Bruce Sterling @bruces*I like guys who personally solve cosmology and all of physics in their spare time
Joe@bruces The problem is that the numbers he claims his theory predicts within a three digit margin of error are known to a greater accuracy than that. So it seems, unless I am missing something, that the evidence falsifies his claims.
muddle@not2b @bruces just throwing this out there to be a devil's advocate, but perhaps the theory just need more refinement to get better agreement with observations? It's pretty wild that the numbers already agree so well given only two inputs and geometry.
I did read the article but didn't dig deeply enough to be able to say anything about it with confidence, but the mention of holography makes me think why should "things" map to a single "pixel"? Maybe a cluster or supercluster of these patches need to be taken into account? Then there's like an interferometric solution that more closely hews to the observed values? (obviously supercluster shape would not follow tiling for regular hexagonal numbers?)
I'm with you on the immediate idea to dismiss it as "numerology" but I think that getting so close to so many physical constants does make it sound that there's something more than coincidence here.
I did read the article but didn't dig deeply enough to be able to say anything about it with confidence, but the mention of holography makes me think why should "things" map to a single "pixel"? Maybe a cluster or supercluster of these patches need to be taken into account? Then there's like an interferometric solution that more closely hews to the observed values? (obviously supercluster shape would not follow tiling for regular hexagonal numbers?)
I'm with you on the immediate idea to dismiss it as "numerology" but I think that getting so close to so many physical constants does make it sound that there's something more than coincidence here.
@not2b @bruces also, just spitballing here, but this "screen" has to have a certain number of pentagons. Sure, they're irrelevant in terms of overall area, but if you're going to come up with a geometric idea like this, maybe they also have a role to play? Again, maybe a source of future refinement.
Bruce Elrick@bruces
When I was doing my Ph.D. physics research at the University of Toronto this Russian guy came by my office and wanted to talk about some theory of his. I have no recollection of what he said, but I do recall my supervising professor knew of him and said he came by every year or two.
He didn't help me with my research.
Jeff Zugale - Z Factory@bruces since I still haven’t mastered the math needed I’m dancing around the edge of understanding this, but that’s pretty amazing… isn’t it?
synlogic4242@bruces his references to pixel area and screens feel... fishy
Medea Vanamonde 🏳️⚧️@bruces Quantum Inertia
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