Who am I
I grew up in Munich. I was interested in science and mathematics from an early age. I studied medicine and some physics on the side and became a radiologist. Then followed 35 years of professional work. A few years ago I was forced into retirement for health reasons. Back then, a colleague told me: “Everything has its good sides. Make the best of it.” I returned to my hobbies, especially physics. This was about 6 years ago.
As a child, I assembled airplanes with rubber engines. I was fascinated to see how a twisted rubber can be linear or a ball. That was topology, mathematics, physics and logic. Logic told me that physics must arise from natural numbers and not from theology. What we see is only one side of the coin.
I knew I couldn't keep up with the forefront of physics. My thought was: If after 350 years there is still no theory of everything, I have to go back in time. Why is it that people still believe in constants in physics? In order to solve this crime thriller, it is necessary to know the basics of current physics. I acquired most of my knowledge of physics when I was at school: matter, space and time from Weyl and the Gerthsen from start to finish. During my studies I browsed through “Quantum Physics at a Glance (Weberruß)”. That's enough to have a say. The mathematical horizon of knowledge should extend to Feynman, i.e. to quantum field theory. Newton calculated the trajectory of a cannonball using a constant. In his time, this was the best shot. No question, Newton was an outstanding mathematician and physicist. But why should constants be necessary in the universe at all? Kepler was a contemporary of Newton. He based his celestial laws solely on the relationships between dimensions. Physics is essentially explained using the ideas of Democritus, Archimedes and Ptolemy: countable atoms, the lever law, the center of gravity and epicycles. In 1630, Galileo said that the speed of light would decide which world system would be correct, the Ptolemaic or the Copernican. This is the approach to the theory of relativity. Since the speed of light is constant for every observer, every person is the center of their universe.
For me, this is a sign that humans, with their network of around 1.3 kg, are crucial for the unification of quantum theory and the theory of relativity.
Helmut Schmidt