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<blockquote data-quote="wolsty" data-source="post: 15880" data-attributes="member: 175166"><p>@ Mikeey</p><p></p><p>Taking that question seriously, Mikeey, yes there probably is a 'Theory of Everything', but no-one's found it yet. Einstein spent a great part of his later life trying to find a Grand Unified Theory or GUT, as it's normally known. He failed to find an explanation for how the four forces of Nature (gravity, electromagnetic, strong nuclear and weak nuclear) interact largely, I suspect, because he refused to accept many of the implications of Quantum Mechanics. His famous phrase about God not playing dice with the Universe derives from his refusal to accept the Uncertainty Principle.</p><p></p><p>More recently, work in Qauntum Mechanics, particularly the areas known as (Super)String Theory and, more recently M(embrane) Theory (which involve 10 or 11 dimensions!) have succeeded in showing that the Stong Nuclear, Weak Nuclear and Electromagnetic forces are derived from the same force and differentiated in the milliseconds after the Big Bang. These forces operate at the atomic and sub-atomic level. Gravity, by contrast, is a very weak force and is noticeable only at a much larger scale ie the world we can see up to astronomical distances. It has very little effect at the (sub)atomic scale.</p><p></p><p>So we still have a problem. One way round it might be to accept the proposal that Gravity is repulsive (rather than attractive) at very large distances. At this point the Maths and Physics go well beyond my level of understanding, but the thought of Gravity pushing bodies APART boggles my rather feeble mind.</p><p></p><p>So I'm inclined to follow CH's suggestion and go down the pub to talk football.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wolsty, post: 15880, member: 175166"] @ Mikeey Taking that question seriously, Mikeey, yes there probably is a 'Theory of Everything', but no-one's found it yet. Einstein spent a great part of his later life trying to find a Grand Unified Theory or GUT, as it's normally known. He failed to find an explanation for how the four forces of Nature (gravity, electromagnetic, strong nuclear and weak nuclear) interact largely, I suspect, because he refused to accept many of the implications of Quantum Mechanics. His famous phrase about God not playing dice with the Universe derives from his refusal to accept the Uncertainty Principle. More recently, work in Qauntum Mechanics, particularly the areas known as (Super)String Theory and, more recently M(embrane) Theory (which involve 10 or 11 dimensions!) have succeeded in showing that the Stong Nuclear, Weak Nuclear and Electromagnetic forces are derived from the same force and differentiated in the milliseconds after the Big Bang. These forces operate at the atomic and sub-atomic level. Gravity, by contrast, is a very weak force and is noticeable only at a much larger scale ie the world we can see up to astronomical distances. It has very little effect at the (sub)atomic scale. So we still have a problem. One way round it might be to accept the proposal that Gravity is repulsive (rather than attractive) at very large distances. At this point the Maths and Physics go well beyond my level of understanding, but the thought of Gravity pushing bodies APART boggles my rather feeble mind. So I'm inclined to follow CH's suggestion and go down the pub to talk football. :) [/QUOTE]
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