Black Holes

The existence of black holes comes straight from the equations of General Relativity, which has survived all experimental tests done so far (see Gravity Probe 2 results). The only prediction to be confirmed is the existence of gravitational waves, which we are trying to discover at Einstein@home processing the data coming from laser interferometers in USA, Europe and Japan. But they are very weak and probably our presents instruments are unable to detect them. Unfortunately the Lisa project of a space interferometer is being scrapped for financial reasons. But so far GR has been confirmed by all tests.
Tullio
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When I was a physics and astronomy editor at Mondadori I was plagued by authors trying to publish a book demonstrating that Einstein was wrong. They came all the way from Sicily to Milano with a perfectly typed text mostly enclosed in a black rectangle. I just read the first page and said Oh God! No one ever tried to demonstrate that Born, Heisenberg and Schroedinger were wrong, yet Quantum Mechanics and its Copenhagen interpretation by Bohr are much more debatable than relativity, which is rock solid. Einstein himself rocked it with his Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in 1935. "God does not play dice", he said. To which someone replied "God cast the die not the dice". I hope you agree.
Tullio
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I just finished a book by John Moffat "Reinventing Gravity" Smithsonian Books. he is a Cambridge-educated professor at the University of Toronto.

He doubts the existence of black holes and has developed a theory of gravity to explain the 'Missing mass" without resorting to Dark matter and dark energy. He is no crackpot as near as I can tell.

A good book to read on these topics. It takes the idea that when Band-Aids have to be applied to a theory such as Epicycles, Dark Matter, Hidden mass, hidden energy then the theory is not accurate.

So, we need to find dark matter or develop new theories of Gravity. For now I am wondering what's up with the Higgs Boson.

Regards to all of my favorites.


Bill

So, we need to find dark matter or develop new theories of Gravity. For now I am wondering what's up with the Higgs Boson.

Regards to all of my favorites.


Bill

Johnnie, my son,

I am hoping that you have a speedy recovery from your recent illness (LOL).

"Mr Nkrumah, Don't put me on " quote from the Vaughn Meader spoof on the Kennedy White House.

I think that they will find the Higgs. Maybe it will have too great a mass (i don't think so) for the CERN collider. If so then that would fuel the next funding request to build a bigger, more powerful machine. I remember that the Top Quark was much heavier than anticipated.

There is too much history with reality falling out of the math not to expect the Higgs, Of course if we have the wrong model then all bets are off. The fact that the rest of super-symmetric particles have been found indicates that the Higgs is "real" and we will find it.

I don't know if there is any way that Cern can look for dark matter.

Tullio,

if you find the Higgs we can probably get a good price for it on E-bay.

I think I have been clear enough. Let me post a final thought. No particle accelerator, including those used for cancer therapy, would work without special relativity. No Global Positioning System could work without General Relativity. So Relativity is part of our everyday world. To deny its validity is impossible.
Tullio
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Amen!
Tullio
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To take care of the invidious doubters and outrageous criticism against your achievements.

Johnnie, my son, Just simply state Maxwell's equations, Schrodinger's Wave equation and explain what each of the terms are and then simply supply solutions to to these equations and explain how they represent a TEM structure in the case of, say, microwaves. Also rewrite Einstein's equation of General relativity in five dimensions and then differentiate it to surprisingly get Maxwell's equations. Do it in this thread and that should remove all doubts of your recent enlightenment.

This should only involve a little partial differentiation, Tensor calculus and don't forget that you are in Minkowski space.

If you can do all of this then God and you are about as good in insight of the world's physics problems as a PHD in Theoretical physics.


wink wink

Did you get a bad shot of Bushmill's along the way ??

I am hereby resubmitting my friend Daddio's recent work in this area and would like to have comments on why you think it was denied publication in the Annals of Physics and the Philosophical Journal,

It was a situation where I got a string of infinities and my solution blew up. So I guess I can't claim gauge symmetry for my new Darkion Theory. It could also be those damn fluxions creeping into my solution's equations.