Comments on: Overthrowing The Big Bang Theory https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/06/13/overthrowing-the-big-bang-theory/ Sun, 14 Jun 2020 20:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Tyvor Winn https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/06/13/overthrowing-the-big-bang-theory/#comment-879184 Sun, 14 Jun 2020 20:04:12 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32999#comment-879184 What is the use of thousands of different typefaces (what many people call “fonts”) if you are enjoined from using more than one in a communication? Whatever happened to evaluating something on its intrinsic merits? This restriction seems to me to be kin to “dress for success” and other dress codish, 1950ish pleas for mindless conformity. Phooey to that.

]]> By: Christopher Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/06/13/overthrowing-the-big-bang-theory/#comment-879136 Sun, 14 Jun 2020 01:00:43 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32999#comment-879136 In reply to Christopher Winter.

Too late to edit the original…

“masses of atoms” should read “masses of elementary particles.”

Also, Dr. Landis says the jury is still out on Heim Theory.

]]> By: Christopher Winter https://gregladen.com/blog/2020/06/13/overthrowing-the-big-bang-theory/#comment-879134 Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:47:55 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32999#comment-879134 You’ve probably heard of Heim Theory. This attempt by maverick German physicist Burkhard Heim, published in 1957, was an attempt at a “theory of everything.” It seemed impressive because it claimed to calculate the masses of atoms from first principles.

Geoffrey Landis recounts its rise and fall.

http://www.geoffreylandis.com/Heim_theory.html

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