I came across this on YouTube
Is the math/physics sound?
Is there a logical flaw?
It’s nonsense. For example, at the 2:10 minutes mark, he presents a nonsense “proof” that betrays a basic misunderstanding of the field description of force. The onus is on him to explain why he feels that multiplying the two field strengths the way he does is how things should work.
I could only stand the first 3 minutes or so of the video, but yes, complete nonsense. Gauss’s law doesn’t prove that gravitons exist; a field is the not the same as a potential; it makes no sense to multiply fields; and it makes no sense to multiple potentials (if that’s what he thought he was doing). The production of “1/r[sup]2[/sup]” from “1/r” happens through the differentiation of the potential, not through multiplication of anything. I couldn’t make it all the way to the stuff about his new theory, but it’ll be nonsense too.
Total nonsense; those words don’t mean what he thinks they mean. For a real treatment of the subject, Wald’s “General Relativity” isn’t bad.
If he really did have some way of tying gravity and the nuclear force together, he wouldn’t be “publishing” on YouTube. A quantum theory of gravity has so far eluded all of the greatest minds of physics, and even the strong force (which does have a quantum field theory describing it) still has a lot of details left to work out (for one thing, nobody knows how to do the calculations at low energies).
Oh, and I’ve reported ralph’s mispost.
I thought all the best new physics debuted on YouTube.
It kind of depends on your definition of “best”.
Ok, change “best” to “worst”, and keep everything else equal… Does that work?
It works. YouTube is the new town square or Usenet for people with a whole new Super Theory of Super Everything, one where the established forces of Big Physics can’t silence the little guy with heart, regardless of how little he actually knows.
There is some good stuff on YouTube. There’s even some good physics being taught on YouTube. You just have to do what you should always be doing: Question things and poke at things you don’t understand until you do understand them, especially if it means something falls down.