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Time as a tightrope walking towards the fundamental principles. by Daniel de França Diniz Rocha
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Author Daniel de França Diniz Rocha wrote on Feb. 1, 2018 @ 21:28 GMT
Essay AbstractThere is a chasm between points of view and no agreement on what is fundamental between thinkers, whatever is the field they belong to. So, what I intend to show it is that time might actually a gateway to deep questions is the fundamentals of nature, or what is behind it.
Author BioI work for INPI (My Brazil's trademark and patent office). I graduated in Physics. I am curious about many things.
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Joe Fisher wrote on Feb. 1, 2018 @ 22:01 GMT
Dear Daniel de França Diniz Rocha,
FQXi.org is clearly seeking to confirm whether Nature is fundamental.
Reliable evidence exists that proves that the surface of the earth was formed millions of years before man and his utterly complex finite informational systems ever appeared on that surface. It logically follows that Nature must have permanently devised the only single physical construct of earth allowable.
All objects, be they solid, liquid, or vaporous have always had a visible surface. This is because the real Universe must consist only of one single unified VISIBLE infinite surface occurring eternally in one single infinite dimension that am always illuminated mostly by finite non-surface light.
Only the truth can set you free.
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Lawrence B. Crowell wrote on Feb. 2, 2018 @ 10:51 GMT
Hi Daniel,
I just noticed your essay is here. Glad to see you here again this year. I will read your essay ASAP.
Cheers LC
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adel sadeq wrote on Feb. 2, 2018 @ 16:29 GMT
Hi Daniel,
Very good essay. I know you hate the boring ordinary, so you opted for something that could be fundamental yet exiting about reality. The subject has always been on my list but never got the time to delve. I have the book by Matt the Lorentzian wormholes.
Keep walking, do I have a choice!
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Joe Fisher wrote on Feb. 2, 2018 @ 16:46 GMT
Dear Fellow Essayists
This will be my final plea for fair treatment.,
FQXI is clearly seeking to find out if there is a fundamental REALITY.
Reliable evidence exists that proves that the surface of the earth was formed millions of years before man and his utterly complex finite informational systems ever appeared on that surface. It logically follows that Nature must have permanently devised the only single physical construct of earth allowable.
All objects, be they solid, liquid, or vaporous have always had a visible surface. This is because the real Universe must consist only of one single unified VISIBLE infinite surface occurring eternally in one single infinite dimension that am always illuminated mostly by finite non-surface light.
Only the truth can set you free.
Joe Fisher, Realist
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Lawrence B. Crowell wrote on Feb. 3, 2018 @ 15:43 GMT
Your paper makes some interesting connections with closed timelike curves. These are existent in the interiors of Kerr, Reissnor-Nordstrom and Kerr-Newman metrics and black holes. The Kerr black hole has r = 0 in the x-y plane as a ring that has closed timelike curves around it. This black hole interior has spacetime so twisted up and screwy that these time loops structures are real. They are also apparent in anti-de Sitter spacetimes, but one often considered a conformal patch where these are excluded. The Taub-NUT spacetime flips the meaning of space and time, so the analogue of the black hole and the horizon at r = 2GM/c^2 occurs with a time in the past as t = 2μ/c^2. Before that time there is a region with closed timelike curves. In all these cases we have conditions on the nature of the vacuum which correspond to the violation of Hawking-Penrose energy conditions. In the case of black holes or the Taub-NUT solution these regions are sealed behind event horizons.
The holonomy you discuss is a form of monodromy of a curve around a singularity. A closed timelike curve is often associated with a Cauchy horizon with a weak singularity, such as what happens with a wormhole, or with CTCs around black hole singularities in the RN or KN metrics. These have very interesting structures, and I think the holonomy or monodromy of a black hole singularity is dual to the poles in geodesics in hyperbolic spaces and the theorems of Mirzikhani. The near horizon condition of a black hole is a form of AdS spacetime which has the effect of bringing this structure into the exterior region.
As a result this does have some bearing on relevant physics, even though I suspect that faster than light travel or time travel is not possible in the general exterior world we experience.
Cheers LC
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Kamal L Rajpal wrote on Feb. 10, 2018 @ 18:14 GMT
Dear Daniel Rocha,
I read with interest your views on dark matter. Please read Dark Matter http://vixra.org/pdf/1303.0207v3.pdf and also my essay at https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3145
Kamal Rajpal,
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Juan Ramón González Álvarez wrote on Feb. 20, 2018 @ 20:10 GMT
Time is not a dimension. Time is an evolution parameter. Time is modeled as a dimension only in some theories that avoid the true nature of time, including its characteristic arrow. But those limited theories cannot describe irreversible phenomena.
"The interpretation of quantum mechanics that takes position as the only observable is the Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics". Not...
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Time is not a dimension. Time is an evolution parameter. Time is modeled as a dimension only in some theories that avoid the true nature of time, including its characteristic arrow. But those limited theories cannot describe irreversible phenomena.
"The interpretation of quantum mechanics that takes position as the only observable is the Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics". Not true. First, there are many observables in Bohmian mechanics; they are often denotes as "O" in the literature. Second, it is possible to formulate Bohmian mechanics in the momentum representation.
"One thing it is of central importance, the object has a wavefuction." Not only this is of no importance (it is possible to formulate quantum theory without wavefunctions), but wavefunctions only exist for certain systems (non-open) and states (pure).
The geometrical model of time used is only an approximation. Those closed curves don't exist.
Dark matter isn't "a CTM (membrane)" neither "a relic of the inflation". Dark matter is a fictitious distribution of matter added to gravitational theories that don't accurately describe the gravitational interactions at galactic scale. We can explain the same phenomena without any need of dark matter.
"The Krasnikov tube system has become a time machine". For a science-fiction movie. The Krasnikov tube system is fiction, but not by "CTC" but because the whole description of the tube system is confounding time with clocks, ignoring the arrow of time, and even ignoring basic laws of conservation.
"Coming back to Bohmian mechanics, it is noticeable that it is hard to come up with a relativistic version of the theory, as it is difficult to find a preferential time slice." There is nothing noticeable here; quantum mechanics is incompatible with relativity; as is well-known, there is no consistent and complete relativistic quantum mechanics. The problem is not in finding "a preferential time slice", but quantum and relativity treating causality and time in different, incompatible ways.
"Entropic Gravity" --as "spacetime thermodynamics", "black-hole thermodynamics", and other recent developments-- is based in a completely misunderstanding of what is thermodynamics, gravity, or entropy and on superficial analogies.
"It is evident that this evokes the idea of pilot wave theory, where you have a non-local and determinist span of the universe." Only when one ignores measurements and other irreversible processes.
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Vladimir Nikolaevich Fedorov wrote on Feb. 21, 2018 @ 07:59 GMT
Dear Daniel,
Here we are again all together.
I highly appreciate your beautifully written essay.
I hope that my modest achievements can be information for reflection for you.
Vladimir Fedorov
https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3080
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Steven Andresen wrote on Feb. 22, 2018 @ 06:51 GMT
Dear Daniel
If you are looking for another essay to read and rate in the final days of the contest, will you consider mine please? I read all essays from those who comment on my page, and if I cant rate an essay highly, then I don’t rate them at all. Infact I haven’t issued a rating lower that ten. So you have nothing to lose by having me read your essay, and everything to...
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Dear Daniel
If you are looking for another essay to read and rate in the final days of the contest, will you consider mine please? I read all essays from those who comment on my page, and if I cant rate an essay highly, then I don’t rate them at all. Infact I haven’t issued a rating lower that ten. So you have nothing to lose by having me read your essay, and everything to gain.
Beyond my essay’s introduction, I place a microscope on the subjects of universal complexity and natural forces. I do so within context that clock operation is driven by Quantum Mechanical forces (atomic and photonic), while clocks also serve measure of General Relativity’s effects (spacetime, time dilation). In this respect clocks can be said to possess a split personality, giving them the distinction that they are simultaneously a study in QM, while GR is a study of clocks. The situation stands whereby we have two fundamental theories of the world, but just one world. And we have a singular device which serves study of both those fundamental theories. Two fundamental theories, but one device? Please join me and my essay in questioning this circumstance?
My essay goes on to identify natural forces in their universal roles, how they motivate the building of and maintaining complex universal structures and processes. When we look at how star fusion processes sit within a “narrow range of sensitivity” that stars are neither led to explode nor collapse under gravity. We think how lucky we are that the universe is just so. We can also count our lucky stars that the fusion process that marks the birth of a star, also leads to an eruption of photons from its surface. And again, how lucky we are! for if they didn’t then gas accumulation wouldn’t be halted and the star would again be led to collapse.
Could a natural organisation principle have been responsible for fine tuning universal systems? Faced with how lucky we appear to have been, shouldn’t we consider this possibility?
For our luck surely didnt run out there, for these photons stream down on earth, liquifying oceans which drive geochemical processes that we “life” are reliant upon. The Earth is made up of elements that possess the chemical potentials that life is entirely dependent upon. Those chemical potentials are not expressed in the absence of water solvency. So again, how amazingly fortunate we are that these chemical potentials exist in the first instance, and additionally within an environment of abundant water solvency such as Earth, able to express these potentials.
My essay is attempt of something audacious. It questions the fundamental nature of the interaction between space and matter Guv = Tuv, and hypothesizes the equality between space curvature and atomic forces is due to common process. Space gives up a potential in exchange for atomic forces in a conversion process, which drives atomic activity. And furthermore, that Baryons only exist because this energy potential of space exists and is available for exploitation. Baryon characteristics and behaviours, complexity of structure and process might then be explained in terms of being evolved and optimised for this purpose and existence. Removing need for so many layers of extraordinary luck to eventuate our own existence. It attempts an interpretation of the above mentioned stellar processes within these terms, but also extends much further. It shines a light on molecular structure that binds matter together, as potentially being an evolved agency that enhances rigidity and therefor persistence of universal system. We then turn a questioning mind towards Earths unlikely geochemical processes, (for which we living things owe so much) and look at its central theme and propensity for molecular rock forming processes. The existence of chemical potentials and their diverse range of molecular bond formation activities? The abundance of water solvent on Earth, for which many geochemical rock forming processes could not be expressed without? The question of a watery Earth? is then implicated as being part of an evolved system that arose for purpose and reason, alongside the same reason and purpose that molecular bonds and chemistry processes arose.
By identifying atomic forces as having their origin in space, we have identified how they perpetually act, and deliver work products. Forces drive clocks and clock activity is shown by GR to dilate. My essay details the principle of force dilation and applies it to a universal mystery. My essay raises the possibility, that nature in possession of a natural energy potential, will spontaneously generate a circumstance of Darwinian emergence. It did so on Earth, and perhaps it did so within a wider scope. We learnt how biology generates intricate structure and complexity, and now we learn how it might explain for intricate structure and complexity within universal physical systems.
To steal a phrase from my essay “A world product of evolved optimization”.
Best of luck for the conclusion of the contest
Kind regards
Steven Andresen
Darwinian Universal Fundamental Origin
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