Did God Divide by Zero? by Cristinel Stoica

Cristinel Stoica

Dear Alan,

Thank you for your comments. What you say is intriguing, and I look forward to take a closer look at your essay.

Best regards,

Cristi Stoica

Wilhelmus de Wilde

Dear Christie:

Benjamin Dribus made me alert on your essay, especially the part where information can be preserved by a BB like event. So I started reading...

Your approach of zero length is very interesting , however I think we are entering here a pure mathematical view.

In "THE CONSCIOUSNESS CONNECTION", my approach is that this mathematical view is a pure "in the mind" perception, just because of the fact that I position limits at the material universe (Planck length and time). And when I am looking at your illustrations with lengths of zero, indeed the illustrations are no longer visible...we enter a new dimension.

You loose me in the parts 6 and 7, as an architectional engineer my math' is forgotten, my approach is more philosophical, but if you take those two together maybe the whole becomes understandable.

You say : God divided by zero, and somewhere later you say that WE are doing so. I wholly agree with you, in my perception the non causal part of our consciousness in Total Simultanity is the origin of the "reality" as perceived by the causal part of our consciousness here in the arrow of time, some posts on my thread are inclined to perceive the GOD perception in this view, in fact the same as you say.

You made me think again over the concept singulairity, thank you for that.

I hope that can find some time to read/rate and comment "THE CONSCIOUSNESS CONNECTION".

Wilhelmus

Cristinel Stoica

Dear Wilhelmus,

"Your approach of zero length is very interesting , however I think we are entering here a pure mathematical view."

The very prediction of the occurrence of singularities in General Relativity is purely mathematical too. If we trust maths enough to claim that GR has a problem because of singularities, then we should trust maths also when offering the solution.

"You say : God divided by zero, and somewhere later you say that WE are doing so."

I ask "Did God divide by zero", and then answer that we did, when we wrote the equations and divided by the volume element, which may vanish at singularities.

"my approach is more philosophical [...] I hope that can find some time to read/rate and comment "THE CONSCIOUSNESS CONNECTION"."

I hope too. I have a deep respect for theoretical philosophy, as a tool to explore open-mindedly various possibilities, and then to submit them to logic and critical thinking.

Best regards,

Cristi

Cristinel Stoica

Here's a link to the slides of a talk I will give in two weeks at a conference: Global and local aspects of causality. Feedback welcomed.

Wilhelmus de Wilde

Bravo Christi, beautiful and very well explained.Maybe my problem of the Data Transmission Delay between the awareness and the consciousness influence on the collapse of wave function is of the same order. I would like to know your opinion. Of course my text is not as thouroughfull scientific underlayed as yours , but I think we are touching the same object.

Wilhelmus

Cristinel Stoica

Thanks, Wilhelmus. It may be, but I don't know what to say, I don't know much about the relation between consciousness and collapse of the wavefunction, if there is any. But maybe you can find something helpful here and here.

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Dear Cristinel,

World is much simpler than you thinking.Please read my essay with the comments and you will understand how the World works.

Cristinel Stoica

It is simple, but it's difficult to tell.

Sergey Fedosin

If you do not understand why your rating dropped down. As I found ratings in the contest are calculated in the next way. Suppose your rating is [math]R_1 [/math] and [math]N_1 [/math] was the quantity of people which gave you ratings. Then you have [math]S_1=R_1 N_1 [/math] of points. After it anyone give you [math]dS [/math] of points so you have [math]S_2=S_1+ dS [/math] of points and [math]N_2=N_1+1 [/math] is the common quantity of the people which gave you ratings. At the same time you will have [math]S_2=R_2 N_2 [/math] of points. From here, if you want to be R2 > R1 there must be: [math]S_2/ N_2>S_1/ N_1 [/math] or [math] (S_1+ dS) / (N_1+1) >S_1/ N_1 [/math] or [math] dS >S_1/ N_1 =R_1[/math] In other words if you want to increase rating of anyone you must give him more points [math]dS [/math] then the participant`s rating [math]R_1 [/math] was at the moment you rated him. From here it is seen that in the contest are special rules for ratings. And from here there are misunderstanding of some participants what is happened with their ratings. Moreover since community ratings are hided some participants do not sure how increase ratings of others and gives them maximum 10 points. But in the case the scale from 1 to 10 of points do not work, and some essays are overestimated and some essays are drop down. In my opinion it is a bad problem with this Contest rating process. I hope the FQXI community will change the rating process.

Sergey Fedosin

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Hi Cristi,

I saw that you are, like us, one of the victims of the strange "rising and dropping" of the Community Rating.

In any case, I enjoyed in reading your interesting Essay, hence, I am going to give you an high score.

Cheers,

Ch.

Cristinel Stoica

Dear Dr. Corda,

Thank you very much for reading my essay. I also enjoyed yours, and singularities may very well be forbidden by quantum or even semi-classical effects, as you explain. I hope that my analysis of singularities is a safety net for the case when they exist, or a good idealization/approximation, if they don't.

Best wishes,

Cristi Stoica

pjackson

Christian & Christi

You're not alone. Gangs of trolls seem to be dishing out 1's, or there's something else very wrong happening. I've dropped over 100 places overnight! Lawrence was also targeted. I think it needs investigation.

Luckily I hadn't scored yours yet which should help mitigate your drops.

Best Wishes

Peter

Cristinel Stoica

Dear Peter,

Thanks. While I would expect in the final day high activity, I would also expect that at least the top rated essays already got some weight, and huge fluctuations seem to me suspicious, when taking place in very short time.

Best wishes,

Cristi

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Dear Cristinel Stoica,

just to let you know I've seen your essay. I love the way you have set it out so clearly, tied it up neatly beginning and end and of course the colourful eye catching diagrams that break up the text ( the coloured titles too!). Others are more qualified to discuss the detail but it is clearly relevant to the essay question. Good luck, kind regards Georgina

Cristinel Stoica

Dear Georgina,

Thank you for the very kind words about my essay. I could not avoid using some heavy equations, because otherwise some very counterintuitive results would be more difficult to grasp or accept, if stated only in words. I tried to compensate by pictures, to make reader's life easier. Good luck with your very nice essay!

Cristi

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MAX PLANK:

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents; it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.

Cristinel Stoica

Dear Jin He,

Thank you for this quote, it made my day.

Best regards,

Cristi

Janko Kokosar

Dear Christi,

Feynman said that "probably finite space contains finite information". Including this, I do not see problems with singularities. Of course, it is useful to analyse them to see something useful, but they will not give final answers of physics.

My essay

Best regards, Janko Kokosar

Cristinel Stoica

Dear Janko,

Thank you for seeing a bit useful my research on singularities, even if you don't think they can answer fundamental questions. I don't see a contradiction between my work and Feynman's statement. Good luck with your research.

Cristi

Janko Kokosar

Dear Cristi

I do not understand, why do you think that singularities are not in contradiction with Feynman's statement? If mass is located on very small volume, momentum is very uncertain. It is known that that BH with mass smaller than Planck's mass do not exists, because of this logic. So, if mass is larger, it seem that this radius can be smaller. But larger mass means larger radius of horizon. So you think about radius below horizon. But (a) why it is something below horizon if distances are uncertain below planck's distance. (b) In my essay I suspect that interior of black hole does not exist.

About Feynman's statement it is written also by Brukner (A reference in my essay). But I admit that I not find clear conection of his ideas with singularities. What do you think about Brukner's ideas in connection with singularites?

Best regards Janko Kokosar

Cristinel Stoica

Dear Janko,

Thank you for explaining, and for the references you give in the next comment. There are many unknowns here, and I think that neither of us can anticipate right now all of them. - We don't know yet the correct theory combining GR and QM. - If the radius of a black hole is known, its volume is undetermined, in the sense that it depends on the coordinates. - There are extremal black holes, which don't have a real event horizon. - The dimensional reduction which takes place in my approach doesn't imply with necessity the existence black holes lighter than the Plank mass. I just show how we can solve the problem of singularities, in GR. In the correct theory which unifies it with QM, things may be different. But since my approach provides a possible way to regularize quantum gravity, it may offer the answer (there is still much work to be done here). Anyway, quantum mechanics may add constraints to my theory, which are compatible with it as it is. For example, it may forbid, as you think, Schwarzschild black holes which are lighter than Plank mass. But this constraint is compatible with the theory. Now, I don't intend to give you a proof of compatibility. I consider your burden, to prove the incompatibility. Your statement seem to refer to GR in general, not just to my approach, so if you will prove this, it will be an interesting result. But my opinion is that there are more unknowns which are easily ignored.

Best regards,

Cristi

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