Re: General Relativity-Quantum Mechanics Unified


Posted by Uncle Al on Jul 21, 2003 at 11:04
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Re: General Relativity-Quantum Mechanics Unified (Garry Denke)

Your mindless vomiting of a database bears no reaationship to your opening statement. A grade school child can click on a link - and is generally smart enough to do that rather than posting a big list of crap.

general relativity: h=zero G=G c=c
quantum mechanics: h=h G=zero c=infinity

The two theories cannot be unified. The two axiomatic systemes have contradictory postulates.

General Relativity models continuous spacetime, going beyond conformal symmetry (scale independence) to symmetry under all smooth coordinate transformations - general covariance (the stress-energy tensor embodying local energy and momentum) - resisting quantization. General Relativity predicts evolution of an initial system state with arbitrary certainty.

Quantum mechanics' observables display discrete states. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle limits knowledge about conjugate variables in a system state, disallowing exact prediction of its evolution. Covariance with respect to reflection in space and time is not required by the Poincaré group of Special Relativity or the Einstein group of General Relativity.

The two theories cannot be unified.

General Relativity's physical systems are always spatially separable into independent components. Systems of three or more particles require cluster separability (macroscopic locality). When the system is separated into subsystems, the overall mathematical description must reduce to descriptions of the subsystems. This is vital in scattering problems with two or more fragments.

Quantum mechanics allows entangled states (superpositions of product states) that require a fundamental irresolvable connection within readily demonstrated physical systems (two-slit diffraction, the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox). Macroscopic locality is violated: Measuring the state of one slit in a double slit experiment alters the observed diffraction pattern to single slit patterns (quantum eraser experiments).

The two theories cannot be unified.

If you want a unified theory, git, you need a self-consistent mathematical model that does not contradict any empirical observation while simultaneously subsuming both General Relativity and quantum mechanics. What you have presented is a filled diaper.

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Uncle Al
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(Do something naughty to physics)

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