anyone heard of Nature's Watchmaker?

[final.theory.chick]

Hi there, I'm a young girl in my twenties, totally into Final Theory and physics. Travelled to Switzerland to work on large Hadron Collider and am a MTI student. stumbled across a book due to be released in a few months with new perspectives on Final Theory.It's called Nature's Watchmaker by a South African, John Thompson. It seems like its pretty good stuff and he's suprisingly on the ball! desperate to get some opinions! here is some general info on the book:

In Nature’s Watchmaker John Thompson seeks to provide an answer to the enigma that has been engaging scientists and philosophers since the study of time began: a complete description of all the physical processes governing the universe from its creation to its ultimate destruction.

His new theory confronts the major issues currently faced by scientists including gravity, the perplexing dark matter and even more baffling dark energy. It explains why particles exist, why they have their specific properties and predicts exactly the values of certain constants previously only obtainable by experiment. The theory shows that despite the universe apparently expanding at an ever-increasing rate it will eventually enter a contraction epoch. Unlike current theories it combines all the effects found in both the microscopic (atoms) and macroscopic (stars, black holes, galaxies) universes in one simply derived equation.

Intriguingly, this new theory even answers the ultimate question: why does anything exist in the first place?

hit me back with some thoughts and more links if you're interested!

[MJA]

Hi MIT,

There are lots of theories about, but only One single truth,
be it micro or macro, and everything in between;
The universe is immeasurable, and equal All that remains.
= is the mathematical equation or solution to UFT, TOE, the unity of the unverse, you and simply me.
And equal the empirical single truth.

Be One,

=
MJA

By reducing e = mc2, you'll see it too!
Physics 101

But that in your own super collider, and you'll find the truth your looking for.

[dleviwing]

You haven't change MJA; you're still posting your nonsense in the wrong forum! This is the Physics forum!

Hi MIT,

There are lots of theories about, but only One single truth,
be it micro or macro, and everything in between;
The universe is immeasurable, and equal All that remains.
= is the mathematical equation or solution to UFT, TOE, the unity of the unverse, you and simply me.
And equal the empirical single truth.

Be One,

=
MJA

By reducing e = mc2, you'll see it too!
Physics 101

But that in your own super collider, and you'll find the truth your looking for.

[dleviwing]

final.theory.chick;
It appears as if you are promoting the hype used by publishers to sell books that introduce theories that cannot be supported by any science methodology. I would strongly suggest you wait for the book to be out for a while so you can read credible reviews. It actually sounds like hyped up nonsense that I've heard many times before. I'm sure there are many excellent professors at MIT that can guide you in such evaluations.

Hi there, I'm a young girl in my twenties, totally into Final Theory and physics. Travelled to Switzerland to work on large Hadron Collider and am a MTI student. stumbled across a book due to be released in a few months with new perspectives on Final Theory.It's called Nature's Watchmaker by a South African, John Thompson. It seems like its pretty good stuff and he's suprisingly on the ball! desperate to get some opinions! here is some general info on the book:

In Nature’s Watchmaker John Thompson seeks to provide an answer to the enigma that has been engaging scientists and philosophers since the study of time began: a complete description of all the physical processes governing the universe from its creation to its ultimate destruction.

His new theory confronts the major issues currently faced by scientists including gravity, the perplexing dark matter and even more baffling dark energy. It explains why particles exist, why they have their specific properties and predicts exactly the values of certain constants previously only obtainable by experiment. The theory shows that despite the universe apparently expanding at an ever-increasing rate it will eventually enter a contraction epoch. Unlike current theories it combines all the effects found in both the microscopic (atoms) and macroscopic (stars, black holes, galaxies) universes in one simply derived equation.

Intriguingly, this new theory even answers the ultimate question: why does anything exist in the first place?

hit me back with some thoughts and more links if you're interested!

[MJA]

You haven't change MJA; you're still posting your nonsense in the wrong forum! This is the Physics forum!

Obviously the simple solution to UFT or TOE is still well beyond you.

=
MJA

[dleviwing]

Obviously the simple solution to UFT or TOE is still well beyond you.

=
MJA

Yes; your rants are quite a quantum entanglement!

[Mike King]

Hi there, I'm a young girl in my twenties, totally into Final Theory and physics. Travelled to Switzerland to work on large Hadron Collider and am a MTI student. stumbled across a book due to be released in a few months with new perspectives on Final Theory.It's called Nature's Watchmaker by a South African, John Thompson. It seems like its pretty good stuff and he's suprisingly on the ball! desperate to get some opinions! here is some general info on the book:

In Nature’s Watchmaker John Thompson seeks to provide an answer to the enigma that has been engaging scientists and philosophers since the study of time began: a complete description of all the physical processes governing the universe from its creation to its ultimate destruction.

His new theory confronts the major issues currently faced by scientists including gravity, the perplexing dark matter and even more baffling dark energy. It explains why particles exist, why they have their specific properties and predicts exactly the values of certain constants previously only obtainable by experiment. The theory shows that despite the universe apparently expanding at an ever-increasing rate it will eventually enter a contraction epoch. Unlike current theories it combines all the effects found in both the microscopic (atoms) and macroscopic (stars, black holes, galaxies) universes in one simply derived equation.

Intriguingly, this new theory even answers the ultimate question: why does anything exist in the first place?

hit me back with some thoughts and more links if you're interested!

Hi,

A friend and I, both retired now, heard of this book through the author's brother. Now we each have a copy and are trying to work through it together. The ideas are absolutely new so we have no idea whether they are sound, but we both think that if the ideas have no fundamental flaws then this will be one of the major milestones in physics ever.

Our approach until now has been to extract the essential steps in the reasoning into our own summary of the work, and ensure that we are comfortable with the progression from each step to the next. We are still at an early stage in this, although we are well into the second part of the book that deals with the 'new model'. The book is very readable if one skims it, but we find it more difficult to subject each step to a critical analysis.

Perhaps you can give us some ideas. We want to use Sage (the open source equivalent of MatLab and Mathematica), to show his steps in some kind of graphical form (the book, as you know, has many diagrams showing the evolution of time-space). We find it difficult to follow the detail argument in his 2 dimensional projections of 3 dimensional space. It would be great to be able to enter the relevant functions/equations into Sage, and then be able to plot curves and rotate them to get a gut feel of the model.

I am sure that even if Sage is not suitable for this, it must be possible to write a computer simulation of his time-space evolution and show this graphically. Imagine being able to watch photons being emitted, and then being absorbed with the resultant change in the absorbing particle (spin, orientation and speed).

Tell us if we are way off the track. Any suggestions will be welcome.

Until the publication of this book, we were (and still are) engaged in an attempt to gain a critical understanding of the book "The Road to Reality: A Guide to the Laws of the Universe"

Regards,
Mike King (and John Blackman)

[austintorn@aol.com]

Hey, thanks.

I don't have Sage, but as the book seems to be not yet available in the U.S., as well as being expensive, in, for example, the UK, perhaps you could say something here in general about its revelations.

[trevorwiner]

Is this the Mike King I shared a physics lab table with in 1956 at Wits? e-mail me at trevor_winer@hotmail.com if you are.
In any event I have been reading, and re-reading Nature's Watchmaker. I find it so difficult that I keep almost giving up. Unfortunately, I found the crucial Chapter 9 very confusing (poorly written? or me just being dumb?). After reading it very carefully six times I started speed reading past it, and it started making sense.
Altogether a very different view. It is certainly argued in an acceptably "formal" and "scientific" way to merit close scrutiny by people who can judge it in an informed manner.
If it all hangs together this must be up there with Newton and Einstein - very, very unlikely but let's hope. so that we can get away from the tyranny of string theory.
I heartly agree that good interactive graphics showing the diagrams as if in real life would transform ones ability to understand what John Thompson is saying.
It is strange that John Thompson seems not to have discussed this with any physicists of note (George Ellis is at UCT); or to have taken the usual path of publication in peer reviewed journals. So, this book really does come from left field. But, I really hope there is substance to it - after all, Einstein was a patent clerk in no close touch with the mainstream.

[engajohan]

Is this the Mike King I shared a physics lab table with in 1956 at Wits? e-mail me at trevor_winer@hotmail.com if you are.
In any event I have been reading, and re-reading Nature's Watchmaker. I find it so difficult that I keep almost giving up. Unfortunately, I found the crucial Chapter 9 very confusing (poorly written? or me just being dumb?). After reading it very carefully six times I started speed reading past it, and it started making sense.
Altogether a very different view. It is certainly argued in an acceptably "formal" and "scientific" way to merit close scrutiny by people who can judge it in an informed manner.
If it all hangs together this must be up there with Newton and Einstein - very, very unlikely but let's hope. so that we can get away from the tyranny of string theory.
I heartly agree that good interactive graphics showing the diagrams as if in real life would transform ones ability to understand what John Thompson is saying.
It is strange that John Thompson seems not to have discussed this with any physicists of note (George Ellis is at UCT); or to have taken the usual path of publication in peer reviewed journals. So, this book really does come from left field. But, I really hope there is substance to it - after all, Einstein was a patent clerk in no close touch with the mainstream.

Stranger concepts than the theory presented in "Nature's Watchmaker" are accepted as fact, e.g. the uncertainty principle. Even more strange concepts like the "Higgs force field/ boson" and "String theory" are also being researched. To understand and test Thompsons idea you need to start out with a reasonable understanding of the current theories and hypothesis and then test his equations to ensure that numerical answers consistently agree with experimental and physically measured values of known constants. If this pans out ok, then the final mystery that I suspect we may never solve is: What was there before "Time", or the "Big Bang" or anything else?