Good Morning Readers!

And it is a bright and shining day today!

I think we all want to give Fulffy [at CosmoCoffee Bolg] a big hand for his dogged efforts. Heckuva job Fluffy.

Be sure to see the Oct. 28 issue of Nature: classical GR vindicated. Spin foams and other quantum gravity fantasies falsified.

On the subject of gravitation, here is a nice example of a particle physicist using his anti-Midas touch to turn gold into poop:

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0910/0910.5167v1.pdf .

Does the Perimeter Insitute have anyone who is interested in anything besides Glass Bead Games, like maybe, reality?

Reading of the Day: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0708/0708.3501.pdf

Omigod, can that possibly be right? Oh Ya!

Yours in the new paradigm,

RLO

www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

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Goodddd morrrrrrrrning scientists of the truth ,Robin williams will like .

I approve your dogged efforts in humor and little of sciences .

Perhaps you shall find a place in the several Labs ,I think that between fermi lab and perimeter more Kavli ,you are going to have good synergies .In all case for the Belgium ,it's too cold for you and too small .

ahahah let's laugh a little ,it's good for health .Pay attention I haven't already taken my meds .Still 3 hours and I am quiet hihihi

Regards

Steve

Last night I was reading [2nd or 3rd time] Ivars Ekeland's excellent book "The Best Of All Possible Worlds" and the revolutionary changes wrought by nonlinear dynamical systems theory.

I was moved once again the ask the following impertinent question:

Is Perfect Reversibility/Integrability A Myth?

Did Poincare discover this revolutionary idea already during the 1892−1899 period when modern chaos theory was founded in his "The New Methods of Celestial Mechanics"?

Are the examples of "reversibility" that physicists frequently cite actually one of two basic varieties: (1) artificial idealizations that do not exist in the real world [nature], or (2) systems that are briefly maintained in periodic states, but whose full, and unmanipulated, range of behavior includes periodic, semi-periodic, quasi-static and fully chaotic states.

Bottom line: Are reversible/integrable "systems" very limited artificial idealizations of true systems found in nature, which are nonlinear dynamical systems?

What are the best examples of real world systems that appear to be ideally reversible/integrable?

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On a related note, it seems to me that the SubStandard paradigm is tottering around like an embarrassing drunk. It's going down, and the sooner the better.

The ingredients of the new paradigm are: (1) Classical EM, (2) Classical GR, (3) Discrete Scale Relativity, and (4) Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Theory. These ingredients cannot be combined randomly or with force. They must be carefully integrated by those who study nature and have developed the intuition to do so.

Yours in the new paradigm,

RLO

www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

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Hi Mr Oldershaw ,

You speak about these non linears systems which I don't know well .

You ask if the perfect reversibility is possible ?

My answer is evidently no of course in its whole .What do you mean by a perfect reversibility ,what are the parameters ,variables ?? The Time ,our physical Universe ,biological organisms ,....of course no they are not reversibles,fortunaly .Could you develop a little the real meaning of these reversibilities ?

Now of course if the chaos is taken in its local and instant analyzes ,thus of course the dynamic is perceived in a non linear or non balanced systems but it's just a step in a balanced system ,thus of course the chaos theory is false in its whole.The thermodynamic is universal and the linearity is correlated .Now of course the human has a mind of creativity and thus interprets with a limited perception thus implying false extrapolations about the reversibility and the irreversibility .

All combinations ,superimposings must be thus under specific universl laws .

The quasi static perception is not a good tool in my opinion and implies some confusions about our constants and mechanics .

Thus all add of forces or energy or .....must be pragmatic for the referential .The balance is better I think in thermodynamic .

Regards

Steve

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

The following is from the CosmoCoffee Blog [10/31/09]

The original question was roughly: 'Are we sure that the value of G within an Atomic Scale system [say, an H atom or a proton] is the conventional Newtonian value, and if so what is the experimental basis for this surety?'

The answer, as anyone who is honest and willing to fight for an unbiased scientific result will find, is very clearly; "No!"

We have believed that G is the same no matter what the Scale or context. We have made it an axiom that G is a universal scale invariant constant. Moreover we have built up the prevailing paradigm around the assumption that this is inviolable.

But it is all based on pure and unadulterated speculation. Purely an assumption. Nothing more.

If each cosmological Scale, e.g., the Atomic, Stellar, Galactic Scales, etc. each have their own specific G values, then a completely different understanding of nature is possible. It would be a discrete self-similar cosmology, or one could call it a discrete fractal cosmology.

No valuable science is thrown out in the new paradigm, but nearly everything is reinterpreted. This is what new paradigms are all about.

I do not expect that Fluffy, or those who share his psychological makeup, will have much interest in considering a new paradigm. But perhaps there are one or two readers out there who would be interested in considering what nature would be like if the G-values are different for each Scale, and differ by a factor of ~ 10^38 between neighboring Scales.

I can promise you that the the results are elegant and amazing. I can also promise you that there is a very large body of scientific evidence that supports the new paradigm. I can also assure you that the paradigm's dark matter predictions will definitively verify/falsify the whole paradigm in the near future.

"The authority of a 1000 is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual",

RLO

www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

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"Some interesting questions immediately arise. Why are fractal hierarchies so ubiquitous in nature? By studying empirical phenomena within the observable universe, how much will we be able to learn scientifically about the parts of the Universe that lie beyond our observational limits? Does the infinite cosmological hierarchy have a bottom-most scale of subatomic particles, as is currently assumed, or is this another artificial boundary in an infinite fractal cosmos that actually extends without limits to ever-smaller scales?"

The question isn't limited to fractal hierarchies. Why are there isomorphisms in nature, period? By which I mean similar or near-identical behaviors on the part of phenomena between which no defined direct causalities exist.

Exhibit "A" might be the interference patterns exhibited by both hydraulic waves and quantum "waves" in double slit experiments. How come? Another head-scratcher is entropy, whose definition (as a mathematical formalism) applies to both energy transfer in thermodynamics and transfer of information seemingly independent of the physical media involved (most recently surfacing in Jan Kåhre's somewhat disconcerting Mathematical Theory of Information). Indeed puzzling. (Some people apply the concept, rather more dubiously, to such less objectively measurable phenomena as cultural disintegration and urban decay, but let's put that aside as unnecessarily confusing.)

Anyway, pourquoi?

Hi Nick,

Most waves can exhibit similar interference phenomena because it is a general property of wave phenomena. So the wave mechanics of electronic wavefunctions, ocean waves, and guitar strings can all exhibit "isomorphisms.

Why are isomorphisms generally so common in nature? Perhaps because nature is simple and elegant and efficient. All nature is based on a relatively small number of geometric and physical principles which are used in a variety of contexts and on different scales.

Regarding entropy, I think the discussion of this topic in classical thermodynamics is very solid and useful. When entropy is applied in other, less well understood realms, such as high energy physics, quantum mechanics, "information theory" or cosmology, I feel like you do that "entropy" bcomes more pseudoscience than science. Throwing encyclopedias into black holes and seriously expecting to be able to recover the information! Totally insane!

Yours in the new paradigm,

RLO

www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

Some people might ask:

"What IS this guy's problem?"

Well, let me explain.

I have watched theoretical physics descend

into untestable pseudoscience over the last

few decades, and it is very disturbing to anyone

who loves testable natural philosophy and

experimental science.

First it was the hordes of unobservable particles,

then the untestable and childishly idealistic

cosmological assumptions, then the whole

string theory excursion into la-la land, then

the deplorable "anthropic reasoning", then

the 10^500 random "multiverses", then the

"Boltzmann Brains" [egad!].

When I learned about the Nielsen/Ninomiya

papers it was like a "call to arms". The fact

that one cannot be entirely sure if the authors

intended to be taken seriously, or if the whole

fiasco is an elaborate hoax, just makes the

insult to science that much worse.

I would roughly estimate that 50% of current

theoretical physics, including the most

"fashionable" brands, are untestable pseudoscience

at best, and Platonic twittery if we are being candid.

People like Einstein and Schroedinger have been

replaced by execrable "natural pilosophers" who

may be very adept at abstract and hermetic

analytical methods, but who seem to have little

or no intercourse with the real world of nature.

The sycophants follow like sheep because they

feel it is not their role to question the Glass Bead

Game.

Well, I could go on at great length, but now you

know what the "problem" is. The question is:

What is to be done about it?

Hoping for a new paradigm,

and a definitively testable

paradigm, at that,

RLO

www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

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What is to be done about it?

it is very simple in fact ,a rational sorting .

But the confusions are so important that only thus our mind can make a sorting ,like a border between our two hemispheroids .Like a balance between the imaginaries and the physicality .

How can we have a real taxonomy without limits and gauges.

The topology and its limits are essentials in my opinion.Even when the philosophy and the universal sciences are in correlation ,the simplicity of their complexities appear with harmony .

Regards

Steve

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Random thought of the day:

From "Backreaction" blog:

Bee [aka the devine Ms. Hossenfelder],

Knowing whether the population explosion

[which can be empirically documented, if one

looks up pop. vs time] is a huge threat to the

foreseeable future of humankind and other

species, or something we can successfully

deal with as we go along, is a matter of wisdom

and judgement.

Alas, today we have an over-abundance of

analytical expertise - witness the geniuses

at work in the finance industry or in string theory

endeavors. What we seem to be badly missing

are wisdom and judgment, which are more weighted

toward right hemispheric conceptual abilities.

Regarding the severity [or not] of the population

problem, E.O. Wilson has an objective and candid

review of the situation in "The Future Of Life"

[esp. Ch. 2, "the Bottleneck"]. This is not a jeremiad.

Wilson calmly describes the reality of the situation.

We can wake up from our ignorance and our delusions

and our self-interests. Or we can suffer the consequences.

Our choice.

Hoping for a new paradigm,

RLO

www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

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ADDENDUM:

You mention good medical care as a crucial

factor in decreasing excessive birth rates.

Here is an excellent case in point. You are right,

but why is medical care often so poor? It is

because the whole economy of the area is poor.

And that is largely because the inhabitants have

overpopulated the territory and have started

decimating the natural resources upon which

they rely [whacking down all the trees for firewood

is like eating all your seed stocks].

So: over-population leads to environmental problems,

which lead to economic problems, which lead to

poor medical care, which leads to over-population.

See how it works? See how to break the cycle?

And this applies not just in highly under-developed

countries. With slightly modified inputs the same

basic analysis applies in the good ol' USA, where

we have just passed the 300 million mark, I believe.

Time for action, not just words,

Time for a new paradigm.

RLO

www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

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Hello Mr Oldershaw ,

Your two last posts are very relevants about the responsability of scientists .

I think what we can improve the locality towards a kind of prosperity permitting the creativity after .For that the soil is the key .

Our main needs are food,water ,energy ,health,education,prosperity....Why thus the soil is the key ,because all depends of this soil .Afetr an improvement of the soil ,we plant and adapt the ecosystem with the multiplication of plants ,afetr we compost ....exponential (CH4,foods,compost...)

Of course the united and the synergies between systems increase the speed of the solution .

In USA you are 330 000 I think ,the problem there is not a real problem .On the other side ,some places need helps .The solutions are simples and possibles .

Regards

Steve

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The population problem, like the various environmental problems, is everybody's responsibility to solve.

We need a new paradigm, and the integrity to live honest rational lives.

RLO

www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

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Yes indeed the individual responsability is important .But at this moment a responsability of the sciences community is still more important .Why because it is just a question of time and acceleration of the process of resoluton .Can we hope in the politic or in the habits .

For a big problem ,a big solution thus ....

Regards

Steve

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The man of wisdom does not look to others for someone to blame or someone to solve his problems.

The man of wisdom begins the desired change in his own mind first, and then begins to put his new understanding into action.

Waiting for 'deus ex machina' is a fool's game.

RLO

www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw

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The just man never doesn't search the problem .And always love the bad .The secret is there with or without the agreement of others .A pure man loves all without discriminition ,presumption .He never search the problems but seauch the solutions .

A real wise tries to unify and don't accept the individualism due to his vanity .Because simply alone we are nothing .

We can't use all the words what we want ,the love is the love ,the universality is the universality ,and the vanity is the vanity ,but we evolve fortunally .The human instinct is young .

The wise man doen't crush insects ,never ,doesn't try to be better than his fellow man ,doesn't try to have the best words ,no the wise man loves simply .

Never be in the hate ,never .Neve to love monney ,never to loves the powers,the individualism,it doesn(t exist differences because all is the same .

It doesn't exist faith without the acts .A pure love of compasion is our only reason of life .We are catalyzers of the truth and that is all .The love always will eat the hate with wisdom ,simply.

To be or not to be that is the question NO ?

Regards and wisely .

Steve

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2B or Knot too Bee? That is the fish hook! Oy, carumba!

Basta

RLO

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Basta like you say ,all is said .

Ay Carumba .Basta indeed .AHAHAHAH

I am laughing and not a little .Don't be frustrated .

Vaya con dios

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Y Usted

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hihihi gracias

como esta usted ? muy bien .y ustedes? muy bien

Muchas gracias my amigo

saludos cordiales

Steve