Soon I will be at New York you know Jonathan, hope we shall make interesting conferences there, in this wonderful town where all is possible. and REVOLUTION SPHERIZATION with faith and universality my friend.

I have always dreamt to visit New York me, and I love so much the medias, I am going to utilize them, like a tool, like a catalyzer .I am persuaded that USA will love my theory of spherization, and that a lot of people will like my theory and its pure universal meaning.The faith you say, indeed the universal faith. Just to revolutionate this earth. I need friends and medias.

A good team of real revolutionaries and conscious universalists. I just take the time to make my visa and my passport and let's go for the SPHERIZATION REVOLUTION of USA .I will have a lot of freinds, you shall see !

Regards

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  • Post #46

Jonathan, A good essay about the way we use assumptions, well done.

Interesting point about the way homogeniety of apce became an assumption in cosmology. Did you know that Lamaitre actually looked at more general cosmological solutions in which space was not homogenious? I think it was just a working assumption that was adopted that the universe is homogeneous and it was supported by observation for a long time, especially CMB. The wroking assumption becomes a principle when people learn about the model and take it more seriously than it was originally intended. Homogeniety beyond the observable horizon is not supported by observations or logical necessity.

I also agree that spacetime may lose its dimensionality. Such things are probably emergent.

cross fertilizing spheres Jonathan.

In the past, I have worked to unite several scientists. The aim was to help by adapted sciences on ground , for the forgotten.

I have a responsability for my friends, I must assume this sciences center.

The centyralization of competences is essential.

Regards

Dear Jonathan

I enjoyed your essay both for its general good sense about adopting new assumptions (and I suppose that includes negating old ones that conflict with the new) in a 'playful' attitude; and also for some interesting accounts of new research. Emergent dimensionality for example. I liked the idea of equating entropy with an ordered dissipation. You have given me a powerful new angle to support my belief that diffraction, or diffusion is the basis of both quantum probability and uncertainty. I have detailed this, among other things - to the best of my rather limited technical abilities - in my Beautiful Universe Theory . Wow, if that explanation also includes entropy as well that is three birds with one stone - thanks!

I was rather surprised by your saying that Anton Zeilinger cautioned against the point photon in his lecture - is there an online reference to that? Thanks. The reason I found that surprising is that rejecting the point photon, as I have argued, rejects the reality of the probabilistic interpretation, a staple of the maths used to interpret entanglement for which Zeilinger became famous.

Lastly in a recent fqxi discussion I found that someone has urged you to read Eric Reiter's fqxi essay. I had the honor to introduce the contest to him and urged him to publish his groundbreaking experimental proof against the point photon in fqxi. By all means please study and support his work as you see fit.

Lastly I would be honored if you read and evaluate my own rather free-wheeling fqxi essay my fqxi essay Fix Physics! .

Withe best wishes,

Vladimir

    Jonathan, I enjoyed your essay. Do you know when children start to assemble color images? I did some modeling of vision with one of Feynman's equations and found that the wavelengths associated with blue, green, red and scotopic (black/white) are information theory numbers I have been "playing" with (the sequence 1x 0.0986, 2x etc). Obviously our minds are keenly tuned to color vision by evolution and there is some "hardwiring" of nerve connections but I had to ask myself why our senses so easily blend information into one experience. You mentioned a new interpretation of entropy but I would like to know your thoughts on entropy as an information theory quantity. I used information theory to develop models of fundamental particles (neutrons, protons, electrons, neutrinos, etc.) and fundamental forces, including gravity. (See my essay entitled "A top-down approach to fundamental forces"). The effort was similar to breaking a code and discovery of the Higgs particle fit right into the theory. Also, it made me feel more comfortable with quantum mechanics being probabilistic. The question remains "Are we experiencing an information based reality because our minds assemble information?" Information is not solipsism (sp?)....thermodynamics treats entropy as a physical variable.

    BTW--I also live in upstate NY during the summer. Where are you?

      Thanks greatly Phil,

      The universe doesn't look quite homogeneous to me, but I didn't remember about LeMaitre, though I probably learned he was working with other models. I know Hubble had his doubts about the expanding universe notion, and looked at other ideas just as seriously. Working assumptions were adopted by the mainstream, and once held long enough became principles, just as you say.

      Emergent spacetime is likely what's real; the question is "from what?"

      All the Best,

      Jonathan

      Thank You Vladimir,

      I have a photograph of Zeilinger standing in front of a slide showing the book page regarding Einstein's letter expressing doubts about the light corpuscle theory. I got the sense from Zeilinger's lecture that he was telling folks don't trust anything to be true with absolute certainty, but suggesting photons might be wave-like after all. Keep an open mind.

      Decoherence theory paints a different picture as well. The suggestion there is that the underpinning is wave-like nature, and that probabilistic surface appearances are a direct result of the fact that observation takes place from a localized framework, which induces the appearance or occurrence of a local collapse of wave-like nature into particle-like natures with probabilities.

      I looked briefly at your essay, which has cool drawings as I recall, and I will comment further on your forum page.

      Regards,

      Jonathan

      Thanks Gene,

      I appreciate the kind thoughts.

      I note that Shannon's information entropy has the same equation as that for thermodynamic entropy, except without Boltzmann's constant. Professor Leff takes the question up in the last article in his 5-part series, suggesting that information loss is an important dynamic to complement the spreading metaphor and include other forms of entropy.

      My thought is that if we expand the spreading metaphor into spreading in possibility space this could be seamlessly merged into quantum mechanical interactions. I'll get to reading your essay soon, and comment on your pages.

      all the best,

      Jonathan

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      • Post #54

      Dear Johnathan,

      I want to let you know that I have read your essay and found a lot to agree with, which probably comes as no surprise. Well done. It seems to be what the competition asks for, accessible, enjoyable, relevant, well written. It ticks the boxes. I wish I could be even more enthusiastic and inspired to discuss its content. Unfortunately I have spent far too long on this web site talking about how I regard the many problems and how I think they can be resolved. Like Israel Perez' excellent essay, it feels to me like the inspiring team talk before the match. When what I'm really itching to see is the match started. Not your fault, entirely mine. Good luck in the competition. I hope lots of people read your essay and are inspired by its important message.

        Thanks Georgina,

        Rest assured that the match is on and the game is afoot for me already. While it may seem like I was casting about in this essay, and ticking the boxes, there is a big picture in my mind for which many of those scattered bits of information serve as evidence. I am working on a paper right now, spelling that thesis out. It is intended for publication, but I am not ready to post a draft here yet.

        As to the other matter, I think being inspired by Science and wanting to learn about it go hand in hand. It is a real challenge for some teachers to make the subject interesting and exciting enough to hold kids' attention. I think making Science more fun should be a real goal in itself, as that is the prevailing attitude among those scientists who actually 'get the gold.'

        I wish more kids were inspired to compete, though the demands of a field like Physics are necessarily rigorous, rather than sit and watch on TV (if at all). But I got the Science bug at an early age, and it's hard to pull me away once I get into some ideas and questions. I'd be an FQXi junkie, if I had more time.

        all the best,

        Jonathan

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        • Post #56

        Hi Jonathan,

        Great point about getting kids into science early. I have had the honor the past three years, of serving as a Cyberguide for middle school students, in an annual science competition program sponsored by the US Army. The kids are enthusiastic, serious and motivated -- the teacher sponsors are selfless with their time. I take every opportunity I can to tell scientists and teachers -- volunteer in any capacity you can. You will get as much if not more satisfaction from it, as the students.

        Tom

        There you are,

        Thanks for making my point Tom, and it does sound like fun. If we get the kids started thinking about Science while their minds are still open to being inspired, the next generation will produce some very able scientists.

        All the Best,

        Jonathan

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        • Post #58

        Your essay is food for thought. When experiments lead to difficulties it can often be the case that our postulates are incomplete or wrong.

        Cheers LC

          Thanks Lawrence,

          I'm glad my essay provided inspiration for further thoughts. Getting a new perspective is what progress is all about, or how advances in Physics happen. Having experimental evidence in contrast with past observation breaks the pattern and is a wake up call - alerting us to the need to learn more, before we can truly understand.

          Then the question becomes "which of our postulates got us into trouble?" So there is always something more to learn.

          Regards,

          Jonathan

          Hi Jonathan,

          i find your essay is great, well-elaborated, entertaining and informing at the same time on a well-founded, easy to understand and intuitive level.

          My appreciation to this pice of analysis, i can subscribe every sentence of it!

          Best wishes,

          Stefan

            Thanks so much Stefan!

            I had already planned to finish my first read through of your essay shortly, but there was a comment here and I found it was your enthusiastic message above. I am very glad you got something out of my essay and thought I presented my ideas well. There is plenty of interesting material to read this year, but I am happy I made your stop here a pleasant one.

            All the Best,

            Jonathan

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            • Post #63

            Dear Jonathan,

            you really earned this appreciation. Your knowledge of the relevant issues in physics is that broad and you did contemplate all of it. Thanks for having lead me to your essay!

            Best wishes,

            Stefan

            I finally got my voting code, which I did not receive with the acceptance. I will try to reread your paper in the near future.

            I indicated to Giovanni Amelino-Camelia the κ-Minkowski and his boost operator should have some connection to twistor theory. The boost operator P_μ that acts on [x_i, x_0] = ilx_i such that

            P_μ > [x_i, x_0] = il P_μ > x_i

            The coordinates (x_j, x_0) we write in spinor form

            x_j = σ_j^{aa'}ω_{aa'}

            x_0 = σ_0^{aa'}ω_{aa'},

            where ω_{aa'} = ξ_a ω_{a'} ξ_{a'}ω_a. This commutator has the form

            [x_i, x_0] = σ_j^{aa'}σ_0^{bb'}[ω_{aa'}, ω_{bb'}]

            = iC^{cc'}_{aa'bb'} σ_j^{aa'} σ_0^{bb'} ω_{aa'}

            = i|C| σ_j^{aa'}ω_{aa'}

            where the magnitude of the structure matrix is |C| = l. In general this may be written for

            x_j = σ_j^{aa'}ω_{aa'}

            x_0 = σ_0^{aa'}ω_{aa'} iq_{aa'}π^{aa'},

            where the commutator [ω_{aa'}, π^{bb'}] = iδ_a^bδ_{a'}^{b'} and the general form of the commutator is then

            [x_i, x_0] = i|C| σ_j^{aa'}ω_{aa'} iσ_j^{aa'}q_{bb'}[ω_{aa'}, π^{bb''}

            [x_i, x_0] = ilσ_j^{aa'}ω_{aa'} - σ_j^{aa'}q_{aa'}.

            The boost operation B = 1 a^l_jP^j on the commutator [x_i, x_0] is then equivalent to the commutation between spinors [ω_a, ω'_b] for ω'_b = ω_b iq_{bb'}π^{b'},

            [ω_a, ω'_b] = [ω_a, ω_b] iq_{bb'}[ω_a , π^{b'}]

            = C^c_{ab} ω_c iq_{ab}.

            Ed Witten demonstrated a "twistor revolution" in string theory. If this connection exists and can be explored further, it might mean that loop variables and other discrete quantum gravity ideas might bridge with string theory. It could then be that the two approaches will fix the various difficulties they have.

            Cheers LC

            Cheers