Guilty as charged Keith-Richard Burton.
Hi.
Just trying to qualify what the good "doctor" is on about here. Highly speculative, of course. Trying to see where he is coming from at this point.
You know me, I'm a staunch realist, (read sceptic) but open to all ideas. If someone has something of substance, I wan't to see it
and Tevatron experiments don't yet CONFIRM any of this. They merely create new questions that cause new speculative answers, that again, pose more questions.
It still seems to me tho, that we must not give up trying to unify gravity into the "grand unification" theory. I would hate to see us abandon this effort for speculation on how it is effected by as yet hypothetical "dimensions" that would allow us to cop out on the explanation entirely. String theory has plenty of room for further exploration into this possibility.
Given the state of quantum theory these days, I'm inclined to favor a manner in which it can at least be explained "why" it does not reconcile with Relativity, rather than ignore this simple fact in favor of dismissing Relativity altogether. We still have older questions than this that are unanswered yet.
Let's see the Tevatron solve the EPR Paradox, for instance. It's ability to record scatterings should be able to address this issue nicely. Lets not forget that solving this problem COULD prove that there are NO other "dimensions", parallel universes, etc. Or at least none implied by the paradox itself. This is just as valid a speculation as that there are.
It seems QM is putting the cart before the horse here. I do NOT want to see any science ASSUME something is true first, then insist on proving it, dismissing any evidence to the contrary. This would be bad science.
Peace.