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"Jack Sarfatti" |
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25 Aug 2006 12:39:16 PM |
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Physics Today Beyond The Fringe |
Why do the "Skeptics" ignore "string theory" and "loop quantum gravity"?
One wonders, however, what Feynman's reaction would have been had he
lived to contemplate the contemporary scene in high energy theoretical
physics almost twenty years later. String theory and its progeny still
have yet to make a single, falsifiable prediction which can be tested by
a physically plausible experiment. This isn't surprising, because after
decades of work and tens of thousands of scientific publications, nobody
really knows, precisely, what superstring (or M, or whatever) theory
really is; there is no equation, or set of equations from which one can
draw physical predictions. Leonard Susskind, a co-founder of string
theory, observes ironically in his book The Cosmic Landscape (March
2006), “On this score, one might facetiously say that String Theory is
the ultimate epitome of elegance. With all the years that String Theory
has been studied, no one has ever found a single defining equation! The
number at present count is zero. We know neither what the fundamental
equations of the theory are or even if it has any.” (p. 204). String
theory might best be described as the belief that a physically correct
theory exists and may eventually be discovered by the research programme
conducted under that name. -- J. Walker
http://kelvin@fourmilab.ch/documents/reading_list/
Can we compare string theory to the war in Iraq?
Looking for the actual equations and contact with experiment
like looking for Saddam's WMD? ;-)
Key paper by A. Valentini
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/0203049
Also
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20060622-9999-lz1c22cause.html
Cramer and others (Srikanth, Hepp & Peacock ...) think signal
nonlocality may be possible in orthodox QM i.e. cloning theorem wrong in
some sense. This was what I had thought in 70's (Martin Gardner in
"Magic and Paraphysics") but since changed my mind accepting the
no-cloning theorem that linearity and unitarity precludes signal
nonlocality in orthodox QM. My macro-quantum ODLRO theory is neither
linear nor unitary in the orthodox QM sense - breakdown of Born
interpretation for rigid local order parameter (PW Anderson's "More is
different").
My views on all this are in my three books since 2002 (on Amazon)
Destiny Matrix
Space-Time and Beyond II
Super Cosmos (that has stuff from GR 17 BTW)
Physical Review does not publish this sort of thing. :-)
Basically I propose that all conscious matter needs signal nonlocality.
You cannot have remote viewing without it. Therefore, orthodox quantum
theory with no-cloning signal locality must break down in living matter.
"Signal nonlocality" is analogous to "curvature" in relativity where
zero curvature is the Special Relativity limit of General Relativity. In
a similar sense, signal locality is the micro-quantum limit of a more
general post-quantum theory with signal nonlocality in non-equilibrium
macro-systems in sense of A. Valentini & Brian Josephson & Fotini Pallikari.
On a related front my theory of emergent gravity as a 4D covariant
supersolid is formally similar to above. Note I published a prediction
of the supersolid in 1969 before Tony Legget.
I claim Einstein's smooth c-number field equations emerge "More is
different" very simply from the residual inflation vacuum ODLRO "Higgs"
field's Goldstone phases (a kind of world hologram). You need at least
two Goldstone phases to get GR unlike ordinary superfluids, which only
have one Goldstone phase. You get something like Calabi-Yau adding 6
more Goldstone phases to the Higgs vacuum ODLRO field. So one need not
posit GR + Inflation but derive GR from Inflation - that makes sense for
the creation of curved spacetime of a pocket universe on the landscape
of the megaverse in a bootstrap from the false vacuum. With signal
nonlocality we can see into event and particle horizons so that the
landscape is testable in principle with "remote viewing."
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| User: "Math Freak" |
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| Title: Re: Physics Today Beyond The Fringe |
26 Aug 2006 08:10:58 AM |
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:39:16 GMT, Jack Sarfatti wrote:
My views on all this are in my three books since 2002 (on Amazon)
Destiny Matrix
Space-Time and Beyond II
Super Cosmos (that has stuff from GR 17 BTW)
Physical Review does not publish this sort of thing. :-)
Israeli thugs do.
--
"az in emAmzAdeh kasi mo'jez nemibineh."
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