Is Physics DOOMED? Why do they have us chasing a lost cause, again??
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The search for a “Theory of Everything” didn’t begin in a vacuum. It began with a command: Gravity must be treated as a force.
Here’s the problem. Our most successful theory of the small, the Standard Model of particle physics, is built on a rigid principle: all fundamental forces are carried by particles. For the theory to be complete, gravity must obey this rule. It must have a force-carrying particle, the “graviton.”
But Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, our best description of the large-scale universe, has already proven this is the wrong way to look at it. Gravity isn’t a force pulling you down; it’s the geometry of spacetime bending around you. This is a fact confirmed by everything from GPS to gravitational waves.
The entire search for a Theory of Everything is an attempt to resolve this by forcing the reality of geometry into the framework of forces. It’s a quest to find a “graviton”—a particle that likely doesn’t exist because the premise is wrong.
This is why the search is futile. It’s like trying to find the gear mechanism that makes the Earth orbit the sun, when in reality, there are no gears.
