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Old June 23rd 13, 08:51 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default Possibilities for Quantum Theory of Gravity (New Scientist Magazine)

This is pure junk that has hindered the development of interpretation of observational astronomy for centuries,it may entertain a few mathematicians who live in their imaginations but this is in no way the result of higher reasoning but the end of it.A historical contemporary of the rise of the vicious strain of empiricism noted it -

"These are the imaginings of incomplete- notions-philosophers who make space an absolute reality. Such notions are apt to be fudged up by devotees of pure mathematics, whose whole subject- matter is the playthings of imagination, but they are destroyed by higher reasoning" Leibniz

The higher reasoning of which Leibniz spoke does not run out of questions nor answers,once an individual finds a growing satisfaction in investigating the cause and effects between planetary dynamics and terrestrial effects,the empirical script falls by the wayside and the genuine astronomers who have had their works temporarily obscured by mathematical voodoowill reappear once more in a world that badly needs it.




On Sunday, June 23, 2013 4:57:23 AM UTC+1, Davoud wrote:
Ben:

There are some intriguing and attractive ideas in this article:




http://www.newscientist.com/article/...nglement-solve


s-black-hole-paradox.html#.UcYTrfnVD6e




It begins with an explanation of what a wormhole *is* but wormholes are

not known to exist. Then it builds on that untested (and untestable)

conjecture. It's a bit reminiscent of string "theory." Turns out if you

know some math you can pick one of the 10E500 string theories and run

with it and no one can prove you right or wrong. Physicists so want

there to be a theory of quantum gravity, but they haven't yet found a

hint that there is such a theory outside of their own desires.



No, I'm not qualified to do this research myself. But I am sufficiently

science-savvy to recognize evidence when I see it, and to remain

skeptical when I don't see it.



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³As a conservative, I do not agree that a division of physics into

separate theories for large and small is unacceptable. I am happy with

the situation in which we have lived for the last 80 years, with

separate theories for the classical world of stars and planets and the

quantum world of atoms and electrons.² -- Freeman Dyson in a review of

Brian Greene¹s book The Fabric of the Cosmos.



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I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that

you will say in your entire life.



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