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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