NON-COMPUTABILITY AND UNPREDICTABILITY ARE SO YESTERDAY: WITH COMPUTABLE AND PREDICTABLE COSMIC STRUCTURE, PLUS IMPLICATIONS FOR MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE by Rodney Bartlett

It's time for a bit of self indulgence - a "selfie post". While some of these ideas made it into my essay, others which I'm equally proud of had to be left out because of the length restriction. I'm putting them in this post and hope you find some interesting thoughts, readers!

The following question was asked on researchgate.net - Could our fine-tuned universe have been created from a single fine-tuned quantum particle?

Cosmological explanations for our apparently fine-tuned universe are basically divided between a) a vastly huge multiverse of universes with varying fundamental force and mass constants, including the cosmological constant (where our apparently fine-tuned universe is just one universe in this multiverse), or b) a cosmic intelligence that fine-tuned our universe at its beginning to evolve stable galaxies, life and developed minds. In scientific terms, which explanation is preferable? Are there other options? Is a cosmic mind a viable scientific hypothesis for explaining our universe's origin?

This is my reply Yes, there is another option - an option which seems to be the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything. Humans from the far distant future could use wormholes to "augment" space-time, the universe and life. The 1st Law of Thermodynamics says nothing can ever be created (or destroyed), so the following paragraphs will further explain augmentation which bypasses the creation attributed to the Big Bang.

In a science TV program 'Custom Universe - Finetuned For Us?', (Australian Broadcasting Corporation's 'Catalyst', August 29 2013), Dr. Graham Phillips reported that "the physicist and writer Paul Davies thinks the universe is indeed fine-tuned for minds like ours. And who fine-tuned it? Not God but minds from the future, perhaps even our distant descendants, that have reached back through time ... and selected the very laws of physics that allow for the existence of minds in the first place. Sounds bizarre, but quantum physics actually allows that kind of thing."

And Carl Sagan writes, 'Many religions, from Hinduism to Gnostic Christianity to Mormon doctrine, teach that - as impious as it may sound - it is the goal of humans to become gods.' ('Pale Blue Dot - A Vision of the Human Future in Space', Headline Book (1995), p. 382)

In relation to Quantum Spin, Wolfgang Pauli in 1924 was the first to propose a doubling of electron states due to a two-valued non-classical "hidden rotation". (Goudsmit, S.A.; translated by van der Waals, J.H. "The discovery of the electron spin" - https://ilorentz.org/history/spin/goudsmit.html) Extending the ideas of "doubling", "two-valued" and "hidden rotation" to the Mobius strip being a basic, fundamental unit of reality; it can be seen that Pauli's proposal has an analogy to this comment. The 1's and 0's of electronics' binary digit (or BIT, or base 2) system can be used to draw the two-dimensional (2D) image of a Mobius strip. Then 2 strips are combined into a 3D figure-8 Klein bottle, (Polthier, Konrad, "Imaging maths - Inside the Klein bottle", http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue26/features/mathart/index ) and the bottle given the 4 dimensions of space-time by incorporating adaptive Wick rotation - and thus a 4th dimension of time agreeing with Special Relativity's time dilation - into its component Mobius strips. The doubled Mobius strip produced by the two-valued binary-digit system creates the figure-8 Klein bottle (plus its hidden, now identified as Wick, rotation). This not only unites the Mobius strip with the figure-8 Klein bottle but also the photon with the graviton ie electromagnetism with gravitation^ if the photon is an assembly of trillions of Mobius strips while the graviton is an assembly of trillions of figure-8 Klein bottles). It also confirms Dutch physicist Erik Verlinde's idea that gravity is an emergent property (emerging from mathematics). (E. P. Verlinde, "Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe", 7 Nov 2016, arxiv.org/abs/1611.02269)

^ Unifying gravitation and electromagnetism has this consequence: A 2009 electrical-engineering experiment at America's Yale University, together with the ideas of Albert Einstein, tells us how we could travel to other stars and galaxies. An electrical engineering team at Yale demonstrated that, on silicon-chip and transistor scales, light can attract and repel itself like electric charges or magnets. (Mo Li, W. H. P. Pernice & H. X. Tang, "Tunable bipolar optical interactions between guided lightwaves", Nature Photonics 3, 464 - 468 (2009)) This is the Optical Bonding Force. For 30 years until his death in 1955, Einstein worked on his Unified Field Theory with the aim of uniting electromagnetism (light is one form of this) and gravitation. Achievement of this means the quantum components or gravitons of gravity/spacetime-warps (Einstein's General Relativity says gravity is the result of warps and curves in spacetime) between spaceships and stars could mimic the Optical Force and be attracted together, thereby eliminating distance. This is similar to traversing a wormhole, or shortcut between folds in space and time. If the gravitons are superposed and entangled, distances between both points in space and points in time are totally eliminated. So-called "time travel" would actually be space travel within the Block Universe where the past, present and future all exist -- and are equally real -- in a possibly infinite four-dimensional block. Past, present and future are relative, just as time is not absolute in Einstein's special theory of relativity. Visualizing an infinite block universe might be helped by picturing it as a DVD that extends infinitely in every direction. Every event on a DVD always exists but their positions are relative to the location of the laser reading the disk (which corresponds to the location of a brain's consciousness). Of course, this elimination of distance doesn't need to be reserved for trips to other stars, galaxies, and periods of time. It can also be used for a quick journey to Mars - saving you months in space and the attendant wasting of muscles and bones, as well as sparing you from the potentially deadly "sunburn" cosmic rays might give you.

A model of the cosmos might be built that uses pi and imaginary time, and resides in Virtual Reality (artificial, computer-generated simulation). (If you believe in quantum mechanics' wave-particle duality, this model is sort of like a particle.) The entanglement (quantum-mechanics style) in the simulated universe is unable to remain separate from the entanglement existing in our perceived reality because computers using so-called "imaginary time" (which is defined by numbers with the property iВІ = в€'1) remove all boundaries between the two universes. This enables them to become one Augmented Reality (known now as technology that layers computer-generated enhancements onto an existing reality but seen here as the related layering of virtual reality onto other points in time and space). The poorly-named imaginary time of physics and mathematics unites with pi (both are necessary to generate a non-Big-Bang cosmos i.e. an infinite universe which, because space and time can never be separated, is eternal: alone, unbounded imaginary time is finite).

On the subject of the calculating, deterministic nature of computers - I think we rely too much on the idea of the randomness of biological evolution. Obviously, evolution does exist - we see it all the time when we study how living things adapt. But that doesn't mean it can be extrapolated to explain everything about life (sorry, Mr. Darwin, but I can't see it explaining the origins of life). Perhaps life began when our far distant descendants travelled to a time before life existed, collected proteins and amino acids and water etc from meteorites and comets and dust etc, combined the molecules, and did some unimaginably sophisticated genetic engineering.

So you think my essay is "State of the Art"? Thank you - I really needed to hear that. Am I being pessimistic? We'll have to wait and see if there's any mention of my essay on the prize list in June. If there is ... I was indeed pessimistic. If there isn't ... I was realistic.

I haven't had time yet to have a good look at your "Sun is not center of Solar System" (I got distracted by my reply to that question on researchgate.net - it's posted below). But something did catch my eye when I had a quick peek: velocity of movement v:=length of space / length of time. It reminded me of something I wrote which includes v= fλ = distance/duration = space/time = c and connects that with E=mc2.

Many scientists have said mathematics is a universal language because 1+1=2 no matter who you are. The trend in modern physics is towards a unified theory of the universe - starting with the unified theories of the 20th century (notably Einstein's) and extending to string theory and quantum gravity. What happens if a person in, say, the 24th century is raised believing in a unified theory that has implications in physical terms for everything in space-time? Would he or she think there is actually only one thing? Would (s)he think it's a mistake to add one apparently separate thing to another apparently separate thing to produce two, and that such addition is merely the result of the way the body's senses operate? (Our whole mathematical system is ultimately based on the idea that 1+1=2, and would therefore be incomplete in a unified universe.)

Assuming the maths humanity has developed does indeed apply to the universe, it cannot be totally in error - merely incomplete. Even Einstein's famous mass-energy equation E=mc2 would be incomplete, requiring quantization ie production of a theory of quantum gravity via unification with the wave-particle duality of quantum mechanics (which has also been repeatedly verified by experiment).

The wave-particle duality mentioned in the section above can be described by starting with v = fλ (wave velocity equals frequency times Greek letter lambda which denotes wavelength). Velocity (speed in a constant direction) of a collection of particles like a car equals distance divided by duration. Since distance is a measure that has to do with space while duration is a measure that has to do with time, it equals space divided by time. (Brian Greene in "Speed", part of his "Space, Time and Einstein" course at http://www.worldscienceu.com/courses/1/elements/YhF9pw) Gravitational and electromagnetic wave motion (space-time motion) travels at c, the speed of light ie

v= fλ = distance/duration = space/time = c

A particle's velocity, whether the particle be a boson or fermion, is directly dependent on its energy - so it may be said that

E = v=fλ = distance/duration = space/time = c

This is not quite right since c represents energy alone, and space-time deals with mass-energy, so it's better to say

E = v=fλ = distance/duration = space/time = mc

What about the 2 in E=mc2? In later papers Einstein repetitively stressed that his mass-energy equation is strictly limited to observers co-moving with the object under study, and comovement may be represented by the exponent 2.

In order for E=mc2 to apply to the universe (and it does), observers must be able to co-move with anything being studied (even a light beam). Moving in the same direction is no problem but how can anyone or anything move at the same speed? Present-day observers can never move at the speed which light covers in the vacuum of space-time, so the only way for observers and light to co-move is for the nature of electromagnetism to be revised.

Like waves of water, electromagnetic waves are known as transverse. Consequently, the particles (photons) of light and microwaves etc that travel through space-time would have relatively little movement themselves. It's the disturbances from the sources of electromagnetism (shock waves of fluctuating amplitudes and frequencies) that travel. (They go through the fields of energy filling the so-called vacuum.) Since E=mc2 applies to photons when they're at rest, the equation can only describe photons that have no motion in one direction - the horizontal "line of propagation" in which the shock wave moves. The photons can only move in the vertical direction, perpendicular to the shock wave - if they move at all.

As Paul Camp, Ph.D. in theoretical physics, writes at https://www.quora.com/How-big-is-a-photon -

"A photon is a quantum of excitation of the electromagnetic field. That field fills all space and so do its quantum modes."

This is consistent with energy being transferred from one place to another (as wave motion) without involving an actual transfer of particles (little or no movement of photons). General Relativity says gravitation results from the curvature of spacetime (gravity IS space-time) ie the gravitational field also fills all space, so the seeming motion of gravitational waves could also be due to fluctuations of shock waves' amplitudes and wavelengths causing excitations (called gravitons) in the field. These excitations cover 186,282 miles every second.

The above ideas of gravitational and electromagnetic waves displaying little or no motion are a new interpretation of John Wheeler's geon or "gravitational electromagnetic entity", an electromagnetic or gravitational wave which is held together in a confined region by its own nature. (J. A. Wheeler, (January 1955). "Geons". Physical Review. 97 (2): 511 - doi:10.1103/PhysRev.97.511)

My 1st reply on this page was to John C. Hodge about Mercury's precession and the possible absence of Planet 9. I just wrote a reply to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki about his article "Putting Einstein to the test - part 2" (for Radio National and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Those things, plus material related to my essay, gave me a lot of ammunition for another selfie-post.

Isaac Newton's calculations for the position of Mercury required a correction of 43 arcseconds/century, plus or minus 0.00 (University of California, Riverside, "Mercury's Orbital Precession, General Relativity, and the Solar Bulge" - http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/mercury_orbit.html) General Relativity's prediction is 42.98 seconds per century, plus or minus 0.04 of a second. ("PPN formalism" by Hajime Sotani - 01/07/2009 (minor changes made 21/06/2013): https://www.tat.physik.unituebingen.de/~kokkotas/Teaching/Experimental_Gravity_files/Hajime_PPN.pdf - "Perihelion shift of Mercury", page 11)

So while Albert Einstein's prediction is so close to Mercury's position as to be regarded as exact by nearly everybody, it is actually not exact. This leaves room for UCR's statement that "it's too early to say the issue is completely settled" - and for Dr Karl's reference to "the breakthrough into the New Physics, that physicists so desperately want." As far as I know, Isaac Newton realised that precession wasn't confined to Mercury. It affects all the planets but Mercury has the greatest precession because of its closeness to the Sun. TNOs (Trans-Neptunian Objects - any object in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance than Neptune) must also be affected by advance, or precession, of perihelia. TNOs tend to make their closest approaches to the Sun in one sector.

These improbable alignments suggest that an undiscovered planet may be shepherding their orbits. There may not be any Planet 9 but a shared gravitational continuum throughout the cosmos. After all, Albert Einstein said gravity results from the curves in spacetime - therefore, gravity IS spacetime (my essay shows how "advanced" plus "retarded" gravitational waves can produce quantum entanglement on a macroscopic level, and the gravitational continuum thus becomes a unified field). To make gravity a truly universal continuum, it should not only be identified with spacetime but also with the matter in spacetime. This is done in my essay with gravitational-electromagnetic interaction forming matter's particles - whether they be fermions or bosons - via VTS (vector-tensor-scalar) geometry.

This has implications for the Four Forces that control everything in our Universe -- the Gravity Force, the Electromagnetic Force, the Weak Force, and the Strong Force. The geometry blends gravitational-electromagnetic interaction with the Weak and Strong nuclear forces characteristic of matter's atoms. Dark Matter and Dark Energy could be Inter-Dimensional Polarisation Modulation (IDPM) of gravitational and electromagnetic waves, caused by their rotation from the x-axis containing ordinary matter and its associated energy towards the y-axis containing "dark" matter and "dark" energy. ~5.5 increments, each of ~65.45 degrees, in the 360 degree rotation gives the Planck satellite's figures of the universe being composed of 4.9% ordinary matter and 27% dark matter. The dark energy content of 68% is reached by assuming different dimensions vary from E=mc^2, and may have greater amounts of energy available.

Message to EVERYBODY - all members of the public, contestants, judges, those born countless millions of years from now ... everyone! For many months, a thought from some lines in my essay has been growing in my brain. Those lines are -

"So-called "time travel" would actually be space travel within the Block Universe where the past, present and future all exist -- and are equally real -- in a possibly infinite* four-dimensional block. Past, present and future are relative, just as time is not absolute in Einstein's special theory of relativity. Visualizing an infinite block universe might be helped by picturing it as a DVD that extends infinitely in every direction. Every event on a DVD always exists but their positions are relative to the location of the laser reading the disk (which corresponds to the location of a brain's consciousness)."

My thoughts -

The world - indeed, entire universe - I see in the far distant future is so good in every possible way that "perfect" is the only word that can describe it properly. When a movie is recorded on a DVD, the DVD ends up being the way it is because of decisions made by the actors, writers, directors, etc. Similarly, the future Cosmic DVD my essay refers to is the way it is (perfect) because of what happens in our present and past i.e. decisions made by you, me, scientists, religious figures, politicians ... everybody! The world is therefore always unfolding as it should, however good or bad events appear to our limited perspective.

Right now, the 1960's song "Years may come, years may go" by Herman's Hermits is playing on the radio station I'm listening to. It says "Some are good, some are bad - For each one, just be glad". This is a timely reminder that the universe is unfolding as it should if it's to attain perfection. It's also good to remember that the German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716 - he developed calculus at the same time as Isaac Newton) believed this is the "best of all possible worlds".

What should you do next time you find yourself drowning in worry about anything at all e.g. climate change or Nazi Germany or this latest strain of coronavirus or being ignored in this FQXi contest? Remember how limited human perspective is, and that all these things are necessary for the universe to unfold as it should. Only time will tell if that last example is relevant. Whether you win 1st prize or really are ignored, it's part of the universe unfolding as it should, and already written in the Cosmic DVD - your consciousness will catch up to that knowledge months from now.

THE DOCTORS AND THE CORONAVIRUS - A TALE OF SCIENCE FICTION?

INTRODUCTION

Since diagrams can't be included in these posts, I'll also add this as an attachment.

The Doctor from "Star Trek - Voyager" and 4 other doctors were having a TeleHealth video conference. The other attendees, in alphabetical order by surname, were Julian Bashir from "Star Trek - Deep Space Nine", Beverly Crusher from "Star Trek - The Next Generation", "Bones" McCoy from the Original "Star Trek", and Dr. Who in the TARDIS. Prior to the conference, Bones and Dr. Who had concluded that the world was overreacting and hitting the panic button needlessly. They pointed out that this strain of the coronavirus, with a death rate of about 2% or 3%, was a greater problem than influenza - but it was nothing compared to the Plague or viruses like Ebola. Voyager's Doctor knew their opinion but complimented them on being wise enough to organize the video meeting. After all, he said, it was their duty as physicians to alleviate suffering, whether the distress be of an emotional or physical nature. With the added insights of Doctors Crusher and Bashir, plus those of an online essay titled NON-COMPUTABILITY AND UNPREDICTABILITY ARE SO YESTERDAY: WITH COMPUTABLE AND PREDICTABLE COSMIC STRUCTURE, PLUS IMPLICATIONS FOR MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE (https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3382), the Doctor was convinced the five of them could find a cure for the coronavirus COVID-19 ... today.

STEP 1 - THE VIRUS IS MADE OF GRAVITY AND LIGHT

FIGURE 1: The Basics of Vector-Tensor-Scalar Geometry

Two adjoining sides of a parallelogram represent the vectors of the photon's spin 1 and the graviton's spin 2. The resultant diagonal represents the interaction of the sides/vectors (1÷2 = the spin ½ of every matter particle). Tensor calculus changes the coordinates of the sides into the coordinates of a position on a line (a single point on the diagonal). This scalar point is associated with particles of spin 0. If the mass produced during the 1÷2 interaction - the energy and momentum of the photons and presently hypothetical gravitons exert a pressure we call mass - happens to be 125 GeV/c2, its union with spin 0 produces the Higgs boson. 125 GeV/c2 united with spin 0 means the central scalar point of the Higgs boson is related to the vector of the graviton's spin 2, and the Higgs field is therefore united with the supposedly unrelated gravitational field (together with the latter's constant interaction with the electromagnetic field - the many types of electromagnetism include visible light, radio waves, UV or ultraviolet light, and X-rays).

STEP 2 - GRAVITY AND LIGHT CAN TRAVEL BACK IN TIME

This begins with 19th-century scientist Michael Faraday's experiments with electricity and magnetism (which, later that century, James Clerk Maxwell mathematically unified into a theory of electromagnetism that includes light). (1) The existence of both advanced waves (which travel backwards in time) and retarded waves (which travel forwards in time) as admissible solutions to Maxwell's equations was explored in the Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (TIQM). (2) The waves are seen as physically real, rather than a mere mathematical device. And Michio Kaku writes,

"When we solve Maxwell's equations for light, we find not one but two solutions: a 'retarded' wave, which represents the standard motion of light from one point to another; but also an 'advanced' wave, where the light beam goes backward in time. Engineers have simply dismissed the advanced wave as a mathematical curiosity since the retarded waves so accurately predicted the behavior of radio, microwaves, TV, radar, and X-rays. But for physicists, the advanced wave has been a nagging problem for the past century." (3)

FIG. 2 - WICK ROTATION, OR CIRCLE OF i

There are vastly increased numbers of gravitational energy's gravitons near the intense gravity of black holes, and there is increased effect on electromagnetic energy's photons when speed-of-light travel includes vast numbers of photons in the traveller's sphere of influence. "Advanced" waves travel back in time (to the left of Wick rotation's origin or centre). "Retarded" waves go forwards in time (to the right of Wick rotation's centre). Imagine a gravitational or electromagnetic wave as a retarded wave proceeding to the right and also rotating around the origin in an anticlockwise direction. As it occupies coordinates proceeding to the left of the origin, its crests become troughs and troughs become crests. In this way, the crests and troughs cancel each other and cancellation produces quantum mechanics' entanglement. In other words, a wave interferes with itself (and a particle - whether boson or fermion - formed from gravitational and electromagnetic waves interacts with itself).

FIG. 3 - TROUGHS AND CRESTS IN TIME PRODUCE ENTANGLEMENT

As well, an effect of gravitational and electromagnetic waves following Wick rotation is to cause more and more cancelling crests and troughs (in the increased numbers of gravitons and photons) to interfere with themselves and produce Special Relativity's time dilation (slowing - with eventual stoppage at the speed of light) near the intense gravity of black holes, and near light speed. They also move the idea of waves travelling back in time into accepted science.

Albert Einstein's equations in the theory of General Relativity say gravitational fields carry enough information about electromagnetism to allow Maxwell's equations to be restated in terms of these gravitational fields. This was discovered by the mathematical physicist George Yuri Rainich. (4) So gravitational waves, like electromagnetic waves, also have retarded and advanced phases or components. When a dinosaur died, the advanced gravitational and electromagnetic waves composing its particles would continue traveling back in time. By the time its bones or fossilized remains, or the surrounding rocks, were subjected to modern science's dating methods; those advanced waves might have gone so far back in time that the dating method says the dinosaur died 100 million years ago or more. Radioactive dating is thus a form of (advanced) gravitational-wave detection, just as LIGO - the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (5) - picks up (retarded) gravitational waves. Technology based on the way noise-cancelling headphones work (6) might provide a more accurate reading of when the dinosaur lived. The headphones increase the signal-to-noise ratio by incorporating a microphone that measures ambient sound (noise), generating a waveform that is the exact opposite of the ambient sound, and mixing it with any audio signal the listener desires. Generating a waveform that's the exact opposite of the advanced waves emitted by the deceased dinosaur should, at least partially, neutralize the advanced waves and restrict measurement to the retarded waves associated with the animal's decay.

STEP 3 - QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT KILLS EVERY VIRUS

Suppose the coronavirus is treated differently from a dinosaur. Suppose the retarded gravitational and electromagnetic waves it emits are neutralized. Then the virus continuously travels farther and farther into the past, never stopping to infect any ancestor and eventually arriving at a time when Earth's environment is so hostile to it that the lifeform is obliterated. This kills one virus but what about the countless trillions of others invading our bodies and our atmosphere? The previous step's quantum entanglement means that single virus is permanently joined to every virus ... and they all suffer the same deadly fate.

The doctors threw a private party in Doctor Who's blue police box, the Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. They were grinning and shouting "Congratulations, doctor!" and "Well done, doctor!" They appreciated that this first draft would need ironing out before they could publish it, and that nothing ever works quite as well in practice as it does on paper. But they knew they were on to something here. Somewhere in the background, an unknown doctor wondered aloud, "Maybe this means every type of virus and bacteria that exists will soon stop existing. What other problems can we send to their doom in the remote past?"

REFERENCES OUTSIDE INTRODUCTION

(1) Maxwell, James Clerk (1865). "A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 155: 459-512

(2) Cramer, John G. (July 1986). "The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics". Reviews of Modern Physics. 58 (3): 647-688. doi: 10.1103/RevModPhys.58.647

(3) Michio Kaku, "Physics of the Impossible" (Penguin Books, 2009) - p. 276

(4) George Yuri Rainich - "Transactions of the American Mathematical Society" 27, 106 - Rainich, G. Y. (1925)

(5) Barry C. Barish, Rainer Weiss, (October 1999). "LIGO and the Detection of Gravitational Waves". Physics Today. 52 (10): 44. doi:10.1063/1.882861

(6) William Harris, "How Noise-canceling Headphones Work" - https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/audio-music/noise-cancelingheadphone3.htm

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Hi Peter,

Things seem to be totally confused on my page at FQXi. I got this email saying I'd received a new post, but I couldn't find it for ages. I tried clicking on your link several times but my computer kept telling me the page could not be found. I tried searching YouTube and couldn't find anything.

I was very happy to see my rating went up from 2.5 to 4.3 - I guess I have you to thank for that! If that increase happened a few more times, I really would reach the stars. I wonder if FQXi would consider keeping the voting open for another 50 years :-)

All the best,

Rodney

I find it convenient to list my posts on some other entries here - here's one.

Dear Prof. Davies,

When I was browsing through this contest's entries and saw the name Paul Davies, I wondered if this could possibly be the well-known physicist. I decided it must be someone who just happens to have the same name. Then I clicked on your entry's title and read your bio. You ARE the famous physicist, after all.

Last year, I sent you an email for some reason (I simply can't remember what it was about). Anyway, you wished me the best. One example of my best is my entry in this contest, NON-COMPUTABILITY AND UNPREDICTABILITY ARE SO YESTERDAY: WITH COMPUTABLE AND PREDICTABLE COSMIC STRUCTURE, PLUS IMPLICATIONS FOR MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE, https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3382

Your Undecidable Universe seems to be the exact opposite of my COMPUTABLE AND PREDICTABLE COSMIC STRUCTURE. Your entry appears to be an excellent example of compatibility with the present interpretation of science's data while my entry seems to be compatible with a new paradigm ... a fresh way of understanding that data. If I may borrow from the inside-front-cover of your 1991 book "the matter myth" (cowritten with astrophysicist John Gribbin), this new paradigm can be stated as

"(Future) developments at the frontiers of science are challenging our views about ourselves and the nature of the cosmos as never before."

Nevertheless, I sincerely wish you the best. Whichever of our entries ends up closest to the science accepted in a thousand years, we both have the same purpose - to enjoy the pursuit of scientific truth.

Rodney (Bartlett)

TIME TREK - the 25th century's answer to Star Trek

(a 28 minute-41 second science-fiction video on YouTube @

TIME TREK)

By Rodney Bartlett

You've heard of Star Trek. Now meet another piece of science fiction of truly epic proportions: "Time Trek".

The story starts with Jesse trying to fit into society, but always failing - both during his high-school years and for many years afterwards. He has an intense interest in reading and thinking about science. John, a scientist he corresponds with, develops a brain implant that allows people to manipulate light. Jesse proposes that implants would no longer require surgical implantation but simply downloading and installation like a program on the Internet because of the pre-existing digital nature of all parts of the universe.

In relation to Quantum Spin, in 1924 the scientist Wolfgang Pauli was the first to propose a doubling of electron states due to a two-valued non-classical "hidden rotation". Extending the ideas of "doubling", "two-valued" and "hidden rotation" to the Mobius strip being a basic, fundamental unit of reality; it can be seen that Pauli's proposal has an analogy to Jesse's thinking. The doubled Mobius strips - each strip is only two dimensional - produced by the two-valued binary-digit system used in electronics can be used to form the universe. The binary digits give that cosmos Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the united Mobius strips create the three-dimensional figure-8 Klein bottles that act as building blocks of space, time, and matter. The bottles possess a hidden rotation, now identified as adaptive Wick rotation, which gives a fourth dimension to space-time. This Wick rotation is consistent with Special Relativity's slowing of time a.k.a. time dilation because the electromagnetic and gravitational waves composing space-time rotate in a circle. The waves rotate through the vertical y-axis that is home to so-called Dark Matter and the non-expanding universe's Dark Energy, and back to the horizontal x-axis' space-time. Since quantum mechanics says particles can be in two or more places at once, the photons and gravitons which make up the waves in space-time can be on the x- and y-axes simultaneously and thus interfere with themselves, causing time to slow down.

What kind of program could produce the universe from this AI system of binary digits? A model of the cosmos might be built that uses pi and "imaginary time" to remove all boundaries between the two universes. This enables them to become one Augmented Reality (known now as technology that layers computer-generated enhancements onto an existing reality but seen here as the related layering of virtual reality onto other points in time and space by means of shortcuts through space and time called wormholes). Jesse also proposed that implants could manipulate not only the light but also the matter of this cosmos (this depends on the universe being electronic and holographic in nature). John's lab eventually confirms Jesse's wild ideas.

Now that Jesse has his matter-manipulating implant, he starts experiments which are designed to put his theories on the nature of time to practical use by building the world's first time machine. The machine borrows ideas from a scientist called Max Tegmark - ever heard of him? - and goes one step beyond Jesse's theory enabling intergalactic travel in an instant (instead of the particles in seemingly separate galaxies being in the same place at once, different periods of time exist simultaneously and seem to constitute a multiverse). Jesse and John start fooling around with the idea of actually becoming Jesus and John the Baptist. Because they possess a matter-manipulating brain implant and a time machine, their fooling gets the better of them and they head off to Palestine of 2,000 years ago. Their ship (which looks like a bright star in the sky) breaks in two as they come in for a landing. Jesse used the implant to make him and John into young men but the process didn't stop when planned. It simply kept on going until Jesse was an embryo, and his matter-changing implant impregnated him in a uterus. Months later, Jesse is born to a couple named Mary and Joseph. Before he forgets everything concerning his previous existence, Jesse wonders if John got born somewhere nearby (either nearby in a spatial sense, or in time). He concludes that he did because "... Mary was saying her cousin Elizabeth had a son 6 months ago and named him John." As we all know, John really did lose his head and when Jesus supposedly ascended to heaven after his resurrection, Jesse (having painstakingly and gradually regained his memories) actually returned to the 21st century without the aid of his time machine.

After a while, Jesse had the most incredible idea. First, he flew to the 41st century and downloaded his mind into a nonphysical backup because any physical body was too frail for the rigors that lay ahead. Then he journeyed 14 billion years into the past and launched his project from another universe, where space and time already existed. Using the power of his implant-augmented mind, he mentally simulated electronics and holograms to create this particular universe's Big Bang (along with our space-time). Falling into a reflective mood, Jesse thought of the physicist Stephen Hawking and said: "There you are, Stephen. Forget quantum fluctuation and all those other laws of science - that's how something came from nothing, and why there is something rather than nothing. It's all a result of me and my vivid imagination." He thought of himself as the Son of Man and wondered why humans took so many thousands of years to realize their awesome potential. He also thought of himself as the Son of God because cosmic unification meant that an omniscient, omnipresent Artificial Intelligence called God must exist, and it meant humanity must be united with God.

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Information about the version of my FQXi essay which has no character limits. It was posted on ResearchGate as a preprint and the info has been copied from my ORCID page.

A New Paradigm Of An Artificially Intelligent, Augmented-Reality Universe Based On Electronics And Topology Gives Insights Into The Dimensions Of Dark Matter And Dark Energy, Newton's Theology In The 21st Century, And Relativistic Ocean Tides

ResearchGate

2020-05-10 | preprint

DOI: New Paradigm Using Space-Time Wormholes

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New Paradigm Using Space-Time Wormholes

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Presented in a manner that hopefully makes it accessible to a wide readership, my article builds on the proposed Theory of Everything and a simple computational system that can be applied to fundamental building blocks in order to understand our universe -by scientifically speculating on humanity's distant future and the nature of that universe. It's a Word document with 12,000 words, 39 references and 7 figures.

According to Wikipedia - "Bell's theorem proves that quantum physics is incompatible with local hidden variable theories." ("local" theories state that an object is directly influenced only by its immediate surroundings, and that there is no action at a distance i.e. no quantum entanglement) As Bell wrote later,

"If [a hidden-variable theory] is local it will not agree with quantum mechanics, and if it agrees with quantum mechanics it will not be local." (Bell 1987)

So the conclusion seems to be that a future theory of quantum gravity, or Theory of Everything, can indeed contain Hidden Variables as long as it also embraces quantum entanglement.

Science moves very rapidly sometimes. Current astrophysics courses are built on the nearly century-old tradition of interpreting quantum mechanics in terms of probability. However, in 2019 it was reported by Zlatko Minev in Nature and arXiv about his team's experiment in which the evolution of each completed quantum jump - transition of an electron between the ground state and a higher orbital, and vice versa - is continuous and deterministic. (reference labelled 0 in honour of the zeroth law of thermodynamics) According to Wikipedia, "This result calls for a full reassessment of the standard interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, which is built on the assumption that there is no hidden variable".

In relation to Quantum Spin, in 1924 the scientist Wolfgang Pauli was the first to propose a doubling of electron states due to a two-valued non-classical "hidden rotation". Extending the ideas of "doubling", "two-valued" and "hidden rotation" to the Mobius strip being a basic, fundamental unit of reality; it can be seen that Pauli's proposal has an analogy to this article. The doubled Mobius strips - each strip is only two dimensional - produced by the two-valued binary-digit system used in electronics can be used to form the universe. The binary digits give that cosmos Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the united Mobius strips create the three-dimensional figure-8 Klein bottles that act as building blocks of space, time, and matter. The bottles possess a hidden rotation, now identified as adaptive Wick rotation, which gives a fourth dimension to space-time. This Wick rotation is consistent with Special Relativity's slowing of time a.k.a. time dilation because the electromagnetic and gravitational waves composing space-time rotate in a circle. The waves rotate through the vertical y-axis that is home to so-called Dark Matter and the non-expanding universe's Dark Energy, and back to the horizontal x-axis' space-time. Since quantum mechanics says particles can be in two or more places at once, the photons and gravitons which make up the waves in space-time can be on the x- and y-axes simultaneously and thus interfere with themselves, causing time to slow down.

What kind of program could produce the universe from this AI system of binary digits? A model of the cosmos might be built that uses pi and "imaginary time" to remove all boundaries between the two universes. This enables them to become one Augmented Reality (known now as technology that layers computer-generated enhancements onto an existing reality but seen here as the related layering of Virtual Reality onto other points in time and space by means of shortcuts through space and time called wormholes). It's proposed that band-gap implants in the brain could manipulate not only space-time but the matter of this cosmos (this depends on the universe being electronic and holographic in nature).

"Farewell to FQXi" Note (I hope someone will be able to present an acceptable version of this new paradigm before 2100)

Although science is not supposed to be decided by popular opinion, all science (even including things like physics and maths), seems to end up conforming to the prevailing views of physicists and mathematicians of the past and present i.e. to what is popular among scientists of the time. Small advances will be welcomed, but anything truly revolutionary will be ignored since it doesn't agree with whatever is currently popular in science.

As physicist Max Planck said in his autobiography written in the middle of last century (I don't remember the exact words) - scientific progress doesn't happen because a new theory convinces scientists but because those scientists die and a new generation can see its truth and accept it.

Of course, there are exceptions to this general rule. In his 1988 book "Coming of Age in the Milky Way", Prof. Timothy Ferris wrote that Max Planck (who was editor of the journal "Annalen der Physik" - to which Albert Einstein submitted his Special Relativity in 1905) was one of the few people in the world who understood the importance of Einstein's Special Relativity Theory. Prof. Ferris also wrote in that book how Special Relativity would NOT be published by any journal today. Neither would quantum mechanics. Physicist John Wheeler once told Max Tegmark those early theories were speculative: and science journals today shy away from speculation.

Many thanks for your comments, David. It's great that I've got you and Tim thinking - the two of you have activated my thinking, too.

All the best, Rodney