Einstein's Intuition: Visualizing Nature in Eleven Dimensions

By: Thad Roberts

Narrated by: Jonathan Farkasofsky

Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

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.

A glimpse of the Theory of Everything

This book is extremely thought provoking and provides a path to the ultimate theory of everything. There are a few things I don't agree with. For example Thad believes that there is no such thing as true randomness and thus everything is determined. He also believes that every universe in the fractal ladder is playing out the same events just at different spots in the timeline; that would only be true if every universe's Big Bang had the same initial condition and I believe he fails to show that to be the case.

The fact that Thad was able to define the 20 some-odd constants of nature using only the geometry of space pinpoints the fact that there is more to this QST theory than conjecture.

I deducted a full star for two reasons. 1) I would have liked more detail and insight on worm holes, quantum tunneling, dark matter and dark energy. 2) There were too many non-sequiturs in this book. For example a whole chapter on religion and how it has stymied scientific progress. I get where Thad is coming from since his QST is "out there" and not yet gaining the traction it deserves but these ad-homonyms only detract from his theory and add no real value to the reader, it serves mostly as a catharsis for Thad.

Overall a must read for anybody who has an ontological yearning for the origin of the universe and all of creation.

New science, making sense of 11 dimensions

What did you love best about Einstein's Intuition: Visualizing Nature in Eleven Dimensions?

A new view of fundamental physics

What was one of the most memorable moments of Einstein's Intuition: Visualizing Nature in Eleven Dimensions?

I particularly valued the view that quantum mechanics was not a fundamental explanation of reality and the mysteries that plague the field have a straight forward explanation.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

My reaction was probably awe and wonder

Any additional comments?

The frontiers of physics beyond Einstein's spacetime is perhaps the greatest scientific puzzle of this or any other time except perhaps that faced by Newton. Any person interested in the frontiers of knowledge will value this book.

What?

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The author leaps to personal stories that have nothing to do with physics, I really have no ideal what this book is supposed to be.

Would you ever listen to anything by Thad Roberts again?

No

Which scene was your favorite?

None

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No

6 out of 5 stars Amazing insight into the universe

a perfect mix of personal stories and deeper science. once I got started with this audiobook it was hard to stop.. it hits deep at the very level of existence itself.. love the flatland references and the shoutout to Mandelbrot

Author afflicted by perceived wounds from religion

The content is good but fragmented, his narrative is punctuated not by mere interjections, but by eruptions of a deeper pathology—a seamless weaving in and out of a psychosis born from wounds inflicted by religion. These intrusions seem uncontrollable and unrecognized by him. It will be very interesting to see his journey of growth as an author and a human.