Dear Jin,

An interesting and original derivation and essay. Frankly reading it was a nice break from reading just of it's and bit's, but then I too an am astronomer with a great interest in galaxies as important features and indicators.

You were not alone getting a score of 1. I too got the same within what seemed a few minutes of posting! I don't apply scores until I've read most but yours is certainly worth more than that insult. There have been many others not exactly rigidly 'on topic' in the past.

I hope you'll read comment on and score mine. Although this years is not about astronomy it is I hope on a seminally important subject.

Well done, and Best wishes

Peter

    6 days later

    Dear Jin He

    It would great more if you can tell: What is to created the gravity? and why gravity can make the universe to work ? Why have the "spiral galaxy"? why "elliptical galaxies is a rational structure"? may be proved by how is measure?

    http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1802

      7 days later

      Dear Dr. He Jin,

      Thank you for your provocative entry, to which I gave a low rating primarily because it did not address directly the theme of the Contest as given. I would just say also, as in the previous comment, that it is the properties of something that determine gravity, to which we can then ascribe a certain mathematical structure. The other point one might make, perhaps more controversial, is the nature of "beauty" about which perhaps the only think one can say is that it is outside any mathematical explanation.

      Best regards,

      Joseph Brenner

        20 days later

        Dr. Jin He,

        I found your innovative perspective of interest for they seem to correlate very well with the findings of a 12 year experiment I have recently concluded. I look forward to an open minded discussion about this concept of a universal gravity which I find reflects the effects of selection events.

        I am please to rate your essay highly. Best wishes to you in this competition.

        Regards,

        Manuel Morales

          4 days later

          Hi Dr. Jin He,

          I agree with you that the study of galaxies can give us clues to "life, the universe and everything," as Douglas Adams put it. I do not mind that the essay appears off-topic because it helps me in my own research, and that is the greatest benefit of the essay contest for me. I have some questions for you:

          1. Does your theory work with irregular galaxies... which many assume are intermediate states of the merger or close contact of two galaxies?

          2. Does your theory help explain the unexpected structural simplicity of galaxies that Disney et. al. reported?

          3. Do you think it is possible that when we look at a galaxy we are seeing a three dimensional projection of a hyperspherical surface?

          This is the picture I am led to in my work, described in Software Cosmos.

          Hugh

            10 days later
            6 days later

            Dear Dr. Jin He,

            I read your exhilarating essay with endless enthusiasm and you may ask why; it is because you, please, go through my previous year's (2012) essay in the fqxi essay contest "Questioning the Foundations: Which of Our Basic Physical Assumptions Are Wrong? Title of the Essay: The concept of Acceleration in the quantum world is wrong. By- B N Sreenath". There you have answer to your "New Universal Gravity". In your article, you have dealt with spiral galaxies and it is these I have considered in my essay there. In that essay, I have dealt with the problem of quantum-gravity (QG) and the field of QG is associated with black holes and it is the action of this field which gives spiral shape to a galaxy. The QG field is an 'exponentially varying gravity/acceleration field', in which the gravity/acceleration along with force, energy, and density vary exponentially along the spiral curve. The path described in QG field is logarithmic (log) spiral path and that is why spiral galaxies describe this log spiral path. That is why your theory of 'New Universal Gravity' is nothing but the theory of QG. The 'golden spirals' you have mentioned in your essay are in fact a form of log spiral. I hope, now it is clear to you where to find answer to your question.

            Your knowledge of galaxies is very deep and I want you to share with me because my main field of research is QG and where your wisdom is very helpful to me. I hope you oblige.

            Now coming back to our essay topic, "It from Bit or Bit from It", you have said in the heading of your essay itself that "Bit is It and It is Bit". I have nothing to disagree with you in this regard. Go through my essay also and please express your invaluable comments on it in my thread, although in this essay contest my subject is entirely different from that of the previous year. For your spiritually thought provoking essay, I will rate it with maximum possible score.

            Best regards,

            Sreenath

              Dear Hugh

              Sorry for delayed reply. I tried to login to FQXI and it did not work. Now I made it. Thanks for your encouragement. I will take a look at your essay.

              1. Irregular = Interacting. My result has not been developed into studying interacting galaxies.

              2. My result is consistent with Disney et. al's simplicity. But it has not been developed into studying their parameters.

              3. Sorry I do not understand what you said.

              Jin

              Dear Jin He,

              We are at the end of this essay contest.

              In conclusion, at the question to know if Information is more fundamental than Matter, there is a good reason to answer that Matter is made of an amazing mixture of eInfo and eEnergy, at the same time.

              Matter is thus eInfo made with eEnergy rather than answer it is made with eEnergy and eInfo ; because eInfo is eEnergy, and the one does not go without the other one.

              eEnergy and eInfo are the two basic Principles of the eUniverse. Nothing can exist if it is not eEnergy, and any object is eInfo, and therefore eEnergy.

              And consequently our eReality is eInfo made with eEnergy. And the final verdict is : eReality is virtual, and virtuality is our fundamental eReality.

              Good luck to the winners,

              And see you soon, with good news on this topic, and the Theory of Everything.

              Amazigh H.

              I rated your essay.

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