Family structure from periodic solutions of an improved gap equation

Blumhofer, Andreas; Hutter, Marcus

doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(96)00644-x

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“…There is no experiment indicating any limitation (precision, coverage). It has about 20 unexplained parameters (mostly masses and coupling constants) that have to be (and are) experimentally determined (although some regularities can be explained [BH97]). The effective theories of the previous paragraph can be regarded as approximations of SM, hence SM, although founded on a subatomic level, also predicts medium scale phenomena.…”

Section: Theories Of Something Everything and Nothingmentioning

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A Complete Theory of Everything (Will Be Subjective)

Hutter

2010

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Increasingly encompassing models have been suggested for our world. Theories range from generally accepted to increasingly speculative to apparently bogus. The progression of theories from ego- to geo- to helio-centric models to universe and multiverse theories and beyond was accompanied by a dramatic increase in the sizes of the postulated worlds, with humans being expelled from their center to ever more remote and random locations. Rather than leading to a true theory of everything, this trend faces a turning point after which the predictive power of such theories decreases (actually to zero). Incorporating the location and other capacities of the observer into such theories avoids this problem and allows to distinguish meaningful from predictively meaningless theories. This also leads to a truly complete theory of everything consisting of a (conventional objective) theory of everything plus a (novel subjective) observer process. The observer localization is neither based on the controversial anthropic principle, nor has it anything to do with the quantum-mechanical observation process. The suggested principle is extended to more practical (partial, approximate, probabilistic, parametric) world models (rather than theories of everything). Finally, I provide a justification of Ockham’s razor, and criticize the anthropic principle, the doomsday argument, the no free lunch theorem, and the falsifiability dogma

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Section: Theories Of Something Everything and Nothingmentioning

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A Complete Theory of Everything (Will Be Subjective)

Hutter

2010

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“…P is a mixture of a few relatively elegant theories, but contains about 20 unexplained parameters that need to be specified (although some regularities can be explained [BH97]). String theory is truly elegant, but ensuring that it reduces to P needs sophisticated extra assumptions (e.g.…”

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Observer Localization in Multiverse Theories

Hutter¹

2010

Proceedings of the Conference in Honour of Murray Gell-Mann's 80th Birthday

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The progression of theories suggested for our world, from ego-to geo-to helio-centric models to universe and multiverse theories and beyond, shows one tendency: The size of the described worlds increases, with humans being expelled from their center to ever more remote and random locations. If pushed too far, a potential theory of everything (TOE) is actually more a theories of nothing (TON). Indeed such theories have already been developed. I show that including observer localization into such theories is necessary and sufficient to avoid this problem. I develop a quantitative recipe to identify TOEs and distinguish them from TONs and theories in-between. This precisely shows what the problem is with some recently suggested universal TOEs.

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“…Therefore the characterization of their strata is important in particular because they might correspond to a multiplicity of condensate backgrounds or potential minima. A multiplicity of backgrounds might lead to a multiplicity of solutions in the (Schwinger-Dyson) gap equation for fermion mass generation [6] [7]. The nature of the gauge strata in the nonabelian lattice theories will be analyzed.…”

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confidence: 99%