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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Thrawn on November 26, 2002, 02:38:57 PM
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"Throwing Einstein for a Loop
Physicist Fotini Markopoulou Kalamara has developed a way to connect relativity with quantum theory--while making sure that cause still precedes effect
By Amanda Gefter
FOTINI MARKOPOULOU KALAMARA:
QUANTIZING GRAVITY
Recently accepted a five-year renewable post at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, where "it's very open-minded."
If correct, the causal spin networks theory that she's helped to develop would mean that the universe functions like a giant quantum computer.
On her career: "Having fun is essential, because otherwise you get stressed out. You think, I have to show the universe is made out of atoms, and aaaaahhh, you flip out! So you want to keep loose."
She talks about physics like it's cooking. "My strength is to put things together out of nothing," she says, "to take this ingredient and another one there and stick something together." The art is figuring out which ones to use and how to combine them so that when the oven bell dings, the universe comes out just right.
At 31 years old, Fotini Markopoulou Kalamara is hailed as one of the world's most promising young physicists. She recently accepted a position at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario (Canada's answer to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.). There she works alongside such prominent physicists as Robert Myers and Lee Smolin, hoping to blend Einstein's general relativity with quantum theory to explain the nature of space and time. "
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0007E95C-9597-1DC9-AF71809EC588EEDF&catID=2
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Einstein was a great American.
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when i was in college, i had a professor who had a quantized theory of gravity that he had been pushing for year. all the others professors & researchers in his field thought it was a load of toejam & they ostracised the Dr w/ the weird theory & his career was over (he was still allowed to teach classes, but could not get funding for research).
he deserved it, as he was a complete ass
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"They found a way to reconcile relativity and quantum mechanics"
cringe......
there's all kinds of ways to reconcile the 2 you just need to stroke the equations or add dimensions, they were up to 26 at one point but i heard they got it down to 11 recently.
until it's predictions are consistent it's just another theory- albeit a really ingenious one.
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String theory has been with us for a while now.
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Originally posted by mietla
String theory has been with us for a while now.
This is better then string theory! It's LOOP theory!
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I like String cheese theory.