The Colour Blog of Motion MountainQuantum gravity is testable, unlike the aether, but only if …Most theories of relativistic quantum gravity are untestable. How can this be? Journals are full of papers! The internet is full of videos…Sep 11Sep 11
The Colour Blog of Motion MountainCalculating the fine structure constant 𝛼 and the electron mass — Part 6Estimating or calculating the mass value of the electron, once its structure is given, implies solving at least two challenges. The first…Sep 3Sep 3
The Colour Blog of Motion MountainWhy the Four Interactions Cannot Be Unified — but Physics CanMany physicists and journalists state that fundamental physics aims to unify the four interactions. However, all these statements are…Aug 29Aug 29
The Colour Blog of Motion MountainCalculating the fine structure constant 𝛼 and more — Part 5Calculating the electron mass also leads — when its running with energy is extracted — to the fine structure constant. This is a result of…Aug 11Aug 11
The Colour Blog of Motion MountainWhat Does Physics Require Beyond the Standard Model?Nature yields not a single observation beyond the standard model of particle physics with massive neutrinos. Nevertheless, nature requires…Aug 10Aug 10
The Colour Blog of Motion MountainCalculating the fine structure constant 𝛼 and more — Part 4Let us continue to determine the electron mass. The preceding parts of this thread showed that particle mass is due to tangle core…Aug 1Aug 1
The Colour Blog of Motion MountainCalculating the fine structure constant 𝛼 and more — Part 3Calculating the mass of elementary particles is possible in the strand tangle model. This is fascinating, because no other model in the…Jul 27Jul 27
The Colour Blog of Motion MountainCalculating the fine structure constant 𝛼 and more — Part 2In the strand model, a particle’s electric charge and its mass can be calculated. Their values are due to the amount of chirality of the…Jul 22Jul 22
The Colour Blog of Motion MountainCalculating the fine structure constant 𝛼 and more — Part 1The fine structure constant 𝛼 is the most well-known fundamental constant. It was discovered in 1915 by Arnold Sommerfeld and describes…Jul 20Jul 20
The Colour Blog of Motion MountainJohn Horgan Was RightIn 1993, in his book “The End of Science”, John Horgan made gentle fun of many sciences, and of fundamental physics and cosmology in…Jul 13Jul 13