Null Physics

[Pyrotex]

Well, I am rather semi-stunned by the two page full color ad inside Scientific American magazine (July, 2008) for the book: Our Undiscovered Universe, by Terence Witt.

The book purports to completely revolutionize all of physics from the ground up, based upon a newly understood underlying geometry of the universe.

The associated website is www.nullphysics.

It has excerpts from the book, a full table of contents. I read the excerpts. I am afraid to say, that every sentence almost makes sense to me. Take that any way you want.

Anybody out there buying the book? Please don't make me buy it--finances are really tight right now. I will if I have to {sigh}.

We need to discuss this! If it's valid, it does away with Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang. No more Inflation or Expanding Universe. String Theory goes away. 11 Dimensions becomes unnecessary. These are all GOOD THINGS! The key phrase is: IF IT'S VALID.

[Thunderbird]

I will have to wait also, I need to order more diamond tools for a project I just started , so my wish list for books all go on the back burner for now. It does look interesting in that he’s addressing the universe as a whole, instead of just parts, and claims to have answers that science usually don't address at all, The why’s of existence. Fascinating, but I’ll need to find out more.

Suppose a primitive native, with no prior contact with modern civilization, found a digital
watch on a jungle trail. Being the shaman of his village, he studies this object and soon
recognizes patterns in the symbols it displays. Eventually, he develops a model of the
precession of these symbols, and wows his tribesman by predicting the appearance and
moment of arrival of the next cipher. Yet he has no idea what the watch is or why it was
laying on the trail in the first place. These are insignificant details, he tells his ignorant
compatriots, because he knows what the next symbol is going to look like and
approximately when it will appear, and this remarkable foreknowledge transcends all other
considerations. As physics creeps into the twenty-first century, its methodology bears an
uncanny resemblance to the approach used by our friend with the digital watch. Scarier
still, many physicists would not see this as a problem. We can do better, far better.
Anyone who has ever wondered why the universe exists and how it functions on the largest
scale; anyone with a critical mind who wants to know the truth and is weary and dissatisfied
with the prevailing quantum and cosmological dogma; is absolutely going to love this book.
Welcome to the new world … the world where reality is real, not the winner of a science
fiction contest.www.nullphysics.

[CHADS]

In his book he states :

"The Big Bang allegedly produces space through expansion. How can there be vacuum fluctuations without a Vacuum?"

Empty Space has no Chemical Medium in Which Sound can travel... This is the vacuum is it not.

And he says :

"If no events preceded the Big Bang, how could time be reckoned at
all? This is the time before time problem. "

Scientists dont say that there was nothing before the big bang ..There has to be Potential...

I have touched on his Finite hyperspace ideas before in certain forums its purley a dimensional concept.

He says also "that we should do better than what Archimedes said about gravity Attraction is objects wanting to return to their proper place" ~

I think Archimedes was on a good thing .. maybe everything wants to get back to the big bang but there is too much in the way now.

Like water falling it will have to spread out like a pancake in gravity but in space it does not.... The total mass/energy in the universe is gravity it wants to spread out like water. Seeking more freedom and comfort.

I have only read inserts but i like his finite hyperspace i share the veiw in a less mathimatical way ........

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Pyrotex

Well, I am rather semi-stunned by the two page full color ad inside Scientific American magazine (July, 2008) for the book: Our Undiscovered Universe, by Terence Witt.

The book purports to completely revolutionize all of physics from the ground up, based upon a newly understood underlying geometry of the universe.

The associated website is www.nullphysics.

It has excerpts from the book, a full table of contents. I read the excerpts. I am afraid to say, that every sentence almost makes sense to me. Take that any way you want.

Anybody out there buying the book? Please don't make me buy it--finances are really tight right now. I will if I have to {sigh}.

We need to discuss this! If it's valid, it does away with Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and the Big Bang. No more Inflation or Expanding Universe. String Theory goes away. 11 Dimensions becomes unnecessary. These are all GOOD THINGS! The key phrase is: IF IT'S VALID.

I was hoping to get it from the public library eventually. If anyone has read it a review would be nice.

[Pyrotex]

NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea...

I just got an email from "Sara", a publicist for the book "The Undiscovered Universe".
She has kindly offered to to send me a FREE copy of the book.
NOW, we're cooking with petrol.

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Pyrotex

NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea...

I just got an email from "Sara", a publicist for the book "The Undiscovered Universe".
She has kindly offered to to send me a FREE copy of the book.
NOW, we're cooking with petrol.

I hope you know this means you have to review the book for us?

[Pyrotex]

Originally Posted by Moontanman

I hope you know this means you have to review the book for us?

Absotively! Posilutely! No shit, Sherlock!

I only live to serve.

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Pyrotex

Absotively! Posilutely! No shit, Sherlock!

I only live to serve.

Yeah, don't we all, don't we all......

[Boerseun]

Do you know whether this guy have written any supporting papers that have been reviewed in the science community?

I haven't read a lot on the site you linked to, apart from that he's charging lotsa bucks for his book, and supplies a few teasers.

That made my "McCutcheon - Final Theory" bullshitometer go off.

If you give the book a positive review, I will change my mind. You have to listen to wheelchair-bound rocket scientists, after all...

[Pyrotex]

Originally Posted by Boerseun

...You have to listen to wheelchair-bound rocket scientists, after all...

Yes. :-/

You do.