Why is there anytthing at all? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, September 09, 2008, 02:27 (5918 days ago) @ Carl


> I too wish the Texas collider had been built. We would have been much further along than we are now. The possible result from the LHC that puzzles me the most is the possibility of more dimensions. I cannot conceive how that would be manifest, or what type of calculations would be involved. - String theory has become such a dead end that the scientists who have a vested interest in it (grants!) are bringing up any possibility of reviving it. Two books: "The Trouble With Physics", by Lee Smolin, 2006 and "Not Even Wrong", by Peter Woit, 2006 make it quite clear that 25 years of advanced math research, looking for a unified theory by string/membrane theory with 10-11 dimensions, is a dead end. It allows for multiple solutions or universes, and is currently untestable, in part because there is nothing to test. It is all higher math theorizing without any physical evidence. It has been attractive becasue it 'seems' to bring together classical and quantum physics.