The concept of matter by chenxi guo

Dear Chenxi,

It was a pleasure to read your essay, I found it well grounded well founded and well written. I also happen to agree all your propositions, including c as ubiquitous, but I must ask you a question of something you didn't define; If speed is only a relative concept, what is that constant speed c relative to?

I don't blame you for avoiding that minefield, but suggest a better answer emerges with enough thought of the excellent and commendable type you're applying.

I agree substance is energy, and particularly liked your 3 characteristics of energy; Spatial, Additivity, and Cohesion, though I might add Motion. That there can be no energy, so no matter without motion. Would you agree?

So now we only have to return again ask; Motion with respect to what?!

Your Eo=E cos theta also made me think. I've taken a rather similar 'realist' and mechanistic approach to you, and used Malus' Law to show it's apparent power to resolve the EPR paradox without needing to exceed c! Energy of each of an entangled pair varies by the cos of the orientation with the polariser and detector field (as does charge time delay). I think this may be related and even more important than we think. I hope you'll read and like my essay. It also challenges a few old assumptions to build an empirically based ontology.

Well done and thank you for a refreshing dose of intelligent realism worth a top score. I also wish you much luck.

Very best wishes

Peter

Dear Chenxi,

I have down loaded your essay and soon post my comments on it. Meanwhile, 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 Chenxi,

Very nice essay. Address many fundamental issues and deserve a good rating. If you have the time check my essay here and see if you like it. If you don't tell me how I can improve it.

Best regards,

Akinbo

Dear Chenxi,

Thanks for appreciating my essay. I will go through your essay and post my comments on it in your thread shortly and rate it highly.

Best regards,

Sreenath

Hello Chenxi

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 each of us surely must have touched some corners of it.

Good luck and good cheers!

Than Tin

Dear Guo Chenxi,

You have nicely derived Newtonian physics on the basis of relativistic considerations of the electro-magnetic properties of matter. The method employed is elegant and the math is simple enough to understand by anybody. Thanks for writing such a complex subject in an easily graspable manner.

Your essay also needs a very high rating of above 8 and for that I need your response from you in my thread.

Best regards,

Sreenath

Dear Chenxi,

I agree that It can't be from Bit too!

Good luck too!

Antony

Dear Chenxi,

I've lost a lot of comments and replies on my thread and many other threads I have commented on over the last few days. This has been a lot of work and I feel like it has been a waste of time and energy. Seems to have happened to others too - if not all.

I WILL ATTEMPT to revisit all threads to check and re-post something. Your thread was one affected by this.

I can't remember the full extent of what I said, but I have notes so know that I rated it very highly.

Hopefully the posts will be able to be retrieved by FQXi.

Best wishes,

Antony

Dear Chenxi guo,

I agree that It isn't likely to come from Bit too, that's partly why I rated you so highly.

Best wishes,

Antony

Dear Chenxi,

Situation resolved by FQXi now!

Glad to see so many good comments on your thread. Please take a look at my essay if you get time.

Kind regards,

Antony

Dear Chenxi,

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.

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