Thursday, April 10, 2008

Possibility bring into reality a Theory of Everything

Possibility bring into reality a Theory of Everything (TASK 5 - Citation)
by Sabilly Handi Pradana (10205055)

In general, based on my opinion physics is too hard and not so easy to accepted for non-physicist. The one and only Albert Einstein who want to make physics fun and can felt by everyone with combine several formula and great quantities phenomena to describe how the universe works by herself with single theory but can explain and clarify what does nature phenomena mean.

The dream of a Theory of Everything (TOE) was popularized by Einstein, who devoted the last thirty years of his life to his project, and failed because he get a serious cancer and dead. Nevertheless, his attempt attracted attentions of many physicists to his aim, which can be defined as explaining all forces of nature within a single theory that unifies QUANTUM MECHANICS (QM) and GENERAL RELATIVITY (GR). (Kaku, 2004)

At first thougt, it would seem that these forces posses very different features, and the unification of them is a hopeless task. However, in 1967 Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow were able to unify the electromagnetic and the weak force. All the reasons motivated some physicists to look for a more unified theory. (Hawking, 1996)

On the otherhand, the most difficult part of the unification scheme is to reconcile GR which explains gravity with QM. In this section we are facing obstacle because not all physicists are convinced about the possibility of a TOE. They claim that this theory is not testable and thus not scientific. At the end of the 19th century some physicist were in the opinion that physics was close to its end, and this turned out to be completely wrong. (Heisenberg, 1974)

Based on my experience study about physics, I think TOE can be done because the universe began from single particle that have all physics theory. I guess TOE is a very ambitious goal and can not be conquered by physicists alone. As Einstein indicated, "What is the use of describing a Beethoven symphony in terms of air-pressure waves?" (Horgan, 1996) All sciences and arts should incorporate physics in order to reach the ultimate answer. However, what the "EVERYTHING" includes will depend on the capacity of human comprehension. The future will reveal its suprise.

References:
J, Horgan. The end of science. 1996. Helix Books. NY.
M, Kaku. Hyperspace. 1994. Oxford University Press.
Hawking and Penrose. Sciences. 1996. Scientist America.
W, Heisenberg. Accross the frontiers.1974. Harper&Row Publishers. NY.

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