Joe,

Your comment, "All information is abstract codswallop." I find has indeed some truth to it since without knowing what cause such information we can only guess what is real and what is not. Excellent entry!

    BITTERS, nice essay title. Straight forward.

    IT from bIT or bIT from IT. Are we bitters trying to bit it or get bitter about it?

    Manuel,

    Thank you for your extremely kind comment about my essay.

    Hon Jia Koh,

    Thank for reading my essay. I am glad you liked my title.

    Mr. Fisher,

    I loved your essay, and I would rate it an A in contradistinction to all those Z's trapped in binary space. Yours is recommended reading for all those assimilated, and who are one with one, or one with zero, and unable to switch between the two. Yours is a breath of fresh air that should bring all those wannabe Z's back to R, i.e. reality. By the way, if you ever type in "thumb" I would be interested in knowing what reference you find most interesting.

    Cheers.

    Zoran

      Zoran,

      Thank you ever so much for your praise of my essay. I did as you requested and I typed the word "thumb" into the GOOGLE Search Engine. There were only 1,740,000,000 results for thumb. Please allow me a bit more time to do some meaningful research. I will get back to you and report which I thought was the most interesting after I have checked them all out.

      Joe Fisher,

      Thanks for your comments. As you have pointed out, it is not the age of our galaxy which is 4.5 billion years but it is the age of our earth which is 4.5 billion years. You have obviously confused. Age of our galaxy is about 13.8 billion years. So there is no exaggeration in the time scale for life to have existed on earth as it is supposed to be of the order of about 3- 3.5 billion years.

      I will go through your essay and post my comments soon.

      good luck,

      sreenath.

        Joe,

        Advocates of the Anthropic Principle (AP) speak of the subatomic world which they can't see and quite often attribute the same subatomic attributes to the macro world. Not being a mathematician or a real scientist,I tend to agree with your thinking of uniqueness but are you just speaking of the macro world?

        Being a humanities guy and a late science enthusiast, I attribute AP beliefs to man's anthropomorphic nature.

        I enjoyed your essay, especially the passion of your beliefs.

        Jim

          Jim,

          Thank you ever so much for reading my essay and understanding it. The real Universe is unique, once. Nobody (including me) fully understands unique, once. But whether it is a macro galaxy or an invisible particle, it can only be unique, once. I know it sounds nuts, but unique is not relative. Nature only delivers whole unique units such as a whole unique elephant or a whole unique star. Why man concentrates on the repeatable commonality of mathematics to try to define a unique system beats me.

          Joe

          Joe,

          I typed in "God's thumb" and Google returned only 12,500 results. Fancy that, I was expecting a lot more.

          Zoran.

          Dear Joe,

          You have write interesting essay in specific style. For my more important also that you want to be realist. As we known it is not so welcomed by majority of ultramodern scientists. But truth is not depend from quantity of adherents!

          Check my work and you will find one supporter to your approach. I believe we can have many common points and we will cooperate.http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1804

          ESSAY

          Best wishes,

          George

          Hi Joe,

          I agree that the Universe should happen once in one way. Rather than parallel Universes making a Multiverse I think ours must be infinitely large with finite observation points - which of course are all also unique.

          Best wishes,

          Antony

          George,

          I posted my response on your essay's page. Please check there.

          Joe

          Dear Joe

          Original approach, nicely written and pleasant to read. However, it does not resolve issues like clock synchronisation on satellites :). Your principle of one is actually the true statement by which I started (1=1) deriving principles of motion. Reading them you might recognize the underlying principle of infinite uniqueness, you write about, of elusive one, now and here, the dynamic space-time position in which all scalar operations are unchanged and reflected. The position where 1=1/1 (by any convention of writing, 1v=1s/1t), i.e. the dynamic position in which altered space, over the, for the same amount altered time measures unaltered speed of light, thus measuring linear flow of time and linear propagation of space (1=1n/1n).

          Btw, I have toes as well, which are infinitely different from yours... but at the same time, I hope you'll agree with me, they are infinitely similar. I guess it make sense to search for the matrix of what makes toes - toes (yours or mine).

          My essay is at the address

          http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1876

          It would be nice to read your comment

          best regards

          Andrej

          Jeo

          Now its my turn to comment on you: every 'it' & 'bits' have single occurrences too!

          Thanks

          Dipak

            Dipak,

            You are correct. The real Universe is simple. One it, once, one bit, once.

            Joe

            5 days later

            Dear Joe,

            I do agree with you that everything happens only once, although I derive this conclusion from KQID worldview that Existence including us, our God/s and our Multiverse happens only once every absolute digital time T ≤ 10^-1000 seconds. I do think that Information as bits are fiction but real. Fiction because we make it up, and it is real because as Landauer and experimentally proven that any deletion of bits produce heat or entropy. Thus, information is physical. I enjoyed reading your unconventional essay BITTERS and original creative idea. We are all the seekers of the truth, we shall discover it no matter where it is hiding, if necessary as usual we fictionalize it according to our own image as Protogoras's measurement. Please comment on my essay and rank it if you desire. Best wishes, Leo KoGuan

              Your "only once" theory reminds me a bit of how chaos theorists tend to approach physics -- it reminds me a bit of Smolin's idea that physical laws merely arrive from repetitions of similar events. Good luck in the competition and thank you for reading my essay, I appreciate that you've given this a lot of thought and I will re-read again.

              "Reality is always observable, objective and obvious, once" -- strikes me--is this how you resolve the measurement problem?

              Cheers and good luck!

              Jennifer