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One can pinpoint the technical error in LQG explicitly:
To recall, the starting point of LQG is to encode the Riemannian metric in terms of the parallel transport of the affine connection that it induces. This parallel transport is an assignment to each smooth curve in the manifold between point...
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The Chemical History of a Candle was the title of a series of six lectures on the chemistry and physics of flames given by Michael Faraday at the Royal Institution in 1848, as part of the series of Christmas lectures for young people founded by Faraday in 1825 and still given there every year.
The lectures described the different zones of combustion in the candle flame and the presence of carbon particles in the luminescent zone. Demonstrations included the production and examination of the properties of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide gases. An electrolysis cell is demonstrated,...
George Green (14 July 1793 – 31 May 1841) was a British mathematical physicist who wrote An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism in 1828. The essay introduced several important concepts, among them a theorem similar to the modern Green's theorem, the idea of potential functions as currently used in physics, and the concept of what are now called Green's functions. Green was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism and his theory formed the foundation for the work of other scientists such as James Clerk...
In mathematics, a Higgs bundle is a pair
(
E
,
φ
)
{\displaystyle (E,\varphi )}
consisting of a holomorphic vector bundle E and a Higgs field
φ
{\displaystyle \varphi }
, a holomorphic 1-form taking values in the bundle of endomorphisms of E such that
φ
∧
φ
=
0
{\displaystyle \varphi \wedge \varphi =0}
. Such pairs were introduced by Nigel Hitchin (1987), who named the field
φ...
Dichronauts is hard science-fiction novel by Australian author Greg Egan. The novel was published by Night Shade Books on 11 July 2017. The novel describes a universe with two time dimensions, one of which correcponds to the time perception of the characters while the other influences their space perception, for example by rotations in this directions to be impossible. Hence a symbiosis of two life forms is necessary, so that they can even see in all directions. Furthermore, many fundamental laws of physics are altered crucially: Objects can roll uphill or not fall over any more when orient...
