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Tao_Equus
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Throughout history our perception of what our universe is composed of, how it is assembled, its beginnings and its destiny have all undergone change. Usually there is great resistance to such change as the vested interest of church, state or, in today's case, the scientific community puts a pressure on maintaining the status quo.
Our love affair with relativity in the modern era is justified by its observational efficacy under 10s of 1000s of repeatable experiments. Yet there are still huge questions that remain unanswered. What exactly is a black hole, dark matter and energy, and was the Big Bang really the beginning. The world of the quantum level of reality is spooky and defies the rational linearity we take for granted in our day to day lives. Some of us can sort of "feel" what the quantum physicists are telling us but its hard to know what it's relevance is to the structure and nature of the space/time we live in.
The scientific community is on the whole a competitive one that relies on the sponsorship off government and big business and several surveys have reported that scientists are quick to falsify results and maintain the status quo than rock the boat and risk losing funding. So there are many unreported results out there that fly in the face of the consensus. My question on this thread is what may you have heard that contradicts the orthodoxy of the scientific community. What are your favourite pet theories and why do they make sense to you.
My own favourite, (and it is my own... I have never seen it described as I do), is that superstrings connect supermassive black holes across the brane like multiverse. Sure I steal from several sources of theoretical cosmology to arrive at that, but I never saw anyone put them all together the way I do. i will explain in a bit more depth after I have heard from some of you.
I eagerly await your thoughts
Tao
Our love affair with relativity in the modern era is justified by its observational efficacy under 10s of 1000s of repeatable experiments. Yet there are still huge questions that remain unanswered. What exactly is a black hole, dark matter and energy, and was the Big Bang really the beginning. The world of the quantum level of reality is spooky and defies the rational linearity we take for granted in our day to day lives. Some of us can sort of "feel" what the quantum physicists are telling us but its hard to know what it's relevance is to the structure and nature of the space/time we live in.
The scientific community is on the whole a competitive one that relies on the sponsorship off government and big business and several surveys have reported that scientists are quick to falsify results and maintain the status quo than rock the boat and risk losing funding. So there are many unreported results out there that fly in the face of the consensus. My question on this thread is what may you have heard that contradicts the orthodoxy of the scientific community. What are your favourite pet theories and why do they make sense to you.
My own favourite, (and it is my own... I have never seen it described as I do), is that superstrings connect supermassive black holes across the brane like multiverse. Sure I steal from several sources of theoretical cosmology to arrive at that, but I never saw anyone put them all together the way I do. i will explain in a bit more depth after I have heard from some of you.
I eagerly await your thoughts
Tao