All this becomes superfluous with correct maths. In any case, if the Higgs is NOT found, particle theory as we know it is in trouble. Thats my bet.
And here is a link to a simpler unified theory that may point to the future: http://www.aias.us/documents/miscellaneous/ECE_and_Spacetime.pdf
This is a "history of thought" and high level description of the basic theory and some of its most important implications.
The mis-application of symmetry is key... in fact the Riemann connection is not symmetric...it is anti-symmetric, thus the Einstein field equation is wrong and much collapses from that result. So almost everyone in physics is using the wrong math. Riemann geometry needs to be supplemented. Einstein wasn't wrong.. he had incredible insights. He just wasn't totally correct, as even he knew.
Didn't look all the way through that paper yet, but... if you mean the Riemann curvature tensor having antisymmetric parts... so? How does that kill GR? (besides, anti symmetry is a type of symmetry. I didn't mean symmetric as in "symmetric vs antisymmetric tensors", I meant it in the more general sense.)
(Okay, I know of Einstein-Cartan-Theory, but I haven't studied it yet. I still only have a rudimentary grasp of the math of basic GR)
But... what's any of this got to do with my original question?
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