The arrival at a Grand Unified Theory (GUT) has been a pursuit for a large number of scientists throughout the later years of the development of science. It has remained a matter of passion particularly for physicists. It was believed as a last pursuit of Einstein that evaded him even in his deathbed. Recently I was reading a book by Eric D Beinhocker titled `The Origin of Wealth’. The book aims at introducing and expounding the view of economics as an `evolutionary’ rather than `equilibrium pointing’ mechanism. Anyways be that as it may, the book is particularly critical of traditional economists choice of assumptions far removed from actually existing conditions in the economy. Economists in their rigour to attune economics made assumptions a la the scientific process of postulating on the basis of assumptions.
It is the nature of these assumptions that will form the core of the argument of my piece today. Assumptions have been an inexcusable part of the scientific process since the advent of modern science in the late renaissance period. Often these assumptions are very skilfully arrived at and their utility in solving a majority of scientific questions is beyond argument. Every student of science knows from proving his Bernoulli’s theorems and Gas laws how necessary such assumptions are. It is not these assumptions mind you that I see as a cause for our incapability to reach a GUT. It is rather the scale of the assumptions that I feel is the underlying cause of our failure. Science in its broad sweep covers matters as varied as that pertaining to the charm and colour* of the quark to the speed at which galaxies move away from each other. Scientist have reliably arrived at conclusions regarding such parts of nature as varied in terms of magnitude as quarks and galaxies based on assumptions that vary in their order of magnitude accordingly. The order of magnitude of these assumptions in their variance forms a basic dissymmetry that prevents the unification of scientific theories. This is because these assumptions are generally outside the set of the experiment and are not explained by the conclusions regarding the experiment.
Thus I believe that it is only by ensuring a minimum set of assumptions that we can work towards a unified theory. Thus minimum set should be well defined and capable of being the basis of all our scientific endeavours. Such a set would probably originate at a microcosmic level. It would of course call for a reworking of quite a few of our explanations for macro cosmic phenomenon on a rigorously mathematical basis involving umpteen numbers of calculations. This would require computing power far beyond tens of magnitudes of what we have in supercomputers today.
Hence I believe that in the present scenario we should be satisfied with what we have in terms of macro and micro theories based on assumptions with the corresponding scale and forego the quest for a GUT.
* This colour is not our traditional pigment but rather a term that scientist use for a particular trait of the quark
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
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Dude, the bujiness of NITC is increasing every year!!! GUT....god!
Touche.
Achievement of the grand unified theory is a timely topic. Research progress depends on the data density of the atomic topological function used to analyze the structural details of electrons, waves, energy, and force fields. Recent advancements in quantum science have produced the picoyoctometric, 3D, interactive video atomic model imaging function, in terms of chronons and spacons for exact, quantized, relativistic animation. This format returns clear numerical data for a full spectrum of variables. The atom's RQT (relative quantum topological) data point imaging function is built by combination of the relativistic Einstein-Lorenz transform functions for time, mass, and energy with the workon quantized electromagnetic wave equations for frequency and wavelength.
The atom labeled psi (Z) pulsates at the frequency {Nhu=e/h} by cycles of {e=m(c^2)} transformation of nuclear surface mass to forcons with joule values, followed by nuclear force absorption. This radiation process is limited only by spacetime boundaries of {Gravity-Time}, where gravity is the force binding space to psi, forming the GT integral atomic wavefunction. The expression is defined as the series expansion differential of nuclear output rates with quantum symmetry numbers assigned along the progression to give topology to the solutions.
Next, the correlation function for the manifold of internal heat capacity energy particle 3D functions is extracted by rearranging the total internal momentum function to the photon gain rule and integrating it for GT limits. This produces a series of 26 topological waveparticle functions of the five classes; {+Positron, Workon, Thermon, -Electromagneton, Magnemedon}, each the 3D data image of a type of energy intermedon of the 5/2 kT J internal energy cloud, accounting for all of them.
Those 26 energy data values intersect the sizes of the fundamental physical constants: h, h-bar, delta, nuclear magneton, beta magneton, k (series). They quantize atomic dynamics by acting as fulcrum particles. The result is the exact picoyoctometric, 3D, interactive video atomic model data point imaging function, responsive to software application keyboard input of virtual photon gain events by relativistic, quantized shifts of electron, force, and energy field states and positions. This system also gives a new equation for the magnetic flux variable B, which appears as a waveparticle of changeable frequency. Molecular modeling and chip design engineering application software developer features for programming flow are built-in.
Images of the h-bar magnetic energy waveparticle of ~175 picoyoctometers are available online at http://www.symmecon.com with the complete RQT atomic modeling manual titled The Crystalon Door, copyright TXu1-266-788. TCD conforms to the unopposed motion of disclosure in U.S. District (NM) Court of 04/02/2001 titled The Solution to the Equation of Schrodinger.
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