@PhysInHistory The laws of physics don’t fail at all at a singularity if properly conceived. Quantized Newtonian gravity clearly shows that matter becomes gravitationally inert before a singularity develops.
@SimonKaggwaNjal Julius Caesar had this to say on the subject: "I assure you, I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome."
@PhysInHistory No concept more misunderstood than time dilation. And the reason for that is it arises from discrete motion but we try to understand it via a continuous motion paradigm.
@kenkenlewu The system enables this cruelty: a mild legal system and a passive citizenry. In my country, the killer would have been beaten to death or set on fire before the police arrived. Obviously, the menfolk are failing Western societies with their misconceived notions of civilization.
Ha. How about this then:
Jared Kushner: $6 billion in Gulf money. Roughly $90 million a year in fees. A protected island in Albania. All while negotiating a war for the United States.
Me: I sold paintings. About $225,000 a year. The whole of my business while my father was President. Congress investigated it.
If that set your hair on fire, where is all your outrage now?
#physics Newton, through his rotating bucket experiment, came closer to discovering quantum gravity than Einstein did with General Relativity. He faced only one problem: the atomic theory and thermodynamic theory required to illuminate the connection of his experiment to quantum gravity had not yet been developed. Contemporary physicists have no such excuse: we have full access to atomic and thermodynamic theories but lack the competence of Newton in natural philosophy. So, we haven't been able to move the analysis of the bucket experiment beyond where Newton left it in the Principia. What is lacking is a microscopic analysis of that experiment. Such an analysis reveals that when a body is at rest, its constituent particles are in random motion while when it is in motion those particles are in coherent motion. This implies that to set a body in motion, there must must be a reduction in entropy in that body. This is possible only if such a reduction in entropy is offset by an increase in entropy elsewhere in a system of which the body is part. This introduces the idea of a hypothetical field in the mechanics of matter -- we call it the Machian mass field because it's implied by the Machian concept of inertia. From this point to quantum gravity is a day's work if you truly understand physics. By comparison, approaching quantum gravity via the spacetime deadend is at least 100 years so far. But deadenders go deadending because deadends do lead to nice places for a while until they lead nowhere beyond some point.
#physics ...6 Newton, through his rotating bucket experiment, came closer to discovering quantum gravity than Einstein did with General Relativity. He faced only one problem: the atomic theory and thermodynamic theory required to illuminate the connection of his experiment to quantum gravity had not yet been developed. Contemporary physicists have no such excuse: we have full access to atomic and thermodynamic theories but lack the competence of Newton in natural philosophy. So, we haven't been able to move the analysis of the bucket experiment beyond where Newton left it in the Principia. What is lacking is a microscopic analysis of that experiment. Such an analysis reveals that when a body is at rest, its constituent particles are in random motion while when it is in motion those particles are in coherent motion. This implies that to set a body in motion, there must must be a reduction in entropy in that body. This is possible only if such a reduction in entropy is offset by an increase in entropy elsewhere in a system of which the body is part. This introduces the idea of a hypothetical field in the mechanics of matter -- we call it the Machian mass field because it's implied by the Machian concept of inertia. From this point to quantum gravity is a day's work if you truly understand physics. By comparison, approaching quantum gravity via the spacetime deadend is at least 100 years so far. But deadenders go deadending because deadends do lead to nice places for a while until they lead nowhere beyond some point.
#physics Newton, through his rotating bucket experiment, came closer to discovering quantum gravity than Einstein did with General Relativity. He faced only one problem: the atomic theory and thermodynamic theory required to illuminate the connection of his experiment to quantum gravity had not yet been developed. Contemporary physicists have no such excuse: we have full access to atomic and thermodynamic theories but lack the competence of Newton in natural philosophy. So, we haven't been able to move the analysis of the bucket experiment beyond where Newton left it in the Principia. What is lacking is a microscopic analysis of that experiment. Such an analysis reveals that when a body is at rest, its constituent particles are in random motion while when it is in motion those particles are in coherent motion. This implies that to set a body in motion, there must must be a reduction in entropy in that body. This is possible only if such a reduction in entropy is offset by an increase in entropy elsewhere in a system of which the body is part. This introduces the idea of a hypothetical field in the mechanics of matter -- we call it the Machian mass field because it's implied by the Machian concept of inertia. From this point to quantum gravity is a day's work if you truly understand physics. By comparison, approaching quantum gravity via the spacetime deadend is at least 100 years so far. But deadenders go deadending because deadends do lead to nice places for a while until they lead nowhere beyond some point.
It's for the same reason that there has been paralysis in fundamental physics for over 50 years: contrary to a pervasive belief, competence in maths does not automatically translate to competence in physics, for physics unlike maths must always be tethered to reality. E.g. 26 dimensions may seem reasonable in maths, but in physics it's pure nonsense.
Newton, through his rotating bucket experiment, came closer to discovering quantum gravity than Einstein did with General Relativity. He faced only one problem: the atomic theory and thermodynamic theory required to illuminate the connection of his experiment to quantum gravity had not yet been developed.