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The question is to argue whether physical reality is analog (smooth) or digital (discrete or granular). Einstein's Theories of Relativity (smooth) and the Quantum Theories (granular) are the two pillars of modern physics. This paper argues that physical reality is one-third smooth, and two thirds of it appears to be granular due to resonances between vibrations in different sets of聽dimensions. Rather than trying to reconcile the two sets of theories, I am endeavoring to describe the common foundation of the two, as if there is a single stone plinth (foundation) that underlies both stone pillars.

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Joshua Zev Levin received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from Queens College, City University of New York in 1971; his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from New York University in 1974; and his Ph.D. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1980. He has worked most all of his career as a computer programmer. His current project is the LeviCar transportation system.

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Hello Joshua, I like your methodology of trying to find a common foundational reality. Have you ever considered the Archimedes screw as a model of the GRAVITON, as an alternative to a 'gravitational aether'?

Kind regards,

Alan

    Although the analogy of Gravitons to Archimedes' Screw is interesting, I'm trying to simplify things by doing away with Gravitons, as well as Higg's Bosons, Strings, and Branes. I want to simplify fundamental physics to the bare minimum. I guess you could say that this theory is a no-Braner!

    Particles of all sorts are reduced to being self-sustaining resonant waves of space, in which spatial dimensions dilate and contract in regular rhythms.

    10 days later

    Dear Joshua,

    Hello and thanks for writing this essay with your ideas. I like the idea of trying a completely new model to see how it explains things. Your 9 dimensions in 3 groups has a nice symmetry. Dimensions to me have such a variety of meanings and it is interesting to read your concept of dimensions. I also am interested in your concept of "self-sustaining resonant vibrations of space" Do you think that ultimately there is some principle in one of the aethers that provides the motivating factors to make the waves vibrate? I am always looking for deeper levels and how far we can go. In my own essay I hit the limit at the level where something drives the wave motion like a motor. So I'm curious of your thoughts on a motivating factor.

    Thanks for your interesting essay!

    Kind regards, Russell Jurgensen

      10 days later

      Dear Joshua,

      Fascinating to ponder that "the laws of physics might be different inside a black hole," as you speculate. It is interesting to consider the extremes of nature, such as a black hole's cloaked interior.

      Best wishes,

      Paul

      Paul Halpern, The Discreet Charm of the Discrete

      Joshua

      Excellent and intruiging essay. Worth a high score. There are some good paralells with mine (and Edwin Klingmans compatible 'cfield'). I hope you have a chance to read and score it before the deadline. It needs good dynamic conceptual visualisation skills to see a clear solution to SR/GR. I've just posted a 'logical anlaysis' which also supports your ether based theory. http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/803

      You also match a short 'logical extension' paper in saying;

      "In fact, the Big Bang would not have been a singularity, but rather when one growing aether switched places with one shrinking aether, possibly leaving some fossil of a previous universe." Do also look at http://vixra.org/abs/1102.0016 if you're able.

      Best of luck

      Peter

      The vibrations are frictionless. If left alone, they would be eternal -- but they interact with each other and change form. The origin of the vibrations might be something left over from the Big Bang, or, as noted in the essay, may be a fossil of the previous universe before the Big Bang.

      The vibrations of different aethers can resonate with each other to form a self-sustaining set of stationary waves that constitute an elementary "particle". The amplitudes and relative phase shifts of these waves define the charge, spin, and other fundamental properties of the particle. The waves are stationary in the particle's own reference frame.

      In one form of Common-Plinth theories, the pythagorean sum of the motions of all the dimensions is the speed of light exactly, and the local "energy" at that point is dependent on the aggregate amplitude of the motion. In another form, the pythagorean sum of the motions is less than or equal to the speed of light, and the local energy is dependent on this sum of motions.

      If the wave set is in motion in the first aether (ordinary space), according to some other reference frame, then this is a moving particle. If the sum of motions must be equal to the speed of light, then the motion through ordinary space requires the internal vibrations to slow down, causing time dilation. Of course, the time dilation is identical to that described by the "Minkowski blackboard". A photon has a fixed wave pattern moving at the speed of light, with no movement of the wave components relative to each other, because time does not exist for a photon -- in its own "inertial frame", it is created and absorbed in the same moment in the same place. I'm not sure how this would work if the sum of motions could be less than the speed of light.

      These vibrations also generate fields that propagate, as waves, throughout space. These fields can only interact with "particles" at discrete energies, but the fields' strengths can have any value. This is because the "particles" are wave sets with discrete vibrational modes.

      As noted in the essay, these resonant motions create a contraction of the hypervolume in the second and/or third aethers, causing a dilation of volume in the first aether (ordinary space), causing Einsteinian gravitation.

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