Kaku – Parallel Worlds – 2005
Randall – Warped Passages – 2005
Susskind – Cosmic Landscape – 2006
Barrow – New Theories of Everything – 2007
Green – Hidden Reality – 2011

Probably enough reading!

I enjoyed your (Really) Hard Science for Beginners panel at Balticon last weekend. We spoke briefly afterward but since you were on your way to another session, you told me to send you an e-mail.

I’m looking for some resources that explain multi-world theory and higher dimensional physics in a way that a layman can understand. I figure that’s a tall order but I was hoping you might have some ideas on where I could look.

Thanks for your time.

Kelle Campbell

I’ve looked at the nullphysics.com website, particularly at the intergalactic redshift paper (http://www.ourundiscovereduniverse.com/downloads/whitepaper2.pdf). There are three problems with this paper:

1) it does not appear to have been published in a peer-reviewed journal.

2) it assume the steady state universe, but does not address some of the very serious problems with that theory. As the wikipedia article on the steady state puts it:

“Problems with the steady-state theory began to emerge in the late 1960s, when observations apparently supported the idea that the universe was in fact changing: quasars and radio galaxies were found only at large distances (therefore existing only in the distant past), not in closer galaxies. Whereas the Big Bang theory predicted as much, Steady State predicted that such objects would be found everywhere, including close to our own galaxy.”

3) it is incomplete: Witt expounds his theory at length but does not appear to give any observational tests to discriminate between his “null hypothesis” and the Big Bang. No tests means no point.

Given the extensive tests of the redshift & the Big Bang theory, the burden of proof is on Witt to prove that his theory is better. He hasn’t even started.

Thanks for letting me know about this,

Best,

John