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QuoteOriginally posted by: frenchXSo you want to develop a new theory of quantum gravity ? Don't you think that string theories, branes theories, M theory, multiverse theory and quantum loop theory are not enough? (I think I forgot somes). But anyway, could you explain your idea about that theory ? The hardest point is to join the scale of universe (general relativity theory) to the scale of subatomic world (quantum mechanics). So maybe there will be a new quantum particle in the future called the trackstaron Yes, the Quantum Relative Gravity Theory will unify the various Unification theories and related Not-Quite-So-Unified concepts.It will then be placed at the top of a structure that I will call the Grand Unification Synthesis Theory or GUSTY and will be expressed in equations of poetry."The cosmic wind was a torrent of darkness* among the gusty quantum trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The stellar road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple nebulous moor, And the highwayman came riding— Riding—riding— The highwayman came riding, up to the worm-hole door."* dark matterWith appreciation for Alfred Noyes. ***rmax, as you may know, Highwaymen were very interested in FX and domestic X as well. They often applied a little force in obtaining favorable terms... so this could be one form of the "h" constant.

Yes, but great work by the team behind the scenes to get it back on quite late last night. So I worked on my personal taxes without interruption and they go out by Pony Express today!

Would be funny to develop a physic theory in poetry Trackstar So you have to use the keywords in your poem : gravity, quantum, strings, supersymmetric, renormalization, space time, topology, Hawking radiation, black hole entropy, Planck scale and so many others. Just wish you good luck to write a poem with that If you do so, I'll send it to the Astrophysics Department in my lab

Solution: you create a Lexicon and the more purely scientific words are replaced by poetic metaphors.So Stephen Hawking becomes a Hawk soaring in a widening gyre, as the falcon does in the Yeats poem...and so on **The Second ComingTurning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? by William Butler Yeats

The other cool thing about this method is that real poetry and physics lovers will develop skeleton keys to the works and will spend hours pouring through them for the Ultimate Answers. Like, dare I say it, there are keys to Finnegan's Wake. Ezra Pound's Cantos provide similar delights.

So some ideas about your lexicon for your theory Big Bang: the day when everything beginsGravity: the mysterious force of attractionString:the brick of the wall of the universeCosmology: the art of forecasting the fate of the universeAstrophysicist: magicians of the great prestigeDark Matter: obscure side of the voidBlack Holes: the devourers of lightWorm Hole: the bridge through the mirror of realityQuantum mechanics: the art of the infinitely smallGraviton: carrier of the great secretand so on

The formalism of quantum mechanics in finance Quantum mechanics option pricingShould be a nice way to explain derivatives to theoric physicist

"Your very clever young man but it's turtles all the way down!" ~witty remark by an old woman to Richard FeynmanGiven that we have 10^500 string theories for only 10^100 particles she may not be wrong

Actually some interesting background and some entertaining disputes on that Turtle reference:Hindu myths: World Turtle "The most widely known version appears in Stephen Hawking's 1988 book A Brief History of Time, which starts:A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever", said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!" The origins of the turtle story are uncertain....Hawking's suggested connection to Russell may be due to his 1927 lecture Why I Am Not a Christian. In it, while discounting the First Cause argument intended to be a proof of God's existence, Russell comments (with an argument not relevant to modern Hindu beliefs):If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument. It is exactly of the same nature as the Hindu's view, that the world rested upon an elephant and the elephant rested upon a tortoise; and when they said, "How about the tortoise?" the Indian said, "Suppose we change the subject."Philosophical allusion to the story goes back at least as far as John Locke. In his 1690 tract An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke compares one who would say that properties inhere in "substance" to the Indian who said the world was on an elephant which was on a tortoise "but being again pressed to know what gave support to the broad-backed tortoise, replied - something, he knew not what."Henry David Thoreau, in his journal entry of 4 May 1852, writes:Men are making speeches? all over the country, but each expresses only the thought, or the want of thought, of the multitude. No man stands on truth. They are merely banded together as usual, one leaning on another and all together on nothing; as the Hindoos made the world rest on an elephant, and the elephant on a tortoise, and had nothing to put under the tortoise.Despite these accounts, Hindu myths do not actually contain the myth in the form described. Locke appears to have got the image through Samuel Purchas. Some accounts involve the earth supported by a single unsupported tortoise, as Jñānarāja argued: "A vulture, which has only little strength, rests in the sky holding a snake in its beak for a prahara [three hours]. Why can [the deity] in the form of a tortoise, who possesses an inconceivable potency, not hold the Earth in the sky for a kalpa [billions of years]?""...Excerpted from Wiki: "Turtles all the Way Down." See also "World Turtle" and "World Elephant".