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.

      Please visit My essay.

      Jin,

      Hi. I hope you may still get to read and comment on my essay. I don't recall a blog post. I'm convinced you'll like it, it's been called groundbreaking, wonderful etc in my blog, but I'd like your view. (ignore the dense abstract that first put some off) You may also like to comment on my work on a new coherent evolutionary cyclic sequence of galaxies after the competition perhaps.

      Well done and thank you.

      Peter

      Dear Dr. Jin He,

      I am pleased to read your essay in the spirit of Descartes, with very deep radical ideas, new eidoses and conclusions: «.. new gravitational law is based on the proportion surfaces of rational structure. Because rational structure is harmonically unique and its examples 4are extremely limited, the involved proportion surfaces are not mathematically arbitrary. They root in the natural beauty. »

      Please look at my essay and vote ideas.

      Best regards

      Vladimir

      Dr. Jin He,

      I am so sorry because I have found your work too later. Matter is the gravity problem was for my favorable hobby from my student years. I felt that here must be something shocking and very unusual solution! I cannot to say now something certainly and reasonable about your work because of necessary time to study it properly. Meantime I hope you will find some interest to my works (not for this time that will be not realistic) Please just open my essay and decide yourself - is it need to read or not. About gravity you can find my booklet by Google - G.K. ,,The Logical Solution of the Riddles of gravity and Einstein's Theory,, I will send you e-version in PDF soon when I will find it in my archive. I have rated your nice essay on ,,high score,,. Please just open my essay!

      Best wishes,

      George Kirakosyan

      Dear Jin,

      I have now finished reviewing all 180 essays for the contest and appreciate your contribution to this competition.

      I have been thoroughly impressed at the breadth, depth and quality of the ideas represented in this contest. In true academic spirit, if you have not yet reviewed my essay, I invite you to do so and leave your comments.

      You can find the latest version of my essay here:

      http://fqxi.org/data/forum-attachments/Borrill-TimeOne-V1.1a.pdf

      (sorry if the fqxi web site splits this url up, I haven't figured out a way to not make it do that).

      May the best essays win!

      Kind regards,

      Paul Borrill

      paul at borrill dot com