Flow of Time: Quantum Gravity giving New Physics

by Claus Birkholz

Apply yesterday's variation principle to Gell-Mann's quarks, pepper it with the inconsistencies of unfounded ad-hoc tactics - and there you are with grandpa's classical "Standard" model having no strategy, no future, topped only by "string" fantasies "beyond" physics, with all the great questions left open. By marrying Planck's quanta with Einstein's General Relativity, the author is presenting the unified top-down model of a consistent "New Physics" (Quantum Gravity, including the Grand Unification) free of singularities and in accord with experiment. Space-time is bent, fully quantized and "background-independent". Old problems of fundamental physics emerge as 4-dimensionality, the quark confinement, flavours, cosmic inflation, the arrow of time, the physics of Black Holes with their event horizons, the origins of (ordinary and dark) matter, and much more is dropping out as self-evident properties of nature. Future starts to-day. Come along on the journey! The amazing success of "New Physics"/"Neue Physik" (with almost 10.000 copies sold in a single year) gave rise to this extended, 2nd edition renamed "Flow of Time". Main target Students, physicists, mathematicians, but also people interested in philosophy or with an inclination to leave the beaten dead-end tracks of actual fundamental models of the old style in favour of more promising, novel ways.

Genres: Physics

122 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 21, 2014

Reviews

[John J · Rating 1 out of 5]

Incomprehensible and impenetrable

I am an amateur scientist ... well, actually a retired electrical engineer, and have been spending my post retirement studying and relearning my first love, physics. Although I'm fairly conversant in quantum mechanics and general relativity -- although by no means an expert in those disciplines -- I find "Flow of Time" to be incomprehensible and impenetrable. This could be the result of my own limitations or maybe a poor translation from German into English. But this book reads like one giant rambling sentence without offering any hypothesis or making any conclusion.

All that I can glean from this word salad is 1) the author has cracked the theory of quantum gravity through mathematics based on 8-dimensional numbers known as octonians, and 2) the current leaders of th physics community are idiots, especially the string theorists.

My inability to comprehend this book was compounded by the fact that the formulas the author attempted to use to support his arguments -- such as they were -- are unreadable in the Kindle version of the book. This not the author's fault. The same failures to render diagrams and formulas occurred in an engineering textbook I wrote when my publisher decided to convert the book from the original hardcover version into the electronic (Kindle) format; unfortunately, I've seen the same thing happen with other works when they were converted to e-format, doing their authors a great disservice.

There may be some who are a lot more intelligent than I am who may get some useful information from this book. And there may be a Nobel Prize waiting for Claus Birkholtz based on his theory of quantum gravity, but I kind of doubt it.

[Tammy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting book

This book was an interesting read. If you are interested in science this might be a good book to read.