Continuation Causes Superior but Unrealistic Ambiguity by Eckard Blumschein

Eckard Blumschein

Dear Yuri,

Even if the moot point does not immediately relate to my essay, I would be extremely grateful to everybody who could explain to me why Tom Van Flandern, the Czech Petr Beckmann, Luis von Essen of NIST, and the many other opponents were not accepted. In what were they wrong?

I have several reasons to be worried:

All putative evidences that allegedly confirm SR seem to admit alternative interpretations.

To me the logic by Poincaré/Einstein is not convincing.

Minkowski's metric is not understandable to me.

While Van Flandern and others accepted the Lorentz factor, I tend to be cautious:

- Voigt was the first one who derived the factor of concern when he dealt with Doppler's principle for an elastic medium.

- When Lorentz derived it, he used the same mathematical method.

- Aleksandar Vukelja (http://masstheory.org) demonstrated the "Mathematical Invalidity of the Lorentz Transformation in Relativity Theory". Was he wrong?

- The factor does not distinguish between motions towards or away from each other.

Regards,

Eckard

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Van Flandern convinced me that the space is expands or shrinks, but not the Universe.

Eckard Blumschein

Yuri,

I prefer sound citation, and I see no necessity for me to deal with speculations that are perhaps off topic.

The reason for me to mention Van Flandern relates to the question whether or not ict is correctly founded. While Van Flandern is not the only one who questioned SR, he seems to be familiar with both pretty recent experimental results and many historical details. His argumentation against SR does indeed look trustworthy. Nonetheless, I feel bewildered by his propaganda for Le Sagian pushing gravity. Where did he write that space expands or shrinks? I guess the universe including all space is potentially infinite. If so, then they cannot expand or shrink.

Eckard

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Dear Eckard!

Please read carefully Van Flandern attitude to modern cosmology.

Yuri

http://metaresearch.org/cosmology/DidTheUniverseHaveABeginning.asp

"As a final note on the question of the universe's expansion, it should not be forgotten that it is not even certain that the universe is presently expanding (as opposed to contracting) even within the context of the big bang theory. Sumner has recently argued that the new space introduced by the expansion must dilute the permittivity of the vacuum, which in turn must alter the frequency of electrons around atoms. This affects observed redshifts twice as strongly as the speed of expansion. When this consideration is factored into the equations, it turns out that the present universe is actually collapsing, not expanding, under big bang premises!18

So we see that, despite the widespread popularity of the big bang model, even its most basic premise, the expansion of the universe, is of dubious validity, both observationally and theoretically."

Eckard Blumschein

Dear Yuri,

Thank you. Once again, Tom Van Flandern's reasoning is at least at the first glimpse convincing to me. This was quite different when I read papers by Voigt, Lorentz, Einstein, Bohm, and Peter Jackson. What about pushing gravity, I am not sure. Maybe, all counter arguments refer to a corpuscular consideration, and a nearly equivalent wave model is more appropriate.

In general, I share the attitude to look first for possible mistakes before claiming. I remind of Hermann Weyl's certainly justified but ignored admissions.

May I reiterate my desire for clarification concerning the Lorentz factor issue?

Regards,

Eckard

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Dear Eckard

Previously, I did not take seriously David Bohm Holographic View, but now I'm sure he discovered the truth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicate_and_explicate_order_according_to_David_Bohm

See:

The hologram as analogy for the implicate order

A common grounding for consciousness and matter

Yuri

Eckard Blumschein

Dear Yuri,

When I mentioned Bohm, I referred to his textbook "The Special Theory of Relativity", which was written in 1964. Admittedly I am not familiar with his holographic view. I suspect that hidden variables were fabricated as a remedy to the annoying disharmony between Poincaré's relativity and quantum mechanics.

What about holographic aspects in the function of brain, the idea that everything is memorized in every region is simply at variance with experience and physiological experiments. Nonetheless it is true that the memorized information is highly distributed with considerable redundancy, and the idea of one-to-one mapping from cochlear nucleus via IC and MGB to a particular layer of A1 and so on is likewise naive.

I would strongly object to any distinction between the already divided past and the still undivided (unseen but predetermined) future part of the whole. Even if this wild guess was true, fatalism would not give an appropriate orientation.

Regards,

Eckard

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Compatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas, and that it is possible to believe both without being logically inconsistent. It may, however, be more accurate to say that compatibilists define 'free will' in a way that allows it to co-exist with determinism. They may understand free will to refer to something more like liberty (e.g., a freedom to act according to one's determined motives). In contrast, the incompatibilist positions are concerned with a sort of "metaphysically free will".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism

Eckard Blumschein

Maybe I am naive. While I cannot imagine to reasonably deny causality, I consider determinism the elusive belief, dating back to the time of Laplace, that anything can be determined in the sense of prepared or calculated. Aren't causality and free will quite naturally compatible without compatibilism?

Eckard

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"Aren't causality and free will quite naturally compatible without compatibilism?"

It is not question, it is tautology.

"Tautologies and contradictions lack sense"

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Recently Bohmian interpretation and Holographic Principle comes back:

Gerard 't Hooft, Leonard Suskind (String Theory) Juan Maldacena (AdS/CFT), Verlinde (gravity), Smoot (Universe's expansion). There are prominent physicists, some of them are Nobelists.

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My hope connected with this experiments:

http://holometer.fnal.gov/

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-10/fermilab-building-holometer-determine-if-universe-just-hologram

http://www.fnal.gov/directorate/program_planning/Nov2009PACPublic/holometer-proposal-2009.pdf

Alan Lowey

Dear Eckard,

thanks for the explanation.

Best wsihes,

Alan

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Dear Eckard

I guess this report would be interesting for you

http://physics.unr.edu/Forms/myth.pdf

Regards

Yuri

Eckard Blumschein

Dear Yuri,

Thank you for the link. At the first glimpse I learned a lot about the reasons to presently prefer a finitistic point of view in physics. Since in mathematics, David Hilbert was also a finitist, I prefer checking such arguments carefully.

My point is largely expressed on p. 10: The SR understood by E. as a 4D space-time [continuum] implies a kind of superdeterminism with the future completely determined down to the smallest detail. This was the reason why E. believed time is an illusion and why Karl Popper told Einstein: You are Parmenides.

Parentheses by me, because I do not see the question continuum or lattice of discrete points relevant in this respect.

Regards,

Eckard

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Dear Eckard

Your compatriot Winterberg very interesting scientist

http://bourabai.narod.ru/winter/index.html

Regards

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Dear Eckard

You, as far as I know, well understood and applied the Fourier transform.

On the other hand are not experiencing special interest to holography.

Why?

Many scientists are waiting to that show experiments with Holometer.

Maybe find a confirmation of the discreteness of space at the Planck scale?

All the best

Yuri

Eckard Blumschein

Dear Yuri,

While I know holography for decades and in particular near field acoustic holography, I have many reasons to doubt that Craig Hogan's holographic universe is more than nice science fiction. Given SR and Big Bang will prove untenable. Is there then an event horizon? If there is no shell of cosmic horizon around us, then I cannot imagine a 2D shell rendering our universe to a 3D hologram.

The holometer of Fermilab is perhaps much cheaper than the LHC, and we may smile and wait a few weeks or even months until it succeeded or not to confirm gravity waves in excess of the noise floor and with wavelengths in the order of Planck length.

The used principle is a clever copy of how our two ears and our two eyes are coping with noise.

Regards,

Eckard

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Dear Erckard

in the commentaries to my essay is the following entry

"2D+1 for fermions

2D+1 for bosons

=3D+1; Ratio 3:1, because 1 Dimension is common.

Just the hint."

But today i changed my opinion.Time dimension just illusion.

Only 3-dimensional space exist.

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If holometer confirms the discreteness of space, the non-Archimedean geometry take revenge.

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