Several times I've listened to Brian Greene talk about string theory and say that General Relativity is a macroscopic theory but Quantum Mechanics is a microscopic theory. Do you think it could be otherwise?
I know that this is an accepted "dogma" that is often repeated by others but I...
Einstein vs. Bohr by Dr. Mendel Sachs
The Science of Mechanics by Ernst Mach
http://www.padrak.com/ine/INERTIA.html
http://www.compukol.com/mendel/articles/The_Mach_Principle.pdf [Broken]
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/M/Machspri.asp [Broken]
2.4 "Mach's Principle"
To be sure, for a...
Witten: You have to be open-minded because ideas come from different places. You can think about something in one way for a long time and it seems like the only way to think about it, but it really isn't. Somebody could make a suggestion that really sounds naïve. It might even be naïve, but it...
GR as incomplete theory
I consider GR to be an incomplete theory in the sense that Dr. Einstein left the right side of the equation, describing energy/matter as a phenomenological term. He himself refers to this side of the equation as wood compared to the marble of the left side. In addition...