Essay Abstract

Gravitation and quantum mechanics are separately accurately predictive to the limits of observation but together are utterly incompatible. No contemporary quantum gravitation theory offers testable predictions. It is shown that two founding postulates - vacuum isotropy and the Equivalence Principle - can be empirically falsified without contradicting prior observations in any venue at any scale, revealing more fertile pursuits of quantum gravitation theory.

Author Bio

Alan M. Schwartz is a consulting organic chemist. He shatters roadblocks with novel solutions in bointerfaces, hydrogels, human implantables; and conjures industrial functional materials. Physics jealously hoards gravitation in its equations. Ha! Always test Official Truth in labware and never fear the waste crock. Mediocrity is a vice of the doomed.

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7 days later
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Mr. Schwartz, thank you for understanding the value of falsifiability. At first blush, yours is the only essay with this commitment to reality. You clearly specify how your assertion can be falsified and the consequences. Thank you.

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Your essay exposes an interesting claim. Insofar as it should be indeed well elaborated and well thought-out (for which i am not the right person to evaluate this), it should be worth and also necessary to test your assertions experimentally in some laboratory around the world. I would be very curious about the possible results of such a test(s) and hope - if your expositions are well-founded - that some lab around the world will do that.

"Guys and Dolls" finishes with people singing "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7kzsZreG0o This essay's author cheers voters who will not sit down,

For professors all said, "Beware! You're on a gravity trip." The profs all said, "Beware! Keep your hands off scholarship." And a chemist will drag you under By the fancy shoes on his wicked feet. Sit down, sit down, sit down, Sit down you're rockin' the boat. Stand up, rock the boat! Make the parity Eötvös experiment happen. Somebody should look.

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I am watching the number of public ratings growing, now twelve, while the value has remained constant at 8.8 since about four public ratings. I wonder what is the algorithm used that behaves so. And I note that the 'community' does not rate the essays despite the apparent option to do so.

Rock on Eötvös soxers! Let's drop some Benzil crystal in our DSC.

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I may not understand Physics, but I know what I like!

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Alan's prose is dense and requires a lot of thought. But his is a REAL scientific proposal, with a falsifiable theory. I look forward to someone actually performing the experiment. Great job.

I'm rather upset at FQXi. I lhave spent an hour trying to find out how to give a grade (0-10) to this essay. I can't find ANY information on how to vote. WTF?

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At the top of this URL http://www.fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/467 that contains the abstract to Al's essay, and the URL of the PDF to the essay, is a colored band with "would you like to rate this essay?" as a Java script. Might you have scripts blocked as I do by default?

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Alan Schwartz has opened Pandora's box one last time - letting out hope that Big Bang theories can be reconciled. Chirality is the key.

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What is the estimated amount of money required to carry out proposed Eötvös experiment?Grant funding(tax payer extracted) or private philanthropy?Perhaps Alan should set up a paypal account and have all the curious and wallet generous public financially contribute to see the result of such endeavor.With,of course, full transparency (no,not Washington speak) of amount received,name of donor and what was the money spent on.

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Why pursue the parity Eötvös experiment when the parity calorimetry experiment is orders of magnitude more sensitive (if I recall correctly) and orders of magnitude less expensive? Digital Scanning Calorimeters are standard chemistry laboratory equipment. Eötvös torsion balances might come one to a First World Nation. Eöt-Wash Group at University of Washington has one.

The singular Eötvös group Committed to zero innovation (pdf)

Apparatus, 6 cm diameter, never done with quartz

Required chemical purity (ppm), dryness (Grade A), and order (low etch pit density) obtain by Sawyer Research's X-plate process (electronic quartz is Grade C Z-plate). Quoted $20-30K and 12-18 months in a hydrothermal autoclave.

Benzil two-stage solvent grows 2-cm diameter crystals in a silanized jelly jar over three days. Crystal chirality is confirmed by x-ray diffraction/Flack parameter. The parity calorimetry experiment partially ran in a volunteered commercial lab last Christmas. Heavily used equipment degrades. The two DSCs ideally are identical and new, about $70K each. Or, do many runs plus statistics (e.g., undergrad project). Physics disdains chemistry.

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Although I didn't understand most of the thing he wrote but he's trustworthy! Rated 10.

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Being organic chemist, I am not deep into physics.But as friend of him I rated 10 for his essay.

Good Luck Dr. Alan M. Schwartz

Regards

Gururaj

Every "10" voted is another shout to perform the experiments. Shout it loud! Theory predicts what observation tells it to predict. Minds have the power not merely to grasp the world, but also to change it. Somebody should look.Attachment #1: boat.png

6 days later

Leshan's analysis is shallow, insular, and explicitly wrong. All contemporary theories of gravitation, classical and quantized, *assume* even-parity models. As stated, Einstein, Cartan, and Weitzenböck formulated teleparallel gravitation with parity-odd gravitation and parity violation of conservation of angular momentum.. An odd-parity Chern-Simons term must be added to even-parity Einstein-Hilbert action in quantized gravitations. Take the hint - somebody should look.

"2. Does Alan's essay contain the new physical ideas? Does Allan's essay have any scientific value?"

Equivalence Principle parity violation, conservation of angular momentum parity violation, plus a two-day extraordinarily sensitive calorimetric test sum to "scientific value." On New Year's Day 1957 Yang and Lee announced Weak interaction parity violation. They were Nobel Laureates December 1957. Demonstrating parity violation of General Relativity (Equivalence Principle postulated), parity violation of string theory (BRST invariance postulated), and parity violation of conservation of angular momentum (isotropic vacuum postulated, then Noether's theorems) in an undergraduate laboratory in two days would be observations of like "scientific value."

Of all the essays in this competition, only my essay allows its assertions to be tested atop a lab bench in existing apparatus using commercial materials. It is supported by 78 year-old theory that defaults to General Relativity if the parity violation does not obtain. If Leshan can cite even one quantized gravitation theory published as refereed literature that defaults to General Relativity, he is welcome to post that citation and receive an apology. Otherwise, he is voicing the fear that all physics oozes: Contemporary theory elegantly derived from deep symmetries (string theory and quantized gravitations overall, SUGRA; SUSY) real world tested without ambiguity will be falsified as surely as protons do not decay (Super-Kamiokande).

Vote "10" to vote for the experiments. Theory predicts what observation tells it to predict. Somebody should look.

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Uncle Al, first of all wish you all the best! I know as you said "theories are like whore, they predict what they are compelled to predict". "Theories boast promiscuity empiricists provide the child support". And also Richard Feynman's " No matter how smart your theory is , how smart you are if it doesn't agree with experiment it's wrong"

Go for experiment. I rated you a big fat 10.

I appreciate your unfathomable and genuine knowledge in science, math, sociology, politics, arts etc. You are my role model.

Don't forget to come in various chemistry communities in internet. We need you, we love you.

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Al You always spice up any newsgroup you monitor with comments on other people's posts which are truly brilliant, pointed and devoid of obsequiousness. The world needs people like you to sort the chaff from the dross. And anything of an original nature which you contribute - such as this essay - has an air of brilliance even if it is way over my poor little head. Don't ever change!

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Greetings Alan. How do you see the following unification of electromagnetism/light and gravity in relation to quantum mechanics?

Are your essay ideas compatible with this unification of gravity and electromagnetism/light? Do you see any similarities with vacuum isotropy and the Equivalence Principle in the following:

What follows in this post has tremendous and undeniable implications/significance.

"The ability of thought to describe or reconfigure sensory experience is ultimately dependent upon the extent to which thought is similar to sensory experience." AND "Dreams make thought more like sensory experience in general."

"The fundamental laws of physics must be unified and also understood in a fashion that allows life and experience (in general) to be. Consistent with this, dream experience is essential to the proper (and complete) understanding of both life and experience in general."

The fundamentally interactive nature of being, experience, and thought is undeniable.

Dreams make sensory experience in general (including gravity and electromagnetism) more like thought. Accordingly, the unification of Maxwell's and Einstein's theories (in a fourth spatial dimension) is plainly and significantly evident in/as the dream. Dreams involve a fundamental integration and spreading of being and experience at the [gravitational] mid-range of feeling BETWEEN thought AND sense. Dreams add to the integrated extensiveness of being, experience, and thought in and with time.

The natural and integrated extensiveness of being and experience go hand-in-hand -- in and with time as well. I have proven this definitively. Witness the following:

Dreams are an emotional experience that occur during the one third of our lives that we spend sleeping, because emotion is one part (or one third) of feeling, emotion, and thought. Consistent with this, both feeling and thought are proportionately reduced in the dream. Thoughts and emotions are differentiated feelings. Dreams are essential for thoughtful and emotional balance, integration, comprehensiveness, consistency, and resiliency. Indeed, emotion that is comprehensive and balanced advances consciousness. If the self did not represent, form, and experience a comprehensive approximation of experience in general, we would be incapable of growth and of becoming other than we are.

The totality of the system/experience has to be considered.

"The fourth dimension must be understood as additive (in regard to space) as well as being subtractive (on balance) as well." How would you account for this?

The self, represents, forms, and experiences a comprehensive approximation of experience in general. Also, the self represents, forms, and experiences comprehensive approximations of experience in general. If the self did not represent, form, and experience a comprehensive approximation of experience in general, we would be incapable of growth and of becoming other than we are.

The 4th space dimension gives us Einstein's theory of gravity (general relativity) AND electromagnetism (Maxwell's theory of light). We know this.

Moreover, it is common sense that this union is plainly and obviously evident in our experience.

1) I have demonstrated a comprehensive union and balancing of gravity and electromagnetism/light.

2) Dreams improve upon the integrated extensiveness of experience and thought.

3) Dreams involve a fundamental integration and spreading of being and experience at the MID-RANGE of [gravitational] feeling between thought AND sense.

4) Dreams make thought more like sensory experience in general (including gravity and electromagnetism).

5) The ability of thought to describe or reconfigure sense is ultimately dependent upon the extent to which thought is similar to sense.

My understanding/description of how the dream constitutes the union of gravity and electromagnetism/light is complete, fundamental, simple, comprehensive, and consistent. It is lacking nothing.

See: The Dream Fundametally Balances and Unifies Gravity and Electromagnetism

http://radicalacademy.com/studentrefphilfmd1

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I have even mathematically demonstrated/proven it in a fundamental fashion; as I have shown the three to one (one third) relation of BOTH space (the three space dimensions in relation to the 4th space dimension) AND time (3 to 1 in Einstein's theory of gravity) in dreams; as dreams occur during the one third of our lives that we spend sleeping. Or, you could say that the extension in space (three to one, or one third) is consistent with extension in time. Note: there are three parts of time as well -- past, present, future.

Electromagnetism/light and gravity are fundamental to life. They are united in the dream. The totality of experience has to be considered.

To think that the union between Einstein's theory of gravity and electromagnetism (i.e., Maxwell's theory of light) is not plainly and significantly obvious/manifest in our experience is one of the greatest blunders regarding lack of common sense that I have ever seen.

Electromagnetism involves extremes of feeling, brightness, visibility, size, and energy. Gravity and electromagnetism/light are united at the [gravitational] mid-range of feeling between thought and sense. When scale is balanced, gravity is repulsive and attractive as electromagnetic energy/light and feeling. I have demonstated all of this in/as the dream.

Demonstrate gravity as attractive and repulsive -- in keeping with relatively constant (and proper) lighting, energy, and brightness -- in a space that is at once understood to be larger and smaller. The space must also be invisible and visible at once. I have demonstrated ALL of this in/as dream experience.

You now have electromagnetism/light as gravitational space. Space manifesting as BOTH gravitational AND electromagnetic/light energy. (Constant energy as well.)

The union of gravity and electromagnetism/light in a fourth spatial dimension completes, balances, and extends Einstein's theory. (Don't forget, Einstein's theory is incomplete, as it shows that space/the universe is EITHER expanding OR contracting.) It demonstrates thought that is more like sensory experience in general. The ability of thought to describe or reconfigure sense is ultimately dependent upon the integrated extensiveness of thought, experience, and being. Indeed, the ability of thought to describe or reconfigure sense is ultimately dependent upon the extent to which thought is similar to sensory experience. Dreams make thought more like sensory experience in general. Dreams involve a fundamental integration and spreading of being and experience (including thought) at the mid-range of feeling BETWEEN thought AND sense.

I have unified gravity and electromagnetism/light in and with time.