Slashdot Mirror
New Theory of Gravity Decouples Space & Time
eldavojohn writes "Petr Horava, a physicist at the University of California in Berkeley, has a new theory about gravity and spacetime. At high energies, it actually snips any ties between space and time, yet at low energies devolves to equivalence with the theory of General Relativity, which binds them together. The theory is gaining popularity with physicists because it fits some observations better than Einstein's or Newton's solutions. It better predicts the movement of the planets (in an idealized case) and has a potential to create the illusion of dark matter. Another physicist calculated that under Horava Gravity, our universe would experience not a Big Bang but a Big Bounce — and the new theory reproduces the ripples from such an event in a way that matches measurements of the cosmic microwave background."
They are all scrambling for new theories on how to get research money now that string theory is loosing momentum. What Brian Greene has been up to lately?
Ow! My brain hurts.
Well, then, it will have to come out.
.
.
.
My brain hurts too...
Free Martian Whores!
No. Jesus is thinking inside the box. It's just another box, labeled "Christian religion".
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Actually I had a bunch of big bands and herded them into a nightclub.
Damned keyboard...
Free Martian Whores!