Potential Grand Unifying Theory of Physics has been released, key takeaways in comments
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For non science folks, the paper seeks to create a simplified equation, which
At that point my brain fried. If (and it is a big if) this equation is true, the sciences of Physics and chemistry at minimum will be undergoing a paradigm shift similar to this time 100 years ago. It will revolutionise the understanding we hold of reality.
It will change basically all the things with the standard model (which tbf is now badly broken), and make the field of geometry at least to a degree integral to our understanding of the universe. It also means that quantum mechanics (which aligns for me to how God does anything anywhere and everywhere) is most definitely usable to describe the macro as well as the micro.
Excellent. Thanks for the summary. I knew the Standard Model (and therefore string theory and quantum field theory) had serious problems and was all "broken".
The integration of geometry into the mix is surprising... very mind-bending stuff. Variable mass, relative to its position in spacetime, decreasing as the Universe expands. Variable MASS???
I wonder how any of this can be verified experimentally...
Edit: very interesting coincidence with the release of the MH370 story, which shows the flight being "orb-ed" to some other location
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79R77zt6JkU&t=1547s
The technology shown requires the unification of quantum theory and the theory of relativity... where the very small affects the very large, etc.
Thanks u/Lupinate for linking the article itself and not the puffy sci-fi blurbs now being written about it!
The abstract is very promising! The authors have the right way to go and may have hit upon the right math too. It passed peer review at least, though that doesn't mean much.
Quick skim shows that it's not that deep, which means some results might be less significant, but it might well have enough staying power to build upon. I like e.g. the "fine-structure variable". However, I gather that their explanation of the JWST rapidly formed galaxies is via entangling them with later galaxies, which would be the wrong path if I'm reading that intent; so that's a yellow flag. Will need to do a deep dive with it some other time.
What happens next is that the paper's attempt to describe a handful of (about 18) effects in a different way from the Standard Model will be met by a hundred attempts to state effects that are allegedly not explained. This war will be popcorn-worthy.