Dear Carsten,

Your essay is magnificent, and most of your conclusions are probably true. You began with math as our language to describe logical behavior. I believe that logic is a key feature of physical reality and that physical reality supports AND and NOT logic at every level of structure, and thus math applies at every level.

Your approach based on two axioms and the...

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Dear Carsten,

Your essay is magnificent, and most of your conclusions are probably true. You began with math as our language to describe logical behavior. I believe that logic is a key feature of physical reality and that physical reality supports AND and NOT logic at every level of structure, and thus math applies at every level.

Your approach based on two axioms and the assumption of holomorphism leads to 'quaternionic space-time' which leads immediately to the Minkowski metric and emergence of special relativity. [By the way you might wish to check out Gary Simpson's current essay, which is focused on quaternions and Alexander Soiguine's essay on geometric algebra.] Both of these imply the electromagnetic Faraday tensor.

I will not review your conclusions, but they are eminently reasonable, and the fact that they apparently do not lead to event horizons, black holes, or gravitational waves bothers me not at all.

You ask "where are the weak and strong nuclear forces?" I would suggest that you left these out when you decided to rule out vortex fields. I have presented a suggestion of how this might work in The Chromodynamics War. If you had started with an even simpler axiom, I believe you would have found the quantum of action emerging, as well as Bohm-like 'pilot waves' induced. I've touched on both of these in my previous essays. I also invite you to read and comment on my current essay, The Nature of Bell's Hidden Constraints, which I believe to be compatible with your views.

I am in full agreement with you that, rather than concluding that particles and fields evaporate in a space-time view, instead "this space-time should rather be something." Einstein noted "there is no space absent of field." It is the physical field that is the substantial reality, and the logical structures possible flow from this field. Your knowledge of math and your physical intuition allow you to reconstruct physics in the beautiful way you have done. If you, or anyone else, began simply with math, you would never reach reality.

My best regards,

Edwin Eugene Klingman

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