What's the angle on relativity?
GR doesnt mix with quantum mechanics at all. It also cant explain how galaxies dont spin themselves apart, or why the whole universe is so redshifted. So they came up with Dark Matter and Energy, which is fine but, after 40 years and billions of dollars spent trying to detect them, theyre no closer to actually being able to prove space itself is capable of creating new space IE Dark energy. Dark matter should be "easy" to detect, but theyre no closer to finding it than when they used it to put duct tape on GR a long time ago. So rather than ditch GR because its failure to explain what we see on both the biggest and smallest scales they just stick to it as the basis of all physics. Some links and context for them below.
Dr. Robitaille has a whole series taking apart the big bang, black holes, the nature of sun, and CMB map. I like this guy because he always links sources, and does his best to make it digestible for a smart but lay person. He also doesnt try to grift his own theories. Usually people try to use bad science thats happening to push other theories like electric universe or creationism, Dr. Robitaille doesnt do that he just shits all over the wider communities work. The one below is my favorite one of his videos, it about the CMB being not being a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8lKQMEYYLw&list=PLnU8XK0C8oTDaiwe8Us_YNl4Kjmt8ceRD
The one below gives an alternative theory to dark matter that works, and he lays out an experiment that would be expensive but possible. No interest though, because of the amount of money that goes into keeping (((Einstein))) the smartest man to ever live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnNKC82wUmY&t
Thad Roberts has a cool alternative theory of quantum mechanics that explain redishit without needing dark energy or infinitely expanding space. Probably the funnest of the videos, and he does a good job setting the table of what hes talking about. He doesnt really go into any experiments that could be done to prove what hes talking about though.
Ok yeah I knew that quantum stuff, Newtonian stuff, and relativistic stuff don't work with each other, but hadn't had an update in a while cuz I'm a humanities guy.
These look like great sources, thanks.
Is string theory still a thing?
Yea its still a thing, but the problem with string theory for science, and the guy in the second video does a good job explaining this specifically, is, that its complex math that kind of works to leave the door open for GR to still be relevant. I kind of lost interest in trying to wrap my head around string theory when I watched an interview with Michio Kaku admitting that its not possible to even conceive an experiment that could detect the strings. Its complex math they came up with to make GR still kind of work. The reason science doesnt accept UFOs or ghosts exist is because its not possible to preform experiments on the phenomena. For some reason GR is the only thing in science that gets a pass on this. Its not bad people are passionate about it, but the entire community going all in on that kind of thing to prop GR up has stalled astrophysics from coming up with anything new for decades.
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