Dear Edwin,

Thank you for your kind comments on my essay.

My friend Barry and myself agreed some 20 years ago that everything we discuss and theorise on is 'provisional'. We change our minds on ideas constantly as we flesh them out. We are always looking for the 'best fit' to current data and knowledge from a physical understanding point of view.

Personally I believe the 'demon' can take a snapshot of the Universe, as the roots of 'simultaneity' are not well considered, and are tied to a constant speed of light and relativity. My algorithmic TOE works via iteration. I consider an iteration to be similar to the tick of a master clock, yet my theory of time is based on the energy density at a point in space, which gives relative flow of time. A relative flow map of the Universe would match a gravitational map for the best part, but it also encompasses time dilation due to kinetic energy relative to the reference frame of an aether. I think of time flow as 'x' seconds per second, where the denominator is empty space (which we conveniently regard as here on Earth), an the numerator 'x' is a dilated time in the range 0 to 1. However tallying energy can be problematic as we do not understand 'dark energy' at all.

I am glad you like my version of presentism, as I personally find the alternative (eternalism or block universe) abhorrent.

I am currently reading your marvellous treatise" Everything's relative, or is it?" which I found in a link elsewhere. I am spending about 50% of my time in isolation reading physics essays, it certainly passes the time and relieves he anxiety!

Thanks again,

Lockie

Dear Lachlan

Good and nice essay! You touch several issues that are well connected with the main topic of this competition. You argue well the problem of computability by relating it to your own experiences. This is a nice way of expressing ideas. The topic of time is very interesting as well, I have thought about it and I am aware of what you discuss; although I am still struggling with this concept. I guess nobody understand time despite that we can measure it.

All the best!

Israel

    Thanks for your reflections on my essay, Israel.

    I am enjoying your 'The preferred system of reference reloaded' at the moment.

    There are so many interesting essays and it takes time to read them, reflect on them and then leave comments. I am a newbie at this!

    I have rated your 'Lost in Maths' essay which I enjoyed, and I have found your review paper on MMX, which ties in with quite a few of this year's essays.

    Good luck to you.

    Lockie

    16 days later

    Dear Lockie

    I enjoyed reading your essay and found it very stimulating. It's good to see that the responses you received were so positive.

    I would like to add some thoughts on the "wave particle duality paradox." I totally agree that it is absurd to assume that particles possess a form of schizoid behaviour where it's either a wave or a particle depending on the whim or actions of the observer.

    Maxwell demands that you must not ignore the magnetic moment of the electron, even when stationary, but especially when travelling at constant velocity. The magnetic moment of the electron has several degrees of freedom: it can radiate due to precession or radiate due to rotations or tumbling. Think nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) or rotational spectra, neutrons atoms and molecules also contain magnetic moments. A fast electron can gain angular momentum on interacting with a surface or a force, the result must give rise to radiation in almost all orientations of the magnetic moment. Because of the very small diameter of the electron gamma rays would be generated for practical initial linear velocities. Imagine a squash ball containing a magnet inert-acting with walls, wouldn't Maxwell's Equations insist on radiation? The paradox of Young's two slit with electrons is solved with this approach!?

    Good luck Lockie

    Dear Mr Cresswell,

    I appreciate your take on the turning machine in your endnotes

    Great essay

    The longer form of my essay explores some similar thoughts about the turning machine and it similarity to living biological entities

      Dear Kwame,

      Thanks for your comments on my essay. As you already know I enjoyed yours and encourage you to continue to be an active thinker. People won't always agree with you, but that doesn't matter as along as you have an open mind (which is difficult) and you are your own constant critic!

      LL&P

      Lockie

      Dear Dr Lachlan Cresswell....

      This post I am repeating here

      Thank you for reading my essay very critically, thank you for accepting my essay to 99%, for me it was a difficult task wonderfully achieved!!!

      Now lets come to the point you did not agree.... lets have live discussion....

      These Imaginery numbers or complex numbers; quaternions, octonions, etc used for multiple variables are tracked.............. Quaternions which are non commutative are especially good for rotations in 3D space, something that is important in particle physics. Although Einstein used tensors, quaternions are making a comeback as they can be programmed on computers, and are used a lot in computer graphics........

      I also accept without any problems...... ......

      But assume a situation where a third order or any higher order differential equation is used in one or more dimensions while formation, can you get a real solution???

      Also assume a situation where some value represented in an imaginary axis perpendicular to time axis, what will be the physical meaning of that point?

      Assuming mathematics and giving solutions is ok, what will be the physical meaning ...

      40 years I was working on Dynamic Universe model and used tensors with simple equations but not differential equations. Otherwise the real solutions we will get will have singularities.

      May the hidden Vak be revealed..........!!!!

      Best Regards

      =snp

        Dear Dr,

        I request you not to make any conclusions without a proper discussion.......

        I was working on this Dynamic Universe Model for the last forty years under the guidance given by Maa VAK (She is Hindu Goddess Saraswathi for wisdom and education). Almost all papers are important, all results are important, many predictions came true. I dont know which result to elaborate, For example...

        -Explains Formation of Astronomical Jets and their high Velocities at Galaxy centers..... The particles traveling parallel to plane of Galaxy suddenly they turn perpendicular at Galaxy center !

        -Predicts Frequency shift in electro-magnetic radiation near huge gravitating masses .... this is in addition to bending of light as predicted by Einstein !!

        -Galaxy Disk formation: Densemass Equations ..... There is no requirement of Blackholes!!

        -Explains gravity disturbances like Pioneer anomaly,.... Until now we considered a single body (eg. Earth) gravitation on another (apple) only.This SITA approach solves the Gravitational catapult !

        -Non-collapsing large scale mass structures .... They dont fall a single lump mass dueto gravitation !

        -Offers Singularity free solutions ...... No Bigbang, No blackholes !!

        -Solving Missing mass in Galaxies, and finds reason for Galaxy circular velocity curves.... ... NO MISSING MASS if you calculate using SITA approach !

        -Blue shifted and red shifted Galaxies co-existence, in an Accelerating Expanding Universe...... 30% are blue shifted Galaxies !

        -Explains the large voids and non-uniform matter densities.... UNIFORM density is not observed

        -Withstands 105 times the Normal Jeans swindle test.... other N-body problems fail at at 1% of any position disturbance

        -Explains VLBI variations.... Other wise very difficult

        - Explains energy to mass conversion....... Energy --->Frequency upshifting --> mass

        -Explains Cosmic-rays formation with the same SITA approach, origins of Cosmic Rays expalined

        - Proposed an UNIVERSE model with full cycle of Energy (from Sun)--- to Mass( neutrinos to Hydrogen- to formation of various elements) ---- to formation of Stars and Sun ---- to Energy again---- NO BIGBANG --- No Blackholes etc...

        I can not just explain 40 years of research done in just 9 page essay, I just gave main points.... I am sorry ....

        I just rated your essay now much better than above average, now your is rating is 5.3. Best wishes to your essay

        Please contact me " snp.gupta@gmail.com "

        Warm regards

        =snp

        Dear Dr

        I suddenly remembered OLD 'Two of Us'... Boney M. song

        Two of us riding nowhere

        Spending someones

        Hard earned pay

        You and me Sunday driving

        Not arriving on our way back home

        We're on our way home

        We're on our way home

        We're going home ....................

        Are we really going home?

        Best

        =snp

          Hi Barry,

          I believe you are 'right on the money' with your maxwellian interpretation of Young's two slit experiment with electrons. I also believe that the field of the electron also passes through both slits, as well as the radiation due to the various forms of motion of the electron. This of course does not mean I accept wave particle duality in the sense of quantum mechanics. I only accept that an electron (particle) always has its electric and magnetic fields, and that motion of the electron creates waves in these fields. (I know we differ in our interpretation of these particular waves).

          Good luck with your EPR is resolved essay! I hope some of your long time critics will read this and weep!

          LL&P

          Lockie

          Dear SNP,

          I am not a Dr., just an armchair spectator and occasional player!

          I like the lyrics you posted of 'Two of Us' which was written by Lennon/McCartney and performed by the Beatles on 'Let It Be'. Boney M did a good cover, but I like the Beatles version best.

          Dear SNP,

          I will continue the 'imaginary debate' via email as you propose. Thanks for rating my essay. Did you enjoy my wander down memory lane?

          I will continue to reread your essay and ponder on the cosmology section.

          Thanks for your correspondence, I appreciate it.

          May the hidden Vak be revealed..........!!!!

          Best Regards

          Lockie

          Dear Lockie

          Thank you for your reply,I dont know you are satisfied with my reply. You may please reply here also, no problem.

          Hope you also will rate my essay, if you already rated it, dont worry.

          I definitely like to discuss anywhere you like

          Best Regards

          =snp

          Dear Lockie

          I dont know that. Boney M re-sung this song is it? I did not here Beatles song.

          Well thank you....

          We hope to continue...

          What is your email Id?

          Best

          =snp

          Lockie,

          Thanks for an apt reading of my essay. Yours was a "down-under" type adventure. Your crossword puzzle was an interesting "table-of-contents" of an essay that entertains and informs. I feel more colorful as a skuld entity with self-awareness though perhaps my future output is not totally unpredictable, given my past roadmap. When you speak of the "now" and the future, I think of news of the mutation of the coronavirus as in input in an uncertain future.

          Liked your essay and consider it one of the best in discussing the 3 "Us".

          My ratings is your 8th in this world of raters giving "1" bombs w/o comments.

          Regards,

          Jim Hoover

            Thanks Jim.

            My essay's first rating was a 1, which I think causes others to avoid reading.

            I'll rate your now as it was most enjoyable to read. I find some essays are too philosophical and some are too mathematical, and others are just hard to read. At the start I was taking a day to read and re-read and digest each essay, but with hundreds of entries that is a lost cause.

            I am glad you like being a skuld entity. In another post to Kwame Bennett I defined intelligence as the ability to build a radiotelescope!

            As for covid19, it is interesting that a virus pattern in the 'now' can wreak so much havoc in the future, as you note. I certainly don't think it was all pre-determined, especially as the US Presidentis such a wild card!

            Cheers

            Lockie

            Thanks, Lockie

            For your comments. I am keen on fields that "wriggle" and the Poynting vector at the moment but that can change, we can thrash it out.

            Good luck with the essay comp.

            Cheers Barry

            Hey Lachlan (and fellow Australian),

            Thanks for the interesting essay. You wrote about Wolfram's ideas from a new kind of science. There is a bit of strange beauty that arises from these simple building block automona models when they make a very complex but strangely simple structure. As you noted right at the very end, the brain must work in a similar fashion. The interesting question is at what point does self-referential consciousness arise? Does the brain reach some critical mass where it suddenly emerges? In any case, if we take our current understanding, it appears the brain is a highly non-linear, dissipative Turing machine (not sure if it is universal).

            In any case, it was a unique set of ideas that you presented in your essay. I hope you can take the time to have a look at essay which considers the dissipative nature of Turing machines and might be of interest to you.

            Michael

              Thanks for your comments Michael.

              I enjoyed your essay and left comments for you on your site.

              Given that I believe in mathematical structures as approximations of the object reality of the Universe, I suppose that would mean I am also an adherent of skuld monism. But I do not believe in determinism! I think that emergent skuld beings such as ourselves are a form of coarse-graining, and it is this coarse graining that prevents determinism.

              In my essay I wrote that instead of considering procedures that can recursively call themselves, what if the procedure/program/brain can modify itself, thus changing and improving, and so on? Surely this type of recursion lies at the heart of the origins of consciousness? Many millions of years of evolution have honed consciousness to fully skuld awareness of an endless variety of things. I guess that is my take on things re consciousness arising.

              Cheers

              lockie

              Interesting essay. One reason I think theoretical physicists tend not to like cell automata-like models is that they are hard to extract insight from. Even if a wizard gave us a cell automata model and told us it was the Theory of Everything, we would still probably like to come up with phenomenological descriptions of it that are easier to understand. Having the rules for such a model doesn't tell us why the consequences are what they are, e.g. why there appear to be four forces and why these rules cause atoms and galaxies to form. For a theory that we don't a priori know is right, these automata theories are also hard to test experimentally.

              The thermodynamic arrow of time is, in some sense, pretty much understood. It doesn't have anything to do with wave/particle duality, since it happens in the classical mechanics to classical statistical mechanics transition also. It's an emergent consequence of having lots of chaotically moving particles. Formally, you get time irreversibility when you take the particle number N to infinity, a singular limit. There's a good chapter discussing all this in Chibbaro et al's "Reductionism, emergence, and levels of reality".

              Not sure I understand your positions on presentism and free will. Maybe I did not read carefully enough.

              John