ambivalence for TOE

[AntonioLao]

Can there be simultaneous and contradictory attitudes (as attraction and repulsion) in regard to subjective or objective feelings toward a theory of everything? Any endeavor into the unknown and new territory always seems to be attached with certain ambivalence at the outset.

[AntonioLao]

yet he seems to think it is impossible that somebody like myself could have.

I think it is about time you write a book about your idea then show it to him. On the other hand if it is published then everyone would know about it. If you really want to keep it a secret forever then don't talk about it any more. to be believed and taken seriously is to never cry wolf.

[harmonygirl]

Antonio, I think that simultaneous attraction and repulsion are the stuff of life. I once was in a novice debating tournament where the topic was "what goes down must come up" and my team decided to proceed on the premise that down is up, seen from a different direction. I think that attraction and repulsion fit this general scheme. This is true of the TOE, and I think of everything else. Even when you love deeply, there is a kernal of ambivalence. (which of course you keep to yourself!).

[dleviwing]

Antonio;
Out of all the ideas that became accepted into the sciences, how many would you say are pure crackpot absurd nonsense; excluding QM, Relativity, and string theory.

Most anyone with a solid background in physics can tell the difference between an idea that is plausible and one that is pure BS. Unless an idea can show success were current theories fail, it is not likely that it will be given any special consideration; unless of course you are part of the academic ruling class. In that case you can dish out all the BS you like.

[AntonioLao]

how many would you say are pure crackpot absurd nonsense

I haven't the slightest idea? However, I am now reading technological advances as in engineering structures of roads and bridges. They went through processes of trials and errors but further advance comes from just one failure. This is assuming that some designs seem to work beautifully at the outset until they fail. However, crackpot designs do not work at all at the outset.

I think that simultaneous attraction and repulsion are the stuff of life.

As in human relationships between male and female?

[harmonygirl]

As in human relationships between male and female?

as in romantic and other relationships. Male-female relationships just take more work because you have to decode everything. I think you don't really have complete attraction or repulsion (kind of like the yin yang), each contains an element of the other.

[AntonioLao]

I think you don't really have complete attraction or repulsion

I am having difficulty finding a layman analogy for describing yin-yang without using Fourier transform of spatial and temporal frequencies. Please see this weblink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_frequency

[mkirkpatrick]

Fight or flight are two aspects of our behavior,there is seemingly an ambivalance "built in"
to our psyche,two aspects of the one energy,expansion and contraction.So the theory
for the TOE will be expressed,or unexpressed with the same ambivalance.


regards michael.

[AntonioLao]

the theory for the TOE will be expressed,or unexpressed with the same ambivalance.

The TOE could certainly be described by a quaternary theory of: matter, energy, continuous space, and quantized space.

[Lloyd Gillespie]

The TOE could certainly be described by a quaternary theory of: matter, energy, continuous space, and quantized space.

Antonio, this post I agree with, but the devil is in the details...

Regards,
Lloyd