"Radical New Theory Could Kill the Multiverse Hypothesis" Topic

"Though galaxies look larger than atoms and elephants appear to outweigh ants, some physicists have begun to suspect that size differences are illusory. Perhaps the fundamental description of the universe does not include the concepts of "mass" and "length," implying that at its core, nature lacks a sense of scale.

This little-explored idea, known as scale symmetry, constitutes a radical departure from long-standing assumptions about how elementary particles acquire their properties. But it has recently emerged as a common theme of numerous talks and papers by respected particle physicists. With their field stuck at a nasty impasse, the researchers have returned to the master equations that describe the known particles and their interactions, and are asking: What happens when you erase the terms in the equations having to do with mass and length?

Nature, at the deepest level, may not differentiate between scales. With scale symmetry, physicists start with a basic equation that sets forth a massless collection of particles, each a unique confluence of characteristics such as whether it is matter or antimatter and has positive or negative electric charge. As these particles attract and repel one another and the effects of their interactions cascade like dominoes through the calculations, scale symmetry "breaks," and masses and lengths spontaneously arise…"
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Amicalement
Armand

If this means I can use my 28mm with my 3mm and it matches well…I am all for it.

Woooosh way over my head.
So basically 'sliders' can't happen. Right?

I'll have some of what they're smoking please.

It's just the chronosynclasticindifibulum and God saying"Booga-Booga".

Thanks, Armand. I really needed that as a little pick-me-up today. Yesterday I read a poorly written article on helium superfluid that obviously got some of it's numbers wrong, at a time when I needed something good. So this one was just the ticket to pull me out of my funk.

Ant would know if Elephant stepped on it, and that what counts.
Plus I don't believe all those alter-egos of mine can't exist. So there. 8+)

Wow !!!! That's way above my skill set ! But you better be careful Tango … since this thread may be deemed not to really have anything to wargaming … it may get deleted …

The purely speculative concept of the multiverse was on shaky ground from the start, as there was *never* any evidence for it, just wishful thinking. These days the evidence is mounting *against* the concept. Gonna be a big shake-up in the cosmological realm…

But, darn it all, it means I can't just grow a goatee and get away with stuff by claiming to be my "mirrorverse" evil twin.

I have a goatee and am the evil twin… scale unkown and unimportant.

Where's Sheldon?

I think he just won another Emmey ! link To keep this about modeling and gaming, so I don't deleted again … IIRC some one makes Big Bang 28mm models of the main characters …