Dear Olaf

Thank you for constructional criticism of my essay. It benefits rather than complimenting from nonprofessionals.

I will try to answer your questions.

1.My observation 18 deg concerning only pseudoscalar mesons where spin=0 and two charged leptons(mu and tau) where spin=1/2.But 18 deg no so important than symmetry around proton.This is an amazing symmetry was not noticed until now.

2.Puzzle of 137 is more sophisticate than 1836,because contains 3 components (c,e,h) whereas 1836 contains only one(mass) component

Cheers

Yuri

5 days later

Dear Yuri,

As I promised in my Essay page I have read your enjoyable Essay. Here are my comments.

1) The phenomenon of 18 degrees is quite intriguing. In general, I do not think that such kind of phenomena in Science are coincidences.

2) I have always been intrigued by the Golden Ratio. The connection with the angle of 18 degrees is fascinating.

3) The relationship between the number of 18 and mass of quarks is really amazing.

4) Thanks for pointing out special properties of number 18, I did not know them. That number is really special.

5) Again, I do not think that the final coincidence between angle of 18 degrees and number 18 is an accidental coincidence.

I have found your Essay very intriguing and enjoyable. Thus, I am going to give you a high score.

I also suggest you to further proceed with your scientific research on the number 18.

Cheers,

Ch.

Yuri,

I regret that I had not been able to read your essay up until now. While I do not have the background that some of the other commentators have, I very much like how you have presented the empirical evidence and left it as an open question.

Is it just a coincidence or is there something much deeper to it? Considering that you also point out that we aren't exactly sure what "mass" is (although I personally have another idea) then these bits of information such as the one you are pointing out may help us piece together the jig saw puzzle.

I have rated you highly for the empirical evidence and open question.

Kind Regards,

Jeff

Dear Yuri

You have gone deeply into this matter and found some interesting regularities. I have no expertise in this area of physics, but I do have a question: If you express the degrees in radians you will get a different value than 18. Does this affect your results in any way?

My own research also yielded an interesting angle: around 13 degrees related to the Strong Force. Is it a coincidence or meaningful ? I pose the same question as you have but in another scenario:

Three Magnetic Dipoles Provide a Physically Realistic Simulation of the Repulsive-Attractive Nature of the Strong Force and of the Cabibbo Angle

With best wishes in your work

Vladimir

Dear Vladimir

18x0.017=0.306

3/10 approx 1/3

just confirmation of old observation

http://vixra.org/abs/0907.0008

http://vixra.org/abs/1212.0030

Dear Yuri,

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

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