Browsing Archive: March, 2015

Inflationary Dust

Posted by on Friday, March 27, 2015, In : Astronomy 
After nearly a year of debate, it seems that the much heralded experimental evidence of inflationary physics was actually nothing more than dust. It is a bit of a disappointment for cosmologists, and especially for those who work in the field of cosmic inflation, but as with all of science the facts and the evidence must always take precedence over popular theories.

One year ago I wrote about an interesting new result from the BICEP experiment (original article), in which measurements of the p...
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Three Prime Problems...

Posted by on Wednesday, March 25, 2015, In : Mathematics 
Last week I wrote about the state of modern physics, and how - in my opinion - it was now so complex and filled with subtle technicalities that an untrained amateur would have no chance of producing some great new theory or result. However it is interesting to note that although theoretical physics and mathematics are very closely related, the field of mathematics is still ripe for amateurs to produce important results. Even primary school students can understand mathematics problems that the...
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The Three Generations...

Posted by on Friday, March 20, 2015, In : Particle Physics 
Earlier this week I wrote an opinion piece about the difficulty and possible impossibility of a dedicated but untrained physicist discovering a revolutionary new theory or phenomenon in modern physics. In that article I made reference to several interesting open problems in modern physics, and since then several people have asked me to explain these in more detail. Today's article is the second in this mini-series, and is actually a collection of problems.

For at least thirty years, all of par...
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Quantum Interpretations

Posted by on Friday, March 20, 2015,
Earlier this week I posted an opinion piece on whether or not untrained amateur scientists could ever again make major contributions to the fields of science, and specifically to the area of modern theoretical physics. In that editorial, I commented on a few topics that are as yet unresolved, but which contain many subtle technical details that require many years of specialized training to even understand the problem. In response I have had a number of inquiries about two specific physics que...
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Physics for Amateurs?

Posted by on Thursday, March 19, 2015,
A few days ago I was participating in a discussion panel on topics in modern physics research, and specifically on unsolved problems in physics. In the course of discussions, the question arose about whether an uneducated but dedicated amateur could discover a solution that the experts never thought of. Could problems such as the quantum theory of gravity, the unification of the Standard Model or the fundamental interpretations of quantum mechanics be one day explained by someone working from...
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Dr. Chris Bird I am a theoretical physicist & mathematician, with training in electronics, programming, robotics, and a number of other related fields.

   

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