Cosmology: Black hole confusion (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 14:51 (4120 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Sums up the current situation very neatly. You wonder what scientists will be telling us a hundred years from now. On the other hand - for we agnostics always have another hand - I can only admire people like Ruth who continue to grapple with these seemingly insoluble mysteries. Human perseverance is a wonderful thing.-It seems to me agnostics have three or four hands. The article demonstrates that a melding of classical Einstein and quantum theory is as far away as ever. A grand unified theory (GUT) appears to me to be impossible if the degree of separation described in Ruth's theory, requiring formal transactions, is correct. String theory seems dead in its tracks.