Saturday, April 09, 2005

Einstein's unfinished work

... is still unfinished, 50 years later. I was reading the article 'One Hundred Years of Uncertainty' by Brian Greene in the NYT.



An excerpt:

Unlike many of his colleagues, Einstein believed that a fundamental physical theory was much more than the sum total of its predictions - it was a mathematical reflection of an underlying reality. And the reality entailed by quantum mechanics was a reality Einstein couldn't accept.

Einstein waged a two-front assault on the problem. He sought an internal chink in the quantum framework that would establish it as a mere steppingstone on the path to a deeper and more complete description of the universe. At the same time, he sought a grander synthesis of nature's laws - what he called a "unified theory" - that he believed would reveal the probabilities of quantum mechanics to be no more profound than the probabilities offered in weather forecasts, probabilities that simply reflect an incomplete knowledge of an underlying, definite reality.

By the early 1950's, Einstein realized he was losing the battle. But the memories of his earlier success with relativity - "the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light" - urged him onward. Maybe the intense light of discovery that had so brilliantly illuminated his path as a young man would shine once again. While lying in a bed in Princeton Hospital in mid-April 1955, Einstein asked for the pad of paper on which he had been scribbling equations in the desperate hope that in his final hours the truth would come to him. It didn't.

So who will finish his work? There are many unsolved mysteries in this universe... and right here on our planet. Some of these have been brazenly ignored by the scientific community. I believe that this century will witness an expansion of our understanding of what 'energy' is, and it's various forms seen, and unseen. This will include acceptance and validation of prana, or chi/ki, and acknowledgement of various energy centers on Earth, the suble energy fields around objects (like pyramids), and perhaps even, creation of instruments to detect, measure, and harness these energies. And James Randi will be a million dollars poorer.

When this new understanding happens, we can relook at Einstein's theories, and his quests. Would a new science emerge, where the laws of Einstein's physics are merely a special case?

3 comments:

Flori said...

That is really a good question: who will finish Einstein's work? If you would ask adepts of the conspiracy theory they would answer that his work is allready finished but kept top secret,and who know maybe they're right.The problem these days is that scientist don't work for pure pleasure of discovering new things anymore,and certainly not for all the humans;they only work for their own ego and fame.
For me finishing and understanding all Einstein's work means finding out the true physical nature of our origins,but especially I thing it would explain,both in a spiritual and physical way,the religion.I say religion because there is only one,even if there are so many on this planet.That is just because each individual understood different the Bible.

Anonymous said...

I have heard that Einstein was about to discover a new energy...a type of bug that would produce this energy by eating garbage. Are you familiar with this?

steven said...

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