I was thinking about the unified theory of everything and began to wonder if it was really possible.
My reasoning is this:
We live in - for an anology - an apple universe! This means that everything we apply to understanding our universe involves apples! OK, a bit strange, but this seems the easiest way of explaining it.
So, our mathematic formulas are all geared to working with apples, and we get results that make sense and work with the observations that we see.
But, when we approach things like Black Holes and the very tiny we aren't using apples anymore, but - let us say - oranges.
Therefore the mathematics that we apply don't work because they can't - being callibrated to apples!
Now along comes quantum theory, and I think, is this truly orange mathematics or is it merely apple mathematics with a slightly tangy flavour?
Being which we get things like super string theory because we are still working, in essence, with apple mathematics. Ah, does my standing on super string theory show here? Ha!
Well, I don't think this multiverse theory with millions of universes on the m-brane is feasable, and the main reason for these theories is that we are still using apple mathematics with a slightly tangy flavour, which gives us hybrid results and not the true peel and pith of the orange.
So, back to the main question, a unified theory of everything would involve apples and oranges being smoothly linked together. Is this possible?
Or are we trying to apply apples with a slightly tangy flavour that we say is the truth, but, in reality, is still green with a solid core, with just more apples?
That would hint at unification because both are green with a solid core. They have common denominators to work with. Yet all you could really say about apples and oranges is that they both come from trees! Or, in this case, our universe.
So, what would orange mathematics be? Quantum theory seems to be heading that way, but has it really got there? And when it does, would its structure be so different from our apple mathematics that unification would be impossible?
Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
