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A2. As to "Why isn't physics unified?", the common answer is
that relativity and quantum mechanics don't play well
with each other, so they "can't" be unified.
Neither of the two mainstream political parties is the
right approach.
Neither is trying to help us, the 99%.
They are presented to us as the two viable choices when,
Two choices in computers: IBM and Apple.
Two preferences in coffee: Starbucks and Good.
Two common cell phones: Android and Expensive.
Two choices in American politics: Hell#1 and Hell#2.
And, if you're lucky, two choices of internet provider.
It doesn't matter that both are broken and neither works
with the other. They persist and dominate because they
shut out the competition. Their purpose and intent.
Mission accomplished!
Unification is...
Unification is many things
that we stop thinking of them
No, unification is pizza!
They are not the result of experiments.
We are not epoxy-glued to theories. Not trapped with no way out.
And enjoy wearing a tEmP theorist costume.
The problem was...they were superb at knowing where we ought to go.
Scientists today are superb...at knowing where the money will be.
tEmP theorists increase business by decreasing knowledge.
It has taken a major lack of morals and ethics, and a lot of chutzpah,
Depth charges placed, the ether was deep-sixed.
Gold-backed currency was next, and planned obsolescence
- Unification is not achievable in musical chairs. By design.
- Unification is absent from modern movies. By design.
- Unification is missing from life today. By design.
For any other word or phrase, Google returns
hundreds of graphics.
Nothing was returned for this phrase pairing...
Physics, defective by design, is working as designed.
The game of status seeking, organized around committees, is
played in roughly the same fashion in Africa and in America
and in the Soviet Union. Perhaps the aptitude for this game
is a part of our genetic inheritance, like the aptitude for
speech and for music. The game has had profound consequences
for science. In science, as in the quest for a village water
supply, big projects bring enhanced status; small projects do
not. In the competition for status, big projects usually
win, whether or not they are scientifically justified. As
the committees of academic professionals compete for power
and influence, big science becomes more and more preponderant
over small science. The large and fashionable squeezes out
the small and unfashionable. The space shuttle squeezes out
the modest and scientifically more useful expendable launcher.
The Great Observatory squeezes out the Explorer. The
centralized [fluoridated] system squeezes out the village well.
Hmmm. Your head says one thing
Let's test the strength of your want...
Your house, your toilet, your television and your computer -- all unified.
Reason 1. they had to be compatible (with horse-drawn buggies).
Reason 2. they had to be affordable. Thanks Henry Ford.
Reason 3. they were dictated to.
They were given no choice but to be comfortable. Easy to start.
Safe. Interesting. And even cool.
Amphibious cars? None have measurable marketshare today.
Movable headlights? Spiffy. But not available on third rock.
Five-, seven- or odd-number-wheeled cars? Not a chance.
Compare the ruthless efficiency of the IRS to the
we-said-we-care-but-we-lied-because-money-is-going-out-not-coming-in Department of Veterans Affairs.
The progression of Microsoft Windows
...has ended at the doorstep of the NSA.
Got a failed experiment? Conclude that the ether
Bizarre religious theory doesn't explain the universe? Invent a new particle!
Gravity not behaving itself? Give it a dark buddy. And some pep pills.
But what a great marketing idea!
Put the con right up front:
Expectations get dropped to zero.
And profits are maximized.
The Standard Model's four forces are now two.
String Theory's ten (or eleven) dimensions? Back to 3+1.
And particle physics' dozens (or hundreds) of sub-atomic particles?
Spring-And-Loop Theory says there is a single particle -- the proton.
Cigarettes are still sold. Smoke if you got em!
Election votes are cast on faith. Foolish.
We need more green leafies,
unadulterated water
and plenty of moderate exercise.
Speaking of religious wars, unifying Ireland and Northern Ireland
is not about a peace process, but about the removal of an unnecessary border.
Ultimately tEmP theorists remain divided because the Nobel
prize money train never stops giving them free rides.
And failed systems were always associated with greed and corruption.
Physics was unified in etheric times. It took a racist world war
to turn physicists on one side against those on the other.
The "intelligent labor" of Spring-And-Loop Theory
was most visible in the range of "proven" theories that had to be
considered (and too often discarded).
tEmP theories are a controlled confusion;
a careful lie.
Sifting through tEmP theories and discarding impossibilities
and nonsense, without having an alternative, was not at all
easy.
In time Spring-And-Loop Theory arrived at the only remaining possibility -- that matter
lives in, and modifies, a pervasive ether.
The people in control are on a suicide mission.
Everything is connected, and the unification of physics will remain
Unification is a lack of unsolved problems in physics.
Unification is building stuff, not smashing stuff.
Unification is having integrity instead of greed.
Unification is Spring-And-Loop Theory -- a theory
that simply doesn't break.
For completeness, this is how Spring-And-Loop Theory unifies the four
forces.
The ether is the source of electromagnetic effects.
When bombarded atoms split apart, This is the so-called weak force.
There is no need to hold anything together as everything is pushed together.
Finally, Spring-And-Loop Theory described how gravity
In essence, mass (or matter) is one or more protons.
As the ether is everywhere, reduced ether energy will be
propagated everywhere.
Gravity is not a distant pull but a less pushy push.
The Speed Of Light
Black Holes
Einstein's Equation
The Ether
Gravity
The font color used for the word "money" was
found here
Unification
all physical phenomena to dynamical laws.
With all the experimental devices, and all the
mathematical appliances of this generation, the
human mind has been baffled in its attempts
to construct a universal science of physics.
- Joseph Lovering (1813-1892)
Q1. What is unification?
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Q2. Why isn't physics unified?
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In wise times, wise people are like massage therapists.
What they say is soothing to our minds.
In unwise
times, wise people are an afront to us.
What they say is an assault on our minds.
- Spring-And-Loop Theory
The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange
protein and resists it with similar energy. A new idea is the most
quickly acting antigen known to science. If we watch ourselves
honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against
a new idea even before it has been completely stated.
- Wilfred Trotter
tEmP answers
A1. When most physicists think of unification, they think of
the goal of explaining the four forces -- the strong force,
weak force, electromagnetic and gravity -- with one concept.
the smoke screen of impossibility.
- Charles Franklin Kettering
Q. How many religious people does it take
to achieve peace in the middle east?
A. None.
Current events
Why are Democrat and Republican views so far apart?
Because neither party is desirable.
in reality, they are the two worst possible choices.
when there are more choices than two.
Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways to go,
all but one bound to be wrong, and the richness of the selection
in such situations can lift us onto totally new ground.
- Lewis Thomas
Stuck in Twosville
Two styles of American luxury cars: Cadillac and Lincoln.
Physics choices
Relativity and quantum mechanics are the two mainstream physics
choices today.
A. Just get the 99% to ponder the wrong questions.
Spring-And-Loop Theory answers
So, what is unification?
Unification is Costco
Yummy, yummy unification
So unification is a sentence?
If you want to make things.
Unification is the last step.
If you want to make money.
CAUTION: Destruction of excuses in progress
Theories are made.
at the very best, 20-20 hindsight. It's good for
seeing where you've been, it's good for
testing the truth of what you think you know,
but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
- Robert Pirsig
Turn back the hands of time
One hundred years ago scientists were superb at knowing
where we ought to go.
to do this, and we need to seriously tip our hats.
tEmP theories as role models
One hundred years ago, physics was Godwinned.
became the design ideal.
But change is its motivator
and change has its enemies.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Defective by design
Today...
By the way, search Google Images for "physics defective by design"
The Real Question
Do you want unification?
but your heart says another.
but woefully short of people with a unified worldview.
This state of affairs can only inhibit progress, and could
threaten political and financial support for research.
- Nature Journal
Everything in life is unified
When you camp, your tent is unified. But so is your stove.
something, when all they need is one reason why they can.
- Willis R. Whitney
Learning from what works
Cars -- among the most elaborate of integrated systems
-- work ridiculously well. Why is that?
Learning from what doesn't work
Fantasy cars have failed, every time.
Three-wheeled cars? Only when we no longer call them cars.
Science itself is badly in need of integration and
unification. The tendency is more and more the other
way. Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden
that he is, can be expected to know a little of each.
As the number of physicists increases, each specialty
becomes more self-sustaining and
self-contained. Such
Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science
further away, from natural philosophy, which,
intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.
- Isidor Isaac Rabi
More seriously fail-happy?
Pretty much everything works, except things that benefit from not working.
you're going to want to encourage corrupt behavior.
You're going to want to have slow, or no, justice.
- Floydcast #0041
Failure is success
Then there are tEmP theories.
doesn't exists!
theoretical sciences by breaking into pieces.
- Thomas Aquinas
The ultimate forced
tEmP theories are more like video games -- costly, of limited utility and lifespan,
and leading to addictive (i.e. dogmatic) behaviors.
updowngrades
Never will be."
has attracted
moths to the flame
for longer than Newton's f=ma.
The observer is not he who merely sees the thing which is
before his eyes, but he who sees what parts the thing is
composed of. To do this well is a rare talent. One person,
from inattention, or attending only in the wrong place,
overlooks half of what he sees 1; another sets down much more
than he sees 2, confounding it with what he imagines 3, or with
what he infers 4; another takes note of the kind of all the
circumstances 5, but being inexpert in estimating their
degree, leaves the quantity of each vague and uncertain 6;
another sees indeed the whole, but makes such an awkward
division of it into parts, throwing into one mass things
which require to be separated, and separating others which
might more conveniently be considered as one 7, that the
result is much the same, sometimes even worse than if no
analysis had been attempted at all 8.
- John Stuart Mill
1 - the Standard Model ignores the springs
(i.e. the ether)
2 - particle physics turn meaningless data
into particles
3 - string theory is all imagination all the time
4 - Michelson Morley inferred from a non-result
5 - astronomers catalog, endlessly
6 - there are few things more uncertain than
dark matter/dark energy
7 - "hadrons"+"baryons"+"mesons"+"leptons"
are just the symptoms of protons in an ether
8 - until now
Spring-And-Loop Theory's turn
Spring-And-Loop Theory is more like Meccano,
LEGO or Minecraft -- lowest cost (because of reusability and durability),
maximally useful (because of basic building blocks), creative (for the same reason).
And unified.
structure. The complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Weight loss brings back health
Spring-And-Loop Theory has put physics on a crash diet.
All negative results of fake experiments.
relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'.
- John Charlton Polkinghorne
The washboard road to thin
We live in majority meat-eater times. Wow.
cultivation of the ability
to unlearn old falsehoods.
- Heinrich Heine
Unity
Spring-And-Loop Theory has shown that relativity and quantum mechanics
can never be unified, because both are wrong in their own way.
And two wrongs never make a right.
one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
- Victor Hugo
Unification dies in a fire
In thinking of analogies for this talk, it was considerably
more difficult to think of failed systems than working ones.
for the past 80 years has been a careful deception.
The day Aladdin died
The genie can't be put back in the bottle.
a pipe dream as long as we condone the actions of the 1%.
- Nikola Tesla
So what is unification?
to the number of independent ideas one can see
in the theory and inversely proportional to
the effort it takes to see them.
- Spring-And-Loop Theory,
channelling George Polya
Footnote:
The fool rushed to certain conclusions.
The middling man approached them
warily, and with circumspection.
The wise man, perceiving them from
afar, decided to go round another way.
- T.W.H. Crosland
The first step "round another way" was to see, as the physicists of old did,
that there must be an ether.
the atomic pieces -- like energized balls
in a ball room -- bounce off other balls.
Spring-And-Loop Theory says there is no strong force
holding nucleons together.
Instead, there is a strong pressure -- everywhere. Everything is a marble (or a
bowling ball) of vibrating energy within a universe of marbles.
works in the original paper.
Lower in energy than the ether, they dampen ether energy.
you can unify physics in 161 words.
[or 115]
[Lou Gehrig's Farewell to Baseball Address: 258 words.]
[Ronald Reagan's Address after Challenger: 604 words.]
[President Kennedy's Inaugural Address is 1278 words.]
[The Declaration of In(ter)dependence is 1351 words.]
[Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" is 1520 words.]
[Richard Nixon's Resignation Address is 1658 words.]
[W.C.'s "We Shall Fight on the Beaches": 3537 words.]
not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact.
To invent is to bestow surprise -- I mean really inventing,
not just innovating what others have done.
- John Lienhard
Unification: the ultimate prize,
and the ultimate surprise
COASALT
Introduction
222 Answers
The Atom
Quantum World
Neutrino
Black Holes Revisited
The Comedy Of Science
et=mc3
Comparing Physics Theories
Diffuse Interstellar Bands
Einstein's Ether Talk
No Strong Force
The Electron
Relativity
Unification
Assumptions
Modeling
The Greatest Story
Physics Quotes & Thoughts
Big Bang
Dark Matter/Dark Energy
Dogma
Forget The Fields
Math Sucks
Particle Physics
Peer Review
Standard Model
Star Gazing
String Theory
tEmP Theories/Theorists
The Control System
Trolls
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