Dear Alan

Thanks for your reply. I understand that the quest for a unify theory is a titanic task. What you have achieved so far is a great headway. Indeed, I agree that there is still work to be done in order to deprive QM from its "mysteries", but I believe it is just a matter of time. Some other people are working in the same direction.

You :such as the nonlinear self-interaction that turn a continuous field into a discrete particle with quantized spin.

do you mean the process of creation and annihilation of particles within the context of NQP?

You: A gravitational potential pervades the universe, and this reduces the natural frequencies of all quantum oscillators...

In the cosmological model of the universe applying Newtonian gravity, it is assumed that the universe has a gravitational potential which leads to the a simplified version of the Friedman equations. Are you referring to this?

You: This in turn slows time locally, and also reduces the speed of light.

In 1911 Einstein knew that the bending of light was due to a change in the speed of light. Actually, he derived the equation (1) that you show for weak gravitational potentials. I agree with this, the speed of light is not really a constant.

You: I have not yet carried out a complete formal derivation, but I believe that this will reproduce conventional GR to first order.

Well, Edwin Klingman has also worked out something similar and he also claims that he could get GR to first order. But as I mentioned before, I think GR is not compatible with QFT nor with the notion of particles as solitons. If you could derive it, that would be great but I wouldn't worry about it.

You: leads to the surprising conclusion that event horizons and gravitational singularities are mathematical artifacts of an incomplete theory, and do not exist in nature.

This is a very important observation, although, I must confess that I don't fully understand why you conclude that. Are you saying that the Schwarzschild metric is not correct. What do yo mean b "an incomplete theory"? What theory are you referring to, GR? In what sense do you mean is incomplete? I think it is difficult (I would say impossible) to persuade the mainstream that black holes doesn't exist. Most people now believe that almost every galaxy has a black hole in its core.

You: I cannot, as yet, explain these results, but I will be working on that.

It would be remarkable if you could find an explanation.

As you can see from my bio, my main field of study is condensed matter, and at this moment I'm spending more time doing research in my official field than in the foundations of physics. So, I think that I cannot make a lot of progress in this field for the following months. However, I'll be glad to add you to my list of contacts and keep you in mind for future discussions on these topics.

Best Regards

Israel

Brian,

Yes, my work provides new insights on superconductivity, in a way that is highly unconventional (and therefore impossible to publish). See Superconductivity without Pairing and Josephson Junctions without Pairing . Specifically, I have an alternative derivation of the BCS formalism without Cooper pairs, which still obtains h/2e. This follows from a real-space ordering of localized single-electron states, where the localization follows from a dynamic lattice interaction similar to charge-density waves. This is also consistent with my quantum picture, in which composite quantum waves (such as a Cooper pair) do not exist.

Thank you again for your interest and support. Right now, it seems that neither my essay nor yours are ranked high enough to become finalists. But a few more good reviews in the next week might make the difference.

Alan

Alan,

I'm pleased to say I find I hadn't scored your essay at the time of our discussions (1st June) so a well earned 10 going on now to help it closer to where it should be. I've seen no other essay discussing the important question of orbital angular momentum except ours.

I don't recall a comment on mine yet (but it is now hard to track everyone!) and hope you've read it, or will, and comment, and of course score it. I hope we can also talk more of the NQP after the contest.

Very best of luck in the roller coaster run in.

Peter

    A nice new fundamental idea: rotating vector fields comprise fundamental particle with spin. "The rotating vectors constitute 'local clocks that define time,' with a frequency modified by particle velocity and gravitational potential. In a very real sense, these form the physical basis for time itself."

    I have not yet had time to read all of your reference (the voluminous quantity of FQXi papers is enough to keep me occupied). Consequently, I do not understand how the unquantized continuous electron field breaks up into discrete solitons. There is insufficient description to take a reader through this argument.

    There are a few conclusions early in this paper which are not presented with an unbroken logic from basic postulates. However the ideas are intriguing enough that I will follow up and read all of your publications when the contest is over in a couple of weeks. I suspect I may find the rest of the logic there.

    The idea that photons lose momentum as they move away from the star is profoundly interesting. This alone is worth thinking about more deeply.

    It is clear that you have profound insights. However, as you concede in the paper, the theory of the corresponding self-interaction in the NQP "remains to be completely defined". I still think you are really on to something and will look forward to your future work in this area.

    It might have been easier to follow if you had split out the two arguments for Quantum Hilbert space/entanglement and general relativity into two papers--each appear to have merit on their own, and are both educational and inspirational.

    Thank you.

      Dr. Kadin

      Richard Feynman in his Nobel Acceptance Speech (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-lecture.html)

      said: "It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but with a little mathematical fiddling you can show the relationship. And example of this is the Schrodinger equation and the Heisenberg formulation of quantum mechanics. I don't know why that is - it remains a mystery, but it was something I learned from experience. There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature."

      I too believe in the simplicity of nature, and I am glad that Richard Feynman, a Nobel-winning famous physicist, also believe in the same thing I do, but I had come to my belief long before I knew about that particular statement.

      The belief that "Nature is simple" is however being expressed differently in my essay "Analogical Engine" linked to http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1865 .

      Specifically though, I said "Planck constant is the Mother of All Dualities" and I put it schematically as: wave-particle ~ quantum-classical ~ gene-protein ~ analogy- reasoning ~ linear-nonlinear ~ connected-notconnected ~ computable-notcomputable ~ mind-body ~ Bit-It ~ variation-selection ~ freedom-determinism ... and so on.

      Taken two at a time, it can be read as "what quantum is to classical" is similar to (~) "what wave is to particle." You can choose any two from among the multitudes that can be found in our discourses.

      I could have put Schrodinger wave ontology-Heisenberg particle ontology duality in the list had it comes to my mind!

      Since "Nature is Analogical", we are free to probe nature in so many different ways. And you have touched some corners of it.

      Good luck,

      Than Tin

        Dear Alan,

        I just detected an error. My comment on your essay should have been here but I posted it on my blog. So here I reproduce.

        I have read your article on the wave-particle duality. As I said some of the problems may result from the view that space is a 'nothing'.

        You said "So if an electron is truly a fundamental particle, it had to be a point particle,which clearly cannot be divided further.." Is your definition of point particle one of zero dimension?

        You also said "Applying special relativity to this massive photon in its rest

        frame.." Can a photon be at rest in any frame? What is the velocity in other frames? These are unintended fall outs of what you rightly pointed out as "Generations of physicists have been educated to ignore physical intuition about the paradoxes, while focusing on mathematics divorced from physical pictures. In response, the field of theoretical physics became more mathematically abstract, straying far from its origins explaining the behavior of real objects

        moving in real space"

        The correctness or not of NQP proposal must come after you have first settled the question whether space is nothing but a relational entity or on the contrary a substantial thing.

        Regards,

        Akinbo

        Then, a question for you:

        Is it being implied by the relational view of space and as suggested by Mach's principle that what decides whether a centrifugal force would act between two bodies in *constant relation*, would not be the bodies themselves, since they are at fixed distance to each other, nor the space in which they are located since it is a nothing, but by a distant sub-atomic particle light-years away in one of the fixed stars in whose reference frame the *constantly related* bodies are in circular motion?

        You can reply me here or on my blog. And please pardon my naive view of physics.

        Accept my best regards,

        Akinbo

        Dear Alan and all,

        Thank you for posting in my essay. Here is some work I am doing to achieve what you are trying to do as well.

        Simple mathematical truth of zero=I=infinity, iSphere and iSeries as described below can explain all the aspects of reality mathematically.

        I am attaching the iDNASeries.bmp that I have envisioned and how it shows the DNA structure in its sequence.

        I give you all a cosmological iSeries which spans the entire numerical spectrum from -infinity through 0 to +infinity and the simple principle underlying it is sum of any two consecutive numbers is the next number in the series. 0 is the base seed and i can be any seed between 0 and infinity.

        iSeries always yields two sub semi series, each of which has 0 as a base seed and 2i as the first seed.

        One of the sub series is always defined by the equation

        Sn = 2 * Sn-1 + Sigma (i=2 to n) Sn-i

        where S0 = 0 and S1 = 2 * i

        the second sub series is always defined by the equation

        Sn = 3 * Sn-1 -Sn-2

        where S0 = 0 and S1 = 2 * i

        Division of consecutive numbers in each of these subseries always eventually converges on 2.168 which is the Square of 1.618.

        Union of these series always yields another series which is just a new iSeries of a 2i first seed and can be defined by the universal equation

        Sn = Sn-1 + Sn-2

        where S0 = 0 and S1 = 2*i

        Division of consecutive numbers in the merged series always eventually converges on 1.618 which happens to be the golden ratio "Phi".

        Fibonacci series is just a subset of the iSeries where the first seed or S1 =1.

        Examples

        starting iSeries governed by Sn = Sn-1 + Sn-2

        where i = 0.5, S0 = 0 and S1 = 0.5

        -27.5 17 -10.5 6.5 -4 2.5 -1.5 1 -.5 .5 0 .5 .5 1 1.5 2.5 4 6.5 10.5 17 27.5

        Sub series governed by Sn = 2 * Sn-1 + Sigma (i=2 to n) Sn-i

        where S0 = 0 and S1 = 2i = 1

        0 1 2 5 13 34 ...

        Sub series governed by Sn = 3 * Sn-1 - Sn-2

        where S0 = 0 and S1 = 2i = 1

        0 1 3 8 21 55 ...

        Merged series governed by Sn = Sn-1 + Sn-2 where S0 = 0 and S1 = 2i = 1

        0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 ...... (Fibonacci series is a subset of iSeries)

        The above equations hold true for any value of I.

        As per Antony Ryan's suggestion, I searched google to see how Fibonacci type series can be used to explain Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity and found an interesting article.

        http://msel-naschie.com/pdf/The-Fibonacci-code-behin

        d-super.pdf

        Now that I split the Fibonacci series in to two semi series, seems like each of the sub semi series corresponds to QM and GR and together they explain the Quantum Gravity. Seems like this duality is a commonality in nature once relativity takes effect or a series is kicked off from a basic singularity. The only commonality between the two series is at the base seed 0 (singularity) and first seed 1, which are the bits in our binary system.

        Its also interesting to see the singularity is in the base seed of zero and how it is all pervasive all through out the DNA structure in the attached image. I have been telling that I is that nothing which dwells in everything and this DNA structure seems to prove that notion. Singularity is right with in the duality. Absolute is right with in the relativity. This proves that both of these states of singularity and duality are interconnected and are the source of life.

        Love,

        Sridattadev.

          Dear Dr. Kadin,

          A most impressive essay, and an alternative to the Copenhagen interpretation well worth exploring. I have a few more specific comments in my reply to your comments about my essay, "It from Bit from It from Bit," (an overview of quantum mechanics and nonlinear logic). But I need some time to study your arXiv papers, which I hope to accomplish within in the few weeks.

          Best wishes,

          Bill McHarris

            Alan,

            In your model, how could clocks in a gravitational potential be slowed the same as an accelerated frame?

            To me, you seem to solve the problem of locality by having a non-local master frame.

            Thank you for your response,

            Jeff

            Alan

            What is your attitude to this quote?

            Lawrence Bragg, another great contemporary, expressed Bohr'idea more simply: Everything in the future is a wave, everthing in the past is a particle

            Freemen Dyson,

            The Scientist as Rebel

            Random House Inc.

            2008 ,222

            Regards

            Yuri

              Yuri,

              I found a variant of this quote in Lawrence Bragg's book The Development of X-Ray Analysis (1975):

              "The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment 'Now'. As this moment steadily advances through time it coagulates a wavy future into a particle past. "

              However, I find this statement confusing and obscure. I would rather say that both matter and radiation are fundamentally waves, but with particle properties derivable from the wave equations.

              I addressed Wave-Particle Duality in my essay in last year's FQXi context, "The Rise and Fall of Wave-Particle Duality".

              Alan

              Dr. McHarris,

              Thank you for your careful reading and your compliments. I will also re-read your essay more carefully. I replied to some of your specific comments on your own essay page.

              I agree with you that while linear equations enable quite powerful mathematical techniques, these same techniques (including the entire Hilbert space formalism) are effectively blinders that have made consideration of nonlinear physics impossible.

              Alan Kadin

              Sridattadev,

              I'm sorry, but I did not post in your essay. Maybe you have me confused with someone else.

              Alan

              Than,

              I will read your essay to follow your comments, but my central assertion is that quantum paradoxes (including wave-particle duality) are not paradoxes at all if properly understood. See my essay from last year's FQXi contest "The Rise and Fall of Wave-Particle Duality".

              Alan

              Peter,

              Thanks for your high score, although I would rather preserve the confidentiality of a secret ballot. I would like to believe that those who have rated my essay with a 1 or 2 have not actually read it.

              It is conventional wisdom that quantum mechanics is unavoidably paradoxical and abstract. I am directly challenging that, by presenting a simple neo-classical microscopic model that avoids paradoxes and also accounts for the emergence of macroscopic physics, including general relativity. I am a bit surprised that people are not commenting on my assertion that Black Holes are a myth.

              Please feel free to contact me at my email address (given in my essay) for discussions after the contest.

              Alan

              Paul,

              Thank you for your careful reading of my essay, and for your helpful comments. In response to your observation that I am trying to cover too many topics in this essay, I plead "no contest". I have an ambitious program to reinvent modern physics from the ground up. The emergence of GR from QM is a new observation that has me quite excited, and the criticism of the Quantum Hilbert Space model was included to address the topic of Information.

              The concept of a photon in a gravitational potential well that loses momentum as it SPEEDS UP is quite remarkable. The same would be true of an ultrarelativistic electron following a similar trajectory. Most remarkable, of course, is the assertion that the event horizon and the black hole singularity are mathematical artifacts that do not exist in a self-consistent theory. It is interesting to note that Einstein himself doubted the existence of black holes, despite their being derived from his field equations. Maybe he was right!

              Alan

              6 days later

              Dear Alan,

              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.

              I enjoyed your essay very much. I would be interested to know your view on what is rotating in your quantum rotations, is it small rotations of space? My essay assumes quantum oscillations of space that then build up matter which is close to your assumption of quantum rotations. The main difference would be contiguity of the quanta that my model requires. I will explore the NQP model further. Thank you

              Carolyn Devereux

                Carolyn,

                Thank you for your comments and your interest. I have been tracking the ratings of my essay - people either love it or hate it - there is nothing in between.

                The model is based on a classical electromagnetic wave a la Maxwell. A circularly polarized EM wave packet consists of a coherently rotating, propagating E field (also a B field), and carries angular momentum which is quantized if this represents a quantum photon field. By direct analogy, an electron also consists of a rotating field (essentially a Dirac field) with spin h-bar/2, which in its rest frame is not propagating. This is a deterministic picture with no quantum uncertainty. This is built on space and time compatible with special relativity (no ether), but as I've shown, general relativity (with gravitational time dilation) also follows simply from this. If you have further questions, please feel free to send me an email (address shown in the essay).

                Alan