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'Space-Time' -Could It Be a Mirage? New Theory Says "Yes"

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Space-time - that plastic fabric whose geometry can be changed by the gravity of stars, planets and matter - may be no more than a mirage, according to Peter Horava. Horava, who is at the University of California, Berkeley, wants to rip this fabric apart and set time and space free from one another in order to come up with a unified theory that reconciles the disparate worlds of quantum mechanics and gravity. The focus of last year's Nobel Prize for Physics, graphene, may unlock the solution.

The world's physics community has started using Horava heresy to explain away the twin cosmological mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. Others are finding that black holes might not behave as we thought. If Horava's idea is right, it could forever change our conception of space and time and lead us to a "theory of everything", applicable to all matter and the forces that act on it.

For decades physicists have been stymied in their efforts to reconcile Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes gravity, with quantum mechanics, which describes the sub-atomic world of particles and forces on the smallest scales.

Space and time according to quantum theory are a static backdrop against which particles move. In Einstein's theories, by contrast, not only are space and time inextricably linked, but the resulting space-time is shaped by the matter within it.


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17 comments // 'Space-Time' -Could It Be a Mirage? New Theory Says "Yes"

  • Omle_Du_Fromage
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      Omle_Du_Fromage  

    • I'd believe it. It seems we all create our own realities in life as we go. I think that is how we define ourselves; by crafting the reality around us in our own minds.

    • 2 years ago
  • telcod
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      telcod  

    • Maybe that explains why Richard Nixon keeps showing up in my dreams wearing a Mu-mu and rouge, singing Ethel Merman's greatest hits. Man that guy has some hairy legs.

    • 2 years ago
  • extracrazykiwi2008
  • Introspective
  • echelgreen
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      echelgreen  
    • Introspective:

      Absolutely. It's people like Stephen Hawking, complete dogmatists in their circus of materialist reductionism, making comments like physics will have nothing to solve after this century is complete rubbish. These are the type of people who show you exactly how trapped mainstream science is. The point is, these fools don't understand the limitations of their own empirical knowledge. It can only can you so far in describing the system in which you reside, and to explain anything past that, requires a completely different school of thought.

    • 2 years ago
  • pissedoffinarkansas
  • LivingPong
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      LivingPong  

    • I've always stood by the idea that time and space are not mutually exclusive.

      Consider the following.

      Time has often been said to be relative to an observers position. However a different observer at the same position may observe something entirely different.

      If someone wants to complain this idea does not sit well with their classical understanding of physics (no doubt someone will, many physicists like a debate), I reply, set your mind free.

    • 2 years ago
  • rf_dude
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      rf_dude  

    • "Sab kuch maya hai." (It's all "maya", or "illusion").

      Sounds trite, but the more we define "reality", the less real it seems to - er, well, "really" be.

    • 2 years ago
  • artemis6
  • Vierotchka
  • echelgreen
  • ClassicalGas
  • Sw3rv
  • CalPal
  • echelgreen
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      echelgreen  

    • Stupid. Mainstream science keeps insisting on running in circles. Merging quantum mechanics and general relativity will only lead to an incomplete or little theory of everything. Neither theory is adequate enough in its description of reality. Consciousness is the key to understanding our universes role within a larger context. They need to learn to take a step back, way back.

      Has anyone hear of the new science going beyond the realm of quantum mechanics called hadronic mechanics, pioneered by Ruggero Santilli? I think that's a step in the right direction towards a more unified theory.

      Also some other great names to look for in this field are Nassim Haramein, Ervin Laszlo, and Thomas Campbell (especially him, he has the most coherent, and solidly based theory of everything I have come across).

    • 2 years ago
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • LivingPong
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