Nature Is Fundamentally Discrete But Our Basic Formalism Is Not by Lev Goldfarb

Dear Lev,

Congratulations on your dedication to the competition and your much deserved top 35 placing. I have a bugging question for you, which I've also posed to all the potential prize winners btw:

Q: Coulomb's Law of electrostatics was modelled by Maxwell by mechanical means after his mathematical deductions as an added verification (thanks for that bit of info Edwin), which I highly admire. To me, this gives his equation some substance. I have a problem with the laws of gravity though, especially the mathematical representation that "every object attracts every other object equally in all directions." The 'fabric' of spacetime model of gravity doesn't lend itself to explain the law of electrostatics. Coulomb's law denotes two types of matter, one 'charged' positive and the opposite type 'charged' negative. An Archimedes screw model for the graviton can explain -both- the gravity law and the electrostatic law, whilst the 'fabric' of spacetime can't. Doesn't this by definition make the helical screw model better than than anything else that has been suggested for the mechanism of the gravity force?? Otherwise the unification of all the forces is an impossiblity imo. Do you have an opinion on my analysis at all?

Best wishes,

Alan

Lev

You have found a solution I've spent some years looking for. I've tried many words but they have normally failed me and been inadequate. I have to congratulate you on your inspired use of the word 'cataclysmic'. Well done for finally pinning the right word down so precisely.

I've recently added a couple more analogies and explanations to my string which, if you have time, I'd greatly appreciate your looking over. The last in in response to a tome by Basudeba.

The solution has come through departure from the abstractions of points and lines and reversion to simply the 3D 'body' Einstein originally specified. This is so close to your own thesis I do hope you can perceive the enormous result, well able to extract us from cataclysm. You will need all your dynamic visualisation skills and a tiny bit more. An earlier post breaks the variables down and deals with each observer and path 'condition'.

Very best wishes

Peter

Lev

Thank for message on mine. Shame, but it seems we're all different for good reason.

The problem with the DFM is the construct has to be in motion. Did I post you this video, with two observer frames involved.; http://fqxi.org/data/forum-attachments/1_YouTube__Dilation.htm

It still takes a lot of thought and imagination!

Best of luck.

Peter

Okay, no problem. All the best

Alan

Gentlemens

I wonder why you did not notice or do not want to notice the radical view that an independent investigator.Remember this name: name,Friedwardt Winterberg

http://bourabai.narod.ru/winter/relativ.htm

http://bourabai.narod.ru/winter/clouds.htm

Yuri Danoyan

Dear Lev

I am honored to be your neighbor on this week's top essays web-page. I have read your interesting essay twice, and cannot honestly say I fully understand your concepts completely yet, but I did get the general idea that we need to use a new conceptual language when dealing with nature. The reason for this is due more to my own rather too-focused ideas on my own specific approach to reconstructing physics, rather than to any lack in your lucid and learned presentation. Your graphics rather reminded me of Penrose's suggestion to represent tensor operations in what he called diagrammatic notation (Roger Penrose "The Road to Reality" Figs 12.17 and 12.18) but of course the specifics and intentions of the diagrams are quite different.

From your obviously well-defined point of view and set of ideas I wonder what you would think of my scheme to reconstruct physics in my 2005 Beautiful Universe paper on which my present fqxi paper is based?

The only way to go forward for me now seems to be by computer simulation. Any ideas how I can start?

With best wishes from Vladimir

One of the fundamental problems in continuous and discrete revolves around what actually happens in reality vrs the limitations of the information medium that conveys it to us. The problem is as follows:

Everything that constitutes reality is undergoing a process of change. Every sequence of change has its own intrinsic rate of change. [This is time, incidentally, but not the point I am making here].

Logically, both the maximum number of states and the fastest rate of change potentially experienceable, is a function of the maximum frequency with which the medium conveying the information is able to differentiate them. This could differ from what actually exists, which should be inferable.

So, the attributes of the medium (the obvious one being light) needs to be disentangled from the resulting experience of reality, in order to extrapolate what was reality.

© Paul Reed

April 2011

Extracted from Theory of Reality and Time posted on Re Ality (Facebook, look for the boy with his cat)

Hi Lev,

I would like to help you understand my views on the problem continuous vs. discrete. Please take a look at these papers:

http://www.psiquadrat.de/downloads/schroedinger52_jumps1.pdf

http://www.psiquadrat.de/downloads/schroedinger52_jumps2.pdf

I will quote some paragraphs:

"I believe one is allowed to regard microscopic interaction as a continuous phenomenon without losing either the precious results of Planck and Einstein on the equilibrium of (macroscopic) energy between radiation and matter, or any other understanding of phenomena that the parcel-theory affords."

"I wish to consider some typical experiments that ostensibly force the energy parcel view upon us, and I wish to show that this is an illusion."

You may find this interesting.