Quantum gravity and the Theory of Everything

The effort to unify all of the forces and laws of nature or find a “Theory of Everything” has primarily focused on explaining gravity in terms of the concepts contained in quantum mechanical field theories. However, it is unfortunate that some have not made an effort to find it in terms of its continuous properties … Read more

Entropy and the arrow of time

In the natural sciences, arrow of time is a term coined in 1927 by British astronomer Arthur Eddington.  He used it to distinguish a direction of time on a four-dimensional relativistic map of the world, which, according to him, can be determined by a study of organizations of atoms, molecules, and bodies. Physical processes at … Read more

Quantum confinement: a classical explanation

One of the conceptual problems that has been largely ignored in modern quantum theory is what defines the boundaries of a quantum system after an observation is made. Quantum theories define a particle’s position before one is made in terms of the probabilities associated with Schrödinger’s wave equation.  In other words there is a non … Read more

The Quantum Enigma: the wave particle duality of existence

The Quantum Enigma or the discrepancy between the worldview implied by the accuracy of modern quantum mechanics and our Common sense (Sept. 1, 2008) understanding of reality is due to the incompleteness of its theoretical structure.   Its absurdity arises from the fact, as Werner Heisenberg one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics put it … Read more

A background independent quantum gravity

We have shown throughout this blog and its companion book “The Reality of the Fourth *Spatial* Dimension” there are many theoretical advantages to defining the universe in term of the existence four *spatial* dimensions instead of four dimensional space-time. One of the fundamental difficulties in unifying Quantum Mechanics with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity is … Read more