RE: And We're Back ... Awe Hell
October 19, 2012 at 11:33 am
(This post was last modified: October 19, 2012 at 12:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You have a strange understanding of the word "magic" then, don't you?
Let me dumb this down as far as I am able to.
The sort of "gravity" you are thinking of that keeps you rooted to the floor and the sort of "gravity" that would be proposed by a Theory of Quantum Gravity (or your "magical gravity field") are not entirely the same things (I know I know, god-damned scientists using the same words to describe different things based on specialization in their fields..it's almost like they're trying to fuck with you). Moreover, the theory of a thing is not the thing, something may exist (as in we might observe something happening - the "what") for which we do not currently have a theory (an explanation - the "how"). A Theory of Quantum Gravity would look to unify General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics, and this is important, because our current understanding of the big bang is that of a singularity..which is spatially small enough for quantum effects to be very important, but as we understand it, all mass and matter was contained within this singularity...so that makes it very large, very massive..huehuehue - the domain of General Relativity. Neither GR or QM alone appear to be able to explain this for us....that's why the answer to "what caused the big bang-where did the singularity come from" is "We don't know".....not, as you inserted to argue against "a magical gravity field". -If- we could unify these two theories we would be looking at that "magical gravity field" you seem to think science assumes (it does not) and we would call that.....The Theory of Quantum Gravity. It would be a theory capable of explaining how the singularity could have come into existence (or so we hope).
Let me dumb this down as far as I am able to.
The sort of "gravity" you are thinking of that keeps you rooted to the floor and the sort of "gravity" that would be proposed by a Theory of Quantum Gravity (or your "magical gravity field") are not entirely the same things (I know I know, god-damned scientists using the same words to describe different things based on specialization in their fields..it's almost like they're trying to fuck with you). Moreover, the theory of a thing is not the thing, something may exist (as in we might observe something happening - the "what") for which we do not currently have a theory (an explanation - the "how"). A Theory of Quantum Gravity would look to unify General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics, and this is important, because our current understanding of the big bang is that of a singularity..which is spatially small enough for quantum effects to be very important, but as we understand it, all mass and matter was contained within this singularity...so that makes it very large, very massive..huehuehue - the domain of General Relativity. Neither GR or QM alone appear to be able to explain this for us....that's why the answer to "what caused the big bang-where did the singularity come from" is "We don't know".....not, as you inserted to argue against "a magical gravity field". -If- we could unify these two theories we would be looking at that "magical gravity field" you seem to think science assumes (it does not) and we would call that.....The Theory of Quantum Gravity. It would be a theory capable of explaining how the singularity could have come into existence (or so we hope).
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