The Precursor to Information, Life and Universe by Hon Jia Koh

Dear Hon Jia,

I invite you to comment my essay on my forum and rate it. I gave your essay and your ideas excellent rating 26.06.

Best regards,

Vladimir

Dear Hon Jia,

Pardon my starting another thread as this matter is unrelated to your essay. Also I don't know whether you are a relationist/substantivalist.

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?

NOTE THAT in no other frame can circular motion between the bodies be described in this circumstance except in the 'observing' sub-atomic particle.

Best regards,

Akinbo

Dear Hon Jia

While I have a different perspective, I read your essay with interest. Nice to see you having a go with such a challenging topic.

Best wishes

Stephen Anastasi.

Dear Hon Jia,

It certainly is interesting - I'd like to hear more! I'd be happy to exchange emails after the contest.

best wishes,

Antony

Dear Hon Jia,

Thanks for the comments above - I've only just made it back to your thread, so I've replied above. I've also rated your essay very highly because I think you deserve a higher position for your original approach!

Best wishes in the contest and in your research,

Antony

Dear Hon Jia,

Anthony Ryan suggested I read your essay and I'm very glad I did in time to rate it. I think it's a beautifully crafted analysis with great value and without trying to 'push' some speculative notion. I agree with Anthony it is worth a much higher score and am very glad to apply same.

I find I agree all your ten statements, particularly Statement 5; Elementary information can only be observed by the elementary co-dependent observer directly. I find this has hidden meaning, the foundations of which are described in my previous two essays here (both 7th place finishers but not following doctrine or favoured by the judges). You will also find a physical ontological derivation of the 'eternal loop' you describe, which is part of the ontology, described here; Helical CMB anisotropy and the Recycling Model.

I hope you also have time to read and score mine. It is ambitionus, but Please ignore the too dense abstract. the blog posts so far give a more flattering picture including; "groundbreaking", "clearly significant", "astonishing", "fantastic job", "wonderful", "remarkable!", "deeply impressed", etc. It suggests new and more coherent answers to some of the main questions you ask.

Very well done and thank you for yours. It was an absolute delight to read.

Peter

Dear Hon Jia,

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