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11-24-2007, 01:44 PM
Re: The Special Theory of Everything.

I'm sure that this theory has been thought of before, but it violates special relativity. There are a few things in the first couple of pages of your theory that suggest to me that you should review your knowledge of special relativity.

However, firstly, I'd like to address a point in your blog: you say that tachyons conflict with causality, but they don't! A tachyon is defined as a "particle" that always travels at a speed greater than the speed of light; that is, it cannot break through the speed of light boundary, just like any other particle in special relativity. It may have weird properties, but it does not violate causality.

In your photon in a box experiment* you describe light taking longer to travel a longer distance, than a shorter distance. However, this has been proven by Michelson and Morely, and by many other experiments since, to not be true: a photon travels at the speed of light as measured in all intertial frames.

Finally, you talk about the box travelling at the speed of light. According to special relativity, this cannot happen: a massive body can never travel at the speed of light.

*I know you call it a make believe particle moving at the speed of light but, in essence, this is a photon.

If I've read your theory wrong, then feel free to correct my comments.
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