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Christoph, please do not answer. This guy makes several mistakes. First, he did not read your theory. So you cannot talk with him anyway. Second, he thinks that you are a crackpot. This shows that he did not read your physics textbook. Third, for some reason, he thinks that crackpots should be...

Christoph, why do you answer this guy? He is not worth your time. Instead, please answer my last open question, which might interest more people who read this: How does the strand model explain that free quarks are not observed, whereas free leptons are?

Even Lubos Motl agrees that there is a minimum measurable distance in nature. And he goes on to explain that Poincare invariance is true nevertheless.

Christoph, I had nothing particular in mind. I simply find it hard to believe that of the thousands of people working on quantum theory, nobody has looked at fluctuating strands. I looked through arxiv, but did not find anything. There are many papers on the "polymer representation" of quantum...

Christoph, in your strand model you propose tangles for the gauge bosons, for the quarks and for the leptons. When you present the quark tangles, you explain that they are rational tangles of 2 strands, and as such the tangles explain why quarks do not appear as free particles. Then you present...

Schiller says that all strands are "infinite" in the sense that they reach the "border of space". In practice, the border is the cosmic horizon. Schiller also argues that at the horizon, all strands are connected. From a local viewpoint, strands are thus "infinite for all practical purposes"...

Schiller's "strand model" does precisely that: it described all of nature as made of a single strand (in 3 dimensions though, not 11), and the various knots/tangles are the particles. See http://www.motionmountain.net/research and the other threads in this forum.

But Java and Cobol are all based on 1s and 0s, so it is possible to describe both in a common language ...:-) But seriously, we do not know whether a TOE exists. But is that a reason not to search for one? It seems to me that the search is often avoided because people shy away from the...

Christoph, in your 6th volume you state that wave functions are "blurred" strands. Has anybody else explored this? Blurring of strands is such a simple model for wave functions that many researchers must be interested. Can you point to some papers on this?

Christoph, I looked at the images on U(1) and SU(2) that you added in edition 23.62 of your text at http://www.motionmountain.net/research . Now we are talking! I like most the second one. Now I can really see how Reidemeister II moves generate SU(2). I think it is great that you followed...

Christoph, the CDMS results do not count as a discovery. Your strand model predicts that dark matter is not different from ordinary matter. What do you think about their results?

Christoph, one more thing. Your model is DAMN simple. No supersymmetry, no 11 dimensions, no complex spaces or algebras. But everybody "knows" that unification is HARD and needs complicated mathematics. On the contrary, you say. You tell the story that unification can be understood by anybody...

But if "invariant c, h and G" is a sufficient requirement for unifying general relativity and quantum theory, this means that we are back to what Planck wrote in 1899! Are you saying that the natural units of measurement already contain general relativity and quantum theory? This is not what...

Christoph, I have to come back to this. Since 100 years every book on physics is telling us that unification comes from finding the highest symmetry group possible. And now you say that U(1), SU(2) and SU(3) is all there is. Nobody in physics believes this. You say: no GUT, no SUSY, no E8 x E8...

This paragraph is really dynamite. Christoph, I still cannot swallow the idea that putting together quantum theory and general relativity is supposed to be as easy as you state here. Thousands of people have tried this without success for almost 100 years, and you state that it the problem...