Dear Jonathan,
Does Dr. Johan Masreliez's theory have a postulate or equation? fF so, what is the postulate or equation?
MDT's postulate: The fourth dimensions is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at c.
MDT's equation: dx4/dt=ic.
Simple proofs of MDT:
MDT PROOF#1: Relativity tells us that a timeless, ageless photon remains in one place in the fourth dimension. Quantum mechanics tells us that a photon propagates as a spherically-symmetric expanding wavefront at the velocity of c. Ergo, the fourth dimension must be expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c, in a spherically-symmetric manner. The expansion of the fourth dimension is the source of nonlocality, entanglement, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, c, relativity, entropy, free will, and all motion, change, and measurement, for no measurement can be made without change. For the first time in the history of relativity, change has been wedded to the fundamental fabric of spacetime in MDT.
MDT PROOF#2: Einstein (1912 Man. on Rel.) and Minkowski wrote x4=ict. Ergo dx4/dt=ic.
MDT PROOF#3: The only way to stay stationary in the three spatial dimensions is to move at c through the fourth dimension. The only way to stay stationary in the fourth dimension is to move at c through the three spatial dimensions. Ergo the fourth dimension is moving at c relative to the three spatial dimensions.
MDT twitter proof (limited to 140 characters): SR: photon is stationary in 4th dimension. QM: photon is probability wave expanding @ c. Ergo: 4th dimension expands @ c & MDT: dx4/dt=ic -from http://twitter.com/45surf
While Moving Dimensions Theory honors the greats' traditional definitions of science, String Theory, M-Theory, and Multiverse Mania all deny the wisdom of the Greats, as well as physics and physical reality.
MDT Honors the Greats' Definition of Science
Einstein and Galileo embodied and exalted the heroic spirit in which Moving Dimensions Theory was conceived:
"But before mankind could be ripe for a science which takes in the whole of reality, a second fundamental truth was needed, which only became common property among philosophers with the advent of Kepler and Galileo. Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. (Yes! Moving dimensions theory begins in experience-the double slit experiment, entropy, relativity, nonlocality, time and all it arrows and asymmetries, and it ends in experience, by providing a physical model predicting all these entities!) Propositions arrived at by purely logical means (String theory, loop quantum gravity (which might not even use logic)) are completely empty as regards reality. Because Galileo saw this, and particularly because he drummed it into the scientific world, he is the father of modern physics--indeed, of modern science altogether. -Einstein, Ideas and Opinions
Einstein's above quote is quite prominent in its complete absence from today's leading "physics" books and blogs, as are many of the Greats' quotes below, wherein the Greats define what science is and ought to be-wherein they define what science has ever been. Einstein states that, "all knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it," and a glaring problem with string theory is that nobody has ever seen a tiny little string (and thus ST does not begin in experience), nor measured one, nor conceived of an experiment that would allow us to see strings (and thus ST does not, and cannot end in experience either). Nor has anyone ever seen a multiverse, nor come up with a way of measuring or detecting multiverses. Nor has anyone ever come across any of the tiny, little loops of loop quantum gravity, nor any way to detect nor measure tiny little loops. So it is that all these non-theories begin in the imagination, and end in it. One will hear their proponents singing of the great beauty of their theories, but then, when one asks them for the fundamental equation, they are unable to produce any. Indeed, it turns out there are millions of equivalent non-theories with various amounts of dimensions, with ever-changing math which never adds up to predict anything we see in physical reality. In that sense, the theories are actually quite ugly. Especially when compared to the simple beauty of Moving Dimensions Theory's simple, fundamental, far-ranging equation, dx4/dt=ic, which predicts nonlocality, entanglement (the fundamental characteristic of QM according to Schrodenger), entropy, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and from which all of relativity is derived. dx4/dt=ic is more fundamental than relativity's two physical postualtes, as both of relativity's postulates arise from it.
Karl Popper: Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
Karl Popper: Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl Popper: In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
If we are to write a scientific book, we must first of all define what science is and ought be. In order to do this, I turn towards the greatest scientists and philosophers of all time--those Founding Fathers who are never quoted, nor mentioned, nor exalted in the myriad of books devoted to string theory, multiverses, loop quantum gravity, and other mathematical farses, failures, and frauds perpetuated for fleeting fortune and fame, of funded by the very same fiat-debt regimes which fail on moral and spiritual levels by privatizing profits and socializing risks. Below are the scientsists I boldly ride forth with--many were persecuted in their own day and age by the cruelty and ignorance of their peers, as I am today by the proud imposters gaining tenure for treatises on space aliens, multiverses, parallel universes, strings, loops, and countless other imaginary conjectures with absolutely no physical reality, but only fiat realties. But just as S=klogw is engraved on Ludwig von Boltzman's tombstone, after his theory of entropy was derided, castigated, ignored, and impugned by his peers, contributing to his suicide, so too shall dx4/dt=ic be engraved on my tombstone, as sure ax xp-px=ih is engraved on Max Born's tombstone. Here is how the Greats define science:
When the solution is simple, God is answering.[ii] -Einstein
A physical theory can be satisfactory only if its structures are composed of elementary foundations. The theory of relativity is ultimately as little satisfactory as, for example, classical thermodynamics was before Boltzmann had interpreted the entropy as probability.[iii] -Einstein
Max Born wrote, "All great discoveries in experimental physics have been made due to the intuition of men who made free use of models which for them were not products of the imagination but representations of real things."
Albert Einstein: Before I enter upon a critique of mechanics as a foundation of physics, something of a broadly general nature will first have to be said concerning the points of view according to which it is possible to criticize physical theories at all. The first point of view is obvious: The theory must not contradict empirical facts. . . The second point of view is not concerned with the relation to the material of observation but with the premises of the theory itself, with what may briefly but vaguely be characterized as the "naturalness" or "logical simplicity" of the premises (of the basic concepts and of the relations between these which are taken as a basis). This point of view, an exact formulation of which meets with great difficulties, has played an important role in the selection and evaluation of theories since time immemorial.
Isaac Newton: No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants."
Isaac Newton: I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton: If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton: We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Richard Feynman: Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. . . . Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
Isaac Newton: As the ocean is never full of water, so is the heart never full of love."
Sir Isaac Newton: This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Einstein: Play Is The Highest Form Of Research.
Albert Einstein: Once it was recognised that the earth was not the center of the world, but only one of the smaller planets, the illusion of the central significance of man himself became untenable. Hence, Nicolaus Copernicus, through his work and the greatness of his personality, taught man to be honest. (Albert Einstein, Message on the 410th Anniversary of the Death of Copernicus, 1953)
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.[iv] -Newton
The only real valuable thing is intuition. -Einstein
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. -Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. -Einstein
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.[v] -Newton
For an idea that does not at first seem insane, there is no hope.[vi] - Einstein
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.[vii] -Newton
In questions of science, the authority of thousands is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual.[viii] -Galileo
Books on physics are full of complicated mathematical formulae. But thought and ideas (the fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at c), not formulae (dx4/dt=ic), are the beginning of every physical theory.[ix] --Einstein/Infeld, The Evolution of Physics
But before mankind could be ripe for a science which takes in the whole of reality, a second fundamental truth was needed, which only became common property among philosophers with the advent of Kepler and Galileo. Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it. Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality. Because Galileo saw this, and particularly because he drummed it into the scientific world, he is the father of modern physics--indeed, of modern science altogether. -Einstein[x], Ideas and Opinions
Epur si muove - (And yet it does move.)[xi] -Galileo
.. my dear Kepler, what do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, with the obstinacy of a glutted adder, to look at the planets or Moon or my telescope.[xii] -Galileo
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up with it.[xiii] -Planck
Planck: Let us get down to bedrock facts. The beginning of every act of knowing, and therefore the starting-point of every science, must be our own personal experience.[xiv] (All physicists have personally experienced the double-slit experiment, and as relativity tells us that photons remain stationary in x4, x4 must thus be propagating at c with both a wavelike and quantum nature!)
Einstein: Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.[xv]
Einstein: The theory must not contradict empirical facts. . . The second point of view is not concerned with the relation to the material of observation but with the premises of the theory itself, with what may briefly but vaguely be characterized as the "naturalness" or "logical simplicity" of the premises of the basic concepts and of the relations between these which are taken as a basis. [xvi]
Planck: That we do not construct the external world to suit our own ends in the pursuit of science, but that vice versa the external world forces itself upon our recognition with its own elemental power, is a point which ought to be categorically asserted again and again . . . From the fact that in studying the happenings of nature . . . it is clear that we always look for the basic thing behind the dependent thing, for what is absolute behind what is relative, for the reality behind the appearance and for what abides behind what is transitory. . this is characteristic not only of physical science but of all science.[xvii] (dx4/dt=ic is the "basic, abiding thing" behind all relativity, entropy, and QM!)
Einstein: Truth is what stands the test of experience.[xviii]
Heisenberg: Science. . . is based on personal experience, or on the experience of others, reliably reported. . . Even today we can still learn from Goethe . . . trusting that this reality will then also reflect the essence of things, the 'one, the good, and the true.[xix]
Since we experience both particles and waves, and since the Greats agree that physics begins and ends in experience, MDT follows the Greats in providing a foundational model underlying the physical, experiential reality of waves and particles--of the analog and digital--of relativity, QM, and entropy, as well as time and all its arrows and asymmetries. MDT agrees with the Greats:
Schrodinger: The world is given but once. . . The world extended in space and time is but our representation. Experience does not give us the slightest clue of its being anything besides that. [xx]
Bohr: The classical concepts, i.e., "wave" and "corpuscle" do not fully describe the real world and are, moreover, complementary in part, and hence contradictory. . . . Nor can we avoid occasional contradictions; nevertheless, the images help us to draw nearer to the real facts. Their existence no one should deny. "Truth dwells in the deeps." [xxi]
Schrodinger: Everything--anything at all--is at the same time particle and field.[xxii] (This is because MDT's expanding x4 is continually spreading and distributing locality.)
Einstein: Time and again the passion for understanding has led to the illusion that man is able to comprehend the objective world rationally by pure thought without any empirical foundations--in short, by metaphysics.[xxiii] (MDT begins and ends with empirical foundations!)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.[xxiv] -Einstein
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation, but, we venture to say, they will find themselves very much enlightened during the process, and will even be doubtful whether the ideas as expressed in symbols had ever quite found their way out of the equations into their minds.[xxv] -Maxwell
I don't believe in mathematics.[xxvi] -Einstein
Sir Francis Bacon: And all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are. For God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world; rather may he graciously grant to us to write an apocalypse or true vision of the footsteps of the Creator imprinted on his creatures.
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.[xxvii] -Einstein
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.[xxviii] -Poincare
John Wilkins: I shall most insist on the observation of Galilæus, the inventor of that famous perspective, whereby we may discern the heavens har by us; whereby those things others have formerly guessed at, are manifested to the eye, and plainly discovered beyond exception of a doubt. -1638
Science's heroic spirit comes from the scientists, philosophers, and poets of yore. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, "Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends," and Socrates who mentored Plato who mentored Aristotle who inspired Copernicus, Newton, and Galileo, cited the heroic acts of Achilles as his epic inspiration.
In Einstein's Mistakes, Dr. Hans Ohanian reports on how physics advances via the emphasis not on math, but on physical reality, "(Max) Born described the weak point in Einstein's work in those final years: ". . . now he tried to do without any empirical facts, by pure thinking. He believed in the power of reason to guess the laws according to which God built the world.""[xxix] MDT exalts nature and the physical reality of a timeless, ageless photon, providing a simple, unifying physical model for entropy, statistical mechanics, relativity, and quantum mechanics.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.[xxx] -Plato
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.[xxxi] -Einstein
Mathematics are well and good but nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.[xxxii] -Einstein
In Disturbing the Universe, Freeman Dyson writes, "Dick [Feynman] fought back against my skepticism, arguing that Einstein had failed because he stopped thinking in concrete physical images (as MDT does!) and became a manipulator of equations. I had to admit that was true. The great discoveries of Einstein's earlier years were all based on direct physical intuition. Einstein's later unified theories failed because they were only sets of equations without physical meaning. Dick's sum-over-histories theory was in the spirit of the young Einstein, not of the old Einstein. It was solidly rooted in physical reality."[xxxiii] In The Trouble With Physics, Lee Smolin writes that Bohr was not a Feynman "shut up and calculate" physicist, and from the above Dyson quote, it appears that Feynman wasn't either. Lee writes, "Mara Beller, a historian who has studied his [Bohr's] work in detail, points out that there was not a single calculation in his research notebooks, which were all verbal arguments and pictures."[xxxiv] Please see MDT's Fig. 1, presenting a physical model, at the end of this document. (Many more to come!)
In Dark Matters, Dr. Percy Seymour writes, "Albert Einstein was a great admirer of Newton, Faraday, and Maxwell. In his office he had framed copies of portraits of these scientists. He had this to say about Faraday and Maxwell: "The greatest change in the axiomatic basis of physics--in other words, of our conception of the structure--since Newton laid the foundation of theoretical physics was brought about by Faraday's and Maxwell's work on electromagnetic phenomena."[xxxv]
In his book Einstein, Banesh Hoffman and the great Michael Faraday exalt physical reality over mere math:
Meanwhile, however, the English experimenter Michael Farady was making outstanding experimental discoveries in electricity and magnetism. Being largely self-taught and lacking mathematical facility, he could not interpret his results in the manner of Ampere. And this was fortunate, since it led to a revolution in science. . . most physicists adept at mathematics thought his concepts mathematically naïve.[xxxvi]
Bohr and Einstein debating the nature of quantum mechanics.
Einstein: God does not play dice with the universe.
Neils Bohr: Einstein, stop telling God what to.
Had Einstein wholeheartedly accepted the physical reality of quantum mechanics and the natural nonlocality and entanglement of photons it implied, perhaps he would have seen that not only were light and time connected in relativity, but that relativity and quantum mechanics were connected by a deeper physical reality of a fourth dimension expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at c. After all, Einstein did write x1=x, x2=y, x3=z, and x4 = ict (implying dx4/dt=ic to those bold enough to see it), only he arrived at this years after he set forth the principle of relativity and its two postulates. MDT starts with a more fundamental physical principle of a fourth expanding dimension and its equation--dx4/dt=ic--and it derives all of relativity while also providing a physical model for quantum entanglement and nonlocality, and thus its probabilistic nature. MDT exalts the beauty of wonderment, asking: "Why Relativity, Entanglement, Entropy, Nonlocality & Time?"
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. -Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.[xxxvii] -Einstein (Why Relativity, Entanglement, Entropy, Nonlocality & Time? because dx4/dt=ic!)
And now that the Greats have defined what science is and ought to be, we might also let them define what science isn't. And in doing so, we can contrast MDT's simple, beautiful, elegant, unifying successes with String Theory's "not even wrongishness" and now entrenched religion of failure. The first page of String Theory in a Nutshell states in a footnoted sentence:
String Theory has been the leading candidate ... for a theory that consistently unifies all the fundamental forces of nature, including gravity. It gained popularity because it provides a theory that is UV finite.(1) . . . The footnote (1) reads: "Although there is no rigorous proof to all orders that the theory is UV finite..."[xxxviii] -STRING THEORY IN A NUTSHELL
So you see, string theory is not a finite theory, but this is generally kept to the footnotes, when mentioned at all. Many esteemed, famous, and Nobel Laureate physicists harbor reservations regarding strings:
We don't know what we are talking about[xxxix]. -Nobel Laureate David Gross on string theory
It is anomalous to replace the four-dimensional continuum by a five-dimensional one and then subsequently to tie up artificially one of those five dimensions in order to account for the fact that it does not manifest itself. -Einstein to Ehrenfest (Imagine doing this for 10-30+ dimensions!)
String theorists don't make predictions, they make excuses[xl]. - Feynman, Nobel Laureate
String theory is like a 50 year old woman wearing too much lipstick.[xli] -Robert Laughlin, Nobel Laureate
Actually, I would not even be prepared to call string theory a "theory" rather a "model" or not even that: just a hunch. After all, a theory should come together with instructions on how to deal with it to identify the things one wishes to describe, in our case the elementary particles, and one should, at least in principle, be able to formulate the rules for calculating the properties of these particles, and how to make new predictions for them. Imagine that I give you a chair, while explaining that the legs are still missing, and that the seat, back and armrest will perhaps be delivered soon; whatever I did give you, can I still call it a chair?[xlii] -'t Hooft, Nobel Laureate
It is tragic, but now, we have the string theorists, thousands of them, that also dream of explaining all the features of nature. They just celebrated the 20th anniversary of superstring theory. So when one person spends 30 years, it's a waste, but when thousands waste 20 years in modern day, they celebrate with champagne. I find that curious.[xliii] -Sheldon Glashow, Nobel Laureate
Nobel prize winner Martinus Veltman concludes his 2003 book
facts and mysteries in elementary particle physics
with:
The fact is that this book is about physics, and this implies that the
theoretical ideas must be supported by experimental facts. Neither
supersymmetry nor string theory satisfy this criterion. They are
figments of the theoretical mind. To quote Pauli:
They are not even wrong. They have no place here. -Nobel Laureate Martinus VeltmanAttachment #1: 5_1_ja_wheeler_recommendation_mcgucken_medium2.jpgAttachment #2: 6_figure9.jpg