Dear Jonathan Dickau,

I have read your essay with a big smile. Personally I admire explanations about abstract subjects that are supported by a "tangible" concept to transform the arguments like clothes that express the personality of a person. Your essay describes ideas that can easily be extended to a number of articles on FQXi's website. For example, the discussion about the origin of consciousness is futile if we accept that reality is a fractal or has dominant properties that create a fractal-like structure.

I will read your essay again within a couple of days because there is more to rethink than I can grasp if I read it only once.

With kind regards, Sydney

    Dear Jonathan,

    Glad to read your work again.

    I greatly appreciated your work and discussion. I am very glad that you are not thinking in abstract patterns.

    While the discussion lasted, I wrote an article: "Practical guidance on calculating resonant frequencies at four levels of diagnosis and inactivation of COVID-19 coronavirus", due to the high relevance of this topic. The work is based on the practical solution of problems in quantum mechanics, presented in the essay FQXi 2019-2020 "Universal quantum laws of the universe to solve the problems of unsolvability, computability and unpredictability".

    I hope that my modest results of work will provide you with information for thought.

    Warm Regards, `

    Vladimir

      Thank you again Sydney...

      I appreciate your insights. I'll leave another brief comment back on your page.

      Regards,

      Jonathan

      I am glad you enjoyed it Vladimir...

      I have in the past greatly enjoyed reading your papers. It seems like we have a fair amount of common ground in our theoretical landscape. There is not total agreement, but there is certainly a lot on which we can and do agree.

      I have replied to the coronavirus insights back on your page. I think we should evxplore every avenue that might provide relief or lead to a cure. We must be cautious not to do harm, but be emboldened by the severity or urgency of the situation to do more than otherwise we might.

      All the Best,

      Jonathan

      For the benefit of my readers....

      One of the BEST sources of information on Covid-19 I have seen anywhere is the ongoing analysis by mathematician Chris King. You can find his Covid page on Dhushara dot com or follow the link below.

      The Covid-19 / SARS-CoV-2 Papers

      I hope people find this site and info helpful. Please pass it along if you do.

      Regards,

      Jonathan

      Jonathan,

      Here is the Mandelbrot update we talked about via email.

      Get canvas for node.js from GitHub or node, be sure to download to a new folder. Move content of download to the node_module subfolder your scripting files go into downloaded from my fqxi essay last year blog.

      Replace node_moduleNUMBERS.js with new NUMBERS.js from attached.

      A script that will generate a jpeg for the Mandelbrot set is also in the attached, move mpixlog.js to your executable script file folder. If you run this script it will regenerate mpixlog.jpeg. You might want to look at it and/or rename it prior to running script

      RickAttachment #1: mandelbrot_updates.zip

        I guess the windows file folder separator gets dropped. NUMBERS.js in subfolder node_module

        Dear Jonathan

        I thank you for your comments on my page.

        You are right, I said everything in the presentation of my essay, the rest is just an application.

        This kind of "information indigestion" will probably be useful and there will be something left in head of everyone's to think about.

        I could arrange the same "information indigestion" with elementary particles, but I chose the solar system so that I could visualize what each spectral line of an atom is in reality, where their analogues exist, instead of abstractions of quantum mechanics. And then it will be clear that the whole Universe functions according to unified quantum laws.

        Gerard't Hooft

        is a man of genius person, so he himself admits that he does not understand what people tell him about their theories and why they say it.

        But he has keywords that can change the whole of science, how Maxwell changed science by creating his own equations, presenting his rotors in the form of simple cogwheel models.

        Gerard't Hooft says:

        "We conclude that the most general model will be described as a set of simple periodic cogwheel models with varying periodicities."

        We need to ask him a question about the number of teeth in his gears. It is possible that he himself will think of the fact that there should be 137 pieces.

        This will be a "shot from a cannon to top of a mountain to turn the potential energy of snow into an avalanche."

        All the Best,

        Vladimir

        Jonathan,

        Thanks for the COVID-19 hyperlink. Yours is one of the superior essays I mentioned to the FQXi administrators that has been under attack. Good luck and regards.

        Jim

          Thank you Jim,

          I'll keep plugging away, reading one after another, until day's end. I think some authors rate essays based only on whether the author appears to agree with their views as expressed in the abstract - without attempting to learn whether there are good arguments for that view in the essay itself. I know that I would have been fooled by the summary in the abstract of several papers, because the author turned my head around with skillful debate. That's what it is all about, in my view.

          What I don't like are critical ratings without any critique about what was disliked. I'd like to know both strengths and weaknesses in my writing or approach. I guess people who say nothing fear reprisals or are just cowards.

          Good luck also to you,

          Jonathan

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          Dear Jonathan Dickau

          Thank you very much you read my essay and put some comments on it. Your essay is very interesting and it is amazing you can combine chaos theory with QM and Relativity. I think all these theories are intertwined. The next few days I will read again your essay which merits a lot attention

          I wish best luck in this contest

          Basileios Grispos

            Thank you greatly Basileos,

            I am happy I can weave the threads together. Actually; nature does a fine job with that, and manages to weave in a lot of what we find with Maths. I'm just good at pointing out the patterns.

            Warm Regards,

            Jonathan

            Glad I got to read your effort Jim...

            Much dive bombing it seems.

            Jonathan

            Dear Jonathan,

            Interesting essay. I like the analysis of the limitations imposed to our knowledge. I enjoyed your discussion of the Mandelbrot fractal, and the interesting discussion around the Misiurewicz point. You have an interesting visual style of approaching nature, and use it to make analogies and connections between various domains in interesting ways. Good luck in the contest!

            Cheers,

            Cristi

              Thanks greatly Cristi...

              I appreciate the kind comments and the boost.

              Warm regards,

              Jonathan

              For what it is worth...

              I am not the person who has been low-balling you. If I have left a comment with praise you got a good score, and if I left comments with moderate criticism, you got a decent score from me. I gave out no ratings below 5 and I gave my very first rating of 10, this year.

              I gave out more than a few 9s, and a lot of 6, 7, or 8 ratings, this year. But I do not believe in punitive or retaliatory scoring. I use a points system based on a checklist of my own design. I reward for quality and proper rigor. Confusing or confused essays get a lower score.

              If you need to retaliate, or find a scapegoat, please look elsewhere for your detractors. I have been getting hit by people giving me low ratings and making no comments. Please don't imagine that I would treat others that way.

              Regards,

              Jonathan

              Thanks to all!

              I appreciate the positive attention from my supportive readers and visitors, and the unspoken criticism of my detractors is also noted. In a contest about the presence of uncertainty or unknowability in the universe; I guess some measure of that in the identity of those who choose to hit and run is warranted.

              I hope everyone who came to my essay got something of value. I'm sorry that, with the death of my Dad in the middle of the contest, I did not have more time to read and comment on other essays. The Covid-19 pandemic took a toll on me personally. I hope that it has spared and will spare most of you.

              Warm Regards,

              Jonathan

                Thanks greatly Rick,

                I look forward to plumbing the depths.

                Best,

                Jonathan

                I want to again thank everyone...

                I am pleased that people appreciated my work enough to put me at the low end of the high-ranked papers. It is a privilege to be able to share my ideas on this forum with like-minded people. The fact that FQXi participants tend to be open-minded is a bonus. But I hope my quality of work warranted your positive attention, that it provided ample food for thought, and that it will continue to appreciate in value thereby.

                All the Best,

                Jonathan