Re: The Quantum Gravity Problem

Kenneth Downs <firstinit.lastname_at_lastnameplusfam.net> wrote in message news:<n72pkc.f8h.ln_at_mercury.downsfam.net>...
> Here is a little its-been-a-good-week Friday musing.
>
> I wonder if database theory is suffering from a version of what is going on
> in Physics. In Physics for the past few decades they have had to struggle
> with the fact that the two fundamental theories of the twentieth century do
> not play nice together. Relativity describes gravity well, but it is not a
> quantum theory. Quantum theory is considered the most successful theory
> in history, but does not describe gravity. Since most physicists believe
> that the underlying truths are quantum in nature, everyone is searching for
> a quantum theory of gravity, instead of searching for the relativistic
> theory of E & M and nuclear forces.

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I remember these discussions from earlier in this newsgroup <ugh!>. It also seems that others have been discussing this very topic.

Here is a dialog on the subject:
http://www.dbdebunk.com/page/page/1383843.htm

• Dan