Physics Breakthrough: Fixion Discovered

[Perknose]

Having trouble reconciling Quantum mechanics with general relativity? Me too!

Sure, superstring theory has held great promise that it might be the unified theory that was Einstein's holy grail, and that guy is so super kewl that he got his own NatGeo bioepic! I mean, the hair alone, amIrite?

Well, then!

Lady (Hi Azuma, wassup?) and Gents, I present to you the Fixion! It's a floor wax, it's a desert topping, it's your daily moment of Zen . . . and, of course, it's a joke!

So laugh, you earth bound peasant, and pretend you understand.

Ten dimensions or bust! :colbericonhere:

 

[SKORPI0]

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1621:_Fixion

 

[IronWing]

Higgs-ish

 

[kage69]

Mmmmmm. Shimmer.

Here I was blaming Happy Fun Ball for those Siberian sinkholes.

 

[disappoint]

This is just wrong. Sure the Fizz it cysts want you to believe they have the TOE but they're full of it. The Biowareologists are the real heroes that no one talks about except in certain circles of which I'm privy to.

They concluded long ago in ancient texts that were burned in book burning contests (and before the advent of smartphone texting no less!) that God was born in a certain month causing the fluid gendered entity to be a PIE SEES. In modern times that has become jumbled into the word PISCES.

This fish was known back then as the FIXITFISH which caused everything to happen. It's only a coincidence that FIXITFISH also happens to rhyme with Physicist but I won't mention that if you don't. Oops too late.

 

[Moonbeam]

Sure that's not the Fiction Particle? Could be a homonyminiminim mix-up.

 

[UglyCasanova]

I can't help think that dark matter is not something out in the universe that we should be looking for but rather our understanding of general relativity and quantum mechanics is missing something. It's an error in our math/understanding rather than an actual something. The universe us a weird place though, who knows.

Same can be said for dark energy.

 

[disappoint]

I can't help think that dark matter is not something out in the universe that we should be looking for but rather our understanding of general relativity and quantum mechanics is missing something. It's an error in our math/understanding rather than an actual something. The universe us a weird place though, who knows.

Same can be said for dark energy.

Is there a reason why you think so? Most cosmologists disagree with you. That by itself doesn't mean you're wrong, but you're in a very small group of people that think dark matter is a mistake rather than just matter that does not emit or interact with the EM spectrum.

 

[dainthomas]

Is there a reason why you think so? Most cosmologists disagree with you. That by itself doesn't mean you're wrong, but you're in a very small group of people that think dark matter is a mistake rather than just matter that does not emit or interact with the EM spectrum.

Obviously not an expert, but a math error just seems more likely than the vast majority of the universe being made of something that we've never seen, and have no clue what it could be made of.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Obviously not an expert, but a math error just seems more likely than the vast majority of the universe being made of something that we've never seen, and have no clue what it could be made of.

Unfortunately observations are not in your favor. You need some very creative constructs to explain what we see. Interestingly, dark matter is that creative construct and we don't have anything better. Ditto for dark energy.

 

[brandonbull]

Obviously not an expert, but a math error just seems more likely than the vast majority of the universe being made of something that we've never seen, and have no clue what it could be made of.

 

[dainthomas]

Unfortunately observations are not in your favor. You need some very creative constructs to explain what we see. Interestingly, dark matter is that creative construct and we don't have anything better. Ditto for dark energy.

I'm sure it is. It's just that with anything else, if we needed some mystery force or substance to explain what we were seeing, we'd assume there was something fundamentally wrong with our understanding.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I'm sure it is. It's just that with anything else, if we needed some mystery force or substance to explain what we were seeing, we'd assume there was something fundamentally wrong with our understanding.

The entirety of Quantum Mechanics was a 'mystery force or substance' that we invented to explain observations. Hell, fire was probably a mystery force at some point. That's how physics tends to work, you observe something that doesn't fit, come up with all the weirdass things you can to explain it, and eventually one of those is narrowed down to be right. Fact is, the Universe doesn't care how weird you think it is, it's happy being weird.

See: particle duality, light pressure, basically everything in QM, gravity, and a whole parade of stellar/planetary stuff which we don't really have a full grasp of beyond some wild-ass theories.

 

[hal2kilo]

Wait till you visit the LENR forums.

 

[Ken g6]

Ten dimensions or bust! :colbericonhere:

This one goes to 11!

 

[KB]

Dear God,

There are too many particles in physics. Please eliminate two. I am not a crackpot.

 

[Perknose]

This one goes to 11!

I knew it . . . it's a Nigel Tufnel universe after all.

 

[agent00f]

The entirety of Quantum Mechanics was a 'mystery force or substance' that we invented to explain observations. Hell, fire was probably a mystery force at some point. That's how physics tends to work, you observe something that doesn't fit, come up with all the weirdass things you can to explain it, and eventually one of those is narrowed down to be right. Fact is, the Universe doesn't care how weird you think it is, it's happy being weird.

See: particle duality, light pressure, basically everything in QM, gravity, and a whole parade of stellar/planetary stuff which we don't really have a full grasp of beyond some wild-ass theories.

On the other hand it's somewhat odd that the universe is fundamentally explainable by relatively simple reasoning, ie https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html

 

[jmagg]

On the other hand it's somewhat odd that the universe is fundamentally explainable by relatively simple reasoning, ie https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html

Ironically

"It is therefore surprising how readily the wonderful gift contained in the empirical law of epistemology was taken for granted. The ability of the human mind to form a string of 1000 conclusions and still remain "right," which was mentioned before, is a similar gift"

 

[werepossum]

Thanks, Perk. P&N mo' debinitely needs more humor.