Living in the Flat World of Science’s Standard Model
It would be almost
impossible today, to imagine a world where all denied their common sense and defiantly
maintained their belief that the world was flat in spite of all evidence to the
contrary.
Well, science did it.
How did our science go
so far past common sense to do just that – maintain their stance on a FLAT
science base, a flat standard model of physics?
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Stuck in the same age
old dichotomy - “physicists have two ways of describing reality, quantum mechanics for the
small world of particles and general relativity for the larger world of planets
and black holes. But the two theories do not get along: attempts to combine
their equations into a unified theory produce seemingly nonsensical answers” (New
Scientist Oct. 2013).
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Predicting a stunted future
for humanity, as scientists venture further and further out on a tangent, continuing
to stand on a narrow and shallow original fundamental base, ignoring the changes/expansion
to the “base” as explorations moved deeper and deeper into the microcosm and
macrocosm..……..where the curve, with a radius measured by the constant C,
begins to be noticed and unifies the micro, here and now, and macro base…………….opening
the doors to fantastic possibilities when C is also recognized to be the
kinetic energy equivalent of the mass energy of matter.
These Stage Coach
ideas are demanding an upgrade:
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“but the foundation of modern
physics has largely been made, and we do not expect any major revisions of this
basic knowledgde” Physics of the Future
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"It's very nice these people have done an experiment to illustrate this effect and show how in practice it can occur," says Page, who is now at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. But not everyone thinks the Wheeler-DeWitt equation is the correct route to unification of the quantum and classical worlds, says Lee Smolin at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. "They have verified in the context of a laboratory system that quantum mechanics is working correctly," he says. But Smolin argues that any correct description of the universe must include time. (New Scientist Oct. 2013).
"It's very nice these people have done an experiment to illustrate this effect and show how in practice it can occur," says Page, who is now at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. But not everyone thinks the Wheeler-DeWitt equation is the correct route to unification of the quantum and classical worlds, says Lee Smolin at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. "They have verified in the context of a laboratory system that quantum mechanics is working correctly," he says. But Smolin argues that any correct description of the universe must include time. (New Scientist Oct. 2013).
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David
Bodanis’s analogy of our current scientific understanding the effects
resulting with approaching the speed of light, the quantity C: (page 81)
“As the cars hurried by (approaching light speed), we’d not only see them as
getting more massive, changing size, we’d also notice that time seemed to be
slowing down inside of them. These effects are summarized in relativity by
saying that when someone watches an object recede away from them, the object
will be seen to undergo mass dilation, length changes, and time dilation. The
bystanders will see it in the car; the driver of the car, looking back, will
see it in the bystanders.
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Lee Smolin – In Time Reborn, certainly
grapples with the larger picture, and in many, many instances hits pieces of
the solution directly on the head – but still draws upon the narrow and shallow
base of Relativity and Quantum that takes him further out on an inconsequential
tangent (Even Einstein warned of false premises derived from incorrect math and
observation timing, as in simultaneity – Einstein also said “We can't solve problems by using the same
kind of thinking we used when we created them.”) However, Lee Smolin definitely sees errors in Physics’ foundational base, and Time is certainly one of them. Lee Smolin adds
“Quantum Mechanics is the most successful physical theory yet invented, but
remains a challenge to our attempts to comprehend the world. Since its
invention in the 1920s, physicists have concocted bizarre scenarios to make
sense of the puzzles of quantum theory. Cats are both dead and alive, an
infinitude of simultaneous existing universes, reality depends on what’s
measured, or who’s observing, particles that signal each other across vast
distances at speeds exceeding light….”
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