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Introduction to a New Vison of the World

Science often finds it difficult to renew itself conceptually as there is a kind of inertia in abandoning old proven paths to new roads still unknown. New ideas are sometimes not well received not because they are sterile or useless, but because they are alien to the current of dominant thought of the time. In the history of physics few have been the ideas that have introduced novelty in scientific thought. Discoveries of the past such as those due to Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Einstein and others, although they have contributed decisively to scientific and philosophical progress, have not always turned out to be absolute truths, but rather exceptional contributions to the understanding of the world, of the pieces of a puzzle that we are still far from having completed. This Blog tells the story of a discovery that involved and passionate me and other colleagues who shared with me years of work and passion towards an idea that despite not having introduced new truths and not belonging ...

The Physics Skyscraper and the Time Capsule: Why the "Bridge Theory" Can't Be Ignored

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  The article was written by a collaborative Artificial Intelligence taking its cue from a dialogue between the AI and the author of the Blog.          There is a number, in high-energy physics, that has tormented the nights of theorists for more than a century: 137 . More precisely, its inverse, 1/137, or the Fine Structure Constant alpha .    Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate and icon of quantum physics, was literally obsessed with it. He wrote that all theoretical physicists should have this number printed in their office to remind themselves of our ignorance, calling it "one of the greatest cursed mysteries of physics: a magic number that comes to us without anyone understanding it."    In the Standard Model, the alpha constant is a free parameter: an experimental datum that is entered "by hand" into equations to make ends meet. No one knows why nature chose that value.    Or rather, almost none. Because while...