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Any approach to the unification of physics must stand up to observations and experiments with new tests and predictions. This page lists all the high-precision experimental tests and predictions that were deduced from the fundamental principle of the strand tangle model in the publications by Christoph Schiller.

The fundamental principle of the
strand tangle model

Theoretical tests and predictions are also given. The positive and negative aspects of strands are evaluated. Donors who want to support strand tangle research can get a money-back guarantee if any single prediction given below is falsified.

 
● All predictions about fundamental physics summarized in four short parts
● Tests with particle experiments – of part 1 of the predictions
● Tests with gravity experiments – of part 2 of the predictions
● Theoretical tests – of parts 3 and 4 of the predictions
● Present limitations and timeline of the predictions
● What speaks against the strand tangle model
● What speaks in favour of the strand tangle model
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All predictions about fundamental physics summarized in four short parts

1. No deviation from the standard model of particle physics with massive Dirac neutrinos and PMNS mixing will ever be observed – including no exception to the invariant local limits c, and /c. Part 1 of the predictions, summarizing all textbook particle physics since 1973, agrees with all data.
 
2. No deviation from general relativity (at sub-galactic distances) will ever be observed – including no exception to the invariant local limits c, c5/4G, c4/4G, c3/4G and c2/4G. Part 2 of the predictions, summarizing textbook physics on gravitation from 1915, 1973 and 2002, includes the impossibility to observe unknown relativistic quantum gravity effects and agrees with all data.
 
3. Every observation in elementary particle physics is explained by the fundamental Planck-scale principle of the strand tangle model, i.e., by Dirac's trick at the Planck scale. The assumptions are minimal, clear and unmodifiable. No other, inequivalent approach will achieve this completeness of explanation while agreeing with all experiments. Part 3 of the predictions, made in 2014, agrees with all data.
 
4. Calculating the fundamental constants of the standard model – the mass of the electron and the other elementary particles, the fine structure constant and the nuclear coupling constants, and all mixing angles and CP phases – is possible with strands. No other, inequivalent approach will achieve this calculation. Part 4 of the predictions, made in 2014, agrees with all data – though one other, inequivalent approach, by Tejinder Singh, is also trying hard.
 
The research page lists papers and preprints explaining how the predictions result from the fundamental principle. The rest of the present page shows how to test and falsify the predictions and thus, the tangle model itself.

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Tests with particle experiments – of part 1 of the predictions:

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Tests with gravity experiments – of part 2 of the predictions:

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Theoretical tests – of parts 3 and 4 of the predictions:

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Present limitations and timeline of the predictions

The aim of the strand model remains to extend the list of tests in cosmology and to improve the calculations of the fundamental constants.

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What speaks against the strand tangle model

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What speaks in favour of the strand tangle model

Only one argument speaks in favour of the model: every observation is completely explained and described by strands.

The detailed arguments, for physicists:

  1. The strand tangle model can be shown to be the only approach to unification that agrees with maximum speed, maximum force, minimum entropy, and the smallest action observed in nature. In particular, the principle of maximum force is experiencing growing interest. (If preferred, one can also take any other classical black hole property as an equivalent limit principle.) The principle of maximum force, combined with the ideas of Dirac, of Battey-Pratt and Racey, and of Kauffman, led to the fundamental principle of the strand tangle model.
  2. The strand tangle model is the first and only approach that explains wave functions and their observed properties. Strands explain how wave functions arise, how they interfere, and how they lead to Hilbert spaces, entanglement and decoherence.
  3. The strand tangle model is the first and only approach that explains the elementary particles and all their observed properties and does not add unobserved ones. Strands explain why there are three particle generations and why protons have the same charge as positrons.
  4. The strand tangle model is the first and only approach that explains the four interactions and their observed properties while not adding unobserved ones. Strands explain quantum field theory, the gauge groups, the gauge interaction Lagrangians, the full standard model Lagrangian, the vanishing vacuum energy and the lack of a Landau pole; strands explain the field equations of general relativity, the Hilbert Lagrangian, black hole entropy and the no-hair theorem.
  5. The strand tangle model is the first approach (of only two) that estimates the fundamental constants ab initio. Strands predict the normal neutrino mass sequence and a rough value for the weak mixing angle, ab initio, and by explaining the fine structure constant and the mass of the electron more precisely – and ab initio – strands will explain all colours in nature.
  6. The strand tangle model is the first and only approach that explains the principle of least action. Strands derive it from the observability of crossing switches.
  7. The strand tangle model is the first and only approach that describes all motion with a single principle. The principle derives the dimensionality of space, all textbook "principles", all Lagrangians used in physics, and laws of nature. All consequences of the strand tangle model – all explanations and all predictions – derive from a single principle at the Planck scale. There is no way to modify the strand tangle model. There is no way (except by changing tangle–particle assignments) to change the predictions of the strand tangle model. No question in fundamental physics is left unanswered.

The arguments for the media differ:

The strand tangle model fits on a T-shirt that contains and agrees with all of textbook physics. All research results of the strand tangle model are presented only in professional physics journals and books. Also, the strand tangle model gets no points on the various crackpot indices. Above all, the strand tangle model is falsifiable in every experiment and observation, as required by any candidate unified theory.

A short history. Starting in 2019, the predictions of the strand tangle model were listed on this page and published in physics journals. So far, all checks are positive. (More precisely, the lack of deviations from general relativity was predicted in 2000, whereas most strand predictions are from 2009 and were included in volume VI of the Motion Mountain series. The remaining strand predictions are from 2014.)

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You can contribute to efforts towards falsifying the strand tangle model by finding an effect or by funding an experiment that detects physics beyond general relativity or beyond the standard model with massive Dirac neutrinos. Or you can contribute towards the strand tangle model and support strand research with 0.001% (10 ppm) of your or your organisation's annual budget. You will get an entry on the sponsor page. If donor anonymity is desired, it will be respected.

Are you a donor or a sponsor thinking about a medium-sized contribution? Given the promising results so far, the Motion Mountain Physikverein and Christoph Schiller make an unusual offer (since 2020): if just one of the hundreds of experimental predictions and tests given above fails, the received financial support for strand research will be refunded. In short, strand tangle model falsified, money back. This article lists the arguments.

Are you a donor or a sponsor thinking about a large contribution? In this case, the Motion Mountain Physikverein and Christoph Schiller make an additional offer (also since 2020): if another, inequivalent approach about the unification of physics arises – explaining particles and forces, estimating fundamental constants, and explaining least action and the number of dimensions – then the received financial support for strand research will also be refunded. Even if the strand tangle model is not falsified. In short, strand tangle model not unique, money back. This article lists the arguments.

Private bets about the best path to unification are a fun pastime. In the past, christoph@motionmountain.net has proposed private bets on one or several predictions of the strand tangle model. All predictions above have withstood the test of time. For years, he has also been offering a free dinner to anybody providing a new and good argument (even if incorrect) against or in favour of the strand tangle model. This includes the first person telling him about a specific counter-example to any prediction listed above.

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