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Old 11-16-2007, 01:26 AM
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Default Re: PhD Surf Bum Proposes New Unified Theory

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Lee Smolin is not an idiot. If he likes it, and it is predicting things like the masses of the fundamental particles, it is definitely worth looking at.

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It does not predict masses (explicitly, yet). But it has no free parameters (e.g. coupling constants), so it is very constrained, and would be testable if the theory could be developed further.

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Ah. That isn't quite so exciting then. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
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