalt]

"Early in the 20th century, the famous double-slit experiment showed that particles and waves weren’t nearly as distinct as we previously thought."

[FatherofFive]

The authors suggest thinking of energy as lines that enter and exit a region of space, never crossing each other, and with no beginning or end point.

Sounds a bit like God

[A Navy Vet]

Being a physicist let me ask you about some recent theories. If you respond, please do so in layman's terms and tell me why these theories are likely or not.

Is there such a thing as dark matter? Or is it only equations on a white board to make up for what is believe missing mass between celestial bodies?

Is there such a thing as dark energy? What is it?

Is the known universe still expanding or retracting to go back to another big bang from a super-heated and super-condensed basketball? Does Red Shift still apply?

Is there any empirical evidence of multi universes?

Can the event horizon at a black hole actually distort time? I believe time is a human construct.

Are we sure the speed of photons in light is the absolute speed of everything in the cosmos?

My biggest question always, what is gravity? Recently, some have tried to categorize gravity as an energy source. Could be, but they didn't explain how that energy came to be.

Seems to me that those with brilliant minds include many un-proven answers/theories into a generic "energy" category.

[Swordmaker]

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Thanks to Gray_Whiskers for posting the Original Article from Popular Mechanics.

Clear Example of a Birkeland Current
"Z" Pinch with Symmetrical Plasmids
seen in Hubble Telescope View of
The Twin Jet Nebula
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[muffaletaman]

How about “catastrophic anthropomorphic global warming” is BS, while climate change has been and always will be. It’s just not our fault.

And while cold fusion as first discussed might be BS, LENR (low energy nuclear reactions) is now a field with some significant investment and effort.

https://asiatimes.com/2019/11/cold-fusion-1-a-potential-energy-gamechanger/

And the proposal that the universe is “energy”?

When 80% of the matter is (currently) undetectable dark matter, and the Casimir effect is proven and measured, and engineers are making computers that may use quantum entanglement in their operation... who knows?

The more we know, the more we find that we know less than we thought we did when we knew less than we do now.

To quote the Wicked Witch of the West...
“Oh, what a world, what a world!”

[A Navy Vet]

" Time for us is a measure we use to regulate our day and seasons but wouldn't time exist whether we measured it or not? How could there be no time? If as we are told the universe once was compressed into a mass smaller than a period on a paper, it still had to occupy a space even if that small, something still had to enclose it. Which means there had to be a space outside the small spec we define as the universe."

Sentient humans can do our math and equations for the Big Bang by using Red Shift and extrapolating backwards to a beginning. It's still our construct of time. Without our observation, time doesn't exist, except maybe on an exestential plane from another source of intelligence. THEY could see when they placed the period or basketball in a void. Still, it just mean they saw the progress of their experiment, but doesn't mean time is an entity. They would see it as a progression of stuff they put in place.

Lot of questions with answers that I suspect are unknowable at least in our human domain."

I believe the same.

[A Navy Vet]

"Gravity. It’s not just a good idea...It’s the law!"

Of course it is a universal law/force, but no one can figure what it exactly consists of.

[beethovenfan]

Publish or perish.

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[mjp]

The mantra you might normally hear from your yoga instructor could be an entirely new way of looking at the universe.

Everything in the universe from thoughts to chairs, from skin to emotions, has a certain amount of energy. Problems are created by adding or subtracting energy from a thought, emotion, or state of consciousness.

[BipolarBob]

The authors suggest thinking of energy as lines that enter and exit a region of space, never crossing each other, and with no beginning or end point.

No, it is a quantum field of energy/mass. Everything you see/touch is composed of quantum energy/mass. They are not random but are defined by the electrodynamic field force. This is clearly understood on the quantum level by physicists.

[cgbg]

climate change they keep changing the model. Hardly what would be called settled science.

"Climate change" is a long con--designed to separate fools from their money:

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions

[mosaicwolf]

New theory. The Universe is an illusion. It doesn’t exist at all. It is only a persception.

[outofsalt]

"If you want on or off the Electric Universe/Plasma Ping List..."

Watts it about?

[Jyotishi]

“I am a physicist. This is HS but as a scientist I cannot call someone else’s theory BS even if it is without an experimental or theoretical refutation. Therefore cold fusion and climate change stand because you can’t prove them wrong even though they are BS.”

So we come to one physicist’s rule: “When I can’t understand something or refute it, call it BS.”

[unlearner]

“you can’t prove them wrong even though they are BS”

The hallmark of a good scientific theory is specifying a way it can be disproved, preferably when the normally expected results would disprove the theory. In other words, if they can’t be proven wrong they are BS as far as science is concerned.

[rx]

Gravity is a human construct that relies on certain constraints that are significantly similar in the experience of life at the earth’s surface. It pertains to the vector sum of pressure mediation of all electromagnetic/dielectric phenomena of the universe, which is more generally (and accurately) location-, vector-, medium- and phase-specific.

What is called ‘gravity” is slightly more or less what we experience as the sum of all conjugate (force/motion, inertial/acceleration) geometries in the universe.

“Gravitational” acceleration to the inertial plane (not a force) has infinitely different sums at the infinite different locations throughout the universe. E.g., the “gravity on the moon”, Mars, Venus, etc.

[blueunicorn6]

This explains why I gained weight!

I’m just a pawn in the great chess game of the universe.