One physicist on YouTube said that physics may be nearing its end as a science if the LHC cannot find anymore discoveries aside from the Higgs Boson. But, based on this article, there are many other areas that physics can cover, much of which are not understandable by most people these days.
However, what's interesting about Hagelin's theory is that it has personal appeal, particularly meditators in the TM movement. If any of the siddhas could demonstrate he or she can float in the air, then Hagelin's idea should catch the interest of the science community, and the world at large. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote : According to the author, it is possible to turn vast deserts into huge computers. Also, one of the dreams is to create quantum computers that can someday understand quantum physics. Far out, but this is interesting: The proposed unification of forces, however, raises important challenges. Our unification theories predict events and particles that have not yet been observed. The missing events are decays of protons. As yet experimenters have not witnessed any, despite heroic efforts. They must, and will, try harder. What he's talking about here is the experiments I've been talking about for ages. The SU(5) theory of the seventies led to a series of experiments to find the proton that must exist if the unified field theory is correct, they bult swimming pool sized detectors, deep underground all over the world to catch the interaction between the suspected proton and the chlorine (I think it was) in the tanks. The way it works is, if you have a prediction of a subatomic event then you will know what the likelihood of detecting that event it. In this case they knew how likely it was and left enough time for statistical errors and they didn't find anything. So they let the experiment run just in case. And run and run and run, until eventually it became obvious that the proton didn't exist and the unification wasn't happening. QED Quite why this guy thinks they should be trying harder when they've already done all they can to find it is beyond me. It looks like the basic idea is so good they can't bear to let it go. The last sentence: Unification theory suggests that in 100 years physicists will be awash in proton decay data and theorizing over its finer points, is particularly odd in respect of the conclusions from the experiment. If the data isn't there they won't be swimming in it, the theory can't suggest otherwise without suggesting a way they were wrong with the experiment. Which is what string theory tried to do by having the decying protons hoovered up by mini dimensions all curled up somewhere. But we know that a lot of string theories are wrong because of how the Higg's boson turned out. Even John Hagelin admitted that. But even if he hadn't I don't see where the idea that it's all consciousness fits in, we are talking about energy left over from the big bang not some mystical super-awareness! So no, I don't think JH's ideas will be accepted by the mainstream. I can dig out references if you like. But will the unified field as proposed by John Hagelin be accepted as mainstream physics? How Physics Will Change—and Change the World—in 100 Years — NOVA Next | PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/in-100-years/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/in-100-years/ How Physics Will Change—and Change the World—in... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/in-100-years/ Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek predicts a century of advances in physics and beyond. View on www.pbs.org http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/in-100-years/ Preview by Yahoo
