Stranger Whan We CAN Imagine: The Return of the ÆTHER!

[athelind]

Posted for future reference:

The Key to Quantum Gravity May Lie in the Æther.

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Expect the TIMECUBE crazies and the anti-science types who think that the Big Bang is part of "Darwinism" to jump all over this, shrieking, "See? Einstein was wrong!" and insulting the intelligence of everyone who doesn't immediately see that this proves their own particular brand of blather.

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Comments

Re: Finally! An appropriate opportunity to use this icon!

[cpxbrex.livejournal.com]

Yes. So, of course, the quantum guys have a bigger stake in reconciling quantum gravity with relativistic gravity. Relativity works very well for almost all interactions that we have any hope of seeing. But the fields do meet in any one of a number of ways (most obviously, cosmology) and the "solutions" always have a quantum orientation. Do astronomers not have anything to say on the subject? Of course they do. But the lion's share of research dollars and research priorities go people who do quantum research. Since quantum research gets literally orders of magnitude more grant money than relativity - relativity having few military applications and almost all science is funded by the military's agenda one way or another - this is not surprising and, I think, explains the curious asymmetry of TOE research.