I do feel strongly that this is nonsense! … So perhaps I could entertain future historians by saying I think all this superstring stuff is crazy and is in the wrong direction. I think all this superstring stuff is crazy and is in the wrong direction. … I don’t like it that they’re not calculating anything. … why are the masses of the various particles such as quarks what they are? All these numbers … have no explanations in these string theories – absolutely none! … I don’t like that they don’t check their ideas. I don’t like that for anything that disagrees with an experiment, they cook up an explanation—a fix-up to say, “Well, it might be true.” For example, the theory requires ten dimensions. Well, maybe there’s a way of wrapping up six of the dimensions. Yes, that’s all possible mathematically, but why not seven? When they write their equation, the equation should decide how many of these things get wrapped up, not the desire to agree with experiment. In other words, there’s no reason whatsoever in superstring theory that it isn’t eight out of the ten dimensions that get wrapped up and that the result is only two dimensions, which would be completely in disagreement with experience. So the fact that it might disagree with experience is very tenuous, it doesn’t produce anything.
interview published in Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1988) edited by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, p. 193-194 ISBN 0521354625
…and Penrose, Bohm, Rauscher, Haramein, and MANY others have proposed theories addressing the concerns of Richard Feynman.
It requires a new worldview and different thinking to be able to discuss.
The present scientific world view is disconnected, reductionist, and isolated system analysis.
The unified physics world view is connected, considers the whole, and analyzes systems as whole because no isolated system exists in natural reality.
The Surfer, OM-IV
Fudgy McFarlen
· May 26, 2015 at 7:19 pm
Doctor Van Nostrand! Â You appear after such a long time hidden. Â How is your ongoing war with Sherlock Holmes?
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You've got to be kidding! The Full 11 hours? If Feynman only went with his gut feeling: (from http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman)
…and Penrose, Bohm, Rauscher, Haramein, and MANY others have proposed theories addressing the concerns of Richard Feynman.
It requires a new worldview and different thinking to be able to discuss.
The present scientific world view is disconnected, reductionist, and isolated system analysis.
The unified physics world view is connected, considers the whole, and analyzes systems as whole because no isolated system exists in natural reality.
The Surfer, OM-IV
Doctor Van Nostrand! Â You appear after such a long time hidden. Â How is your ongoing war with Sherlock Holmes?