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I am an experimentalist. For me the beauty of the Standard Model of particle physics lies in that it encompasses successfully, in a mathematical manner, the innumerable experimental data of the last sixty years and more. The pros for both proposed theories for gravity are the quantization of gravity, a long sought after holy grail. I am biased by ...

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I think it may have been Witten (perhaps somebody can correct me) who suggested that a TEO might not actually exist. Just as we might never, even in principle, posses the mathematics that can interpolate between the strongly coupled and free limits of QCD, it might not be possible to write down one set of equations that describes one corner of a TEO, say, ...

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One thing that stops us from having a theory of everything is actually quite simple. Gravity as we understand it, thanks to the strong equivalence principle, is not a force. It is entirely geometrizable because there is actually no coupling constant between a physical object and the "gravitational field". This means that there is no a priori way to ...

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A "fifth force" can be given by a scalar field. This field arises in many theories, for example from the dilaton scalar field of string theory, that is non minimally coupled to $R$ in the action. In the low energy limit we can phenomenologically treat string theory as a Scalar Tensor Theories of Gravitation (see the Wikipedia Link for details) in which you ...

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some theories propose that the infalton field is actually the same a dark energy,, if that were correct, then we would have a fifth field (force might not be correct in this context) that ineracts with the other four. And who knows what else, dark matter might have lots of forces that are invisible to us because they just do not inetract with the four we do. ...

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Yes, you can simulate non-locality in celular automata, even if the rules are local. In such a case, contiguous cells do not represent adjacent points in our space. In these models space is an approximate, macroscopic emergent property (it is discussed in detail in NKS). This emergent space can have, at microspcopic scales, functional links that resemble the ...

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