Anonymous ID: a5b246 May 12, 2023, 4:26 a.m. No.18834743   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>4748 >>4754 >>4763 >>4768

Heaven or nah?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/science/stanley-deser-dead.html

Stanley Deser, Whose Ideas on Gravity Help Explain the Universe, Dies at 92

His theory of supergravity sought to bridge quantum mechanics and general relativity, a potential step toward a theory of everything.

Stanley Deser, a theoretical physicist who helped illuminate the details of gravity and how it shapes the space-time fabric of the universe, died on April 21 in Pasadena, Calif. He was 92.

 

His death, at a hospital, was confirmed by his daughter, Abigail Deser.

 

Physicists have long dreamed of devising a theory of everything โ€” a set of equations that neatly and completely describe how the universe works. By the middle of the 20th century, they had come up with two theories that serve as the pillars of modern physics: quantum mechanics and general relativity.

 

Quantum mechanics describes how, in the subatomic realm, everything is broken up in discrete chunks, or quanta, such as the individual particles of light called photons. Albert Einsteinโ€™s theory of general relativity had elegantly captured how mass and gravity bend the fabric of space-time.

 

However, these two pillars did not fit together. General relativity does not contain any notion of quanta; a quantum theory of gravity is an ambition that remains unfinished today.

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Anonymous ID: a5b246 May 12, 2023, 4:35 a.m. No.18834763   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>4768

>>18834743

Marcel Bardon, then [director] of NSF physics, made me an offer Iโ€™d better not refuse. I was nominated to some advisory committee in order to plead for LIGO in front of my betters, who would then go to Congress, if convinced. Those were dark days for waves, experimentally; we (ADM) of course knew the Lord was not evil, but 3 sunsโ€™ worth we did not expect!โ€ฆ.It worked quite well, and was duly made a line item

 

 

https://blogs.brandeis.edu/science/2017/10/04/stanley-desers-influence-on-the-2017-nobel-prize-for-physics/