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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” (Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow). https://lnkd.in/eBvC_Vxw View in LinkedIn

FOOTNOTE. “Henceforth we will neglect multiplicative constants of order unity.” https://lnkd.in/eA85pA5X View in LinkedIn

WASTEPAPER BIN IDEAS. “Just as Einstein had to abandon the most basic assumptions about the nature of space and time, so we have to abandon the most basic assumptions about the nature of mass and spin.” https://lnkd.in/e-atRRat View in LinkedIn

HEISENBERG. “One manifestation of spacetime fluctuations is in the induced uncertainties in any distance measurement.” https://lnkd.in/eA85pA5X View in LinkedIn

PROBLEMATIC ASSUMPTION. “The Michelson–Morley experiment produced the apparently absurd result that the speed of light in a vacuum is always the same, independently of how fast you are moving when you measure it. Einstein cut the Gordian knot by taking this result at face value, and making it his basic assumption.” https://lnkd.in/e-atRRat View in LinkedIn

REALITY. “Following Wheeler, we believe that space is composed of an ever-changing geometry and topology called spacetime foam and that the foaminess is due to quantum fluctuations of spacetime. We argue for a scenario in which spacetime foam is the origin of both cosmic accelerations.” https://lnkd.in/eA85pA5X View in LinkedIn

THOMAS KUHN. “There is a close analogy here with Einstein’s development of the theory of special relativity in 1905. In the late 19th century explorations of the properties of light, electricity and magnetism had developed to the point where serious contradictions started to appear. There were experimental results that could not be reconciled with any commonsense view of the universe.” https://lnkd.in/e-atRRat View in LinkedIn

THE HYPOTHESES. “In the light of these problems, I have been working on developing a mathematical model for fundamental physics in which (1) neutrinos have zero mass, and (2) there is no dark matter.” https://lnkd.in/e-atRRat View in LinkedIn

DARK MASS. “The structure of galaxies can only be explained by general relativity if there is a large amount of ‘dark matter’, making up nearly 85% of the total matter in the universe. There is no direct evidence of this dark matter, and therefore its existence must be regarded as a prediction of general relativity that has not been confirmed by experiment. While most cosmologists regard this prediction as solid fact, I do not. I am not alone in this, but my opinion is definitely a minority opinion.” https://lnkd.in/e-atRRat View in LinkedIn

COSMIC UNCERTAINTY. “But it is known that the relative strengths of electromagnetism and the nuclear forces are not always the same, so why should gravity be any different? Cosmological evidence from the shapes and sizes of galaxies also casts doubt on the equivalence principle on very large scales.” https://lnkd.in/e-atRRat View in LinkedIn