Absolutely -The Nature of Time and Beyond? by Stephen J Abrahams

Hello Mr. Abrams,

thank you for a very readable paper.

the thought crossed my mind that a book might be fun, something like:

"WHACK YOUR PUDDING

understanding physics

by Steven Abrahams

illustrations by Gahan Wilson"

i'm sure Wilson would have fun with both the jello and the submarines.

you appear to have recently received some support for the general concept of matter arising from a vibrating vacuum:

web site link

thanks,

:-)

matt kolasinski

Thanks Matt

Luv it.... 'Whack Your Pudding' most excellent! And fun too!

Followed the link to New Scientist, all sounds a bit complicated to me, spinning discs inside protons and quarks and stuff, but hey who knows? The important thing is that people think about the possible answers to the big questions.. Looked up the illustrator too, very tallented guy. Overly cautious I might be, but I'm waiting for just one vote before I rush off to the publishers shouting 'Eureka'!!! Read yours too,and yes it was interesting, very impressed. Yes I agree, consciousness, somewhere in the universe, is just a bit important to the relevence of time. psi...Must learn more...

:) Steve Abrahams

Hi Steve,

I read your essay with great interest.

Russians calls it active vacuum, Americans calls it virtual particles and you are calling it jelly :). Although, the Russians did gave some examples similar to yours (the ones with water). If you have time I recommend you to read the following book: http://www.rayfleming.com/Physics.pdf. Describes our world from the perspective of virtual particles which behaves similarly to your model. You will find it very interesting.

It will also be interesting what kind of fundamental forces does your model needs. And if you have time perhaps you could elaborate a little more on how stable and unstable atoms are composed by vibrations.

Best regards,

Iacob Suteu

Hi Steve:

Thanks for your comments (I just discovered). I am due to read your paper, after reading your additions (which made a lot of sense). Sounds like red van meets blue van. Will we arrive at the full spectrum of colors? Happy ending. Jean

Hi Iacob.

First, thanks for your kind posting. I will read your recomendation with interest.

Secondly I'm sorry I have lost my voting code so I haven't been able to use my restricted votes.(personally and I suspect to most of us, the actual 'results' of this contest are unimportant. The important thing is that we may, just one day, get a little closer to understanding how our universe really works, the whole point of FQXI as I understand it :)

To try to answer your question.

I wrote the following summary to Jean Ibar (who's eessay I also liked very much but couldn't vote for.)

'My essay is based upon the interaction of 'assumed' vibrating fields which fill all space. Matter being the result of harmonics in a number of fields being sustained by resonance in another or others.Matter being similar to 'standing waves' at a point. The energy transfer via resonance, being a continueous 'flow' toward each point, giving the effects of both inertia and gravity to those points.Any difference between perfect resonance and imperfect resonance being seen as a 'feedback' interference into the sustaining field. We seeing it as heat light etc depending on how far from perfect resonance the point is.'

Of course I don't really know the actual makeup of these fundamental fields(if they exist) all I have tried to do is visualise a system which could enable matter to exist as a point into which there is a constant flow of sustaining energy. Once this point( I presume to be a proton or neutron no smaller)exists in this manner the rest of the laws of physics or nature may follow.(I'm not sure if I know them all yet!)

I guess that I see these fields as having some of the following properties: In the essay I mentioned the lava lamp to perhaps imagine a finite time that the universe may have. Perhaps the lava lamp analogy could be applied to the vibrating field/matter existence visualisation.

Imagine Two 'globs'in a lava lamp but instead of staying the same size they are expanding. They each have a vibration frequency of their own, ie they could be different colours, they each expand until they reach the glass and just turn the oil in the lamp a different colour.

If they had met each other before they were too 'thin' they could have 'melded together' like 'normal' lava lamp bubbles and doubled in size and gained a new frequency.(Probably half their previous ones if their mass doubled?) But still have kept expanding until they reached the glass and merely coloured the oil just the same. Imagine now that the oil, in which they float, is vibrating, as it happens, at their 'new' combined frequency, but completely out of phase with it. Assuming that the rate of expansion is 'pulsing' at this 'new' frequency then it is hoped that the surrounding oil' pulsing 180 degrees out of phase with it, will actually halt the expansion, and keep the 'combined bubble' intact! This is, rightly or wrongly, what I'm trying to explain as 'in resonance' with the sustaining field.

I felt that stable atoms exist by being very much 'in resonance' with the 'sustaining field whereas unstable elements may be sustained by various 'odd cycles' of the sustaining field. I can imagine it a bit like trying to bounce a ball. You hit the ball correctly and it feels good and you can keep the bouncing going ad infinitum. ( = stable element)

You hit the ball slightly 'off beat'and it doesn't feel right and the bounce may be sustained for a minute or so, but gradually the ball bounces less and less until you are just patting it on the ground (unstable element,then stable element) At this point with an unstable element (and during its diminishing bounce)feedback energy would flow into the sustaining field, observed as heat, light, radio activity etc depending on which isotope/element we're dealing with (in the bouncing anology this to us would be the 'not feeling right bit')The unstable element would, after sufficient 'out of balance'energy been shed, assume a more stable relationship with the sustaining field.More than likely having dropped to a lower(stable) harmonic or 'lighter' element. (With real elements etc this stabilisation can take seconds to thousands of years)

I do go on a bit about this resonance thing but am basing many of these assumptions on explainations of resonance that I have read. It was stated that in order for a resonance to exist 'perfect resonance' does not have to. Sometimes quite a large bandwidth either side of the 'resonant frequency' can still allow an energy flow, to sustain a sympathetic resonant reponse. What I do know is that I sometimes get a really annoying buzzing sound coming from the dashboard of my van when the engine is running and I can vary the engine revs a lot, and the buzzing still continues,I am in the meantime punching and kicking the dash in order to stop it! This sometimes works. Other times the engine revs get to such a frequency that the noise just stops. Its interesting to note however that no part of the engine block actually travels up to the dash to keep this awefull buzzing going. Just energy flowing through the fabric of the vans body . This is why I don't suggest that the fields themselves flow, just the vibrations :) Of course the question of the fields existence and their properties, probably give rise to more questions than they might answer. Of course one asks oneself 'is the energy in the sustaining field finite?'

Or like my engine, does it ever run out of diesel? (The buzzing usually stops then.) Is there a limit to the amount of matter it can sustain? Yet again I don't know :)

Thanks again Iacob (Will look for that link now)

Hi Jean

I suspect, only at the point where we both crash into the Green van? :)

Hope after the impact we are all left 'Comfortably Numb'!

Funny isn't it. I did in fact, when trying to visualise this 'solid' universe and its energy source, imagine the 'drumming' coming from a room in some 'Macro world' where our universe was a crystal ball sitting on a stand with the vibrations of Pink Floyd's 'Echo's' being played in the backgound. This being the energy source.

And NO! NO £SD!!! Has ever passed these lips! Honest Guv!

Thanks for your reply.

Ever After!

Steve

Hi again Iacob,

(sorry in my first reply, I forgot to put in who it was from.)

Just followed your link to Mr. Fleming's theory and read it up to page 65 when the Maths started. I'm afraid that most arithmetic loses me, let alone mathematics. I very much enjoyed the read!!! Thank You very much indeed.

I do see quite a few similarities in the way we are trying to explain things and I cannot come close to explaining all the aspects of matter that he has.You may have noticed how quickly I glossed over magnetism or avoided it comletely.I do actually have a theory related to the subject linked to my essay proposals, but I have not thought it all through yet, and it most certainly would have pushed me over the word limit if i'd tried to include it.It does involve however perhaps the existence of a completely different frequency field than my harmonic ones and the sustaining one, which takes advantage of the lessening of what Mr. Fleming would perhaps call 'Parton pressure'at the point where matter exists. Or in other words 'sees' a hole in the opposite direction. It would actually however enter the 'hole' from 'within' and try to fill the 'pressure difference' into what was the resonant fields 'space'. There would appear then to be similar possibilities for a 'two way' flow through matter as he seems to suggest, but in a different way. With all the various posibilities that he describes. Obviously for this to work, various 'configurations. of matter. ie magnetic or non magnetic high temperature or low temperature would present different 'resistances' to this fields 'flow'. In effect, either, relatively, accelerating it, or restricting it, with perhaps consequent effects of attraction or repulsion of other matter. As I say, it needs much more thought.

As he says, I think we need many more people to think about these other theretical possibilities, so to avoid getting science bogged down with all the 'dead end stuff'.

Or, if we're going to get to a 'dead end' lets get there after mostly understanding how the rest of it works!

Now back to my favourite pair of 'Partons'. These were two fascinating objects that, seemingly, always defied gravity. They belonged to a young country and west.....hey who cut this?!

Hi Steve.

I am glad that you have enjoyed the lecture of The New Physic book.

And thank you for the explanations.

Best regards,

Iacob