Retired UL Lafayette professor recognized for making a scientific breakthrough https://www.klfy.com/news/local/ret...r-making-a-scientific-breakthrough/1764785020 Wow! The unified field theory solved. This would be the biggest breakthrough so far in the history of physics. But, what happens now? This came out in February 2019. I haven't seen any new articles on this idea's progress through the scientific community. Am I going to have to wait until this Dr. Louis Houston does a speech this summer???
Can it be tested? I see a number of people out there talking about de Broglie waves. But, it's not clear to me how far this has moved from theoretical physics to actual science or how the world of physics would characterize this work. I don't mean to put it down - this is one way that science progresses. Some Einstein comes up with some really interesting thought experiments and bam - a big hunk of physics gets blown away and replaced!
Well, I think, according to the news story, which took place in February 2019, it was supposed to be reviewed sometime later in February, when it was published. But I haven't seen any news stories about it. Presumably, scientists will start experimenting on it once they get the details of it. Hopefully, it won't be held up until this summer, when this guy is going to speak on the subject.
The deBroglie wavelength is a matter of fact and has been known since 1924. I've measured it myself. Standard stuff for physics students.
Eh, smells like a bunch of nothing to me. They say it WILL be published later this month. So they are announcing a breakthrough with NO peer review. That alone is suspicious and unprofessional. That is what made Pons and Fleischmann eat dirt when they announced the discovery of cold fusion. Nor did they say it will be published in Nature, or Science, or even Physics Today... just published. That could well mean self-published on the internet, which means absolutely nothing. If they thought this was something big, it would be in Science or Nature or another big-league journal. Since he didn't cite the publication, he was probably already rejected. I see no credible evidence that this is anything more than another one of thousands of such failed attempts. Someone reported this to the local station and they made a big deal out of it.
Ideas are never held up. Theoretical physicists talk all the time. It's a free flow of ideas. These ideas are a major source of info for scientists on where to look. I just haven't seen evidence that the idea has been (or can be) tested. Until it's tested, it won't be published as science. It will be like string theory and multiverse - cool ideas that might lead somewhere and might at some future time be testable.
Yes, I meant that I don't know how far the idea in the OP has progressed. I used "this" in an unfortunately vague way.
What I haven't found is comment from well respected sources or indications of testing. It's not my field, so I limit myself to process and response. So, I could have missed on that.
Thanks. This is looking a little better. But not where you would publish a huge breakthrough. Houston, L. (2019) A Unified Field Theory Based on a Rotating de Broglie Wave Packet. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 7, 343-355. doi: 10.4236/jamp.2019.72026.
I am following "unified field theory" in my news app. It doesn't get updated very often with new news articles. So I saw this I jumped on it. The only other news about unified field theory is that Albert Einstein's missing page has been found. I have another thread topic on this:Einstein 'puzzle' solved as missing page emerges in new trove
Here is the abstract...the paper is not yet available. Abstract The introduction of nonsymmetric gik in unified field theories of the Einstein‐Schrödinger type is open to the objection, on group‐theoretical grounds, that the symmetric and antisymmetric parts transform independently. This objection does not apply to the use of nonsymmetric Γikμ, since these quantities are irreducible under the ``extended group,'' consisting of the point transformations and the Einstein λ transformations. We consider a theory based on symmetric gik and nonsymmetric Γikμ. The Lagrangian L is assumed to depend only on gik and the contracted curvature tensor Rik (this insures the λ invariance and transposition invariance of the theory). For simplicity, we suppose further that L involves Rik rationally and, at most, quadratically. The resulting theory is able to account satisfactorily for the main feature of gravitation, electromagnetism, and their interaction. In particular, the theory yields the correct equations of motion for charged masses. The electromagnetic tensor is associated with the skew part of Rik, and the λ transformations correspond roughly to the gauge transformations of electrodynamics.
I was afraid of this, it's scientific mumbo jumbo. I guess I still have to wait until scientists review it and explain it in plain English.
Wow, 3 entire months. Things like this take decades to be tested and analyzed. Even something like Black Holes was only theory until just last month, and we have been speculating on them and observing their behavior second-hand for decades. And still only have a ghost of an idea how they actually work. It is only in the last decade or so that the consensus is that there is a super-massive black hole in the middle of spiral galaxies (as well as most others). And even more recently it has become apparent that these black holes seem to essentially "turn themselves off". We know by indirect observation that there is such in our own galaxy, we can see this by the gravitational movement of stars around the center. Yet, it does not seem to be feeding on simply whatever comes close to it, almost like it is hibernating. And most other galaxies seem to be in the same state. A largely dormant black hole that provides a center and binds the galaxies together, yet is not hungrily consuming everything near by. This simply can not be explained by any of the theories about them, and physicists are even now trying to figure out what it takes to make a black hole "full" and stop eating. And the very existence of black holes has caused many to question if the Unified Field Theory is even real. Entropy, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and both the Information Loss Paradox and Firewall Paradox throw huge chunks of that theory into question. Even Stephen Hawking realized much of it was a paradox and conflicted with either itself, or other things observed since Einstein's death.
