Sergey:

Very , very good essay.

I've read it, and given my opinion with my rating.

Thanks for answering the questions in my "fable" essay.

I agree with you that maybe one of our worst assumptions these days might be the Big Bang.

Regards.

Juan E Ramos Beraud

P.s. there is little time left for the rating; we should rate the good essays ASAP.

    Sergey

    Yes. Knowledge of any given physically existent state (reality)is only potentially available to us via the consequence of an interaction (aka light, noise, vibration, etc-but these are also physically existent). With the evolution of sensory systems, these phenomena acquired the functional role of enabling sentient organisms to be aware of reality. That is, in the context of the sensory systems, they are representations of reality.

    This introduces another layer of potential factors which can obscure what originally occurred (reality). But that is because the sensory systems are the only basis upon which we can know reality, not because they in any way cause it. The ultimate output being perception of reality, not reality. That, both in terms of what was received and what created that, occurs independently of the sensory systems. The problem is extricating objective knowledge of that.

    Paul

    Dear Juan,

    Between electromagnetic Lagrangian and QCD Lagrangian there is a correspondence. The same is for gravitational Lagrangian of Covariant theory of gravitation (CTG). It may be converted to QCD Lagrangian in view of Strong gravitation. From this the gravitational model of strong interaction may be built.

    Sergey Fedosin

    Dear Sergey,

    Thank you for teaching me about strong gravitation, a subject that I did not know!

    Moreover, I liked your essay and the similarities with some ideas in my own essay.

    Regards

    Sergey,

    I received notice on my essay's blog that you had rated my essay. I'll copy my reply here since you are not likely otherwise to ever see it:

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    Sergey,

    Thanks for your notification, I guess. Not that it makes any real difference, since, unlike some others, I haven't been mass marketing my essay to the rest of the community, soliciting ratings (some even hinting at Quid pro quo). As a result I could see that mine would not be in the top 35 essays as rated by the community.

    However I should inform you that, with my background in information systems analysis, I find that my essay's position within the list ordered by community rating dropped precipitously following your rating notice. That indicates two conditions: my essay had not been previously rated by many members of the community and your rating was substantially lower than previous ratings.

    Again, all this rating stuff is meaningless since my essay would not have ever been one of the finalists (unless perhaps I had very successfully promoted it with an intense marketing campaign). However, more important to me than knowing you rated my essay would be to better understand why you might have given it a low rating, presuming that your rating was based on some specific evaluations of my essay. With no animosity, I would be very interested in understanding your assessment of my essay. Please do explain further!

    Sincerely, Jim

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    I have not rated your essay, but I must say that if I had done I would have given it a low rating, since it violates the principal intent of this essay contest. Please see FQXi ESSAY CONTEST: Introduction section II "EVALUATION CRITERIA" under "Relevant:"

    "(Note: Successful and interesting essays will not use this topic as an opportunity to trot out their pet theories simply because those theories reject assumptions of some other or established theory. Rather, the challenge here is to create new and insightful questions or analysis about basic, often tacit, assumptions that can be questioned but often are not.)"

    Good luck in promoting your grand theory.

    Sincerely, Jim

      Dear Sergey

      My theory,, (and this) give that electrons are black holes. They are superpositions of Planck's masses and mass zero and they can be calculated. Thus they are not against uncertainty principle. I admit, if Higgs mechanism will be confirmed in CERN, this model will be probably rejected. But in my essay I have also other parts of this theory, which will survive Higgs mechanism.

      I do not yet see hope for your theory:

      1. You included strong gravitational constant which rejects some benefits given by general relativity. They are, the principle of equivalence, background free spacetime etc.

      2. You do not enough include quantum field theory and quantum mechanics, which are base of our world.

      3. Where do you obtain 4.3c?

      4. I think that idea of strong gravitational constant is to reject contradictions against QM, which arise when black holes are smaller than Plank's mass. Am I correct?

      Otherwise, you were very sucessful to read 250 essays. I do not succeded in this. Which essay do you recomend?

      Regards Janko Kokosar

      Dear James,

      In the Contest ratings are possible from the members of FQXi community, authors of Essay and public ratings of others. It seems the more authors will rate then by the low of great number there would be more qualitative and objective values of ratings. What about as I rate I should say it is very subjective. Too many factors which influence the result: Is there important problems raised and what is their decision? Has the essay bad mistakes? And so on.

      Sergey Fedosin

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      Спасибо Сергей Вам за комментарии.

      Я к сожалению очень плохо владею английским языком, все равно как то пытаюсь

      донести свои мысли до общественности. Кстати сказать подвигло меняя на сие занятие

      то, что смог изготовить двигатель не использующий моторного топлива.

        Dear Sergey,

        I fully understand why the position of my essay within the list ordered by community ratings was lowered so much with your low rating. Moreover, I see comments from other authors, even those whose essays are highly ranked, indicating that you have also rated them low.

        Since your notification was a standard form for all authors, with no personal greeting and the mispelling of 'Good', one must wonder if you even had any objective cause fro rating essays low!

        I would hope you'd extend the courtesy to all authors whose essays you rate to make specific comments about why you rated them as you did. That would also allow the authors the opportunity to respond to your issues - perhaps you misunderstood, since English is apparently not your native language.

        James T. Dwyer

        Hi Sergey,

        I reread your answer and the materials you are refer too, but I haven't found a single prediction.

        Any number of models can explain what we already know. The one and only test of the possible validity of a theory is its capacity to make new predictions that are original to it.

        A physics theory must do three things. Describe, explain and predict.

        I know you explain there is no space to list all the predictions of your theory. That's fine. But I'm sure there's space here enough to make one or two original predictions.

        By predictions I mean something that can be experimentally verified or observed.

        Looking forward to them.

        DLB

        Dear James,

        You quite right, English is apparently not my native language. May be it is a reason why some of my posts are without of many words of personal greetings and of remarks such as `Good done` and so on. Instead of it I try to understand more about the essay of any author asking what is problematic or may be changed in view of other data. You ask me about my method of rating. It is really subjective method. I can say for example that some naïve essays have 1 in my rating and some have no at all. Also there are some essays which were not written due to of lack of time and I can not rate them. On the other hand for more objective picture it is necessary for everyone jury to have some experience for good rating results. Possibly I must correct my method but it takes a time. Thank for your advice to be more objective, I shall try.

        Sergey Fedosin

        Dear Sergey Aleks Starostin

        I suppose that you had been constructed engine which do work without of oil at all. What is the principle of action of your engine?

        Sergey Fedosin

        Dear Sergey,

        So, I'd still be most interested in why you rated my essay low, so that I can understand what shortcoming it might have. I suspect that you may have categorically dismissed it as naive because I am not a physicist. However, you may notice if you read the comments posted that some professional physicists have ranked my essay highly. I refer to this only because this may point out some misunderstanding due to language comprehension, not because I have any need to win this contest.

        For example, do you understand that I am identifying improper methods used to originally infer the existence of galactic dark matter, establishing its general acceptance within the astrophysical community? By invalidating the expectation that galaxies should rotate just like planetary systems (in conjunction with referenced studies that successfully describe galactic rotation without dark matter or MOND), any perceived requirement for galactic dark matter should be eliminated.

        If you understand that objective, I think you should realize that this is not even inconsistent with you own grand theory. IMO, an essay should be rated based on whether or not it complies with the stated objectives of the competition and how well it achieves its intent. Invalidating the falsely perceived requirement for galactic dark matter addresses a fundamental issue in physics. I think I have provided a compelling argument to that end. Please extend to me the courtesy of explaining the shortcoming of my essay that caused you to rate it low, even if they are subjective.

        Sincerely, Jim

        Sergey,

        You theory of infinite hierarchical nesting of matter -- as near as I can tell there is a scalar comparison of stellar formations and matter in terms of structure?

        I probably didn't spend enough time in examining your concept.

        Jim

          Dear James,

          You are quite right. Evolution of star is repetition of evolution of particles. So in the theory structure of star is the structure of particles with some addition because of difference of scale and mass. From here we find models of particles and forces.

          Sergey Fedosin

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          Dear Sergey Fedosin,

          I have responded to your comment under my essay but just had to make a mention here (reading your Bio) that we may have missed each other at Penn State by just a few of years. I was there as late as 1974 as a graduate student in the Mathematics Department but had many many good friends in the Physics Department at the time. A nice coincidence indeed. Those were the days ... studying and living in Happy Valley!

          Your essay is very interesting and raises many new ideas and questions. It will take several readings by me to fully appreciate all the important details you include in it, but some questions quickly pop in my mind. How does this Infinite Hierarchical Nesting of Matter relate to entropy? And could each scale in the hierarchy be used as a frame of reference to the scale above it? And wont this hierarchy of scale ultimately terminate at the most fundamental level (empty space?), which defines "being in the Universe'? So at this level, all reference has to be self-reference? Wouldn't this then explain CSL through 'empty space' (ie ether) since this will require all measurement of the speed of propagation of light to be 'local' to the 'ether'?

          All the best,

          Constantinos

            Dear Sergey!

            I read with great interest your deep and insightful essays. You, as an independent researcher thought through anew vertical and horizontal world. Your findings once again confirm that, to overcome "troubles in physics" needs a new conceptual model of the world. Science, including fundamental physics is on the threshold of a new conceptual revolution. Especially important as search a single source, the meeting point of knowledge and faith. Especially interested in your research on the nature of ball lightning. I appreciated the essay their maximum high. Good luck in the contest FQXi! I hope you agree with me, FQXi implementing projects relevant for the Science!

            Sincerely, Vladimir

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            Dear Sergey G Fedosin,

            thank you for your nice calculation of my lousy ratings!

            I just like to reply here with my sincere congratulations to your excellent article about the

            Theory of Infinite Hierarchical Nesting of Matter where "all living beings fit into five levels of matter, at the sixth level there are communities of living organisms and biocoenoses."

            In fact one may arrange them all in the higherdimensional discrete space modell boroughed from quasicrystallography which I roughly described in my ROMANCE with many Dimensions.

            (I wished ony could collaborate on the vizulalisation...)

            With very best wishes to you!

            Renate