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re: What's really wrong with string theory?

Subject: re: What's really wrong with string theory?
From: Jack Sarfatti
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:06:59 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.math, sci.physics, sci.physics.particle, sci.physics.relativity, sci.philosophy.tech
The issue of unitarity of the string scattering amplitudes also plays a key role in the leap to extra space dimensions. However, with macro-quantum ODLRO from the tachyon vacuum instability we lose unitarity and the Born probability interpretation implying signal nonlocality (A. Valentini) AKA "retro-causality." This is then consistent with Hawking's original position on information loss down black holes before he, wrongly IMHO, changed his mind in his 2004 Dublin GR 17 talk. Since Einstein's metric field emerges from the vacuum ODLRO one also gets a handle on why the Weyl vacuum tensor should encode the entropy of the gravity field according to S ~ A/4 (Bekenstein).


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