After seeing a program a few years ago on the TOE subject it got me thinking (Bad idea, I know...Heh!) on this same subject.
Before I go any further I must tell you about my favorite line in the movie Andromeda Strain. Please indulge me, it speaks to one of the problems I see in the TOE discussion... There is a scene where scientist were waiting for an important fax to come in. The fax machine never rang. They had a very good, if not overqualified repair person checking the machine but he found nothing. They checked the circuit boards, phone lines and everything. Time went on and eventually they found the problem. It was a piece of paper which lodged between the bell and the striker. The faxes were coming in but the bell didn't ring. This is when the narrator says...
"They were looking for a fly on an elephant with a microscope." (paraphrase)
Had they just stepped back, maybe they would have found the problem much sooner.
Is it possible that the intimate knowledge of the details of the universe is what's preventing scientist from stepping back and seeing the fly on the elephant? I don't know. As I said, I'm not a physicist but this may be just what the topic needs. I may be to far removed from physics to see the elephant with a telescope but I'm going to give it a shot anyway. What the hell, I've already made a fool of myself. HEHEH!
I think one of the things missing from TOE discussion is imperfection. Plain and simple. Vacuum fluctuations got me thinking about the one thing which is constant in everything. Nothing in the universe is perfect. Even [nothing] is imperfect. Think about it. As far as I can tell there is nothing in the universe which is perfect.
My (Unscientific) observation is imperfection causes chaos, chaos over time causes anti-chaos or imperfect order from chaos, imperfect order is itself in chaos which over time creates imperfect systems... on and on.
This is what I see in everything I can think of. Everything is created out of imperfection. You, me, the universe, everything...
Here is the problem. If imperfection is part of the theory of everything, how can you calculate it with mathematics which is perfect?
How can you use physics to calculate imperfection into your TOE?Well that's it. I hope I didn't sound to silly.
Have a great day.
