Who the heck is Pascual Jordan?

[Aristarchus in Exile]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascual_Jordan

 

Is Pascual Jordan so unpublicized because he joined the Nazi Party like tens of millions of Germans in his time, or because his theory says a singularity is not needed to create the Universe as presented in the widely accredited Big Bang?

 

"A star can be made out of nothing at all because at point of zero volume its negative gravitational energy precisely cancels out its positive mass energy." Jordan.

 

Furthermore, are Jordans 'quantum fluctuations' by which he said matter is created merely the addition of tiny bits of Time to the tiny bits of Space as presented in Loop Quantum Gravity?

[Ophiolite]

1. He isn't especially unpublicised. For example, he has a subset of algebra named after him; his contributions to quantum mechanics are widely recognised.

2. Some of his ideas didn't pan out. We tend not to remember people who apparently got things right.

 

Do you wish to discuss Jordan's possible exclusion from the physics hall of fame for political reasons, or those aspects of his thinking that are outmoded?

[Phi for All]

As happens in science, when a model came along that better explained an idea, Jordan's algebra fell out of use. Jordan, as well as many Nazi's, followed good methodology, went through proper peer review and produced good science.

[DrRocket]

http://en.wikipedia..../Pascual_Jordan

 

Is Pascual Jordan so unpublicized because he joined the Nazi Party like tens of millions of Germans in his time, or because his theory says a singularity is not needed to create the Universe as presented in the widely accredited Big Bang?

 

The big bang hypothesis says no such thing.

 

Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose proved theorems showing that, if general relativity is correct, then given a currently expanding universe and a minimal amount of mass in it, that spacetime is singular in the sense that timelike geodesics cannot be continued infinitely into the past.

 

This does not in any way mean that "a singularity is needed to create the universe". In fact, the spacetime manifold (aka the universe) contains no singular points.

 

"A star can be made out of nothing at all because at point of zero volume its negative gravitational energy precisely cancels out its positive mass energy." Jordan.

 

Furthermore, are Jordans 'quantum fluctuations' by which he said matter is created merely the addition of tiny bits of Time to the tiny bits of Space as presented in Loop Quantum Gravity?

 

Not everything that smart people have stated is correct. Einstein made major errors himself.

 

The next prediction from Quantum Loop Gravity will be the first one. Presumably it will come after someone can actually state in clear rigorous terms exactly what Quantum Loop Gravity is.