Fundamental: Light, the Way by James Lee Hoover

James,

Thanks for the review and scoring. I haven't been as diligent, because my brain has trouble dissecting all the various thoughts, models, assumptions, worldviews, etc, flowing through these essays. It is quite a collection. The one trend I did sense is that some of the regulars are starting to concentrate on the presentist, versus eternalist views of time as a significant issue. Obviously I'm biased on that, but I do see it as the primary point where the realist, versus the platonically mathematical worldviews are in most direct conflict. Not holding my breath though.

Regards, John

Dear James Lee Hoover,

Good to meet again in yet another FQXi contest.(I especially liked your essay "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice"). We retired researchers are never tired, aren't we?

""The word was made flesh and dwelt among us," iii suggesting that God and Jesus are identical but with a human connection and existence." indeed but the beginning of the gospel of John said: "In the beginning was the Word,聽and the Word was with God,聽and the Word was God.". So it means the connection with human consciousness and God in my perception. This is also my approach to the relationship with what I call Total Consciousness and the human consciousness that is restricted by Time and Space.

"Light is the advent of consciousness, the proof of our existence, a kind of a first cause." I perceive light as the upper limit of our reality. Go faster and the "information" can no longer be detected. Because our "material state" cannot go follow it any longer and according to Einstein the information is going into the past, and that cannot be reached neither. For the rest, light is a photon that in my perception is an emergent phenomenon.

"the theory of everything (ToE) is thought to be tied up in the first few seconds of the Big Bang (BB) when the four fundamental forces - the weak, the strong, electromagnetic, and gravitational - were thought to be united into one force at high energies, the ultimate beginning of existence, when the universe was Planck size". I agree with you that the ToE is behind the Planck length and time when there was a minimum of entropy because time and space don't exist "there" when there is no time everything is simultaneous. So the expression "first two seconds" is in my humble opinion not right. Both time and Space are emerging from the Planck area including the "four" (maybe there are more) fundamental forces as you are mentioning also in your essay : "The BB is a time when the whole universe was thought to expand from a Planck size to macro size, forces of equal strength differentiating into four forces, two in the Planck range and two, long-range.". Only the two in the Planck range are not inside but > as the Planck range.

I thank you for a well written thoughtful essay, that I valued and brought up a little in the contest results. I hope that the remarks I made can be a trigger for you to read, comment and maybe rate my essay "Foundational Quantum Reality Loops" where I also TRY to find an answer not only on the HOW but also on the WHY.

Best regards and good luck

Wilhelmus de Wilde

James,

I came to score you, but the machine tells me I have already done so.

Edwin Eugene Klingman

Hi James,

I find your essay very readable and important. Us and light and fundamentality an evolving structure. I am reminded of Max Planck's dictum that the sciences advance one funeral at a time. The Hindu's have a saying that echoes your though "we move from truth to truth never from error to truth.

Question to you: Why have you not responded to any of the posts on your blog?

You were commenting to George Gantz that the voting was sparse and I agree. Could it be that author responses are being removed by marking them "inappropriate" by some demon?

I am concerned that the contest is being undermined. What do you think?

Thanks for yor spot on essay.

Don Limuti

Respected prof James Lee Hoover

Thank you for the Excellent observations and questions with nice words...on Dynamic Universe Model...Your essay is also very good sir....

I am giving maximum appreciation to you for your essay 10... Best wishes for the essay... Now it became 6.4...

=snp

Apologies Jim!

Faulty logic on my part.....

Trying too hard to figure why this contest seems "goofy"

Don Limuti

Hi James,

AS you indicated to have "liked" my essay" I do not understand why you rated me a 2.

Wilhelmus

Hi Jim,

Intriguing Essay, from both of the physical and philosophical points of view. Congrats!

You have read my Essay, so you know that I completely agree with you that ToE is the ultimate Fundamental (admitting that a ToE really exists!)

Concerning that LIGO and similar instruments can track back to the BB, you can be interested to this paper of mine, where I show that such a fundamental signal is a direct measure of the primordial Inflaton field.

In any case, I found your Essay interesting and entertaining. It deserves my highest score. Good luck in the Contest!

Cheers, Ch.

Jim

I do the same thing as you.

I posted you on 02/07

on 02/07 I received my 13th rating (the former being on 02/02) being a 2.

my 14 rating on 02/08 was a 6

so I cannot see how to change this....

Wilhelmus

(I also posted this on my thread)

Dear Mr. Hoover,

thanks for commenting on my essay. It so happens that I have read and rated your already on Jan 20th, when there were a way less essay availalble, and it was still possible to go through all of them with a sense. I found it interesting. The main concern I have is actually your positive conclusion towards a ToE, that I don't think is close to come, and honestly not possible in principle.

I wish you the best,

Flavio

Dear James Lee Hoover, light is the vibration of space, which is the matter, so said Descartes. You due That's interesting. my essayFQXi Fundamental in New Cartesian Physics by Dizhechko Boris Semyonovich Where I showed how radically the physics can change if it follows the principle of identity of space and matter of Descartes. The principle of identity of physical space and matter allows us to extend physics to living matter. For this we need to pay attention to the fact that matter within the body is the same as outside it. Our brain creates an image of the outside world not within themselves and in the space around themselves. This image of the outside world has an active nature, as it controls the body.

Evaluate and leave your comment there. I highly value your essay, however, I'll give you a rating after becoming acquainted with the Descartes' idea. Do not allow New Cartesian Physics go away into nothingness, it is end of some questions.

Sincerely, Dizhechko Boris Semyonovich.

Jim Hoover, many researchers use the concept of ether, which in fact is a physical space, but which according to Descartes is matter. I say these researchers - replace your mythological ether on the physical space, and would be fine. New Cartesian Physics consider these researchers as asset.

For Descartes the physical space is a physical environment, the movement of which can only be a rotation. The transition of rotational movement from one orbit to another is possible when the pull or push. Like a rocket on the ground when she not pushed, she remains.

Newton was not right when he said that he sees further Descartes so as standing on his shoulders. For him, space is an empty in which flying body possessing mass. Descartes physical space is a matter, in which there are no empty. But if they are formed, then closes instantly. Taking into account modern concepts, the speed of light is the limit for any real movements, in the New Cartesian Physics the empty in the space closes to the speed of light. For intelligent people from this moment begins the real physics.

In my essay I showed the relationship between the probability of quantum States and the factor of Lorentz. I believe that this is the first step toward synthesis of quantum mechanics and relativity theory. More show I not could , as it requires a lot of effort which must be highly appreciated.FQXi основополагающиС... РІ РќРѕРІРѕР№ Р"екартовой физики Dizhechko Р'РѕСЂРёСЃ Семенович

Sincerely, Dizhechko Boris Semyonovich.

Jim Hoover, direct line on which a body is moving uniformly accelerated if operates a force exists only in our imagination. In the real world, such a movement is observed only in a small area and as a component of the real movement. Thus, the Newton was considered a ideal movement in a small area, and Descartes considered real motion, where the uniform motion is in a circular orbit, where it is also necessary to pull the body to the center. Look at my essay, FQXi Fundamental in New Cartesian Physics by Dizhechko Boris Semyonovich and leave a rating.

Sincerely, Dizhechko Boris .

Dear Jim Hoover, I appreciate your paper. Light makes the world tangible, as it is a wave of space, which according to Descartes is matter. Moving the waves of space gather information about the objects that they are unable to penetrate.

Thank you for your questions to my Essay. Do not allow FQXi Fundamental in New Cartesian Physics by Dizhechko Boris Semyonovich go away into nothingness, which wants to be the theory of everything OO.

Sincerely, Dizhechko Boris

James,

I always look forward to your thoughtful and poetic essays. This one put me in mind of something Kevin Brown (Reflections on Relativity)wrote: "This image of a photon as a single unified event with a coordinated emission and absorption seems unsatisfactory to many people, partly because it doesn't allow for the concept of a 'free photon', i.e., a photon that was never emitted and is never absorbed. However, it's worth remembering that we have no direct experience of 'free photons', nor of any 'free particles', because ultimately all our experience is comprised of completed interactions. (Whether this extends to gravitational interactions is an open question".)

In other words, though the world being bathed in electromagnetic radiation gives us the means to view time backward, it doesn't tell us anything about the creation moment. We don't know if a photon was ever emitted.

A delightful, sensitive essay. Thank you.

All best,

Tom