"There is of course one final observation to be made: in terms of the present politics of publishing scientific papers, de Broglie's contribution could never have been published because it only essentially contains speculations. However, one can just as well say that this paper proves that speculations are an essential part of physics; without them no new ideas and theories are born. Quantum mechanics has to be regarded as a true rupture in the history of physics, as a revolution in the philosophy of science – a revolution that desperately needed speculations and deviations beyond well-accepted ways of thinking. It pays off to come back occasionally to one of the famous papers in the Philosophical Magazine!" A quote from P. Weinberger: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500830600876565
Well said and well listed! I think 1. and 2. + the explanation of Dark Energy and Dark Matter are the most impressive ones ... - cannot be a coincidence!!!
ReplyDeleteNow if one includes a possible explanation of 'Dark Flow' (a relative new headache for astrophysicists and cosmologists [2008-2015]), the reasons total up to 20 !! (nice coincidence also ? ...)
Thanks, Stavros.
ReplyDeleteHello! I've been looking for you.
ReplyDeleteI haven't found that many universal spin theorists and I have some interesting ideas I'd like to present.
Weak force matter-antimatter asymmetry - If the universe had an initial clockwise, right-handed quantum spin, could it have lead to a clockwise spin-biased universe? If so, this would lead the weak force to occur more frequently upon matter than antimatter (due to matter-affecting spin asymmetry), leading potentially to unequal annihilation (due to weak force effects), thus driving antimatter to generally accumulate more (due to normal gravity and less frequent weak force occurrence) potentially leading to their formation into (supermassive) black holes at an earlier point in time than matter, explaining their (apparent) absence from the universe but possible presence within black holes, I'm thinking particularly supermassive black holes if they got a head start.