Saturday, 20 January 2007

 

Dark Matter and suchlike in, on and behind the media.

 

Media: That part of inter-human communication to which one is connected like a diode*, i.e. from the medium, M, to the human, M > H. For example, National newsprint and their agents, radio and television stations available across the UK and English-speaking Europe and the rest of planet Earth.

 

Activity in physics concerns the description of work/energy, material, Dark Matter, Dark Energy/λ > 0 in Einsteinian cosmology (4-dimensional, Minkowski spacetime) and the totality that is the observable universe. The description, initially, requires some understanding of the realm of mathematics. Quintessence (a postulated fifth force in nature) lurks beyond current physical reach. This ‘theory of everything’ remains difficult to convey in language other than mathematics yet it is my contention that it is possible to describe, “What have these guys found from reasoned argument and what is seen?”, in plain, legible English (with a few additional symbols) or other, technically adept language. The result of the completed translation will shock, cause awe and produce “Oh no! Not again?” responses, in roughly equal measure and the remainder of humanity will taken by the result. Probably.

 

From resources**, it is possible to build models to explain what we see in the universe. The latest model – the quantum theory of fields – takes the best efforts yet (20^th Century quantum theory and General Relativity theory) and shows how they combine to yield a view of gravity so vast, “the shoulders of giants”, are a prerequisite.

 

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* That leaks through its Correspondence pages.

 

** Resources: ⁰Isaac Newton, anthology, ¹Neil Turok, recent publications, ²Paul J. Steinhardt, recent publications, ³Edward Witten, “Magic, Matrix, and Mystery”, ⁴Sir Roger Penrose, “The Road To Reality” & 2005 Web-Seminar, ⁵Stephen W. Hawking, 1974-present day, ⁶Lisa Randall, “Warped Passages”, ⁷Philip Pullman, “His dark materials” trilogy, ⁸David Deutsch, 2006 TED talk.

 

 

1 http://arxiv.org/find/hep-th/1/au:+turok/0/1/0/all/0/1

2 http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~steinh/

3 http://www.sns.ias.edu/~witten/papers/mmm.pdf

4 http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/webseminars/pg+ws/2005/gmr/gmrw04/1107/penrose/index.html

5 http://www.hawking.org.uk/home/hindex.html

6 http://thoughtcast.org/casts/lisa-randall-harvard-physicist

7 http://www.philip-pullman.com/

8 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7314894620678494575