Posted: May 16, 2017 6:49 pm
DavidMcC wrote:newolder wrote:DavidMcC wrote:... Ok, it all makes sense now!! R&S came up with a theory of space that didn't mention universe creation, then S&T try to add universe creation to it, so that it is more complete.
The umbrella idea is known as M-theory. Anyhoo, the extra space dimension proposed certainly predates yours by some years:DavidMcC wrote:...This would be the case if DM was a gravitational anomaly caused by a sister universe impinging on our dimensions, but very slightly separate in a fourth dimension, as I proposed in the LQG thread a few years ago.
... and both R&S and S&T make testable predictions.
I realise that they predate me, but that doesn't make then correct. Also, I haven't noticed any "testable predictions" being tested, in all the years since it was published.
They are rigorously tested and correct mathematical ideas. Whether they turn out to be correct models of our physics is still an open question - although Neil Turok seems to have moved onto newer, simpler ideas theses days at Perimeter...
How did you miss the B-mode spectrum in the CMBR? It's shape was a correct prediction in S&T's work - but the inflationary guys soon rebuilt their models to be indistinguishable - heigh ho.
And the AMS-02 results may yet turn out to have something to say on R&S's predictions of "Kaluza-Klein" particles.
That's how it works.