Dear Torsten,

Thank you reading and commenting. I just finished your excellent essay, on your program of obtaining physics from the exotic smooth structures and topology, which I find very much in the spirit of "it from bit". Congratulations!

Cristi Stoica

6 days later

Dear Gordon,

Thank you for sharing with me your writing about your axiom, and for the kind comments.

Best wishes,

Cristi Stoica

Dear Cristi,

This is a very well written essay and I had to go back to Wheeler 'law without law' writings to fully appreciate it. I also found 'We have clues, clues most of all in the writings of Bohr, but no answer'. At least I am confident in this view and I think that quantum contextuality is a concept close to Wheeler's view but may be not as radical as the 'law without law' dogma.

What is your opinion? You may be interested in my own essay on this topic

http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1789

Michel

    Dear Michel,

    Sorry for the delay in answering, I am on vacation and I am able to check the messages and answer very rarely. I look forward to reading your essay, and I will return with a more detailed answer.

    Best regards,

    Cristi

    Dear Cristi

    Unfortunately, your essay is too large for self-service capabilities of my computer, but I agree with "axiom Zero ".

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

      Hi,

      Thank you for letting me know about the size of my file. Next week, when I'll be back home, I will try to upload a smaller file for you.

      Best regards,

      Cristi

      Dear Cristi,

      You offer another excellent essay food for inspiration. Because I am convinced that we follow - more or less - the same way seeing into Nature allow me to pose few suggestions as interpretation between our views.

      You propose the law of no law and the zero axiom. They are both right although could go a long way forward if they are combined.

      The low of no law is related to two independent factors. First the position and state of observer (e.g. variety of "constants" in relation to the Universe's age) and second the real or virtual reality the law is applied into. According to the latter differentiation, the law acts in exactly the opposite manner and not just alterably (e.g. impulsive or repulsive gravity). This is related to zero axiom in the sense that going to elementary level examination, the difference is expressed by opposition ( or -) in Nature. This differs from the notion of existence or not, that implies to 0 or 1 for a bit. No existence is the existence of two or more (2n) opposite existents, n of them in certain state and the rest n in the opposite one. This leads also to the unlimited division (of no existence...).

      Good luck,

      ioannis h., narsep

        Hi Christi,

        I really enjoyed reading your essay, it is one I printed out.

        "The Big Book of the Universe" remids me of "The library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges. You mention that this book contains "every" truth, but what with the not true ? There is a lot in our universe that we see as true but it may be untrue. That is why I created so called "Total Simultaneity", where every probable, unprobable, possible , impossible (for us) universe "IS", however I agree that I cannot describe this "environment" with words or formula's (because they are causal and TS is non-causal).

        In my essay : "THE QUEST FOR THE PRIMAL SEQUENCE" I try to go deeper in the ocean of "reality", but I feel like a grain of salt so I melt before I can reach any depth.(http://belurmath.org/gospel/chapter03.htm thank you Don Limuti). I hope dear Christi that you can spare some time to read and rate it.

        Congrats with the high score.

        Wilhelmus

          Hello, Christinel,

          I was interested, as many others, in your approach to Wheeler. I am on the other side, as you will see if you read my essay, but would like to question you on a couple of things, if I may: what is the basis for saying that the universe asks us only questions with yes-no answers? Many of the questions I get asked in life have much more complex answers. Also, regarding the Tao as a model of It-Bit: the discussion of the Tao often refers not only to yang and yin, but to their conjunction (or join). How do you take this into account?

          Best regards,

          Joseph Brenner

          P.S. My logic derives from that of Stéphane Lupasco. If this name means something to you, we have a further basis for discussion. JEB

            Forgot to mention that I liked axiom zero and also that you suggest the Universe is mathematical in nature, which sits well with my essay. I'd be delighted if you could find the time to look at my essay, which also relies on observation and attempts to link the Fibonacci sequence with reality around Black Holes by utilising information exchange.

            Kind regards,

            Antony

            Dear Cristinel,

            I have down loaded your essay and soon post my comments on it. Mean while, please, go through my essay and post your comments.

            Regards and good luck in the contest.

            Sreenath BN.

            http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1827

              Dear Ioannis,

              Thank you for reading and commenting. Sorry for answering with a delay, I am travelling, with no computer and Internet. You make interesting observations.

              Best regards,

              Cristi

              Dear Ioannis, Wilhelmus, Joseph Brenner, Sreenath,

              Thank you for reading and commenting. Sorry for answering with a delay, I am travelling, with no computer and Internet. You make interesting observations.I will reply soon.

              Best regards,

              Cristi

              Dear Wilhelmus ,

              Interesting comparison with Borges's "The library of Babel", and also the link you gave. Good luck with exploring the ocean of reality, and I am looking forward to hear more about your TS!

              Best regards,

              Cristi

              Dear Joseph Brenner,

              Thank you for the comments. You consider that you are on the other side, but I can't see what this side is, given that I don't think I am on one side or another. Probably I will figure out your side from your essay. Anyway, I often take a neutral position and find myself interpreted as being "on the other side". When asked questions like "it from bit, or bit from it", I try to find a viewpoint that keeps the best from both. My habit of taking the position of going beyond dichotomies attracted me some years ago to read Stefan Lupascu's "Logique et contradiction" and "L'expérience microphysique et la pensée humaine".

              You ask "what is the basis for saying that the universe asks us only questions with yes-no answers?"

              What I actually said is that we ask questions to the universe, and the answers are yes/no:

              "what we know about the universe comes in yes/no answers to our interrogations"

              By interrogating the universe I meant perform observations and experiments. While the questions we have are more complex than those requiring yes/no answer, to get an answer from the universe, one has to frame them as yes/no questions. Of course, one can measure a position, and we will get a value of say x plus/minus an error, but this answer is just a more complex combination of yes/no answers: we never get the precise value of a continuous parameter, just an interval obtained by dividing the set of possible values.

              "regarding the Tao as a model of It-Bit: the discussion of the Tao often refers not only to yang and yin, but to their conjunction (or join). How do you take this into account?"

              This is precisely what I did in my essay, in which I argue that there is in fact an interplay between 'it' and 'bit'.

              Best regards,

              Cristi

              Dear Michel,

              You said "At least I am confident in this view and I think that quantum contextuality is a concept close to Wheeler's view but may be not as radical as the 'law without law' dogma. What is your opinion?"

              I think my position is close to yours. I think that what the delayed choice experiment exhibits is contextuality, and one cannot directly infer "it from bit" and "law without law", which indeed are too radical. That's why I emphasize the interplay between information and ontology. I express this by the ideas of delayed choice initial conditions and global consistency.

              I read your essay and I like it very much.

              Best regards,

              Cristi

              Dear

              Thank you for presenting your nice essay. I saw the abstract and will post my comments soon.

              So you can produce material from your thinking. . . .

              I am requesting you to go through my essay also. And I take this opportunity to say, to come to reality and base your arguments on experimental results.

              I failed mainly because I worked against the main stream. The main stream community people want magic from science instead of realty especially in the subject of cosmology. We all know well that cosmology is a subject where speculations rule.

              Hope to get your comments even directly to my mail ID also. . . .

              Best

              =snp

              snp.gupta@gmail.com

              http://vaksdynamicuniversemodel.blogspot.com/

              Pdf download:

              http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/essay-download/1607/__details/Gupta_Vak_FQXi_TABLE_REF_Fi.pdf

              Part of abstract:

              - -Material objects are more fundamental- - is being proposed in this paper; It is well known that there is no mental experiment, which produced material. . . Similarly creation of matter from empty space as required in Steady State theory or in Bigbang is another such problem in the Cosmological counterpart. . . . In this paper we will see about CMB, how it is generated from stars and Galaxies around us. And here we show that NO Microwave background radiation was detected till now after excluding radiation from Stars and Galaxies. . . .

              Some complements from FQXi community. . . . .

              A

              Anton Lorenz Vrba wrote on May. 4, 2013 @ 13:43 GMT

              ....... I do love your last two sentences - that is why I am coming back.

              Author Satyavarapu Naga Parameswara Gupta replied on May. 6, 2013 @ 09:24 GMT

              . . . . We should use our minds to down to earth realistic thinking. There is no point in wasting our brains in total imagination which are never realities. It is something like showing, mixing of cartoon characters with normal people in movies or people entering into Game-space in virtual reality games or Firing antimatter into a black hole!!!. It is sheer a madness of such concepts going on in many fields like science, mathematics, computer IT etc. . . .

              B.

              Francis V wrote on May. 11, 2013 @ 02:05 GMT

              Well-presented argument about the absence of any explosion for a relic frequency to occur and the detail on collection of temperature data......

              C

              Robert Bennett wrote on May. 14, 2013 @ 18:26 GMT

              "Material objects are more fundamental"..... in other words "IT from Bit" is true.

              Author Satyavarapu Naga Parameswara Gupta replied on May. 14, 2013 @ 22:53 GMT

              1. It is well known that there is no mental experiment, which produced material.

              2. John Wheeler did not produce material from information.

              3. Information describes material properties. But a mere description of material properties does not produce material.

              4. There are Gods, Wizards, and Magicians, allegedly produced material from nowhere. But will that be a scientific experiment?

              D

              Hoang cao Hai wrote on Jun. 16, 2013 @ 16:22 GMT

              It from bit - where are bit come from?

              Author Satyavarapu Naga Parameswara Gupta replied on Jun. 17, 2013 @ 06:10 GMT

              ....And your question is like asking, -- which is first? Egg or Hen?-- in other words Matter is first or Information is first? Is that so? In reality there is no way that Matter comes from information.

              Matter is another form of Energy. Matter cannot be created from nothing. Any type of vacuum cannot produce matter. Matter is another form of energy. Energy is having many forms: Mechanical, Electrical, Heat, Magnetic and so on..

              E

              Antony Ryan wrote on Jun. 23, 2013 @ 22:08 GMT

              .....Either way your abstract argument based empirical evidence is strong given that "a mere description of material properties does not produce material". While of course materials do give information.

              I think you deserve a place in the final based on this alone. Concise - simple - but undeniable.