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Einstein's Theory Improved?
skaet writes to tell us that A Chinese astronomer from the University of St Andrews claims to have fine-tuned Einstein's theory of gravity. Dr Hong Sheng Zhao has created a 'simple' theory which could "solve a dark mystery that has baffled astrophysicists for three-quarters of a century." This new law seeks to discover whether Einstein's theory was correct and if dark matter actually exists.
E = mc^2 + 1
How more finely tuned can you get!
Newton and Einstein's theories of gravity don't always work, so cosmologists decided to make up some new and coincidentally undetectable stuff -- Dark Matter and Dark Energy -- to help them out. The more I read about these ideas, the more they look like fantasy as opposed to science. It's almost as bad as String theory! Why don't the theorists stick to explaining what can actually be observed and measured, instead of making up stuff in order to prop up theories that have more likely found their limits. I can just feel which way Occam's Razor is eventually going to cut on this one. Besides, all my life I've been hearing that gravity is the least understood of the four fundamental forces of nature, so perhaps it's about time it got a tune-up.
Hello All, Please respect that Moving Dimensions Theory is just a theory. Unlike String Theory, Moving Dimensions Theory is rooted in logic and reason, and it comes complete with a postulate: THE FIRST POSTULATE OF MOVING DIMENSIONS THEORY: 1. The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions. More specifically, the fouuth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions in units of planck length at the rate of c. I look forward to feedback and insights regarding its logic. Moving Dimensions Theory http://physicsmathforums.com/ Questions Addressed by MDT: Why is the speed of light constant in all frames? Why are light and energy quantized? How can matter display both wave and particle properties? Why are there non-local effects in quantum mechanics? Why does time stop at the speed of light? How come a photon does not age? Why are inertial mass and gravitational mass the same thing? Why do moving bodies exhibit length contraction? Why are mass and energy equivalent? Why does time's arrow point in the direction it points in? Why entropy? Why do photons appear as spherically-symmetric wavefronts traveling with the velocity c? Why is there a minus sign in the following metric? x^2+y^2+z^2-c^2t^2=s^2 What deeper reality underlies Einstein's postulates of relativity? What deeper reality underlies Newton's laws? What underlies the laws of Inertia? Why does general relativity fail at short distances? Why does quantum mechanics dominate at short distances? Why have so many great minds, Einestin, Godel, Wheeler, Hawking, and Penrose called for a new conception of time? If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. --Albert Einstein If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. --Isaac Newton Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, felt that the pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination." An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. --Max Planck Moving Dimensions Theory (MDT) Today I am writing regarding Moving Dimensions Theory-a deeper model for explaining diverse phenomena in both quantum mechanics and relativity. The General Postulate of Moving Dimensions Theory: The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions. The Specific Postulate of Moving Dimensions Theory: The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c in quantized units of the Planck length. Relativistic, classical, and quantum mechanical phenomena, as well as time itself, are emergent properties of this fundamental principle. Newton's laws, the principle of Inertia, Einstein's postulates, and the inherent wave-particle duality of QM may be explained with this model. A FEW YEARS BACK A few years back, while surfing a towering wave on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, a beautiful thought occurred to me. Suppose the wave I was riding represented a coordinate in a dimension. Then although I was approaching shore, I was not moving in this dimension. The dimension itself was moving with me-I was surfing the dimension. In a flash I saw that that is why photons never age-they are moving along with the fourth dimension, and thus stationary relative to it. In another flash I saw that that is why a photon's space-time interval is represented by a null vector, or a 0, no matter how far it travels. Indeed Einstein stated that an object's velocity through space-time was always c-even stationary objects are traveling at the velocity c through time! How could this be, were it not for a fourth expanding dimension, which matter could surf as photons, giving rise to our notion of time? And so it is that Moving Dimensions Theory was born as the wave crested and crashed about me, thundering on down, as I fought to remain surfing amidst the foam, facin