3.9 Major Unsolved Problems
In 1900, in the same year when quantum physics was born, and just a few years before Special Relativity, physicist Lord Kelvin declared: “There is nothing new to discover in physics. All that remains is to more accurately measure its quantities.” Collins et al. (2015). Although Quantum Mechanics explained many natural phenomena and opened new frontiers in atomic and subatomic physics, it also exposed the fact that some of our common conceptions are fundamentally wrong, especially as we try to “more accurately measure small quantities”.
Most of the major unsolved problems in physics are theoretical, because the existing theories are incapable of explaining certain observed phenomena or experimental results. There are also some other experimental problems because of the difficulty in creating some experiments to test a proposed theory or investigate a phenomenon in greater details.
In he following subsections, we will list some of the major unsolved problems in theoretical physics and describe them in brief, stating their potential solutions according to the Duality of Time Theory. Although many of these problems will be simply eliminated according to the new genuinely-complex time-time geometry, a detailed theoretical and mathematical analysis is required in order to explain how these problems are settled. Therefore, most of the following brief suggested solutions are speculative, while some of them will be elaborated further in the coming chapters.