Dear Antony,

Thank You. Let me imagine a continuation of your n-dimensionality logical game. If rational n-dimensionality ( n = -1,0,1,2,3 and we assume that n is rational number ) is accepted ( i.e. there is a mathematical proof ) we can go further and we may admit a new kind of possible dimensionality, expressed by the square root -1 and complex numbers ( why not ? Einstein and Hawking use the square root-1 as an imaginary time / complex time variable u in physics ).Hence, new unexpected physical generalizations are deduced.

best

Michael

Dear Michael,

I agree that we can indeed use square roots to explore concepts such as this further. I think these could actually apply in experimental results at colliders. Great idea!

Best wishes,

Antony

Michael,

I agree. I hope you'll also comment on commonality with my geometrically based ontology on my blog if you have time to read it. It is about rather more than an IQbit. My last two essays are precursers of the full dynamic unification model.

Very well done, and best wishes for making the top 40.

Peter

Lost comments by Antony Ryan and my answer ( 1 Aug 2013 ) have been reset.

Thank you who did it.

    Peter,

    My later reading of your essay showed an importance of following passages :

    > " Binary based mathematics relies on the Law of the Excluded Middle between assigned symbols 0,1, A,B, or yes/no for waves".

    "Time itself is a special case. The concept time is a human invention to describe change, often confused with the physical evidence of emissions from 'clocks'".

    < refinement . When Albert Einstein extended physically accepted list of arithmetical operations so as to include the extraction of the square root of minus 1 in his theory of imaginary time (SR), he admitted the complex numbers and new theory of time. Thus, if we find that some equations of higher degree used in physics are insoluble by aid of complex numbers now, we can go further and admit new math. Hence, new time theory can be connected with new mathematics of non-integer dimensionality spacetime. In 1986 quantum theorists Karl Svozil and Anton Zeilinger proposed that the notion of the dimension of spacetime could be based on"philosophical" measure-theoretic concepts ( admitting the possibility of noninteger dimensions , like 4 - έ ). They introduced in fact an operational dimension which is smaller than the idealized Housdorff dimension. However, they intuitively extended their list of accepted arithmetical operations so as to include the solution of higher equations.Thus,we might to be led to the consideration of numbers of another types in order to introduce complex dimensionality and new time theory, taking technically.

    http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0217751X86000368

    Peter

    (technical addition )

    ' Binary based mathematics relies on the Law of the Excluded Middle between assigned symbols 0,1, A,B, or yes/no for waves'.

    Refinement. May be philosophically in the terms of analytical tradition, it is correct, however, mathematically speaking, it is a kind of Wheeler simplification. Indeed, we cannot say that Weirstrass theorem relies on the Law of the Excluded Middle. Technically, in alternative proof of Weirstrass theorem, we divide some interval into two equal parts, when one at least contain infinitely many points. Proceeding in this way we can define a sequence of intervals each of which is a half of its predecessor, and each of which contains infinitely many points. Hence, ideas of points of accumulations, Dedekind theorem, sections of the real numbers into left-hand class / right-hand class, etc. Thus, Wheeler yes/no logic must have limited sense and actual binary mathe-matics is more complicated.

    ( Copy of my comment for Peter Jackson by 5 Aug 2013 )

      Michael,

      Many thanks for your post. I think this is very important work and nice to see a recurrent theme in the contest. Yours in particular was excellent and undervalued so I'm very pleased to give it a high score. I do hope you make the final cut.

      I re-allocated most of the 'maths' part of my brain to dynamic/kinetics, logic and geometry some time ago! so hope we may stay in touch.

      Peter

      Dear Michael,

      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.

      I rated your essay.

      Please visit My essay.

      Dear Amazigh,

      Thank you for your visit.

      Some your observations :

      '... the duality was obvious to the Egyptians, Greeks, etc.. , And especially the Chinese...

      For me the question is quite different : why we do not have yet flushed the irrefutable arguments that prove that the universe is binary, dualistic...

      Today, Einstein's relativity is well understood in the physical domain. It explains very well the two points of view of two people moving relative to each other...

      Finally, I would like to conjecture that:

      -The first principle that governs the universe is Duality. The principle of conservation has come after. Give the same interest to duality that to motion, and things will better.

      -We know matter is dual as well as the light is. So if duality is everywhere, how to recognize this fact, as we did for the motion ?

      -The Duality is the common language by excellence, the integral link between all the elements of nature, the machine code of the universe '

      may suggest some analogies with field findings of structural anthropologists. In particular,French anthropologist Levi-Strauss made reference to 353 duality based different myths in order to prove that the human brain does have a tendency to operate with binary oppositions in all sorts of situations. This result is foundation of structural anthropology and semantic algebra of myths today. However, the sceptics were right as well, because human brain can operate in other ways also. Thus, a fully satisfactory model of the human mind would contain many unknown features which do not occur merely in digital computers. I suppose you can improve your structural linguistic analysis of oppositions by Jakobson's technique based on conjecture that ' in all the languages of the world the complex systems of oppositions between the phonemes are no more than a multi-directional elaboration of a more complex system which is common to all, namely the contrast between consonant and vowel, which through the working of double opposition between compact and diffuse, acute and grave...'

      with the best wishes

      Michael

      Dear Sreenath,

      Thank you for your visit.

      Because it is physical forum, may I ask you merely one very strange question : How we can make physical measurement of the bits of taking universal information seriously in reality ?

      Dear Wang,

      My later comment, sorry :

      When you proposed that 'one day a more complete theory should unify all the three basic concepts Matter-Energy-Information ' , you probably made an assumption that the law of information conservation in future physics is quite possible.

      But, sceptics may suggest that in comparison with energy conservation law , Hawking -like law of information conservation (The information remains firmly in our universe. Thus, if you jump into a black hole, your mass energy will be returned to our universe but in a mangled form which contains the information about what you were like but in a state where it can not be easily recognized.( Hawking, 2005 )) can be violated ? Moreover, speaking exactly, there is no such thing as physical measurement of bits of thermal information or generally - universal information in physics.

      Best

      Michael

      Dear Michael,

      Thanks for dropping in to my thread and I have answered your question there. Currently your ranking is below 40 and if you want to increase it, immediately contact me at, bnsreenath@yahoo.co.in

      Waiting for your response.

      Best wishes,

      Sreenath

      Dear Sreenath,

      It would be almost impossible to predict another result.Rank is less important but pleasure to participate in global self organized anthropological experiment is beyond any expectations.It is very rare event.Indeed.

      Respectfully

      Michael

      Dear Michael,

      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

      FQXi fixed the bug. They were transferring servers or something like that.

      Regards,

      Antony

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