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Report and Opinion 2016;8(6) http://www.sciencepub.net/report Beyond Einstein and Newton: A Scientific Odyssey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, And The Cosmos Manjunath R Independent Researcher #16/1, 8 Th Main Road, Shivanagar, Rajajinagar, Bangalore: 560010, Karnataka, India [email protected], [email protected] “There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.” : Lord Kelvin Abstract: General public regards science as a beautiful truth. But it is absolutely-absolutely false. Science has fatal limitations. The whole the scientific community is ignorant about it. It is strange that scientists are not raising the issues. Science means truth, and scientists are proponents of the truth. But they are teaching incorrect ideas to children (upcoming scientists) in schools /colleges etc. One who will raise the issue will face unprecedented initial criticism. Anyone can read the book and find out the truth. It is open to everyone. [Manjunath R. Beyond Einstein and Newton: A Scientific Odyssey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, And The Cosmos. Rep Opinion 2016;8(6):1-81]. ISSN 1553-9873 (print); ISSN 2375-7205 (online). http://www.sciencepub.net/report. 1. doi:10.7537/marsroj08061601. Keywords: Science; Cosmos; Equations; Dimensions; Creation; Big Bang. “But the creative principle resides in Subaltern notable – built on the work of the great mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it astronomers Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients (who took the details of Ptolemy, and found a way to dreamed.” -- Albert Einstein look at the same construction from a slightly different A perspective and discover that the Earth is not the LAYMAN’S JOURNEY center of the universe) and Johannes Kepler – which TO THE FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS take us on a journey from the time when Aristotle and the world of that era believed that Earth was the center of the universe and supported on the back of a giant tortoise to our contemporary age when we know better − regards body of knowledge as painterly truth. Rather it is absolutely-absolutely false. The word “certainty” in the Game of Science is a misleading term. The “Through history of science, from Copernicus and Galileo to the our perceptions, universe shapes itself. present, is replete with examples that belie the charge Through of uncertainism in science. Despite the fact that our thoughts, the universe is delivering its science (which is guided by natural law and is testable glories. against the empirical world) has revolutionized every We are the medium through which the universe aspect of human life and greatly clarified our becomes conscious of its existence.” understanding of the world, it has weighty limitations and it’s a journey not a destination and the advance of Chapter 1 knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal A Cosmic Mystery Begins that forever recedes. And it's our main ingredient for understanding − a means of accepting what we've learned, challenging what we (a hoard of talking monkeys who’s consciousness is from a collection of connected neurons − hammering away on typewriters and by pure chance eventually ranging the values for the (fundamental) numbers that would allow the development of any form of intelligent life) think, and knowing that in some of the things that we think, there may be something to modify and to change. We now have considerable empirical data and highly successful scientific interpretations that bear on the question of 1 Report and Opinion 2016;8(6) http://www.sciencepub.net/report certainty. The time has come to examine what those reciprocal of uncertainty.’ The very existence of data and models tell us about the validity of the certainty is a lot more baffled than it exists, even if we scientific hypothesis. begin from a point of thinking it’s pretty damn baffled in the first point. Moreover, the very expression “certainly proven” is a contradiction in terms. There’s nothing that is certainly proven. The deep core of science is the deep awareness that we have wrong ideas, we have misinterpretations. And the fact that we human beings − who are ourselves mere collections of fundamental particles in a truly elegant fashion — still facing with the question: “What is truth,” or rather “who is Truth?” — have been able to live with doubt and uncertainty. We think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be false. Ever since the beginning of human civilization, After sleeping through a hundred million years in we have not been in a state of satisfaction to watch wisps, ashes and smoking gun we − the rational beings things as incoherent and unexplainable. While we developed from the Darwin’s principle of natural have been thinking whether the universe began at the selection (a mechanistic, causal account of how living big bang singularity and would come to an end either things came to look as if they had been designed for a at the big crunch singularity, we have converted at purpose) in terms of the genetic information carried in least a thousand joules of energy in the form of the DNA of our cells and how it got modified by thoughts. This has decreased the disorder of the human random mutations − have finally awakened our eyes brain by about few million units. Thus, in a sense, the on a cooled cinder, sparkling with color, bountiful evolution of human civilization in understanding the with life, reciting an African creation myth (: that in universe has established a small corner of the order in the beginning, there was only darkness, water, and the a human brain. However, the burning questions still great god Bumba. One day Bumba, in pain from a remain unresolved, which set the human race to keep stomach ache, vomited up the sun. The sun dried up away from such issues. Many early native postulates some of the water, leaving land. Still in pain, Bumba have fallen or are falling aside -- and there now vomited up the moon, the stars, and then some alternative substitutes. In short, while we do not have animals. The reptiles, mammals, and ultimately the an answer, we now have a whisper of the grandeur of human race) and rapidly moving on to big questions the problem. With our limited brains and tiny such as, if the big bang was perfectly symmetrical, and knowledge, we cannot hope to have a complete picture then we should expect equal amounts of matter and of unlimited speculating about the gigantic universe antimatter to be formed. In other words, if matter and we live in. antimatter can be made or destroyed only in matching amounts, and the laws of physics are exactly same for the both, then how can it be that the universe contains so much matter but so little antimatter? So why do we now see only matter except for the tiny amounts of antimatter that we make in the lab and observe in cosmic rays? Is that the original big bang was not perfectly symmetrical at all? We Humans, a curious species, are accustomed into an inquisition. The question is not ‘do we know everything from the triumph of the Higgs boson to the underlying discomfort of multiverses?’ or it is ‘do we know enough?’ But how perfectly we know about We understand the things we see things? For many people this might sound like a We don’t understand what we can’t startling claim. But scientific knowledge is often Cosmological Principle: transitory: some (but not all) unquestionably fraught The universe is the same everywhere. with misinterpretation. This is not a weakness but Homogeneous: strength, for our better understanding of the events The universe looks the same from every point. around us, and of our own existence. However, all that Isotropic: we can say how far we are from the truth, ‘the The universe looks the same in every direction. But WHY? 2 Report and Opinion 2016;8(6) http://www.sciencepub.net/report For lack of other theories, we forcibly adore the --Albert Einstein, in a Sept.26, 1947, letter to theories like the big bang, which posits that in the Georges Lema beginning of evolution all the observable galaxies and With many bizarre twists and turns, super strings every speck of energy in the universe was jammed into − a generalized extension of string theory which a very tiny mathematically indefinable entity called predicts that all matter consists of tiny vibrating the singularity (or the primeval atom named by the strings and the precise number of dimensions: ten. The Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre, who was the first to usual three dimensions of space − length, width, and investigate the origin of the universe that we now call breadth − and one of time are extended by six more the big bang). This extremely dense point exploded spatial dimensions − blinked into existence. Although with unimaginable force, creating matter and the mathematics of super strings is so complicated propelling it outward to make the billions of galaxies that, to date, no one even knows the exact equations of of our vast universe. It seems to be a good postulate the theory (we know only approximations to these that the anticipation of a mathematically indefinable equations, and even the approximate equations are so entity by a scientific theory implies that the theory has complicated that they as yet have been only partially ruled out. It would mean that the usual approach of solved) − The best choice we have at the moment is science of building a scientific model could anticipate the super strings, but no one has seen a superstring and that the universe must have had a beginning, but that it it has not been found to agree with experience and could not prognosticate how it had a beginning.