The Counterintuitive Universe
B. G. Sidharth
Abstract
The major advances in physics have been through counterintuitive breakthroughs-- ideas that seemed to go against prevailing convictions. In the twentieth century the Special and General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics have provided very good examples of this process. However, twentieth century physics has led to an impasse, one of the most important unsolved problems being the unification of gravitation with other interactions. This has led to another sacred tenet of physics, viz., spacetime as a smooth manifold, being questioned in latest approaches, be it Quantum Super Strings or other Quantum Gravity and similar theories. In particular spacetime described by an underpinning of Planck scale oscillators is investigated.
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