Five Part Harmony by Gary D. Simpson

Not sure why the link to gravity disappeared but here it is

gravity

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

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

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

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

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