Re:Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong
by xenocyon on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:57PM
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It's not that we can't model gravity at planetary-orbit scales; that's been done. The issue is that relativity (which addresses gravity) is a good model at large scales and the quantum "Standard Model" (which addresses the other three forces) is a good model at small scales, but these two models are incompatible with each other and no falsifiable theory that works at all scales has yet been found.
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Re:Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong
by Koshkin on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:07PM
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They cannot be "incompatible with each other," otherwise Nature would be "incompatible" with itself.
Re:Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong
by tsimionescu on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:17PM
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The models are incompatible with each other, which means that one or both are somehow wrong, or there is some boundary we can't fathom between the small scale and the large.
Re:Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong
by Koshkin on Friday January 24, 2020 @07:18PM
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Wrong - we do know that the models are not incompatible. (There exists a consistent mathematical framework that includes both.) Me, I was referring to a simpler fact that these models are both pretty damn close to what Nature itself tells us.
Re:Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong
by bobcostas55 on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:15PM
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Models are not nature.