Lee,

Fascinating. I'll look it up after the contest.

My own essay derives the Born rule and uncertainty mechanistically from the 4 part angular momentum (orthogonal orbital velocity) distribution on a rotating sphere surface.

Do give me your response to that.

Thanks

Peter

5 days later

Lee - An interesting start to the essay, but it would have been nice to see the ideas fleshed out. So perhaps we can think of reality as a "fluid-like" medium of fields, with "stuff" being the flowing motion of the fields. However, the flowing motion shows a quality of "agency" - an intentionality at work. The flowing motion shows what - intelligence? - purpose?

Indeed, I think the findings of complexity theory suggest a flowing intentionality is at work - but the truths are hidden from this in the paradoxes of self-identity and recursiveness.....

Regards - George Gantz

    Note: Before reading the following, please see the linked text for how manipulations of the text IT=(BIT, IT) produce a stream of bits.-- e.g., IT=(((((((BIT,(BIT,(BIT,(BIT,(BIT,(BIT,(BIT, IT))))))).

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    IT=(BIT, IT) as a way to operationalize John Wheeler's IT FROM BIT feels like a science of simplicity.

    IT=(BIT, IT) uses only two "words"-- BIT and IT-- while E=MC(squared) uses three-- "E," "M," and "C." A sign of simpicity?

    Perhaps another:

    If IT=(BIT, IT) were to become an acceptable model of the Universe, someone in engineering would know immediately that something is missing. Nothing comes for free - every engineering project has a budget, every engine needs fuel. But in this equation for the Universe, a stream of bits seems to come out of nothing.

    Engineering would suspect there's an engine, somehow invisible to us, which produces this stream. Further there must be fuel-- again somehow invisible to us-- to feed the engine. And again, by the laws of thermodynamics, there must be an exhaust stream-- again, somehow invisible to us. Because every engine is inefficient and as a result, every engine produces an exhaust stream.

    Now replace above phrases like "which is invisble to us" with adjective "dark"--

    The engine that drives the stream IT=(BIT, IT) is made of matter. Dark matter.

    We call the exhaust stream-- which escapes to expand the Universe-- dark energy.

    Take one equation; apply the laws of thermodynamics; its a story of dark matter and energy.

    When IT=(BIT, IT) these two enter the picture immediately.

    10 days later

    Lee,

    Yours shouldn't be last! My score going on now.

    Best

    Peter

    2 months later

    This is a learning process. My latest posts are in the threads on alternative models of cosmology and alternative models of reality.

      4 days later

      I posted an example in the alternative models of cosmology thread:

      Example: "System" or "space-time," which is more "fundamental"?

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