Einstein's Intuition: Visualizing Nature in Eleven Dimensions

De: Thad Roberts

Narrado por: Jonathan Farkasofsky

Presented in clear and accessible language, Roberts offers the listener a voyage through the stages of human knowledge. He then examines the outstanding mysteries of modern physics, the phenomena that lie outside the borders of our current understanding (dark energy, dark matter, the Big Bang, wave-particle duality, quantum tunneling, state vector reduction, etc.) and suggests that the next step in our intellectual journey is to treat the vacuum of space as a superfluid - modeling it as being composed of interactive quanta, which, in a self-similar way, are composed of subquanta, and so on.

With this proposition, Roberts imbues the vacuum with fractal geometry and opens the door to explaining the outstanding mysteries of physics geometrically. Roberts' model, called quantum space theory, has been praised for how it offers an intuitively accessible picture of 11 dimensions and for powerfully extending the insight of general relativity, eloquently translating the four forces into unique kinds of geometric distortions while offering us access to the underlying deterministic dynamics that give rise to quantum mechanics. That remarkably simple picture explains the mysteries of modern physics in a way that's fully commensurate with Einstein's Intuition. It's a refreshingly unique perspective that generates several testable predictions.

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A ringside seat at the cutting edge of science

For two months it has been my companion on long commutes, walks with my dog, and quiet nights lying on the couch with my eyes closed, contemplating the nature of reality.
Einstein's Intuition is chock full of references, citations and a fair amount of footnotes. My favorite quote came from Elbert Hubbard who said" The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."

Einstein's Intuition: Highly Innovative and Superb

If you could sum up Einstein's Intuition: Visualizing Nature in Eleven Dimensions in three words, what would they be?

Thad Roberts has done an impeccable job of challenging the present "canon" of physics to hopefully inspire a younger generation of physicists to think intuitively about science and mathematics. I have read well over 200 books on physics and this book is the most original and thought-provoking.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The most thought-provoking section of the book is in its attempt to guide the non-physicist on the value associated with rethinking physics from the standpoint of the quantum void. It's always been surprising to me of how little of the focus has been in physics on the quantum void or quantum vacuum. One hopes that the research at CERN will help in elucidating the interplay between the quantum vacuum and the standard model.

this is actually how the Universe works,

And this book is the only one that will tell you, it is probably the true unified theory of Physics.

Too many quotes, footnotes and personal stories

The book had far too many footnotes and references to everything under the sun which broke any continuity or natural flow. I'm interested in reading a book about physics not the authors personal life. The book could have been half a long and still provided the same content.

Very Interesting Book and Story - Rambles a bit and too many quotes.

I enjoyed the book and find I have many similar ideas about the structure of reality. The books talks more about the theories that should be titled "Thad Robert's Intuition" than about the actual proof of the theory or details about how to verify it. I was hoping for more meat but nonetheless was impressed with the ideas and effort. It is amazing that it was written while in prison and is clearly a lesson not to limit yourself but the situation or circumstance you find yourself in. Check out his TED talk also.