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It’s not quite timeless, but Steven Weinberg’s *Dreams of a Final Theory* is a classic of the popular science genre. In it, he notes that he was an enthusiastic student of philosophy as an undergraduate . . . that is, until “the insights of the philosophers I studied seemed murky and inconsequential compared to the dazzling successes of physics and mathematics.”

At that point Weinberg turned away from the venerable path of Augustine and Aquinas, Hegel and Husserl, and began a lifetime pursuit in the physical sciences that would prove a glittering triumph. What with his Nobel-winning contribution to field theory that allowed for unification of the weak and electromagnetic forces – not to mention his winning of everything from the Oppenheimer Prize to the James Joyce Award -- it is difficult to conjure up any profound sense of disappointment at the career he chose to forego.

Actually, Weinberg did far more than leave philosophy behind; in *Dreams* he actively campaigns against it. An entire chapter is dedicated to exposing, with a wink to Wigner, the “unreasonable ineffectiveness of philosophy.”

From *Against Philosophy*:

“From time to time since then I have tried to read current work on the philosophy of science. Some of it I found to be written in a jargon so impenetrable that I can only think that it aimed at impressing those who confound obscurity with profundity.

But I do not aim here to play the role of a philosopher, but rather that of a specimen, an unrenegate working scientist who finds no help in professional philosophy. I am not alone in this; I know of no one who has participated actively in the advance of physics in the postwar period whose research has been significantly helped by the work of philosophers. . . .

Physicists do of course carry around with them a working philosophy. For most of us, it is a rough-and-ready realism, a belief in the objective reality of the ingredients of our scientific theories. But this has been learned through the experience of scientific research and rarely from the teachings of philosophers.”

Strong words, and conceivably a bitter pill for those among us—at FQXi, hardly a minority—who feel physics and philosophy may share areas of significant overlap (physics and religion, I should note, is a different claim). Or, at least, those who feel that physics is now in a position to begin to answer certain deep questions long relegated to the philosopher’s café table.

Yet Weinberg is hardly the only great mind to take a dim view of the toga. Here’s Richard Feynman:

“Philosophers, incidentally, say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive and probably wrong. . . .

You can take every one of Spinoza's propositions and take the contrary propositions, and look at the world - and you can't tell which is right. Sure, people were awed because he had the courage to take on these great questions, but it doesn't do any good to have the courage if you can't get anywhere with the question.”

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Full disclosure: I am passionate about philosophy, teach courses on Existentialism and Literature, and routinely advocate to undergraduates that they be willing to take the question of the meaning of their lives seriously (against the tide of much modern philosophy, in fact, which emphasizes ironic distance; but leave that aside). Yet in the corner of the Agora where we speculate on the nature of physical reality, and how best to attain knowledge of same, dismissals such as Weinberg and Feynman’s do hit a nerve. I remember in my own undergraduate days suffering mightily under the misapprehension that statements made in philosophy seminar were somehow “true” in the same way as those made in physics survey. Both referred to the world, thought I, so both must be describing aspects of the same thing. Thus I tried for a long time to understand how Kant’s “insights” into space and time, laid out in all their impenetrable obliquity in *The Critique of Pure Reason*, could be put together with Einstein’s.

It was only after a lot of fruitless effort that I came to recognize Transcendental Idealism and Special Relativity don’t go together. (Disagreements with that statement are welcome.) That realization in itself was a frustration; but recognition of the reason behind my error was absolutely fruitful. Kant--I say this with due deliberation--didn’t make any discoveries into the nature of space and time; he made assertions about them. (Hegel made quite other ones; Heidegger still others.) To be sure, the quality philosopher’s positions are hardly guesswork; by rejecting Humean empiricism, Kant was building on a long line of philosophical tradition he and all his admirers regarded as credibly established beforehand, the whole train of Enlightenment epistemology. But the simple question remains: was he right?

Or, with Feynman, perhaps the more important question: Can we even tell?

I recognize that this is a bit of a straw-man argument I am building up here, but a productive one nonetheless. So far, every indication is that Einstein was absolutely right. Not “influential,” not “challenging us to see things in a new way,” – just right. We don’t have to construct those odd sentences around him that we do around pure philosophers, such as “For Einstein, length measurements are relative to the observer’s reference frame,” or “In Einstein’s view, gravity is the result of four-dimensional spacetime curvature.” These aren’t positions in Einstein’s systematic philosophy of Being: they are something far more profound. They are true.

Limited in their scope, yes; still to be unified with QM, yes; all the standard caveats about scientific theory apply. But SR and GR make numerous specific predictions that have been, and are being, tested all the time. Two hundred years later, Kant remains influential, insightful, challenging—but was he right?

And if we can’t answer that question—let’s put the issue boldly--shall we cease burdening our thoughts with the verbal complexities of a tradition that may not actually be progressing at all, but only undergoing an outmoded, self-referential dance?

Are we really at the dawn of a new age of “Physics and Philosophy,” as so many popular books and magazine articles suggest--or at the twilight of Philosophy altogether?

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William,

Congratulations on another thought-provoking article that I predict will draw many impassioned responses.

Weinberg's _Dreams of a Final Theory_ is one of my personal favorites, and I am among those who think that it's a good thing that we are seeing the twilight of philosophy.

In this forum every day, you will find numerous respondents who _do_ believe that Einstein's results are " ... positions in Einstein's systematic philosophy of Being". It becomes tedious to correct those misconceptions and the false conclusions that arise from them. No amount of citing and reciting facts, experimental results, mathematical models and the like will dissuade the believer.

That philosophy _could_ be an objective knowledge model, I have little doubt. That it currently has not transcended what Einstein ridiculed as "mere personal belief," I also have little doubt.

Tom

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Joe Fisher replied on Sep. 2, 2010 @ 13:00 GMT

The Times of London reported today that Stephen Hawking's new book due out later this year, will prove that the Universe was not created by God. Hawking insists that he can prove that the Universe was created out of nothing. Just goes to show, bad beginnings can only lead to awful consequences.

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Jason Wolfe replied on Sep. 2, 2010 @ 14:28 GMT

God said:"Let there be light..." Looks an awful lot like a Big Bang to me. Is Stephen Hawking going to disprove the Big Bang?

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Jason Wolfe replied on Sep. 3, 2010 @ 14:29 GMT

Dear Jelle,

You and everyone else are free to believe or not believe in God, as you chose. Similarly, do you care whether or not the 100 trillion cells of your body believe in you?

It looks to me like the laws of physics are fully implemented by photons (virtual/real); I want to also include wave-functions which have similarities to photons. Wave functions make it possible to calculate eigenfunctions; eigenfunction look an awful lot like possibilities. When we make a decision, we effectively collapse the wave function, thus channeling our energy and our intent into a single course of action.

If (a) the photon implements physics + causality, and (b) the Big Bang was a HUGE flash of light, THEN the Big Bang and God said, "Let there be light..." are too similar to permit the disproving of God.

As for Big Bangs happening for NO reason, I don't see that happening in nature. In fact, it violates Conservation of Energy. Creation and destruction of energy have to fall within the capability of that which created the Universe. Something caused the Big Bang.

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Physics has gone through a period of extreme pragmatism, as the quotes from Weinberg and Feynman attest, but it hasn't always been that way and, in my view, it won't always be that way in the future. Although empirical reality is the ultimate arbiter of truth, physicists do not theorize in a vacuum, and philosophical theories have often influenced physics, e.g. Mach's influence on Einstein's relativity.

Philosophers, by and large, are investigating questions that are not amenable to experimental test. Even though we may regard the empirical sciences as our most reliable sources of knowledge, this does not mean that philosophical considerations are unimportant. For example, the very question of why scientific knowledge is reliable is clearly a philosophical one, at least in part, and is fundamental to the whole scientific worldview. Whether or not this has any impact on physicists daily practice seems to me to be beside the point.

Of course, philosophers make mistakes aplenty and it is not unusual to find their pronouncements on topics that were mistakenly thought to be immune to scientific enquiry later refuted by scientific evidence. Your example of Kant's adherence to an apriori view of space and time that is very Newtonian in character is a prime example of this. However, it seems to me that this is not a very key part of the Kantian view, i.e. you could replace it with something more relativistic without affecting the main conclusions of his philosophy.

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John replied on Aug. 18, 2010 @ 20:36 GMT

"philosophical theories have often influenced physics"

Never ever. Mach was a physicist and engineer, above all.

As Weinberg says, philosophy has NEVER influenced physics. Philosophers follow physicists; it has never been the other way round in any situation.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 19, 2010 @ 10:06 GMT

All,

Well I'm an engineer too but definitely feel that 'The Ancients', recognized by Pythagoras, Plato, Spinoza àand Einstein, have handed us a concrete bridge between Philosophy and Science and we mght as well start 'walking on it'. Soafar I have only shown you the 'sunny side' of the 'cosmic coin'. Here by contrast an example of the 'dark side' and boy does it exist:

The number ‘16’ is described as ‘The Shattered Citadel’’. This number, which was also called by the ancient Chaldeans as ‘A Tower struck by Lightning, from which a man is falling, with a Crown on his head’’, representative of destruction and haven’t we seen the Tower and its twin falling recently!!! It warns of a strange fatality, also the danger of accidents and the defeat of one’s plans.

Below are a number of words and names which have this fateful vibration:

‘So I am’ ‘Child’ ‘Fear’ ‘Angst’ ‘Anger’ ‘The Enemy’ ‘Hell’ ‘Killer’ ‘Rape’ ‘Snake’ ‘Lust’ ‘Fake’ ‘Hurry’ ‘Rush’ ‘Africa’ ‘Russia’ ‘Tibet’ ‘Japan’ ‘Kobe’ (the Japanese city virtually destroyed by an earthquake in 1995) ‘L’Aquila’ ‘San Andreas Fault’ ‘Algeria’ ‘Shiva’ (the Indian god of destruction), ‘The Camorra’ ‘Dark Force’ ‘Islamic’ ‘Cult’ ‘Media Hype’ ‘Blind Faith’ ‘Waco’ ‘Fire’ ‘Urban’ ‘Atom’ ‘A-bomb’ ‘The Alcohol’ ‘The Oil’ ‘Oil Men’ ‘Oil Weapon’ ‘Black Sun’ ‘Trade’ ‘Man and Nature’ (how very true!!!)’CFKs’ ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ ‘Katrina’ ‘Mad Cow’ (both by the word ‘Cow’ as well as ‘Mad Cow’) ‘H5N1’ (the avian flu virus) ‘Cat and Mouse’ ‘Ratko Mladic’ (the Serb general who led the destruction of Bosnia, both by his first as well as second name). Furthermore, the names ‘Bill Gates’, also a double ‘16’, both by the name Gates as well as Bill Gates, ‘The Capitalist’ ‘A lot of money’ ‘The Rich’ and the names ‘Bush’ ‘Dick Cheney’ ‘The Regime’ ‘Blair-Bush’ ‘Twin’ ‘Trade’ ‘The Pentagon’ ‘’Osama’ ‘Al-Qaeda’ alias ‘The Base’ same ‘16’, ‘The Hezbollah’ ‘Camp’ ‘David’ ‘Third’ ‘Reich’ and ‘War Games’, a double ‘16’, and ‘Dirty Game’ ‘Italy-Europe’ ‘The Arrogance’ ‘Than Shwe’ ‘Mao Zedong’ ‘Kagame’ ‘Ego-Power’ ‘The Stress’ ‘The Paranoid’ and ‘Bad People’ as well as ‘An Inconvenient Truth’!!!

Call that coincidence Steve!!!

Jelle

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Steve Dufourny replied on Aug. 19, 2010 @ 10:52 GMT

Hi Jelle,

It is sometimes important to identify the whole with wisdom and perspective.

Indeed there are truths that do not suit everyone.

The current state of our beautiful planet is a disaster, such a disgrace of responsibilities.

It is absurd and unthinkable to accept such chaotic situations.

Moreover, these parameters and factors generate chaotic effects and impacts of concern in the global perspective.

Caution seems to be an essential in words than in the systems.

I think humbly that human nature is such that it becomes clear to focus on universal scientific objectives.

The harmonic scientific solutions are much more peaceful than political struggle, political and economical war...

Politics is an arena where good and evil are in disagreement.But the well wins always fortunally, but unfortunally the short moment in localities is there

I prefer the sweet universal scientific revolution.The love of his fellowman as our torch of hopes ...

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What is reality?

Is that a religious, philosophic, or physical question?

Whenever an answer is given, it raises further questions. Religion and superstition raised questions philosophy tried to answer and philosophy raises questions physics tries to answer. We laugh at the foolishness of those who came before, but fail to see the limits they had to understand. Who knows how history will treat our efforts. Will our generation be viewed as giants, or fools, or some combination of the two.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 18, 2010 @ 08:52 GMT

John Merryman,

To me it's entirely a philosophical-physics question to which mathematics plus the english language provide 'key keys'! It's a matter clearly of 'allowing' metaphysics and metaphilosophy!

Also in answer to an earlier post by James, herewith a 'tip of that veil' te words EXISTENTIALISM and EXISTENTIALIST are, according the 'The Ancient' equivalent to:

‘PHYSICS OF SOCIETY’ ‘REALITY IS UNKNOWABLE’ ‘CONNECTION’ ‘TELEPATHY’ ‘EXISTENCE’ ‘INNER LIFE’ ‘THE WORLD OF LOVE’ ‘COSMIC PLEASURE’ ‘ETERNITY’ ‘RELIGION’ ‘GOD OF ABRAHAM’ ‘ANCIENT CHALDEANS’ ‘CHALDEAN’ ‘KEYWORD’ ‘NUMBERS’ ‘ALL THINGS ARE NUMBERS’ ‘TRUTH IN NUMBERS’ ‘GOOD NUMBER SENSE’ ‘NAMES-NUMBERS’ ‘EYESIGHT’ ‘SOULMATES’ ‘GOOD VIBRATIONS’ ‘CONTACT’ ‘OUR COSMIC NAMES’ ‘COSMIC THEORY’ ‘WE ARE PART OF NATURE’ ‘NATURE IS BEAUTIFUL’ ‘NATURE’S BEAUTY’ ‘BEAUTIFUL’ ‘ALL LIFE IS ONE’ ‘DIASPORA’ ‘INFORMATION’ ‘DECISION MAKING’ ‘KNOWLEDGE’ ‘IMMENSE’ ‘LIMITLESS’ ‘MASTERFUL’ ‘AMINOACID’ ‘ADRENALIN’ ‘LANGUAGE’ ‘LANGUAGE COGNITION’ ‘POETRY AND MUSIC’ ‘THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONTAINS THE KEY’ ‘WRITTEN’ ‘COLLECTIVE MEMORY’

Take it or leave it 'world'!

Jelle

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 18, 2010 @ 09:12 GMT

To which I should like to add what the american publisher of my book wrote on its back:

This fascinating book promotes oneness among humanity and examines the ways all people are interconnected

Pittsburgh, PA (Vocus) August 5, 2010 -- The Natural Theory of DEALISM: 'Quest for a Better Understanding Between Humanity and Nature' for 'A Better World' by Number Six has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc

The globalization tide ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall has anything but provided the global community with a common sense of identity. On the contrary, it seems to have generated further polarization, cultural impoverishment, worrying environmental instability, a strongly materialistic and individualistic orientation, and mainly uncertainty and fear of the future. Identity is an umbrella term, a collection of ideas and characteristics of how we see ourselves as a group.

This book, on the basis of a three thousand-year-old cosmic code, demonstrates in a variety of ways that we are indeed all connected through a basic natural and mathematical principle, originating in the Big Bang and handed down to us by the ancient Sumerian Chaldeans and in what Pythagoras called “Everything Is Number,” confirmed by Plato and Spinoza each in their own ways. The book makes a number of proposals to promote more “oneness” among humanity and introduces the concept of “Dealism,” a universal “21” vibration, derived from “Idealism,” a blind “22” vibration, by eliminating the “I,” i.e., the ego factor. All is geometry, interrelated and indeed relative. Happiness lies in understanding!

See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/dplHZ9

And its rather encouraging that the financial community is starting 'to get wind of and interest in' these metaphilosophical-metaphysical wrings! Something seems to be moving then!

Jelle

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 18, 2010 @ 10:38 GMT

Ray,

If you don't know it already I'm sure you'll enjoy this 'litle movie' anout Numbers in Nature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA

To me beautiful proof of both the number as well as geometry argument, whatever the 'driving force'!

Jelle

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John,

Please give an example of a question that philosophy has raised, that is tractable to the objective method of physics.

Tom

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John Merryman replied on Aug. 4, 2010 @ 01:41 GMT

Tom,

I didn't say the previous disciplines raised the questions. I said the answers they gave raised further questions. Each level of insight only raises the bar a little further.

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I say two cheers for philosophy, followed by a boo. On balance that is positive, but with caveats.

I too in college was intrigued by philosophy and took a number of courses in the subject. There were some philosophers I was quite interested in. Clearly the ancients had the most to say, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle being the great trinity, and Democritus and Lucretius used such inductive thought to intuit the existence of atoms. The late ancient world had Augustine, who gave very penetrating reasoning about the nature of time. The medieval world gave us Averoes and Aquinas. Then we get into the modern age, where I think David Hume had the most to say at the start of this age.. It is in more recent time that philosophy seems to have run out of some oomph. However, I found Hegel and Sartre to be of interest. With Hegel I found the idea of dialectics to be interesting, for quantum mechanics is a sort of dialectic system. Here you have a complementarity principle, where a physical system has 2n degrees of freedom, but you can only access half of them in a measurement. The other n degrees of freedom are uncertain. Quantum mechanics this is a sort of dialectic, but much clearer than what Hegel wrote, such as in his Science of Logic. Hegel’s ideas were taken up in a rather loose associative way by Engels’ and Marx in a social context, and this fertilized an intellectual minefield for people such as Lenin. So why mess around with Hegel at all? Just go to the real complementary system called quantum mechanics.

Anyone who looks to philosophy for answers I think may have things upside down. Philosophy might better be seen as something which brings focus on certain questions. I read an article on some quantum optical measurements which put strict limits on the linearity of quantum mechanics. The upshot is that in wave interference it is a bilinear process with no outside “paths” which introduce nonlinearities. However, gravitation is very nonlinear. So we are faced with a sort of dialectic: How can something be both linear and nonlinear in one consistent system? So dialectical reasoning might be a way of framing a question.

Cheers LC

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T H Ray replied on Aug. 3, 2010 @ 17:49 GMT

Lawrence, I'm glad you brought up the influence of philosophy on Marxist-Leninism, because I think that it is _the_ definitive example of mischief caused by mixing philosophy and science.

Few Americans, I think, while expounding on Marx and socialism (particularly the bloviators who clog the airwaves) understand that the true name for Marx's economic philosophy is "scientific socialsm." Marx's theory was held to be genuine science, on a par with physics and biology. What we see, however, is that the practical experiment of Marxist-Leninism failed because the science of Marxism actually turns out to be a religion -- with its prophets and prophecies, its savior cult, its bible and its plan for redemption.

One example of the grave damage to Soviet science is the clinging to Lamarckism in biology long after science had soundly discredited the theory -- because it agrees with the Marxist philosophy. For the same reason, Creationism among many believers persists in spite of evidence, reason, experimental results, etc. -- it agrees with their religious philosophy, science be damned.

Tom

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Lawrence B. Crowell replied on Aug. 3, 2010 @ 21:43 GMT

Marxism is clearly not a scientific concept. There is nothing particularly empirical about it. The cases where it has been tried under governments which tried to "make it so" are failures by and large. Lenin used Marxism as a way to institute an authoritarian system, by "making it so," which given that Russia was nearly a failed state in 1917-18 it almost couldn't have been any other way. On the other hand some of these small start up companies in and around Silicon Valley (San Jose) have funny similarities to Marx's vision that workers would assume control of the means of production.

There is a converse trend currently to formulate capitalism as some science or something inherent in natural science. The first champion of this idea was Ayn Rand, who wrote novels that start out somewhat engaging and end up as rants that are abysmal to finish. I see this as a sort of flip side of the idea of scientific Marxism. The rejection of global warming by the right wing is a sort of refusal to admit their system is not perfected as they might want to believe.

Politics and economics of all varieties have remarkable similarities to religion, or are secular forms of religion. It is also telling that just as religious "truth" is ultimately upheld only by authority, political systems and ideology have similar trends.

Cheers LC

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Florin Moldoveanu replied on Aug. 4, 2010 @ 01:23 GMT

Lawrence,

I assume that you familiar with Spekkens toy model. However, dialectics is not that, and it was the target of the criticism in “The Open Society and Its Enemies” by Popper where Popper argues that Hegel violates logic to the aim of deriving any conclusion it fits him.

Unfortunately for me I studied Hegel and Marxism way too much in my school years under communism in Eastern Europe and I know enough to write a book on what's wrong with it.

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Lawrence: "So we are faced with a sort of dialectic: How can something be both linear and nonlinear in one consistent system? "

The universe does seem to operate as an enigma, a paradox; it waits patiently for the opportunity to contradict established beliefs with truth that has been overlooked, ignored.

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Lawrence B. Crowell replied on Aug. 3, 2010 @ 21:51 GMT

There is a long trend in the foundations of physics whereby two separate categories, such as space and time, or magnetism and electricity, are seen to be aspects of the same thing, or equivalent in some way. We are faced with the same issue now. Quantum gravity is a funny business, for we have some proximal ideas about it but we have yet to uncover the big idea. That involves seen past contradictory dualities and into something similar to a dialectic.

Cheers LC

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Jason Wolfe replied on Aug. 4, 2010 @ 02:10 GMT

I read once that if you could look at the quantum scale, it would appear to be bubbling with virtual particles constantly being created and annhilated. Have you ever of the quantum scale described this way?

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John Merryman replied on Aug. 4, 2010 @ 02:22 GMT

Jason,

Think of it this way: A single thread is linear, but a tapestry is non-linear. Then the history of a single tapestry is linear. Each level is embedded in the next level.

The problem with our disciplines is that they start off as very linear and focused, then in their effort to expand beyond their original level, lose that focus and can only revert to a belief system enshrining that original insight.

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Next step ,the x strategy....philo vs sciences....I d say .....3D vs business....

results...last strategy before the truth.

Step of essay....copenaghen vs maths without sense....

solution......3D AND TIME CONSTANT.

AHAHAHA algebras without limits, not but really let's be serious a little.

Regards

Steve

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Good problem "Philosophy vs. Physics"!

When a physicist reads philosophy expecting to find answers physics problems, it will be disappointed. Because philosophy is not physics. But philosophy has its role, and it has its important role in physics too.

In general, philosophy has its role in educating systematic thinking, which is very important in science. Good philosophy does not provide answers, but teaches you to ask questions. Students at theoretical philosophy learn logic, critical thinking, epistemology, ontology, philosophy of science in general and of physics and mathematics in particular.

Even if someone believes only in falsifiability and deduction, he should remember that Popper himself acknowledged that science doesn't know yet how hypotheses are created. To create hypotheses, you need to have a systematic thinking which is not always pure deduction. You need to have an imprecise thinking, somehow between random mutations and intuition. Creativity in science is a form of art, a form of philosophy. And I would add that conceiving the best tests for a hypothesis requires as well creativity.

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T H Ray replied on Aug. 9, 2010 @ 22:09 GMT

Cristi,

I missed this excellent observation first time around.

It's more than just acknowledging that one does not know how hypotheses are created -- in Popper's philosophy, it doesn't _matter_. His protege David Miller expounded on this in chapter 3 (cleverly titled "A critique of good reasons") of his book Critical Rationalism: a restatement and defence.

Popper's student Feyerabend took this aspect of Popper's philosophy to extreme lengths, with an "anything goes" philosophy of his own, far from Popper's rationalism.

At any rate, though, the playful part of science can't be neglected. Even a sober statement such as Bronowski's "All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses" barely conceals a subtext that at the end of the day, science is the art of good guessing.

Tom

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Jung d say to Marx, Don't be Nietschieian,because the the lenisnism is like the community of societarism.

It's as if Darwin slept at the door of Lamarck.

Even Prigogine didn't have the time to analyze the eternity.

Don you see in the Eclesiast a dance of irony, or in the Seneque words a road of confusiopns.

Do you see an evolution when we were this entanglement ,even hubble knew that.

The book of deads and these pyramids in the sky, even descartes will say, they are spheres.

Rousseau said, the man born good....and this society which corrupts even the innocents, Oh my God,the sciences are the sciences.

We turn we turn and we evolve, we revolve .....all turns and the sphere like a link between philosophy and sciences....

Regards

Steve

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Here is your first great philosophical/physics statement:

The self represents, forms, and experiences a comprehensive approximation of the totality of experience by combining conscious and unconscious experience.

Experience then becomes a more direct expression of the self that is increasingly representative of a greater totality of experience as well.

Accordingly, human experience is more profoundly (and generally) impacted and structured in accordance with the laws/forces of physcics than was ever previously imagined.

Also, the caring and perceptive reader will want to see my recent posts in "Essay Contest 2010: What..."

Your mature and thoughtful comments and questions are welcome. This is a very serious and important matter/discussion, for many more reasons than are (at first) apparent.

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William Orem,

You said " We don't have to construct those odd sentences around him that we do around pure philosophers, such as "For Einstein, length measurements are relative to the observer's reference frame," or "In Einstein's view, gravity is the result of four-dimensional spacetime curvature." These aren't positions in Einstein's systematic philosophy of Being: they are something far more profound. They are true."

I must strongly disagree with you here. Nothing is ever proven in science, only not dis-proven. So however unlikely it may seem that Einstein is wrong his ideas should not be portrayed as -truth-. To accept them as truth is to accept them as a belief rather than the currently most likely and acceptable explanation, that may in time be superseded. That is what happens in science new ideas replace the old in time. I think to be fully accurate one should use the "For Einstein..." introduction to his ideas because his explanations are framed within a specific model. 3n plus 1 space-time. Outside of that model the findings and explanations that apply only to space-time do not apply. To say Einstein was completely correct and we know as a fact that space-time is all that exists, because experimental observations confirm his theory, is shutting the door on advancement beyond those ideas.

Physicists should not forgets that physics is a natural science, in the same way that biology and chemistry are natural sciences. It is not a branch of mathematics.To be conducted and advanced only by highly skilled mathematicians. Knowledge is comprised of facts. Facts alone do not always provide meaning or explanation. Facts alone can not do it. Mathematics alone can not do it.It is necessary then to interpret the facts and that requires logical thought.

It is more than just a collection of meaningless facts that are sought, but an understanding of the natural world. Darwin did not just make a fine collection of specimens and merely remark "look they are all slightly different". He sought a logical explanation for those observations. That achievement is hailed as a great scientific accomplishment not mere philosophy. If physics is entirely cut aware from philosophy or reason then it is cut away from any meaning or significance. It ceases to be a part of the growing comprehension of the natural holistic Universe and is no more than a collection of meaningless facts and definitions described by mathematics, imo.

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Eckard Blumschein replied on Aug. 4, 2010 @ 07:01 GMT

PhDs should second Georgina's reminder of Popper. While I see metamathematics and metaphysics justified, the blog made me aware of a point of view that Einstein shared with the "Dummkopf" Kant: the notion of an a priori existing time. If a theory turns out persitently mysterious, then we should not exclude any fallacy. Perhaps the crowd of modern philosophy is too much adapted to mainstream science as to help us out.

Eckard

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T H Ray replied on Aug. 4, 2010 @ 11:35 GMT

In fact, Einstein did not propose time as a priori. Neither space nor time have independent existence in general relativity. Only spacetime is physically real.

Popper's philosophy of falsifiability is often misunderstood as saying that the truth of a scientific result cannot be determined. Actually, every failure to falsify is a verification, in the sense that a theory more closely approaches verisimilitude ("truth-likeness"). General relativity is a mature theory -- a hundred years of testing and retesting (as William cited) makes it as true as any scientific theory can ever be. It is mathematically complete, with all predictions validated within the classical limit.

Tom

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Georgina Parry replied on Aug. 4, 2010 @ 12:44 GMT

Tom,

You said "As true as any scientific theory can ever be" Thats a good way to put it Tom. That is not the same as saying "this is the truth".

Also, there is -the truth- and there is -the whole truth-. They are not the same either.

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“Two hundred years later, Kant remains influential, insightful, challenging—but was he right?”

Very good question, but we do know the answer (from a long time ago). The crux of the matter is in the two meanings of true: true as a mathematical theorem, or true as agreement with reality.

If the question is: “were Kant’s ideas in agreement with Nature?” then one need to simply ask Nature (after Galileo’s recipe of doing physics).

If the question is: “were Kant’s ideas consistent within an axiomatic system?” the answer is not yet, because we need to isolate the exact math to do that. However, he does seem consistent, and the likelihood of being true in this sense is very high.

Now apply this argument to philosophy as a whole. Is philosophy in agreement with Nature? (or is it “right”?) Not at all, this is physics’ job. Do we need philosophy? Yes, if we are trying to make sense of the world. But can philosophy be successful in pointing us to new fruitful directions? Here I agree with Weinberg that the answer is most of the time sadly no. The reason for this, as Weinberg pointed out, is that philosophy tends to stick out with stale/deprecated ideas for way too long a time past their expiration date. Math may have a similar problem, but unlike philosophy math is timeless and can stand on its own: so what Euclidean geometry is not valid in curved spaces, it is a self-consistent axiomatic system. On the other hand physics is very dynamic as long as Nature has unexplained puzzles.

And here is the good news: philosophy does help out with progress in physics sometimes. For example each quantum mechanics interpretation does suggest new ways of looking at things and finding unexpected applications. And any new truly novel way of approaching problems has at its core (explicitly or not) a different philosophical paradigm.

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Jason Wolfe replied on Aug. 4, 2010 @ 00:09 GMT

Georgina,

You said, "It is necessary then to interpret the facts and that requires logical thought."

Do you think that quantum mechanics is logical? Do you think that Bell's theorem is logical?

What you said is probably where most physicists go astray in there quest to unify QM and GR (or whatever they're working on).

I don't think there is a logical explanation as to how the universe works. But I think we can find an explanation that fits all the facts and it still Occam's razor simple.

So, does quantum mechanics behave logically?

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Lawrence B. Crowell replied on Aug. 4, 2010 @ 00:33 GMT

I tend to agree as well. Outside of maybe framing us with certain questions, or in making us think in different ways, philosophy is not likely to have a direct impact on physics. I would be surprised if some philosophical system were translated into physical terms and codified mathematically into a new theory.

Cheers LC

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Georgina Parry replied on Aug. 4, 2010 @ 01:13 GMT

Jason,

I have previously talked about magical illusion. The purpose was to show how easily one can be mislead by lack of information. Considering the rabbit out of the hat trick, once again. The audience member (observer) does not know whether or not the rabbit is in the hat until the rabbit is removed. (Assuming he does not know how the trick is performed and is innocent of the possibility of deception.) Using the mathematics of uncertainty he might write that the magical rabbit exists in a non materialized state somewhere between existing and non existing. A supposition of states. Nothing more can be known about it (from his perspective). When the rabbit is removed from the hat it becomes real to the observer. It becomes a part of his subjective experienced reality. So there is, according to his interpretation, decoherence of the supposition of states and the other possibility vanishes or continues on in a parallel universe.

This is building an interpretation based upon the -magic-or illusion caused by lack of information, rather than the underlying reality of the situation. There are no magic rabbits. They can not exist in a supposition of states. If the magician pulls out a rabbit it has previously been put into the hat or climbed in itself, even if it was not observed to do so. The whole trick depends upon lack of observation of the rabbit entering the hat. I am sorry to anyone reading this who was unaware of that. That imagined mathematical description of the rabbit out of the hat trick gives an unrealistic interpretation as, in my opinion, do similar QM descriptions. It is not so much illogical as naive,imo. In the nicest possible sense and only for the reason that I have tried to explain with the analogy above.

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"Dreams of a Final Theory" Vs. "The Dreams of Reason"

Steven Weinberg rails against philosophy, but then feels sympathy for string theory's lack of success because it has so much mathematical beauty.

I much prefer physicist Heinz Pagels take on the mix of science and philosophy in his book: The Dreams of Reason. The best of science and the best of philosophy in a readable form.

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FAST FRED replied on Aug. 5, 2010 @ 18:50 GMT

Don, Physics and Philosophy by Sir James Jeans is superior to Weinberg's book.

The book is not outdated, and it is a classic exposition of the philosophical implications of scientific knowledge. Have you read it?

"There is no more eloquent, interesting or persuasive exposition of what may be called the science of philosophy than Sir James Jeans's." -- New York Times

I will check out the book you mentioned, thanks.

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Don Limuti (www.zenophysics.com) replied on Aug. 6, 2010 @ 05:24 GMT

Thanks for the recommendation on Physics and Philosophy by Sir James Jeans

I have not read stronger reviews.

I will look forward to reading it.

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Excellent subject! Much of my position is expressed in my essay on the limits of physics.

Truth: Truth is an absence of choice. A truth is the product of a truth system.There are many truth systems. So, a truth in our physical reality is not a truth in the underlying reality.

Philosophy: proceeds to answer question by choosing from contemporary material and knowledge. Proceeding by...

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Excellent subject! Much of my position is expressed in my essay on the limits of physics.

Truth: Truth is an absence of choice. A truth is the product of a truth system.There are many truth systems. So, a truth in our physical reality is not a truth in the underlying reality.

Philosophy: proceeds to answer question by choosing from contemporary material and knowledge. Proceeding by choice makes it a system of opinion, not a truth system. (One can’t prove a truth i.e. an absence of choice by making choices….) These opinions are time stamped in that they pertain to a specific era.

Science: Starts from an absence of choice (impossibility) and proceed by finding the choice less consequences. Science is a collection of a few truth systems that in the end do not mix (e.g. QM & GR). Experiments are repeatable by anyone without a choice about the results, and the experimental part of science translates well through time. What changes is the models or metaphysical consequence we draw from those experimental results.

No matter how close we get to understand the underlying reality, we will always spoil it in order to make it testable in our reality. GR is such a bridge or hybrid concept that combines elements of our reality and what we know about the underlying reality. But it would be a mistake to interpret GR as the ultimate description of the underlying reality, i.e. what the universe is really about in itself. This is where a proper metaphysics, an ontology constructed as a truth system can produce actual knowledge. This ontology has to be based on an impossibility, must used what we have learned with science while removing entirely any observer contribution from it.

Philosophers: Early last century, feverish physicists, too busy with real physics, turned around and, feeling a deeper meaning to it, asked philosophers about what to make of GR and QM. Cautious philosophers, who had been shunned by science for the last 200 years got real excited, and decided to answer the question using a scientific approach… turning their backs on the very foundation of their discipline..

An illustrative tale: a dentist calls a plumber for work at his house. The plumber wants to impress this new client by starting to work on the plumbing with dentistry tools. The dentist is not impressed or amused and fires the plumber…

In retrospect. The strength of philosophy is its freedom. It is good for stepping back, asking questions, finding new angles but not for producing truths, which is a consequence of its freedom. Philosophy does not have the required structure of a truth system. Science is a collection of truth systems, each providing a special window into the underlying reality. All the views can’t merge in our reality because they each originate form a different impossibility, theorized or proven, and what they have in common lies in the underlying reality as the actual subject matter. Each time science asks “why”, the answers retrofitted for testing, always return a metric “how”. The ultimate substance and cause belong to ontology. In the present context and attitude, what the universe is really about is totally out of the reach of science. Science can only say what the universe looks like and how it appears to work. It can never say what the universe IS, because to say what IS, belongs to ontology. As an empirical approach, science can never find out what the universe is by itself, without us in the picture, because in principle, we are part of the empirical picture.

Marcel,

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I think that behind any statement in physics there is some kind of philosophical background. Thomas Kuhn speaks about paradigms. Changing the paradigm or the interpretation leads to a change in the direction of the research itself.

In quantum theory there is much room for interpretation, and the interpretation is like drawing a figure when solving geometry problems. The figure is not ideal, but it helps putting the thoughts in a frame, conferring them stability.

Even in general relativity there is room for interpretation. For example, we can view spacetime as static, eternal, or we can view it as dynamical. Some even are still trying to interpret it using the ether theory. We can view it as flat with non-euclidean distances, or as curved.

Interpretation is philosophy, it doesn't follow from science. It helps building an intuition of the phenomena, but it also limits the intuition. Therefore, knowing how to ask the right questions and working with multiple views are important.

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Lawrence B. Crowell replied on Aug. 4, 2010 @ 16:59 GMT

Cristi,

To extend the notion of interpretation, various quantum interpretations such as Copenhagen, MWI, Bohm and so forth are more metaphysics than physics. They are attempts to "transduce" a complex valued system into something we can understand with our real valued perceptions and mental biases. There is of course a sort of nexus which compels these ideas, which is the reduction of states in a measurement.

However, these interpretations are not useless and various problems can be solved by invoking them. The problem comes when physicists try to take them as testable theories.

In the same vein philosophy can be of some value in framing questions. However, this is pretty tangential at best.

Cheers LC

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Interesting - "unreasonable ineffectiveness of philosophy" makes me wonder what goal it would be that cannot be achieved effectively, and subsequently, whether this goal is even aimed at by a philosopher. If one acknowledges a "working philosophy" as a useful tool already, then the perceived ineffectiveness appears similar to - say - pure mathematics when used for the description of observable nature. "Not my goal" says the pure mathematician and walks off. Prof Weinberg's philosophy as quoted above is very likable, "a belief in the objective reality of the ingredients of our scientific theories" ... if indeterminate measurement outcomes from a quantum system are de-scoped from requiring an explanation. But when individual, objectively observable measurements are governed by random probabilities, can cause-and-effect be an ingredient in a fundamental theory? Surely, we don't know yet, and maybe it's unknowlable. But it is valuable to me to speculate about what could be, and different philosophies are providing some structure to the otherwise unbounded thought.

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I can't accept what the sciences community implies so many confusions about our reality.

How some people can say these things about the pure School of Copenaghen.

Furthermore ,when some theories explain the higgs ,the god particles.

It's paradoxal .

It's really bizare.

Steve

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Hi Steve,

Do you believe that quantum entanglement might permit the transmission of information faster than the speed of light?

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Ray Munroe replied on Aug. 4, 2010 @ 20:28 GMT

Dear Jason,

You know that I am a fan of tachyons, and they should travel faster than the speed of light. But what does it mean for quantum entanglement to transmit information faster than the speed of light? Does that mean that the particle 'knows' its quantum numbers before we do? I'm tempted to say 'DUH'. Is it that obvious or not?

Have Fun!

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Jason Wolfe replied on Aug. 4, 2010 @ 20:52 GMT

Dear Ray,

None of this is at all obvious. No "Duh"'s are necessary. Have you ever played with your chewing gum? Or stepped in it? I think quantum entanglement is exactly like that. For a pair of entangled electrons, there is something between them that is unconcerned with the speed of light velocity restriction for information. In my model, everything is implemented with photons (oscillating objects); you might prefer super-strings; either one will do.

Between the two entangled electrons, there exists a wave amplitude, vibrating object. That vibrating object transmits wave information instantaneously, without regard to the speed of light. Now, information is typically thought of as ones and zeroes, right? How many Fourier terms does it take to produce a distinguishable 0 or 1? Several. You might have to use large quantities of entangled pairs in order to transmit 1's and 0's with an acceptable bit error rate (BER).

I think the quantum numbers tell you about the available eigenstates. How does a house remember that it has a living room, two bedrooms, 2 baths and a garage? It doesn't. That's just the way the house was built. Same with quantum numbers.

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Steve Dufourny replied on Aug. 5, 2010 @ 10:43 GMT

Hi Jason,

It's indeed a limit which causes problems for the future interactions between mass.

It's possible indeed, but perhaps with a vue above our star system, here the sun.

Ps Jason,I think a lot about your ideas of discovery of our Universe.

And your spaceship.

Jason ...and if you consider the planet Earth as a space sphip.

In fact we turn always...perhaps our Earth can be a spaceship.

Ps 2 about the tachyon, it's few probable because we analyze them with our perceptible system due to our sun.....on the other side, if we pass the limit????

Regards

Steve

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Dear Ray,

I know you like tachyons. I believe that photons include the speed of light and the fine structure constants as some of its characteristics. I think that virtual photons implement our laws of physics.

What if tachyons were really another kind of photon, with a different speed of light, that implemented some other some other laws of physics, and has exhibits different fine structure constants? They might not even interact with photons or electromagnetic fields at all.

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Ray Munroe replied on Aug. 4, 2010 @ 21:23 GMT

Dear Jason,

Tachyons must have an imaginary mass. Therefore, they are not photon-like (zero mass). If a particle is one extreme of localized energy, then perhaps tachyons are the opposite extreme of non-localized energy. Do particles 'know' their quantum numbers by being in communication with hyperspace via tachyons and/ or via being in communication with spacetime via photons/ W's/ Z'z/ gluons/ gravitons?

In my book, I called the Grand Unified Mediating boson a GUM boson, so that I could make the play on words that "The Universe is held together with Strings and GUM (bosons)".

Have Fun!

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Ray,

Strings and GUM? Eeek!

Localized versus non localized energy? Cool idea.

"Tachyons must have an imaginary mass." Can this imaginary mass be zero? Can you help me understand the argument that says that tachyons have to have a non-zero imaginary mass, as opposed to a zero imaginary mass, which is more like a photon?

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Ray Munroe replied on Aug. 5, 2010 @ 00:41 GMT

Dear Jason,

Back when neutrinos were assumed to have zero mass (the early '90's and before), they were also assumed to travel at the speed of light (not faster). Now we assume that neutrinos must have tiny positive masses to be consistent with the PMNS neutrino mixing matrix. Thus, neutrinos should travel *SLIGHTLY* slower than the speed of light.

I don't have a problem with a "tachyonic neutrino" in the sense that it has a tiny imaginary mass. In fact, I think these tachyons may be part of the origin of mass, and thus, have masses of comparable magnitude as the observed particles, but imaginary.

If you play with Einstein's Special Relativity equations, you will see that zero masses should travel at the speed of light, positive masses should travel slower than the speed of light (and tend toward c for infinite energies), and imaginary masses should travel faster than the speed of light (and also tend toward c for infinite energies).

Have Fun!

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Jason Wolfe replied on Aug. 5, 2010 @ 02:18 GMT

Hi Ray,

I honestly think that virtual photons implement space-time. Consider this, a photon ALWAYS moves at the speed of light, c. How is this possible? When light transitions from one reference fram to another, here is what happens:

$\lambda_i f_i = \lambda_f f_f = c$

In other words, when light moves from one inertial frame to the next, the wavelength and frequency will always change is such a way as to insure that the speed of light is always c. But guess what,

if the frequency changes, then time dilation is occuring; and

if the wavelength changes, then length contraction is occuring.

If this is true, then the photon has to be, somehow, implementing space-time and the laws of physics.

If this is true, then a photon with different constants can implement another space-time; perhaps even a coexisting space-time.

If a coexisting hyperspace is to exist, then it is being implemented with a "hyper-photon" that is similar to a photon, with the exception that its inherent constant (c, h, etc.) are different.

I'm not sure if a tachyon is required to interface between two space-times.

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If virtual photons are implementing space-time, then they will have the Lorentz transformation already built into their nature. They will radiate outwards in three spatial dimensions, but the "fourth dimension" is not a true dimension. Instead, this -ct gives photons the ability to regulate the flow of time to insure that the speed of light is ALWAYS c.

Since virtual photons are also responsible for the laws of motion, they cause 3D space, the flow of time, and motion to occur.

Without photons, there is nothingness. There is no universe. In fact, the laws of physics will not exist either. The photon manifests all of these.

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All,

Most interesting discussion which shows that in the some 400 years since Newton, Galileo and Spinoza humankind seems to only have divided itself on 'key questions' and therefore regressed, resulting in 'this our poor world'!

Those interested in my findings in this regard may wish to take a look at

the attached 'current manuscript' which was published as a book earlier in March this year and can be found at Amazon.

To my mind this material shows beyond a shadow of a doubt thatt Philosophy, Science and Art can have agreat deal of 'mutual support' and as such clarify 'what in why things happen in our part of the Universe.

For 'transparency sake' I attch a copy of my summary CV.

Regards from Rome

Jelle U. Hielkema

[manuscript file updated 6th Sept. 2010 at the author's request - eds.]

attachments: Dealism21Current_Manuscript.doc, CV_Jelle_U._Hielkema.doc

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Fast Fred replied on Aug. 5, 2010 @ 22:19 GMT

Hi Jelle. I read some of what you provided. Most interesting. Thanks.

That experience comes in threes is interesting:

1) man, woman, child

2) Three dimensions

3) past, present, future

4) electromagnetism/light, gravity, quantum phenomena

5) emotion, feeling, thought

......ETC., ETC.

What do you think of the following please:

The structure and form of thought is generally reflected in the structure of experience, and this is ultimately reflected in the laws/forces of physics and in dreams.

This also reveals the limits of physics, as the ability of thought to describe OR reconfigure sense is ultimately dependent upon the extent to which thought is similar to sensory experience.

The self represents, forms, and experiences a comprehensive approximation of the totality of experience (and forces/laws of physics). The known mathematical unification of gravity and electromagnetism proves this.

The dream is GENERALLY incorporating quantum mechanical phenomena as well, in keeping with the union of gravity and electromagnetism/light.

As DiMeglio says: Dreams make thought more like sensory experience in general.

And, to quote Author Frank Martin DiMeglio: "Thoughts are relatively shifting and variable. Accordingly, dream vision is relatively shifting and variable. Therefore, the quantum mechanical nature of both thought and dream vision is quite apparent. Indeed, the unpredictable and random aspects of quantum phenomena are clearly evident in dreams. The dynamic nature of quantum energy/entities is also apparent in dreams. (Light is known to be quantum mechanical in nature.)"

"The dream represents the underlying and fundamental process/manifestation by which the totality of experience is attained to and known/understood at its deepest level."

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Georgina Parry replied on Aug. 5, 2010 @ 23:46 GMT

Jelle,

thank you. I have taken a look at your attached paper.I have not read the entirety of it. I do not believe in numerology, though I do think that numbers have their part to play in the world. You do include a lot of beautiful and interesting philosophical quotes from throughout history. I particularly like the ideas of Heraclitus. He was a very wise man.

Quoting from Dealism 21, You said "Maybe it is indeed time to reverse the "Tower of Babel"of currently some 6000 languages and establish a universally adopted cosmic language, based on the natural vibrations of all things, using the English language as its instrument of communication, a lingua franca. In addition to every person's natural mother tongue this may well fill this requirement in a highly sensible way and moreover not difficult to learn and master."

The English language is not easy. It has evolved over time, in part by incorporation of different languages, brought by foreign invaders and occupiers of the British Isles. It has led to a very rich and diverse language with multiple terms for the same or subtly different things with different linguistic roots. It has led to a language with spelling that is puzzling to many native speakers and very difficult for those learning English as a second language. It allows diverse means of expression and reflects the cultural history of the language but is also not straightforward to learn.

When English is used alongside other languages it is sometimes difficult to sustain the other languages, as the fall out of use. The Welsh language was in danger of being lost prior to the concerted effort to keep in alive in wales and the Maori language in NZ is in a similar predicament. The native languages themselves can be seen as a cultural treasure and identity, not something to be replaced by common English. The question then becomes how do you stop people using English and encourage them to use the native language instead.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 6, 2010 @ 10:25 GMT

All,

As there is no 2 without a 3 -at least in Italy- and to answer Fast Fred's 'trinity argument' herewith another quotation from Chapetr 9:

At the Millennium changeover a few years ago humanity spent considerable energy and resources to overcome the global fear of the Y2K bug and entered the 3rd Millennium. Undoubtedly this inspired new hopes for our common future, only to be rather shattered 21 months later. On the basis of what we see and hear around us in recent years, it seems that there is a deeply perceived need for a radically new approach to counteracting drifting individualism, the ever-increasing mindless and certainly soulless quest for ‘money’’ and ‘power’, that champion ‘22’ and the highly frustrating and contradictory ‘28’, same as ‘military-industrial complex’ and ‘financial’ and the dominance of ‘technology’, the highly conflictuous ‘43’. This radical change requirement has only been exacerbated by recent global events and repetitively underlined in order to better the human condition in the natural world in the much-revered 21st Century. After all, 2+1 = 3; this is called the number of the Mind. In ancient geometry it is linked to the triangle, the symbol of logic, intellect and reason. In the number account of creation, God, i.e. Nature, is believed to have called upon the power of 3 to give consciousness to his creations on Earth."

And I say no more!

Jelle

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Why philosophy is critical to physics -- Fast Fred's above post proves this.

Also, time marches in step with space. Dreams occur during one sixth of our lives because there are six dimensions/directions which involve/comprise the structure of dream space/experience. This is due to the compressed/energetic nature of dreams, whereby each of the three spatial dimensions is basically halved. This reduces the one third time (spent sleeping) by a further half (for dreams). This relates to the proportionate reduction of gravitational feeling and thought in dreams. From two comes one. Think! The child at the center of the body.

The integrated extensiveness of being, experience, and thought go hand in hand in and with time. Accordingly, we spend less time sleeping (sleeping includes dreaming) than waking. From two comes another (one third increase).

The proportionate reduction of thought, emotion, and feeling in dreams -- coupled with what is the emotion-centered experience therein -- accounts for the one third of time spent sleeping.

You all didn't even know what physics was (regarding its applicability/manifestations/involvement) until DiMeglio taught you better.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 6, 2010 @ 08:33 GMT

All,

Many thanks for your thoughtful comments and you all make valid points which in my opinion warrant some further 'systematic' investigation! If you contact me at

dealism21@gmail.com I can let you have a powerpoint -too big for this blog- which nicely demonstrates the relationship between numbers and Nature.

For now in answwer to various points made two further...

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Jason, "Electromagnetism establishes distance in space apart from our [natural] motion." -- Per DiMeglio.

You had said: "Without photons, there is nothingness. There is no universe. In fact, the laws of physics will not exist either. The photon manifests all of these."

Gravity may be reduced, and yet distance in space may remain as great -- as long as a relative immobilization, inertia, brightness, and energy compensate.

In other words, increased gravity increases distance in space (from the eye). However, lesser/no gravity increases distance in space as well (as in outer space). The key is to offset the decreased gravity with increased energy/inertia/immobilization -- this happens in dreams, the semi-immobilized state therein balances and unifies gravity and electromagnetism.

Distance in space becomes a function of balanced repulsion and attraction as feeling/energy is consistently experienced at the gravitational mid-range of feeling in dreams. Accordingly, emotion, gravity, touch/tactile experience AND vision all manifest in conjunction with this balanced mid-range of feeling. This balances distance in space as it is seen electromagnetically AND felt gravitationally.

Also see: http://radicalacademy.com/studentrefphilfmd13.htm

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A majority of the problems in this world can be traced back to one source:

the speed of light is too darn slow.

As a result, it takes too much energy to move anything. This causes poverty.

If the speed of light could be symbolized as information processing speed, the physical universe would be a SLOW computer that you had to sit and wait forever for it to get anything accomplished.

The solution is not to time travel to the past, which is like reloading the same computer game.

The solution is to buy a faster computer. Let's look for a universe with a faster speed of light. At least 2c, but preferably 10c or better.

FTL yields time travel IS NOT a fact; it is an interpretation.

It is an incorrect interpretation.

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Georgina Parry replied on Aug. 6, 2010 @ 20:15 GMT

Jason,

as we have evolved in this universe with this speed of light, going into a new environment with faster light speed would mess up our sensory perception. Everything would seem closer than with normal light speed.

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Jason Wolfe replied on Aug. 6, 2010 @ 20:19 GMT

Georgina,

Wear glasses.

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Georgina Parry replied on Aug. 6, 2010 @ 21:49 GMT

Jason,

There is refraction through glass which can give a slower measured light speed but I don't think thats going to be enough with the extreme differences you are talking about. They will have to be very special glasses and you are just the man to invent them!

The human mind is very malleable. Perhaps in time it will adapt. Though prior to that I can imagine a really freaky claustrophobic illusion of reality. It wouldn't be safe to walk about.

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Hi Jelle. Do you agree that when examining dreams and waking experience the self represents, forms, and experiences a comprehensive approximation of the totality of experience by combining unconscious and conscious experience? In this way, our growth and our becoming other than we are allowed/accounted for, correct? The Philosopher Plotinus says that nature contemplates. (The dream is a natural experience.)

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 8, 2010 @ 18:31 GMT

LightBringer,

Can't help you much on that I think but do believe that in our sleeping self our 'societal box' -by no a formidable straightjacket like a medieval harness made of coins!!!- sets us 'free' -the extent is debatable- and we are allowed to assume our true natural self for a while and, indeed, maybe grow this way.

All I can say.

Jelle

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The Lightbringer replied on Aug. 8, 2010 @ 21:00 GMT

Jelle, being, expereince, and thought are more the same in dreams.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 9, 2010 @ 15:33 GMT

LB,

Very much agree with that and JUST BEING happens to be the lead character, the '21', a '3' in my book.

I should also like to respond to James Putnam's Einstein comment with the question as to what 'Father Albert' meant by this:

ALBERT EINSTEIN

‘IF HUMANKIND WANTS TO SURVIVE, IT HAS TO ADOPT

A RADICALLY DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING’

Jelle

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Correction/addition --- In this way, our growth and our becoming other than we are are allowed/accounted for, correct?

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I was watching a really interesting movie called: The Phoenix Lights, Beyond Top Secret.

Apparently the "V" shaped object with lights on it is about a mile wide. It doesn't fit the description of flares. The lights are attached. What is interesting is that this object has flown across Arizona about 6 or 7 times over a period of several years.

There were other accounts of air force personnel who witnessed bright balls at an air force base:

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/malm1.htm

A UFO shot down an intercontinental ballistic missile. Other missiles silos were shut down while security officers were reporting strange red objects hovering above.

I had been thinking that UFO people were usually a bunch of idiots that could look at a piece of dust and think it was an alien spaceship. There really are some stupid people out there. However, Colonel Charles Halt, Sgt. Jim Penniston and Robert Jacobs come across as competent.

My opinion is that these are not alien spaceships capable of transporting humanoids. They're more like probes or organo-optical devices controlled by some "intelligence". They're signaling or advertising devices being used to subtlety hint that they're open to communication. It's like they're saying: "Look here! Look at me! I can do things you can't! Look at the light!"

About 80% of the UFO reports out there can be debunked as nonsense. But there is another 20% that is hard to explain.

I also found out that UFO's were seen during WWII. They were called FOO fighters. More balls of light and some saucers.

Anyway, it looks like were not alone. However, we should all cling to our paranoid paradigms anyway. By the way, I don't think they're using radio waves or else SETI would have discovered them.

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Since these gentlemen were very credible, Colonel Charles Halt, Sgt. Jim Penniston and Robert Jacobs, I predict that the media and/or government will attack there credibility. They'll put out reports that these men beat there wives and use hallucinogens. The paradigm has to be protected, you know. We need to be able to stick our heads in the sand, right?

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William Orem

From your blog: "So far, every indication is that Einstein was absolutely right. Not "influential," not "challenging us to see things in a new way," - just right. We don't have to construct those odd sentences around him that we do around pure philosophers, such as "For Einstein, length measurements are relative to the observer's reference frame," or "In Einstein's view, gravity is the result of four-dimensional spacetime curvature." These aren't positions in Einstein's systematic philosophy of Being: they are something far more profound. They are true."

Would you please expound more upon why your above quote separates theoretical physics from philosophical musings? Is it the numbers that work out correctly that raises theoretical physics above philosophy? Does "So far, every indication is that Einstein was absolutely right." hold true even if unity has not been achieved? What is your perspective about the nature of energy? Is the idea of energy the idea that makes philosophy unecessary? Why is energy not a philosophical speculation? If there is not a single idea, such as energy, that suffices to separate musings from truth, then are there multiple fundamentally separate ideas that do it? Can disunity be physical truth? How would one show that interpretations are truth so long as those interpretations are applied to equations for which the numbers work out correctly, insofar as empirical evidence informs us?

Repeating: "For Einstein, length measurements are relative to the observer's reference frame," or "In Einstein's view, gravity is the result of four-dimensional spacetime curvature." These aren't positions in Einstein's systematic philosophy of Being:..."

Why aren't they positions in Einstein's systematic philosophy...(His choice of belief about the fundamental nature of the universe)? Is it the numbers that keep his view truth? Is it your position that Einstein was "absolutely" correct about the invisible, untestable idea of space-time? If so, how do you know this? Is it the numbers that make his interpretations a certainty?

Repeating: "We don't have to construct those odd sentences around him that we do around pure philosophers,..."

Is this because you personally chose to believe it or can you say more to prove it beyond a belief system? I am looking for input that applies to the interpretations of properties and not to the numbers. The numbers are fine, but, what are the properties and how do we know this?

Lastly, the first name, among philosophers, that you mentioned was Augustine. Have you read his book titled 'Concerning The Teacher'?

James

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T H Ray replied on Aug. 9, 2010 @ 16:49 GMT

James,

Because I would be surprised if William responds, and because you and I have already been over the difference between science and philosophy about a dozen times, and because you still insist that philosophy supersedes science in some way, I would consider it a privilege to answer those questions for you again:

"Is it the numbers that work out correctly that raises theoretical physics above philosophy? Does "So far, every indication is that Einstein was absolutely right." hold true even if unity has not been achieved?"

In the first place, do you think the Pythagorean Theorem is true? If logic means as much to you as you say, then the extension to four dimensional Riemannian geometry follows smoothly. In the second place, "unity" _has_ been achieved with general relativity -- the theory is mathematically complete; i.e., from first principles, the theory predicts phenomena that are experimentally verified in the classical domain to which relativity applies.

"What is your perspective about the nature of energy? Is the idea of energy the idea that makes philosophy unecessary?"

Unless energy is supernatural, the idea of it surely does make philosophy unnnecesary. If it is supernatural, it is beyond the range of scientific theory.

"Why is energy not a philosophical speculation? If there is not a single idea, such as energy, that suffices to separate musings from truth, then are there multiple fundamentally separate ideas that do it? Can disunity be physical truth?"

Disunity (discontinuity) _is_ physical "truth." That's the difference between continuous function classical physics and quantum physics. That's why all the bother to try and unify them with quantum gravity, into a single theory.

"How would one show that interpretations are truth so long as those interpretations are applied to equations for which the numbers work out correctly, insofar as empirical evidence informs us?"

The abundant physical evidence for relatiivty that William referred to is easily accessible. The numbers work out correctly, because they are in principle the same numbers by which the Pythagorean Theorem is deemed proven.

Disproving the Pythagorean Theorem should keep you occupied for a while.

Tom

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James Putnam replied on Aug. 9, 2010 @ 17:09 GMT

Tom,

I know that you are a believer. I do not agree with your philosophical ideas about what constitutes science. I will wait to respond to your message because I want to keep my message to William Orem the focus. If he chooses to not respond that is his perogative. I will find that out from him and not you. Lets see what transpires.

James

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T H Ray replied on Aug. 9, 2010 @ 18:17 GMT

If you're still not convinced of the important relation between the numbers and the science, try this attached article by Yvon Gauthier. IMO, it's a superior survey of the topic, and an outstanding tribute to Weyl, whose contributions toward the unity of science and mathematics are often underrated. A sample:

"A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world, and should adopt the same sober and cautioned attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundations as is exhibited by physics." ~ H. Weyl, Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science, 1949.

Weyl on Minkowski/Riemann

Tom

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Space-time is true. Quantum Mechanics is true. Lots of things are true. Autobiographies are true. Established facts are true. War, poverty and starvation all over the world, are true.

If something is true, do we just stop?

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Jason,

Saying it is so is not enough. There must be more to say. There has to be more to say. The invisible and untouchable do not become visible and touchable unless the theorist calls upon experimental physicists to show proof. My message was written for the purpose of inviting evidence and not words. If the evidence is the numbers then that is fine for empirical equations. It is not sufficient to support the theoretically disfigured equations. Theoretical disfigurement results from philosophical ideas that are forced onto the equations by the theorists. The philosophical ideas ride the backs of the empirical equations and give the image of explaining the unexplainable.

James

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Hi James,

1. Do we agree that QM and Relativity (GR & SR) are true?

2. Do we agree that the speed of light is always c, for all observers?

3. Do we agree that atomic clocks in free fall run a little faster than atomic clocks that are subjected to an acceleration field?

All three of these statements have experimental evidence to support them. Do you agree?

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Jason,

The equations, meaning the numbers primarily, and possibly some of the theoretical ideas, work very well. My questions were directed toward inviting explanations that show that the theoretical ideas are as truthful as are the numbers.

The speed of light is always measured the same as a local constant. It varies for remote observers. The experimenter must be in the same conditions as is the light they are measuring for the speed of light to always measure as C.

Atomic clocks located at higher levels of altitude run faster than atomic clocks at lower levels of altitude. Atomic clocks in free fall are in an accdeleration field. If the acceleration field is not capable of replicating the near perfect consistency of gravity, then the results will be different. In any case, time is not the product of atomic clocks.

James

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James,

You said: "My questions were directed toward inviting explanations that show that the theoretical ideas are as truthful as are the numbers."

I think that GR and QM will produce numbers that match measured results. The best I can do is to suggest that space-time is implemented by a quantum boson called the virtual photon. These virtual photons are being created everywhere in space. They emit outwards at the speed of light.

Virtual photons:

1. transmit causality

2. transmit energy

3. cause electromagnetism to work

4. the strong force relies upon color force which are partial charges; charges rely upon virtual photons.

5. are related to gravity in that they red-shift/blue-shift along the radial of a gravity vector.

6. virtual photons are responsible for atomic clocks running at different rates.

7. virtual photons define 3D space, time, and the laws of physics;

8. virtual photons manifest geometric properties everywhere in space.

9. the fine structure constant is a virtual photon characteristic.

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James Putnam replied on Aug. 9, 2010 @ 21:34 GMT

Jason,

"I think that GR and QM will produce numbers that match measured results. The best I can do is to suggest that space-time is implemented by a quantum boson called the virtual photon. These virtual photons are being created everywhere in space. They emit outwards at the speed of light."

I respect the quality of your knowledge and the originality of your ideas. The list you gave should be evaluated by professional physicists. The first sentence in the quote cited above is the most relevant to my first post to William Orem. I wondered how convinced he or others may be that matching measured results is sufficient to make physics theory independent of philosophical assertions. For me, it clearly is not enough, so I asked for more supporting argument showing that physics theory is free or nearly free of philosophy.

I say it is loaded with philosophy. I think every theoretical substitute put forward to stand in for cause is artificial and represents our ignorance and not our understanding of reality. I think that this practice places some limitations on the usefullness of the equations, but, does not harm their accuracy for matching predictions with observed measurements. That accuracy is inherent in the equations because they are based upon empirical evidence. The limitations, mentioned above, caused by imposing theory have to do with limiting the ability of those equations to reveal the true physical nature of the universe.

I say this because if we invent substitutes for cause, then our equations become subservient to that artificial 'understanding'. The equations cannot free themselves from our meddling. We did the meddling and we must do the unmeddling. My message to William Orem is restricted to asking for a more thorough justification for stating that " Physicists do of course carry around with them a working philosophy. For most of us, it is a rough-and-ready realism, a belief in the objective reality of the ingredients of our scientific theories." I say those ingredients, born out of theoretical guesses, are very much the fruit of philosophical assertions. I also say that reliance upon the correctness of the numbers involved does not prove theory nor does it remove philosophical assertions.

None of what I am saying here is intended to challenge your specific ideas. The real physicists here have been generous with their time and knowledge. Still, I would like to see more of their feedback about your ideas. It is their opinion that counts.

James

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Jason Wolfe replied on Aug. 9, 2010 @ 23:45 GMT

James,

J: "I respect the quality of your knowledge and the originality of your ideas. "

I appreciate your encouragement.

J: "Still, I would like to see more of their feedback about your ideas."

So would I.

J: "I say it is loaded with philosophy. "

The idea is that if you can come up with a good philosophy, one might be able to predict possible consequences that can be tested.

For example, if the laws of physics are implemented by a continuous fountain of virtual photons, each of which carries 3 dimensions, causes time and causality, etc., then there are natural consequences that are testable.

First, virtual photons have to be able to explain everything.

Second, frequency shifting would be equivalent to gravity.

Third, RF antennas might be able to influence the laws of physics in useful ways leading to new technology; e.g. tractor beams.

In reality, the physics establishment is too stubborn to consider anything other than a narrow set of questions that don't lead to any new or useful technology.

The established physics community won't go anywhere near "unexplained" phenomena because they don't want to risk looking silly or hurting their career or reputation. They generally don't give a crap about humanity, civilization or anyone else.

In truth, the ufologists and the government are the major players in the advancement of technology and human development. Physicist are just disinterested bystanders.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 10, 2010 @ 14:40 GMT

Jason et al.,

This statement:

"The established physics community won't go anywhere near "unexplained" phenomena because they don't want to risk looking silly or hurting their career or reputation. They generally don't give a crap about humanity, civilization or anyone else."

is 'bigger than a house' and probably the real crux of why philosophy, science, poiltics and religion can't see 'more productively' eye to eye and....get somewhere for the benefit of humanity.

Wellput Jason!

Jelle

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Jason -- You said "3. Do we agree that atomic clocks in free fall run a little faster than atomic clocks that are subjected to an acceleration field?"

Do clocks run faster in outer space because motion (e.g., of photons) is more rapid?

Gravity and electromagnetism both ultimately relate to distance in space.

This, in conjunction with balanced attraction and repulsion, is how gravity and electromagnetism must be demonstrated as being unified.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 11, 2010 @ 09:23 GMT

Many thanks for the compliment Jason which I am happy to share with 'Cosmic Ray' and, indeed, it is high time that we let the 'friendly extraterrestrial' into our part of the Universe as we desperately need to 'learn and understand' a few things aboout the 'bigger scheme'. Myopians we are in the extreme!!!!

Cheers from the Eternal City!

Jelle

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Jason Wolfe replied on Aug. 11, 2010 @ 09:47 GMT

Hi Jelle,

I think at first there's going to be a lot to learn; our paradigms are going to be blown away. It will be like drinking from the cosmic fire hydrant of knowledge. But eventually, after a new paradigm emerges, there will be a lot of new technology and physics. The world economy will boom. Evening news may become fun and interesting to watch.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 11, 2010 @ 11:34 GMT

Let's hope that humanity will open itself up to the learning process and help a scio-cultural-schientific paradigm shift along Jason and that whatever technology is in stoe for us will always have a 'human face'. I see too much robotization on the way and kids can nether spell nor count anymore, and not only kids!!!!

And than this 'bloodthirstyness' at all levels. Madonna as we say here!!!

Jelle

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I found some article quotes:

"Einstein predicted the gravitational redshift of light from the equivalence principle in 1907, " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_general_relativity.

"By
measuring a spectacularly small difference in the ticks of two quantum clocks, physicists have proven a pillar of Albert Einstein's theory of gravity to be on firmer footing than ever before."

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100217/full/463862a.
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I'm trying to establish that the rate at which atomic clocks progress in time is directly and causally related to gravity and acceleration fields. I am also trying to establish that the Equivalence Principle points to the direct cause of gravity/acceleration fields; it points to the frequency shifting of light.

I have to respectfully disagree; I don't see how distance in space is directly causal to gravity or acceleration.

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Anonymous replied on Aug. 10, 2010 @ 00:59 GMT

Gravity increases with distance in space, and a larger space (outer space) may more forcefully fix position/distance in space.

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You said:"Gravity increases with distance in space,"

Newtonian gravity states that gravitational attraction is proportional to 1/r^2, where r is the distance from the massive body.

"...forcefully fix position/distance in space..." What does this mean?

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Bravo Anonymous, words from one of the greatest thinkers ever.

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Anonymous Frank,

You said: "...but, with due respect, you need to broaden your thinking. "

Broaden my thinking!!! ROFLMAO!

Frank, my talking about UFO's is an indication that my thinking might be getting "too broad".

I troubleshoot electronics. When something doesn't work, it's like a phenomenon that I have to track down. If I can't find the part, I have to figure out what's causing it.

Physics is the same way. Physics is just a phenomenon. It is primarily caused by GR and QM. To save time, I accept that GR and QM are true. Then I ask myself: what causes GR and QM to work? I think it's virtual photons. I think virtual photons cause all of the laws of physics and the mathematical/geometric behavior. They pop up everywhere in space, and they travel outwards at the speed of light, carrying information with them.

Do virtual photons contain historic information in the form of previous quantum entanglements? I dunno. But if they did, that might give the past an existence of its own in the form of an accumulating database.

You said: "Gravity and electromagnetism both ultimately relate to distance in space." Using Newton's laws and Maxwell's equations, can you explain how this is so?

You said: "When thought (in general) is more like sensory experience (in general), here we have the unification of physics -- ideas and experience both together." What does this have to do with physics? Can you tie this into physics. I only have a bachelor's degree in phyiscs. But if you could explain how your ideas tie into physics, at an undergraduate level physics explanation, I would appreciate that.

Thanks.

Jason

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 11, 2010 @ 14:33 GMT

Alll,

Nice thinking all this led by anonomous Frank. To my mind still human however and 'distinct from Nature' which we aren't! Two days ago, 'pushed' by the LightBringer I determined that 'BEING, CONSCIOUSNESS AND DREAMS' equals a '27', the ultimate number, called 'The Sceptre' like for instance

‘WE ARE PART OF NATURE’ ‘BEYOND 2012’ ‘UNIVERSAL PEACE’ ‘CULTURAL EVOLUTION’ ‘PRAGMATIC’ ‘SELFESTEEM’ and …… ‘THE SKY IS JUST NOT THE LIMIT!’ just to mention a few of very many 'meaningful characters'!

So I think that if we put our common brains ànd common sense together we actually might get somewhere and finally, 'W' being out of the way', let the 21st Century begin!

Jelle

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Jason, the experience of television is based upon Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism/light. Television is a form of dream vision AS waking vision (as the following proves). See if you can understand how dreams incorporate electromagnetism/light with gravity in accordance with the following.

The overeating during television occurs in keeping with the fact that TV is an extended, interactive,...

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Jason Wolfe replied on Aug. 11, 2010 @ 19:21 GMT

By "the dream" you mean consciousness. I still think that everything in the physical universe owes its existence to the photon (virtual/real). From the virtual photon, you get get to the paranormal as well as a universal consciousness. The universe (multiverse) can be described as ... dreaming.

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Anonymous replied on Aug. 11, 2010 @ 19:23 GMT

Dear Superman,

The Unification of Electromagnetism and Gravity is also consistent with/similar to Kryptonite/Halucination experience.

Have Fun!

Your Nemesis,

Dr. Cosmic Ray

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Anonymous replied on Aug. 11, 2010 @ 20:08 GMT

Jason, the dream has a definitive and stable sensory, energetic/light, and felt/gravitational structure, as DiMeglio proved. The dream includes BODILY presence/sensation (to an extent), gravity, light, language, minor pain, emotion, thought, concern, intention, hearing, colors, touch/tactile experience, feeling, etc., etc.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 12, 2010 @ 08:25 GMT

All,

Having watched Shakespeare's -the Man of 'What's in a Name?- '"Coriolanum" yesterday evening I wish to add another 'string' to this interesting discussion:

‘NUMBERS, SPACE AND TIME’ ‘PARTNERSHIP’ ‘TOGETHER’ ‘WE ARE THE WORLD, WE ARE THE CHILDREN’ ‘COMMON DESTINY’ ‘EXPERIENCE’ ‘BEING, EXPERIENCE AND DREAMS’ ‘MOTHER EARTH’ ‘MATRIARCHY’ ‘UNITED WE STAND’ ‘POWER TO THE PEOPLE’ ‘ENTHOUSIASM’ ‘LIFE IS A GAME’ which is the number '26' called 'Partnerships' by 'The Ancients'.

Nice 'coincidence' I would say!!!

Jelle

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Steve Dufourny replied on Aug. 16, 2010 @ 11:41 GMT

Dear Jelle....

The united of universalists is ESSENTIAL.....the unification is that also in my humble opinion.

The unification, this spherization for me,is everywhere in all centers of interest.

The partnership of real universalists, universal scientits is became an essential also.

You know I know several people who works for the humanity, it's my aim, unite, unify these persons and act rationaly on ground without politic.The politic is so chatic thus no for me.I prefer work quietly with good people.

But I must admit I am a very bad administrator.I d like create it in Belgium.You know several people are ok and wait the creation of this center.I must create it for my credibility.My theory of spherization...quantum spheres...specific numbers....evolution ...cosmological spheres....UNIVERSAL SPHERE.....IS LESS IMPORTANT FOR ME THAN THE CREATION OF THIS INTERNATIONA HUMANISTIC SCIENCES CENETR......we must act quickly in fact for the well of all.

If we produce adapted solutions, naturals and ecologicals, all will be easier ....the foods, the energy,water, the education,the health...mainly .

Regards

Steve

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Steve Dufourny replied on Aug. 16, 2010 @ 16:17 GMT

Ps ....congratulations for your splendids works about the classments and datas.I saw it on the nasa website .

You know dear Jelle it's a big passion for me the classment of animals and vegetals.

I class all,I like that.The evolution is fascinating....quantum spheres...evolution...H ...HCNO....CH4 H2O HCN NH3....ENERGY(do you know Oparin(e) and his ideas)..amino acids....protists ...unicels pluricels.....and that continues with the complexification in 3D.

All is coded indeed and the mass polarises the light if I can say...the mass increases.

If the intelligence and the consciousness are resulsts of this coded evolution, thus we can understand that we are catalyzers of this universal coded love.Thus we have a rule of complementarity with our environments and ecosystems,it's simple and logic.

We have the potential of harmonization simply.The soil is the key....

Thanks for this data center of the Goddard space center of Nasa.We need concrete datas about our actual states.We could adapt thus the solutions in correlation of local problems.

Regards

Steve

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FQXi, these posts by Anonymous prove DiMeglio's unification of grav. and electro.

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Thanks so much Frank! History in the making.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 12, 2010 @ 12:26 GMT

It's about TIME too Anonymous et al. and look at these 'cosmic equivalents' of That Word:

The word NATURE itself is a 5/23 like MODES and the word ‘GOD’ is a 5/14, like the words ‘SUN’ ‘ALL LIGHT’ ‘IMAGE’ ‘THE’ ‘THAT’ ‘ELECTROMAGNETISM’ ‘TIME’’ ‘MIND’ ‘BRAINS’ ‘EYES’ ‘IDEAS’ ‘TEAM’ ‘DAY ONE’ ‘WAR AND PEACE’ ‘JUST’ ‘SAINT’ ‘MYTH’ ‘GALAXY’ ‘ALL THERE IS’ ‘.COM’ and the statements ‘IT IS TIME’’ ‘EVERYTHING HAS ITS TIME’ ‘NONDETERMINISTIC’ ‘CYCLIC’ ‘TIDE’ ‘PHI’ ‘QUASAR’ ‘QUBIT’ ‘BIG BANG THEORY’ ‘BIG BANG MACHINE’ ‘ALL IS ENERGY’ ‘MASS-ENERGY’ and Albert Einstein’s immortal formula ‘E=MC-2’, ‘H2O’ ‘ROMA’ ‘S.P.Q.R.’ ‘VIA APPIA ANTICA’ and, funny and good enough, ‘LUCK’, ‘PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE’ ‘MAYAN CULTURE’ ‘COSMOTHEOLOGY’ ‘MULTIPLICATION BY TIME’ and ‘THE TRUTH IS IN THE HANDS OF NATURE ONLY’ and ‘THE TRUTH IS IN THE HANDS OF GOD ONLY’ and ‘IN GOD WE TRUST’ ‘SMILE AT LIFE AND LIFE WILL SMILE AT YOU’ ‘PERFECTIONING THE WHEEL’ and ‘IN NATURE WE TRUST’ and….. ‘IN THE BEGINNING’, ‘A MATTER OF TIME’ ‘A MOMENT IN TIME’ ‘A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE’ ‘IN REALITY’ ‘I.O.U.’, all Mercury vibrations, which clearly underpins the connection between God and Nature.

Jelle

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Superman replied on Aug. 12, 2010 @ 18:07 GMT

Jelle, there is no "god". Christianity is a delusional, weak, vengeful, ungrateful, and toxic devaluing of people and THIS life. We only have this life and each other. Now let's start acting like it!

You mentioned time. The integrated extensiveness of being and experience go hand-in-hand in and with time.

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Jelle, there is no "god". Christianity is a delusional, weak, vengeful, ungrateful, and toxic devaluing of people and THIS life. We only have this life and each other. Now let's start acting like it!

You mentioned time. The integrated extensiveness of being and experience go hand-in-hand in and with time.

The 45-degree angle of the Chimpanzees back (while knuckle walking) is in the middle of (between) our waking and dream experience. (Picture the 90-degree angle of these two experiences.)

The self represents, forms, and experiences a comprehensive approximation of the totality of experience by combining unconscious and conscious experience. Experience then becomes a more direct expression of the self that is increasingly representative of a greater totality of experience as well. In comparison to the Common Chimpanzee, we are understood as being more conscious in conjunction with experience that is (on balance) more unconscious; and this is evident in our waking and dream experiences.

The Common Chimpanzee lives two-thirds (in captivity, of course) as long as we do -- another perfect match (right between -- and in the middle of -- our waking and dream experiences.)

Thought involves a relative reduction in the range and extensiveness of feeling. In keeping with this, dreams make thought more like sensory experience in general. Accordingly, both thought and also the range and extensiveness of feeling are proportionately reduced in the dream. (This reduction in the range and extensiveness of feeling during dreams is consistent with the fact that the experience of smell very rarely occurs therein.) Since there is a proportionate reduction of both thought and feeling during dreams, the experience of the body is generally (or significantly) lacking; for thought is fundamentally rendered more like sensory experience in general. Thoughts and emotions are differentiated feelings. By involving the mid-range of feeling between thought and sense, dreams make thought more like sensory experience in general. The reduction in the range and extensiveness of feeling during dreams is why there is less memory and thought therein.

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DiMeglio is the best thinker at FQXi. More supplemental info.:

Dreams involve a fundamental integration and spreading of being and experience at the mid-range of feeling between thought and sense. Since dreams [already] involve a fundamental integration and spreading of being and experience at what is the mid-range of feeling between thought and sense, the sense of smell very rarely occurs while dreaming, and the lighting and sound levels are fairly constant (and proper) therein. Memory integrates experience. There is less memory in the dream because experience is already better integrated, and also because experience is less extensive. Dreams improve upon memory and understanding by increasing (or adding to) the integrated extensiveness of being and experience (including thought) in and with time. The sense of relative familiarity involving dream experience is associated with the improvement of understanding and memory therein. Dreams and memory integrate experience; and both add to the extensiveness of experience (including thought) as well, while involving a [relative] reduction in the totality of experience.

Since the self has extensiveness of being and experience (in and with time) in conjunction with the integrated and natural extensiveness of sensory experience, we spend less time dreaming (and sleeping) than waking. The integrated extensiveness of being and experience go hand in hand.

Emotion that is comprehensive and balanced advances consciousness. Dreams are an emotional experience. The comprehensiveness and consistency of both intention and concern are central to our consciousness, life, and growth. (Desire consists of both intention and concern, thereby including interest as well.) The comprehensiveness and consistency of both intention and concern in relation to experience in general is ultimately dependent upon the natural and integrated extensiveness of sensory experience. In keeping with this, consciousness and language involve the ability to represent, form, and experience comprehensive approximations of experience in general; and this includes art and music as well. If the self did not represent, form, and experience a comprehensive approximation of experience in general, we would be incapable of growth and of becoming other than we are.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 12, 2010 @ 19:32 GMT

Superman,

Couldn't agree more with you on God, the word being in the English language however. I am totally with old Marcus Tullius Cicere who, about two thousand years ago, said:

All theology.....is a massive inconsistency derived from ignorance.....The Gods exist because Nature has imprinted a conception of them on the minds of men

Cicero, 3/21

Had he been listened more attentively this world would be an entirely different and much better place to live in!!!

Jelle

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Philosophy just smashed physics into pieces, literally.

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Frank,

I really want to explain my ideas within the context of established physics; basic physics, quantum mechanics and general relativity. To me, dreams, consciousness, and all of that "in the mind" stuff can be boiled down to: signal transmission and detection. The building blocks of signal transmission/detection are: photons.

Gravity is intimately related to the rate of flow of time: time dilation. I attribute that to photon frequency and the red/blue-shift of photon frequency.

Dreams and consciousness are not the building blocks I choose to use. Photons are much more deeply entrenched in the physics; every physicist knows what a photon is and what its accepted characteristics are.

Good luck.

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From Anonymous: "Honor consists of respect and pride, and it is to be earned."

To Anonymous: Therefore: You cannot award it to yourself.

"Great post Synonymous!!!"

Thank you Magnonymous! Now I must be gonymous! So longymous!

The Unknownymous

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Upset Jason with what was said about "god"? Shooting the messenger (DiMeglio) won't work. Your big lies won't work either. You act like a childish idiot Jason. It is better to face the facts and acknowledge/realize the truth -- but you come up short here too.

Did you read the prior post about the limitations of vision Jason?

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ROFLMAO

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Georgina Parry replied on Aug. 13, 2010 @ 02:16 GMT

Thanks for sharing with us. Understandable response. I had not encountered that before, so I have learned something new today!

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Projection A defense mechanism, operating unconsciously, in which what is emotionally unacceptable in the self is unconsciously rejected and attributed (projected) to others.

From Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology John F. Abess, M.D.

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Anonymous replied on Aug. 12, 2010 @ 22:17 GMT

Georgina, you are not nearly as smart in ability as you think.

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Georgina Parry replied on Aug. 13, 2010 @ 00:01 GMT

Manners maketh the man

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Evil Sock Puppet replied on Aug. 13, 2010 @ 02:18 GMT

Frank,

I found a link that might be helpful to you.

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

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The community of skeptics and physicists is filled with Frank DiMeglios. If you believe in time travel, but you scoff at UFO's, then you are a FRANK DIMEGLIO. You are insane, and you are boastful. You are blinded by your own lies.

Where are the time travelers? Where are the time lords?

The Air Force hasn't seen any!

The missile silo commanders haven't see any!

The FAA hasn't seen any!

The Chinese government hasn't seen any!

The Russian government hasn't seen any!

The Mexican government hasn't seen any!

The French government hasn't officially announced the existence of Time Travelers!

The British government hasn't officially announced the existence of Time Travlers!

Community of FRANK DIMEGLIOS, of insane physicists, of insane skeptics, WAKE UP and EMBRACE REALITY!!!!!!

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 14, 2010 @ 09:46 GMT

James, Jason and all,

James you asked "Lastly, the first name, among philosophers, that you mentioned was Augustine. Have you read his book titled 'Concerning The Teacher'? "

I haven't read Augustine's book but....found a most interesting account on the same by Prof. Peter King which I feel is worth going through in the context of this discussion. At least it supports my views that 'we all know all there is to know, we just have to remember'! Nature provided most generously!!!

Article attached.

Jelle

attachments: Augustine_on_Teaching.pdf

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 14, 2010 @ 10:04 GMT

All,

Having said that I should also like to invite you all to spend a few minutes with

www.rainbow21122012.org which I developed as a sequel to my book and contains a number (no numbers!) of pertinent articles about 'where we are'. Particularly the ones behind the 'church windows'!

Jelle

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 14, 2010 @ 14:25 GMT

James,

You wrote "For anyone who might wonder what intelligence I am referring to, it is the intelligence by which our intelligence is made possible. I cannot describe it except to say that it not only had to provide our intelligence, but, it had to have the means by which to do that providing. The act of providing is far more interesting than the act of receiving. It cannot come from dumbness.

The cause for our intelligence is an original cause and must be a significant, and perhaps total part, of the fundamental properties of the universe. Theoretical physics knows nothing of these properties. It would rather propose the magic of energy to us and avoid any mention of intelligence. It is very strange (I address this to theoretical physicists) that energy should be the key ingredient for this universe that gave birth to intelligent life, and, yet energy is purely mechanical and stupid."

Well here are some of my preferred '33's by 'chance' the number of my conventional as well as penname:

‘UNIVERSE’ ‘NATURE’S INTELLIGENCE’ ‘QUANTUM COMPUTERS’ ‘THE UNIVERSE IS US’ ‘AS THE INDIVIDUAL IS IS THE UNIVERSE’ ‘LIGHT OF THE UNIVERSE’ ‘AS THE UNIVERSE IS IS THE INDIVIDUAL’ 'INTUITIVE' ‘THE PLANETS ARE US’ ‘ANCIENT RELIGION’ ‘UNLIMITED’ ‘UNIVERSAL LAW’ ‘THE UNIVERSE IS UNKNOWABLE’ ‘NATURE AND NUMBERS’ ‘LOGOS IS NUMBER’ ‘NUMBER IS LOGOS’ ‘SOLITONS’ 'POLYMATH'

So, indeed it is not 'dumbness' it's just 'numbers' that provided the intelligence for our 'being and acting'!

Remember Heraclites who 'posted' 2500 years ago:

“Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Knowledge is not intelligence.

In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.

Change alone is unchanging.

The same road goes both up and down.

The beginning of a circle is also its end.

Not I, but the world says it: all is one.

And yet everything comes in season”

Heraclitus of Ephesus

5th Century B.C.

And I, for me, find it very funny if not astonishing that this cannot be seen, accepted ànd acted on!!!

But then the same Ancients say 'The World is blind'!

Jelle

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Superman replied on Aug. 14, 2010 @ 14:58 GMT

Nice post Jelle. The big picture now is on "undivided wholeness" -- as D. Bohm put it. And as a recent prior post made clear, there are serious limits to relying soley upon visual prediction and visual "truth" when it comes to the extensiveness and accuracy of the understanding IN GENERAL.

For example, astronomical/telescopic observations are ALREADY more like thought (or a creation of thought), so they cannot be well understood. This is similar to the fact that (in dreams) vision is already more like thought (shifting and variable) too, so that the dream visions are not well understood.

Importantly, dreams involve a "telescoping"/narrowing of vision.

Dreams unify gravity and elcetromagnetism/light, as the below proves:

Decreased gravity may be offset/balanced by increased

inertia/immobilization, thereby balancing scale (distance in space).

This balances attraction and repulsion, and this demonstrates space as

gravitational/electromagnetic energy -- in these different

manifestations of the same. The MID-range of gravity is equivalent

with the SEMI-immobilized condition therein -- (picture us in outer

space/the sun) vs. earth (full gravity) -- in dreams. Touch/tactile

experience is also at the same energy/feeling level as the

gravitational experience in dreams. Read Mach on inertia and gravity.

Understanding that the self represents, forms, and experiences a

comprehensive approximation of the totality of experience is crucial

to ULTIMATELY understanding mathematical description and physics, and

the limits thereof.

The gravitational contraction (to the center of the body) may be

understood as being balanced by (and involving) an electromagnetic

repulsion/expansion. Larger and smaller spaces (contracted space vs.

outer space). The heightened concern/energy, touch/tactile experience,

the gravity in dreams, semi/half immobilized/"inertialized" - they are

all manifestations of what is essentially the same. Union of gravity

and electromagnetism.

The inherently smaller space (contraction/attraction) is balanced with

an inherently larger space (expansion/repulsion), including constant

energy, thereby uniting gravity and electromagnetism/light. Space

manifests in what may be understood as a "middle distance/middle

feeling as well" -- in front of us -- in dreams.

Importantly, the eye does have a black and clear/interior space.

Our growth and our becoming other than we are require a

unification/coordination/surmounting/extension of the forces of

gravity and electromagnetism. How else would we gain extension in and

with time and space as well?

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To the website moderator, can we go back to simple time stamping without the "sub threads"? I have spent 20 minutes looking for someones reply, and I can't find it. I copied and pasted the whole page into notepad and did a FIND. The comment wasn't on the page indicated by "Recent Blog Comments".

Thank you.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 14, 2010 @ 14:54 GMT

Would strongly support Jason's proposal as it's rather 'labyrintal' as is!

Jelle

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Anonymous replied on Aug. 14, 2010 @ 15:07 GMT

I agree FQXi -- too controlling. The only way you control something/someone is by reducing it (or them). And you are moving posts, and deleting other posts that are excellent as well.

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Georgina Parry replied on Aug. 15, 2010 @ 09:47 GMT

FQXI moderators, please continue to delete derogatory, ill mannered, and libelous posts. It would also be good if the continuous blatant vanity and boasting, that has nothing to do with discussion of foundational issues, could also be removed. It is inappropriate, generally un-amusing and tiresome for the socially intelligent contributors to the forum. It is also an ongoing public disgrace to the poster and this site.

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FQXi, Jason and Jelle, what do you have to say about the following (below), regarding the limitations of vision? It is key to the limits of physical/mathematical understanding (and, ultimately and significantly relevant to your various ideas).

Jelle, you quoted Jason as saying:

"Community of FRANK DIMEGLIOS, of insane physicists, of insane skeptics, WAKE UP and EMBRACE REALITY!!!!!!...

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 14, 2010 @ 16:52 GMT

The Man whoever that is,

No I don't know FMdM but what I've read of him tells me that he is obviously a very clever thinker and may grasp 'elements of reality' but....makes it, in typical human fashion, way to complicated for any practical use. At least I cannot see that so it's bound to remain in the realm of theorethical physics where I feel he exactly intends it to remain, thereby precluding other avenues, for example those 'walked on' by Jason and James, to be seriously explored.And I do feel there is more 'light for humanity' there!

Correct me if I'm wrong!

Jelle

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THE MAN replied on Aug. 14, 2010 @ 17:19 GMT

Jelle, you know you haven't read DiMelio (http://radicalacademy.com/studentrefphil24fmd.htm)

DiMeglio is saying that we are basically "outsmarted" in the dream. Furthermore, he is sounding a loud gong that basically says: THE END OF PHYSICS! -- (including jobs/funding/grants) in physics. Why would he not have enemies/adversaries here? -- He does, of course.

CENTRAL to this entire discussion is the fact that the ability of thought to [mathematically] describe OR reconfigure sense is ultimately dependent upon the extent to which thought is similar to sensory experience. Accordingly, it is impossible that this known mathematical unification of gravity and electromagnetism is not basically/fundamentally correct. DiMeglio brings dreams into it of necessity. You do not agree? DiMeglio has proven many on here to be wrong and fundamentally off base/seriously lacking in what is their right and proper thinking. They do not appreciate it; indeed, they resent it.

DiMeglio truly leads FQXi and this forum in actuality/reality. What have you to say? Reading and comprehending DiMeglio is the requirement. His ideas are very consistent, extensive, and deep when taken/considered together.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 14, 2010 @ 18:20 GMT

The Man,

I've read some more and stand to some extent corrected on my earlier statement. If what FdM allows for Mathematics -in the simplest of forms- to play its fundamental and deserved role I'm with him in declaring 'the end to physics as a dominant of all'. This has gone on for hundreds of years and, indeed, is firmly, too firmly entrenched!

I should like to re-refer to the 'Augstine Article' by Prof. Peter King, distributed earlier today, which in my opinion goes quite a length in 'connecting' these various issues for the benefit ànd understanding of humanity.

Frank diMeglio's writings are 'pretty abstract' to say the least and I should like him to descend a bit from his 'throne'. I'm saying this without wanting to be fascetious, not at all.

Jelle

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The more I read DiMeglio/Anonymous/Superman, etc, the more he makes sense on fundamentals of great importance and relevancy to physics. He is like Brock Lesnar, in a sense, with the FQXi refs. not stopping the fight -- and with him coming out on top in the end. More power to you DiMeglio. You are doing loving, important, and great work.

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This idea does explain the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics, and it pulls dreams into play as well (the "OR reconfigure..." part, that is):

The ability of thought to describe (INCLUDING MATHEMATICALLY) OR reconfigure sensory experience is ultimately dependent upon the extent to which thought is similar to sensory experience. Dreams fundamentally make thought more like sensory experience in geenral, including gravity and electromagnetism/light.

Accordingly, "IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THE KNOWN MATHEMATICAL UNIFICATION OF GRAVITY AND ELECTROMAGNETISM IS A COINCIDENCE (OR UNTRUE)." -- I agree.

DiMeglio is a genius of the highest order. FQXi, seriously, you cannot continue to ignore ALL of these great truths (and others as well) -- that are all over this forum -- by DiMeglio.

Reply please. How do you even begin to get around all of it?

Brendan, any of you? This is a very serious and important matter that you keep evading and denying. The truth/reality matters.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 14, 2010 @ 19:41 GMT

Anonymous,

Re my earlier reply the The man, more and more with you on this statement!

Would defintely wish for a better balance between 'quantitative philosophers' and 'physicists 'at the end of their rope'' in this discussion! Something has to move and it better be forward fr the betterment of the human condition!!!

Jelle

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 14, 2010 @ 20:09 GMT

Anonymous and The Man,

I've done some further reading and this I think shows 'the other side of the coin' we are talking about and....to be taken into account. Too many selfproclaimed 'hero's of whatever' have 'bitten the dust'! Good, even great, thinking is highly valuable but it has always to be 'in touch and humble':

http://depletedcranium.com/frank-martin-dimeglio-aut
hor-great-thinker-ass/

The top line on this commentary about Kennedy reflects very well whhat I was trying to say earleir!

Jelle

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Anonymous replied on Aug. 14, 2010 @ 23:11 GMT

FQXi deletes truthful posts of fundamental and serious importance. See all the above posts under review?

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Focus on the great ideas, not the messengers.

We are here to advance the human condition and human understanding.

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You cannot judge DiMeglio's work Jason. That is obvious.

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Frank,

Do you think that time travel is possible?

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I just thought of another reason why the photon implements physics and space-time. All, I repeat, ALL of the fundamental particles owe their existence to a particle-anti-particle creation with ... high energy photons at the moment of the Big Bang.

Photons implement all particles.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 15, 2010 @ 08:33 GMT

Jason,

Don't know whether it will be of help to you but 'coincidence' has it that the word PHOTONS has, among others, these 'cosmic equivalents':

‘SINGULARITY’ ‘THE SECRET OF THE UNIVERSE’ ‘THE LAW OF RESONANCE’ ‘MAGNETISM’‘RHYTHM OF LIFE’ ‘MULTIVERSE’ ‘INCEPTION’ ‘THE SECRET CODE OF THE COSMOS’ ‘CALENDAR STONE’ ‘BEYOND BELIEF’ ‘SUPERNOVAE’ ‘FOUR MILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION’ ‘SUNLIGHT’ ‘ALL LIFE COMES FROM LIFE’ ‘THE LANGUAGE OF THE SUN’ ‘MODUS PONENS’ ‘SUBTLE IS THE LORD’ 'THE POWER OF NOW' ‘THE POWER OF POLYTHINKING’ ‘THE POWER OF THE INTERNET’ ‘FREEDOM OF THOUGHT’ ‘THE AGE OF EMPATHY’ ‘GENUINE’ ‘THE SEARCH FOR THE BALANCE’ ‘THE CREATIVE MINORITY’ ‘SPACE, TIME, NUMBER AND IDENTITY’ ‘MATHEMATICAL TRUTH’

Good Sunday on which, according to the (ignorant) Christian world Mary went to Heaven and only God knows what she was coming to do there!!!

Jelle

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 15, 2010 @ 13:25 GMT

Jason,

The movie at the beginning of this site shows PHOTONS and associated NUMBERS in all their glory.

http://www.rainbow21122012.org/

Enjoy as it's beautiful and true too!

Jelle

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Jelle,

Everything you say about the photon is true.

I have said that the photon is responsible for implementing the laws of physics and causing the universe to exist. If you can name the passage from the Bible that says the same thing, I will declare you a genius.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 15, 2010 @ 11:29 GMT

Jason,

You stated to my great satisfaction "Everything you say about the photon is true." To me that means that otentially, human nature permitting, philosophy and Physics might peacefully meet, cohabitate and get 'thing human' on a diffrent plane of understanding, perhaps?

The nice thing about PHOTONS is that it's a '30', i.e. another 3, the number of the mind. I have postulated with otehr physicists that Higgs Boson, n which billions of €€€€ are being spent under and around Geneva sofar without any breakthrough, is nothing else than the '21' = '3' of its very name. No reply from nobody!

At this point, and maybe to pull the 'Frak's of this word' also along, I should like to introduce this form to a most important character, the '8' and its mate '26' and below you will see why:

The ‘26’, which adds up to the number ‘8’, a Saturn vibration and the number of Destiny as well as the ‘Big Bang’, ‘Big Picture’ ‘Number is the within of all things’ ‘Metaphilosophy’ and ‘A Global Thinker’ as well as ‘Opportunity’, ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’ ‘Say No’ and ‘A Mayan Cosmogenesis’, carries the name ‘Partnerships’ and the following ‘26’ vibrations may provide an insight in this important cosmic character in the context of human relations and endeavour:

‘NUMBERS, SPACE AND TIME’ ‘NUMBERS, SPACE, TIME AND GRAVITY’ ‘PARTNERSHIP’ ‘TOGETHER’ ‘WE ARE THE WORLD, WE ARE THE CHILDREN’ ‘COMMON DESTINY’ ‘EXPERIENCE’ ‘BEING, EXPERIENCE AND DREAMS’ ‘BEING, EXPERIENCE, CONSCIOUSNESS AND DREAMS’ ‘MOTHER EARTH’ ‘MATRIARCHY’ ‘UNITED WE STAND’ ‘POWER TO THE PEOPLE’ ‘ENTHOUSIASM’ ‘LIFE IS A GAME’ ‘BIOGENESIS’ ‘EXISTENCE AND BEING’ ‘HUMAN NATURE’ ‘MATRIARCHY’ ‘INTERNATIONAL’ ‘PANTHEON’ ‘TASKFORCE’ ‘ORA ET LABORA’ ‘FIFTY-FIFTY ‘SPACE AND TIME’ ‘DIVINE LAWS’ ‘INFINITE JUSTICE’ ‘THOUGHT’ ‘MATHEMATICS’ ‘GOD IS MATHEMATICS’ ‘MATHEMATICS IS GOD’ ‘UNITY IS GOD’ ‘REALITY IS GOD’ ‘PRIME NUMBER’ ‘GROUP’ ‘CODE AND CYPHER’ ‘THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM’ ‘CHANGING THE WORLD’ ‘CRITICAL THINKING’ ‘COSMIC INSTRUCTION’ ‘COSMIC VIBRATIONS’ ‘ORDER OUT OF CHAOS’ ‘KEEP IT SHORT AND SIMPLE’ ‘PLANET’ ‘EVOLUTION’ ‘MOTHER-EARTH’ ‘THE FORCES OF NATURE’ ‘THE POWER OF NATURE’ ‘THE COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW’ ‘SPIRIT OF BEAUTY’ ‘FAITH IN BEAUTY’ ‘UNIVERSAL VALUE’

on the 15th of August, an 8 by all the digits of the date!

Jelle

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 15, 2010 @ 15:03 GMT

All,

Having been encouraged by Jason, Anonymus and The Man too I should like to 'exhibit' one of the key articles on my website as, human nature being what it is, maybe you just don't get there so easily!

It's from in my view key book, published right at the turn of the Millennium -and never have I read a more comprehensive book- as follows:

Quantum...

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Jason Wolfe replied on Aug. 15, 2010 @ 18:26 GMT

The photon was first cause. The photon is at the heart of all physics. The photon was here before everything else. What is a photon? A photon is ... light.

From the Holy Bible, Genesis, chapter 1, verse 1.

1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2: And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

That is where the light came from. Physicists call this the Big Bang. After about 10^-37 of a second, all of the fundamental particles began to form. This is established physics theory.

Guess what! This proves that God created the universe; ipso facto, God exists. What?

GOD EXISTS.

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How far can we go with:Existentialism?

For instance, if it was humanly probable, if my 50 yr old Brain was transplanted into a donar body of say a 20 yr old physical complete body, would/could I experience my life over again?.. previous yrs between 20 and 50 birthdays? How would the human brain cope with the memories gained in the previous body, coupled withe the "new"experience of the transplanted brains "following" years?

Does this raise the question of: being?

If the process was repeated over and over, and lets say it was maybe Feynaman's brain, effectivly feynman and his thoughts on current stringtheory, may be beneficial to others currently working on the philisophical problems inherent to the theory.

Would this process enhance the Human Species?..the process for organ transplants has evolved to such a degree, genetically and physically to raise the philosophical question of living for ever, be it by organ transplant of the conscious vessel, brain.

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Jason Wolfe replied on Aug. 16, 2010 @ 20:21 GMT

Whoever you are, you make some great points. Nothing wrong with organ transplants. Although, it would be better to improve rejuvenation/regeneration technology so that our own physical body lasts longer. It would be nice to maintain the physiological conditions of a twenty year old, as is one's preference. There is ongoing research to find a way to disable the genetic obstacle to immortality.

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Anonymous replied on Aug. 16, 2010 @ 20:42 GMT

Jason, you said "whoever you are" in your reply to Anonymous. Who cares who it is? That is why it is Anonymous. That is the message.

You do not run the show, nor are you capable of doing so. We are here to discuss concepts and to advance the understanding, not to battle and insult individuals.

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Jason Wolfe replied on Aug. 16, 2010 @ 21:31 GMT

You said, "You do not run the show, nor are you capable of doing so."

That sounds like Frank. I don't have any problem you or anyone talking about ideas. It's when you reply to your own ideas and say, "DiMeglio is saying that we are basically "outsmarted" in the dream. " If you want to defend you positions and ideas, then tell us why they are applicable to every day life. Tell us how they come right out of the physics.

You said, "We are here to discuss concepts and to advance the understanding, not to battle and insult individuals. " But Frank, you were banned from this website for insulting people like Georgina and Ray. You've insulted me as well, but it doesn't bother me. Defend your ideas with good arguments.

For example, take something in physics like the photon, fields, gravity, I dunno, something in physics, and then tell us why it reproduces your argument, your point of view.

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Here is the theoretical/actual quantum mechanical nature of being, experience, and thought:

"Thoughts are relatively shifting and variable. Accordingly, dream vision is relatively shifting and variable. Therefore, the quantum mechanical nature of both thought and dream vision is quite apparent. Indeed, the unpredictable and random aspects of quantum phenomena are clearly evident in dreams. The dynamic nature of quantum energy/entities is also apparent in dreams. (Light is known to be quantum mechanical in nature.)" -- per DiMeglio.

Brendan, we told you that dreams make thought (in general) more fundamentally like sensory experience in general -- including gravity, electromagnetism/light, and quantum mechanical phenomena (as they GENERALLY relate to the union of/with gravity and electromagnetism/light, that is).

To the extent that there is/can be quantum gravity, it occurs in dreams.

The three questions Brendan. We are waiting.

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Jason, sorry the anon you replied to was me about Existentialism?

Again sorry for the lack of identity.

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 17, 2010 @ 14:04 GMT

James,

"...do they exist through Reality? No, because the barren poverty of the particles reduced to themselves would be unable to sustain any symbols that might conceal the laws."

No because, they, the particles, i.e. REALITY, exist through the 'charge' of LOGOS which exists of the 'God-given' integers 1-9 and my 'research seems to fully support that 'quantum philosophy' statement from Prof. Em. Omnès, whose book, published by Princeton Press in 1999 I can recommend to all.

Jelle

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James Putnam replied on Aug. 17, 2010 @ 14:17 GMT

Jelle,

My questions were: "Could you please expound upon 'the barren poverty of the particles'? How barren are they? We recognize a 'barren' particle by what remaining means?"

Quoting your response: "No because, they, the particles, i.e. REALITY, exist through the 'charge' of LOGOS..."

What is "the 'charge' of Logos."? It is the use of the word 'charge' that I am questioning.

James

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 17, 2010 @ 15:04 GMT

James,

Sorry to make this so 'deceivingly simple' but then Nature is, the 'charge' are the properties of the numbers, the 1 vibrating with the Sun, 2 with the Moon, 3 with Jupiter, 4 with Uranus, 5 with Mercury, 6 with Venus, 7 with Neptune, 8 with Saturn and 9 with Mars.

Ever thought of the statement "hey this doesn't add up" or 'One's number being called' when it's time to go horizontal?! And many, many more in our languages!

Jelle

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Jelle,

"...Nature is, the 'charge' are the properties of the numbers, the 1 vibrating with the Sun, 2 with the Moon, 3 with Jupiter, 4 with Uranus, 5 with Mercury, 6 with Venus, 7 with Neptune, 8 with Saturn and 9 with Mars."

A number can vibrate? What is a number? How does it vibrate? What is gained by your use of the word 'nature'? What is 'nature'? How does it differ from an intelligent Creator? How does it create? If you are saying that the numbers come first, what created them or where did they come from? How did they acquire meaning? Are the numbers a priori? I am looking for explanations that go beyond assigning numbers as if that explains things. Is the Sun real or is it the number one that is real?

James

James

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 17, 2010 @ 19:11 GMT

James, Steve and Ray,

I obviously wasn't there when it all started and neither were you so we have no reason to blame each other for anything. My findings over the past 21 years which I am partly sharing with you -and sorry if it's disturbing Steve- and am happy to share more extensively with you if you contact me on dealism21@gmail.com have tought me and convinced me of what somebody said 1900 years ago as follows.

The Universe seems......to have been determined and ordered in accordance with Number, by the forethought and the mind of the Creator of all things; for the pattern was fixed, like a preliminary sketch, by the domination of number pre-existent in the mind of the Universe-creating God

Nichomachus of Gerasa, 5/32

ca. A.D. 100

to which Pythagoras had already 'added' 600 years earlier when postulating his 1st Law "Everything is Number":

Number is the ruler of form and ideas and is the cause of gods and demons

Pythagoras’ Sacred Discourse

6th Century B.C.

and to which Albert Einstein most seriously added what I've said before when postulating his 1st Law: "Everything is Number":

‘IF HUMANKIND WANTS TO SURVIVE, IT HAS TO ADOPT

A RADICALLY DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING’

And I feel we should get on with that seriously too. The code which I am using was 'handed down' to us by the Ancient Sumnerians who, like the Maya, had suberb astronomers who knew more than our currentday rather 'mehanistic astromers' and were able to cature 'meaning in the Universe' it seems. And ...my experience is that it works and rather unfailingly!

Over.

Jelle

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 17, 2010 @ 19:17 GMT

All,

Sorry for a typo. This "and to which Albert Einstein most seriously added what I've said before when postulating his 1st Law: "Everything is Number":" should be

"and to which Alebert Einstein most seriously added what I've said before"

Sorry for any confusion!

Jelle

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James Putnam replied on Aug. 17, 2010 @ 19:24 GMT

Jelle,

"The code which I am using was 'handed down' to us by the Ancient Sumnerians who, like the Maya, had suberb astronomers who knew more than our currentday rather 'mehanistic astromers' and were able to cature 'meaning in the Universe' it seems. And ...my experience is that it works and rather unfailingly!"

If it works unfailingly then why did you answer in this fashion? Jelle, I don't have any grudge against you or what you say. However, when you or anyone else makes the declarative statement to the effect that "God is not necessary." I want to hear why? I don't have a religion. I don't try to describe God. What I think I do know is that no one knows the cause of our origin. When God is dispensed with, I want to know why? If your numbers fit well with effects that is one thing. The interpretations of theoretical physics fit well also. However, we had an origin and anyone proposing that God is unnecessary needs to explain the other original cause that they believe in.

James

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You physicists talk about parallel universes, faster than light travel, time travel. The question becomes: Have you lost your minds?

No wonder you ran DiMeglio off this forum/site and deny and discredit the man and his ideas. He is too much truth -- and that means less money -- for you all. It is clear to all on here that have seen the man get gang banged from the start.

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Jason Wolfe replied on Aug. 18, 2010 @ 15:55 GMT

You said, "You physicists talk about parallel universes, faster than light travel, time travel. The question becomes: Have you lost your minds?"

So your official position is that all of these things are impossible? Nobody has ever seen time traveling phenomena, so I agree with you that time travel is impossible. However, there have been millions of reports of the supernatural, ghosts, UFO's. I would think that those reports constitute observations of parallel universes and FTL propulsion. Why am I wrong?

Your ideas involve unifying gravity and electromagnetism with dreams. What new technology do you anticipate will come from this?

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DiMeglio is the overall leader and authority of unification theory in physics.

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Frank,

Let me give you an example. By following my approach to physics, the following technologies will be achieved:

a. faster than light propulsion; travel to other star systems in minutes or hours;

b. tractor beam technology;

c. artificial gravity between two parallel plates to maintain 9.8m/s2;

d. force fields

e. invisibility

What new technology will your ideas manifest?

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Physics Master replied on Aug. 21, 2010 @ 16:16 GMT

FQXi members, Jason, here is your answer. See if you can fill in the blanks.

TRUE, COMPLETE, AND NATURAL/SUSTAINABLE GROWTH/EXPERIENCE. The goal is to increase the integrated extensiveness of one's thought, being, emotion, feeling, and experience generally. Indeed: "The ultimate and legitimate goal of truth, knowledge, and experience in general is the fundamental advancement and...

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FQXi members, Jason, here is your answer. See if you can fill in the blanks.

TRUE, COMPLETE, AND NATURAL/SUSTAINABLE GROWTH/EXPERIENCE. The goal is to increase the integrated extensiveness of one's thought, being, emotion, feeling, and experience generally. Indeed: "The ultimate and legitimate goal of truth, knowledge, and experience in general is the fundamental advancement and improvement of consciousness in conjunction with the healthy, natural, and instinctive extensiveness of experience."

What of television Jason? Is that a beneficial new technology?

We transfer our experience(s) Jason. Do you know what experiences we are capable of transferring? Do you know anything about this matter/subject? Has this idea ever occurred to you?

Consider what DiMeglio has said in extensive postings here about how we are so intimately bound up with, in, and by the forces/laws of NATURAL physics/physical/sensory experience.

Do you advocate more of this Jason:?

THE DISINTEGRATION AND CONTRACTION OF BEING AND EXPERIENCE

The great revelation of art (including music) is that the world requires and involves man; although science has been slow to recognize this; for the danger of technology is that it is creating a world of experience that is toxic and foreign to the self where man is neither truly involved nor required. By pervasively and fundamentally changing our various sensory experiences (including the range of feeling thereof), the self's ability to represent and form a consistent, comprehensive, and relatively extensive approximation of sense is being compromised; whereby sense and feeling [increasingly] cannot be properly experienced, utilized, and understood as the expression and extension of the self's desire; and it is not only our loss of language that we face. (Consciousness and language involve the ability to represent, form, and experience comprehensive approximations of experience in general; and this includes art and music as well.) The reconfiguration (i.e., disintegration, alteration, reduction, and/or replacement) of sensory experience in general (including range of feeling) is progressively involving a disintegration and contraction of being and experience (including thought). This is evident in (and includes) sleep disorders, depression, anxiety, autism, obesity, and the experience of television. (Clearly, obesity involves a disintegration, contraction, and detachment of being/experience; and it is associated with increased risk of death from all causes.)

Moreover, there is no true difference between what is foreign/unnatural and toxic. Artificially reconfigured sensory experience (including pollution, processed foods, television, etc.) makes the self increasingly unconscious (and reactive) in unpredictable ways. The disintegration, alteration, reduction, and replacement of sensory experience and feeling involve the loss of the instincts; as the self is disconnected and detached from what is natural and truly sustaining. The disintegration and contraction (and this includes detachment) of being and experience go hand in hand. Being and experience are becoming excessively (and increasingly) unconscious and less animate. Finally, in reference to sleep disorders, it is important that dreams involve a fundamental integration and spreading of being and experience at the mid-range of feeling between thought and sense, in conjunction with the natural extensiveness and interactivity of being and experience.

In both depression and anxiety, the emotional disintegration and contraction of being and experience involves increased feeling at the emotional center of the self. In anxiety, this is consistent with excessive concern, the reduction in the desirability of experience, emotional imbalance (or variability), bodily aches and pains (i.e., emotional disintegration), the mind "going blank", panic attacks (involving a sort of generalized paralysis and loss of experience), etc. Comparatively (and similarly), in depression, there is a contraction, detachment, disintegration, and loss of being and experience that also involves a loss of emotion. The loss of desire in both depression and anxiety involves a significant reduction in the comprehensiveness and consistency of both intention and concern as they relate to experience in general; and this has the dream-like effect of reducing thought, emotion, and memory, including the desirability and totality of experience as well.

Answer this post in a complete, honest, respectful, and thoughtful fashion Jason. This is a very serious matter.

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Frank,

You dodged my question, again. What new technologies would emerge from your ideas?

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Frank,

WHAT NEW TECHNOLOGY COMES FROM YOUR IDEAS??????

Do you know what "technology" is? What new capabilities come from your ideas?

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Dr. Cosmic Ray replied on Aug. 18, 2010 @ 20:19 GMT

Dear Jason,

I think that Frank should develop a prototype Dream machine and sell the idea to Nintendo.

Have Fun!

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Jason Wolfe replied on Aug. 18, 2010 @ 20:29 GMT

Ray,

That's what I thought. But he's not even suggesting that. In fact, using non-invasive brain implants, maybe there is a way to use computer networks to create shared dream experiences with your friends and loved ones.

Is that one Frank is suggesting?

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Frank,

Man up! What new technology can your ideas offer?

Even the efforts to prove time travel are for the purpose of creating a time machine. I don't think they can realize it, but that is there goal.

Do your ideas even offer a new technology?

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Frank,

This website is here for people with new ideas; strange ideas; unpopular ideas. It's OK to be creative.

But Frank, you have no reason to boast.

You dodge questions!

You blither on with your nonsense!

Then you congratulate yourself for NOTHING!

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Cosmology is in a shambles because, as DiMeglio has shown, it is an interactive creation of thought that bears significant similarities with dream vision. That is, telescopic/astronomical observations and dream vision both involve a narrowing/"telescoping" of vision. Telescopic/astronomical observations and dream vision both make space more invisible/transparent. This accounts for magnification (and the red-shift).

The unnatural lessening/reconfiguration of visual experience in telescopic/astronomical observations lessens the comprehensibility thereof.

The dream, however, includes the visiual experience therein as part of what is a fundamental integration and spreading of being, experience, vision, and thought.

The interactive and integrated extensiveness of being and experience go hand in hand, in and with time as well. Pepole readily resist this idea, because it is so shocking!

Now, back to where we were. FQXi, admit that DiMeglio has unified gravity and electromagnetism.

Is Jason FQXi's spokesperson? If yes, why?

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Remember FQXi allowing posts to stand calling DiMeglio an ass, as Florin did this? Remember Florin lying as well, saying DiMeglio lied about Corda's statements on Frank's article -- and then FQXi declaring him (Florin) a winner.

You probably should be reported for this Florin. You thought DiMeglio was some punk you could insult and walk on, with FQXi's help. Frank's book is in the University of Maryland's library. Did you know that? We might report you yet to your bosses. You want so badly to discredit him. We are interested in what else you may have said and done.

FQXi -- You are lying and denying about what is the fundamental truth in physics, because it is goes directly against your funding, agenda, interests, and credibility. The dream unifies gravity and electromagnetism.

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Florin,

I agree. I just wish it was easier to find comments by name, date, and topic. In any event, I'll refrain from responding him.

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The flattening of space in all 3 dimensions that DiMeglio has shown in dreams does seem to represent quantum gravity. How DiMeglio has now incorporated quantum phenomena with gravity and electromagnetism cannot be ignored.

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Steve even commented upon how Florin and Corda ganged up on Frank. It was obvious.

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Not so fast Florin. How do you explain the known mathematical union of gravity and electromagnetism, as DiMeglio says? Let's talk facts Florin. Keep your insults to yourself.

"The next ultimate theory/understanding will explain how thought (in general) is fundamentally more like sensory experience in general BECAUSE:

The ability of thought to describe (including mathematically) OR reconfigure sense is ultimately/fundamentally dependent upon the extent to which thought is similar to sensory experience." Answer Florin.

You know math Florin. You are not qualified, capable, and knowledgeable enough to speak of a theory of everything. What disciplines and other areas are you published on? DiMeglio has far more expertise and knowledge than you do when it comes to understanding being, thought, sensory experience, vision, experience, thought. His book, prior FQXi essay, and published work prove it.

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Florin, your prior essay, as it was commented then, relied upon multiple and TOWERING assumptions. Talk truth Florin, not evasions and personal insults.

The Big Bang idea precludes (or "kills") what must be the related experiences of thought, life, gravity, experience, being, and electromagnetism/light.

The fundamental laws of physics must be unified and also understood in a fashion that allows life and experience (in general) to be.

Consistent with this, dream experience is essential to the proper (and complete) understanding of both life and experience in general.

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FQXi, Florin, Corda, Georgina, Ray, Lawrence, Jason...Gravity increases and decreases with distance.

You do not even know the basics upon which physics ultimately and fundamentally rests. DiMeglio proved this, and you go after him personally, and you deny and ignore his ideas.

He embarrassed you by exposing how much you don't know and by unifying gravity and electromagnetism. Now he has showed quantum gravity in dreams.

FQXI -- you continue to delete great posts here with great ideas by DiMeglio.

FQXi -- remember how you selectively deleted DiMeglio's posts in the prior essay contest with Florin, and yet you let his "replies" stand? So much for a record of the facts in the comments under/with Florin's garbage essay.

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Hi Jay. Florin, how did you win in the past contest saying what is mathematically possible in physics while failing to basically address this????:

"The next ultimate theory/understanding will explain how thought (in general) is fundamentally more like sensory experience in general BECAUSE:

The ability of thought to describe (including mathematically) OR reconfigure sense is ultimately/fundamentally dependent upon the extent to which thought is similar to sensory experience." -- the KNOWN mathematical union of gravity and electromagnetism is plainly and significantly evident in our experience Florin. How could you win without addressing this, and by being totally wrong about it? Dreams make thought (generally) more like sensory experience in general Florin -- including gravity and electromagnetism/light.

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Nice post Anonymous. Florin, your essay about what is ultimately possible in physics mathematically totally blew it (and was wrong). Here is why:

"The next ultimate theory/understanding will explain how thought (in general) is fundamentally more like sensory experience in general BECAUSE:

The ability of thought to describe (including mathematically) OR reconfigure sense is ultimately/fundamentally dependent upon the extent to which thought is similar to sensory experience." The known mathematical union of gravity and electromagnetism HAS to be plainly and significantly evident in our experience, and this proves it. And this proves that in dreams it is.

DiMeglio is right, and you are wrong. And, you STILL insult him.

Next time Florin, quit while you are unfairly ahead.

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FQXi, Florin is your buddy. That is obvious.

On the other hand FQXi, DiMeglio's ideas will ultimately cost you a fortune in funding, grants, participation, and articles/"research" by friends, associates, and members of FQXi. You get the point.

Tell the truth FQXi.

How long will lies, deception, money, insults, articles generated by/involving disputes over NOTHING/NONSENSE and "business as usual" rule the day over truth, nature/reality, health, sustainability, and people.

If we walk away from reality, reality will walk away from us.

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DiMeglio, to me, seems to have unified gravity and electromagnetism with quantum gravity as well. The more he says, the more he is opposed.

The quantum mechanical, gravitational, and electromagnetic nature of being, experience, and thought are now clealy demonstrated at rock bottom as follows:

Here is the [theoretical/actual] quantum mechanical nature of being, experience, and...

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 20, 2010 @ 07:54 GMT

All,

And here is another angle to the 'continuing yes-Frank---no-Frank saga' whih seems to lead nowhere. This is what I found in my computer this morning:

"In order to assess fairly the visions clairvoyants claim to have,

you have to understand that the nature of these visions is

identical to that of dreams. It is just a question of degree of

awareness, with the clairvoyant's vision occurring during the

waking state and the dream occurring during sleep. You may wonder

whether you can give any credence to either... Yes, you can, but

only inasmuch as they inform you of the degree of evolution of

those who experience them.

Dreams and visions always have meaning, but anyone who has not

succeeded in freeing themselves from the lower astral plane will

receive their visions and dreams from those dark regions. And, of

course, you cannot trust that these will give you true

understanding or the right answers to the questions you are

asking yourself. Only when human beings succeed in raising

themselves up to the causal, buddhic and atmic planes will their

visions and dreams be capable of enlightening us about reality."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Great visionary this bulgaran 'chap'. Look him up!

Jelle

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 21, 2010 @ 16:10 GMT

Ray,

It was 'sinister' indeed and...glad to see you breaking up The Pentagon. About time too!!!

Herewith some equivalents for PENTAGRAM fYI:

'POLYMATH' ‘PENTAGRAM’ ‘TRIANGLES BEAT SQUARES’ ‘SAPPHIRE’ ‘COMMON UNDERSTANDING’ ‘SPEAK-SPEECH’ ‘COUNT-LETTERS’ ‘UNIVERSAL SOUL’ ‘INFINITE LOVE’ ‘INTELLIGENT DESIGN’ ‘THE MASTER OF THE SCHEME’ ‘BIOLOGICAL SPACE’ ‘QUANTUM PHYSICS’ ‘QUANTUM THEORY’ ‘PROTON’ ‘SUPERSTRING’ ‘MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS’ ‘THEOREMA’ ‘HUMANKIND’

Certianly agrre with your statemnet on the need for a scientific approach to the meaning of numbers. But 'empiricism' is still valid isn't it?

Jelle

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Anonymous replied on Aug. 21, 2010 @ 18:32 GMT

Jelle, DiMeglio's ideas lead nowhere? Is that what you just said? We need new thinkers here. Bigtime!

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Jay Johnson, Kevin Washington. Thank you for your posts. Excellent post Anonymous.

Here is further clarification of the matter:

Decreased gravity may be offset/balanced by increased inertia/immobilization, thereby balancing scale (distance in space). This balances attraction and repulsion, and this demonstrates space as gravitational/electromagnetic energy -- in these different manifestations of the same. The MID-range of gravity is equivalent with the SEMI-immobilized condition therein -- (picture us in outer space/the sun) vs. earth (full gravity) -- in dreams. Touch/tactile

experience is also at the same energy/feeling level as the gravitational experience in dreams. Read Mach on inertia and gravity.

Understanding that the self represents, forms, and experiences a comprehensive approximation of the totality of experience is crucial to ULTIMATELY understanding mathematical description and physics, and the limits thereof.

The gravitational contraction (to the center of the body) may be understood as being balanced by (and involving) an electromagnetic repulsion/expansion. Larger and smaller spaces (contracted space vs. outer space). The heightened concern/energy, touch/tactile experience, the gravity in dreams, semi/half immobilized/"inertialized" - they are all manifestations of what is essentially the same. Union of gravity and electromagnetism in/as dream experience.

This is the most important discovery in physics that quite possibly has ever been, and will ever be, made.

Now DiMeglio has demonstrated quantum gravity in dreams too (see the prior posts please.)

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Hi all,

The ergodicity is always there.

This way towards the ultim energy is fascinating,as a partition of spherization of course.

The recurrence about time and space for our concrete mesurements are essentials.

When Boltzman has inserted this theory of cinetics gas,the uniquity of the entanglement and its pure finite number correlated with thermodynamics, statistics and mechanics show us the road of the rotations implying mass.

The fractal is specific of course, and the system of rotating spheres more the volumes seem implying the codes of becomming on this line time.

Our invariances when we analyzze even a discrete system rest as they are.The locality and the globality are evidently the same in their pure dynamic.

All systems are proportionals and the ultim limit of physicality is in 3D and this time constant permitting to have our actual datas and rationalities.

The spherisation( quantum spheres ...specific numbers....evolution...time constant....cosmological spheres....increase of mass.....Universal sphere)

The system of ergodicity is essential to encircle our reals numbers.

Hamilton will be happy to see these fractalizations of rationality.

We can't imply the confusions for the public, the foundamentals are our foundamentals.

If we don't consider the temporal moyen and space moyen with their invariances, thus how can we know the real serie inside the correct referential.

If the infinity is inserted without rationality and limits, it will be difficult to encircle and to understand the real Alephs of Cantor.

All that becomes a real problem about the interpretation of infinity, the harmony and the chaos, sim^ply because some dicreteness are bad understood or bad inserted without real topology in 3 dimensions.

Conclusion.The chaos is just a photo.A short instant ,...a bad

interprettion....

Best Regards

Steve

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Joe,

You asked:"You are telling me in all seriousness that I am who I am either because of the exertions of an omnipotent God, or because of billions of years of an evolutionary process. "

Are you suggesting a third alternative?

You said,"We can dispense with the God theory immediately. "

Why? In what way is it obvious where the universe came from? In what way is it obvious where the laws of physics came from.

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Jason, experience is not "created" because it is not thought/thinkable.

Thought is different from vision, for example. Thought is interactive and integrated with sensory experience (and more so in dreams), but to a limited extent -- but this then reduces the totality of experience (and thought) in dreams.

God is the teddy bear that you no longer have.

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William Orem,

My boss called my reasoning "sowas von fundamental". Others called it philosophical. In brief: Future effects cannot yet be measured. They are more or less uncertain. Consequently, spacetime cannot describe reality. Is there a mistake to be found as to elucidate pertaining paradoxes? Critics tend to attack Einstein and his precondition of constant c. I suspect, there might be a deeper rooted mistake. That's why I am dealing with the already paradoxical putative length contraction in case of two objects that move towards each other with constant speed. It looks as if I have found a hidden flaw in metamathematics. See above.

Eckard

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Eckard Blumschein replied on Aug. 27, 2010 @ 22:27 GMT

Who dealt with "Mathematical Invalidity of the Lorentz ..." by Aleksandar Vukelja 2005 http://www.masstheory.org?

Eckard

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In this blog the notion of God is very often mentioned. In fact GOD is the most philosophical aspect of philosophy itself. Weinbergs impression that philosophy is murky and inconsequential compared to the dazzling successes of physics goes back to this aspect.

Until today no one has an idea how to deal with it in a scientific way. The main problem is: How can something be proved or tested if it is considered of being invisible?

The answer: It can't be tested. If something is really (!) invisible in the truest sense of the word, there is, in principle, no empirical test so far.

Is this the end of all philosophy, especially of metaphysics?

No. Actually the property of invisibility includes very restrictive conditions with respect to the visible physical universe. It is quite obvious that a Universe must be organized in a very specific and unique way if it shall base upon an invisible foundation. Although Einstein asked: Did GOD have any choice in the creation of the universe, he did never make use of the properties, which are intimately connected with this philosophical term of GOD. But these properties are highly effective tools, if we are going to ask for their physical implications resp. conditions in a systematic way.

These conditions can't only be found they can actually be precised in such a way, that they are even testable. It seems that our (!) universe does satisfy just these conditions. There are empirical datas which do point to the existence of an invisible foundation of the UNIVERSE.

In brief, if a modern metaphysics is truly possible, it will change the course of modern physics, because it deals with a foundation that is by its very nature of fundamental character.

Further Details - see: http://www.fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/502

Regards

Helmut

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 28, 2010 @ 07:28 GMT

Helmut,

Very glad to 're-opened' this discussion with some substance! Without going into details here I should like to invite you -and others- to giev a look at the content of the attachment which has come about over the past 21 years. To my humble mind this might be the key to a peaceful and fruitful cohabitation between Philosophy, Science -notably Physics and Biology-, Religion and Politics and....for the benefit of humankind!

Just today I established that mathematically, according to The Ancient Sumerians, these 'terms' are equivalent:

‘WHERE HAS OUR NATURE GONE?!’ ‘COMPASSION-ETHICS’ ‘THE POWER OF IMAGINATION’ ‘BEING, CONSCIOUSNESS AND DREAMS’ ‘COGNITIVE SCIENCES’ ‘INCARNATED LOGOS’ ‘INCARNATED TIME’ ‘INCARNATED NATURE’ ‘INCARNATED GOD’ 'LATERAL THINKING' ‘POWER OF SPEECH’ ‘THE POWER OF THE WORD’

Cheers.

Jelle

attachments: 2_Dealism21Current_Manuscript.doc

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Dear Jelle,

I've no doubt that numbers are highly important to decipher the fundamental blueprint of the physical universe. This view is quite common within the scientific community.

Einstein f.e. maintained a long-term interest in the question of constants of physics. His most interesting statement on the matter occurs in private correspondence with Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider. In a letter, written in 1945, he expressed the idea, that dimensional universal constants such as the velocity of light are not really fundamental. Instead of that he believed that in a truly fundamental theory pure numbers like e or pi are the genuine universal constants. That we still relate to dimensional constants like c was due to the fact that we have not penetrated deeply enough into nature's secrets.

I myself followed this Einsteinian kind of numerilogical reasoning and discovered that the geometrical "picture" of the MANDALA is probably a secret blueprint of the universe. It shows as conceived by how space and time are organized at the most fundamental level. It includes space-time-segments which are not covered by the relativistic spacetime.

In brief, different persons make different assumptions about the scientific meaning of numbers.

The most important thing in science is of course the experiment: Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth. (Feynman)

It seems to me that an unexpected (!) experimental prediction is the best proof for a convincing approach.

Have you got anything like this? I couldn't recognize that in your paper.

Kind regards

Helmut

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 28, 2010 @ 10:43 GMT

Dear Helmut,

Thanks for your quick and good reply! As for your question about a 'verification experiment', no I don't have that but you may wish to have a look at

www.rainbow21122012.org (scrolls to the right) which is a follow-up to my book and which contains 1) an emotionally beatiful movie from Cristonbal Vila about 'Nature and Numbers' as well as a number of articles, particularly behind the 'church windows' which further 'dress u my findings.

Also, if you contact me on dealism21@gmail.com I can send you a 'visualizing powerpoint' on all this including the relationship with Nature.

By the way, I have see your article 'The Taming of the One' and it's right out of my heart and have include LOGICAL POSITIVISM, being equivalent with NATURE in my manuscript! Lots of future there but....the Sci-Establishment is tough, very tough!!!

Lastly I can agree with you on teh MANDALA being equivalent with the name ALBERT EINSTEIN and a '19' containing both the '1' and the '9' and all else is inbetween.

Cheers.

Jelle

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 28, 2010 @ 14:02 GMT

Dear Helmut,

I spend some more time with 'Taming the One' and consider it fascinating! At this point I should liek to let you have these equivalents as they have a bearing on what you are postulating I think.

‘COSMOS’ ‘HEAVEN’ ‘THE DIVINE PRESENCE’ ‘METAPHYSICAL UNIVERSE’ ‘THE NATURAL SPIRAL’ ‘HEAVEN AND EARTH’ ‘GARDEN OF EDEN’ ‘EXISTENTIALISM’ ‘EXISTENTIALIST’ ‘PRINCIPLES, LAWS AND FACTS’ ‘THE LAW OF DYNAMIC BALANCES’ ‘NOT, AND, OR, IF….THEN’ ‘FORCE OF NATURE’ ‘QUANTUM GRAVITY’ ‘PHOTON’ ‘ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM’ ‘ENTROPY-SYNTROPY’ ‘FORM-CONTENT’ ‘ADDITION’ ‘IMMUTABLE LAWS OF NATURE’ ‘MATHEMATICAL’ ‘MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLE’, a triple ‘27’

Moreover, be informed that your own name is equivalent to the words UNIVERSE as well as ONENESS as well as OUT OF THE BOX and quite a few other 'key characters'!

Best

Jelle

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 29, 2010 @ 14:35 GMT

Helmut and Eckard et al.,

Coming back to GOD -who Im sure we'll never get rid of anyway and shouldn't there be room for everybody always!- I came across, speaking of the MANDALA you brought up the other day, of a nice defintion of God as follows: "God is a circle with the centrepoint everywhere and the circumference nowhere".

Could it maybe therefore be that we are often going in circles without getting anywhere?!

Jelle

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Dear Helmut:"Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth"? While I agree with your intention, I do not exclude misinterpretation. Nimtz repeatedly measured a velocity of signal propagation in excess of c. Wasn't he definitely wrong? Your "unexpected (!) experimental prediction" looks silly to me. You meant confirmation of a prediction by an unexpected outcome of an experiment.

The unexpected explanation of an effect found by Eddington apparently supported Einstein's theory. Meanwhile, alternative explanations were also found.

May I ask you to check arguments against what has been accepted from the majority for about one hundred years while it still does imply paradoxes?

Please comment on Vukelja, if possible with respect to Lorentz and Voigt too.

If I recall correctly, Louis Essen the Lord of measurement at NIST considered the 1905 paper perhaps the worst he ever read. I partly share his opinion because Einstein did not quote key papers he relied on which were indispensable as to understand his reasoning. Essen further meant Gedankenexperimente do not provide a sound basis.

Regards,

Eckard

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Anonymous Frank,

You seem to think as Einsteinian as is a physicist you are blaming for not understanding you. Einstein called the distinction between past, present and future an obstinate illusion. I maintain: The notion present is fuzzy physics. It may include near past as well as near expected moments. How large is |sign(0)|? Since Dedekind replaced Euclid's notion of number as a measure, mathematicians prefer arbitrary instead of reasonable rules. Hilbert was among the most brutish ones.

Eckard

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 29, 2010 @ 10:16 GMT

All,

Further to my message earlier -about which I am serious mind you!- I just discovered, while having a 'capuccino freddo' in my favourate bar in Rome, that:

'PYTHAGORAS AND PLATO' and 'SPINOZA' and 'ABSOLUTELY RIGHT' all have the same 5/32 vibration, called "Communication" and....5+3+2 adds up to ONE like its 'counterpart' 5/23 for the word NATURE and...LOGOS and a host of other 'parameters' ruling our lives!

We have to get out of that 20th century 'box' -so carefully constructed by the combined forces of politics and religion- people! Doesn't get us anywhere but to endless bickering over everybody'e 'marbles' as I have witnessed on this blog over the past few weeks!

Cheers

Jelle

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Hi Jelle,

Do you consider Essen bickering? Doesn't it relate to MP3, to LHC, and to mind-impairing paradoxes that millions of people must learn to swallow? Essen called Einstein's relativity a cause for delay in development of science. FQXi claims to deal with foundational questions, and therefore it abstains from censorship even if Frank DiMeglio is perhaps very annoying to anybody.

I apologize for trifles like writing "as is" instead of "as does". However, do not consider me just drinking a Cappuchino. I learned a lot here at FQXi. Maybe it is still not yet sufficient.

Eckard

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 29, 2010 @ 13:39 GMT

Ciao Eckard,

Most interesting article which goes to show on what 'high and no doubt lonesome' pedestal the World has put Albert Einstein. In the context of his time it is understandable that, following the disaster of WW I, the world very badly needed 'a real hero' who was after all, as he often said himself, also just a human being! And what is 'cleaner' than Science?!

But it continues and there is no doubt in my mind that 'Father Albert' has helped Science, and Physics in particular, tremendously forward. Also probably because he was a Philosopher of quite some standing in his own right and, for me personally,I have always admired him more for hat he said than for what he did.

There was no name on the article. Is that on purpose?

Finally my reference to the 'bickering' was the still continuing 'yes Frank-no Frank' game which is quite annoying to say the least! Thre must be intersets at stake somehow is my european judgement!

Cheers.

Jelle

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Aug. 29, 2010 @ 13:47 GMT

Eckard,

What I forgot to mention was that CLOCK PARADOX is 'equivalent' to the name ALBERT EINSTEIN. Coincidence or what?!

And these two are furthermore equivalent with FYI:

The number ‘19’, a Sun vibration, was described by The Ancients as one of the most fortunate and karmic reward numbers and it should be no surprise that the word ‘BEAUTY’ is a ‘19’ and so are the words ‘SPIRIT’ ‘SOUL’ ‘THE SOUL IS ....’ ‘SELF’ ‘DREAMS’ ‘LIFE AND DEATH’ ‘ODD AND EVEN’ ‘THE MIND’ ‘MIND’S EYE’ ‘KEEN EYE’ ‘WOW!’ ‘TIME AS MULTIPLIER’ ‘THE NATURE’ ‘POLY’ ‘THE GOD’ ‘CODE’ ‘THE SECRET CODE’ ‘REALISM’ ‘THE HUMAN GENOME’ ‘INNER BEAUTY’, a double ‘19’, ‘TRUST’ ‘FAITH’ ‘FACTS’ ‘MANDALA’ ‘DIGNITY’ ‘THE SUN’ ‘SHINE’ ‘FUN’ ‘SO LONG’ ‘1960s’ ‘UP AND DOWN’ ‘LAUGH’ ‘ENJOY’ ‘WHY WORRY’ ‘SHELL’ ‘LIVING’ ‘CHAOS’ ‘INERTIA’ ‘RESET’ ‘SEARCH’ ‘SPEAK’ ‘MAKE A WISH’ ‘PRAYER’ ‘MAKING LOVE’ ‘MAKING SENSE’ ‘USE AND DISUSE’ ‘SINGER’ ‘PAINT’ ‘GUIDE’ ‘ANIMAL WORLD’ ‘WE ARE....’ ‘TWO HEARTS’ ‘THE DIVINE CREATION’ ‘FATA MORGANA’ ‘MIRACLE’ ‘APPIA’ ‘REGINA VIARUM’ ‘NEW YORK’ (although composed of a destructive ‘16’ and a ‘12’ ‘The Victim’!) ‘BLUES’ ‘KABBALIST’ ‘MASTER’ ‘THE GENIUS’ ‘HERO’ and ‘MAGICIAN’

And yo will have seen that the HERO is there too!!!

Jelle

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Jelle, Let me say it with very bitter irony: "Wer ein Volk [von Wissenschaftlern] fuehren will muss heroisch denken!" (Who aims leading a nation [of scientists] has to think heroic!)? The devil to whom I am alluding mislead the Germans.

Do we need heroes at all? Maybe it is by chance that the Czech Petr Beckmann as well as a Serbian uttered criticism against a German hero. They would have many reason for hating Germans.

By the way, Einstein was fostered by Max Planck. Well, Schroedinger seduced his 14 years old pupil Itha Juenger and later he caused her aborting his baby. I also dislike his pornographic poem Zittern. Nonetheless, his scientific thoughts seem to be honest. Schroedinger arrived at a non-relativistic quantum model of hydrogen.

In contrast to him, I consider Heisenberg even more speculative than Einstein and anything but a philosopher when he suggested: "The path comes into existence only if we observe it". Einstein derided entanglement as a spooky action at distance. In that he was most likely right.

What about Frank, nobody besides himself says yes. He cannot hide his stupidity. Maybe he intends to disturb us or has even been hired for doing so.

Eckard

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Anonymous replied on Aug. 29, 2010 @ 17:37 GMT

Eckard, how dumb are you for calling DiMeglio stupid? Are you ok?

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Eckard Blumschein replied on Aug. 29, 2010 @ 20:39 GMT

Any help will be appreciated. Who dealt seriously with Vukeja , Van Flandern, or other critics? While my approach is different, I found coincidences concerning sign matters and consequences. Apparently I am the first one who demands strictly to exclude what is future with respect to the process of concern. Baez already understood that the laws are valid for future too while "states" are restricted to the past. However he has been reluctant to accept the due restriction of reality to IR+.

Eckard

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Eckard Blumschein replied on Aug. 29, 2010 @ 22:13 GMT

Mere denial of paradoxes and dazzling hints to allegedly confirming accuracy makes me even more suspicious. I feel reminded of the time when I was forced to propagate also questionable political doctrines. The question whether Einstein did cheat can be clearly answered with yes: He cheated his wife. Whether or not he also cheated in science does not matter at all.

I do not consider Einstein the first one who possibly went wrong. We have to look at Voigt and Lorentz. Well, Einstein's 1905 paper "Zur Elektrodynamik ..." reveals more obvious weak points. However, the twin paradox is already rooted in some earlier papers by Lorentz. Lorentz added a remarkable Anmerkung to his 1904 paper in 1914. Lets focus on delta psi=1/c^2 d_round^2 psi/ d_round t^2. I appreciate that someone picked up my finding: DEQs are not the primary relations. In reality, influences are superimposed and accumulated. Originally integral relations were stripped off and lost their immediate connection to the embedding reality. This does not only create redundant ambiguity but it also gives rise to possible mistakes.

Eckard

Eckard

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Everything is possible when less assumptions are made, when one thinks more broadly and consistently, when one has increased ability to think broadly and consistently, and when one is educated in great thinking by the greatest thinkers.

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Frank,

Isaac Newton gave us an equation for gravity, about 400 years ago.

$F = G \frac{M_1M_2}{R^2}$

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Quantum gravity requires constant energy, balanced attraction and repulsion, and inertial/gravitational balancing. Do you agree DiMeglio, or are you too lacking in physical understanding to reply?

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That is correct: "Quantum gravity requires constant energy, balanced attraction and repulsion, and inertial/gravitational balancing." DiMeglio showed this in dreams already to you all.

Einstein's universe is unstable (contracting OR expanding), and it is an incomplete approximation. DiMeglio has shown gravitational/electromagnetic space as contracting and expanding AT ONCE.

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Nothing to say freaks?

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TO ECKHARD:

Dear Eckard,

I mean an unexpected explanation of a well-known phenomenon accompanied by an unexpected experimental outcome.

Although I share your doubts about special relativity, but Einstein's theory is a very good example for what I mean: Einstein explained the invariance of the speed of light c in an unexpected way (by denying the ETHER), predicting that there is no difference between the motion of the source and the motion of the observer. According to Einstein only the relative velocity between both was important. This prediction was quite unexpected because it contradicted all our knowledge about the behaviour of waves.

Today this relativistic view is a kind of paradigm.

And just this view can equally be "transcended" by an unexpected explanation (two "faces" of c) accompanied by an unexpected experimental outcome, i.e. a subtl ether-drift.

I've written a paper in which the basic idea of this view is presented.

Its title: About the Dual Parametrization of c

Further Details see: http://www.worldsci.org/people/Helmut_Hansen

Regards

Helmut

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Experiments with unexpected to visitors outcome are most convincing contributions to an unbiased philosophical framework in a permanent exhibition that demonstrates the whole history of science, to be seen in Magdeburg at the river Elbe upstream to Hamburg where Helmut Hansen lives. If it didn't also show diverse biographies and explanations, children could get the impression that no hard work by means of mathematics is always required as to make genuine progress and to avoid mistakes.

Why are mathematicians and physicists mesmerized by idols like Cantor and Einstein, respectively? Perhaps, they collectively shy back from the admission being unable to understand them.

Florin demonstrated to me how increasingly abstruse even professional experts are trying to resolve paradoxes without admitting the possibility of any fundamental fallacy. Baez and others are letting the field of a critical analysis to those like Helmut Hansen who are perhaps not in position for finding any flaw in mathematics. I feel that e.g. a Dirk van M. may behave rude because he is correct in terms of usual mathematics while possibly nonetheless incorrect in a wider philosophic perspective.

Helmut, wave equations relate to a medium, ether, or elysiumn neither to c_source nor to c_observer. By the way, relativity was already described in 1632 by Galileo Galilei. I recall my teacher at school attributing what was clearly just Galilean relativity to Einstein.

I found strong but possibly not deep enough arguments by Thomas Van Flandern . So far I failed to decipher Voigt's paper although his style of introduction of unknown coefficients reminds me of what has been declared wrong by Vukelja .

Proponents of SR belittle Galilean Electrodynamics as just simpler. Should we accept a Lorentz relativity LR as suggested by the late Van Flandern? Could a new GR at all be build on LR?

I envision a clarification: The imaginary "ict" of spacetime might not belong to the already completed past but to a quite different extrapolated abstraction from it. This clarification would also affect QM. Could parts of GR and QM be united as being trash?

Eckard

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Anonymous replied on Aug. 31, 2010 @ 16:45 GMT

Dr, Eckard .,- do you here state that motion and inertia is dependent upon accelerasion thet involves equal repilsion/atraction???

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Eckard replied on Aug. 31, 2010 @ 21:30 GMT

Let me add an easily understandable recast of Beckmann's book Einstein plus two by Tom Bethell. .

Anonymous Frank Di Meglio alias ..., you might call me either Eckard or Dr. Blumschein but please not Dr. Eckard unless you intend being impolite.

I decided to omit "Blumschein" for the sake of more space for details instead.

The name Eckard is rare enough as to avoid ambiguity.

I maintain calling you stupid, mainly because you are trying to hide your identity behind anonymity or names like Fast Fred, The Lightbringer, Superman, etc.

It happens, someone forgot using the option of indicating his name and is unintentionally called anonymous. He is still identifiable if he finishes his posting with signing his name or something characteristic, e.g. "have fun". You might guess who deliberately signed with anonymous for just one time ;-).

Eckard

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Philosophy provides the superior and knowledgeable interpretation of physics:

Sir Arthur Eddington: "When science has progressed the furthest, the mind has but regained from nature what the mind has put into nature. We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint, and lo! it is our own."

Sir James Jeans: "Fundamental physics, then, tells us something about our own minds, but nothing about the outer world."

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James Putnam replied on Aug. 31, 2010 @ 19:29 GMT

To whomever,

"Philosophy provides the superior and knowledgeable interpretation of physics."

Maybe or maybe not. Why don't you explain why you believe what you believe?

James

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Anonymous replied on Aug. 31, 2010 @ 19:44 GMT

ok James, ready to reject the truth AGAIN :

Sir Arthur Eddington: "When science has progressed the furthest, the mind has but regained from nature what the mind has put into nature. We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint, and lo! it is our own."

Sir James Jeans: "Fundamental physics, then, tells us something about our own minds, but nothing about the outer world."

The ability of thought to describe (ncluding mathematically) OR reconfigure (as in dreams) sense is ultimately dependent upon the extent to which thought is similar to sense. Dreams make thought more like gravity AND electromagnetism/light.

In dream experience and in waking experience, the self represents, forms, and experiences a comprehensive approximation of the totality of experience by combining unconscious and conscious experience. Experience then becomes a more direct expression of the self that is increasingly representative of a greater totality of experience as well.

It's all consistent.

AND James Clerk Maxwell: "The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter."

Dreams unify gravity and electromagnetism/light, and they demonstrate quantum gravity as well. The highly ordered (and flattened) structure/form is balanced by increased "chaos"/randomness.

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James Putnam replied on Aug. 31, 2010 @ 19:55 GMT

Frank,

I didn't recognize your new messages. Carry on with The Truth.

James

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"Dreams make thought more like gravity AND electromagnetism/light." what this mean? Dream reduce thought, gravity, and elcecromahgnetism, thereby making them all more the same. Is this what you say??

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Excellent Ukgatuba. Precisely.

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Physics has a foundation of quicksand at this point, the more the physicists say, the less sense it all makes, and the more they are sunk.

I put my money on DiMeglio.

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Dear Eckhard,

it is true relativity was already described in 1632 by Galileo Galilei - and that is just the problem. Galilei's observation was related to a branch of very low velocities compared to the velocity of light. As Einstein made this observation to a universal principle he made a huge step. He generalized an observation made in the everydayworld to all kind of inertial motions. He stated - at least implicitly - that every forcefree motion of an object will last forever idendenpently how fast the object is. An object with a velocity of f.e. 12 km/sec will not slow down at any time, if it is moving along an inertial path. That's the core of relativity. I think the Pioneer Anomaly has opened up the possibility that this implicit statement of relativity which includes the validity of the first law of inertia could be wrong.

It is quite remarkable that Einstein used the outcome of the Michelson-Morley-Experiment as a proof for the principle of relativity, whereas great parts of the scientific community did see this outcome as proof for the ivariance of c. (J. Stachel - Einstein Studies). Einstein used this outcome as a strong evidence for the equivalence of all inertial frames of reference, but it could be as conceived by me a second still unseen version of the fundamental constant

of c.

By the way to deny relativity does not necessarily include a denial of the Lorentz invariance.

Regards

Helmut

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Jelle U. Hielkema replied on Sep. 1, 2010 @ 18:35 GMT

Dear Helmut,

Thanks and good to know that that definition also has, in addition to the spiritual context and powerful image of THE ALL, a '21' called 'The Universe', a physical basis!

Cheers.

Jelle

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Anonymous replied on Sep. 1, 2010 @ 19:12 GMT

Helmut, inertia is ultimately related to the strength of gravity, as this all relates to motion and distance in space. There is an ultimate/fundamental inertial/gravitational equivalency that relates to distance in space as we ultimately can and do experience it. This is based upon/linked with the scale that we physically occupy and typically experience -- gravitationally and electromagnetically. This then makes possible a low energy union with electromagnetism, at this constant and balanced/centered gravitational/inertial energy. This representation is implied in the Einstein/Maxwell mathematical union (i.e., equations).

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Anonymous replied on Sep. 1, 2010 @ 19:20 GMT

Anonymous, electromagnetism and electromagnetic energy/gravity are both central to distance in space regardless of/independent of our natural motion.

This is an obvious connection with inertia.

Increased inertia can offset/balance decresed gravity. This point is key to any unified theory of gravity, inertia, and electromagnetism. This representation is implied in the Einstein/Maxwell mathematical union (i.e., equations) as well.

What are you inclined to think?

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Helmut Hansen replied on Sep. 3, 2010 @ 05:51 GMT

Dear Anonymous,

the essential question behind all these discussions and reflections about the origin of inertia and gravity is: What is really fundamental? We don't know this. We have some kind of feelings, but there is no serious criterion that allows us to answer this question convincingly.

To my opinion a modern metaphysics is the only way to get these answers because it is the...

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Hi Helmut

Of course the reverse is also then true. Have you considered the actual postulates may be correct but the Lorentz Transformation wrong?

Observation tells us that light passing from glass to air accelerates instantly from say 140,000 to 180,000 miles/sec. with respect to each of those materials, no matter what direction or speed they're moving at with respect to anything else (i.e. Locally).

So why does mainstream physics tell us that light passing from the glass of a train windscreen to the air outside will do 'c' with respect to (wrt) the glass it just left, or the emitter and air inside the train?

Doppler shift can be as much evidence of light having changed speed between media as evidence of speed of observer. If 'n' is a function of relative speed as well as density etc of a medium the solution is not longer hidden.

But you must be prepared to drop some unproven paradox ridden preconceptions and find more mental dexterity than most posess to unveil the final theory.

I wish you luck

Peter

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Karl Coryat replied on Sep. 1, 2010 @ 21:09 GMT

Light does not accelerate instantaneously when it changes media. Photons always obey c. In a medium, a photon tends to intersect an atom, and when that happens the atom is energized and then kicks out a different photon. If the new photon is kicked into empty space, it is statistically less likely to intersect another atom, and therefore the light ray at that point appears to "accelerate." But the individual photons obey c.

I say photons "obey" c, and "intersect" atoms, because I don't like to say that they travel or collide. Photons don't experience proper time and experience no distance (t and s both contract to zero in their frame), so "travel" isn't strictly correct; that is an anthropomorphic invention which leads the mind astray. They only *appear* to travel, to external observers. It is better to think of c as the space/time conversion factor (akin to 2.54 cm per inch), than to think of it as the velocity at which a photon "travels" or "zooms through space" -- a notion outdated by 100 years, even though you see it all the time in popular science articles.

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James Putnam replied on Sep. 1, 2010 @ 21:14 GMT

Dear Karl Coryat,

What is your evidence?

James

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James Putnam replied on Sep. 1, 2010 @ 21:35 GMT

Dear Karl Coryat,

Since I do not know you, I want to soften my previous message. Is your evidence some interpretation of theoretical physics? If you are depending upon empirical physics, then, what is your evidence?

James

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Hi Peter,

I gave several links and asked for comments on Voigt, Lorentz 1895, 1904, and 1914, Einstein 1905 and 1920, Minkowski, Ritz, Yakovenko, Paul Davies, Beckmann, Essen, Van Flandern, Pavlocicc, Vukelja, and finally Bethell 2009. I did not yet mention FitzGerald, Poincaré, Ruggero Santilli, Herbert Ives, Howard Hayden, and many others. Certainly at least some out of them were at least partially wrong. Did you thoroughly deal with at least one of them? What overlooked mistake or antinomy did you find out? What do you confirm?

For instance, one could check whether the example given by Paul Davies is quantitatively correct and independent of the chosen value v/c.

Aren't you almost an expert concerning the Doppler effect?

Regards,

Eckard

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Peter Jackson replied on Sep. 3, 2010 @ 17:48 GMT

Hi Eckard.

I liked Dopplers science. And believe Essen correct. And Maxwell needs extension by both multiple field limits/boundaries and multiple frequencies.

LT/Doppler and Observers frame are key to the solution. I don't believe any here will understand the following or its implications, but live in hope;

Optics revision would help. Ewald-Oseen Extinction extends Huygens Principle, saying not only does a new medium condense new oscillators but the new waves created travel at 'c' wrt the MOTION as well as the 'n' of the new medium.

The 'old' waves phase change cancels each other out (leaving a ground state 'flat' wave form with no power to condense more). This is niether just empirical or theory, it's the proven basis of optics, classically. The quantum equivalent is that the fine structure boundary electrons absorb the photons and pas them on (emit) at 'c' wrt the new mediums MOTION as well as 'n'. The definition of something in 'relative motion' is that it's in a different inertial frame.

This creates the Doppler shift of EM waves, and Fermats priciple emerges, but the modern Fermats priciple. And we are not seeing an optical illusion in M87 and all the apparent 'superluminal' gas jets. Like the middle of a fast flowing stream, no water molecule passes its neighbour at more than 1mph, but the middle will still be doing 6mph wrt the riverbank.

Einsteins train and light box are inertial frames. Only if we remove sides of the box will the light pulse, bouncing between the mirors, be left behind in the background inertial frame as the mirrors are, as one, moved away.

Wang is entirely correct. Light does 'c' locally. There is no-one to tell it how fast anything is moving apart from the media it is propagating in at any time.

Forget Lorentz, Fitsgerald, Larmore etc. We need to go back to Stokes-Planck and start again and it all works properly without paradox or anomaly. But it is very difficult for a mind not trained in the right way to conceive, and I suspect even you Eckard will not bother and find some preconception to avoid thinking it through. You must always envisage all 3 observer frames and changes betwen them to follow the frequency / wavelength transformations.

Einstein was so right in many ways, just not quite perfect, but the solution is both real and local.

Oh, and sorry Helmut, your 'subtle ether drift, like the 'Elecric Universe' is very consistent, also allowing Eckards absolute velocity.

If anyone else can do this please let me know, or do ask for help with how or links to any papers.

Best wishes

Peter

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Eckard replied on Sep. 4, 2010 @ 23:04 GMT

Hi Peter,

Having read several original papers repeatedly, I agree with you in that Lorentz contraction is perhaps based on an inappropriate consideration. Already Poincaré used the same ABA travel as did Einstein 1905 and he called t' = t - xv/V^2 the local time when dealing with recoil in his 1900 paper "The Theory of Lorentz and The Principle of Reaction" on p. 20.

The consideration is different from ABA travel in case of Doppler effect where one observer A sees or hears the length BC or wavelength of an emitting object increased, i.e. red-shifted or with a lower pitch, respectively in case of growing distance but decreased in case of decreasing distance.

Let's test the ABA procedure with sound. Given, a sender and receiver of sound, e.g. a flying and calling bat A or an airplane and a reflecting object B are moving toward each other with constant velocity v smaller than the velocity c of sound in air. Since light travels about a million times faster we may measure the positions as function of time with sufficiently small error as to judge whether or not there is a length contraction. Will we find any justification for application of Lorentz contraction on sound?

Recall, Voigt introduced what was later called local time when dealing with the Doppler effect for waves in an elastic medium with an approach similar to that by Lorentz 1895. Maybe, the idea of length contraction goes back to speculations by Heaviside and by FitzGerald.

While perception as well as measurement confirm that the Doppler effect depends on the sign of v. Lorentz contraction depends on v^2. This is plausible because ABA means doubled Doppler, back and force including the past before B has been reached and the future thereafter. "For us believing physicists the ..."

Let me add a correction to an error of mine:

While I do not expect the youngster Chris Kennedy having solved our problems I will give his correct page .

Peter, I do not understand, why did you mention Clausius-Mossotti?

Regards,

Eckard

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Eckard replied on Sep. 5, 2010 @ 05:53 GMT

I quote from Kennedy: "This means that if SR is correct, it would not be possible to sync the satellites with the ground and have the ground be in sync with the satellites at the same time."

Please check this.

I would like to further comment on the ABA vs. AB issue: Some insects have adapted to bat calls. Their ears are located at the muscles of their wings. Immediate reaction to a heard call causes their wings to try and save their lives. For them the insect where the call arrives at B the time of call flight from the bat A counts. ABA merely matters for the echo-locating bat.

For those who are more familiar with a duel using laser cannons: Here AB does also matter, not ABA.

Is there still any justification for ABA?

Concerning Vukelja I should add that his derivation of Lorentz transformation reverses the dependency of Minkowski's cone on LT. Nonetheless, Vukelja's criticism seems to be at least partially correct.

Eckard

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Jason Wolfe replied on Sep. 5, 2010 @ 06:42 GMT

Eckard,

SR is correct. Yet, they do sync the satellites with the ground. The satellite clocks have to be slowed down so that the clock rates match.

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Eckard replied on Sep. 5, 2010 @ 10:29 GMT

Jason,

There were several reasons for me to clarify some interrelated basic questions.

One of them was my argument that past and future are different from each other in reality but not in modern theory: "For us believing physicists ...".

Also I still maintain that while complex domain is an utterly valuable tool, one can always return to reality, provided one performs correctly and understands his business. This claim is evidently correct for all physics before SR and QM. I was and I am still curious how to interpret ict. That's why I tried to understand SR including the paradoxes related to it.

Woldemar Voigt and Paul Davies challenged me to search for a reason for why Doppler effect depends on the sign of v while Lorentz contraction does not. It looks as if the ABA' travel is inappropriate and perhaps misleading. ABA' definitely violates the symmetry between A and B, and it can also be seen as mingling past and future.

In all, I have any reason to guess that SR is based on an unrealistic point of view and therefore dispensable. Because I learned to distrust most splendid propaganda and idolization, I am curious if there are indications for getting rid of trouble with SR and its implications or even new complications.

Will a unification of "relativity" with QM be possible at all? Will quantum computing ever work as promised? Will LHC find the Higgs? Will string theory prove valuable?

Maybe GPS provides experimental evidence for or against ABA'? Perhaps neither you are nor I am expert enough in this field. So far I merely found utterances by the real expert Van Flandern who interpreted HK as evidence against SR and an apparently rather new analysis by Chris Kennedy dealing with htt