Not sure why the link to gravity disappeared but here it is
Five Part Harmony by Gary D. Simpson
Gary, Phil, Jonathan,
I communicated with Fischbach, suggesting that the neutrino output of the sun, assumed constant, would be denser when the earth is closest to the sun and vice versa. If, as I believe, radioactive nuclei may be triggered by neutrinos this could account for their observed variation in radioactivity as a function of orbital position. I think they either bought this argument or were unaware of a better argument.
What a powerhouse of ideas FQXi brings together annually.
Best regards to all,
Edwin Eugene Klingman
Dear Gary,
We have each reviewed the other's essays, so this is just a personal note. In reading comments on essays I generally find your comments and Stefan Weckbach's comments to be friendly, sincere, original, informed, and interesting.
Those are very good qualities.
With best regards,
Edwin Eugene Klingman
Adel,
Thanks for having a read and commenting. We might be working the same problem from a slightly different perspective. I will read your essay, comment, and score ASAP. The contest is winding down so we must all act quickly near the end.
Bets Regards and Good Luck,
Gary Simpson
Way cool!
I just saw this, after spotting your comment with my name, back on your thread Ed. Yes there is a lot of great communication going on here.
All the Best,
Jonathan
Dear Gary
Your work is amazing! And promising!
To fully understand its interest, I will have to analyze your papers, but I cannot do it now, I have to do it with time for fully seeing how your 5D geometry and my own ideas can couple. A purely mathematical theory needs some physical support besides fitting data and I am interested in seeing what kind of concepts about the nature of particles can be compatible with your analysis.
My essay, as yours, has behind it a much deeper work. The model of Earth's past climate I present is built from data but I already knew that it had to be so because I have discovered something about the expansion of space that implies it. What I discovered is the one hypothesis no one considered, as I mention in the essay: it is not the space that expands but matter that decays. Space expansion is as apparent as the rotation of the skies, a consequence of the decrease of standard units, established from matter properties. You can see the similarities with Ptolemy model, with dark energy dragging stars away as celestial spheres dragged them around and dark matter in the role of epicycles (explaining the motion of galaxies instead of planets). And other similarities, like a distant universe made of stuff not available locally and that changes (rotates / expands) while locally it is invariant. Note that I do not think that these models are "mistakes"; they are models of data as obtained and are a necessary first step in the discovery process - without Ptolemy model, Copernicus could not have made his work, nor me without the space expansion model. I have a draft paper presenting my solution for the cosmological problem and apparently almost everybody quickly understands that it has to be the correct solution, judging by the emails I received and by the number of downloads (over 900) (vixra.org/abs/1107.0016).
Now, how can this decay of matter, a very slow exponential decrease of size, mass and charge, be expressed by your exponential function? Possibly it is just a question of defining the proper units, as I do in the above paper. I think that field and mass or charge or just aspects of the same kind of entity, which is decreasing in intensity while expanding through space.
You are right that if life becomes extinct it will never recover in Earth; but it's worse than that - if endotherms disappear, life evolution will be blocked at the reptile level.
In relation to the "bombs" (five or six) in my essay, I know that there are groups of persons that see my work as a threat; and I know it because they emailed me saying it when I put the paper in vixra! However, I was not expecting it in this contest. Curiously, mathematicians have contacted me with supporting words, advices and even an invitation to submit to a journal in mathematics. The fact is that this is a very delicate matter, I understand the problem this change of paradigm represents and I worked out a solution; but it requires cooperation instead of "bombs". To publish my work in a journal of mathematics or in a non-occidental scientific system would be a disaster for occidental physics and I want to avoid it. My presence in this contest is a kind of test. At least, I had the joy to find a brave person like you! And also some interesting exchange of ideas with other authors.
I vote in accordance with my admiration for your work and your spirit.
I hope you find the right person to complement your work in the physical side. And I hope to keep in touch with you.
All the best,
Alfredo
Hi Gary,
You take a different approach to reality to me. You seem to say that numbers including complex numbers exist, whereas I say that the numbers (including complex ones and pi) and law-of-nature equations symbolically represent an underlying reality: the underlying reality is what exists. So while you might say that the mathematical universe is the full extent of what exists, I would say that there are aspects of reality that can't be represented mathematically.
One thing I don't understand: is there such a thing as a "true rest frame"? Surely, from your point of view, such a thing could only have existed at the beginning of the universe; or are you saying that the five dimensional coordinates frame is the "true rest frame"? From my point of view, perhaps a "true rest frame" would be the aspects of reality that can't be represented mathematically.
Regards,
Lorraine
Alfredo,
Many thanks for reading and commenting on my essay. And of course also for the vote of support. I don't know if my essay will reach the final judging but it will be close.
It is also good to see such enthusiasm. If you look at some of my other work, I recommend reading "Quaternion Dynamics - Part 1" first and then "Part 2". The evolution from P-1 to P-2 is very natural.
The one-bombs can be very discouraging. It happened several times actually. Entire groups os essays were all scored with 1 values together. I noticed this and I noticed once that someone else went through the same group with scores of 10 ... so the people who were one-bombed got 2 votes with a score of 5.5. That seemed like a pretty clever way to discourage the one-bombing so the next few times it happened, I did the 10 bombing. Then the one-bomber adapted and started to score with 3's. It was not a perfect result but it was an improvement.
Best Regards and Good Luck,
Gary Simpson
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Lorraine,
Thanks for reading and commenting ... and voting:-)
I am an engineer by education. I think there is an underlying physical reality that is described by mathematics. Mathematics is useful to me to the extent that it provides a method to analyze the physical world. There are also many areas of "Pure Mathematics" that I have never studied. I do not know whether or not there is a "Platonic Realm" of pure ideas or not. I do know that there are many instances where "Pure Mathematics" has found an application to "Applied Mathematics" in the physical word. Geometric Algebra seems to be one of the more recent examples of this. I am content to let the true mathematicians frolic in these realms to their heart's content.
The difference regarding our thinking is that I need evidence to make me believe that there are "one-off" rules. If two hypotheses make identical predictions then I can not choose one over the other. My default condition therefore is to go with what has already been established unless something else is favored by Occam's Razor. So in short, it is not that I have not heard your ideas or that I have not understood your ideas. You simply have not satisfied your obligations according to the scientific method.
Ah yes .... the true rest frame. You've caught me. I am one of those aether heretics. The v in Eq 2 is the velocity of the observer's reference frame. Equation 2 let's me return to the concept of a true rest frame and make new predictions. For example, I would predict that if you were in a galaxy that is moving away from us at near light speed, the Mp/Me ratio in your reference frame would be many thousands of times larger than in our reference frame. But, if 2 reference frames are identical, then the equation 2 for each of them simply cancel ... kind of like multiplying by one.
This also lets me reinterpret our place in the universe. If we are moving much more slowly than other reference frames, then we might not be at the center of the universe, but we have moved away from the center by a snaller distance than other reference frames. Essentially, I do not believe that relative motion A -> B is equivalent to relative motion B -> A. This is in contradiction to part of Relativity. My saving grace is that I want empirical validation.
The 5-D geometry allows any 3-D space to have its own reference frame by using a different phase angle in the complex plane.
Best Regards and Good Luck,
Gary Simpson
Lorraine,
I don't know how but somehow I was logged out. The above post was obviously me.
Best Regards,
Gary Simpson
Dear Gary Simpson,
It is definitely difficult to promote a new idea. I admit having problems with your "absolute velocity of the observer" and your "observed affect".
Consider me almost an aetherist who denies the aether as something to refer to.
Perhaps we both already failed getting sufficient attraction for enforcing a serious scrutiny by leading experts.
I am aware of many sins of mine against the necessity of serving lazy expectations, in particular by my one-way definition of the speed of light in vacuum instead of Einstein's Poincaré synchronization.
My critical comments on unwarranted interpretation of complex calculus are to be found in earlier essays of mine. I hope for your comment because you dealt with i too.
Regards,
Eckard Blumschein
Gary
Thanks, and for the rating. I'm about to return the honour. I've only ever seen Pythagorus as 2D triangles. The inverse Cos values derivation seems to be it's 3D dynamic analogue. Isn't it? (I was exploring that diagrammatically in my Bob & Alice essay)
I didn't realize I was using quaternions! I really do need help!
Very best
Peter
oops, already did, sorry!
P
Eckard,
Thanks for reading and commenting. I almost think the aether is the complex plane plus a unit space vector. We are in the space vector but we are touching the aether.
You are skeptical of my Equation 2. This is understandable. If it is not correct, then how or why does the proton diameter calculation work? You must believe that it is also a coincidence. I can understand such a belief. It is simply hard for me to believe in two successive and linked coincidences. It could be true, but it strains my credibility.
I suspect that AE fully understood the difficulty of measuring the one-way speed of light and that is why he choose to use the round-trip time instead. I would not call that "laziness" on your part but rather a recognition of the difficulty of the problem from the empiricist's point of view.
I read, commented upon, and scored your essay some time ago. The score was in the range 5-10.
In any event, it is likely that the last score I received - a two - was enough to keep me out of the finals.
Best Regards and Good Luck,
Gary Simpson
Gary,
I am amazed to see how many authors here firmly follow Galileo in his belief about the language of the Book of Nature, but do not dare to ask how it all might happened.
Your support of our essay hints that some of them still ask, but not necessarily show that.
Thanks again for your support,
Alexey Burov.
Dear Gary,
Concerning one-bombs, I know in turn the phenomenon. Any good rating I received - two or three 10 and others between 7 and 10 - systematically was followed by a 1, and during the last contest it was the same. Well, this is not a problem. Personally, my motivation of participating is discussion and exchange of ideas, and I am sure that it is the same for you. The real problem for me was that I had not enough time to communicate with more people.
Thanks for your reply to mine. It is sure that we share a common vision about quaternations. Concerning time reduced to a scalar, it results from the prerelativist illusion of an absolute time, whereas SR introducing ict necessarily gives to time a real and a imaginary dimension.
I wish you good luck and also a good continuation for your research.
Yours sincerely
Peter
Dear Gary,
I posted a little reply after your answer to my first one.
Good luck
Peter
Dear Gary
Thank you. I enjoyed reading the comments you left on my page.
I responded as follows:
I have looked at your essay, but as I have expressed elsewhere my brain seems to function visually and geometrically and after everything is understood that way do I resort - under protest - to algebraic formulation!
Having said that your five-dimensional world based on quatrenons seems to confirm the Kaluza-Klein approach. I like that because it presents the possibility of having the nodes of my cellular automata Beautiful Universe as that fifth dimension, sort of!
Best wishes and good luck in your work.
Vladimir
All,
I wish to thank all those who voted for me in the final hours. It helped a lot and I moved up well into the top 40 (#32 by my count). I'm not sure whether or not that will make the finals. Nonetheless, this was an excellent learning experience. Also, my thanks to all who read and commented.
Best Regards and Good Luck to All,
Gary Simpson
Oops ... looks like either I counted wrong or there was a last minute change. I finished at #33.
Gary Simpson