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"Robert J. Kolker" wrote:
> 
> Uncle Al wrote:
> 
> >    1) Empirically falsify a theory's founding postulate(s), e.g.,
> >  http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2
> > probing isotropic vacuum in the massed sector and the Eqivalence
> > Principle for chemically identical, opposite parity mass
> > configurations re teleparallel gravitation.
> >
> >    2) Emprically falsify theory's prediction with observation.  You
> > are looking in the wrong place, Pentcho,
> >
> > http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/sunshine.jpg
> >
> 
> You left out 3).  Show that the theory is mathematicially incosistent.
> An inconsistent formal system implies -any- conclusion.
> 
> Bob Kolker

Sure - that is why we have anonymous peer review.  The metastatic
atrocity that is string theory is entirely rigorous and
self-consistent.  It's simply useless and not physics for not making
any testable predictions.  String theory demands BRST invariance to
unite the effects of a massive body and an accelerated reference
frame.  Provide a reproducible violation of the Equivalence Principle
and string theory is empirically falsified at the founding postulate
level (ditto General Relativity).  Making no testable predictions
won't save string theory (except perhaps the chiral part).

Prior observation is a ridiculous number of significant figures in a
huge assortment of venues on scales from 20 TeV smallness to cosmic
bigness.  Finding a chink in that armor is... easy.  Physics knew how
to do it in the early 1920s.  Nobody knows if the vacuum is chiral
(teleparallel gravitation, spacetime torsion, Weitzenb�ck spacetime
A^4) in the massed sector.  If the vacuum is chiral that way it will
have no effect on EM or achiral or racemic mass distributions.  The
chink in the armor!  Only oppositely chiral mass distributions will be
affected, and then to less than 10^(-12) relative.  State of the art
measurement is 3x10^(-14) relative in an Eotvos balance - the parity
Eotvos experiment in quartz.  Parity calorimetry should be good to
3x10^(-18) absolute difference.  There are no natural resolved
opposite parity mass distributions.  The real world is dirty an
disordered overall.

I've been approached by academics with "HOW DO YOU KNOW QUARTZ IS
CHIRAL?"  These are folks who cannot look into an ORTEP diagram and
see 3-D.  It's like arguing with blue mud.

   1) Enantiomorphic space groups P3(1)21 and P3(2)21 are chiral mass
distributions no matter what is in them,
 Helvetica Chimica Acta 86 905 (2003) 
   2) Petitjean's QCM calculates it as the most extreme case of parity
divergence,
 J. Math. Phys. 40(9) 4587 (1999)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qzdense.png
   3) Avnir calculates it so,
Chem. Mater. 15, 464 (2003)
Acta Cryst. B60 163 (2004)
Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 17 2723 (2006)

Optical rotation is not an indicator of mass distribution chirality in
th solid state,

J. Appl. Cryst. 19 108 (1986)
 Electric polarization tensors are orthogonal to thermal ellipsoids
J. Chem. Phys. 65(4) 1522 (1976)
 If optical chirality mattered quartz is very good, but... optical
chirality trivially does not measure mass distribution chirality, 

http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/norane.png

Silver thiogallate, AgGaS2 with non-polar *achiral* tetragonal space
group I-42d (#122), has immense optical rotatory power:
522�/millimeter along [100] at 497.4 nm.

You can drown them in examples of what is supported and
counterexamples of what is not supported.  One ivory tower don thinks
chirality is screws - but not the screw axes in quartz or the
molecular helices in benzil.  Machine screws!  We knew better than
that in 1848 with Pasteur and tartrates.

Physics needs something present-day detectable to

   1) Power inflation after the Big Bang
   2) Select matter over anti-matter
   3) Source 100% left-handed weak interaction
   4) Source 100% homochiral biology (chiral protein L-amino acids;
natural D-sugars)
   5) Originate in orthodox theory
   6) Not contradict prior observations
  (7) Exclude some of the 10^1000 allowable string theory vacua, say
~10^1000 of them.

Here it is! (or at least could be - somebody should look)  "Not from
yoooou!"  Fine.  We're gearing up for another parity calorimetry
experiment in benzil this coming Christmas in DSCs fresh from the
assembly line that meet OEM specs.  I *will* know the answer - Do left
and right shoes vacuum free fall identically?

Beware the vengeance of a patient man.

-- 
Uncle Al 
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/ 
 (Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals) 
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2