The Living Theory of Quantum Gravity: Part 2 -It Needs More Cowbells

I’ve been polishing and polishing my manuscript on the Theory of Quantum Gravity and Lignin Adhesives the past two days an thought it’s at a point where I can already post part 2 to my post on The Living Theory of Quantum Gravity.

I’ve made some changes to the main text, but not as much as to the supplementary information. The version two days ago had 32 pages, but now I’ve gotten to 38 pages. Mostly because I’ve added nine photos. These are of different experiments illustrating my lignin adhesive and coating in different applications and different tests. It might be surprising to regular readers of my posts, but in my day job, I don’t do that much theory. I’m an experimental chemist and the experiments reflect that. Unlike many physicists, my experiments are quite practical and rather easy to visualize with photos. That doesn’t mean that the experiments would be less valid. However, they require much more interpretation to explain the results with mathematics. They seldom produce curves with accuracies of six sigma. Rather, the results are really noisy. If I can replicate a finding with a deviation of less than 10 %, but the value is ‘good’, then the 10 % error isn’t a problem at all.

To some extent, this is why I have so many photos. I show that my experiments work in practice and that while the link between the precise mathematics and the imprecise wet chemistry isn’t the strongest, I show that I can apply the theory to make something useful.

Here is one of the photos:

A humble photo of a successful tensile strength test. An adhesive sample with standard dimensions, showing that wood breaks before the lignin adhesive. This sort of wood failure is what is required of a quality adhesive and as such quite unremarkable. However, it is sometimes exceedingly hard to even achieve unremarkable results, when the standard results for experimental products are often either abject failures or at best okay results, which are nevertheless far worse than expected.

And what’s the thing with the cowbells? There’s a rather famous SNL sketch that is all about never having enough cowbells. Well, in my paper there can never be too many photos.

And here is the latest supplementary information:

CLP-EGDE-ToE 2025_09_10_10_SI-2.pdf

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