Re: Has LIGO found new physics?

2016-12-18 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
There has also be a test of the recent Verlinde paper, and it returned with a non-standard prediction of Einstein's original model. As Freeman Dyson said long ago, the better our equipment is, the more new things we will discover. -Original Message- From: John Clark

Has LIGO found new physics?

2016-12-18 Thread John Clark
On December 9 a paper was published hinting that maybe just maybe the LIGO Gravitational Wave detector has found evidence for new physics, the first ever departure from General Relativity: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.00266.pdf String theory says, well...,some string theories say, ​ a Black Hole

Re: No gravity / no dark matter

2016-12-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Dec 2016, at 00:04, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Well, Doc, you mentioned your afterlife view before, Er well. It is not my view, but the universal machine's one, I mean those knowing that they are universal. My view is private, and it would be confusing if I tried to

Re: No gravity / no dark matter

2016-12-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Dec 2016, at 06:40, Brent Meeker wrote: Bruno poses the question of whether we would let "the doctor" substitute some functionally equivalent mechanism for our brain. But why substitute? Why not just add on. Well before it's possible to provide a substitute brain, it will be

Re: No gravity / no dark matter

2016-12-18 Thread PGC
On Sunday, December 18, 2016 at 6:40:17 AM UTC+1, Brent wrote: > > Bruno poses the question of whether we would let "the doctor" substitute > some functionally equivalent mechanism for our brain. But why substitute? > Why not just add on. > Good question. > Well before it's possible to