Fellow countrymen and women,

Lend me your ears. Put yourselves in my shoes.

If you are the Emperor of Einsteiniana and

(i) A group of your patriotic scientists have discovered the 'theory of everything' or nearly done so

(ii) You are afraid of terrorists and other evil empires,

what will you do?

In my contemplation, for a wise Emperor the following would be an appropriate course of action:

1. Hide that theory and keep it top secret.

2. From my Defense department I will directly provide encouragement in the form of funds, grants, etc to misdirected scientists going the wrong way and do so also through other third parties to avoid suspicion.

3. Silence scientists insistent on going the right way by denying them funding, restricting their access to publication of their findings, blacklist them and if all else fails, kill them.

4. Provide a forum for discussion of foundational physics to establish how much knowledge is actually out there and award prizes to those that further mystify and becloud the topic.

5. Label as crackpots and noisemakers, activists campaigning for the truth to be made a public thing. They should be forgiven for in their innocence they know not that they jeopardize the safety and security of Einsteiniana.

6. Fund conferences in exotic islands to discuss things far away from the theory of everything.

7. Fund experiments but filter out the truth and keep this with my closely knit group of scientists having custody of the theory, while doctoring the findings entering the public domain.

8. When I get to my wits end as the truth continues its characteristic behavior of persistently struggling to emerge from secrecy with the advent of the internet aiding and abetting its struggle, I will seek opinion about how humanity's future should be steered.

9. Apologize and pay compensation for the wrongs done to 'dissenting' scientists at the appropriate time in future.

Let me stop here for now, so I won't be tagged a whistleblower. Any wise Emperor would do all these things for the sake, safety and future of humanity. With the human, economic, information and computing resources available to the Empire it is very unlikely that the theory of everything is not already known or almost known by a select few. No gainsaying that evil people are amongst us and we cannot underestimate what they can be capable of if they have details of a theory of everything. Mutually assured destruction is no longer an option with the advent of suicide bombers.

This is meant to be a satire in the mould of George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' but the reality of human civilization is that truth must sometimes be suppressed at least temporarily for the interest of the authorities. Galileo was a crackpot who did not appreciate the above facts and was more or less killed for saying and advocating the truth at the wrong time. I therefore sympathize with honest toilers like Peter Jackson, John Duffield, Eckard, Joy Christian, Tom to mention a few, but they have to be more understanding of my predicament as Emperor, the custodian of humanity's safety and security.

If you are the Emperor of Einsteiniana would you not do likewise?

    Akinbo,

    Intelligent beings observing human evolution will also do so, to stop humanity destroying itself.

    I considered 2020 a reasonable target date, but that may be optimistic as there's no guarantee it's achievable. Intellectual evolution can seem to work in fits and starts.

    One fascinating thing we have learned is that there's no rushing it. You can lead a horse to water...

    Peter

    a month later

    Here are poetries for a humble Review request ,and where as, and without ado : then

    from the wild, circus of blatantly-forgotten-advocacy and wistful-proto- abstract representation, . . . Notice for now and/or take in: the naïve visual- philosophic- material as presented by,

    http://vixra.org/pdf/1308.0091v7.pdf

    and since it is natural , at such out-of- place introductions to procrastinate-, and plainly, just ask why I have addressed for your entertainment ,also a few, personal motivations for such instinctual delay ...

    First of all I couldnt possibly answer that myself ; so regardless then .. , would such, arrive from :: ? uninvited urges, to make sense of things, tend in .. Apparent commonality and specious weakness to troll ego, into thoughts, or simply-another-tiny-Insight via the lights of fires long forgotten, or to futures,were they should never arrive;Creating then, satiation and an impulsive cultural cliffing to the untried, or more so, an overall ingrained-frozen-tribal hierarchical rant and warning to safety !

    hmm do you already know enough ..? , it would be understandably sad , but maybe ,

    You ,never the less, could have simply asked, what is this enclosed [thing],about well I remember when it started, long ago it was about a forbidded, varied illusion of mathematic Time. But for the present, I have grown more humble.and would leave such mystic interpretations to you,as mostly now: its left as an easily demonstrated standard construction and then pre-existent [interior-structure] for the real-numbers;and so ,is , in a sense .. uninterpreted ..hmm

    or maybe one could have asked, what do you want from me Impudently and initially, if so, here finally, I would believe, it must be obvious :: if you would be so kind, to take some time, to read it or skim over it , and afterwards perhaps maybe [process this message forward] ; why

    . . . . . . . . .

    Ive honestly begun to wonder how these structural-thoughts are viewed from an other perspective,as in most of the world, such infinitesimal -or- pointed-set-conversations are curiously stunted or found in the-uncharted references of silence. So maybe you, or again then you might know someone, who could suspect and/or be the right individual to be interested in, or respond with augmenting constructive input or fathom some co-essence, to such instant-like terminal-things and additionally then, I feel that.. this work might then ,find, some unbiased appropriate review,maybe on: arxiv.org (but it seems, I need to woo, an endorsement for that..also-then-painfully-a-hint),

    * Lastly, I have looked long and hard for previous work, which by a classic approach, completes the interior of [the Real-number-system] ; since it is such an obvious ,and small step, and could vastly reduce the necessary work as presented or then ,as such, would simply speed and improve the process (by evolutions in at-a-distance like-kind collabortion) . Where hopefully

    lucky in return, you may have also gained ,here, some interesting experience, an awareness; and a few beginnings to an- apparent and yet easily passed-over treasure: ie. maths of the moment.

    first though the associated work

    http://vixra.org/pdf/1308.0091v7.pdf

    again really:: I look forward to any-and-all of your input on this outlook, where in the likely and prosaic futures of what seems to me as a yet strange and thoroughly endless complete silence of response, of course, and then sincerely , I hope all remains well for you. -pw

    A Tale of Two Boxes

    Dear All,

    Given two boxes A and B, with A containing a piece of cake and a shiny lamp and B containing nothing, i.e. no matter of any kind whether baryonic or non-baryonic (see attachment). If in a hypothetical experiment, knobs are attached to Box A capable of turning on/off the fundamental forces, i.e. electromagnetic, gravitational and strong, by neutralizing the properties of charge, mass, color and flavor, what can we observe?

    First we turn off charge. The cake breaks up into a soup of electrically neutral particles and the cake loses its appearance, brown colour and sugary sweet taste. Same with the lamp. The only structures possible will be held together by strong and gravitational forces. Next we turn off color and flavor, then even the quarks break up into a soup of particles with only mass, gravity being the only interaction between them. By now both boxes will be transparent and there will be nothing shining anymore in Box A, luminousity being dependent on electromagnetism.

    Question: How are we to differentiate Box A from Box B? We know however that Box A contains matter, but it has become non-luminous (i.e. dark).

    A first suggestion is to weigh the two boxes if this is practicable. This will differentiate Box A from Box B.

    A second suggestion is to pass a beam of light from one side to the other and calculate the light velocity. Velocity of light will be lower in Box A than Box B.

    Are there any other suggestions? Such suggestions may be useful for those searching for Dark Matter in underground tunnels, whereas it may well be overground and "seen" if looked for the right way in surface experiments.Attachment #1: A_TALE_OF_TWO_BOXES.doc

    12 days later

    Dear FQXi Friends,

    Thanks for starting this thread! I am a Zen monk, not a scientist, but I decided to see what kind of Theory of Everything (ToE) might take shape if I applied the philosophical tenants of a particular form of Zen Buddhism (Tathagata Zen) to questions concerning the relationship between quantum and classical levels of reality and how they might relate to objective consciousness. In contrast to our western objectively-based model, the Zen approach is to try to understand everything from its own, unique, first-person perspective. I know that what I am presenting is, more or less, an aesthetic speculation partially based on a non-scientist's very incomplete knowledge of physics, but I do believe that the exercise has yielded some interesting and quite beautiful descriptions of Reality. What finally took shape is something that might be described as a kind of "impressionistic" ToE. That is, rather than focusing on exact details of particular physical processes (although some examples are provided) what I've tried to do (using the tenants of Zen) is to broadly identify and present the process of _change_ itself as a single, unifying, cosmic principle that is evident within all physical processes.

    Putting the pieces of this theory together has taken me over 20 years and it is still a work-in-progress, but one of the hardest parts of the whole adventure has been getting any constructive feedback along the way. Although it has been a wonderful learning experience just as a personal exercise, I am really hoping that others might read it through and feel free to offer any reflections, criticisms, and/or suggestions.

    Here is the link:

    zentheory.blogspot.co.at.

    Thank you very much and I hope you enjoy the read!

    Kigen

    10 days later

    Interesting and hilarious...

    "...according to the theory, when a car is moving, time slows down inside that car. When it reaches the speed of light, time stops"

    Does the car stop moving when the time inside it stops?

    What you wrote is not entirely new only that the establishment refuses to change its position on the theory for some strange reason.

    Akinbo

    A physically correct definition

    for Einstein's Theory of GRAVITY

    This theory supposes to guide scientists/physicists to quickly understand the structure and the operation of the universe, revealing many secrets, busting many myths. But, instead, it has provided few positive results, and inspired numerous absurd theories, because its definition is misleading.

    It transformed Einstein's thinking, observations, and conclusions into an absurd statement that makes no physical sense.Attachment #1: GRAVITY-_FQXi.pdf

      Dieu Tat Le,

      I read your essay and was impressed with the final two statements. I totally agree with what you're saying. Why didn't Newton simply propose the spinning Archimedes screw as a wave/particle able to create the force of gravity between two objects in empty space??

      Alan

      Alan Lowey,

      Thanks for your support.

      I try my best to prevent new generations of scientists/physicists from wasting time, effort, and energy on "time dilation" "space bending", "curvature of space-time" "time frame" "The Singular in Big Bang" etc...We all need to focus on substantial matter of the ultimate reality, Gravity and Dark Matter included.

      Wish me luck, Alan. With the mentality of the establishment, I badly need it.

      Dieu

      Dieu,

      I'm been trying for 10 years to find someone like you! We think the same. It's obvious to us that it's the mathematics without a substantial matter mechanism which is the problem. I'm serious about the spinning helical wave/particle as a force carrier. If the helix is spinning twice as fast as it's moving, then it can exert a force of attraction. If this same type of helical wave/particle was created at the beginning, then it could travel around a wraparound universe to become a force of repulsion i.e. dark energy.

      I have a simplistic essay which tries to paint a picture of this build up of structure before the big bang. Note that these structures could build up a pressure of attraction and crash into one another rather than travelling around a 4D universe as I state initially. See here Reality Was Born Analog But Will Digital Die?

      Together we can crack this, I'm sure

      Alan

      Alan,

      Food for thought. "I'm serious about the spinning helical wave/particle as a force carrier. If the helix is spinning twice as fast as it's moving,...".

      Can something without parts spin? Can a point, not having a centre part and a peripheral part spin?

      When something spins, in respect to what? Can a solitary body without reference to another body experience spin and if it can, how can the direction of spin be determined or referenced? Can a solitary something move without reference to some other object? If it can how is the direction to be determined in order to claim it is 'spinning twice as fast as it is moving'.

      Imagine a rigid solitary ball in space, can it rotate? And if it does how can we know this since the centre of the sphere and its surface remain at fixed distance to each other. In other words is 'motion' absolute or relative?

      Akinbo

      Akinbo,

      It's just common sense. An object radiates helical wave/particles at a speed half the rate of it's spin, so able to induce a force of attraction when interacting with the matter of a second object. You have a different worldview, so you're never going to agree with us. You've made your case for an ether-like theory, so please let Dieu and I contemplate the alternative 'particle exchange in empty space' model.

      Your questions aren't helping. Please don't post any more queries about this hypothesis.

      Kind regards,

      Alan

      Alan, if the only response you have is that "It's just common sense" when the whole world knows that common sense is not common I will not direct my queries to you. But since you are not the forum administrator I reserve the right to direct my queries to others who may be more receptive and are ready to rebut any arguments against their preferred hypothesis.

      Akinbo

      Alice,

      "the EVIDENCE of an emission can be changed." Brilliant! But then I would say that as I've been trying to get that message and it's implications across for years (see my essays etc). Great to have an ally.

      The implications are not fatal to Relativity, indeed they render the postulates logical. But a spatial constraint is put on the current 'interpretation', resulting in a 'discrete field' model (infinitely many inertial systems in relative motion). If you are standing beside me but then decide to move towards a light source, you DO change the speed of the light your brain measures against time, but not until it reaches your own very local inertial system! (in that case less than 1 micron from the surface of your eye lens, which is Maxwell's near/far field TZ). In the case of the sun it's ~100AU's (the heliopause).

      But it seems that convincing those blindly dedicated to SR that length contraction and time dilation are simply Doppler shifts may take as long as the last revolution took Copernicus!

      Onwards and upwards. Best of luck.

      Peter

        Oh my Dieu!

        There's evidence of a build up of structure and subsequent implosion before the big bang:

        Scientists Find Imprint of Universe That Existed Before the Big Bang

        The new work comes from the Tachyonic Retrospective Inferences of Cosmologically Extrapolated Preconditions, or TRICEP, imager. The team managed to discern even fainter swirls, called AF modes: traces of deflatons (pronounced DEF-luh-tons) that brought the previous incarnation of our universe crashing down. "Just imagine a helium balloon shrinking over time as the gas escapes," says TRICEP spokesman Doug Neidermeyer, a cosmologist at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. "Now imagine a universe-sized helium balloon deflating in a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a quadrillionth of a second. Not so easy to imagine, is it?"