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Not your
                        Grandfather’s
                          Gravity!

                          John Ashmead




Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Not your grandfather’s gravity   www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Endeavor blasts off




Not your grandfather’s gravity        www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Outline


                    • A brief history of gravity
                    • The Runaway universe
                    • At the edge of the known

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Galileo




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Orbits of the planets




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Mysterium
                          Cosmographicum




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Mysterium
                          Cosmographicum




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Mysterium
                          Cosmographicum

                                     Science is
                                     organized
                                   common sense
                                   where many a
                                 beautiful theory
                                  is killed by an
                                    ugly fact. -
                                      Huxley


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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Kepler’s orbits,
                                  Newton’s Law




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Kepler’s orbits,
                                  Newton’s Law




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Hollow Earth




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Cavendish




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Cavendish




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Equivalence principle




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Of ants & apples




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Parallel transport




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Not your grandfather’s gravity   www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Riemann Curvature
                Tensor
b                                                      d            Effect of
                                                                   curvature
                                     a


                            b

                                           b


                        c
                                 a       d = ( ∇ ( b ) ∇ ( a ) − ∇ ( a ) ∇ ( b )) c
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    Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Einstein’s field
                             equation




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Einstein’s field
                             equation

             x =R x
                  d        d
                           abc
                                 c




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Einstein’s field
                             equation
                                                    ⎛   ρ 0 0 0 ⎞
                                                    ⎜           ⎟
                                                    ⎜   0 p 0 0 ⎟
             x =R x
                  d        d
                           abc
                                 c    ( fluid )
                                     Tµν          =
                                                    ⎜   0 0 p 0 ⎟
                                                    ⎜           ⎟
                                                    ⎜
                                                    ⎝   0 0 0 p ⎟
                                                                ⎠




Not your grandfather’s gravity                     www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Einstein’s field
                             equation
                                                       ⎛   ρ 0 0 0 ⎞
                                                       ⎜           ⎟
                                                       ⎜   0 p 0 0 ⎟
             x =R x
                  d        d
                           abc
                                 c       ( fluid )
                                        Tµν          =
                                                       ⎜   0 0 p 0 ⎟
                                                       ⎜           ⎟
                                                       ⎜
                                                       ⎝   0 0 0 p ⎟
                                                                   ⎠



                             1       8π G
                        Rµν − gµν R = 2 Tµν
                             2        c
Not your grandfather’s gravity                        www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Einstein’s field
                             equation
                                                       ⎛   ρ 0 0 0 ⎞
                                                       ⎜           ⎟
                                                       ⎜   0 p 0 0 ⎟
             x =R x
                  d        d
                           abc
                                 c       ( fluid )
                                        Tµν          =
                                                       ⎜   0 0 p 0 ⎟
                                                       ⎜           ⎟
                                                       ⎜
                                                       ⎝   0 0 0 p ⎟
                                                                   ⎠



                             1       8π G
                        Rµν − gµν R = 2 Tµν             − gµν Λ
                             2        c
Not your grandfather’s gravity                        www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Quantum gravity
                                 • Gravity is itself
                                  a source of
                                  gravity
                                 • Quantum
                                  mechanics
                                  predicts almost
                                  infinite
                                  cosmological
                                  constant
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Hawking Radiation




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Black hole
                    information paradox




Not your grandfather’s gravity    www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Black hole
                    information paradox




Not your grandfather’s gravity    www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thermodynamics &
                             gravity




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thermodynamics &
                             gravity

       • Surface
               gravity ~
               Temperature




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thermodynamics &
                             gravity

       • Surface
               gravity ~
               Temperature
       • Area ~
               entropy



Not your grandfather’s gravity      www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thermodynamics &
                             gravity

       • Surface
               gravity ~
               Temperature
       • Area ~
               entropy
       • Mass ~ energy
Not your grandfather’s gravity      www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Thermodynamics &
                             gravity

       • Surface
               gravity ~
               Temperature
       • Area ~
               entropy
       • Mass ~ energy
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Entropic gravity




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Entropic gravity




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Entropic gravity




                        For me gravity doesn’t exist,” — Verlinde


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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
NASA / WMAP Science Team




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
NASA / WMAP Science Team




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Type Ia supernova




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The music of the spheres




        http://www.astro.uvic.ca/~alexhp/new/supernova_sonata.html

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Baryonic Matter (us)




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Rapidly spinning galaxies




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Seeing the
                                  invisible




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Dark energy




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Not your grandfather’s gravity   www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The edge of the
                              known




Not your grandfather’s gravity        www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The edge of the
                              known

           • Astronomy



Not your grandfather’s gravity        www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The edge of the
                              known

           • Astronomy
                 • Neutrinos




Not your grandfather’s gravity        www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The edge of the
                              known

           • Astronomy
                 • Neutrinos
                 • Cosmic rays



Not your grandfather’s gravity        www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The edge of the
                              known

           • Astronomy
                 • Neutrinos
                 • Cosmic rays
                 • Gravity waves


Not your grandfather’s gravity        www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The edge of the
                              known

           • Astronomy
                 • Neutrinos
                 • Cosmic rays
                 • Gravity waves
                 • Wimps

Not your grandfather’s gravity        www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The edge of the
                              known

           • Astronomy             • CERN/LHC
                 • Neutrinos
                 • Cosmic rays
                 • Gravity waves
                 • Wimps

Not your grandfather’s gravity           www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The edge of the
                              known

           • Astronomy             • CERN/LHC
                 • Neutrinos       • Higgs Boson
                 • Cosmic rays
                 • Gravity waves
                 • Wimps

Not your grandfather’s gravity            www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The edge of the
                              known

           • Astronomy             • CERN/LHC
                 • Neutrinos       • Higgs Boson
                 • Cosmic rays     • Wimps
                 • Gravity waves
                 • Wimps

Not your grandfather’s gravity            www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The edge of the
                              known

           • Astronomy             • CERN/LHC
                 • Neutrinos       • Higgs Boson
                 • Cosmic rays     • Wimps
                 • Gravity waves   • Strings
                 • Wimps

Not your grandfather’s gravity            www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The edge of the
                              known

           • Astronomy             • CERN/LHC
                 • Neutrinos       • Higgs Boson
                 • Cosmic rays     • Wimps
                 • Gravity waves   • Strings
                 • Wimps           • Baby Black Holes

Not your grandfather’s gravity             www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Neutrinos




               Neutron



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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Neutrinos




                                   Neutron
               Neutron              Decay


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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Neutrinos




                                   Neutron         Sudbery
               Neutron              Decay          Neutrino
                                                   Detector

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Cosmic Rays




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Cosmic Rays




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Gravity
                                 Waves




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Gravity
                                 Waves




Not your grandfather’s gravity    www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Gravity
                                 Waves




                                 Binary pulsar
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Gravity
                                 Waves




Not your grandfather’s gravity    www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Wimps




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
CERN




Not your grandfather’s gravity          www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
CERN




Not your grandfather’s gravity          www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
CERN




Not your grandfather’s gravity          www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Higgs Bosons




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
String theory &
                        Calabi-Yau spaces




Not your grandfather’s gravity       www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Research is the process
            of going up alleys to
            see if they are blind




Not your grandfather’s gravity   www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Research is the process
            of going up alleys to
            see if they are blind
                  • Quark gluon plasmas



Not your grandfather’s gravity            www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Research is the process
            of going up alleys to
            see if they are blind
                  • Quark gluon plasmas
                  • Cyclic universes


Not your grandfather’s gravity            www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Research is the process
            of going up alleys to
            see if they are blind
                  • Quark gluon plasmas
                  • Cyclic universes
                  • Inflation

Not your grandfather’s gravity            www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Research is the process
            of going up alleys to
            see if they are blind
                  • Quark gluon plasmas
                  • Cyclic universes
                  • Inflation
                  • Curious abundance of anti-
                        matter

Not your grandfather’s gravity          www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Research is the process
            of going up alleys to
            see if they are blind
                  • Quark gluon plasmas
                  • Cyclic universes
                  • Inflation
                  • Curious abundance of anti-
                        matter
                  •…
Not your grandfather’s gravity          www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
May 27th,
                                     2011
                             Daily Galaxy




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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
May 27th,
                                     2011
                             Daily Galaxy




Not your grandfather’s gravity           www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Since Jan 2010
                  • Gravity may be an entropic
                        force
                  • Universe is definitely 95%
                        mysterious
                  • Neutrino, Cosmic ray, Wimp, &
                        gravitational telescopes
                        online or in development
                  • LHC online & looking for
                        Higgs boson, Calabi-Yau
                        dimensions, ...
Not your grandfather’s gravity              www.timeandquantummechanics.com
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
• Susskind: Cosmic Landscape,
                    black hole war
            • Halpern: Collider; Lincoln:
                    large hadron collider
            • Ananthaswamy: edge of physics
            • Panek: 4% universe; Hammond:
                    Unknown Universe
            • Greene, Hawking, Smolin, Yau,
                    Steinhardt & Turok, Wilczek,…
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

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Not your Grandfather's Gravity

  • 1. Not your Grandfather’s Gravity! John Ashmead Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 2. Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 3. Endeavor blasts off Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 4. Outline • A brief history of gravity • The Runaway universe • At the edge of the known Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 5. Galileo Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 6. Orbits of the planets Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 7. Mysterium Cosmographicum Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 8. Mysterium Cosmographicum Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 9. Mysterium Cosmographicum Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory is killed by an ugly fact. - Huxley Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 10. Kepler’s orbits, Newton’s Law Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 11. Kepler’s orbits, Newton’s Law Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 12. Hollow Earth Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 13. Cavendish Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 14. Cavendish Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 15. Equivalence principle Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 16. Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 17. Of ants & apples Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 18. Parallel transport Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 19. Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 20. Riemann Curvature Tensor b d Effect of curvature a b b c a d = ( ∇ ( b ) ∇ ( a ) − ∇ ( a ) ∇ ( b )) c Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 21. Einstein’s field equation Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 22. Einstein’s field equation x =R x d d abc c Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 23. Einstein’s field equation ⎛ ρ 0 0 0 ⎞ ⎜ ⎟ ⎜ 0 p 0 0 ⎟ x =R x d d abc c ( fluid ) Tµν = ⎜ 0 0 p 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ ⎜ ⎝ 0 0 0 p ⎟ ⎠ Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 24. Einstein’s field equation ⎛ ρ 0 0 0 ⎞ ⎜ ⎟ ⎜ 0 p 0 0 ⎟ x =R x d d abc c ( fluid ) Tµν = ⎜ 0 0 p 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ ⎜ ⎝ 0 0 0 p ⎟ ⎠ 1 8π G Rµν − gµν R = 2 Tµν 2 c Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 25. Einstein’s field equation ⎛ ρ 0 0 0 ⎞ ⎜ ⎟ ⎜ 0 p 0 0 ⎟ x =R x d d abc c ( fluid ) Tµν = ⎜ 0 0 p 0 ⎟ ⎜ ⎟ ⎜ ⎝ 0 0 0 p ⎟ ⎠ 1 8π G Rµν − gµν R = 2 Tµν − gµν Λ 2 c Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 26. Quantum gravity • Gravity is itself a source of gravity • Quantum mechanics predicts almost infinite cosmological constant Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 27. Hawking Radiation Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 28. Black hole information paradox Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 29. Black hole information paradox Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 30. Thermodynamics & gravity Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 31. Thermodynamics & gravity • Surface gravity ~ Temperature Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 32. Thermodynamics & gravity • Surface gravity ~ Temperature • Area ~ entropy Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 33. Thermodynamics & gravity • Surface gravity ~ Temperature • Area ~ entropy • Mass ~ energy Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 34. Thermodynamics & gravity • Surface gravity ~ Temperature • Area ~ entropy • Mass ~ energy Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 35. Entropic gravity Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 36. Entropic gravity Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 37. Entropic gravity For me gravity doesn’t exist,” — Verlinde Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 38. NASA / WMAP Science Team Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 39. NASA / WMAP Science Team Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 40. Type Ia supernova Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 41. The music of the spheres http://www.astro.uvic.ca/~alexhp/new/supernova_sonata.html Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 42. Baryonic Matter (us) Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 43. Rapidly spinning galaxies Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 44. Seeing the invisible Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 45. Dark energy Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 46. Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 47. The edge of the known Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 48. The edge of the known • Astronomy Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 49. The edge of the known • Astronomy • Neutrinos Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 50. The edge of the known • Astronomy • Neutrinos • Cosmic rays Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 51. The edge of the known • Astronomy • Neutrinos • Cosmic rays • Gravity waves Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 52. The edge of the known • Astronomy • Neutrinos • Cosmic rays • Gravity waves • Wimps Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 53. The edge of the known • Astronomy • CERN/LHC • Neutrinos • Cosmic rays • Gravity waves • Wimps Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 54. The edge of the known • Astronomy • CERN/LHC • Neutrinos • Higgs Boson • Cosmic rays • Gravity waves • Wimps Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 55. The edge of the known • Astronomy • CERN/LHC • Neutrinos • Higgs Boson • Cosmic rays • Wimps • Gravity waves • Wimps Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 56. The edge of the known • Astronomy • CERN/LHC • Neutrinos • Higgs Boson • Cosmic rays • Wimps • Gravity waves • Strings • Wimps Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 57. The edge of the known • Astronomy • CERN/LHC • Neutrinos • Higgs Boson • Cosmic rays • Wimps • Gravity waves • Strings • Wimps • Baby Black Holes Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 58. Neutrinos Neutron Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 59. Neutrinos Neutron Neutron Decay Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 60. Neutrinos Neutron Sudbery Neutron Decay Neutrino Detector Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 61. Cosmic Rays Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 62. Cosmic Rays Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 63. Gravity Waves Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 64. Gravity Waves Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 65. Gravity Waves Binary pulsar Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 66. Gravity Waves Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 67. Wimps Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 68. CERN Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 69. CERN Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 70. CERN Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 71. Higgs Bosons Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 72. String theory & Calabi-Yau spaces Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 73. Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 74. Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind • Quark gluon plasmas Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 75. Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind • Quark gluon plasmas • Cyclic universes Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 76. Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind • Quark gluon plasmas • Cyclic universes • Inflation Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 77. Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind • Quark gluon plasmas • Cyclic universes • Inflation • Curious abundance of anti- matter Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 78. Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind • Quark gluon plasmas • Cyclic universes • Inflation • Curious abundance of anti- matter •… Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 79. May 27th, 2011 Daily Galaxy Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 80. May 27th, 2011 Daily Galaxy Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 81. Since Jan 2010 • Gravity may be an entropic force • Universe is definitely 95% mysterious • Neutrino, Cosmic ray, Wimp, & gravitational telescopes online or in development • LHC online & looking for Higgs boson, Calabi-Yau dimensions, ... Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011
  • 82. • Susskind: Cosmic Landscape, black hole war • Halpern: Collider; Lincoln: large hadron collider • Ananthaswamy: edge of physics • Panek: 4% universe; Hammond: Unknown Universe • Greene, Hawking, Smolin, Yau, Steinhardt & Turok, Wilczek,… Not your grandfather’s gravity www.timeandquantummechanics.com Tuesday, May 31, 2011