Saturday, 21 July 2007

My Physics unification theory

I had a long flight today so had time for a bit of thinking and here's the result. Which I am submitting to you for peer review before I send it off to be published and collect my Nobel prise.

Highlander or H Theory.

The ideal solution to a problem is the most elegant one, many philosophical and logical devices like
Occam's Razor support this. Simplicity is a beautiful thing, any fool can solve a problem in a complex manner but it takes an artist to solve one simply. The more we unify the equations from the different fields of physics the more we can describe greater proportions of the universe with progressively less and simpler equations.

In 1861 when Maxwell's unified the forces of electricity and magnetism to form electromagnetism a force that could be fully explained in a set of four simple equations, physics suddenly leached propelled by this new perspective. Imagine ... all things to do with either electricity or magnetism could be expressed in just four equations. It was wonderful but unfortunately physics has been moving in the wrong direction of late and there are now 'loads' of equations for 'everything'.

I feel the sciences tendency to a top down approach is directly responsible for this unwanted complexity and will now steer science correctly back to its correct direction. The direction of explaining as many things as possible using as fewer rules as possible. In this bottom up approach we just have to find the simplest solution that fits all problems and this must be the ultimate unification equation. Because the unification equation is just one of all possible equations.

Lets start with:
x = 1/y

This may seem like a random place to start but as will be proved later the initial equation is irrelevant. This is a fairly simple and elegant equation you might say, now I think this is made unnecessarily complex by containing a 'y' in a small jump from traditional maths lets simplify it to:

x = 1/x

Now the solution to this is x = 1

Or even more simply put 1 = 1, now we can even further simplify this by getting rid of the unnecessary equals sign and one of the 1's.

1

Any equation when fully computed can be expressed in terms of 1, so the initial starting point is completely irrelevant. For example we will use Newtons 2nd law of motion - Force (F) = Mass (M) x Acceleration (A).

If the car has a mass of 700kg and a driver pushes the car with an acceleration of 0.05m/s/s

Then:
F = MA
F = 700kg x 0.05m/s/s
F = 35kN (kiloNewtons)

Now simply divide both sides by 35kN and you get:
F/35kN = 1

or more simply put 1 = 1 or 1.

Now some of the intermediate solutions to equations can be useful for things like sending spacecraft to the furthest reaches or our solar system or building computers. So these other fields of physics should continue, hopefully reinvigorated by a new directions and knowing where all their equations will ultimately lead them.

Now no scientific theory is worth its salt unless it can be used to make some predictions, so here are mine.

There is one universe.
Every particle in the universe is unique.

NB Notice how this theory works on both the galactic and atomic levels.

9 comments:

Unknown said...

Love the bizarre (and I suspect piss-taking) theory, but there's one problem, if x = 1/x (hmm.. trying to explain the universe in terms of 1 dimension!!), then 1 = 2x (or x=0.5) because you have to multiply by x on both sides. If it was that easy, I doubt we'd still have toasters that burned toast! But also, I think it can sometimes be achieved through the hard path of working through complex theories. If you didn't have the complex theories, you couldn't prove the simple theories applied.

Mike said...

I'm sorry Russ but 1 would equal x squared. Still leaving x to equal 1.

There can be only one.

Unknown said...

This is most irritating reading you and your mates trying to talk "sensibly" about Maths. For starters if x=1/x then x^2 = 1 and anyone who really understands the subject could tell you that there are in fact 2 Solutions to this simple quadratic equation, i.e. +1 AND -1 .

Back to the drawing board.

Mike said...

I deliberately left off the -1 solution (honest), this is because negative numbers don't actually exist in the universe, they only exist as an abstract mathematical concept or convenience.

For example there is no such thing as cold or dark, just that the absence or heat or warmth is labeled as such. It's not like you can make something colder you can only remove more and more heat till you reach absolute 0 degrees kelvin. We arbitrarily set out 0 at the point where water freezes, this is just a connivance, the numbers bellow our zero are not special or really negative they are just progressively represent less and less heat.

Unknown said...

Interesting concept to take all measurements from an absolute zero and, to support your theory, strange things can also happen at absolutes such as at zero Kelvin (or is it Kevin?)the speed of light is also supposed to drop to near zero.

Anyway, by coincidence, there is a program on this topic on BBC4 tonight so I will be an expert tomorrow.

Of course it's easy in computing, if you don't like considering negative numbers than you can add a large (positive) number to all inputs and subtract that number from the final answer.

Unknown said...

nipples!

GT said...

Everyone's mucking about without realising the obvious. Of course you can boil down everything to 1, coz that's the pre-determined unit-measure you've chosen to build all the equations from!

Mike said...

Well Gfunk, it seems obvious now that I've pointed it out! Most questions are easier after someone tells your the answer! :o)

Unknown said...

its not about obvious.its about being useful.

ofc everything being '1' is simple..but its not often useful.
look at your wage packet..i earned '1' wage packet this month... kinda pointless..you want to know it in terms of pounds and pence or scoodydoallars or whatever......

nice to see folks getting sucked into a pointless thread tho gogogo hiot rating ;)

so i will stick to my original post


NIPPLES!..or NIPPlE if ya like