Which of the Basic Assumptions of
Modern Physics are Wrong?
There’s
something unnerving about unifying physics. The two theories that need to be
unified, quantum field theory and Einstein’s general theory of relativity, are
both highly successful. Both make predictions good to as many decimal
places as experimentalists can manage. Both are grounded in compelling
principles. Both do have flaws — including an unfortunate tendency to produce
the number ∞ — but those flaws remain safely behind the scenes, never
undermining the theories’ empirical successes.
