Steve :-) I look forward to your next remarks. As new to FQXi I don't know how people access~connect directly. I do know we will continue our conversation here in FQXi (because I think it will be useful for other readers and contributors to FQXi to enhance their ideas and knowledge), but could you please email me at: "integrity at prodigy dot net" ? Thank you. James

James

Absolute. I have sent you an email. Look forward to talking further soon. Got a yard clean up underway today, so no time to write. But yes, there is a growing list of subjects which I'm sure we can make benefit of. I need to respond to more of your comments from last communicay, so anticipate that next. I know entropy is a topic you have studied intently. I suspect we will find common ground there also.

Steve

James

Each and every point and concept you have presented within your earlier message, could lead to an expanded conversation without bound. I sat down now to form reply, and limited to taking short hand notes I still filled two pages of text book. I feel like each and every point deserves my response, the reason partly being so that you understand I appreciate these considerations wholly. Writing communique might be limiting our conversation to a large extent, but as you pointed out, at least it has the benefit of making our conversation available to others, so they may better evaluate our reasonings and essay entry. But I do wonder what it might be like to sit down across a coffee table and accelerate our conversation. Perhaps one day. I'm in Australia if you happen by.

You refer to yours as an A-typcal approach. It is as a breath of fresh air to me. I think the simplest way to encapsulate relevance, is acknowledge another field which has benefited so thoroughly from these considerations. The need to understand ourselves, understanding language and environment of ideas we are embedder within, and how these influence our potentials, and also how these considerations play into how we conduct our investigative scientific inquiries. It is the developing sciences of criminal investigation which testify to the usefulness of your teachings. Modern criminal psychology and forensic investigation are essentially products of these ideas and methods. It is too broad a topic to do justice in a few words, but I can generalize. Physics inquirers should conduct themselves more as criminal detectives do, wary of the risks of inherited assumptions, importing unjustified stereotypes which lead to unjustified inferences. Physicists should treat the world as a detective treats a crime scene, for we are late to this scene and puzzling why pieces lay where they do. Newton and Einstein where detectives earlier on the scene, who have handed us their working case notes so that we may pick up their investigation. But we as detectives picking up their cold case, we would be amiss to base our new investigation souly off previous case conclusions, without looking at all the evidences afresh. Re-verifying every evidentiary aspect of the cold case. Retesting every conclusion without arbitrary bound.

Scientific institutions indoctrinate there would be detectives a scripted curriculum, and ask that they take up the investigation from these deliver assumptions. There are scolding terms that deter any would be investigator who strays from method, which only serves to alienate original concept. And the price science might pay for these methods serves as its own punishment.

Yes it takes time to get a feel for another's terminology. I as do you, struggle with word choices, agonise over them. But you have settled on good terms, and better than I. I don't use the term of "energy" barely at all. Its nebulous. I have identified that forces are a worthy central theme, and their actions and influences are not ambiguous. Referring to potentials is also useful, but not as useful as referring to actual actions.

Modelling thermodynamics. I agree with you that heat process is a secondary process, which emerges from a more primal system that is EM force. First we seek to understand what is EM?, and what motivates its function and characteristics? Then we consider why EM systems manifest the higher level characteristics that at heat processes.

Entropy, heat spreads out. Which was very nebulously associated as systems moving from orderly to disorderly states, in my opinion. Then somehow from here it is extrapolated to being an all pervasive universal principle from which nothing is exempt, entropies rule of the universe. But the world is made up of energetic compact bodies "atoms and planets" which the so called fundamental forces seem intent on maintaining their form. If entropy ruled why would the extraordinary sum of energy contained within matter, not break nuclear, elemental and gravitational bonds. Why would matter have condensed in the first instance if entropy ruled supreme? And if gravity and matters energetic bonds don't export disorder, then their actions towards order must be considered non-entropic. Where is the exported disorder? These forces build the entirety of the universes intricate structure, and despite they have not been redeemed as entropic, somehow entropy is considered to rule the universe.

Here is an interesting consideration to get you thinking in terms of cosmological relations.

Galaxies rotate as though their mass density is a constant from middle to edge. A disk of constant density. While infact star densities decline proportional to square of distance from galaxy centre. This illustrates a beautiful symmetry which represents the deviation from GR predictions and what is observed. The Dark Matter, or MOND puzzle.

I stepped off the proverbial mountain about five-six years ago. It took a crisis in my life for which I needed distraction, that lead me down the physics and cosmological puzzle solving path. The crisis passed, but my puzzling remained a habit.

What drives processes? It is Gluon, Photon force that drives all Baryonic processes. Diversity of processes are simply a matter of the diverse structures and behaviours that Gluons, Photons are animate within. The structures and behavers are evolved and optimised for natural circumstance and purpose. What began as a natural energy potential, has cascaded as a circumstance of gradual and compounded physical changes, that shaped the character of the world we witness around us. There was only ever one type of organisational principle capable of generating complex intricate systems. People might have taken note of that clue before now, and considered how Darwinian processes might be incorporated as a solution for universal complexity. But in the same way the search for a primal motivator was diverted, by placing the term "fundamental" in front of "forces". The complexity of the world was also neglected as clue, that might hint at underlaying physical processes. I know, because nobody wants to talk to me about complexity, even while I don't inject my special brand of solution. Complexity dumbfounds everybody, except within biological reference.

We share the common approach of treating this quest for answers as a puzzle solving exercise. A picture puzzle serves as a nice analogy for what you and I both do, except that we tinker with the grandest puzzle. Science makes observation and measure which can no-doubt be largely relied upon, while remaining cautions of interpretations, I might add. And so we incorporate these identified pieces but then reconsider associations. We don't divorce ourselves from science in these efforts, as people confronted by unfamiliar ideas seam to assume before taking the time to consider a supporting argument. They are trapped within their taught and repeating models.

Near the end of your message you refer to "what is resident to the universe" "most primal". Within my model force is not primal to the universe. Forces are a capacity of matter which only came to exist but for their ability to exploit an energy potential of space, represented as Auv and corresponding to Dark Energy observations. Auv, a field with regenerative qualities. My theory makes use of this observation and measure, then associates Auv field as being the contributor that enables atomic forces. The question of what is primal to the universe that enables Auv to regenerate, is beyond me. This is where I would direct your deepest questions. And happily confront another impenetrable layer of mystery. We might have need for mystery in our lives.

At some point we might discuss the measures of Auv which support my hypothesis. It is not complex, and the measures are suggestive in the extreme.

Thanks again for enabling a wonderful conversation

Kind regards

Steve

Steve,

This conversation is so fun and exhilarating, all I can react with is grateful appreciation that I've lived long enough to experience it. I look forward to understanding your physics~cosmology knowledge, but have some distressing news for you. I hope you are sitting in a comfortable safe chair that you will not fall out off as I explain. It is this: you may be a physics~cosmology Specialist, but you are in fact ... a General Systems Thinker. I am sorry to be the one to break the news to you, but it is a fact.

:-))))

(Oh that felt good to write. I am laughing. Hope you are too!!! Intellectual pursuits can really be enjoyable for more than the great 'Eureka' moments that some are fortunate to experience when they discover wonderful scientific insights. Good natured humor balances the intensities of the huntings for knowledge that so many of us are dedicated to. The pressure of 'the hunt' needs a human safety valve of joy and humor ... to balance the intensity.)

Your latest post identifies a side problem in modern science and education. There is SO MUCH data now in all the different fields of study, that to become competent and have viable skills in the separate professions to succeed in life, we have drifted away from the equally important thing. That is: for a well rounded mind, it is important - I would even say crucial and especially important - to be exposed to "other fields / other specialties / other perspectives". It is almost the same way that the fine accomplishment of electromagnetic civilization ... great knowledge .. and ARTIFICIALLY LIT ... night time skies, have extended the hours of a solar revolution to accomplish things within ... we have produced 'light pollution' ... which also affects the mindset of humans.

The fog of light has unintentionally washed out the observed dark-night sky for most people. Science may show beautiful Hubble pictures of what is out there in the universe. Some people may hear about tehe new discovered details of the cosmos. But they have lost .. first person experience ... by seeing stars in a dark moonless night sky ... and really grasped their "place in the universe".

Narrow highly focused limited exposure education results in a similar thing .. loss of 'presence of place' in the expanded knowledge environment around them, around any individual, or group. It becomes more and more difficult to understand, let alone appreciate, the RELATED CO-PRESENT information environment we all CO-INHABIT together.

You asked some posts earlier, what might have set me on my mental exploration journey. It was my mother, Lillian Rose, who told me as a grade school child, that nothing is one thing and one thing only. Her analogy: a tree. (we had a lovely garden and small vegetable farm that the family tended around our home)

She pressed me to reach for and appreciate totality. I can only paraphrase her original words: "It is really important, Jamie (my informal name), to see all the qualities of a tree. To know Life, you have got to see it as a farmer would see it .. for the crop growing, or the land having enough water and nutrients; it gives shade shelter on a hot day; a botanist sees the cells structures, the wood, the leaves breathing CO2 and exhaling O2; a carpenter sees potential timber framing planks, or pieces to make a table or spoon; a bird sees the branch split to hold a nest and bring young into the word, and food .. where insects crawl and eat into; a sculptor artist sees shape-able material to carve into things of beauty; the seed .. that can survive dormancy and yet produce - in the right environment conditions (same as a human 'social community of diversity'), new trees in the future; and chop the wood just-so, break it all down into destroyed structure .. and we produce PAPER ... a rebound re-ordering of the wood from pulp. Know ... -all- of it, Jamie .. the so many 'more' relations inherent in the simplistic reductionist thing~word 'tree'. You have to do your best to be aware of -all of it-, as best you can. It's important."

So I have her to thank. And her boy friend in the 1930's who would become my father, Milton Rose. Among his friends was a brilliant mathematician, Edward Barankin, who was Einstein's grad student for two successive years (no other worked that long with Dr Einstein). And she, as a young non-science trained teenager/young woman, was fortunate to have attended a few parties at Einstein's home, hearing him play violin, listening to the wide ranging conversations they all had together. My father died early, and my mother wasn't a scientist, but she was alert and aware and bright. And her message to me, would be what I would tell every young human, growing into the world. Be open to more than the local, more than the 'familiar', more than the habitual.

Apparently, Steve, someone implanted a similar appreciation in you. Ask questions and explore alternative information and perspectives. "Conventional ideas" -may- prove well done already .. true and reliable. But there is life-filling 'more' to recognize. Which, Steve, :-) brings me to your latest post.

Sometimes, the old phrase, "could not see the forest, because there were so many trees" .. is true. [and another example to add to the list above :-) ]

Your paragraph (5th I think), that starts "Entropy, heat spreads out. ..." is magnificently stated. The fact of centralization~accumulation .. towards MORE ORDER .. in the cosmos, is so obvious, so right-in-our-field-of-observation, and it is a phenomena so oppositionally counter to the (unchallengeable?) "max entropy" rule that physics/chemistry/math thinkers place as 'absolute' .. no one tries to examine or discuss it.

Oh, there are researchers who discuss complexity and emergence... but too few, if any, in astrophysics~cosmology. (except for her the recent hypotheses of Dark Matter; but I am not convinced of the arguments/measures; in any event there is no compelling modeled way to get from Dark Matter to biological emergence). So I totally know your frustration that "nobody wants to talk to me about complexity". [Can you see me? I am raising my hand! "I do!"]

And I will ... but for the immediate day, I will leave it for a next installment of our most excellent conversation. I am quietly chuckling to myself since reading your post. You, the non-biologist, promoting the notion of Darwinian essentialness in the basic dynamics of the universe. Me, a biologist, promoting the notion of examining afresh inner properties of thermodynamics (non-biological relations), that have been overlooked in descriptions and math models. That is laugh-inducing. Not because either of us is wrong in deductions, but I think we form a 'well-formed set', a tautology ... where you point tome me and I point to you, in support of our respective knowledge sets and understandings.

How wonderful.

I need to remark on several important things you wrote: A) I loved your depiction of science methodology as exploration of a crime scene. In our case, there is no 'crime' but exploring the results of events, and back building the history from what's left, is indeed the wise way - if not the only way - to proceed.

B) You identified that behaviors~processes on ALL LEVELS of organization proceed OPPOSITE to conventional ideas of 'entropy' (as the only cross tier driver of events), so that complex entities ...of which stars are a premier ... happen everywhere. Science has so far avoided addressing that pervasiveness .. in the

PRIMITIVE levels of existence. Most thinkers stop because, prior modellers said .. its because of 'gravity' (with the fear mongering admonition similar to old maps that identified "Terra Incognita" and the added warning : "Here be dragons" (don't go there!! we don't really know .. but we think it is probably -dangerous-!)

:-)))))

God bless, Steve. Until next postings.

(This is SO terrific. The best shared intellectual conversation I have had in DECADES.)

Jamie

Feb 15 2018 NV USA - pacific coast time ; :-) you are a morning ahead of me !)

I re-read my new post --- One correction .. next to last paragraph. I should have written : two bracketed additional word sets {--}:

"You identified that .. [there are some important intrinsic} .. behaviors and processes on ALL LEVELS of organization .. [that can and do} .. proceed OPPOSITE to conventional ideas of 'entropy'

You understand me James! Thank heavens somebody finally does. If you were standing before me I would surely pin a medal to you :) This is my third attempt at expressing these ideas, and although each attempt achieved levels of interest, you are the first to step forward and declare comprehension, and appreciate it as potentially being more that artistful fantasy. But the prior descriptions I fashioned were pretty rough, so the fault was definitely mine.

Your complement is a great one, perhaps the most meaningful one I will receive. And I reflect it back to you, for I could not experience this conversation but for somebody comprehending. It is good to have met you.

I really appreciated your personal accounts. Learning of your mother Lillian Rose and father Milton Rose, and the lessons they passed to you, and their associations with Dr Einstein in academia and social. Quite remarkable. Is it possible an influence, a mindset fashioned by Dr Einstein and passed to your parents, was instructed too and survives in you? A mode of mind that is broad, that you might recognize potentials within unfamiliar ideas? That would be a remarkable circumstance if it were so.

If being a general systems thinker identifies me as your kin, then I'm honored to be such. I do think it maybe the appropriate fit.

Yes, what business do we have meddling in affairs outside of our training. Funny how things work out. Yes it might be that we are well suited as collaborators. If what I have uncovered happens to be correct, which of course I'm inclined to think so, but allow me to fain circumspect, then now that you know of it you might actually be better at it than me. I can hope, so that I might delegate all the hard work :)

Yes eurika moments are something arnt they. I think I danced to a few. I look forward to sharing some new ones with you.

I appreciate the informal less serious banter. Its not all about science, or science fiction as it might turn out.

I'm taking a couple of days away to surf and camp. But I will tune in on whatever is posted, and I will return to more of what you last shared with me soon. In the mean time I hope you reach out to people, to gather more exposure for your essay. It will be good to see it receive the rating it deserves.

Steve

Dear Steven,

You indicated being a student of nature, but aren't we ALL? High graded professors can inform us about the state of research, but it will ALWAYS stay research...the mystery is eternal...

You are naming a paragraph: "Probabilities within Infinities", I was using this expression for the "place" from where our reality(s) emerge...so we have lots of thoughts in common.

The problem I see with "clocks" is that they always need a reference, and the real problem is that "the reference of reference" is not found, it always becomes a tower of turtles.

"time causes clocks to function because clocks measure time." This is really a difficult reasoning Steven. A clock is a material tool driven by technique (force and movement), time is an unknown emergent phenomenon. In my perception, it cannot be the reason (cause) that the clock measures it. It gives us an indication where the NOW was a moment ago, an idea about the length passed inside our temporal position. You say "the clock spring from space has expressed a larger value of force than its counterpart." indeed but doesn't this confirm that "time" is an until now incomprehensible emergent phenomenon. It is the apparatus that is indicating to the agents differences in its working, in my humble opinion time cannot be the cause of that.

"Time is the mistaken identity of force." You may be right, but I cannot agree with that. Between two separate moments of time reality can be compared and it will be different. But TIME is NOT the origin of this difference. It is comparing two different photo's. Each photo is representing a point of reality. In-between the photos there is no energy that is the "cause" of the difference of the photos...

"We assume a beginning point, a primordial matter whose character resembles nothing of today" You are approaching here the basic idea of my "model" of reality.

The primordial "matter" however is the infinity of probabilities.

"Our stable Solar system"? Our solar system is only for a specific time stable. That this time is very long compared to our lifetimes gives only a "short" certainty I think.

"The goal to build a molecular structure by whatever means." Isn't this the "counterforce" of entropy you are looking for? In my own perception that is what consciousness is thriving at. If there was no consciousness all matter would be in the "best possible" energy distribution, no more fluctuations, no changes.

I thank you, Steven, for your thoughts, ALL our thoughts together are an indication of which way the agency of humanity will go on in order to come nearer to the truth, but it will always stay asymptotical.

I have rated your essay up (even if there are things we differ on) in the contest because of the originality and the effort to find a fresh insight. I also hope that you can spare some time to read, comment (I really wonder what you think of my approach) and rate my contribution: "Foundational Quantum Reality Loops".

Best regards an keep on thinking FREE.

Wilhelmus de Wilde

    Dear Steven,

    Thank you for reading and commenting on my essay.

    With respect to you essay, I am not sure how well I understand your reasoning. But I take it that a central theme is given by the statements, "However, it has to be realized that having observed and discerned mathematical patterns, isn't the same thing as having anticipated and or understood how and why these patterns of nature exist? Rather, the how's and why's of the world require a deeper understanding of system." The next point is that the how and why can be investigated by investigating the connections between force and time. For such an investigation, the procedure is an analysis of clocks. Certainly it is a merit of your proposals that they lead to a system in which Darwinian emergence characterizes large-scale cosmic processes. This emergence approach is in line with considerable recent discussion which tries to apply Darwinian ideas in these larger ways, outside of the specific biological areas for which they were first developed. I do not have enough background to be able to say much about specific mechanisms. But your general idea, as you say near the conclusion of the essay, is, "World product of evolved optimisation." Not just is a world product reached, but the processes leading to it are natural, in line with the relations between force and time. This is a useful approach.

    Laurence Hitterdale

      James

      I'm back from surfing! For now ?

      I've been chuckling for last few days. Re- your joke, "we look to each other to do the heavy lifting" haha lol. I do like your sense of humour.

      I didn't know about John Cowley until a few days ago. I'm amazed to learn about him and his achievements. I had heard murmurings we had a physicist in the extended family, but for some reason I didn't chase up the details of him and his work. I couldn't have anticipated what I might have found. Revelation to know it now.

      James, I understand your method of inquiry, and how you seek to deduce knowledge about the quantum systems which serve your subject matter. You imagine you are collecting statistical information from a machine, but you don't know the type or nature of the machine. A pachinko game machine for example, which we might imagine as being behind a screen so we cant view it, which serves as place holder for a quantum system. You form questions based on whether they would be effective in teasing out useful information about the pachinko game machine. Then you turn those questions toward the quantum system. This is a fine approach you must be commended on. You are as you say, "a systems theorist".

      As you know, the current method of analysing quantum systems isn't an ideal. It collects data on the interactions between two physical objects, but not having modelled the individual physical objects. They are as the pachinko game machines held behind screens.

      If a genie were to grant you three wishes, I suspect your first wish might be spent learning the model for the individual atomic systems. Am I right? So you could build a model based on first principles, beginning with characterisation of the individual objects, that would quite naturally extend to the interactive nature of the two objects, that would deliver quantum probability experimental results. It would be nice if this could be achieved with no shoehorning elements of the model, forcing or contriving fudge factors. And having successfully modelled quantum probability from first principles, ideally it would de-code Bells Inequality, and provide resolution for the entanglement puzzle.

      How does all this sound to you so far? Does this encapsulate what your efforts would deliver in an ideal world? Or do you have slightly different series of expectations?

      Steve

      The whole of universe is made of particles, not "mater fields of force".

      "However, it has to be realized that having observed and discerned mathematical patterns, isn't the same thing as having anticipated and or understood how and why these patterns of nature exist? Rather, the how's and why's of the world require a deeper understanding of system. These types of understandings are the realm of metaphysics, and measure of good metaphysics is abundance of how's and why's it can testify too." How and why are routiney questions asked in science, and it is task of science (not of metaphysics) to provide objective answers to such questions.

      "Big bang theory offers a metaphysics creation of the world". Big Bang is a physical theory; there is nothing metaphysical on it.

      "Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are currently our frontier fundamental understandings of the world". What happened to the known extensions of Quantum Mechanics and General relativity? One example is Quantum Thermodynamics, which contains Quantum Mechanics as a special limiting case.

      "Science, the pursuit of reasoning, causes and effects. Causes and effects arrive in series, and the job for science is to identify and place them in correct succession. Sounds simple enough, however our fundamental theories haven't yet met this standard. General Relativity as signs time as cause, but without a theory of times operation it remains incomplete. Quantum Mechanics assigns force as cause, but without a theory for operation of fundamental force, it too remains incomplete." Our current scientific theories are satisfactory in identifying causes and effects for thousands of thousands of processes that happen in real world. Moreover, neither general relativity identifies time as cause, nor Quantum mechanics does for "forces". It is more, one can build quantum mechanical models without even mention forces at all.

      "Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity do have something in common, clocks. Look at it like this, "clocks are quantum mechanical systems (Look at it like this, clocks are quantum mechanical systems (made of QM) and they serve as the instrument that measure General Relativities effects, time dilation. It can be said that clocks are a study in QM, and GR is a study of clocks. Behaviour of one instrument servicing the study of two independent fundamental theories of the world , but they haven't benefited unification? A unified theory might frame QM as the study of matter, and re-frame GR as being a study of QM matter in relative environments of space." Precisely time is one of the reasons why QM and GR are incompatible. Time is QM is a parameter that describes the implicit time evolution of states and observables. Time is a dimension in GR. Clocks in quantum mechanics cannot be quantum mechanical systems, if they were quantum then a proper definition of evolution time would be impossible; it is the same reason why time in QM is a parameter, not an observable with associated Hermitian operator. Also QM is not the study of matter but the study of (quantum) motion and GR cannot be 're-framed' as the study of QM matter, because GR is a classical theory.

      "If force drives clocks, then do clocks serve as a measure of force? Surely this logic is self-evident." Not only this is not self-evident, but it is incorrect. Clocks measure a scalar. Forces are given by vectors, so we cannot measure the latter from the former. At best we can obtain the magnitude of a force from reading a clock.

      "to a larger value of expressions of force, defined as newtons, force summed by travel/distance." This is confounding a physical property with an unit of measurement. Also the proper unit is "newton" (without plural). And what unit is "travel"?

      There is no definition of what concept of relativistic force is being used here; moreover, time dilation in GR is a consequence of gravitational potentials, but those gravitational potentials don't generate gravitational forces (gravitational-guided motion in GR is "free"). All of this and the remarks above simply state there is not such principle of nature named "force dilation".

      "The clock spring is made of EM forces". It is not. The spring is made of matter, i.e. atoms.

      "They both ascribe to the theory of charge. They are both engaged in the activity of bond forming, Gluons binding atomic nucleus, Photons binding molecular structure." This not a correct description of 'binding'. Molecular bonding is not explainable only by electromagnetism, and one can explain bonding without any needed for photons, virtual or otherwise.

      Dark matter doesn't exist. It is the modern relativistic reincarnation of the old Vulcan planet invented by astronomers to explain discrepancies between Newtonian theory and observations. MOND is correct, but only has limited empirical validity.

      "Force Dilation = Variable Mass". Introducing a concept of variable mass here has the same validity (i.e., none) than the older concept of speed-variable mass introduced in the early years of special relativity. The author doesn't give any relevant detail of his 'model', but it seems likely that the same physical effect is being counted twice here: one as time variable and another as mass variable.

      MOND can be seen as a modification of gravitational force or as a modification of inertia.

      "This redistributes galaxy mass from where it is presumed to reside, and places it as an effective predict or for galaxy rotation velocities." There is no reason to redistribute mass; using the observed distribution of mass we can predict the observed velocities.

      The five 'Darwinian' principles aren't principles at all, but only vague descriptions of phenomena is not fundamental as "trees reaching out to gather sun's rays." In fact it is not true that "structures spread out across area and volume of space". There are structures that reduce its size, because the optimal (equilibrium) state is one of smaller size; a gas into a volume higher than correspond to its temperature, will evolve spontaneously towards a smaller volume final state, when piston is released.

        Juan

        To give you fair warning. My reply reflects your combative demeaner

        Your comments and counter arguments are representative of your personal opinion, and do not carry the weight of scientific consensus or even general community opinion, which it seams by your tone, this is what you would have us believe.

        I am going to take the time to counter this series of comments, however don't form a series of new ones please. You and I are remote of opinion, and I don't see that effort to close the gap as likely to succeed anything.

        You state

        "The whole of universe is made of particles, not "mater fields of force"

        The Gluon field and EM field are matter fields. They are also force fields, or force carrier fields. There is wave particle duality, which gives an interpretation inclusive of particle behaviour, but it is in association with waves or field theory. Not exclusive of it. It is not a scientific consensus that only particles are real and that fields are not. What you are doing here, is speaking with authority towards your own opinion, which excludes existence of electromagnatism.

        You state

        "How and why are routiney questions asked in science, and it is task of science (not of metaphysics) to provide objective answers to such questions.

        Big Bang is a physical theory; there is nothing metaphysical on it."

        You seek to distance yourself and conventional science and theory from being or being associated with (metaphysics). I guess then, that you and science have no use for any of these.......

        wiki

        Topics of metaphysical investigation include existence, objects and their properties, space and time, cause and effect, and possibility. A central branch of metaphysics is ontology, the investigation into the basic categories of being and how they relate to one another.

        I said

        Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are currently our frontier fundamental understandings of the world.

        you countered

        "What happened to the known extensions of Quantum Mechanics and General relativity?"

        I spoke towards and acknowledged limits of our theoretical understanding, and I take your comment as an objection. But in effect all you did was point to what is known, as if that somehow excuses or counters the subject of what is unknown. You might be pretending that unknowns are unimportant or don't exist.

        You say

        "Our current scientific theories are satisfactory in identifying causes and effects for thousands of thousands of processes that happen in real world. Moreover, neither general relativity identifies time as cause, nor Quantum mechanics does for "forces". It is more, one can build quantum mechanical models without even mention forces at all."

        Again you point to the processes that are believed to be understood, as if that denies importance or relevance of the conversation for what is not understood of these and other processes. Then you suggest that GR doesn't identify time as being a cause, but general relativity is the theory of spacetime. You're arguing with me that a fundamental theory whereby the principle ingredient isn't associated with cause? But you cant back this up with explanation, because that would entail telling me fundamentals of spacetimes operation, which clearly you cant. You also suggest that quantum mechanical models can be built without even mention of forces at all. I would judge such a theory about as useful as toilet without toilet paper. (What type of interaction could ever occur in the world that was something other than a forceful interaction?) How does something interact with another something, without issuing of forceful influence. A large part of the predictability of quantum mechanics is due to the principle of equal and opposite reaction. Equal and opposite reaction of forceful interactions. How might you get your bum cleaned in the absence of interactive forces! Have fun testing that theory.

        You say

        "Precisely time is one of the reasons why QM and GR are incompatible. Time is QM is a parameter that describes the implicit time evolution of states and observables. Time is a dimension in GR. Clocks in quantum mechanics cannot be quantum mechanical systems, if they were quantum then a proper definition of evolution time would be impossible; it is the same reason why time in QM is a parameter, not an observable with associated Hermitian operator. Also QM is not the study of matter but the study of (quantum) motion and GR cannot be 're-framed' as the study of QM matter, because GR is a classical theory."

        What you are basically doing here is telling me that conventional theory, or your interpretation of it, cannot be re-framed. You back this up with interpretations and arguments, one of which is "QM is not the study of matter". I think it a basic deduction that it is, and don't feel a need to argue these points.

        I said

        If force drives clocks, then do clocks serve as a measure of force? Surely this logic is self-evident.

        You countered

        "Not only this is not self-evident, but it is incorrect. Clocks measure a scalar. Forces are given by vectors, so we cannot measure the latter from the former. At best we can obtain the magnitude of a force from reading a clock."

        What you have failed to understand is, the front of the clock measures a scaler quantity, parameter of time. That is to say "physical quantity that only has magnitude and no other characteristics". But the front of the clock is but a puppet dictated to by the spring, and the spring does so dynamically and quantifiably in terms of expressions of force. You want some vector?

        Please answer this question in terms that sound scientific? The answer must include forces, because forces drive clocks!

        Forces drive clocks, clocks measure time. How do clocks measure time?

        I said

        to a larger value of expressions of force, defined as newtons, force summed by travel/distance.

        To which you countered

        "This is confounding a physical property with an unit of measurement. Also the proper unit is "newton" (without plural). And what unit is "travel"?

        Quantifying a physical property in terms of units is not confounding! And thanks for the gramma lesson. I do wonder if I could have lived without it. Travel is equivalent to distance, and it emphasises that a clock springs capacity for force corresponds to an unwinding or "travel span", a distance. Its not promising that I have to explain such things. I judge that you are just generally disagreeable and it doesn't really serve a purpose to answer such questions.

        You said

        "Dark matter doesn't exist. It is the modern relativistic reincarnation of the old Vulcan planet invented by astronomers to explain discrepancies between Newtonian theory and observations. MOND is correct, but only has limited empirical validity."

        Here we have another of your personal opinions which you cast off with the customary authority.

        you state

        "There is no definition of what concept of relativistic force is being used here; moreover, time dilation in GR is a consequence of gravitational potentials, but those gravitational potentials don't generate gravitational forces (gravitational-guided motion in GR is "free"). All of this and the remarks above simply state there is not such principle of nature named "force dilation"."

        I did point to the springs of two clocks that had spent time apart from each other within diverse gravitational environments, subjected to time dilation effects. Bringing together for comparative we do observe that their measures of time had diverged. We pealed the faces from both clocks and observe that the springs positions had also diverged, and we quantified the springs divergence in terms of expressions of force/newton(s). So in summary, "we took an observable, quantified it in terms of parameter and measure, labelled it with a term "force dilation" so that from then on after we might have some simple reference term. But of course, you disagree, because that's what you will do even in the face of observation, measure. That is your superpower.

        You argue that

        "Force Dilation = Variable Mass". Introducing a concept of variable mass here has the same validity (i.e., none) than the older concept of speed-variable mass introduced in the early years of special relativity. The author doesn't give any relevant detail of his 'model', but it seems likely that the same physical effect is being counted twice here: one as time variable and another as mass variable."

        I did attempt to draw a line between the dots for you. I pointed to observations and measures, then delivered an argument for the principle I termed "force dilation". I argued that force dilation applies to Gluon activity, and Gluons give mass. I then ask the reader to consider variable mass based on variable Gluon activity/force. Then I suggested to the reader that if we move on from circumstantial justifications, and just apply the principle to see what happens. Does it deliver anything of prospective use? As it turns out, all we have to do is suppose that Baryon mass scales dependent upon gravities square law proximity to matter, and the newly supposed distributions of mass fall in line, as if to predict galaxy rotation velocities. Geometric arguments being mathematical arguments serving as evidence. But of course none of this counts as valid, because you relate it to some old theory. Delivering a devastating blow!

        You say

        "The five 'Darwinian' principles aren't principles at all, but only vague descriptions of phenomena is not fundamental as "trees reaching out to gather sun's rays." In fact it is not true that "structures spread out across area and volume of space". There are structures that reduce its size, because the optimal (equilibrium) state is one of smaller size; a gas into a volume higher than correspond to its temperature, will evolve spontaneously towards a smaller volume final state, when piston is released."

        Again you are generally argumentative and arguing nul points. I referred to the five principles as being "basic Darwinian principles". And you argue with me on the basis of whether of not they are principles in any respect. When infact "A principle is a concept or value that is a guide for behavior or evaluation." And my use of the term principle is certainly encapsulated by that.

        I judge you will rate my essay as poorly as is within your power, so please go ahead and issue it. I expect you will have issued a splattering of 1's about the place already, and I would feel left out if I wasn't to receive mine.

        You may rate my essay poorly with impunity, because I dont issue poor ratings myself. I either rate highly or I dont rate at all

        Dear Laurence

        Thank you kindly for reading my essay and asking questions about it. I will respond to you very soon, and I have your essay printed off for reading.

        I look forward to discussing further with you very soon

        Steve

        Dear Wilhelmus

        I recall speaking with you last year :)

        Thank you kindly for reading my essay. I will respond to you very soon, and I have your essay printed off for reading.

        I look forward to discussing further with you very soon

        Steve

        Mr. Andresen?

        So I read your essay posted on my page, but I don't know what to do next. How is it going?

        Should I be the first, among us, who rates you with a 10 and then you will return the grade? Or should we do it vice versa (you first and I returning)? or maybe we both grade each other (with a 10, of course) in the same time ?

        I hope you do have some sense of humor

        Joyfully,

        Silviu

          Mr Silviu

          Thanks for turning up on my page. Yes I did laugh, and I'm told that is the symptom of humor :-) A man with sense of humor, so I look forward to reading your essay all the more.

          Steve

          There are some connections between your view of clocks and what Barad says about time:

          "we assume that time is a given externality, just a parameter that marches forward, and that the past already happened and the present, that moment "now" just slipped away into the past, and that the future is yet to come. But if we examine this carefully, again using the insights from feminist theory, from post-structuralist theory, and things that Cultural Studies has been telling us, and so on, and bring them into the physics here, what we can see is that what is going on actually is the making of temporality. There are questions of temporality that are coming to the fore here. What we are seeing here is that time is not given, it is not universally given, but rather that time is articulated and re-synchronized through various material practices. In other words, just like position, momentum, wave and particle, time itself only makes sense in the context of particular phenomena." etc. The reference is https://www.academia.edu/1857617/_Intra-actions_Interview_of_Karen_Barad_by_Adam_Kleinmann_

          Dear Steven,

          Thanks for visiting my FQXi Essay page.

          You wrote an interesting and provocative Essay. I am a physicist of gravitation, so, I will insert below some comments/questions on the gravitational issues of your Essay:

          You state that "Big bang theory offers a metaphysics creation of the world". Actually, big-bang theory is founded on plausible assumptions, like the Cosmological Principle, and GR through rigorous mathematics. It fails to understand what happened at the big bang instant based on the lack of unification of GR and QM that you correctly stress in your Essay.

          Your approach with time in GR and QM is very interesting.

          You state that "Mechanical spring force can be said to scale with shifting gravitational potential, allowing me to coin the term "gravitational force dilation'." But gravitational potential cannot be localized in GR based on Einstein's Equivalence Principle which has today a strong empiric evidence. How do you solve this issue?

          You should consider also extended theories of gravity in addition to MOND. In fact MOND seeks to amend parameters of Newton's gravitational theory while extended theories of gravity seeks to amend parameters of GR. In a certain sense, extended theories of gravity are the relativistic counterpart of MOND in the same way that GR is the relativistic counterpart of GR. Maybe this paper, of mine can further clarify this issue.

          In any case, you wrote a nice and entertaining Essay, deserving my highest score.

          Good luck in the Contest.

          Cheers, Ch.

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            Steve,

            While I agree force, or rather energy is fundamental, I see it as in a dichotomy with information. In that energy manifests form, as form defines energy. Consider that galaxies are cycles of energy radiating out, as mass coalesces in. That as evolved beings, we have a central nervous system to process information and the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems to process energy. That our societies are the relationship of organic and social energy pushing out, as cultural, civil and economic forms coalesce in, giving structure to the dynamic.

              Dear Steven Andresen,

              I have read your Essay and suggest that you read Dark Matter: http://vixra.org/pdf/1303.0207v3.pdf

              Quantum Mechanics claims that an electron can be both spin-up and spin-down at the same time. In my conceptual physics Essay on Electron Spin, I have proved that this is not true. Please read: https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3145

              Kamal Rajpal