The Theory of Nothing

I am getting away from the Theory of Everything, to the Theory of Nothing. I do not think this is a defeat, it looks more like a step ahead. I explain.

Albert Einstein sought to unify Electromagnetism with Gravity in a Unified Field Theory. He failed; at the same Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton, Edward Witten is trying again. If I am right. he won't get anywhere. String Theory cannot be a theory of everything, anymore than we could predict the weather three weeks in advance.

My New Scientific Method: Measure, Calculate, and Compare, does not posit the existence of fundamental formulas or programs that code the behavior of the Universe, once and forever. What it posits is the existence of sophisticated fitting methods to correlate huge amounts of data, with a much smaller set of fitting algorithms. From this perspective, Carl Friedrich Gauss already gave us the basic principle, with his least squares method of fitting experimental data.

With this perspective, we can as well predict the stock market prices for all of next week, as well as the Big Bang Quantum Cosmology; in principle one problem does not present a more daunting problem than the other.

Maybe I'll become a Quant after all.