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| From | Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics.relativity, sci.physics |
| Subject | Re: QM and GR. |
| Date | 2016-07-25 12:21 +1000 |
| Message-ID | <dvlbcsFbs1pU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 23/07/2016 2:09 AM, Greg Buttler wrote: > Sylvia Else wrote: > >> There cannot be two different correct theories, because if they're >> different, they'll sometimes give different answers, and at least one >> would have to be wrong. > > I'm not sure it works like that. You may easily have to distinct theories > predicting same outcome. However, the discussion is not about it, but > combining all existing theories into a single one. There is no need for > that. > If you have two separate theories that address disjoint aspects of physics - that is, there are no areas of physics that both theories address - then you can trivially put them together to form a single theory. Most of the time, though, that's not the situation we have. General relativity has little to say about the microscopic world, and quantum mechanics has little to say about the macroscopic world. But little is not nothing, and one can imagine circumstances in which both these theories have something to say, but what they say is different. The problem them is to determine what they should say (by experiment), and then find a way of modifying one or (more likely) both theories so that they say that thing. Once that's done such that both theories always say the same thing, there's an expectation that we'll find that they're mathematically equivalent - that is, that there's a single theory. Though it seems inevitable that eventually the required experiments cannot be done because the conditions for them are unobtainable. So rather than having a single theory of everything, we'll probably end up with multiple theories of everything that make different predictions, but only for conditions we can neither create, nor find in the observable universe. At that point, I suppose science becomes philosophy. Sylvia. Sylvia.
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Re: The rate at which the time axis grows, relative to the spatial dimensions. Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-08-07 12:31 -0500
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Re: _Nothing_ can change the future, present or past. benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-08-09 17:51 -0400
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