Whether string theory can live up to its claim of being a 'theory of everything', and whether it will ever produce a falsifiable prediction as such, remain hotly debated questions. Meanwhile, developments in a quieter side-alley (1-8) indicate that t...
String theory proposes that everything is composed of incredibly minute strings or loops of energy-matter vibrating in ten (or more) dimensions. Our brains can only comprehend four dimensions – the three spatial dimensions (length, width and height) plus one temporal dimension (time). So accordi...
When I mentioned my new lack of health coverage to American acquaintances, several explained that they themselves had lived without health insurance for years—some because they couldn’t afford it, but others just because they didn’t think it was necessary. What tends to happen in practice is...
By L.V. Anderson The Theory of Everything, the Stephen Hawking biopic out this week, stars Eddie Redmayne as Hawking and Felicity Jones as his first wife, Jane. The New York Times’ Dennis Overbye has criticized the film for eliding and oversimplifying Hawking’s scientific advancements, and...
One day, when we were both working embedded in the offices of Sapient, an agency we were using to redesign our website, she came in and was obviously in a very bad way. I asked her if everything was OK, and she wailed, “Oh, Fred, Elvis is dead!” and glommed onto me for a...
It’s a take that may not be entirely accurate, but that wasn’t necessarily the goal. “We explained to him, ‘This isn’t your life, this is an imagining of your life. We’ve done our best to honor the known facts, but like stars and space, there’s a lot of void in between...
10. Of the following fundamental forces of nature, which one is NOT explained by the Standard Model? Answer: gravity One thing that prevents the Standard Model from truly being a "theory of everything" is its failure to explain gravity. Physicists have theorized another boson called the gravitr...
Thus the principle of tunnel-bond duality is one of the key unification element that can be used to propound the theory of everything. When using this principle to describe the essential nature of the sun-earth-connected gravito-electromagnetic bond, we can easily understand that the process ...
The process of the formation of the Earth-Moon system is just a normally occurred harmonious process since the universe is orderly managed holistic system. No such thing as violent giant impact between two fully-fledged protoplanets, nothing is violent, nothing is chaotic, but everything is harmo...
His wife, Gerrie, was still working inthe local school cafeteria, but work for Dave was scarce, and the price of everything was rising. T he Fusses were at risk of joining the millions of Americans who have lost their homes in recent years. T hen Dave and Gerrie received a timely ...