Dear Charles:
Thanks so much for reading my essay and the kind comment!
I think the connection of emergence and randomness is important. In particular in connection with the measurement problem.
Cheers
Olaf
Dear Charles:
Thanks so much for reading my essay and the kind comment!
I think the connection of emergence and randomness is important. In particular in connection with the measurement problem.
Cheers
Olaf
Dear Jim:
Thanks for reading my essay and commenting on it so kindly.
Looking forward to your essay.
Cheers
Olaf
Dear Amazigh:
Thank you very much for the good wishes (and rating the essay)!
I'll have a look at your essay.
Cheers
Olaf
Dear Carlo:
Thanks for the interest in the essay and acknowledging the point. It was important for me to capture enough of the a notion of information (and the shortcomings of the old notion) that it becomes apparent how it is related to the solution of a number of problems (like the measurement problem).
A tighter definition will appear in a longer article.
Cheers
Olaf
P.S.: I think emergence is a really important concept that has not been properly understood yet. I think it is also important in quantum gravity and allows for results like these (alternative to inflation):
http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6169
Dear Vladimir:
I think your quote is spot on! Thanks for the kind comments.
I'll have a look at your essay (so many essays to read!).
Cheers
Olaf
Dear John:
Thanks for the interest in my essay. I am going to have a look at your essay and see if I can answer your question.
Cheers
Olaf
Dear Yuri:
I liked the quote from Wheeler. I am not sure I get the claim. It would really help if you could state the claim more clearly. What are the places where the angle of 18 appears? Are there exceptions? What works? What does not?
The point with these kind of things is that they might signify something deep or they might just lead you astray. People have invested a lot of time on the fact that the fine structure constant is 1/137. Why 137? As far as I can tell no good reason has been given yet.
It would really help if you'd work on the presentation.
Cheers
Olaf
Dear Amos:
Sorry if I wasn't clear. About the asymmetry:
When the system reaches a ground state it has fewer symmetries than before. Think of a system of spins. Before the transition they point in all possible directions after the transition all spins point in one direction. Which direction is determined by random fluctuations. That is the connection between randomness and asymmetry.
Thanks for the interest.
Cheers
Olaf
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(m) component
Cheers
Yuri
Dear Yutaka:
Thank you for the interest in my essay. I have just read your essay and I very much like the operational point of view. I think I am not clear what you mean when you say
Operational thinking has been formalized as information theory.
Can you explain what you mean here?
Cheers
Olaf
Dear Yuri:
I guess the number of different contributions to this essay contest attest to the difficulty of coming up with a good description of what we mean by information. I am not sure that this the greatest riddle though.
Cheers
Olaf
Dear Joe:
Thanks so much for the kind words. Can you explain a bit more what you mean when you use the word once? I am not sure I understand.
Cheers
Olaf
Dear Giovanni:
Thanks for these remarks! I guess I have to read Lee's book now.
The discussion with Mauro has just started (further down).
Cheers
Olaf
Dear Antony:
Thank you for the interest in my essay. I had a look at your essay and I must say that I am not at all sure what the role of the Fibonacci numbers is. It seems a bit too much numerology to me.
Cheers
Dear Israel:
Thank you for having a look at my essay!
You say:
The reality emerges by the interaction of objects and evolution of objects,
I agree. But then you say
so definitely information is crucial.
Can you explain this? I am not sure I understand.
Cheers
Olaf
Hi Olaf,
I'll explain over on my thread.
Cheers
Antony
Dear David:
Thanks for looking at my essay and especially for remembering the earlier ones!
I do think that thinking involves information. The point that I am trying to make is that the information has to have meaning. The way that information is stored has to be such that it does not require an outside dictionary. I argued for how this could be achieved.
Cheers
Olaf
P.S.: If you liked my earlier essays you might like http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6169. (An alternative to inflation)
Dear Cristi:
Thank you for reading my essay and for commenting so favorably on it. I am developing the connection with quantum mechanics but I had to finish something else first (http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6169).
Cheers
Olaf
Dear Chidi:
Thanks for reading my essay and for the comments. I have tried to read your essay but I had some problems with the axioms that you formulated (see your thread).
All the best in the contest.
Cheers
Olaf
Dear Xiong:
Thanks for reading my essay and commenting on it.
I think that you are absolutely correct in pointing out that symmetry breaking and information are related. In fact your point can be made clearly using Shannon's original definition of information. The information produced by cutting off the side of a square would then be 2 bits. In my essay I focused not only on the symmetry breaking itself but more on the dynamical aspect of generalized rigidity.
All the best in the contest.
Cheers
Olaf