Null Physics?

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Joe - 22 Jul 2008 10:24 GMT

Just noticed in the latest Scientific American a 2 page advertisement for a
book, "Our Undiscovered Universe" subtitled "Introducing Null Physics". The
book has a web site at www.ourundiscovereduniverse.com.

I'm no physicist but from looking at that web site- the subject/concept
looks flakey. That's OK, there's plenty of flakey scientists and non
scientific concepts such as creationism- but they seldom have 2 page
advertisements in Scientific American- so, what's up with this "new"
physics? Does it have any respect in the scientific community?

Joe

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Kent Paul Dolan - 23 Jul 2008 15:06 GMT

> Just noticed in the latest Scientific American a 2
> page advertisement for a book, "Our Undiscovered
> Universe" subtitled "Introducing Null Physics".
> The book has a web site at
> www.ourundiscovereduniverse.com.

> I'm no physicist but from looking at that web
> site- the subject/concept looks flakey. That's OK,
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> Does it have any respect in the scientific
> community?

I can't answer _that_ question, but I'm a bit
suspicious of the web site claims that all the
quantities balance out to _exactly_ null. Isn't
"symmetry breaking" in physics all about the _lack_
of such exact balancing, and for example that (our
part of) the universe exists because "in the
beginning" matter overbalanced anti-matter slightly?

xanthian.

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Null Physics?