Prediction 476

Duration ? years (02009-?)

“If the LHC does not find the Higgs Boson or other "new physics", then Einstein's "last twenty years" will eventually be fully vindicated, including the most natural cosmological extension of general relativity to a finite, deterministic universe.”

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Richard A. Ryals

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Ryals’s Argument

Einstein didn't know about the real, massive, particle potential of the quantum vacuum, or he never would have abandoned this finite "quasi-static" cosmological model, because there is no instability when matter generation from the negative energy states drives vacuum expansion, because this "anti-gravity" effect is obviously offset by the gravity of the newly created massive particle, and that makes all the difference in the world to the Dirac Equation, which can be reformulated in this vacuum as it was originally intended, to unify General Relativity and Quantum Theory, as Paul Dirac did with SR and QM.

This leads to a new cosmology that predicts that increasing tension between the expanding vacuum and ordinary matter is what eventually causes the forces to be compromised, aka., "big bangs", so there is no need for a naked singularity, nor extra-ordinarily rapid inflation when a universe with certain volume "evolves" information inherently forward to a higher order of the same basic configuration.

Our Darwinian Universe

Physics for the prediction is discussed briefly, here:
http://www.lns.cornell.edu/spr/2006-02/msg0073320.html

Here:
http://www.lns.cornell.edu/spr/2005-06/msg0069755.html

And in greater detail, here:
http://dorigo.wordpress.com/2007/10/18/

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prediction?

How exactly is this a "prediction"? It is a conditional vindication, and what is the threshold for measuring vindication? This "prediction" certainly is not time-bound, as evidenced by the qualifier "eventually".

Just curious,
- Erik

How do you figure?

Hi Erik,

It isn't a vindication until somebody writes down the Dirac Equation in this background and unifies QM with GR, and the reason that it is conditional, is because that isn't going to happen until the cutting-edge gets really desperate.

I say "eventually" because you'll never get a date out of a physicist for what constitutes "reasonable time" in the search for new physics, since they will simply split symmetry again and claim that they need more machinery, (which they won't get). It won't take long for some to start looking elsewhere though, so I am willing to put a time limit and actually did have one set at 20 years from restart of the LHC, barring any further significant delays, which would be added to the time limit.

Thanks for your inquiry.

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