OT: The 10th Demention

AngleWyrm · #1 March 30th, 2007, 06:43 AM

Saw another crazy theory, The Final Theory of Everything (Expansion Theory), in which the author figures all matter is expanding, and explains gravity as just g-forces from the Earth's rapid expansion.

So how long have we got until the sun, moon, stars, and earth all bump into each other...

capnq · #2 March 30th, 2007, 10:24 AM

There's a "popular science" book called The Trouble with Physics which argues that string theory is a seriously flawed dead end that's sucking attention away from more promising alternatives.

GuyOfDoom · #3 March 30th, 2007, 01:06 PM

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There's a "popular science" book called The Trouble with Physics which argues that string theory is a seriously flawed dead end that's sucking attention away from more promising alternatives.

I've gotten the impression from some of your posts that you don't seem to be a big fan of science in general.

Raapys · #4 March 30th, 2007, 01:41 PM

I read the free first chapter of The Final Theory. It does bring up alot of valid points about the flawed theories we've built today's scientific knowledge on. The first chapter just explains the errors in current theories, without offering any new ones, so I'm actually considering buying it now, to read his replacement theory.

GuyOfDoom · #5 March 30th, 2007, 01:53 PM

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It does bring up alot of valid points about the flawed theories we've built today's scientific knowledge on.

I'd be curious to know what it thinks those are.

Raapys · #6 March 30th, 2007, 01:56 PM

The link for the first free chapter is here.

http://www.thefinaltheory.com/viewchapter.html

GuyOfDoom · #7 March 30th, 2007, 03:18 PM

The only point I get out of that chapter is exactly what anyone who's in science should know. What we know is only our best approximation with the information that we currently have.

That doesn't mean we're totally wrong, we just don't know enough yet.

Renegade 13 · #8 March 30th, 2007, 05:46 PM

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capnq said:
There's a "popular science" book called The Trouble with Physics which argues that string theory is a seriously flawed dead end that's sucking attention away from more promising alternatives.

I've gotten the impression from some of your posts that you don't seem to be a big fan of science in general.

Personally, I'd call Capnq a skeptic, which is a good thing in today's world.

GuyOfDoom · #9 March 30th, 2007, 05:53 PM

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Personally, I'd call Capnq a skeptic, which is a good thing in today's world.

It depends on the focus and the intensity of the skepticism. As always too much or too little is a bad thing.

capnq · #10 March 31st, 2007, 12:45 PM

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GuyOfDoom said: I've gotten the impression from some of your posts that you don't seem to be a big fan of science in general.

No, I'm quite pro-science. What I'm against is the cynical exploitation of public ignorance of science to further personal and political agendas.

I haven't read the book I linked to, but I did read about half of the reviews linked from that site. The author's argument is more with the attitudes of the scientific community than it is with the theory itself.