Thursday, February 4, 2021

The experimentalist approach to the new physics.

In modern physics the most discussed challenge now is crisis in fundamental physics. Indeed, numerous different theories are multiplying at exponential rate, but no further improvement was seen in already around 80 years, what indeed looks like a crisis here. One of the points every physicist agrees upon is lack of new experimental data, which would demonstrated the limitation of the major paradigms: general relativity and quantum mechanics. So the most promising way in this situation is the hard work way of experimentalist - search for new discoveries here and there without preliminary theoretical calculations to confirm - the "wild goose chase" approach.
The only way old theories may help in this situation is to create some kinds of boundaries where to search. 1.At least energy conservation law should be preserved.
2.The effect sought should be small (otherwise it would be noticed already).
3.Use the existing theory and eliminate only one assumption.
4.The experiment proposed is obligatory very expensive (otherwise it would be done decades ago).

With this approach in mind I tried to generate the list of possible areas to search within:
One of the confirmation of the validity of search come from the observation of double stars orbit - they are not really Keplerian, rather ovoid instead of ellipse (the deviation is of course small and was confirmed only recently using special technique):


Hopefully soon the search for new discoveries in this way will finally lead to new physics.


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