> http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=651#comments
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> Great post.
>
> Lee Smolin's fantastic hype got Lisi listed as the next Einstein.
> Awesome.  The trouble with physics--the rise of string theory, the
> fall of science, and what comes next--big physics pornography.
>
> Eric writes on Peter's blog, "Eric Says:
>
> February 10th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
> What's really sad is that Discover magazine has a special issue this
> month devoted to Einstein. One article in the magazine is a listing of
> the `next Einstein'. Number one is the famous surfing, independent
> physicist who just `published' a paper. Ed Witten is listed as number
> six. This is really deplorable." --http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/
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> You can read more about Garrett Lisi's theory, funded by FQXI (where
> Smolin sits on the advisory panel) and heavily promoted by Smolin and
> people associated with Smolin's $100-million+ "Big Physics" PI:
>
> http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/001505.htmlhttp://cosmicvariance.../
> (amazing--these are our best and brightest)https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=26325744&postID=400768610321...
>
> After the LHC dispels all the "Big Physics" hype, the path will be
> clear for MDT:
>
> Moving Dimensions Theory's Postulate: The fourth dimension is
> expanding relative to the three spatial diemensions.
>
> dx4/dt = ic
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> The Curious Nature of the Photon, Einstein's Annus Mirabilis,
> and Moving Dimensions Theory
>
> As the contemplation of the photon lead to both quantum mechanics and
> relativity, let us also begin by contemplating the photon. Einstein's
> revolutionary 1905 papers included one devoted to the photoelectric
> effect-the quantized nature of the photon, and another devoted to the
> electrodynamics of moving bodies-electromagnetic radiation,
> relativity, and the wave properties of the photon. Another paper
> discussed statistical mechanics in the form of Brownian Motion, and
> the final paper commented on the equivalence of mass and energy, as
> denoted with his famous equation, E=mc2. Moving Dimensions Theory
> underlies and unifies all of Einstein's 1905 papers with its simple
> postulate-the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three
> spatial dimensions.
> Picture the emission of a photon in free space. Once second later, the
> photon has equal probability of being found anywhere upon a sphere
> with a radius of 186,000 miles, as c, the velocity of light, equals
> 186,000 miles per second. If we covered the surface of the sphere with
> detectors, one, and only one, would click. And the photon, although
> traveling 186,000 miles through space, will not have aged one iota,
> for time stops at the speed of light. The photon will have traveled
> 186,000 miles through the three spatial dimensions, and yet it will
> not have moved one iota in the fourth dimension. And there lies our
> first clue to moving dimensions theory. For how can a photon propagate
> 186,000 in the three spatial dimensions, and yet not budge an inch in
> the fourth dimension, unless that fourth dimension is expanding? Ergo,
> the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial
> dimensions.
> Consider two interacting photons that propagate in opposite
> directions. One second later, each photon's polarization is measured
> at detectors separated by 372,000 miles. According to the laws of
> quantum mechanics and numerous supporting experiments, the measurement
> at one detector instantaneously affects the measurement at the second
> detector. It is as if the photons are yet side-by-side for all intents
> and purposes. This "spooky action at a distance," as Einstein called
> it, is not so spooky in the context of moving dimensions theory, for
> MDT states that although separated by 372,000 miles, the photons are
> yet in the exact same place in the fourth dimension, as the fourth
> dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions. So it
> is that quantum phenomena on the photonic level, as well as
> relativistic phenomena on the photonic level, are both accounted for
> with simple elegance via MDT: the fourth dimension is expanding
> relative to the three spatial dimensions.
> Another paper Einstein penned in 1905 was devoted to Brownian Motion
> and statistical mechanics. Drop a thimbleful of food coloring in a
> pool. The laws of statistical mechanics dictate that it will spread
> out throughout the entire pool, and never again reassemble in a
> localized region. That everything tends towards random disorder is a
> fundamental law of physics, and too, it can be accounted for by moving
> dimensions theory. As the fundamental motion of the universe is the
> expansion of the fourth dimension relative to the three spatial
> dimensions, two photons originating from a common origin will harbor a
> vast probability of being found at great distances from one another
> one second later-distances far greater than the distance that
> separates them at their emission. This is because each one has an
> equal probability of being found anywhere upon the surface of a
> spherically-symmetric wave front of probability, corresponding to the
> wave front of the fourth expanding dimension. Recall our system of
> detectors placed everywhere through the surface of a sphere with a
> radius of 186,000 miles-each photon has an equal chance of being found
> at any detector after one second, and chances are that the detectors
> will be farther apart than the distance of 0 that defines the photon's
> common origin. Hence entropy. Entropy arises because the fourth
> dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions. All
> particles undergoing thermal vibrations interact with photons, and all
> photons reside in the fourth expanding dimension, dragging all of
> entirety into random disorder.
> Yet another paper published by Einstein in his "Miraculous Year" (anna
> mirabilis), was devoted to the equivalence of mass and energy. Think
> about the fascinating physical reality implied by E=mc2. A kilogram of
> gold or lead or feathers sitting on a desktop is the same thing as
> 9x1016 joules of energy-an exorbitant amount of energy-enough to
> power, or to destroy, a major city. How is it that a stationary mass
> possesses such a great energy? It is because the mass, which is
> stationary in the three spatial dimensions, is yet propagating through
> the fourth dimension at the rate of c. This is because the fourth
> dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions, and
> matter trapped in the fourth expanding dimension appears at photons.
> Furthermore, as noted earlier, the photons will propagate at the rate
> of c through the three spatial dimensions, and yet they will never age-
> they will stay in a fixed place in the fourth expanding dimension. The
> primary invariant is c-all matter and/or photons-be it propagating
> through space or time, or some combination thereof, always, always
> moves at the rate of c. To be stationary in space means to propagate
> at the rate of c through time. To be stationary in time means to
> propagate at the rate of c through space. This is because the fourth
> dimension is expanding at the rate of c relative to the three spatial
> dimensions. Most objects share motion between space and time, but the
> overall velocity of propagation through space-time is fixed at c-this
> primary invariance can never change.
> And so it is that Moving Dimensions Theory underlies and unifies the
> papers Einstein Published during his Annus Mirabilis-his "miraculous
> year." I highly recommend Harvard University Press's Einstein 1905:
> The Standard of Greatness (Hardcover) by John S. Rigden, about wchich
> Publisher's Weekly writes,
>
> "The year 2005 will be the centenary of Einstein's annus mirabilis,
> when he published the five papers that marked him as one of the
> greatest scientists of all time. Washington University professor
> Rigden (Hydrogen: The Essential Element) sits readers down in front of
> his white board and explains what Einstein said in each of these
> papers, what was significant in them and how the scientific community
> reacted (not very well, in most cases-for a while). Einstein started
> off with a bang: in March he proposed that light was not a continuous
> wave, but was made up of particles. In April he finished what became
> his dissertation, on how to determine the size of molecules in a
> liquid (that may not sound very exciting, but this is one of
> Einstein's most cited papers). In May he wrote his paper on Brownian
> motion, and then in June came the summit of his achievements that
> year: the paper proposing his principles of relativity and the
> consistency of the speed of light (commonly known as the Special
> Theory of Relativity). Finally, almost as an afterthought, in
> September came the three-page paper that unleashed his now-famous
> equation, e=mc2, upon an unsuspecting world. Rigden writes with a rare
> felicity, free of jargon and with everyday metaphors that Einstein
> himself would no doubt have appreciated."
>
> I encourage everyone to read Einstein's and Bohr's and Heisenberg's
> and Dirac's original papers, and contrast their majestic elegance,
> eloquence, reason, and logic to the snarky death threats and crackpot
> indexes manufactured by today's "best and brightest," and the
> accompanying silence from their established elders-the founders of
> string theory's oppressive regime. This book looks back to the giants
> of yesteryear with deep honor and reverence, so that tomorrow's
> physics might advance in the spirit of simple Truth and Beauty. Every
> effort will be maintained to demonstrate that true physics is marked
> by grace and simplicity, as opposed to obfuscation and bullying.
> Moving Dimensions Theory is an idea whose time has come, and ideas are
> bulletproof.
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