The Intelligent Bit by Peter Jackson

Neil Bates

Peter, thank you. That would be a great idea and I want you (and other interested parties) to stay in touch. I am a member of some high-quality forums of Facebook and can invite you if you're connected and interested. I want to help other independent scholars and amateurs make a difference, and people like you can help. Please reference my paper as desired (altho allow me to send you a corrected copy, there is a tiny error.) Regards and good luck.

Lorraine Ford

Hi Peter,

One might argue that "The IQbit may help with processor upgrades" points to the existence of prescience!! Seriously though, I found your analysis, discussion, axioms and evidence to be compelling reasons to not ask "just yes/no questions". I hope that an experiment using true single pairs of photons can be done to verify your proposed new "Law of the Reducing Middle".

A top essay, excellent work.

Lorraine

pjackson

Lorraine,

Impressively perceptive! But is it just wisdom or 'counterfactuality'!? I'd expected more comments on that one. I did want to slip in meaning hidden in layers, but before the readers eyes, between the lines. That is of course precisely the point the essay is making. It's all there when we perceive how to look. Well done.

After reading all (most of) those brilliant essays, including yours for sure, the line in the Monty Python sketch comes to mind " My brain hurts". I'm now planning an upgrade clinic. But NO counterfactuality!

Really sorry you didn't make the cut. At least the tension's over. I've had disappointment from 7th two years running!

Maay thanks, and see you next year.

Peter

PS. Did you see the peculiar orbital anomalies predicted in single photon pair comparisons have been found in the (vast majority of) Aspect date ditched due to inconsistency! ...YES!!! (see link in response to Richard above).

Chris Granger

Peter,

Interesting essay! When I get some extra bandwidth I'll be able to give you more substantive feedback. Based on my initial review I have given you a high rating, and though I do have several reservations regarding your premise and its conclusions, there are also areas where I concur - and I certainly found your approach thought provoking on many fronts.

Chris

pjackson

Chris,

Great, thanks, all feedback and falsification really welcomed. That's what the models doing here. Ref premise, you need to read my previous 2 (precursor) essays to understand the dynamic logic. They're very readable, though maybe as 'dense' as this one. I'd genuinely love to hear and discuss your reservations on the whole Discrete Field Model ontology.

It's very simple really, for instance Earth's ionospher is at rest with Earth and light scatters to c wrt Earth on entry and vice versa to the Barycentric frame. Exactly what we find in fact, just made logical. The problem is people often think they understand but can't see the unifying implications. Did you know Dan Gezari back at JPL?

Some not making the cut may be a bit disgruntled around now, that's human nature, so I appreciate your honest objectivity. Glad you found it thought provoking. I've found our thinking really does need substantial 'provoking' (as post to Lorraine above)!

Kind regards

Peter

[deleted]

Dear Peter,

You are perhaps clever when calling real numbers intelligent rational ones. Since your new essay reached high ratings, I feel no longer obliged to hide my criticism. Let me be honest. I don't see your essay difficult to understand

because of densely presenting too much breathtaking new ideas. On the contrary,

your own ideas like a "Law of the Reducing Middle" cannot prevent me from feeling bored. While Hilbert's finitism has led to EPR and Wheeler's preference for a digital model of the world, I wonder if your mere preference for a non-binary bit will offer serious benefits. It may however serve as a vehicle for feelings and vague speculations of all those who are unhappy with some hard to swallow doctrines in physics.

In principle, I appreciate that you reminds us of the role by Cardano, Bombelli, and Galileo in mathematics. You just made it unnecessarily spectacular. Why didn't you mention Hilbert space and rigged Hilbert space? In Fig. 2 of my previous essay I addressed the question too.

As an aside: I object to "there is no boundary". Isn't there a border between past and future?

While your Fig. 1 is certainly unnecessary because circular polarization is well known, your explanation of your Fig. 2 is perhaps unacceptable. It is uncommon to imagine an middle as reducing. One does not immediately understand what you meant with "The curve is proposed to also representthe inverse Bayesian or Gödel many-valued 'reducing middle' between the certainties".

Your criticism of some experiments might be justified, and if it is correct, you are definitely deserving getting honored for it. I still consider the style of your essay far from the standard of scientific work. Nonetheless, you made progress. Please go successfully on to reveal flaws in experiments.

Regards,

Eckard

pjackson

Eckard,

I hope you're well. You shouldn't feel obliged to hide criticism. That's why the model's here! Scientific falsification is test and assault with all valid weapons (not just 'beliefs' or'opinions' of course). You make many points, which I'll extract.

1) Easy to understand. Good, but the real value is in also seeing the implications.

2) 'Feeling Bored' I apologise, but the science is the science. I can't 'spice it up'! What is clear is that you haven't studied the implications 'behind' iPADs as Godel/ Bayesian n-value 'fuzzy logic'. I'm sorry space was too tight to spell them all out.

3) The IQbit is not 'non-binary' as it must be 'described' and used in recursive binary layers. It already has serious benefits in the D-wave and other quantum computer research, and better explains tomography (CAT scans) etc. It's leading edge optics, but with a sound basis in longer wavelengths, i.e. radio wave vorticity.

4) 'Hilbert spaces' are not invoked (but a better defined equivalent does emerge).

5) "Serve as a vehicle". Rather more. SR and QM are unified (re-interpreted) because a quanta with 'structure' overcomes Bells limit to explain uncertainty, and derives all the effects postulated in SR. Quantum gravity does then appear (but not in the essay as there was no room!)

6) 'Spectacular' Perhaps for many. I hope it stopped you getting bored Eckard!

7) "No boundary" Now I understand your confusion. That is a quote from John Bell (in full p4). I agree it regarding QM and SR. Nature is ONE! And between past and future? No 'physical entity' but 'now' is simply every interaction in the universe at any instant. But nothing 'stops', it's the evolution maths can't model.

8) 'Fig 1 Unnecessary'. The fig shows far more than 'circular polarisation' Eckard. It shows that orbital angular momentum of a dipole or toroid creates a 3D double helix, allowing elliptical polarity, and particularly correspondence with both sine and cosine waves, all as described in the text and the key to the EPR solution. As the essay is for 'average Sci Am readers' I suggest this then is absolutely essential.!

9) Inverse Distribution Curve. I thought 'Reducing' was better than just 'Included' middle, as the Bell cosine curve is only half the Fig, stopping at the centre (180^o), but then doubled to show the full Bayesian distribution, precisely as Godel's Fuzzy Logic, proving A~A (In fact also A~B!). i.e. non commutitative. The extra paragraph here had to be scrapped for space. I agree it was needed for those unfamiliar with all the 'aspects' (lol) invoked. Do let me know of any better single word.

10) Experiments. STOP PRESS! See the extraordinary (discarded) findings as predicted, hidden in Aspects French text! I also tracked this down; Thompsom's Aspect finding!

11) Style. I absolutely agree. I had to build a fully founded ontological construction to validly test against the impregnable Bell inequalities. An almost impossible task! 'Style' was then of less priority. Perhaps I think that old mould should perhaps also be broken as well!? I've suggested we leave the "Shut up and calculate" era for a new one "Slow down and Think".

What do you think?

Please do keep throwing all you can find to test for any dents.

Very best wishes

Peter

pjackson

Gene,

Thank you. I'll try to catch up with your work. In terms of the eye and brain it would be great to work with you to better define my own description and implications. There is a massive implication for SR that needs careful re-reading of this plus my last two essays to expose.

I'm trying to find a great link I had on the rod/cone receptor mechanisms from which I think I pulled out this; Lens wavelengths (colours) distribution.

Sorry yours missed the cut.

Best wishes

Peter

Jonathan Dickau

Wow; does being number two make you try harder?

I hope the expert reviewers think we both worked hard enough this time, to deserve a prize. They must be getting sick of you and me by now, Peter, but you did a stellar job and deserve kudos for that, at least. I finished in 3rd place once, before it went to the judges, but like yourself no prize. Perhaps that will all change this year, so I wish you the kind of luck you have not had before. May you be found not wanting, and therefore worthy of rewards.

All the Best,

Jonathan

Akinbo Ojo

Hi Peter,

As you said real roller coster ride. Thank goodness I stayed awake with my laptop (5am! here). I would have been eaten by the sharks who make no comment or contribution during the contest but sneak in at the end to eat essayists fast asleep. Your advise about such an eventuality really helped.

You have given me a list of things to read. This will take some time as I am not retired.

You seem to be an encyclopedia of sorts as I came across an article on your blog related to EPR which I found interesting and just referred Gordon Watson to it.

As I said in the coming weeks I will be looking at the Discrete Space Model. As I am also interested in knowing what influence a space that is discrete and can also participate in motion can have on Quantum theory and its mysteries that will be another area of focus.

Best regards and thanks for interacting.

Akinbo

pjackson

Thanks Guys, Well done both of you too.

Tackling QM and reading some of the brilliant and consistent analysis here has given me a far more sage and settled view on life and reality. Bill McHarris's essay on chaos was also a revelation. I was astonished how well it fitted into a consistent picture.

My greatest worry now, having had no time to update the many papers in draft or start on the list of new ones, is that, if the discrete field model dynamic DOES start to become more widely understood, is it "ready"? Then as Milton Freeman said, any new theory would be incomplete at first. Though still using the game theory view 'winning is a decision you take' I now also take the view what will be will be. I just hope this can become a 'team' effort.

To that end I'm now off to race my yacht (Google; Ramsgate Week. 'Assassin') to deal with some real hands on dynamic Fourier wave transforms (team of

pjackson

...aha! I forgot and used the 'up to' arrow sign, which cuts the rest of the post off! it was just 'team of max 13.' Dealing with a coherent entity interacting with waves and 'hands on' Fourier wave transforms and Doppler shifts by accelerating (relatively) moving fields of air molecules. Great fun!

Very best wishes.

Peter

Vladimir Rogozhin

Dear Peter,

With all my heart I congratulate you with the second place in the first phase of the V International FQXi Essay Contest 2013!

I wish you continued success in your research!

I wish you new ideas for the good of all mankind!

Thanks for the nice comment and appreciation of my ideas!

I am very glad to have met you!

Thank FQXi!

Good summer holiday!

With great respect,

Vladimir

pjackson

Thanks Vlad. You too, it was a pleasure. We all need a break now.

(Google; 'Ramsgate Week, Assassin')

Have Fun.

[deleted]

Peter,

Well, I did try raising the idea and as usual it has precipitated a long running debate over a variety of topics. Currently the relationship between language and math.

I know you focus on the DFM and I tend to obsess over whether time is the sequence from past to future, or the process by which future becomes past, but there is a strategic reason why I think this way of considering time is the sort of battering ram that would really knock down the doors of the Ivory Tower.

First and foremost, it is an idea that can be easily comprehended by many, if not most people. Second, it is not just a concept that would be unsettling to the field of physics, but to pretty much everyone, when you consider linear sequence is foundation to both narrative, thus history and cause and effect logic as well. Not that it disproves either, anymore than understanding it is the earth spinning, not the sun moving, changed the fact of the sun's rising and setting.

So to the extent it would be disruptive to broad measures of society, the effect on physics would be more of a wave knocking down the walls, than just prying the door open. All that it would take would be a well written article in some fairly broad circulation publication. Since I know I don't have the credentials to be seriously listened to, I'm willing to let anyone who wants the idea to have it. Given the amount of blowback and public attention that seriously questioning the nature of time would arouse, I don't have any trouble letting others take the initial pressure either, since it would eventually wash over me as well. So if it could be included in a broader alternative theory of physics, the attention of the physics community would have to begin to address all of the outstanding issues, not just beat them back individually.

Or we can just wait until the educated public finally does throw up their hands and starts looking around for alternatives.

Call it "Physics after the Multiverse."

Regards,

John

Christian Corda

Hi Peter,

Congrats for this fantastic result. Now let us cross the fingers for the final judgement by the FQXi experts panel.

Cheers,

Ch.

pjackson

Stop Press; ..NEW EVIDENCE, NEW EVIDENCE..

The recursive gauge theory dimensions implicit in the helical 3D IQbit described in the essay is also directly analogous to the infinite reducing dimensions of the new and beautiful 'jewel like' multi faceted "amplituhedron" mathematical object.

The only difference is that the IQbit has curved sides too, i.e. consistent non-linearity.IQbit as a 'master amplituhedron , "with an infinite number of facets, analogous to a circle in 2-D, which has an infinite number of sides."

THE HELICITY OF LIGHT

Discussed has been found as self organised in the tokamak form of quasar jets (AGN/BH superluminal outflows) new example of self-organization in an MHD plasma, and are also as found in light and described in new articles here;

Coherent optical vortices from relativistic electron beams, Nature Physics. See also;

Tokamak transport...driven by quasi-neutrality and helical asymmetry.

MATH

Finally, in support of the logic and view expressed in the essay on mathematics, a new paper consistent with the proposals is here. The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics.

pjackson

Stop Press; HEADLINE ..MORE NEW STUNNING EVIDENCE!

The model described in the essay proposes, contrary to the assumption of John Bell, that the particle field of (Bob and Alice's) detectors in space have a particular orientation dictated by the setting angle (electro-magnetic field). The close spin-axis link between HII and molecular gas or 'dust' is confirmed, so plasma as well as gas refracts light in space consistently wrt the spin orientation.

This orientation then allows an additional parameter in the detection interaction with handed (+1/-1) singlet state spin particles propagating on their axis from the (Stern-Gerlach etc) splitter. Using the ubiquitous toroidal EM field particle morphology, and the consequential non-linear interaction with the aligned detector particles, then recovers John Von-Neumann's "consistent QM" specification of a cosine curve AT EACH detector. So RESOLVING THE EPR PARADOX without FTL communication (as Bell anticipated).

The proof of this predicted alignment has just been announced, with the comment;

"The effort promises to untangle a theoretical logjam about key elements of the interstellar medium". It sure would - if anyone were to understand and take note! Scitech Newslink here. of full paper pre-print;

arXiv; B-G Andersson, et al., Evidence for H2 Formation Driven Dust Grain Alignment in IC 63, 2013, ApJ, 775, 84;

This is a key piece of evidence consistent with the VLBA plasma kinetic refraction findings above and the DFM dynamic logic of interaction mechanism at domain boundaries.

The finding also supports this Dark Matter proposal; Okada; Simple fermionic dark matter models and Higgs boson couplings.

pjackson

Stunning new findings consistent with the essay propositions keep coming in. I have to thank a fellow top 20 essayist for providing the link to these;

Proof that assumptions are false, and that the Resonant Interaction of Multiple Waves; "...is completely different from what happens in coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations (NLSEs), where energy exchanges are forbidden." So 'superposition' is real and can produce particles by multiple sphere surface intersections in the same way as 'Rougue Waves'. Rogue Waves Emerging from the Resonant Interaction of Three Waves. Phys Rev Letters 111, 114101. 13 Sept 2013.

Directly related but considering LIGHT in Airy pulses in fibre Optic cables is this, including the comments;

"Accelerating light waves in the form of Airy beams moving along bending trajectories have recently drawn a great deal of attention. A remarkable feature of these beams is their acceleration, an inherent property rather than a result of interactions with other waves. In addition to spatial Airy beams, the dynamics of temporal Airy pulses was also studied. In the latter case, the acceleration of temporal pulses is characterized by their varying group velocity." Inversion and tight focusing of Airy pulses under the action of third-order dispersion. Note the dispersion pattern in figure 4 in particular.

These are all important individual pieces from disparate research areas fitting neatly into the 'jigsaw puzzle' ontology, rationalising current theory by confirming the false assumptions identified.

pjackson

SINGLE PHOTON PRODUCTION

I highlighted the problems of so called single photon production, which most often has not been. The Model I Described, the IQbit, and resolution of the EPR paradox can all be falsified with single 'time resolved' photon emissions.

Alain Aspect apparently DID manage to do this to some extent, as the 'orbital asymmetry' predicted in my essay WAS FOUND! in the vast majority data he discarded as there was (then) no theoretical explanation (see the C Thompson paper linked, and Aspect's French language full exposition).

But true single photon production has now improved; Single Photon Streams. All that's now needed is to slow them down to ensure actual singlet pairs can be precisely correlated and the verification will be possible, proving von Neumann correct by producing a quantum cosine curve at EACH of Bob and Alice's detectors.

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