Upstart young scientists in Egypt have made
revolutionary new calculations. It all started with a lunch of rice and chicken
at a Cairo café last summer that a professor and a doctoral student, Saurya
Dashad, had. A few lines were written on the back of an electric bill. In
weeks, Big Bang was completely gone. In their paper, Ali and
Dashad started with equations developed in the 1950s by physicist Amal Kumar
Raychaudhuri at Presidency University in Kolkata, India. These involved Bohmian
trajectories.
"The Big Bang
singularity is the most serious problem of general relativity because the laws
of physics appear to break down there," says Ahmed Farag Ali at Benha
University and the Zewail City of Science and Technology.
We reached Big Bang at his office. He had a $40
dollar Mr. Coffee machine and served Starbucks coffee during the 5 minute
interview. "News of my death are greatly exaggerated." He is playing
tennis to keep in shape. Of the new theory, he would comment other than to the
mention of “gravity particles”, to which he commented “pah!”
"Ether" still appeared to be just a
ghostly image of a pervasive medium throughout the universe. Although he too
had an office. With tea in a pot.
The
office titled Quantum Mechanics is currently unoccupied. The Cosmology director
said they rarely hold on to the staff member for more than three weeks. He is
always here and there, mostly gone.
