String Query: Physicists Prove to Be of Many Minds about a Unified Theory of the Universe

Is there a theory of everything? If so, is it possible to verify via experimentation? These and other questions energized a panel of physicists and their audience at this year's Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History















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NEW YORK CITY—Amid a panel discussion about string theory and other candidates for the theory of everything—the long-sought system that would unify the four forces of physics—Brian Greene said something that sounded a bit curious. "If you asked me, 'Do I believe in string theory?'" began Greene, one of string theory's most famous proponents. "My answer today would be the same as it was 10 years ago: No."

Greene, a Columbia University physicist and author of the new book The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Knopf, 2011), explained that he only believes ideas that make testable predictions—an area where string theory has fallen short. But that does not mean string theory is without value, Greene was quick to point out. "Do I believe that string theory is one of the best approaches we have [for unifying physics]?" he continued. "I do." He noted the "enormous progress" in string theory in the past decade or so and its continued promise in unifying quantum mechanics and gravity, which are independently well understood and rigorously tested but refuse to mesh cleanly.

The occasion was the March 7 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, an annual event that covers a different topic each year. This year's debate, about theories of everything, was meandering and a bit abstract—for instance, it was not until the post-debate Q&A that Greene actually gave a brief description of what string theory is.

Abstraction is perhaps par for the course when a group of theorists assemble on stage. ("I'm a particle astrophysicist, and I'm not used to being the pragmatist of the group," joked Katherine Freese of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.) But the subject of experimental evidence did arise several times.

Extra dimensions of space, for instance, which are predicted in many forms of string theory (a variant called M theory requires 10 spatial dimensions rather than the familiar three), could be accessible at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), said Barnard College physicist Janna Levin. In the LHC's unprecedentedly high-energy experiments, some products of particle collisions could go missing, having vanished into those extra dimensions.

Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics noted that some forms of quantum gravity predict certain asymmetries—one direction of polarization might be favored over another—that could be imprinted in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), a faint echo of radiation from the early universe. And, if the signature is there, the new European Planck satellite could see it. "If it's there, it could knock our socks off," Smolin said.

Greene noted that string theory, if correct, could have left a similar detectable imprint on the CMB, although it appears unlikely. "I'm excited by this possibility, but I do consider it a long shot," he said.

But compared with the complexity of the real world, experiments are always somewhat crude. What if, having settled on an experimentally verified theory of everything, a better experiment comes along that throws a spanner in the works? That is the worry of Marcelo Gleiser of Dartmouth College. "What bothers me is saying that is the answer, that is the theory of everything," Gleiser said. "For me physics is a work in progress, a narrative. You make your knowledge grow, like an island, but then the shores of ignorance increase."



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  1. 1. Bruce Voigt 05:28 PM 3/9/11

    Experiment:
    On a bar magnet, at center place a small (approx ¼ in) ball bearing. You will notice that it just barely sticks. Give it a nudge towards either end (pole). It will zoom to the end and will be much harder to remove. This will indicate that the magnets power is at the poles.

    “This will indicate that the magnets power is at the poles”.—This Statement Could Not be Farther from the Truth.

    Power (energy) at the poles is so minute in comparison to the power of the nucleus. Forces of Equal Evolution act upon Forces of Equal Evolution and through reverse evolution each dividing cell (because of nuclei high orbit speed) is smaller than the last. These “many” small cells having the same energy at a nucleus do not interact with matter. This is why it is calm in the eye of a tornado, the cell of a cumulonimbus cloud and my science adding black hole or the nucleus of any cell!

    Would it not be nice to understand new true science of why and how things are attracted and stick to each other, really simple STUPH! (not complicated at all)

    Explaining why the quark, molecule, cell, atom, magnetism etc attract and repel would soon have eyes glazing over. I will make it real simple for you to understand why bread crumbs don't stick to the plate yet toast crumbs and egg do, why snow flakes and rain drops are separated.

    OK this is what you do. Sit your-self down in front of the six o'clock news and take note of the weather report. Animation shows the high pressure area (clockwise) and close by will be a low pressure (counter clock wise). If you look carefully its easy to see the forces of the low melding into the forces of the high (attracting). Looking closer, take note that the forces of the high and low merge into a figure 8 and thats how every natural thing having multiple orbits is held together. Look for two highs or two lows and you can see where the forces are running into each other (repelling).

    Take this to the smallness of the quark or the hugeness of the heavens and Bobs your uncle!
    cbc.ca bruce voigt

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  2. 2. zeepsponsbakkes 05:50 PM 3/9/11

    physics is looking for something, everything seems to be the answer but really physics was just looking ^^
    I don't want to know everything, i want to know more!

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  3. 3. johnpaily 08:19 PM 3/9/11

    A sensible unified theory or Reality of Nature will not emerge unless we review the foundation of science and change the very foundation of our thinking Einstein said "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”. Much of the modern developments in science is stressing us to change the very vision of nature. Instead of trying to understand nature as material if we visualize universe as living entity, all the developments in science can be fit in sensibly, not only to bring us unified theory, but advance our knowledge of nature to survive on earth. By our fragmented thinking we have made nature complex and beyond the comprehension of common man. We need to discover the simplicity behind the complexity and awaken to Truth- Further reading and exploration of truth of nature - http://www.scribd.com/doc/50194149

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  4. 4. rloldershaw 09:49 PM 3/9/11

    Here is a brief, and I hope interesting, update on my efforts to convince the physics community that nature has an infinite discrete fractal structure.

    I am excited by the prospect of learning new physics from the LHC results. But I suspect it will be what we don't see that will have the major impact on current physics.

    Understanding high-energy interactions is certainly important, but is it not much more important to understand low energy phenomena, like the masses of the stable particles? After all they are the foundation of all matter.

    Therefore, consider this somewhat unorthodox approach to explaining the masses of the proton, electron and neutron for, to my knowledge, the first time.

    Planck mass = (h-bar c / G')^1/2 = 675.5 MeV

    Einstein mass (newly defined) = (alpha^2 e^2 / G')^1/2 = 0.42113 MeV.

    Proton mass ~ (sqrt 2)(Planck mass)~ 955 MeV

    Electron mass ~ (sqrt 3/2)(Einstein mass) ~ 0.5158 MeV

    Neutron mass ~ Proton mass + 3(Einstein mass)

    When a more complete Kerr metric [GR] or Kerr-Newman [GR+EM] analysis is done, the above retrodictions are:

    M(p) = 942 MeV (99.5% relative agreement)
    M(e) = 0.5158 MeV (99.1% relative agreement)
    M(n) = 939.5355 MeV (99.9967% relative agreement)

    What the heck is G', you ask? It is the gravitational constant that Discrete Scale Relativity predicts for the interior of bound atomic scale systems.

    G' = 2.18 × 10^31 cgs units

    Perhaps it is not so unreasonable to seriously consider a discrete fractal model of nature that can:

    Retrodict the p, e and n masses, as well as 8 other baryons at the 99.6% level.
    Explain the fine structure constant.
    Explain h-bar.
    Explain why the conventional Planck mass makes no sense.
    Resolve the vacuum energy density crisis.
    Identify the unique path to a reconciliation of GR and QM.
    Explain how gravitation works in the microcosm.

    See http://www3.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw
    Or papers at www.arxiv.org/a/oldershaw_r_1
    Or search on "Discrete Scale Relativity".

    Best, RLO

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  5. 5. TAWilliams01 12:24 PM 3/10/11

    The advancements of everything made - thought are within the limits of our mind's understanding ~ an evolving process point where we're at ... until then, certainty of conclusions are on "pend" until a new structure of looking for solutions are incorporated ...

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  6. 6. Ronald Patrick Marriott 02:40 PM 3/10/11

    The Antimatter annihilation will be the proof that antimatter is going dimensional and not annihilating its self. I have discovered antimatter from lightning, it leaves and returns under certain perturbations. The dimensional world can be found this way. Following Mantles will give us the answers. Relativistic Perturbation Mantle

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  7. 7. Andira 04:52 PM 3/10/11

    I sympathize with the final lines. "What bothers me is saying that is the answer, that is the theory of everything," Gleiser said. "For me physics is a work in progress, a narrative. You make your knowledge grow, like an island, but then the shores of ignorance increase." Brilliant metaphor. It is obvious that the whole idea of final theory about everything is logically absurd. No theory can explain itself, and the final theory would have to do just that. (The main outline of this has been proven formally by Tarski, Gödel, Turing and more.) But if some philosophically minded scientists need to believe in this pipe dream to motivate their strivings, it is, I guess, psychologically OK. We all need motivation, and the typically human one is to strive for the impossible.

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  8. 8. steavis 05:53 PM 3/10/11

    Einstein believed that the cosmos was fully deterministic at all scales. But the fuzzy quasi-randomness that seems to appear at the very small scale has led physicists to the outlandish idea of a multi-verse in which everything that CAN HAPPEN - DOES HAPPEN in infinitely bifurcating timelines.
    Briane Greene has correctly pointed out that even without assuming multiple dimensions you arrive at the same result by imagining an INFINITE universe of our known three dimensions such that if you were able to travel far enough out eventually you would run smack dab into your doppelganger on a perfectly duplicated earth with a perfectly parallel history to our own (at least to the point of your arrival). Th difficulty with all this is the idea of INFINITY. As Victor Stenger wrote in his wonderful book "The Comprehensible Cosmos", Infinity is a mathematical term we use to represent numbers that are too large to compute. We are taking infinity too seriously. I think Roger Penrose would agree. The universe is large - too large to represent mathematically. And it is also small, again too small for mathematics. Perhaps infinity exists only in the continual reconstitution of the energy of a universe constantly in motion - infinite posibilities from finite energy. But an infinity of possibilities in this sense does not imply all possibilities inevitably reaching fruition. For me this is some kind of cosmic tautology.

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  9. 9. jack.123 06:25 PM 3/10/11

    I have said it before and I will say it again,untill we define what space-time really is we won't have an answer about TOE.

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  10. 10. bewertow in reply to Bruce Voigt 09:12 PM 3/10/11

    What you said makes absolutely no sense. You are talking nonsense.

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  11. 11. quatra 09:51 PM 3/10/11

    Eh, if we can't be sure that the world we perceive an angstrom away is the real one, what are we pretending to "know" about the world 1 inch away let alone light years away? Pretentious? Oh yeah...

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  12. 12. kantinomus 10:19 PM 3/10/11

    “The fact is that a global theory (a unified theory of a global physical reality), which is actually the original desire and unattainable cardinal (sic!) of scientific knowledge, it will not be an experimental science in the traditional sense, since its object could not be experienced in the same way, but it will be, inevitably, a transcendental science – ie a Metaphysics (Transcendental Logic), in Kant's sense. (…)
    In other words, the fate of a global physics is to be a purely transcendental (axiomatic) theory, and it not being able to ever get confirmation directly but only indirectly by its practical consequences, deductible, also, a priori, along with experiments and instruments that could put them out.”
    Quote from Marcel Chelba: Critical Introduction (On the Possibility of Metaphysics as a science in light of Kant's critical philosophy), Ed. Crates, Resita (Romania), 2004. (Not yet translated into English.)
    This book is just a research on the theme proposed by this article, in fact, a broader investigation on the paradigm of knowledge in modern science, but unfortunately I can not find a translator.

    Marcel Chelba

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  13. 13. brodix 10:51 PM 3/10/11

    The ultimate theory of everything:

    Stuff Happens.

    Noun/verb. Being/doing.

    That's the problem with a theory of everything. It's reductionistic, but reality is wholistic.

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  14. 14. Wilhelmus de Wilde 05:59 AM 3/11/11

    We are conscious of the fact that is a "EVERYTHING", being conscious of something does not mean that one of our five senses are involved, science needs experiments and is in fact a causal knowledge (like "everything" in our 4-d universe, with its arrow of time), asking HOW verything is happening but has to reseach ONE thing , then another and so on, so to explain everything can in fact take an infinite time, which is in our 4-d universe a snake biting his own tail. How will you ask

    As I mentioned already our consciousness is the only "tool" we have to deal with infinities, our universe has limits, the limits of the Planck scale at one side , the velocity of light at the other side. When we "observe" a light beam originated 380.000 years after the "birth" of our Universe, this photon which has an entangled photon over there, is by our observation becoming baryonic (the only stuff we can observe) like his counterpart !!! So in fact we created ourselves our Universe.

    This is then the third limite of our Universe.

    I am now going back to the Planck scale and assume that after that scale where there are no more laws of our dimensions appliquable, we in fact enter a fifth dimension (like M theory adds there 10 enrolled dimensions) this quintessence is a non causal non deterministic dimension where all time/place quanta of all the possible universes are simultaneity present, I call it Total Simultaneity (T.S.): (http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/913)
    every "quantum" of time/place has the same value, like memories in your brain form a chronoly when you active thinking begins, like that forming lines in T.S. is forming realities (UIVERSES).

    Is this a theory of everything, scientificly spoken not, because cannot experiment (yet) with or in T.S. but in fact it is just way of thinking , in our 4-d universe we will always stay for the search for proof, but our consciousness still thinks to know something of the truth, like the religions.

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  15. 15. Thim 06:10 AM 3/11/11

    A unified theory ("theory of everything") can be successful only if one is unifying correct theories.
    If one of them is wrong (relativity theory is wrong)
    the unification process cannot work.
    Hartwig Thim

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  16. 16. Thim in reply to bewertow 06:14 AM 3/11/11

    Jack.123 is right. Space time (defined by relativity
    theory) cannot be combined with other (correct)theories.
    That process must fail.
    Hartwig Thim

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  17. 17. kenkoskinen 12:10 PM 3/11/11

    We don't yet have the technology to experimentally confirm or falsify any contending TOE. This is especially so because string theories, now thought to be leader in the chase, require detections below what we can currently detect.

    However, we do have the ability to test models on known detections. It's not ideal but if any model goes against such detections needs modification, deletion or re-making. In this manner we can still inch towards the TOE.

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  18. 18. kenkoskinen in reply to Thim 12:21 PM 3/11/11

    Thim I think you're right. However if we can drill beneath both theories to the bedrock we might be able to see why on upper levels both make sense. I'm referring to what is sometimes referred to as preon theory. The idea is that quantum particles aren't really fundamental. They consist of preons and these particles are the building blocks of everything in our universe.

    I know you want detections and so do I, but it's beyond today's technology. However we might be able to model preon theory in such a way that it produces a TOE. If so ... it's a step forwards. It would have to avoid the direct clash between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity by boring underground to find the preon connection.

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  19. 19. quatra 06:32 PM 3/12/11

    Yes there will be as soon as scientists accept the theory of infinite scales. E.g. smaller than humans, larger than humans, the universe, a quadrillionth of a nanometer, a quadrillion times the size of our observable universe, etc. They can't do that. By design we are too constricted in our imagination.

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  20. 20. kanjirob 10:54 AM 3/13/11

    Is there a dimension without time and space?

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  21. 21. bewertow in reply to Thim 03:56 PM 3/13/11

    Please prove that Relativity is wrong then I will believe you (and you might get a Nobel prize!). For now, your words are absolutely meaningless.

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  22. 22. kenkoskinen in reply to jack.123 08:49 AM 3/14/11

    Yes ... I couldn't agree with you any more! After all space/time is the envelope within which the forces and matter particles interact. Historically the search for unification centered on how to unify General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics. This challenge is referred to as the problem of quantum gravity, and one which hasn't yet been done. It includes questions about how to unify all of the Standard Model forces. Where did the constants of nature i.e. the value of forces and masses of SM particles get their values? What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy? Is there a common and underlying element that unifies SM particles. There are other questions but the nature of space/time is also a significant challenge. If you don't know what it is the TOE will remain out of reach.

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  23. 23. kenkoskinen in reply to Thim 08:56 AM 3/14/11

    Thim, it would be interesting if you would elaborate on what you mean that relativity is wrong. I assume you mean General Relativity? Okay ... what's wrong and is there a fix?

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  24. 24. Wilhelmus de Wilde 12:25 PM 3/15/11

    Our universe has limits as I explained before.
    One of these limits is the Planck scale in time and space.
    The other limit is the velocity of light. (SR)
    The scale within this limits we call our UNIVERSE.
    This universe is scaled up also from the quantum scale to atomic scale to human scale to milky way scale to universal scale, should for all these scales the laws of physics be the same ? I don't think so, so a TOE is not a reality, you can have an overvieuw of all things, philosophically , that is why quantum physics and GR will never become a unit they talk about different scales with different limits.

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  25. 25. Thim 03:37 PM 3/17/11

    You are asking me to present experimental evidence for
    the invalidity of special relativity. No problem for me as I have published it already in 2003. The article has been printed in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentaion and Measurements, vol.52, No.5, October 2003, pp.1660-1664,
    title: Absence of the Relativistic Transverse Doppler Shift at Microwave Frequencies. The article can be down loaded in the Internet, search with Google for it.

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  26. 26. Thim in reply to kenkoskinen 03:44 PM 3/17/11

    Kenkoskinen:
    no, I have refuted special relativity by showing that the relativistic transverse Doppler shift which is a corollary of time dilation does not exist.
    And, Sciam has published in March 2009 that special relativity is not compatible with Quantum Mechanics
    (Alpert and Galchen article).

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  27. 27. kenkoskinen in reply to Thim 07:48 AM 3/18/11

    Thim, thanks for responding. I look forward to digging up and reading the SCIAM article you cited. Have you published anything on your thinking on SR? It would also be great to read it!

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  28. 28. Thim in reply to kenkoskinen 03:16 PM 3/18/11

    You could find many papers I have published under the homepage of NPA (Natural Philosophy Alliance):
    http://www.worldsci.org/php/ or let Google search under my name "Hartwig Thim".
    I could email pdf versions of my papers directly to you, my email address is listed in the NPA home page

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  29. 29. Thim in reply to Wilhelmus de Wilde 03:20 AM 3/20/11

    Wilhelmus,
    yes, I agree with your statement:
    "..why quantum physics and GR will never become a unit they talk about different scales with different limits."
    These two theories are contradicting each other, which makes unification impossible. No chance.
    Hartwig

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  30. 30. bewertow in reply to Thim 06:45 PM 3/21/11

    Thim, your paper is garbage. It has already been refuted by several researchers. You clearly don't understand Special Relativity as well as you thought. Here is a simple explanation of why you are absolutely wrong:

    http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath120/kmath120.htm

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  31. 31. Leonov 03:54 AM 3/25/11

    IS THERE A THEORY OF EVERYTHING?
    THE THEORY OF SUPERUNIFICATION WAS DEVELOPED IN RUSSIA

    Leonov V. S. Quantum Energetics. Volume 1. Theory of Superunification. Cambridge International Science Publishing, 2010, 745 pages.
    http://leonov.inauka.ru/

    At present, the Superunification theory is the most powerful analytical means of investigating matter. The theory combines the theory of relativity and quantum theory and represents a new stage in the development of quantum theory. It has been proven that the principle of relativity is the fundamental property of quantised space-time.
    The development of civilization determines fundamental scientific discoveries. The discovery 1996 of the quantum of space-time (quanton, diameter 10 degree minus -25 m) and of the superstrong electromagnetic interaction has been used as the basis for the development of the theory of Superunification of fundamental interactions: electromagnetism, gravity, nuclear and electroweak forces.
    The theory of Superunification shows that the superstrong electromagnetic interaction (SEI) is the sole energy source in the universe. It has been established that the quantised space-time, which possesses the colossal energy content, serves as the carrier of superstrong electromagnetic interaction. We live in the electromagnetic universe. All known forms of energy, including chemical, nuclear, gravitational, electromagnetic, etc, are only methods of extraction or conversion of united energy of SEI.
    The electromagnetic nature of gravity and antigravity and the electrical nature of nuclear forces have been confirmed. The structure of the basic elementary particles has been revealed: electron, positron, proton, neutron, electronic neutrino and photon. The elementary particles proved to be not only elementary and they have a complex structure being the indissoluble and component part of the quantised space-time.
    The dark matter is a small share of the latent matter of quantized space-time. The latent matter represents the energy of vacuum with concentration of the order of 10 degree 73 J/m3. It is gigantic value of concentration of energy. If we activate only one cubic meter of the quantised space-time, then the freed energy is sufficient for generating one additional material universe as a result of a Bing Bang large from the singular state.
    New fundamental discoveries have high applied value. The theory of Superunification opens the page of physics of open quantum-mechanical systems forming the basis of quantum energetics. The ability of quantum energetics to extract the energy of superstrong electromagnetic interaction through the new power cycles determines the development of power engineering, transport and communications in the 21st century. Quantum energetics is a more general concept in energetics, which includes both the new energetic cycles, and traditional ones, including nuclear energetics. The construction of quantum engines, heat-generators and reactors is discussed in the book. The successful tests of a quantum engine generating thrust without the ejection of reactive mass have been carried out (Leonov effect). A thrust of 500 N with the mass of the apparatus with the chassis being 50 kg was produced. New results have been obtained in the studies of the Usherenko effect, with the generation of excess energy as a result of cold synthesis. Preliminary experiments have been conducted with the generation of a longitudinal gravity wave in the quantised space-time.

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  32. 32. Leonov 04:01 AM 3/25/11

    IS THERE A THEORY OF EVERYTHING?
    THE THEORY OF SUPERUNIFICATION WAS DEVELOPED IN RUSSIA

    Leonov V. S. Quantum Energetics. Volume 1. Theory of Superunification. Cambridge International Science Publishing, 2010, 745 pages.
    http://leonov.inauka.ru/

    At present, the Superunification theory is the most powerful analytical means of investigating matter. The development of civilization determines fundamental scientific discoveries. The discovery of the quantum of space-time (quanton) and of the superstrong electromagnetic interaction has been used as the basis for the development of the theory of Superunification of fundamental interactions: electromagnetism, gravity, nuclear and electroweak forces.
    The theory of Superunification shows that the superstrong electromagnetic interaction (SEI) is the sole energy source in the universe. It has been established that the quantised space-time, which possesses the colossal energy content, serves as the carrier of superstrong electromagnetic interaction. We live in the electromagnetic universe. All known forms of energy, including chemical, nuclear, gravitational, electromagnetic, etc, are only methods of extraction or conversion of united energy of SEI.
    The electromagnetic nature of gravity and antigravity and the electrical nature of nuclear forces have been confirmed. The structure of the basic elementary particles has been revealed: electron, positron, proton, neutron, electronic neutrino and photon. The elementary particles proved to be not only elementary and they have a complex structure being the indissoluble and component part of the quantised space-time.
    New fundamental discoveries have high applied value. The theory of Superunification opens the page of physics of open quantum-mechanical systems forming the basis of quantum energetics. The ability of quantum energetics to extract the energy of superstrong electromagnetic interaction through the new power cycles determines the development of power engineering, transport and communications in the 21st century. The construction of quantum engines, heat-generators and reactors is discussed in the book. The successful tests of a quantum engine generating thrust without the ejection of reactive mass have been carried out (Leonov effect). A thrust of 500 N with the mass of the apparatus with the chassis being 50 kg was produced. New results have been obtained in the studies of the Usherenko effect, with the generation of excess energy as a result of cold synthesis.


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  33. 33. Leonov 04:07 AM 3/25/11

    IS THERE A THEORY OF EVERYTHING?
    THE THEORY OF SUPERUNIFICATION WAS DEVELOPED IN RUSSIA

    Leonov V. S. Quantum Energetics. Volume 1. Theory of Superunification. Cambridge International Science Publishing, 2010, 745 pages.
    http://leonov.inauka.ru/

    At present, the Superunification theory is the most powerful analytical means of investigating matter. The theory combines the theory of relativity and quantum theory and represents a new stage in the development of quantum theory. It has been proven that the principle of relativity is the fundamental property of quantised space-time.
    Quantum energetics is based on new fundamental discoveries of quantum of space-time (quanton) and super-strong electromagnetic interaction (SEI) made by Vladimir Leonov in 1996. On the basis of new fundamental discoveries the theory of Superunification of fundamental interactions of electromagnetism, gravitation, nuclear and electro-weak forces is completed. It is important that new fundamental discoveries have the widest practical application in the development of quantum energetics. It is discovered that the single source of energy in the Universe is the quanton in the structure of quantized space-time, which is the carrier of super-strong interaction (SEI). All known methods of energy generation (chemical and nuclear reactionsm etc.) are redued to the release and transformation of SEI energy. Quantum energetics is a more general concept in energetics, which includes both the new energetic cycles, and traditional ones, including nuclear energetics.

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  34. 34. Leonov 04:14 AM 3/25/11

    IS THERE A THEORY OF EVERYTHING?
    THE THEORY OF SUPERUNIFICATION WAS DEVELOPED IN RUSSIA

    Leonov V. S. Quantum Energetics. Volume 1. Theory of Superunification. Cambridge International Science Publishing, 2010, 745 pages.
    http://leonov.inauka.ru/

    At present, the Superunification theory is the most powerful analytical means of investigating matter. The theory combines the theory of relativity and quantum theory and represents a new stage in the development of quantum theory. It has been proven that the principle of relativity is the fundamental property of quantised space-time.
    The theory of Superunification is based on new fundamental discoveries of quantum of space-time (quanton) and super-strong electromagnetic interaction (SEI) made by Vladimir Leonov in 1996. On the basis of new fundamental discoveries the theory of Superunification of fundamental interactions of electromagnetism, gravitation, nuclear and electro-weak forces is completed.

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  35. 35. Leonov 09:02 AM 3/25/11


    IS THERE A THEORY OF EVERYTHING?
    THE THEORY OF SUPERUNIFICATION WAS DEVELOPED IN RUSSIA

    Leonov V. S. Quantum Energetics. Volume 1. Theory of Superunification. Cambridge International Science Publishing, 2010, 745 pages.
    http://leonov.inauka.ru/

    At present, the Superunification theory is the most powerful analytical means of investigating matter. The theory combines the theory of relativity and quantum theory and represents a new stage in the development of quantum theory. It has been proven that the principle of relativity is the fundamental property of quantised space-time.
    The development of civilization determines fundamental scientific discoveries. The discovery 1996 of the quantum of space-time (quanton, diameter 10 degree minus -25 m) and of the superstrong electromagnetic interaction has been used as the basis for the development of the theory of Superunification of fundamental interactions: electromagnetism, gravity, nuclear and electroweak forces.
    The theory of Superunification shows that the superstrong electromagnetic interaction (SEI) is the sole energy source in the universe. It has been established that the quantised space-time, which possesses the colossal energy content, serves as the carrier of superstrong electromagnetic interaction. We live in the electromagnetic universe. All known forms of energy, including chemical, nuclear, gravitational, electromagnetic, etc, are only methods of extraction or conversion of united energy of SEI.
    The electromagnetic nature of gravity and antigravity and the electrical nature of nuclear forces have been confirmed. The structure of the basic elementary particles has been revealed: electron, positron, proton, neutron, electronic neutrino and photon. The elementary particles proved to be not only elementary and they have a complex structure being the indissoluble and component part of the quantised space-time.
    The dark matter is a small share of the latent matter of quantized space-time. The latent matter represents the energy of vacuum with concentration of the order of 10 degree 73 J/m3. It is gigantic value of concentration of energy. If we activate only one cubic meter of the quantised space-time, then the freed energy is sufficient for generating one additional material universe as a result of a Bing Bang large from the singular state.

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  36. 36. Leonov 09:07 AM 3/25/11

    IS THERE A THEORY OF EVERYTHING?
    THE THEORY OF SUPERUNIFICATION WAS DEVELOPED IN RUSSIA

    Leonov V. S. Quantum Energetics. Volume 1. Theory of Superunification. Cambridge International Science Publishing, 2010, 745 pages.
    http://leonov.inauka.ru/

    At present, the Superunification theory is the most powerful analytical means of investigating matter. The theory combines the theory of relativity and quantum theory and represents a new stage in the development of quantum theory. It has been proven that the principle of relativity is the fundamental property of quantised space-time.
    The theory of Superunification is based on new fundamental discoveries of quantum of space-time (quanton) and super-strong electromagnetic interaction (SEI) made by Vladimir Leonov in 1996. On the basis of new fundamental discoveries the theory of Superunification of fundamental interactions of electromagnetism, gravitation, nuclear and electro-weak forces is completed.

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  37. 37. Thim in reply to bewertow 01:54 PM 3/26/11

    Thim, your paper is garbage. It has already beem refuted

    bewertow: you are talking garbage. My experiment carried out at 33GHz has refuted special relativity.
    Explain your "refuted" What has been refuted? AQre you able to understand it? I doubt it.
    Hartwig Thim

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  38. 38. Thim in reply to bewertow 01:58 PM 3/26/11

    bewertow,

    explain it, if you can. My 33GHz Experiment has refuted special relativity, and IEEE has printed my article.
    IEEE vs bewertow, is the game, bewertow will lose it.
    Hartwig Thim

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