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Author Patrick Tonin wrote on May. 2, 2013 @ 14:57 GMT
Essay AbstractI have always wondered how the Universe started and what was its basic underlying structure. I was convinced that it must have started with something very simple so I just imagined what that simple thing could be and bit by bit, it all became clear.
Author BioBSc in Electronics and Computing - BA in Business Studies. Former Sales Director in computer networking industry, now owner of self-catering group accommodation with lots of spare time to develop universe theories.
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Leo Vuyk wrote on May. 4, 2013 @ 13:32 GMT
Dear Patrick,
Congratulations with your #D interpetation of the universe.
I myself are in the same rocking boat and looking for ontologic and 3D solutions.
Keep up!
Leo.
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on May. 12, 2013 @ 15:29 GMT
Hi Leo,
Thank you for your comment.
If you like what I have written then you can find out more about my 3D Universe Theory on this website
www.3d-universe-theory.com.
Cheers,
Patrick
Anton Lorenz Vrba wrote on May. 4, 2013 @ 13:53 GMT
Patrick, You proposal to observe the universe from outside raises the paradox that if you can observe the universe then you are part of it. How do you intend to solve this paradox?
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on May. 4, 2013 @ 14:45 GMT
Hi Anton,
Thank you for your comment.
The « external observer » is an hypothetical observer, he does not really exist in our Universe and he is not part of it. It is not possible to describe the Universe just from an internal observer’s point of view because we would be limited to only what we perceive as our reality, and what we perceive as our reality is not the complete picture. I had to create this “external observer” so I could describe the real underlying structure of the Universe.
Cheers,
Patrick
Anton Lorenz Vrba replied on May. 14, 2013 @ 11:28 GMT
Patrick, but you are working and thinking from within the universe so by your own argumentation you observation and subsequent reasoning to describe a "real underlying structure" cannot be possible, and any attempt to do so is not verifiable, which according to Popper is not scientific.
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on May. 14, 2013 @ 18:18 GMT
Anton, I don't really agree with Popper's ideas on what is scientific and what is not.
Joe Fisher wrote on May. 9, 2013 @ 14:28 GMT
Patrick,
As I have carefully explained in my essay BITTERS, the real Universe could not have had a commencement. There is certainly no way that the Universe could ever conform in any way with humanly devised unrealistic abstract information.
One (1) real Universe can only be eternally occurring in one real here and now while perpetually traveling at one real “speed” of light through one real infinite dimension once. One is the absolute of everything. (1) is the absolute of number. Real is the absolute of being. Eternal is the absolute of duration. Occurring is the absolute of action. Here and now are absolutes of location and time. Perpetual is the absolute of ever. Traveling is the absolute of conveyance method. Light is the absolute of speed. Infinite dimension is the absolute of distance and once is the absolute of history.
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on May. 11, 2013 @ 13:45 GMT
Joe,
I am not sure I understand your point. What has this got to do with my essay ?
Patrick
Joe Fisher replied on May. 12, 2013 @ 15:26 GMT
Patrick,
You start your essay by guessing that an abstract Universe started from nothing. I merely pointed out that the real Universe is eternal.
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on May. 12, 2013 @ 15:34 GMT
Hi Joe,
OK, thank you for sharing your point of view.
Philip Gibbs wrote on May. 14, 2013 @ 12:52 GMT
Patrick, I can see a lot of work has gone into this essay. The idea of building up in layers from one bit is like the multiple quantisation procedure that I mention in my essay, except that you use classical bits rather than quantum bits.
I the basic unit of time and space is increasing will this at some point affect the structure of matter, or is everything scaling up with it?
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on May. 14, 2013 @ 18:17 GMT
Hi Philip,
Thank you for your comments.
This essay is part of a theory I have been working on for more than a year now. As I mention in my abstract, I have started from the simplest thing I could imagine and built everything from there. Then everything started to fit nicely together, the Basic Unit of Time and Space appeared simply by following the simple "coherent world" rule that I mention in my essay, it gave a simple explanation for the emergence of time itself. Then came the 8Pi-1 and that was the major finding, it gave a simple explanation for the emergence of "real" information/existence and explains the 4% of baryonic matter in the Universe. I believe that this simple 8Pi-1 is the foundation of everything, it appears in the proton/electron mass ratio but also in the gravitational constant, the Planck constant, the Boltzman constant, the electron mass etc. and it also gives a simple explanation for the proton radius measurement problem (all explained in my theory
www.3d-universe-theory.com).
Now that I have advertised my theory (I wish that someone would comment on it), I will answer your question ;-)
The information describing our surrounding world is contained in a single layer (our "present" layer), this layer is like a 2D image of our world and the image is made by the Coherent Basic Units (CBUs), like pixels. A proton is a disruption in the alternating pattern of CBUs (it is like a single bit of "existence"), so even though a CBU increases in size it won't affect the structure of matter, everything scales up. To the internal observer, a CBU will always remain a "coherent" bit of information (as opposed to the Universal Bit (UB) that is just a simple bit of information). In my theory, I show with a simple equation that a proton is just a scaled up version of the Planck Length !
Cheers,
Patrick
Author Patrick Tonin wrote on May. 19, 2013 @ 18:05 GMT
Quote from James A.Putnam
"Your essay uses planck length and time. Your cubit uses length only. Your layers are traversed one at a time every Planck unit of time. You do mention that your dimension in the radial direction represents space-time. Your layers consist of length only and they are your present one after the other. I assume that your statement that we only need length is based upon your idea that the present only has dimensions of length. There is though the matter of change. All empirical evidence of physics occurs as patterns in changes of velocity. How do you account for change in equations. Calculus equations are equations of change. Physics need extensive use of calculus in order to express its ideas. You may answer this message in your own forum. I will look for it there."
Hi James,
Thank you for your comments. You have nicely summarized the underlying structure of my theory. I will try to explain simply how I represent change. Change is represented by the relative position of the two consecutive CBUs in the "present" layer. If the second CBU is slightly off line, then there is speed. When that position changes from layer to layer, then there is acceleration. That way every movement is expressed in percentage of the speed of light (the speed of light is represented by one CBU ie: if we move by one CBU in one layer, then we move at the speed of light). Also, when the two consecutive CBUs are off line, the resulting "time" CBU will be shorter (time slows down with movement).
I have noticed in your theory that you are talking about a changing speed of light, this is exactly what is happening here also, a CBU increases in size by one UB every Basic Unit of Time.
I agree with you that the unit of mass could just be expressed in units of length and time. In fact, I believe that mass should be L
2/T and time should be T=L
2, this means that mass becomes dimensionless in formulae, this is why my
formulae are so simple. Also, the fact that we (our information) are moving at the speed of light through the information layers gets rid of the concept of fields.
Cheers,
Patrick
James Putnam replied on May. 21, 2013 @ 21:38 GMT
Patrick,
Communication may move slowly.
"I believe that mass should be L2/T and time should be T=L2, this means that mass becomes dimensionless in formulae,..."
Are those Ls equal? Is L a variable? Even if it is a variable it seems that no matter what L's value is, mass remains one constant value of unity, meaning the number one. How do you explain your statement?
What are your units for force? Or, what is your explanation of force?
James Putnam
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on May. 22, 2013 @ 08:43 GMT
Hi James,
L is the dimension of Length
T is the dimension of Time
I believe that Length and Time are fundamentally linked (in my theory, a CBU is both a basic unit of time and a basic unit of length, and the Time dimension is linked to the Length dimension). That basic unit of time and length increases with time but an internal observer can't notice it as everything scales up.
So in the same way that you say that mass is the inverse of acceleration, I am saying that Time is the square of Length and mass is the square of Length divided by Time, therefore mass is dimensionless.
Speed is 1/L, Energy is 1/L
2, Acceleration is 1/L
3, Force is 1/L
3, G is 1/L and h is dimensionless.
Patrick
Hoang cao Hai wrote on Jun. 17, 2013 @ 02:13 GMT
Dear Patrick
Definitely It from Bit ! - so, where are bit come from?
http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1802
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jun. 17, 2013 @ 06:41 GMT
Hi Hoang,
In my theory, the bit is either existence or non-existence. So, it does not come from anywhere, it is just there. There are two opposite worlds, the existence world and the non-existence world. What is defined as existence in one world is defined as non-existence in the other world, and vice versa.
Cheers,
Patrick
Antony Ryan wrote on Jun. 23, 2013 @ 22:36 GMT
Dear Patrick,
I agree that the Universe had to come from complete nothing. I have a similar theory away from the contest. In this contest, my
essay also hints at this as a starting point. The 0-dimensional singularity of Black Holes. I hope you have time to look at mine, as we may have aspects in common. Cosmogony is always an excellent starting point for a good theory.
Nicely illustrated and well written.
All the best,
Antony
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jun. 30, 2013 @ 16:00 GMT
Hi Antony,
Thank you for your comments, I will look at your essay and leave a comment on your blog.
Cheers,
Patrick
Akinbo Ojo wrote on Jun. 30, 2013 @ 12:31 GMT
Hello Patrick,
Thanks for your comments on my blog. I have read your essay. Yes I think I have found a like-mind! To improve things both encouragements and criticism must go hand-in-hand forming bits, 1 ans 0!
So for the likes (1):
- two states: one existence and one non-existence
- UBs are the most basic constituents of the Universe sphere…
- Basic...
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Hello Patrick,
Thanks for your comments on my blog. I have read your essay. Yes I think I have found a like-mind! To improve things both encouragements and criticism must go hand-in-hand forming bits, 1 ans 0!
So for the likes (1):
- two states: one existence and one non-existence
- UBs are the most basic constituents of the Universe sphere…
- Basic constituents are the smallest of everything and cannot be subdivided. A UB is just a bit of potential information. A UB is not material and does not have a shape as such, but its apparent size, in any directions, is one Planck Length and it FLICKS between existence and non-existence every Planck Time. FANTASTIC.
Compare this with Leibniz statements in his Monadology and you see why this is so:- "1. My topic here will be the monad, which is just a simple
substance. By calling it ‘simple’ I mean that it has no parts,
though it can be a part of something composite.
2. There must be simple substances, because there are composites.
A composite thing is just a collection of simple ones
that happen to have come together.
3. Something that has no parts can’t be extended, can’t have
a shape, and can’t be split up. So monads are the true atoms
of Nature—the elements out of which everything is made.
4. We don’t have to fear that a monad might fall to pieces;
there is no conceivable way it could •go out of existence
naturally." Then concerning your FLICKS above, Liebniz says, "there is no way for a simple substance to •come into existence naturally, for that would involve its being put together, assembled, composed, and a simple substance couldn’t be formed in that way because it has no parts...
So we can say that the only way for monads to begin or end—to come into existence or go out of existence—is •instantaneously, being created or annihilated all at once" [Only the initial 8 paragraphs or so are on physics, the rest are somewhat spiritual).
Then for the dislikes (0), unless I can be convinced otherwise:
1. I think you crammed too much into the essay, by describing how the universe expands and including energy. Although, I agree "No energy is actually created anywhere; it is just the result of an opposition of two worlds".
2. ...we assume that the number of “existence” and “non-existence” CBUs is equal and that they are equally spaced out
- If something can spatially separate existence CBUs then certainly that thing is not non-existent. My take is that nothing spatial or extended (res extensa according to Rene Descartes) can separate the most fundamental UBs which from comparison with Leibniz and the Pythagoreans are monads. This presents a continuous space picture. That brings the puzzle how then a discrete nature of space can be expressed.In my opinion, not by making non-existence CBUs to have dimension but by resorting to the FLICKS which you have identified!
3. Our Universe has only got 3 dimensions: two space dimensions and one dimension which is both space and time.
- I would rather stick with the 3-dimensions for space and maybe add one dimension for time, making 4. We can measure space in metres, in what you units do you measure space-time?
This reply is detailed because we seem to have similar thoughts. Others with similar essays are Roger (advocates a spherical shape) and Manuel (who advocates that existence is not caused by another IT).
All the best in the contest.
Akinbo
*I am yet to go the link you added on 3-D.
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jun. 30, 2013 @ 15:58 GMT
Hi Akinbo,
Thank you for your constructive comments. It is great to get some feedback.
I will try to answer your "dislikes" and maybe try to convince you otherwise.
1) I agree, I crammed too much in the essay, in fact I basically cut and pasted the beginning of my 3D Universe Theory as it seemed to fit nicely with the contest subject.
2) First, it is important that you...
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Hi Akinbo,
Thank you for your constructive comments. It is great to get some feedback.
I will try to answer your "dislikes" and maybe try to convince you otherwise.
1) I agree, I crammed too much in the essay, in fact I basically cut and pasted the beginning of my 3D Universe Theory as it seemed to fit nicely with the contest subject.
2) First, it is important that you really understand the difference between a UB and a CBU. (I can only ask you to re-read the paragraph slowly, sorry)
Second, space is made of "flicking" CBU's. Nothing separates them, they all "touch" each other, and where there is no matter, they form a perfect checkerboard like pattern of alternating states (existence/non-existence). A proton (basic constituent of matter) is not a CBU as such, it is a disruption in the alternating pattern of CBU's (this disruption is caused by the geometric properties of a growing sphere, see 8Pi-1).
If you are not convinced with my explanation, just take a look at the proton radius
formula, I show that the diameter of the proton is just a scaled up version of the Planck Length. If you take the Planck Length and multiply it by 10
20 (the scale factor) and divide it by 1-1/8Pi, you get the exact value of the proton's diameter measured with a muon. If you divide that SAME value again by the SAME 1-1/8Pi, you get the exact value of the proton's diameter measured with an electron. This 1-1/8Pi is explained in my theory (it is (8Pi-1)/8Pi).
If you are still not convinced, I also show that the proton's mass is a scaled down version of the Planck Mass. If you take the Planck Mass and multiply it by 10
-20 (the scale down factor) and multiply it by 8-1/Pi, you get the exact value of the proton's mass. Again, 8-1/Pi is explained in my theory (it is (8Pi-1)/Pi).
3) I know it is boring but you must re-read the bit about the formation of CBU's, you will see that time and space are emergent just by the fact that the UB's are following the "coherent" world rule (if they were not, then the world would not be coherent and we would not exist).
The 2D/3D part takes a bit of time to get used to. It is not easy to explain, I have tried my best in my theory so, again, I can only ask you to re-read it slowly and try to picture the whole thing in your head. The 3D world is virtual (only the 2D part is real) but remember that each virtual 3D world is moving "forward" at the speed of light and expanding at the same time. Also, there are as many virtual 3D worlds as there are "present" layers. (here again, it is important to really understand the two ways to represent a "present" layer)
The units to measure space-time, depends if you are looking at it from an "internal" observer's point of view (living in a coherent world) or from an external observer's point of view (a "godlike" figure if you want). The internal observer sees space and the external observer sees time.
I hope you won't give up in trying to come to graps with my theory, it would be great to find someone that can understand what I am talking about !
Cheers,
Patrick
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James Lee Hoover wrote on Jul. 3, 2013 @ 19:39 GMT
Patrick,
If given the time and the wits to evaluate over 120 more entries, I have a month to try. My seemingly whimsical title, “It’s good to be the king,” is serious about our subject.
Jim
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Hoang cao Hai wrote on Jul. 8, 2013 @ 22:45 GMT
Dear Patrick
Do you thinking that there are two worlds co-exist ?
It seems unexciting, world formed by material - while the current scientific community is accepted that there are four types of material: 1. material, 2. immaterial, 3. antimatter and 4. dark matter - which means: there are at least four co-existing world, not to mention "the new assumptions" future later.
Say's that for fun - although there will be how many "world" or not , them also only co-exist in a space - should only be considered as one be easy to identify for not confused or mess, are you ok ?
Wish you happy and successful.
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adel sadeq wrote on Jul. 9, 2013 @ 03:15 GMT
Hi Patrick,
While I don't agree with everything you say, but some issues I see you are close to my system. But I am mainly contacting you because you know programming and you have plenty of time to explore the origin of reality. It might be interesting to you. I have rated your essay good.
Please if you have the time run The programs which are at my website
http://www.qsa.netne.net
please make sure you unzip the file properly, the code is in JavaScript, the programs are very simple. also see the posts in my thread for some more info.
you can find my essay at this link
http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1877
see the amazing formulas in section 6, like this one
alpha/FSC =.007297352568, charge ^2=3, 27=3^3, m_e, m_p are electron and proton mass
M_p/m_e= (27/2)*(1/(alpha) -1) -1/3 = 1836.152654
BTW, our backgrounds are very similar. Thank you
Adel
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jul. 9, 2013 @ 10:12 GMT
Hi Adel,
My answer is just below. I did not click on the right link !
Patrick
Author Patrick Tonin wrote on Jul. 9, 2013 @ 09:15 GMT
Hi Adel,
Thank you for your comments and your rating.
I definetely agree with your "Reality is nothing but a mathematical structure, literally". Our approaches are different but we seem to come to similar results ie: we can produce fundamental constants with just simple maths.
Good luck with the contest !
Patrick
john stephan selye wrote on Jul. 17, 2013 @ 18:57 GMT
Dear Patrick -
The UB as you present it is an interesting way to consider any given entity.
The universe began from nothing, and I would add that this nothing is energy that had not yet formed itself into a positive-negative entity (a proton and an electron) at this location which was to eventually become a universe.
I describe something similar in my essay - a Pulse, that continually enters and exits a dimensional system such as our Cosmos.
I am interested by the way your system accounts for the observer in the configuration of perceived reality; I do the same, but my approach is less technical and considers the observer as an evolving creature - one who makes decisions at every moment, and over a very long period of time, during which his relation to the physical world - his own biological configuration, if you will - is continuously altered.
I wonder if your system could be adapted to such a Species Cosmos?
Hopefully, you'll look at my essay and let me know. I rated your essay, and wish you the best of luck in the competition.
John
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jul. 18, 2013 @ 11:36 GMT
Hi John,
Thank you for your comments.
I will look at your essay and comment on your blog.
Patrick
Peter Jackson wrote on Jul. 17, 2013 @ 19:03 GMT
Patrick,
Great essay! completely fundamental and original, and also well structured, explained and illustrated.
I completely agree the external observers viewpoint. (I've analogised this in my own work as very similar to the two views of our galaxy -my last two essays, end notes and links refer).
The expanding spheres are analogous to Huygens construction. I like and agree the concept and have also used it, viewed it in a slightly different way, discussed in my essay.
But I was most interested in your explanation that;
"An internal observer on the present layer will always be at the centre of his own virtual 3D world. That world is constantly growing around him. ..., the successive virtual 3D worlds are like Russian dolls, they envelope one another."
This hierarchical 'space within a space within a space' model is something I've explored in my last 3 essays, finding an ontological 'discrete field' model (DFM) which proves to contain high empirical truth value. I test some important implications in my essay which I hope you'll read and comment on. Many of your points have analogies.
I also agree with most of your conclusions but not entirely with some. My own most bold proposition is that the 'Law of the excluded middle' applicable to maths needs modification to account for the uncertainty of nature! Perhaps best to discuss 'hidden likenesses' once you've also read mine.
A very good essay, using very free thinking and making an enjoyable read. Thank you. Certainly worth a better score I think, which I'll apply now. I note you felt you "crammed too much in", you just wait till you read mine!! I hope I did it as well as you, ...but perhaps don't try to 'speed read' it!
Very well done and best of luck in the impending melee
Peter
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jul. 18, 2013 @ 11:46 GMT
Hi Peter,
Thank you for your nice comments, I am glad you enjoyed my essay. If you feel like reading more, you can visit my
website and download the full theory. I would love to have your comments on it.
I will read your essay and leave a comment on your blog.
Patrick
Giacomo Alessiani wrote on Jul. 18, 2013 @ 01:49 GMT
Mr. Patrick,
Your ideas impressed Me. Really new and fresh elements.
I ask now the permission for future exchanges.
I visited Your site. I do not understand why people should laugh !
My Best Regards.
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jul. 18, 2013 @ 12:01 GMT
Ciao Giacomo,
Nice comment ! thank you.
Sometimes I feel that people are missing the point of my theory because I don't explain it very well and I don't use the proper scientific language. From the comments I am getting, I can see that some people have taken the time to try to understand it and this is great.
I would love to share my ideas with others more qualified than me, I am sure there is a lot more that can be found from the basic principles of my theory but I am not qualified to do it on my own.
You can contact me when you want for future exchanges, that would be a pleasure.
(patrick@3d-universe-theory.com).
Patrick
Helmut Hansen wrote on Jul. 18, 2013 @ 09:11 GMT
Dear Patrick,
I've read (even studied) your proposal.
I agree with you that the most fundamental level of reality is built up by opposites. By relating to opposites - as far as they are explicitly defined as limiting states - reality makes use of all possibilities that logic in general allows. In this view the logical contradiction created by the (two) opposites are excluded as unreachable physical states.
Though this view looks very similiar to yours there is a fundamental difference: The logical values of 0 and 1 are not related in a logically classical way as being either 0 or 1, they are both valid, at least if they are considered as being limiting cases.
By the philosophy of Nicholas Cusa (i.e. the doctrince of coincidence of the opposites) I could identify the Smallest (R = 0) and the Largest (R = oo) as spatial limiting cases of a metaphysical universe. From a logical point of view the Smallest and the Largest are logically contradictions: The Smallest is included in all things, whereas the Largest is included in nothing.
In my 2009-FQXI-paper "Taming of the ONE" I've sketched this view.
As you know by German philosophy, in particular by Immanuel Kant, existence was critized as being not a real predicate. Existence and non-Existence might be highly problematic categories.
I think you are in touch with a specific feature of reality, but you are describing it in a way that does not fit to it.
However, I wish you good luck for your interesting paper.
Helmut
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jul. 18, 2013 @ 16:31 GMT
Hi Helmut,
Thank you for your comments.
In my theory, there are two opposite "worlds", the existence world and the non-existence world. They both exist from their own point of view, so the O and the 1 are both valid.
Patrick
Akinbo Ojo wrote on Jul. 18, 2013 @ 18:13 GMT
Hello Patrick,
Saw your post on my blog. It seems we are few that want to explore this existence/non-existence topic. I even posted what's below to focus the discussion but a few were offended so I stop. Some said they don't know what 'elicit' means even though Wheeler used the term and another said there can be superposition of existence and non-existence. Even a friend answer that he will not go to work. Anyway here is it...
"If you wake up one morning and dip your hand in your pocket and 'detect' a million dollars, then on your way back from work, you dip your hand again and find that there is nothing there…
1) Have you 'elicited' an information in the latter case?
2) If you did not 'participate' by putting your 'detector' hand in your pocket, can you 'elicit' information?
3) If the information is provided by the presence of the crisp notes ('its') you found in your pocket, can the absence of the notes, being an 'immaterial source' convey information?
Finally, leaving for the moment what the terms mean and whether or not they can be discretely expressed in the way spin information is discretely expressed, e.g. by electrons
4) Can the existence/non-existence of an 'it' be a binary choice, representable by 0 and 1?"
Answers can be in binary form for brevity, i.e. YES = 1, NO = 0, e.g. 0-1-0-1.
Best regards,
Akinbo
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jul. 19, 2013 @ 19:45 GMT
Hi Akinbo,
Have you moved to the dark side of the force ?
Patrick
Anonymous wrote on Jul. 19, 2013 @ 15:37 GMT
Dear Patrick
I am also suspect on variation of mass proton and electron
http://vixra.org/abs/1212.0080
Regards
Yuri
P.S. This contest my issue about different matter
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jul. 21, 2013 @ 18:01 GMT
Hi Yuri,
I will check your paper and comment on your blog.
Cheers,
Patrick
Yuri Danoyan wrote on Jul. 21, 2013 @ 22:15 GMT
Hi Patrick
This is my opinion about Planck scale
http://vixra.org/abs/1301.0191
Cheers
Yuri
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Jonathan J. Dickau wrote on Jul. 23, 2013 @ 20:53 GMT
Your essay was interesting and fun to read, Patrick;
I like your theory, though at this time it is still a toy model rather than a robust scientific theory. The layers of circles construction you describe is reminiscent of the ancient 'flower of life' figure construction, where the circles are half-overlapping (center to edge), and only when you get to the third layer are the outermost circles independent of the central one (touching edge to edge at a point). But I suspect you are treating this construction like the close packing of spheres using the 1-sphere or circle, where they are touching edge to edge. In any case; I also believe the universe is here because it computes. In fact, in imitation of Descartes; I once coined the phrase "It Computes, therefore It Is."
I will be creating a page of links on this website:
www.itcomputes.info..to work like yours that uses a procedural model to reproduce natural law, and affirms the "It from Bit" concept of Wheeler. I hope we can stay in touch after the contest, so that your ideas can be included.
Best of luck,
Jonathan
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Jonathan J. Dickau replied on Jul. 23, 2013 @ 21:00 GMT
Of course;
You might find
my essay to be of interest.
Have Fun!
Jonathan
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jul. 27, 2013 @ 12:43 GMT
Hi Jonathan,
Thank you for your comments. I would be very happy for your site to link to mine.
I will post comments on your essay in your blog.
Cheers,
Patrick
Than Tin wrote on Jul. 26, 2013 @ 04:04 GMT
Hi Patrick
Richard Feynman in his Nobel Acceptance Speech
(http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/19
65/feynman-lecture.html)
said: “It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but with a little mathematical fiddling you can show the...
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Hi Patrick
Richard Feynman in his Nobel Acceptance Speech
(http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/19
65/feynman-lecture.html)
said: “It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but with a little mathematical fiddling you can show the relationship. And example of this is the Schrodinger equation and the Heisenberg formulation of quantum mechanics. I don’t know why that is – it remains a mystery, but it was something I learned from experience. There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.”
I too believe in the simplicity of nature, and I am glad that Richard Feynman, a Nobel-winning famous physicist, also believe in the same thing I do, but I had come to my belief long before I knew about that particular statement.
The belief that “Nature is simple” is however being expressed differently in my essay “Analogical Engine” linked to http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1865 .
Specifically though, I said “Planck constant is the Mother of All Dualities” and I put it schematically as: wave-particle ~ quantum-classical ~ gene-protein ~ analogy- reasoning ~ linear-nonlinear ~ connected-notconnected ~ computable-notcomputable ~ mind-body ~ Bit-It ~ variation-selection ~ freedom-determinism … and so on.
Taken two at a time, it can be read as “what quantum is to classical” is similar to (~) “what wave is to particle.” You can choose any two from among the multitudes that can be found in our discourses.
I could have put Schrodinger wave ontology-Heisenberg particle ontology duality in the list had it comes to my mind!
Since “Nature is Analogical”, we are free to probe nature in so many different ways. And each of us surely must have touched some corners of it.
Good luck and good cheers!
Than Tin
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jul. 29, 2013 @ 20:20 GMT
Hi Than Tin,
I can't agree more, nature is simple and it is all about dualities. In fact, I would say that it is all about opposites.
Cheers,
Patrick
Giacomo Alessiani wrote on Jul. 27, 2013 @ 03:30 GMT
Hello Patrick, this should be into my intention an help:
Lagrangian mechanics is a re-formulation of classical mechanics using Hamilton's principle of stationary action.[1] Lagrangian mechanics applies to systems whether or not they conserve energy or momentum, and it provides conditions under which energy and/or momentum are conserved.[2] It was introduced by the Italian-French...
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Hello Patrick, this should be into my intention an help:
Lagrangian mechanics is a re-formulation of classical mechanics using Hamilton's principle of stationary action.[1] Lagrangian mechanics applies to systems whether or not they conserve energy or momentum, and it provides conditions under which energy and/or momentum are conserved.[2] It was introduced by the Italian-French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange in 1788.
In Lagrangian mechanics, the trajectory of a system of particles is derived by solving the Lagrange equations in one of two forms, either the Lagrange equations of the first kind,[3] which treat constraints explicitly as extra equations, often using Lagrange multipliers;[4][5] or the Lagrange equations of the second kind, which incorporate the constraints directly by judicious choice of generalized coordinates.[3][6] The fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations shows that solving the Lagrange equations is equivalent to finding the path for which the action functional is stationary, a quantity that is the integral of the Lagrangian over time.
Into the Italian side this is the same wiki page...
La meccanica lagrangiana è la parte della meccanica razionale che studia i sistemi meccanici le cui equazioni del moto sono formulate tramite le equazioni di Eulero-Lagrange. Questo tipo di formalismo prende il nome da Joseph-Louis Lagrange ed è particolarmente efficace nel descrivere il moto di un insieme di punti materiali soggetti a vincoli.
A tal fine, in questo approccio si rappresenta il sistema meccanico studiato come un punto su di un'opportuna varietà differenziabile, che prende il nome di spazio delle configurazioni e rappresenta l'insieme delle posizioni che il sistema può assumere compatibilmente con i vincoli imposti, le informazioni dinamiche sono invece determinate da una funzione detta lagrangiana che classicamente è data dalla differenza tra l'energia cinetica e l'energia potenziale del sistema studiato, ma può anche avere una forma più generale.
La formulazione lagrangiana della dinamica si fonda essenzialmente sulla teoria delle superfici. In tal senso una superficie ammette diverse rappresentazioni: parametrica, cartesiana e implicita.
What is lost in translation ? : si fonda essenzialmente sulla teoria delle superfici = is essentially based on the theory of surfaces ....
This last element is not present into the English page.
The Lagrangian Mechanics is based on "surface" .
May be this is a starting point for Your theory ...
Another is in the Balmer formula for Hydrogen spectrum:
Lambda = B [m^2( m^2-n^2)] is the same formula for Thermal Efficiency but m and n here are squared and the formula reversed.
I mean, if m is a mass as also n , the Balmer formula squares this mass for the emission . But the Hydrogen atom under measure is a "real" system.
I think to be enough clear, energy is a squared entity
E = m c*c , when mass is unitary , E = 1 c*c.
Into Your formula a single EM wave is the base for a second one .
May be , E = L*c or E = L* L/t ; E = L^2/t .
For an extreme interpretation of relativity , I do not think so extreme.
What remain very strong is, the surface as fundamental element. L^2
After You read this I will tell other...
Cheers.
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jul. 27, 2013 @ 11:47 GMT
Hi Giacomo,
Thank you for your post.
Indeed, surface is fundamental and I believe that Energy is the inverse of an area.
E = 1/L
2See my redefinition of dimensions
here.
Cheers,
Patrick
PS: I am also French/Italian but unfortunately I haven't got Lagrange's brain !
Christian Corda wrote on Jul. 29, 2013 @ 16:41 GMT
Dear Patrick,
As I told you in my Essay page, I have read your Essay. I find you have lots of interesting ideas, but they must be properly described through rigorous mathematics. Speculations are not sufficient, science if founded on quantitative analyses. In fact, I agree with Jonathan's judgement that your Essay is still a toy model rather than a robust scientific theory. Here are some observations:
1) The idea that at the origin the Universe was an Universal Bit (UB) is intriguing and the duality between the two states which cannot exist without one another looks philosophically similar to the duality wave/particle and to the black hole complementarity.
2) I do not understand how the further UBs are created, i.e, you start from one UB at the origin, where do the others come from?
3) Why do you use the Planck Length and the Planck Time to characterize them?
4) I like your statement that "Existence is a disruption in the standard pattern of alternating black and white CBUs". In fact, it looks a sort of breaking of symmetry.
5) It is intriguing that your formula on the proton/electron mass ratio gives a result in agreement with the official value. The same for the number of UBs on our layer and for the number of UBs per CBU.
In general, your Essay is quite enjoyable, thus, I am going to give you an high score.
Cheers,
Ch.
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jul. 29, 2013 @ 18:57 GMT
Hi Christian,
Thank you for your nice comments. I completely agree with you that my theory is still a toy model but unfortunately I can't do much better than that as I am not a theoretical physicist. I am just an enthousiastic non-specialist with lots of ideas that would love to share them with people like you so a robust scientific theory can be developped.
Here are the answers to your questions:
1)you start from one UB at the origin, where do the others come from?
They don't come from anywhere, they are just there (anything either exist or doesn't exist). They are not even real information, they are just a "potential" bit of information.
2)Why do you use the Planck Length and the Planck Time to characterize them?
Well, it just seemed logical as, by definition, it is the shortest length we can measure and the same for the Planck time.
If you find my formula for the proton/electron mass ratio intriguing, then wait until you see my other
formulae! I think that you will like them.(don't dismiss them straight away because of the lack of units, there is an explanation...)
Thank you again for your feedback, I really appreciate it.
Cheers,
Patrick
Vladimir Rogozhin wrote on Jul. 31, 2013 @ 09:17 GMT
Dear Patrick,
Contests FQXi - is primarily a new radical idea. "The trouble with physics" push ... You have a new radical idea. In your essay deep original ontological analysis in the basic strategy of Descartes's method of doubt, given new ideas, new concepts, new images and conclusions.
Constructive ways to the truth may be different. One of them said Alexander Zenkin in the article "Science counterrevolution in mathematics":
«The truth should be drawn with the help of the cognitive computer visualization technology and should be presented to" an unlimited circle "of spectators in the form of color-musical cognitive images of its immanent essence.»
http://www.ccas.ru/alexzen/papers/ng-02/contr_rev.
htm
In the russian version of a article: «The truth should be drawn and should be presented to" an unlimited circle "of spectators.»
Do you agree with Alexander Zenkin?
Please look also my essay and essay FQXi 2012 related to the ontological justification of "Absolute generating structure"
http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1796
http://www.fqxi.or
g/community/forum/topic/1362
Although I have space-time 12 dimensions, we have the spirit of close reserch. Is this the right way - time will tell and others. My mail ideabank@yandex.ru
Best regards,
Vladimir
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jul. 31, 2013 @ 11:56 GMT
Dear Vladimir,
Thank you for your comments.
To answer your question, yes, I could say that I agree with Alexander Zenkin (thank you for the link).
Why do you use 12 dimensions ? how can you represent that in your mind ? I have taken the other approach, instead of adding extra dimensions, I have taken one off, it is a lot easier to deal with. I hope that you liked some of my ideas, if so, you can read my complete theory
here.
Cheers,
Patrick
eAmazigh M. HANNOU wrote on Jul. 31, 2013 @ 20:15 GMT
Dear Patrick,
I am impressed with your article. I have not had time to assess the likely validity of your ideas, but what is sure is that your way of thinking strangely resembles mine.
And what is striking, and can be as normal, is that those who are versed in information science are very active in finding a solution, an explanation of the riddle of eUnivers. This shows that we are immersed in the era of information and virtual worlds.
But the words used in your test echo in my head as something significant.
I think our views are not contradictory, they could complete, we are in the same sphere of eUniverse around us.
That's why I give you a high score.
If you have a French version of your essay I will be happy to read it.
Here is my email: amazigh@noxspam.com
Thank you and,
Good luck with the contest.
Please visit
My essay.
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Author Patrick Tonin replied on Jul. 31, 2013 @ 20:54 GMT
Dear Amazigh,
Thank you for your comments and rating. I have already read and rated your essay and also left a comment on your blog.
Désolé, mais je n'ai pas de version française.
A+
Patrick
Branko L Zivlak wrote on Aug. 1, 2013 @ 11:26 GMT
Dear Patrick,
(Google translate)
I like to see the innovative article, even if I do not agree on everything.
I mean, the universe does not have a spherical shape. There is no shape at all. Interesting novelty are pictures of you on the sixth and seventh page. But, there should be something that is going in the opposite direction. If we know why the fine structure constant as large as, we would have an answer?
Regards
Branko
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Sreenath B N wrote on Aug. 2, 2013 @ 06:23 GMT
Dear Patrick,
I have down loaded your essay and soon post my comments on it. Meanwhile, please, go through my essay and post your comments.
Regards and good luck in the contest,
Sreenath BN.
http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1827
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Sreenath B N replied on Aug. 2, 2013 @ 16:35 GMT
Dear Patrick,
Very imaginative article. Based on the concepts of Bit UB and CBU you have done something amazing in deriving not only charge, spin and ratio of the masses of elementary particles but also in deriving the cosmological constant. This is a novel way of looking at the universe and also at the quantum world. For this innovative work, I want to give excellent rating.
Best wishes,
Sreenath
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Michel Planat wrote on Aug. 2, 2013 @ 15:53 GMT
Cher Patrick,
Comme il y a vraisemblablement le même nombre de bits en français qu'en anglais, je me permets de commettre l'hérésie de communiquer dans ma langue naturelle, une fois ne sera pas coutume. Je trouve votre idée de définir le bit comme résultant de l'existence ou non tout à fait pertinente. Il y a des qubits sous-jacents à votre étude à mon avis, c'est-à-dire des superpositions du type du fameux chat. Il y a aussi probablement une géométrie des sphères que vous découvrirez quand vous serez allé plus avant dans votre recherche (fibration de Hopf, SU(3) (les quarks) et SO(3) (le groupe des rotations de l'espace). Je trouve particulièrement intéressant que vous arriviez à des constantes pertinentes.
Bien à vous
Michel
compressed bit data:
Fine Patrick, go ahead. Good luck. Michel
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Anonymous wrote on Aug. 2, 2013 @ 19:43 GMT
Dear Patrick Tonin:
I am an old physician and I don’t know nothing of mathematics and almost nothing of physics,
But maybe you would be interested in my essay over a subject which after the common people, physic discipline is the one that uses more than any other, the so called “time”. No one that I know...
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Dear Patrick Tonin:
I am an old physician and I don’t know nothing of mathematics and almost nothing of physics,
But maybe you would be interested in my essay over a subject which after the common people, physic discipline is the one that uses more than any other, the so called “time”. No one that I know ever said what I say over it and I am convince that I prove that with our clocks we measure “motion” and no “time.
:
I am sending you a practical summary, so you can easy decide if you read or not my essay “The deep nature of reality”.
I am convince you would be interested in reading it. ( most people don’t understand it, and is not just because of my bad English).
Hawking in “A brief history of time” where he said , “Which is the nature of time?” yes he don’t know what time is, and also continue saying…………Some day this answer could seem to us “obvious”, as much than that the earth rotate around the sun…..” In fact the answer is “obvious”, but how he could say that, if he didn’t know what’s time? In fact he is predicting that is going to be an answer, and that this one will be “obvious”, I think that with this adjective, he is implying: simple and easy to understand. Maybe he felt it and couldn’t explain it with words. We have anthropologic proves that man measure “time” since more than 30.000 years ago, much, much later came science, mathematics and physics that learn to measure “time” from primitive men, adopted the idea and the systems of measurement, but also acquired the incognita of the experimental “time” meaning. Out of common use physics is the science that needs and use more the measurement of what everybody calls “time” and the discipline came to believe it as their own. I always said that to understand the “time” experimental meaning there is not need to know mathematics or physics, as the “time” creators and users didn’t. Instead of my opinion I would give Einstein’s “Ideas and Opinions” pg. 354 “Space, time, and event, are free creations of human intelligence, tools of thought” he use to call them pre-scientific concepts from which mankind forgot its meanings, he never wrote a whole page about “time” he also use to evade the use of the word, in general relativity when he refer how gravitational force and speed affect “time”, he does not use the word “time” instead he would say, speed and gravitational force slows clock movement or “motion”, instead of saying that slows “time”. FQXi member Andreas Albrecht said that. When asked the question, "What is time?", Einstein gave a pragmatic response: "Time," he said, "is what clocks measure and nothing more." He knew that “time” was a man creation, but he didn’t know what man is measuring with the clock.
I insist, that for “measuring motion” we should always and only use a unique: “constant” or “uniform” “motion” to measure “no constant motions” “which integrates and form part of every change and transformation in every physical thing. Why? because is the only kind of “motion” whose characteristics allow it, to be divided in equal parts as Egyptians and Sumerians did it, giving born to “motion fractions”, which I call “motion units” as hours, minutes and seconds. “Motion” which is the real thing, was always hide behind time, and covert by its shadow, it was hide in front everybody eyes, during at least two millenniums at hand of almost everybody. Which is the difference in physics between using the so-called time or using “motion”?, time just has been used to measure the “duration” of different phenomena, why only for that? Because it was impossible for physicists to relate a mysterious time with the rest of the physical elements of known characteristics, without knowing what time is and which its physical characteristics were. On the other hand “motion” is not something mysterious, it is a quality or physical property of all things, and can be related with all of them, this is a huge difference especially for theoretical physics I believe. I as a physician with this find I was able to do quite a few things. I imagine a physicist with this can make marvelous things.
With my best whishes
Héctor
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Michel Planat wrote on Aug. 3, 2013 @ 17:58 GMT
Dear Patrick,
I looked at your essay several times over the period of the contest.
Several sound ideas are within although you announced that you still did not spend much time on your theory.
I like the idea of the superpostion of existence an non existence prior to the bit realization, I would see the concept of the qubit here.
You arrive at layers with circles and I suspect that, at the end of the day, this can be formulated with Hopf fibrations in a less esoteric way. This seems to be confirmed by the spin of the particles you account for (the standard symmetry SU(3) is not far away).
Congratulations for an intriguing essay.
Mine does not relate on constants at all. Still you may have some interest at reading it.
http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1789
Best wishes,
Michel
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Than Tin wrote on Aug. 3, 2013 @ 19:15 GMT
Dear All
Let me go one more round with Richard Feynman.
In the Character of Physical Law, he talked about the two-slit experiment like this “I will summarize, then, by saying that electrons arrive in lumps, like particles, but the probability of arrival of these lumps is determined as the intensity of waves would be. It is this sense that the electron behaves sometimes like a particle and sometimes like a wave. It behaves in two different ways at the same time.
Further on, he advises the readers “Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it. ‘But how can it be like that?’ because you will get ‘down the drain’, into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.”
Did he says anything about Wheeler’s “It from Bit” other than what he said above?
Than Tin
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Michel Planat wrote on Aug. 6, 2013 @ 14:59 GMT
Dear Patrick,
Thank you for you response on my blog. I really liked your coherent scheme and I am sure you can valorize it by introducing known concepts og geometry.
I started to be interested in this subject. Deriving a mathematical theory of natural constants is worthwhile.
You can see a hint on Zivlak's blog, in particular the link
https://sites.google.com/site/nonanthropicconstants/
(als
o the work of Angel Doz here).
I am also giving you a high mark.
Best regards,
Michel
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Paul Borrill wrote on Aug. 6, 2013 @ 23:38 GMT
Patrick - bold, brilliant, outstanding. I don’t fully know what to make of it yet (I need to think about it more and visit your web site with the full universe theory). However, I just gave you a good rating, which I believe will help you.
I will need to look up the history of the ratio of the masses of the proton relative to the electron, however, did you know there is also a derivation of this in the paper by Walter Smilga in this contest?
I would be honored for your review of my essay regarding the elimination of a background of time in analyzing entanglement. You can find the latest version of it here:
http://fqxi.org/data/forum-attachments/Borrill-TimeOne-
V1.1a.pdf
(sorry if the fqxi web site splits this url up, I haven’t figured out a way to not make it do that).
Kind regards, Paul
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M. V. Vasilyeva wrote on Aug. 7, 2013 @ 07:39 GMT
Patrick
vous avez quitte un poste interessant aujourd'hui sur mon blog pour quoi j'ai repondu. Je voudrais savoir qui. Mon email est vasilyeva_mv at yahoo.
Merci :)
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