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Unified Reality Theory
Unus mundus, Latin for “one world”, is the concept of an underlying unified reality from which everything emerges and to which everything returns. There is an inclination for one to try and tie everything together. I have mentioned Jim Gates and used him as an example. In the quote above, this may have been Jung’s…
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Visualizations are Important
Figure 1: Artist’s conception of AdS/CFT. The evolution of the proton at differentlength scales is mapped into the compact AdS5 dimension z. Dirichlet bag-like boundarycondition, (z)jz=z0 = 0, is imposed at the confinement radius z = z0 = 1= QCD,thus limiting interquark separations. String theorists describe the physics of black holes in five-dimensional…
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A Deeper Search for Building Blocks of Nature
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory The strange properties of superconducting materials called “cuprates” (bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide is shown here), which cannot be described by known quantum mechanical methods, may correspond to properties of black holes in higher dimensions. According to modern quantum theory, energy fields permeate the universe, and flurries of energy in…
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Illusions of Grandeur?
Illusions of Gravity Three spatial dimensions are visible all around us–up/down, left/right, forward/backward. Add time to the mix, and the result is a four-dimensional blending of space and time known as spacetime. Thus, we live in a four-dimensional universe. Or do we? Amazingly, some new theories of physics predict that one of the three dimensions…
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A Holograpical Universe
Plato likened our view of the world to that of an ancient forebear watching shadows meander across a dimly lit cave wall. He imagined our perceptions to be but a faint inkling of a far richer reality that flickers beyond reach. Two millennia later, Plato’s cave may be more than a metaphor. To turn his…
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A Conformal Field Theory Approach?
Using the anti–de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence to relate fermionic quantum critical fields to a gravitational problem, we computed the spectral functions of fermions in the field theory. By increasing the fermion density away from the relativistic quantum critical point, a state emerges with all the features of the Fermi liquid. See:String Theory, Quantum Phase…
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Blackhole Information Paradox
What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?Robert Dicke John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he tried to achieve Einstein’s vision of a unified field theory. He is also known as the coiner of the popular…
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What is Happening at the Singularity?
WEll, some of the commentors like myself are not worth counting?:)Thanks for keeping it interesting Clifford of Asymptotia. I hope you won’t mind the following quotes for consideration.( it was considered spam) so I reprint it here. Quantum geometry differs in substantial ways from the classical geometry underlying general relativity. For instance, topology change (the…
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The Gravity People of our History
What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?Robert Dicke John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he tried to achieve Einstein’s vision of a unified field theory. He is also known as the coiner of the popular…
