re: http://lsw-nyc.com/12ruth.html
May I quote you in the very beginning my new book
"Blog One"?
Basically my Web Diary on Physics and Current Events of the past year or two or so. :-)
I will include reviews of important books like Sir Martin Rees's "Our Final Hour."
BTW I have enjoyed several of your dramatic performances on the silver screen and TV. You are one of the great actresses of our time.
On Jan 31, 2004, at 1:52 PM, Siriusrmk ... wrote:
In a message dated 1/31/2004 2:33:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, sarfatti@well.com writes:
I who have loved language and words, not just for meaning but for sound, am, after a lifetime, speechless. The imagination of the "cartoons"--especially your version of Jack and the Beanstalk
Also the cartooning genius of Norman Quebedeau, the charming music of Michael Andreas and the Magic Sparkle of Princess T :-)
and your own animated bio-- have left me again, wordless. I would imagination that had Alexander Pope, our most biting and brilliant satirist, lived in 2004 and attained a doctorate in physics, he might have written something like your "Hitler's Last Weapon." I suppose it is appropriate that my messages to you (this is the third) are all returned "undeliverable," assuming that you have sent them to some wormhole in cyberspace to censor or be devoured. I am delighted that there are indeed people with humor and intelligence who are not trapped in time. In a rush of ego I included some lines of my own in my film. You might be interested in two slices: They lack your irony and wit, but seldom did a 7 or 12 year old female in the 1930s or 40s possess those qualities. However, neither did too many of them receive such odd revelations:
Experienced at age 7
Yes,
I live in silence
because one time
when I was eight or nine,
in a darkling room
I became the holiness
that is the moon.
Experienced at age 12
yes,
I early learned
and did commit to memory
that Santa Monica,
my shining world,
and all its wonderment,
regardless of my love for it,
was not my home.
I will continue to explore your ideas. Thank you grandly.
Ruth Kulerman
Saturday, January 31, 2004
Sarfatti Commentary on
“FROM SLOWDOWN to SPEEDUP”
By Adam G. Riess and Michael S. Turner
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FEBRUARY 2004
“Although Einstein’s general theory
of relativity allows for gravity to push as well as pull, most physicists
regarded this as a purely theoretical possibility, irrelevant
to the universe today. Until recently, astronomers fully expected
to see gravity slowing down the expansion of the cosmos.
In 1998, however, researchers discovered the repulsive side
of gravity. By carefully observing distant supernovae—stellar explosions
that for a brief time shine as brightly as 10 billion suns—
astronomers found that they were fainter than expected. The
most plausible explanation for the discrepancy is that the light
from the supernovae, which exploded billions of years ago, traveled
a greater distance than theorists had predicted. And this explanation,
in turn, led to the conclusion that the expansion of
the universe is actually speeding up, not slowing down. …
In the past fewyears, though, astronomers have solidified the case for cosmic
acceleration by studying ever more remote supernovae.
But has the cosmic expansion been speeding up throughout
the lifetime of the universe, or is it a relatively recent development
—that is, occurring within the past five billion years or so?
…
In Einstein’s theory, the notion of gravity as an attractive
force still holds for all known forms of matter and energy, even
on the cosmic scale. Therefore, general relativity predicts that
the expansion of the universe should slow down at a rate determined
by the density of matter and energy within it. But general
relativity also allows for the possibility of forms of energy with
strange properties that produce repulsive gravity
The discovery of accelerating rather than decelerating
expansion has apparently revealed the presence of such an energy
form, referred to as dark energy.
…
In 1998 observations of distant supernovae indicated
that the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Since
then, astronomers have solidified the case for cosmic
acceleration. By studying ever more remote supernovae, researchers
have found evidence that the expansion slowed down
before it sped up—just as cosmologists had predicted.
THE ANCIENT SUPERNOVAE also provided new clues about
dark energy, the underlying cause of the cosmic speedup. The
leading candidate to explain dark energy’s effects is vacuum energy,
which is mathematically equivalent to the cosmological
constant that Einstein invented in 1917. Because Einstein
thought he needed to model a static universe, he introduced his
“cosmological fudge factor” to balance the attractive gravity
of matter. In this recipe, the constant’s density was half that of
matter. But to produce the observed acceleration of the universe,
the constant’s density would have to be twice that of matter.
Where could this energy density come from? The uncertainty
principle of quantum mechanics requires that the vacuum be
filled with particles living on borrowed time and energy, popping
in and out of existence. But when theorists try to compute
the energy density associated with the quantum vacuum, they
come up with values that are at least 55 orders of magnitude too
large. If the vacuum energy density were really that high, all matter
in the universe would instantly fly apart and galaxies would
never have formed.”
Jack: This is the problem I claim I have solved with the idea of
“vacuum coherence” that is in fact the inflation field in disguise.
Einstein’s gravity together with both dark energy and dark matter emerge together from ripples in the holographic phase and intensity of the vacuum coherence field that decreases the randomness of the zero point vacuum fluctuations of all the quantum fields.
I have provided a very simple dynamical reason based on Dirac’s theory of the electron why this happens that is very like what happens when a normal metal becomes a superconductor.
“This discrepancy has been called the worst embarrassment
in all of theoretical physics, but it may actually be the sign of a
great opportunity. Although it is possible that new attempts to
estimate the vacuum energy density may yield just the right
amount to explain cosmic acceleration, many theorists believe
that a correct calculation, incorporating a new symmetry principle,
will lead to the conclusion that the energy associated with
the quantum vacuum is zero. (Even quantum nothingness
weighs nothing!) If this is true, something else must be causing
the expansion of the universe to speed up.”
Jack: No, this is simply confused thinking. What you see below
Is All The King’s Men grasping wildly willy nilly at straws like the Sufi Story where The Pundits shine strong light in the wrong part of Plato’s Dark Cave.
“Theorists have proposed a variety of ideas, ranging from the
influence of extra, hidden dimensions to the energy associated
with a new field of nature, sometimes called quintessence [see
“Out of the Darkness,” by Georgi Dvali, on page 68]. In general,
these hypotheses posit a dark energy density that is not constant
and that usually decreases as the universe expands. (But
the suggestion that dark energy density is actually increasing as
the universe expands has also been put forth.) Perhaps the most
radical idea is that there is no dark energy at all but rather that
Einstein’s theory of gravity must be modified.”
Jack: Bad idea. The following however is in agreement with my model.
…
“IN NEWTON’S THEORY, gravity is always attractive and its
strength depends on the mass of the attracting object. The
twist in Einstein’s theory is that the strength of the
gravitational pull exerted by an object also depends on its
composition. Physicists characterize the composition of a
substance by its internal pressure. An object’s gravity is
proportional to its energy density plus three times the
pressure. Our sun, for example, is a hot sphere of gas with
positive (outward) pressure; because gas pressure rises with
temperature, the sun’s gravitational pull is slightly greater
than that of a cold ball of matter of equivalent mass. On the
other hand, a gas of photons has a pressure that is equal to
one third its energy density, so its gravitational pull should
be twice that of an equivalent mass of cold matter.
Dark energy is characterized by negative pressure.
(Elastic objects—for instance, a rubber sheet—also have
negative, or inward, pressure.) If the pressure falls below
–1⁄3 times the energy density, then the combination of energy
plus three times the pressure is negative and the gravitational
force is repulsive. The quantum vacuum has a pressure that
is –1 times its energy density, so the gravity of a vacuum is
very repulsive. Other hypothetical forms of dark energy have
a pressure that is between –1⁄3 and –1 times its energy
density. Some of these types of energy have been invoked to
explain the inflationary epoch, a very early period of cosmic
acceleration. Other types are candidates for the dark energy
powering the acceleration observed today.
…
Only theories stipulating large variations in dark energy density
have been ruled out ... The only way to forecast our cosmic future is
to figure out the nature of dark energy.”
Jack: I agree completely here. This is “metric engineering” in which we will control the unified exotic vacuum dark energy/matter local field for super-technology missions of exploring the universe using weightless warp drive through traversable wormhole time travel gateways to the future and past of our universe, to distance parts of our universe and to the parallel universes next door. The UFOs show that we are not the first to have figured out how to do this. We are getting close to figuring it out. Ad Astra and Beyond is our Manifest Destiny.
References:
“Our Final Hour” Sir Martin Rees (Chapter 9)
Do Type Ia Supernovae Provide Direct Evidence for Past Deceleration in
the Universe? Michael S. Turner and Adam G. Riess in Astrophysical
Journal, Vol. 569, Part 1, pages 18–22; April 10, 2002. Available online at
arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106051
..
Is Cosmic Speed-Up Due to New Gravitational Physics? Sean M. Carroll,
Vikram Duvvuri, Mark Trodden and Michael S. Turner in Physical Review
Letters (in press). arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306438
On Jan 31, 2004, at 12:10 AM, ISEP Theoretical Physics Group wrote:
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FEBRUARY 2004
Critique #1
George Divali wrote:
"Cosmologists and particle physicists have seldom felt so
confused. Although our standard model of cosmology
has been confirmed by recent observations, it still
has a gaping hole: nobody knows why the expansion of the universe
is accelerating."
JS: I think I do. http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.pdf
GD: "If you throw a stone straight up, the pull
of Earth’s gravity will cause it to slow down; it will not accelerate
away from the planet. Similarly, distant galaxies, thrown
apart by the big bang expansion, should pull on one another
and slow down. Yet they are accelerating apart. Researchers
commonly attribute the acceleration to some mysterious entity
called dark energy, but there is little physics to back up these
fine words."
JS: That is false in my opinion. An exotic vacuum phase with net total cumulative random positive zero point vacuum fluctuation energy density, hence negative pressure with w = -1, from all physical quantum fields does the trick. One must realize that the degree of randomness of the zero point vacuum fluctuations is tempered by the local inflation vacuum coherence field whose phase variation is the dominant smooth c-number non-perturbative background-independent geometrodynamic field of Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity upon which precision cosmology is predicated in the equation
Guv + /\zpfguv = -8pi(G/c^4)Tuv
GD: "The only thing that is becoming clear is that at the
largest observable distances, gravity behaves in a rather strange
way, turning into a repulsive force."
JS: Agreed. We can also, I bet, do this on a small scale for exotic warp drive time travel through traversable wormholes.
GD: "The laws of physics say that gravity is generated by matter
and energy, so they attribute a strange sort of gravity to a
strange sort of matter or energy. That is the rationale for dark
energy. But maybe the laws themselves need to be changed."
JS: That is "too cheap" as Einstein mistakenly told Bohm. However, I am not mistaken I think in my opinion that a drastic overhaul of the known laws of physics is needed for this problem.
GD: Physicists have a precedent for such a change: the law of gravity
that Newton formulated in the 17th century, which had various
conceptual and experimental limitations, gave way to Einstein’s
general theory of relativity in 1915. Relativity, too, has
limitations; in particular, it runs into trouble when applied to
extremely short distances, which are the domain of quantum
mechanics. Much as relativity subsumed Newtonian physics, a
quantum theory of gravity will ultimately subsume relativity.
Over the years, physicists have come up with a few plausible
approaches to quantum gravity, the most prominent being
string theory."
JS: Smolin, Ashtekar, Baez, Rovelli et-al will strongly disagree on that against Greene, Witten, et-al. Of course neither string theory nor loop quantum gravity have made hard predictions of any facts nor have they provided compelling explanations of the observational mysteries of precision cosmology and particle physics. Yet many of the Guardians of respectability and ideological purity reminiscent of Stalinism in the Soviet Union on the LANL Cornell Archive and in mass media like Scientific American and NOVA PBS are quick to embrace these radical speculations which in fact
are little more than pretty mathematical vaporware.
GD: "When gravity operates over microscopic distances
—for instance, at the center of a black hole, where a huge
mass is packed into a subatomic volume—the bizarre quantum
properties of matter come into play, and string theory describes
how the law of gravity changes.
Over greater distances, string theorists have generally assumed
that quantum effects are unimportant. Yet the cosmological
discoveries of the past several years have encouraged researchers
to reconsider. Four years ago my colleagues and I
asked whether string theory would change the law of gravity
not just on the smallest scales but also on the largest ones. The
feature of string theory that could bring about this revision is
its extra dimensions—additional directions in which particles
can roam. The theory adds six or seven dimensions to the usual
three."
JS: Theorists today are willing to pay any price to avoid signal nonlocality.
GD: In the past, string theorists have argued that the extra dimensions
are too small for us to see or move in. But recent progress
reveals that some or all of the new dimensions could actually
be infinite in size. They are hidden from view not because
they are small but because the particles that make up our bodies
are trapped in three dimensions. The one particle that eludes
confinement is the particle that transmits the force of gravity,
and as a result, the law of gravity changes.
Quintessence Even from Nothingness
WHEN ASTRONOMERS ENCOUNTERED the cosmic acceleration,
their first reaction was to attribute it to the so-called cosmological
constant. Notoriously introduced and then retracted
by Einstein, the constant represents the energy inherent in space
Maybe cosmic acceleration isn’t caused by dark energy after all
but by an inexorable leakage of gravity out of our world
COPYRIGHT 2004 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC.
GD: "A completely empty volume of space, devoid of all matter,
would still contain this energy—equivalent to roughly 10–26
kilogram per cubic meter. Although the cosmological constant
is consistent with all the existing data so far, many physicists find
it unsatisfying. The problem is its inexplicable smallness,"
JS: This is only a problem because The Pundits have not properly used the idea of "vacuum coherence" in which the cosmological term in Einstein's equation has a subsidiary equation
/\zpf = (Quantum of Area)^-1[(Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]
Where the tetrad gravity field Cartan 1-form in the sense of Rovelli's book on Quantum Gravity is
euadx^a = Kronecker Deltau^adx^a + (Quantum of Area)(argVacuum Coherence),u
A vanishing Vacuum Coherence means maximally random zero point energy fluctuations from all fields in unstable globally flat spacetime with no gravity.
“FROM SLOWDOWN to SPEEDUP”
By Adam G. Riess and Michael S. Turner
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FEBRUARY 2004
“Although Einstein’s general theory
of relativity allows for gravity to push as well as pull, most physicists
regarded this as a purely theoretical possibility, irrelevant
to the universe today. Until recently, astronomers fully expected
to see gravity slowing down the expansion of the cosmos.
In 1998, however, researchers discovered the repulsive side
of gravity. By carefully observing distant supernovae—stellar explosions
that for a brief time shine as brightly as 10 billion suns—
astronomers found that they were fainter than expected. The
most plausible explanation for the discrepancy is that the light
from the supernovae, which exploded billions of years ago, traveled
a greater distance than theorists had predicted. And this explanation,
in turn, led to the conclusion that the expansion of
the universe is actually speeding up, not slowing down. …
In the past fewyears, though, astronomers have solidified the case for cosmic
acceleration by studying ever more remote supernovae.
But has the cosmic expansion been speeding up throughout
the lifetime of the universe, or is it a relatively recent development
—that is, occurring within the past five billion years or so?
…
In Einstein’s theory, the notion of gravity as an attractive
force still holds for all known forms of matter and energy, even
on the cosmic scale. Therefore, general relativity predicts that
the expansion of the universe should slow down at a rate determined
by the density of matter and energy within it. But general
relativity also allows for the possibility of forms of energy with
strange properties that produce repulsive gravity
The discovery of accelerating rather than decelerating
expansion has apparently revealed the presence of such an energy
form, referred to as dark energy.
…
In 1998 observations of distant supernovae indicated
that the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Since
then, astronomers have solidified the case for cosmic
acceleration. By studying ever more remote supernovae, researchers
have found evidence that the expansion slowed down
before it sped up—just as cosmologists had predicted.
THE ANCIENT SUPERNOVAE also provided new clues about
dark energy, the underlying cause of the cosmic speedup. The
leading candidate to explain dark energy’s effects is vacuum energy,
which is mathematically equivalent to the cosmological
constant that Einstein invented in 1917. Because Einstein
thought he needed to model a static universe, he introduced his
“cosmological fudge factor” to balance the attractive gravity
of matter. In this recipe, the constant’s density was half that of
matter. But to produce the observed acceleration of the universe,
the constant’s density would have to be twice that of matter.
Where could this energy density come from? The uncertainty
principle of quantum mechanics requires that the vacuum be
filled with particles living on borrowed time and energy, popping
in and out of existence. But when theorists try to compute
the energy density associated with the quantum vacuum, they
come up with values that are at least 55 orders of magnitude too
large. If the vacuum energy density were really that high, all matter
in the universe would instantly fly apart and galaxies would
never have formed.”
Jack: This is the problem I claim I have solved with the idea of
“vacuum coherence” that is in fact the inflation field in disguise.
Einstein’s gravity together with both dark energy and dark matter emerge together from ripples in the holographic phase and intensity of the vacuum coherence field that decreases the randomness of the zero point vacuum fluctuations of all the quantum fields.
I have provided a very simple dynamical reason based on Dirac’s theory of the electron why this happens that is very like what happens when a normal metal becomes a superconductor.
“This discrepancy has been called the worst embarrassment
in all of theoretical physics, but it may actually be the sign of a
great opportunity. Although it is possible that new attempts to
estimate the vacuum energy density may yield just the right
amount to explain cosmic acceleration, many theorists believe
that a correct calculation, incorporating a new symmetry principle,
will lead to the conclusion that the energy associated with
the quantum vacuum is zero. (Even quantum nothingness
weighs nothing!) If this is true, something else must be causing
the expansion of the universe to speed up.”
Jack: No, this is simply confused thinking. What you see below
Is All The King’s Men grasping wildly willy nilly at straws like the Sufi Story where The Pundits shine strong light in the wrong part of Plato’s Dark Cave.
“Theorists have proposed a variety of ideas, ranging from the
influence of extra, hidden dimensions to the energy associated
with a new field of nature, sometimes called quintessence [see
“Out of the Darkness,” by Georgi Dvali, on page 68]. In general,
these hypotheses posit a dark energy density that is not constant
and that usually decreases as the universe expands. (But
the suggestion that dark energy density is actually increasing as
the universe expands has also been put forth.) Perhaps the most
radical idea is that there is no dark energy at all but rather that
Einstein’s theory of gravity must be modified.”
Jack: Bad idea. The following however is in agreement with my model.
…
“IN NEWTON’S THEORY, gravity is always attractive and its
strength depends on the mass of the attracting object. The
twist in Einstein’s theory is that the strength of the
gravitational pull exerted by an object also depends on its
composition. Physicists characterize the composition of a
substance by its internal pressure. An object’s gravity is
proportional to its energy density plus three times the
pressure. Our sun, for example, is a hot sphere of gas with
positive (outward) pressure; because gas pressure rises with
temperature, the sun’s gravitational pull is slightly greater
than that of a cold ball of matter of equivalent mass. On the
other hand, a gas of photons has a pressure that is equal to
one third its energy density, so its gravitational pull should
be twice that of an equivalent mass of cold matter.
Dark energy is characterized by negative pressure.
(Elastic objects—for instance, a rubber sheet—also have
negative, or inward, pressure.) If the pressure falls below
–1⁄3 times the energy density, then the combination of energy
plus three times the pressure is negative and the gravitational
force is repulsive. The quantum vacuum has a pressure that
is –1 times its energy density, so the gravity of a vacuum is
very repulsive. Other hypothetical forms of dark energy have
a pressure that is between –1⁄3 and –1 times its energy
density. Some of these types of energy have been invoked to
explain the inflationary epoch, a very early period of cosmic
acceleration. Other types are candidates for the dark energy
powering the acceleration observed today.
…
Only theories stipulating large variations in dark energy density
have been ruled out ... The only way to forecast our cosmic future is
to figure out the nature of dark energy.”
Jack: I agree completely here. This is “metric engineering” in which we will control the unified exotic vacuum dark energy/matter local field for super-technology missions of exploring the universe using weightless warp drive through traversable wormhole time travel gateways to the future and past of our universe, to distance parts of our universe and to the parallel universes next door. The UFOs show that we are not the first to have figured out how to do this. We are getting close to figuring it out. Ad Astra and Beyond is our Manifest Destiny.
References:
“Our Final Hour” Sir Martin Rees (Chapter 9)
Do Type Ia Supernovae Provide Direct Evidence for Past Deceleration in
the Universe? Michael S. Turner and Adam G. Riess in Astrophysical
Journal, Vol. 569, Part 1, pages 18–22; April 10, 2002. Available online at
arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0106051
..
Is Cosmic Speed-Up Due to New Gravitational Physics? Sean M. Carroll,
Vikram Duvvuri, Mark Trodden and Michael S. Turner in Physical Review
Letters (in press). arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306438
On Jan 31, 2004, at 12:10 AM, ISEP Theoretical Physics Group wrote:
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FEBRUARY 2004
Critique #1
George Divali wrote:
"Cosmologists and particle physicists have seldom felt so
confused. Although our standard model of cosmology
has been confirmed by recent observations, it still
has a gaping hole: nobody knows why the expansion of the universe
is accelerating."
JS: I think I do. http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.pdf
GD: "If you throw a stone straight up, the pull
of Earth’s gravity will cause it to slow down; it will not accelerate
away from the planet. Similarly, distant galaxies, thrown
apart by the big bang expansion, should pull on one another
and slow down. Yet they are accelerating apart. Researchers
commonly attribute the acceleration to some mysterious entity
called dark energy, but there is little physics to back up these
fine words."
JS: That is false in my opinion. An exotic vacuum phase with net total cumulative random positive zero point vacuum fluctuation energy density, hence negative pressure with w = -1, from all physical quantum fields does the trick. One must realize that the degree of randomness of the zero point vacuum fluctuations is tempered by the local inflation vacuum coherence field whose phase variation is the dominant smooth c-number non-perturbative background-independent geometrodynamic field of Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity upon which precision cosmology is predicated in the equation
Guv + /\zpfguv = -8pi(G/c^4)Tuv
GD: "The only thing that is becoming clear is that at the
largest observable distances, gravity behaves in a rather strange
way, turning into a repulsive force."
JS: Agreed. We can also, I bet, do this on a small scale for exotic warp drive time travel through traversable wormholes.
GD: "The laws of physics say that gravity is generated by matter
and energy, so they attribute a strange sort of gravity to a
strange sort of matter or energy. That is the rationale for dark
energy. But maybe the laws themselves need to be changed."
JS: That is "too cheap" as Einstein mistakenly told Bohm. However, I am not mistaken I think in my opinion that a drastic overhaul of the known laws of physics is needed for this problem.
GD: Physicists have a precedent for such a change: the law of gravity
that Newton formulated in the 17th century, which had various
conceptual and experimental limitations, gave way to Einstein’s
general theory of relativity in 1915. Relativity, too, has
limitations; in particular, it runs into trouble when applied to
extremely short distances, which are the domain of quantum
mechanics. Much as relativity subsumed Newtonian physics, a
quantum theory of gravity will ultimately subsume relativity.
Over the years, physicists have come up with a few plausible
approaches to quantum gravity, the most prominent being
string theory."
JS: Smolin, Ashtekar, Baez, Rovelli et-al will strongly disagree on that against Greene, Witten, et-al. Of course neither string theory nor loop quantum gravity have made hard predictions of any facts nor have they provided compelling explanations of the observational mysteries of precision cosmology and particle physics. Yet many of the Guardians of respectability and ideological purity reminiscent of Stalinism in the Soviet Union on the LANL Cornell Archive and in mass media like Scientific American and NOVA PBS are quick to embrace these radical speculations which in fact
are little more than pretty mathematical vaporware.
GD: "When gravity operates over microscopic distances
—for instance, at the center of a black hole, where a huge
mass is packed into a subatomic volume—the bizarre quantum
properties of matter come into play, and string theory describes
how the law of gravity changes.
Over greater distances, string theorists have generally assumed
that quantum effects are unimportant. Yet the cosmological
discoveries of the past several years have encouraged researchers
to reconsider. Four years ago my colleagues and I
asked whether string theory would change the law of gravity
not just on the smallest scales but also on the largest ones. The
feature of string theory that could bring about this revision is
its extra dimensions—additional directions in which particles
can roam. The theory adds six or seven dimensions to the usual
three."
JS: Theorists today are willing to pay any price to avoid signal nonlocality.
GD: In the past, string theorists have argued that the extra dimensions
are too small for us to see or move in. But recent progress
reveals that some or all of the new dimensions could actually
be infinite in size. They are hidden from view not because
they are small but because the particles that make up our bodies
are trapped in three dimensions. The one particle that eludes
confinement is the particle that transmits the force of gravity,
and as a result, the law of gravity changes.
Quintessence Even from Nothingness
WHEN ASTRONOMERS ENCOUNTERED the cosmic acceleration,
their first reaction was to attribute it to the so-called cosmological
constant. Notoriously introduced and then retracted
by Einstein, the constant represents the energy inherent in space
Maybe cosmic acceleration isn’t caused by dark energy after all
but by an inexorable leakage of gravity out of our world
COPYRIGHT 2004 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC.
GD: "A completely empty volume of space, devoid of all matter,
would still contain this energy—equivalent to roughly 10–26
kilogram per cubic meter. Although the cosmological constant
is consistent with all the existing data so far, many physicists find
it unsatisfying. The problem is its inexplicable smallness,"
JS: This is only a problem because The Pundits have not properly used the idea of "vacuum coherence" in which the cosmological term in Einstein's equation has a subsidiary equation
/\zpf = (Quantum of Area)^-1[(Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]
Where the tetrad gravity field Cartan 1-form in the sense of Rovelli's book on Quantum Gravity is
euadx^a = Kronecker Deltau^adx^a + (Quantum of Area)(argVacuum Coherence),u
A vanishing Vacuum Coherence means maximally random zero point energy fluctuations from all fields in unstable globally flat spacetime with no gravity.
On Jan 31, 2004, at 12:40 PM, zenodestiny wrote:
J.S. Your remarks have nothing to do withwhat I am talking about.
J.H. Thank you.
JS: Your welcome.
Side problem for a sphere of exotic vacuum with uniform /\zpf
of radius R
V = -GMeff/r
dV/dr = GMeff1/r^2
d^2V/dr^2 = -2GMeff/r^3
GMeff = c^2/\R3
J.H. What is T3 in this equation? Or the sign /\?
JS: "T3"? Get new glasses. I don't see no "T3". Who's on first?
Oh you mean R^3. Dumbkopf! The volume of the sphere of radius R is (4pi/3)R^3. I am using the "curvature radial coordinate" convention where the area of the sphere is 4piR^2. The increase of "radial length" from the space-warp I include in the definition of /\zpf. I may need to reconsider that later on. I am only doing a quick and dirty back of the envelope toy model here.
J.S. Now if you still cannot grok this you flunk the course. You will not graduate from Star Fleet Academy and you will spend your life cleaning latrines for Elephants with cholera.
J.H. I don't need any Starfleet academy. I can form my own!
JS: And who will come?
JH: And yes my ideas for reactionless propulsion do actually work.
JS: Yeah, and I own The Brooklyn Bridge and can put a billion dollars in your account from Nigeria.
JH. I do NOT need theory or even your theory for that matter because I have experiments! You have not built a device and I believe you don't have a clue on how to do it. I do! I was hoping I could find out what are
your ideas for actually building a device are and how this might improve my ideas. So far I have heard nothing but convoluted physics- speak. Only you take this to a whole brave new level. If this is all you got then you are beneath me. I do not want to sound rude or anything, but PHD or no PHD I do not see how I can get anything from your theories, "
JS: Agreed, you are too delusional.
JH: though I do enjoy your "physics". I could be wrong
JS: You are not even wrong. This time the men in the white coats are coming not the little Grays.
JH: because I don't understand them but you cannot actually engineer a flying device. I CAN! If you would like to understand my idea I would be happy to spell it out for you in actual construction terms. You
can even use this idea for your so-called "black" company free of charge. I only ask that if it is used for a craft that I get credit so I can impress my friends back in the looney bin.
JS: Hey that's funny.
J.S. Is there no hope for this Planet of Fools?
J.H. I like your obvious choice of sentence structure in relation to a previous post of mine, but to answer the question, probably not.
JS: Don't flatter yourself. I don't remember your gibberish.
J.S. Read Sir Martin Rees's "Our Final Hour" especially Chapter 9.
J.H. I have because of your plugs. It was a good book. But again by reading the references in the back of the book you again show your tells Doc. Shame on you!
JS: What do you mean? Of course asking a self-confessed Madman what do I expect?
>>>J.S. The gravity effect V(source) of any source , according to
>>> Einstein's GR
>>> in weak field limit for simplicity, obeys
>>> the Poisson equation
>>>
>>> Grad^2V(source) ~ (G/c^2)(energy density)(1 + 3w)
>>>
>>> Any good physics student should then be able to figure out the
>>> rest
>>> given this information.
J.H. This isn't beyond me at all. But with the ideas you speak you cannot help but get contradictions. For example see above.
J.S. There is no contradiction except in your confused
misunderstandings.
J.H. Ok, then clear something up by answering a simple question for
me. In terms of gravity, what is the factor for energy density with
respect to pressure in the w term? If this question is beneath you
then a simple number will suffice. Not a bunch of personal slurs
where your motivation for doing so is transparent.
JS: I do not understand your question.
By definition for ALL "stuff" real or virtual:
w = pressure/energy density
It is then a theorem of standard physics that w = -1 for any kind of zero point vacuum fluctuation "virtual stuff."
That should answer your question that you did not pose clearly.
For comparison, w = +1/3 for radiation, and w ~ 0 for ordinary matter moving slowly relative to the detector.
Clumps of w = -1 virtual zero point stuff with negative zpf energy density and positive pressure, i.e. attractive "dark matter" will mimic w ~ 0 as in the dark galactic halos.
J.H. I have read them all including Wu Li masters. Yes, they are
moron books alright.
J.S. Which is why you keep them.
J.H. No, I only take them out from the library. But you know this already.
>>> J.S. and my
>>> own early
>>> "Space-Time and Beyond" from 1975 - not my 2002 "Space-Time and
>>> Beyond
>>> II."
>> J.H. Too expensive. Sorry.
> J.S. You mean your keepers do not give you an allowance in the
Asylum? You
>can download a copy for $6 from
>http://www.1stbooks.com
> but I suppose they will not give you a credit card.
J.H. Well if I am a good little boy and don't pet the animals when
I'm told not too they give me a dollar a day credit on a visa card.
I'll try to restrain myself for a few days (not likely) and give your
book a read.
>> J.H. Well I don't know. What is a "good" university?
> J.S. Obviously not the one you went to.
J.H. I've learned physics from the best of them. Including some of
the ones you claim to have been taught by (by two degrees of
separation). Again, you are showing your tells.
JS: Name names. Who? When did you go wacko? Did you fall on your head?
>> J.H. Now I see your true political beliefs. Perhaps of the Leo
>> Straussian variety? A neocon pehaps? Go say hi to your friends
>> Wolfowitz, Pearl, and Feith for me. Will ya. I guess there is more
to
>> the story of your aunt who was friends with Mussolini after all?
> JS: She created Mussolini.
J.H. You should be proud! And you're a Jew!?
JS: I am not proud. It is a fact. Read "Il Duce's Other Woman". Also I did not grow up with those people.
Also read "An American Dynasty", "The Price of Loyalty", "The Idiot's Guide to the CIA ...", "The Star Gate Conspiracy",
"Cosmic Trigger", "1968".
> J.S. However I am anti-fascist.
J.H. Actions speak louder than words.
JS: What actions? It's all words. I see no "sticks and stones."
> J.S. Academia is not a
> democracy
J.H. Yes it is. Even more so if you have tenure.
> J.S. and neither is the military. It is a meritocracy though it
> can also get corrupt.
J.H. No shit genius.
JS: Touche. A moment of lucidity.
>>> J.S. Hawking is my peer. Susskind is my peer.
>> J.H. You Sir are no Hawkings!
> JS: How would you know?
J.H. I know more than yous think.
JS: I see no evidence of that.
> >J.H. Typical elitist mentality. See above.
>JS: Yes, real education is elitist and should be.
J.H. Only within reason.
JS: Of course. I am a Champion of Reason.
> J.S. The Navy Seals and
>other such special units are elitist and should be.
J.H. Elitism should have no place in the world! Anywhere!
JS: That's why you are in the Loony Toons Bin.
>J.S. Political democracy means that every one even a doltish nut
like you
>should have equal opportunity.
J.H. Agreed. About the equal opportunity that is.
> J.S. It does not mean I should
>not tell you the truth about what I think of your ideas.
J.H. Agreed.
> JS. Incoherent thought. Time for your meds I guess. ;-)
J.H. Well no Doc actually it is the reptilians who are
psychotronically beaming me with microwave radiation of about 100 Mhz
and it is giving me a God-awful migraine. I am afraid that meds
aren't going to help me in a situation like this. By the way do you
make psych evaluations before or after you have just been contacted
by the aliens? Could we get this straight before anymore dialog?
JS: If you read my book "Destiny Matrix" and look at
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/spectra.html
and read carefully, you will see I never claim there was a real ET alien on the other end of the phone.
I do not know who or what was on the other end of the phone. In context over 50 years it is quite weird and you
can draw your own conclusions one way or the other.
>J.S. I am giving out my ideas. I am not forcing
> you to read my ideas.
> I have no interest in yours.
J.H. You know more about me and have more interest in me than you
lead on. Question is: Why?
JS: John Nash was also a delusional nut. Also, you may be joking. Also I get paid to deal with nuts like you as well as
serious students. It's part of my "day job." Also I will put you in my third book "Blog One" I am now writing.
The dialogue is entertaining.
> J.S. In other words, your level of
> comprehension of real physics is so
> primitive that you are not capable of formulating an interesting
idea
> or explanation and you are
> not able to understand what I am writing.
J.H. Theories aside. It are experiments that make physics.
JS: Agreed. So you have a big physics lab in your Cuckoo's Nest at a dollar a day.
J.S. Your remarks have nothing to do withwhat I am talking about.
J.H. Thank you.
JS: Your welcome.
Side problem for a sphere of exotic vacuum with uniform /\zpf
of radius R
V = -GMeff/r
dV/dr = GMeff1/r^2
d^2V/dr^2 = -2GMeff/r^3
GMeff = c^2/\R3
J.H. What is T3 in this equation? Or the sign /\?
JS: "T3"? Get new glasses. I don't see no "T3". Who's on first?
Oh you mean R^3. Dumbkopf! The volume of the sphere of radius R is (4pi/3)R^3. I am using the "curvature radial coordinate" convention where the area of the sphere is 4piR^2. The increase of "radial length" from the space-warp I include in the definition of /\zpf. I may need to reconsider that later on. I am only doing a quick and dirty back of the envelope toy model here.
J.S. Now if you still cannot grok this you flunk the course. You will not graduate from Star Fleet Academy and you will spend your life cleaning latrines for Elephants with cholera.
J.H. I don't need any Starfleet academy. I can form my own!
JS: And who will come?
JH: And yes my ideas for reactionless propulsion do actually work.
JS: Yeah, and I own The Brooklyn Bridge and can put a billion dollars in your account from Nigeria.
JH. I do NOT need theory or even your theory for that matter because I have experiments! You have not built a device and I believe you don't have a clue on how to do it. I do! I was hoping I could find out what are
your ideas for actually building a device are and how this might improve my ideas. So far I have heard nothing but convoluted physics- speak. Only you take this to a whole brave new level. If this is all you got then you are beneath me. I do not want to sound rude or anything, but PHD or no PHD I do not see how I can get anything from your theories, "
JS: Agreed, you are too delusional.
JH: though I do enjoy your "physics". I could be wrong
JS: You are not even wrong. This time the men in the white coats are coming not the little Grays.
JH: because I don't understand them but you cannot actually engineer a flying device. I CAN! If you would like to understand my idea I would be happy to spell it out for you in actual construction terms. You
can even use this idea for your so-called "black" company free of charge. I only ask that if it is used for a craft that I get credit so I can impress my friends back in the looney bin.
JS: Hey that's funny.
J.S. Is there no hope for this Planet of Fools?
J.H. I like your obvious choice of sentence structure in relation to a previous post of mine, but to answer the question, probably not.
JS: Don't flatter yourself. I don't remember your gibberish.
J.S. Read Sir Martin Rees's "Our Final Hour" especially Chapter 9.
J.H. I have because of your plugs. It was a good book. But again by reading the references in the back of the book you again show your tells Doc. Shame on you!
JS: What do you mean? Of course asking a self-confessed Madman what do I expect?
>>>J.S. The gravity effect V(source) of any source , according to
>>> Einstein's GR
>>> in weak field limit for simplicity, obeys
>>> the Poisson equation
>>>
>>> Grad^2V(source) ~ (G/c^2)(energy density)(1 + 3w)
>>>
>>> Any good physics student should then be able to figure out the
>>> rest
>>> given this information.
J.H. This isn't beyond me at all. But with the ideas you speak you cannot help but get contradictions. For example see above.
J.S. There is no contradiction except in your confused
misunderstandings.
J.H. Ok, then clear something up by answering a simple question for
me. In terms of gravity, what is the factor for energy density with
respect to pressure in the w term? If this question is beneath you
then a simple number will suffice. Not a bunch of personal slurs
where your motivation for doing so is transparent.
JS: I do not understand your question.
By definition for ALL "stuff" real or virtual:
w = pressure/energy density
It is then a theorem of standard physics that w = -1 for any kind of zero point vacuum fluctuation "virtual stuff."
That should answer your question that you did not pose clearly.
For comparison, w = +1/3 for radiation, and w ~ 0 for ordinary matter moving slowly relative to the detector.
Clumps of w = -1 virtual zero point stuff with negative zpf energy density and positive pressure, i.e. attractive "dark matter" will mimic w ~ 0 as in the dark galactic halos.
J.H. I have read them all including Wu Li masters. Yes, they are
moron books alright.
J.S. Which is why you keep them.
J.H. No, I only take them out from the library. But you know this already.
>>> J.S. and my
>>> own early
>>> "Space-Time and Beyond" from 1975 - not my 2002 "Space-Time and
>>> Beyond
>>> II."
>> J.H. Too expensive. Sorry.
> J.S. You mean your keepers do not give you an allowance in the
Asylum? You
>can download a copy for $6 from
>http://www.1stbooks.com
> but I suppose they will not give you a credit card.
J.H. Well if I am a good little boy and don't pet the animals when
I'm told not too they give me a dollar a day credit on a visa card.
I'll try to restrain myself for a few days (not likely) and give your
book a read.
>> J.H. Well I don't know. What is a "good" university?
> J.S. Obviously not the one you went to.
J.H. I've learned physics from the best of them. Including some of
the ones you claim to have been taught by (by two degrees of
separation). Again, you are showing your tells.
JS: Name names. Who? When did you go wacko? Did you fall on your head?
>> J.H. Now I see your true political beliefs. Perhaps of the Leo
>> Straussian variety? A neocon pehaps? Go say hi to your friends
>> Wolfowitz, Pearl, and Feith for me. Will ya. I guess there is more
to
>> the story of your aunt who was friends with Mussolini after all?
> JS: She created Mussolini.
J.H. You should be proud! And you're a Jew!?
JS: I am not proud. It is a fact. Read "Il Duce's Other Woman". Also I did not grow up with those people.
Also read "An American Dynasty", "The Price of Loyalty", "The Idiot's Guide to the CIA ...", "The Star Gate Conspiracy",
"Cosmic Trigger", "1968".
> J.S. However I am anti-fascist.
J.H. Actions speak louder than words.
JS: What actions? It's all words. I see no "sticks and stones."
> J.S. Academia is not a
> democracy
J.H. Yes it is. Even more so if you have tenure.
> J.S. and neither is the military. It is a meritocracy though it
> can also get corrupt.
J.H. No shit genius.
JS: Touche. A moment of lucidity.
>>> J.S. Hawking is my peer. Susskind is my peer.
>> J.H. You Sir are no Hawkings!
> JS: How would you know?
J.H. I know more than yous think.
JS: I see no evidence of that.
> >J.H. Typical elitist mentality. See above.
>JS: Yes, real education is elitist and should be.
J.H. Only within reason.
JS: Of course. I am a Champion of Reason.
> J.S. The Navy Seals and
>other such special units are elitist and should be.
J.H. Elitism should have no place in the world! Anywhere!
JS: That's why you are in the Loony Toons Bin.
>J.S. Political democracy means that every one even a doltish nut
like you
>should have equal opportunity.
J.H. Agreed. About the equal opportunity that is.
> J.S. It does not mean I should
>not tell you the truth about what I think of your ideas.
J.H. Agreed.
> JS. Incoherent thought. Time for your meds I guess. ;-)
J.H. Well no Doc actually it is the reptilians who are
psychotronically beaming me with microwave radiation of about 100 Mhz
and it is giving me a God-awful migraine. I am afraid that meds
aren't going to help me in a situation like this. By the way do you
make psych evaluations before or after you have just been contacted
by the aliens? Could we get this straight before anymore dialog?
JS: If you read my book "Destiny Matrix" and look at
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/spectra.html
and read carefully, you will see I never claim there was a real ET alien on the other end of the phone.
I do not know who or what was on the other end of the phone. In context over 50 years it is quite weird and you
can draw your own conclusions one way or the other.
>J.S. I am giving out my ideas. I am not forcing
> you to read my ideas.
> I have no interest in yours.
J.H. You know more about me and have more interest in me than you
lead on. Question is: Why?
JS: John Nash was also a delusional nut. Also, you may be joking. Also I get paid to deal with nuts like you as well as
serious students. It's part of my "day job." Also I will put you in my third book "Blog One" I am now writing.
The dialogue is entertaining.
> J.S. In other words, your level of
> comprehension of real physics is so
> primitive that you are not capable of formulating an interesting
idea
> or explanation and you are
> not able to understand what I am writing.
J.H. Theories aside. It are experiments that make physics.
JS: Agreed. So you have a big physics lab in your Cuckoo's Nest at a dollar a day.
First of all you are seriously muddled in the use of "Negative Energy".
If you mean "anti-gravity" from partially random micro-quantum zero
point vacuum fluctuation (zpf) energy density (modulated by vacuum
coherence out of which Einstein's gravity equations "emerge" as phase
ripples) the zpf energy density must be POSITIVE in order to get
NEGATIVE QUANTUM PRESSURE because the equivalence principle +
covariance + Heisenberg's uncertainty principle imply w =
pressure/energy density = -1.
On Jan 31, 2004, at 7:52 AM, vic xianto wrote:
>
> "Dear Prof. Sarfatti:
>
>
> Thanks for your clues and critics. Where do you find
> my article, and which of them ? I guess it is my
> recent article in Apeiron."
Probably. Google is a Magic Genie.
I do not understand the notation in your very first equation.
You do not give enough background context so that your
paper is incomprehensible to my mind. I do not have a year to devote to
your paper.
You do not show how your idea relates to the battle-tested
equations of Einstein's GR
You must show how your math at least in some limit
reduces to the c-number (macro-quantum ODLRO vacuum condensate phase
ripple equation)
Guv + /\zpfguv = -8pi(G/c^4)Tuv
otherwise no significant physicist working in astrophysics and cosmology
will consider your paper anything, but still another amateur crackpot
work
- and rightly so.
Also you give too many details without enough explanation of the
Grand Idea, the simple "organizing idea" behind your details.
Your empirics on planetary orbits in terms of Bohr's atom with something
like a giant Planck's constant may be curious, but it has no context.
You invoke many dangling unconnected mysteries to explain things
understood
by orthodox theory.
It seems to me you have less with more, although I do not have the time
to
seriously study your ideas because I am too busy with my own.
You do talk about a cosmic Bose-Einstein condensate but I see no math
that
fits my understanding of that idea. Also I deduce Einstein's equations
from
the coherent phase of that cosmic vacuum condensate, which I identify
with the inflation field.
You do not address the key observations of today's precision cosmology
as in, for example, the "Special Report" in Feb 2004 Scientific
American.
> VX:" If yes, allow me to make
> few remarks here in this regards:
>
> I would appreciate to see your own article on the same
> issues of gravitation from superfluid vortice.
JS: I have given these references a jillion times. Again
http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.pdf
http://qedcorp.com/APS/StarGate1.mov
also other papers in open directory
http://qedcorp.com/APS/
>
> VX: I know it is perhaps too simplistic, for this reason I
> considered it only as 'preliminary' version (or a
> sketch, if you wish). It is beyond my intention to
> consider it as the 'final theory' we seek after.
JS: I see not "theory" there. I mean a grand organizing idea with
a step by step mathematical development like in Euclid's elements.
I see no intuitive motivation for your first equations whose terms
are not even defined. You seem to use V as a velocity on the LHS
and then as a potential on the RHS?
Also you simply do not justify what the equation really means.
You start your theory from a totally obscure starting point.
> VX: In
> fact, I'm not so proud of it because it is published a
> year after I wrote it. I've attempted to write a newer
> version using partial wave analysis,
JS: Again you invoke an advance math tool totally out of context so it
is meaningless to my mind.
> VX: so I can send you
> if you like. But not something on metric yet....
JS: Don't bother because where you are coming from is totally
incomprehensible to me.
Start with Einstein's GR and then I have a context. Without that your
writing appears as
just more amateurish gibberish. You obviously have some kind of perhaps
engineering background?
Engineers often make fools of themselves when they try to do
theoretical physics in a fundamental
way challenging Einstein. Hal Puthoff's "PV" alternative to Einstein's
GR is a good example.
All these attempts to make "flat space-time" theories of gravity are
ultimately nonsense in my opinion.
When you try to do perturbation theory on flat space-background it
fails. You need a non-perturbative
summation of an infinity of Feynman diagrams of a special class at
least to get to Einstein's equations.
This is a qualitative collapse or phase transition of the fundamentally
unstable globally flat rigid non-dynamical vacuum
to a non-rigid dynamical locally curved vacuum. This is why Puthoff's
whole PV idea is basically nonsense in my
opinion, which is also what John Baez has basically said of it.
>
> VX: But I do want to develop such a metric idea to become
> more mature ---
JS: You are wasting your time reinventing a crooked wheel, when we have
an excellent wheel from Einstein.
You are not working on anything worth working on because you have not
identified the interesting questions.
"The Question is: What is The Question?" (JA Wheeler).
> VX: especially for critical readers like
> you (I appreciate any criticism). I do believe that
> you know much better concerning superfluidity and
> metric (I guess your PhD was on superfluidity). I
> merely attempt to bring it forward to cosmological
> setting ( though Zurek & Volovik
JS: I have read Volovik's book cover to cover and it is good work.
He has an equation in a special case that is very similar to my
heuristic "two-fluid" ansatz
/\zpf = (Quantum of Area)^-1[(Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2
- 1]
Volovik's explanation of why Einstein's Cosmological Constant is zero
in the "equilibrium" non-exotic vacuum
is correct in my opinion. Although you cite Volovik, and also cite
Carlos Castro, I see nothing in your math that
essentially connects to their math, nor do I see any matching of
heuristic concepts. Of course, I did not spend
a lot of time trying to penetrate your obscure writing.
> VX:has done this, I
> guess few has attempted to compare superfluid
> prediction with astronomical data). I've found that
> you mentioned on Visser's articles,
JS: You also cite Visser. I read his book "Lorentzian Wormholes" cover
to cover and you appear
to not at all understand elementary things in his book. You completely
misread him from
what I can gather from your short e-mails.
> VX: so this was why I
> guess you could provide further clues on how to
> describe superfluidity in metrical terms which is more
> common for large scale
JS: I have done that in math detail already.
> VX:...(the simpler version is
> merely to convert Euler-Lagrange equation into
> Newton-FRW metric like Coles', but I didn't find it
> much convincing for superfluidity, so I guess perhaps
> Arnowit-Deser-Misner could be a better approach etc.)
JS: Meaningless. What "Euler-Lagrange equation" from what action.
You have a global action. You make the action extremal and
using calculus of variations get local Euler-Lagrange equations.
Or do you mean some hydrodynamics? What?
If hydrodynamics you pull it out of a hat without motivation
and some silly talk about negative mass Planck black holes.
>
>
> VX: For the first step, this CSV idea began few years ago
> when I found that Nottale's equation
> (Schrodinger-Euler) cannot describe outer planets
> properly. Yup, I didn't start with any metrical
> approach, instead I rederived Schrodinger equation for
> gravity case.
JS: Incomprehensible.
> I found that most related articles
> (including Neto et al. 2002) make use of second
> quantum number, which seems to me not required, but
> after some calculation I found (rather
> serendipitously) that this could be reconciled if we
> could minimize the standard deviation of the Jovian
> planets, and then find the m2 mass from reduced mass
> equation.
JS: Ditto.
>
> VX: And then I come up with assumption of negative
> energies and negative mass, which is so far could only
> be explained using:
>
> a. Bradford's idea of negative mass and its equation
> of motion
> b. DeAquino's theory of cosmological consequence of
> superconducting phenomena
> c. Frohlich's polaron (or something like dipole
> gravity etc.)
> d. Hall effect (see my endnote in this article)
> e. Dirac equation (see Hestenes' spinor particle
> mechanics)
JS: Incomprehensible sequence of loosely associated buzz words dangling
in cognitive limbo out of context.
Professor Irwin Corey can use the above in the Comedy Club.
No one can understand what you are trying to say here.
This is not a valid communication.
Again you do not understand that "negative mass" in cosmology
means "anti-gravity" "Dark Energy" from positive energy density with
equal and opposite negative pressure.
w = -1
You do not need any of your less with more excess baggage that you
write above to explain the observed fact that
96% of the stuff of the universe is not protons electrons photon et-al
"on mass shell".
>
> VX: Dirac's equation seems to me as the nearest argument
> so far (pls note here that I do not need NEGATIVE
> CURVATURE), because he conjectures of 'sea of negative
> energies', which could be interpreted as Hall liquid.
JS: Not even wrong. BTW I have shown how Dirac's vacuum is unstable
and causes the vacuum coherence (in a toy model as the dominant effect).
> VX: I guess this is what Susskind recently wrote of
> (2001:Hall liquid and noncommutative theory, arxiv) --
> though I'm not sure he wants to apply this into
> cosmological setting.
JS: I have not seen that. What's the exact URL?
>
>
> VX: I know that no such negative mass was observed in
> solar system,
JS: Ill-posed.
> VX: thus far. For instance, in Zel'dovich's
> book Konstantinov has proposed of the presence of
> antimatter in the nearby of solar system, but so far
> it is not found.
JS: Irrelevant detail out of context.
>
> VX: But there is clue from antihydrogen experiments
> (ATHENA) that seems to suggest that it is possible to
> find a kind of antihydrogen in low energies. Provided
> that our solar system is analogous to hydrogen (>60%
> matter in this universe consists of hydrogen), I guess
> there is chance to observe the same in solar system
> (low energy physics analogous to cosmology, Volovik).
> I'd greatly appreciate if your own theory does predict
> the similar things.
JS: More irrelevant gibberish to my mind.
>
>
> VX: With regards to Riemann's metric, I've got no more
> argument, partly because you're right that I'm not so
> much trained in such metric.
JS: I rest my case. You are wasting everyone's time.
You have not mastered your craft sufficiently to make
an interesting contribution.
I have no further patience for your random rambles below.
If you mean "anti-gravity" from partially random micro-quantum zero
point vacuum fluctuation (zpf) energy density (modulated by vacuum
coherence out of which Einstein's gravity equations "emerge" as phase
ripples) the zpf energy density must be POSITIVE in order to get
NEGATIVE QUANTUM PRESSURE because the equivalence principle +
covariance + Heisenberg's uncertainty principle imply w =
pressure/energy density = -1.
On Jan 31, 2004, at 7:52 AM, vic xianto wrote:
>
> "Dear Prof. Sarfatti:
>
>
> Thanks for your clues and critics. Where do you find
> my article, and which of them ? I guess it is my
> recent article in Apeiron."
Probably. Google is a Magic Genie.
I do not understand the notation in your very first equation.
You do not give enough background context so that your
paper is incomprehensible to my mind. I do not have a year to devote to
your paper.
You do not show how your idea relates to the battle-tested
equations of Einstein's GR
You must show how your math at least in some limit
reduces to the c-number (macro-quantum ODLRO vacuum condensate phase
ripple equation)
Guv + /\zpfguv = -8pi(G/c^4)Tuv
otherwise no significant physicist working in astrophysics and cosmology
will consider your paper anything, but still another amateur crackpot
work
- and rightly so.
Also you give too many details without enough explanation of the
Grand Idea, the simple "organizing idea" behind your details.
Your empirics on planetary orbits in terms of Bohr's atom with something
like a giant Planck's constant may be curious, but it has no context.
You invoke many dangling unconnected mysteries to explain things
understood
by orthodox theory.
It seems to me you have less with more, although I do not have the time
to
seriously study your ideas because I am too busy with my own.
You do talk about a cosmic Bose-Einstein condensate but I see no math
that
fits my understanding of that idea. Also I deduce Einstein's equations
from
the coherent phase of that cosmic vacuum condensate, which I identify
with the inflation field.
You do not address the key observations of today's precision cosmology
as in, for example, the "Special Report" in Feb 2004 Scientific
American.
> VX:" If yes, allow me to make
> few remarks here in this regards:
>
> I would appreciate to see your own article on the same
> issues of gravitation from superfluid vortice.
JS: I have given these references a jillion times. Again
http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.pdf
http://qedcorp.com/APS/StarGate1.mov
also other papers in open directory
http://qedcorp.com/APS/
>
> VX: I know it is perhaps too simplistic, for this reason I
> considered it only as 'preliminary' version (or a
> sketch, if you wish). It is beyond my intention to
> consider it as the 'final theory' we seek after.
JS: I see not "theory" there. I mean a grand organizing idea with
a step by step mathematical development like in Euclid's elements.
I see no intuitive motivation for your first equations whose terms
are not even defined. You seem to use V as a velocity on the LHS
and then as a potential on the RHS?
Also you simply do not justify what the equation really means.
You start your theory from a totally obscure starting point.
> VX: In
> fact, I'm not so proud of it because it is published a
> year after I wrote it. I've attempted to write a newer
> version using partial wave analysis,
JS: Again you invoke an advance math tool totally out of context so it
is meaningless to my mind.
> VX: so I can send you
> if you like. But not something on metric yet....
JS: Don't bother because where you are coming from is totally
incomprehensible to me.
Start with Einstein's GR and then I have a context. Without that your
writing appears as
just more amateurish gibberish. You obviously have some kind of perhaps
engineering background?
Engineers often make fools of themselves when they try to do
theoretical physics in a fundamental
way challenging Einstein. Hal Puthoff's "PV" alternative to Einstein's
GR is a good example.
All these attempts to make "flat space-time" theories of gravity are
ultimately nonsense in my opinion.
When you try to do perturbation theory on flat space-background it
fails. You need a non-perturbative
summation of an infinity of Feynman diagrams of a special class at
least to get to Einstein's equations.
This is a qualitative collapse or phase transition of the fundamentally
unstable globally flat rigid non-dynamical vacuum
to a non-rigid dynamical locally curved vacuum. This is why Puthoff's
whole PV idea is basically nonsense in my
opinion, which is also what John Baez has basically said of it.
>
> VX: But I do want to develop such a metric idea to become
> more mature ---
JS: You are wasting your time reinventing a crooked wheel, when we have
an excellent wheel from Einstein.
You are not working on anything worth working on because you have not
identified the interesting questions.
"The Question is: What is The Question?" (JA Wheeler).
> VX: especially for critical readers like
> you (I appreciate any criticism). I do believe that
> you know much better concerning superfluidity and
> metric (I guess your PhD was on superfluidity). I
> merely attempt to bring it forward to cosmological
> setting ( though Zurek & Volovik
JS: I have read Volovik's book cover to cover and it is good work.
He has an equation in a special case that is very similar to my
heuristic "two-fluid" ansatz
/\zpf = (Quantum of Area)^-1[(Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2
- 1]
Volovik's explanation of why Einstein's Cosmological Constant is zero
in the "equilibrium" non-exotic vacuum
is correct in my opinion. Although you cite Volovik, and also cite
Carlos Castro, I see nothing in your math that
essentially connects to their math, nor do I see any matching of
heuristic concepts. Of course, I did not spend
a lot of time trying to penetrate your obscure writing.
> VX:has done this, I
> guess few has attempted to compare superfluid
> prediction with astronomical data). I've found that
> you mentioned on Visser's articles,
JS: You also cite Visser. I read his book "Lorentzian Wormholes" cover
to cover and you appear
to not at all understand elementary things in his book. You completely
misread him from
what I can gather from your short e-mails.
> VX: so this was why I
> guess you could provide further clues on how to
> describe superfluidity in metrical terms which is more
> common for large scale
JS: I have done that in math detail already.
> VX:...(the simpler version is
> merely to convert Euler-Lagrange equation into
> Newton-FRW metric like Coles', but I didn't find it
> much convincing for superfluidity, so I guess perhaps
> Arnowit-Deser-Misner could be a better approach etc.)
JS: Meaningless. What "Euler-Lagrange equation" from what action.
You have a global action. You make the action extremal and
using calculus of variations get local Euler-Lagrange equations.
Or do you mean some hydrodynamics? What?
If hydrodynamics you pull it out of a hat without motivation
and some silly talk about negative mass Planck black holes.
>
>
> VX: For the first step, this CSV idea began few years ago
> when I found that Nottale's equation
> (Schrodinger-Euler) cannot describe outer planets
> properly. Yup, I didn't start with any metrical
> approach, instead I rederived Schrodinger equation for
> gravity case.
JS: Incomprehensible.
> I found that most related articles
> (including Neto et al. 2002) make use of second
> quantum number, which seems to me not required, but
> after some calculation I found (rather
> serendipitously) that this could be reconciled if we
> could minimize the standard deviation of the Jovian
> planets, and then find the m2 mass from reduced mass
> equation.
JS: Ditto.
>
> VX: And then I come up with assumption of negative
> energies and negative mass, which is so far could only
> be explained using:
>
> a. Bradford's idea of negative mass and its equation
> of motion
> b. DeAquino's theory of cosmological consequence of
> superconducting phenomena
> c. Frohlich's polaron (or something like dipole
> gravity etc.)
> d. Hall effect (see my endnote in this article)
> e. Dirac equation (see Hestenes' spinor particle
> mechanics)
JS: Incomprehensible sequence of loosely associated buzz words dangling
in cognitive limbo out of context.
Professor Irwin Corey can use the above in the Comedy Club.
No one can understand what you are trying to say here.
This is not a valid communication.
Again you do not understand that "negative mass" in cosmology
means "anti-gravity" "Dark Energy" from positive energy density with
equal and opposite negative pressure.
w = -1
You do not need any of your less with more excess baggage that you
write above to explain the observed fact that
96% of the stuff of the universe is not protons electrons photon et-al
"on mass shell".
>
> VX: Dirac's equation seems to me as the nearest argument
> so far (pls note here that I do not need NEGATIVE
> CURVATURE), because he conjectures of 'sea of negative
> energies', which could be interpreted as Hall liquid.
JS: Not even wrong. BTW I have shown how Dirac's vacuum is unstable
and causes the vacuum coherence (in a toy model as the dominant effect).
> VX: I guess this is what Susskind recently wrote of
> (2001:Hall liquid and noncommutative theory, arxiv) --
> though I'm not sure he wants to apply this into
> cosmological setting.
JS: I have not seen that. What's the exact URL?
>
>
> VX: I know that no such negative mass was observed in
> solar system,
JS: Ill-posed.
> VX: thus far. For instance, in Zel'dovich's
> book Konstantinov has proposed of the presence of
> antimatter in the nearby of solar system, but so far
> it is not found.
JS: Irrelevant detail out of context.
>
> VX: But there is clue from antihydrogen experiments
> (ATHENA) that seems to suggest that it is possible to
> find a kind of antihydrogen in low energies. Provided
> that our solar system is analogous to hydrogen (>60%
> matter in this universe consists of hydrogen), I guess
> there is chance to observe the same in solar system
> (low energy physics analogous to cosmology, Volovik).
> I'd greatly appreciate if your own theory does predict
> the similar things.
JS: More irrelevant gibberish to my mind.
>
>
> VX: With regards to Riemann's metric, I've got no more
> argument, partly because you're right that I'm not so
> much trained in such metric.
JS: I rest my case. You are wasting everyone's time.
You have not mastered your craft sufficiently to make
an interesting contribution.
I have no further patience for your random rambles below.
68 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FEBRUARY 2004
Critique #1
George Divali wrote:
"Cosmologists and particle physicists have seldom felt so
confused. Although our standard model of cosmology
has been confirmed by recent observations, it still
has a gaping hole: nobody knows why the expansion of the universe
is accelerating."
JS: I think I do. http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.pdf
GD: "If you throw a stone straight up, the pull
of Earth’s gravity will cause it to slow down; it will not accelerate
away from the planet. Similarly, distant galaxies, thrown
apart by the big bang expansion, should pull on one another
and slow down. Yet they are accelerating apart. Researchers
commonly attribute the acceleration to some mysterious entity
called dark energy, but there is little physics to back up these
fine words."
JS: That is false in my opinion. An exotic vacuum phase with net total cumulative random positive zero point vacuum fluctuation energy density, hence negative pressure with w = -1, from all physical quantum fields does the trick. One must realize that the degree of randomness of the zero point vacuum fluctuations is tempered by the local inflation vacuum coherence field whose phase variation is the dominant smooth c-number non-perturbative background-independent geometrodynamic field of Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity upon which precision cosmology is predicated in the equation
Guv + /\zpfguv = -8pi(G/c^4)Tuv
GD: "The only thing that is becoming clear is that at the
largest observable distances, gravity behaves in a rather strange
way, turning into a repulsive force."
JS: Agreed. We can also, I bet, do this on a small scale for exotic warp drive time travel through traversable wormholes.
GD: "The laws of physics say that gravity is generated by matter
and energy, so they attribute a strange sort of gravity to a
strange sort of matter or energy. That is the rationale for dark
energy. But maybe the laws themselves need to be changed."
JS: That is "too cheap" as Einstein mistakenly told Bohm. However, I am not mistaken I think in my opinion that a drastic overhaul of the known laws of physics is needed for this problem.
GD: Physicists have a precedent for such a change: the law of gravity
that Newton formulated in the 17th century, which had various
conceptual and experimental limitations, gave way to Einstein’s
general theory of relativity in 1915. Relativity, too, has
limitations; in particular, it runs into trouble when applied to
extremely short distances, which are the domain of quantum
mechanics. Much as relativity subsumed Newtonian physics, a
quantum theory of gravity will ultimately subsume relativity.
Over the years, physicists have come up with a few plausible
approaches to quantum gravity, the most prominent being
string theory."
JS: Smolin, Ashtekar, Baez, Rovelli et-al will strongly disagree on that against Greene, Witten, et-al. Of course neither string theory nor loop quantum gravity have made hard predictions of any facts nor have they provided compelling explanations of the observational mysteries of precision cosmology and particle physics. Yet many of the Guardians of respectability and ideological purity reminiscent of Stalinism in the Soviet Union on the LANL Cornell Archive and in mass media like Scientific American and NOVA PBS are quick to embrace these radical speculations which in fact
are little more than pretty mathematical vaporware.
GD: "When gravity operates over microscopic distances
—for instance, at the center of a black hole, where a huge
mass is packed into a subatomic volume—the bizarre quantum
properties of matter come into play, and string theory describes
how the law of gravity changes.
Over greater distances, string theorists have generally assumed
that quantum effects are unimportant. Yet the cosmological
discoveries of the past several years have encouraged researchers
to reconsider. Four years ago my colleagues and I
asked whether string theory would change the law of gravity
not just on the smallest scales but also on the largest ones. The
feature of string theory that could bring about this revision is
its extra dimensions—additional directions in which particles
can roam. The theory adds six or seven dimensions to the usual
three."
JS: Theorists today are willing to pay any price to avoid signal nonlocality.
GD: In the past, string theorists have argued that the extra dimensions
are too small for us to see or move in. But recent progress
reveals that some or all of the new dimensions could actually
be infinite in size. They are hidden from view not because
they are small but because the particles that make up our bodies
are trapped in three dimensions. The one particle that eludes
confinement is the particle that transmits the force of gravity,
and as a result, the law of gravity changes.
Quintessence Even from Nothingness
WHEN ASTRONOMERS ENCOUNTERED the cosmic acceleration,
their first reaction was to attribute it to the so-called cosmological
constant. Notoriously introduced and then retracted
by Einstein, the constant represents the energy inherent in space
Maybe cosmic acceleration isn’t caused by dark energy after all
but by an inexorable leakage of gravity out of our world
COPYRIGHT 2004 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC.
GD: "A completely empty volume of space, devoid of all matter,
would still contain this energy—equivalent to roughly 10–26
kilogram per cubic meter. Although the cosmological constant
is consistent with all the existing data so far, many physicists find
it unsatisfying. The problem is its inexplicable smallness,"
JS: This is only a problem because The Pundits have not properly used the idea of "vacuum coherence" in which the cosmological term in Einstein's equation has a subsidiary equation
/\zpf = (Quantum of Area)^-1[(Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]
Where the tetrad gravity field Cartan 1-form in the sense of Rovelli's book on Quantum Gravity is
euadx^a = Kronecker Deltau^adx^a + (Quantum of Area)(argVacuum Coherence),u
A vanishing Vacuum Coherence means maximally random zero point energy fluctuations from all fields in unstable globally flat spacetime with no gravity.
Critique #1
George Divali wrote:
"Cosmologists and particle physicists have seldom felt so
confused. Although our standard model of cosmology
has been confirmed by recent observations, it still
has a gaping hole: nobody knows why the expansion of the universe
is accelerating."
JS: I think I do. http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.pdf
GD: "If you throw a stone straight up, the pull
of Earth’s gravity will cause it to slow down; it will not accelerate
away from the planet. Similarly, distant galaxies, thrown
apart by the big bang expansion, should pull on one another
and slow down. Yet they are accelerating apart. Researchers
commonly attribute the acceleration to some mysterious entity
called dark energy, but there is little physics to back up these
fine words."
JS: That is false in my opinion. An exotic vacuum phase with net total cumulative random positive zero point vacuum fluctuation energy density, hence negative pressure with w = -1, from all physical quantum fields does the trick. One must realize that the degree of randomness of the zero point vacuum fluctuations is tempered by the local inflation vacuum coherence field whose phase variation is the dominant smooth c-number non-perturbative background-independent geometrodynamic field of Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity upon which precision cosmology is predicated in the equation
Guv + /\zpfguv = -8pi(G/c^4)Tuv
GD: "The only thing that is becoming clear is that at the
largest observable distances, gravity behaves in a rather strange
way, turning into a repulsive force."
JS: Agreed. We can also, I bet, do this on a small scale for exotic warp drive time travel through traversable wormholes.
GD: "The laws of physics say that gravity is generated by matter
and energy, so they attribute a strange sort of gravity to a
strange sort of matter or energy. That is the rationale for dark
energy. But maybe the laws themselves need to be changed."
JS: That is "too cheap" as Einstein mistakenly told Bohm. However, I am not mistaken I think in my opinion that a drastic overhaul of the known laws of physics is needed for this problem.
GD: Physicists have a precedent for such a change: the law of gravity
that Newton formulated in the 17th century, which had various
conceptual and experimental limitations, gave way to Einstein’s
general theory of relativity in 1915. Relativity, too, has
limitations; in particular, it runs into trouble when applied to
extremely short distances, which are the domain of quantum
mechanics. Much as relativity subsumed Newtonian physics, a
quantum theory of gravity will ultimately subsume relativity.
Over the years, physicists have come up with a few plausible
approaches to quantum gravity, the most prominent being
string theory."
JS: Smolin, Ashtekar, Baez, Rovelli et-al will strongly disagree on that against Greene, Witten, et-al. Of course neither string theory nor loop quantum gravity have made hard predictions of any facts nor have they provided compelling explanations of the observational mysteries of precision cosmology and particle physics. Yet many of the Guardians of respectability and ideological purity reminiscent of Stalinism in the Soviet Union on the LANL Cornell Archive and in mass media like Scientific American and NOVA PBS are quick to embrace these radical speculations which in fact
are little more than pretty mathematical vaporware.
GD: "When gravity operates over microscopic distances
—for instance, at the center of a black hole, where a huge
mass is packed into a subatomic volume—the bizarre quantum
properties of matter come into play, and string theory describes
how the law of gravity changes.
Over greater distances, string theorists have generally assumed
that quantum effects are unimportant. Yet the cosmological
discoveries of the past several years have encouraged researchers
to reconsider. Four years ago my colleagues and I
asked whether string theory would change the law of gravity
not just on the smallest scales but also on the largest ones. The
feature of string theory that could bring about this revision is
its extra dimensions—additional directions in which particles
can roam. The theory adds six or seven dimensions to the usual
three."
JS: Theorists today are willing to pay any price to avoid signal nonlocality.
GD: In the past, string theorists have argued that the extra dimensions
are too small for us to see or move in. But recent progress
reveals that some or all of the new dimensions could actually
be infinite in size. They are hidden from view not because
they are small but because the particles that make up our bodies
are trapped in three dimensions. The one particle that eludes
confinement is the particle that transmits the force of gravity,
and as a result, the law of gravity changes.
Quintessence Even from Nothingness
WHEN ASTRONOMERS ENCOUNTERED the cosmic acceleration,
their first reaction was to attribute it to the so-called cosmological
constant. Notoriously introduced and then retracted
by Einstein, the constant represents the energy inherent in space
Maybe cosmic acceleration isn’t caused by dark energy after all
but by an inexorable leakage of gravity out of our world
COPYRIGHT 2004 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC.
GD: "A completely empty volume of space, devoid of all matter,
would still contain this energy—equivalent to roughly 10–26
kilogram per cubic meter. Although the cosmological constant
is consistent with all the existing data so far, many physicists find
it unsatisfying. The problem is its inexplicable smallness,"
JS: This is only a problem because The Pundits have not properly used the idea of "vacuum coherence" in which the cosmological term in Einstein's equation has a subsidiary equation
/\zpf = (Quantum of Area)^-1[(Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]
Where the tetrad gravity field Cartan 1-form in the sense of Rovelli's book on Quantum Gravity is
euadx^a = Kronecker Deltau^adx^a + (Quantum of Area)(argVacuum Coherence),u
A vanishing Vacuum Coherence means maximally random zero point energy fluctuations from all fields in unstable globally flat spacetime with no gravity.
Friday, January 30, 2004
PS
Hal’s remark that the randomness of the zero point energy tends toward self-cancellation is obviously wrong. The mean is zero, but the root mean square fluctuation is not zero. Neither Hal Puthoff nor Bernie Haisch have ever explicitly mentioned "vacuum coherence" in any of their published papers nor have they mentioned the role of w = pressure/energy density = -1 for the zero point energy, nor have they explicitly included the virtual electron-positron pairs in spite of Hal's use of "PV" for "Polarized Vacuum" in their allegations that the rest mass of the electron etc and gravity itself emerge from only the transverse electromagnetic zero point fluctuations that they interpret semi-classically as "stochastic electrodynamics" with h as some kind of fudge factor.
Hal’s remark that the randomness of the zero point energy tends toward self-cancellation is obviously wrong. The mean is zero, but the root mean square fluctuation is not zero. Neither Hal Puthoff nor Bernie Haisch have ever explicitly mentioned "vacuum coherence" in any of their published papers nor have they mentioned the role of w = pressure/energy density = -1 for the zero point energy, nor have they explicitly included the virtual electron-positron pairs in spite of Hal's use of "PV" for "Polarized Vacuum" in their allegations that the rest mass of the electron etc and gravity itself emerge from only the transverse electromagnetic zero point fluctuations that they interpret semi-classically as "stochastic electrodynamics" with h as some kind of fudge factor.
Lecture 6 The gravitational influence of virtual zero point exotic vacuum fluctuation stress-energy density.
On Jan 30, 2004, at 4:29 PM, a beginning student zenodestiny wrote:
J.S. All zero point vacuum fluctuations (ZPF) from any quantum field
has
w = -1.
J.H. Now you are contradicting yourself again. In between a capacitor
with the same sign charge on each plate there is a positive energy
density in the zpf. This is coming straight from the horse's mouth.
Jack: Who? Hal Puthoff? This is irrelevant to what I said. Did you mean his
http://www.ldolphin.org/zpe.html
which completely misses the important idea of "vacuum coherence."
e.g. Puthoff wrote:
"Those with a practical bent of mind may be left with yet one more unanswered question. Can this emerging Rosetta Stone of physics be used to translate such lofty insights into mundane application? Could the engineer of the future specialize in "vacuum engineering?" Could the energy crisis be solved by harnessing the energies of the zero-point sea? After all, since the basic zero-point energy form is highly random in nature, and tending towards self-cancellation, if a way could be found to bring order out of chaos, the, because of the highly energetic nature of the vacuum fluctuations, relatively large effects could in principle be produced. Given our relative ignorance at this point, we must fall back on a quote given by Podolny (12) when contemplating this same issue."
Completely random zpf virtual photon fields do have positive zero point
energy density.
Therefore, they have negative pressure because in that case w = -1.
pressure = w(energy density)
However, the gravity influence of that zpf is
(energy density)(1 + 3w)
Therefore, in that situation you have repulsive anti-gravity.
Charges on plates are completely irrelevant!
In contrast the completely random virtual-electron vacuum polarizationhas negative zpf energy density
again with w = -1 and that has positive pressure hence that will attractively gravitate.
See Milonni's text book "The Quantum Vacuum."
All of the above, including Hal's http://www.ldolphin.org/zpe.html completely neglects the Vacuum Coherence Field which changes the
story!
Let too(zpf)* be the total random zero point energy density from ALL
physical fields of all spins.
The actual total zero point stress-energy density tensor is then
tuv(zpf) = too(zpf)*[(Loop Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 -
1]guv
The vacuum coherence control parameter X = (Loop Quantum of
Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 has the domain 0 to a large real number
1.
Therefore X - 1 can be negative, zero or positive.
The better way to look at this is the weak field GR Poisson equation
limiting case for the exotic zpf vacuum
Grad^2V(exotic vacuum) ~ c^2/\zpf
/\zpf = (Loop Quantum of Area)^-1[(Loop Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum
Coherence|^2 - 1]
Side problem for a sphere of exotic vacuum with uniform /\zpf of radius R (e.g. the Galactic Halo when /\zpf < 0)
V = -GMeff/r
mtu
r > R
dV/dr = +GMeff1/r^2
d^2V/dr^2 = -2GMeff/r^3
GMeff = (4pi/3)c^2/\R3
There is no electric charge here. There is no Casimir effect here. That is a wrong turn off the true path. All that glitters is not gold. Skim milk masquerades as cream.
Therefore /\zpf < 0 gravitates and /\zpf > 0 anti-gravitates.
On Jan 30, 2004, at 4:29 PM, a beginning student zenodestiny wrote:
J.S. All zero point vacuum fluctuations (ZPF) from any quantum field
has
w = -1.
J.H. Now you are contradicting yourself again. In between a capacitor
with the same sign charge on each plate there is a positive energy
density in the zpf. This is coming straight from the horse's mouth.
Jack: Who? Hal Puthoff? This is irrelevant to what I said. Did you mean his
http://www.ldolphin.org/zpe.html
which completely misses the important idea of "vacuum coherence."
e.g. Puthoff wrote:
"Those with a practical bent of mind may be left with yet one more unanswered question. Can this emerging Rosetta Stone of physics be used to translate such lofty insights into mundane application? Could the engineer of the future specialize in "vacuum engineering?" Could the energy crisis be solved by harnessing the energies of the zero-point sea? After all, since the basic zero-point energy form is highly random in nature, and tending towards self-cancellation, if a way could be found to bring order out of chaos, the, because of the highly energetic nature of the vacuum fluctuations, relatively large effects could in principle be produced. Given our relative ignorance at this point, we must fall back on a quote given by Podolny (12) when contemplating this same issue."
Completely random zpf virtual photon fields do have positive zero point
energy density.
Therefore, they have negative pressure because in that case w = -1.
pressure = w(energy density)
However, the gravity influence of that zpf is
(energy density)(1 + 3w)
Therefore, in that situation you have repulsive anti-gravity.
Charges on plates are completely irrelevant!
In contrast the completely random virtual-electron vacuum polarizationhas negative zpf energy density
again with w = -1 and that has positive pressure hence that will attractively gravitate.
See Milonni's text book "The Quantum Vacuum."
All of the above, including Hal's http://www.ldolphin.org/zpe.html completely neglects the Vacuum Coherence Field which changes the
story!
Let too(zpf)* be the total random zero point energy density from ALL
physical fields of all spins.
The actual total zero point stress-energy density tensor is then
tuv(zpf) = too(zpf)*[(Loop Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 -
1]guv
The vacuum coherence control parameter X = (Loop Quantum of
Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 has the domain 0 to a large real number
1.
Therefore X - 1 can be negative, zero or positive.
The better way to look at this is the weak field GR Poisson equation
limiting case for the exotic zpf vacuum
Grad^2V(exotic vacuum) ~ c^2/\zpf
/\zpf = (Loop Quantum of Area)^-1[(Loop Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum
Coherence|^2 - 1]
Side problem for a sphere of exotic vacuum with uniform /\zpf of radius R (e.g. the Galactic Halo when /\zpf < 0)
V = -GMeff/r
mtu
r > R
dV/dr = +GMeff1/r^2
d^2V/dr^2 = -2GMeff/r^3
GMeff = (4pi/3)c^2/\R3
There is no electric charge here. There is no Casimir effect here. That is a wrong turn off the true path. All that glitters is not gold. Skim milk masquerades as cream.
Therefore /\zpf < 0 gravitates and /\zpf > 0 anti-gravitates.
Lecture 5: Rovelli’s History of Quantum Gravity to 1999 pp. 287 – 301
Preamble to Smolin’s and Rovelli’s “Three Royal Roads to Quantum Gravity.”
What does it mean to quantize a theory? This is a top -> down idea. You start with a classical physics theory. What are the key classical theories?
(i) Newton’s test particle mechanics in Galilean relativity with an infinite speed of light, Einstein’s 1905 special relativity with a finite speed of light barrier but without gravity and Einstein’s geometrodynamic 1915 general relativity with gravity.
(ii) Maxwell’s electromagnetic field theory that cannot be consistently formulated in Galilean relativity because electromagnetic waves propagate at the finite speed of light that is the same number for all observers independent of their speed or motion or their acceleration. Maxwell’s theory is automatically special relativistic and can be extended to general relativity with gravity as seen in the cosmological red shifts of our expanding universe accelerated by repulsive exotic vacua “dark energy”, and in the gravitational lensing showing clumps of attractive exotic vacuum “dark matter.”
(iii) Yang-Mills field theories of the weak and strong short-range forces.
(iv) Einstein’s geometrodynamic field theory of gravity as the curving of a dynamical space-time that is not merely a rigid stage, like in special relativity where the full action-reaction principle is violated and on which all the other fields play, but is, rather, itself a player in “two-way relation” (Bohm and Hiley) obeying the full action-reaction principle.
The top -> down approach then replaces the real number particle and field “observables” by square arrays of complex numbers called “matrices” that are “representations” or faithful images of certain mathematical groups of transformations of different kinds of “frames of reference” that represent configurations of macroscopic detectors making “measurements” of these observables. The measured numbers are real “eigenvalues” of the square matrix arrays corresponding to columns (or rows) of complex numbers called “eigenstates”. These matrices are “quantum computers” or “gates”. The set of eigenstates are strings of a new kind of non-classical information called “qubits” and they form a “basis” in which the square matrices are “diagonal” i.e. the real eigenvalues are on the diagonal positions and all the off-diagonal positions in the matrix array are zero. A key property is that these eigenstates can be coherently superposed posed to form a set of eigenstates that are a basis for a different set of matrices that represent a different incompatible configuration of detectors. The “basis” spans a “Hilbert space” or “house” or “container” (the “Bayt” of Qabala), as it were, where all the quantum strings “live.” This is where the Heisenberg uncertainty principle comes from -- that not all observable properties of a system can be measured simultaneously to arbitrarily high precision, i.e vanishingly small errors. There is also another important counter-intuitive property called “entanglement” (technically a “tensor product of Hilbert spaces” – one space for each part of the entangled whole) in which several quantum systems share a common pool of quantum information and do not have qubit strings of their own. Quantum wholes are greater than the simple sum of their parts. The quantum information comes in two forms called “active” and “inactive.” This is explained in detail in David Bohm’s and Basil Hiley’s “The Undivided Universe.” Entanglement is important in quantum computing applications like “teleportation of qubits” and “untappable cryptography.” It also is the key idea in “environmental decoherence”, which is an attempt, only partly successful, that tries to explain the irreversible thermodynamic flow or “arrow of time” and the “collapse of the quantum state” or “Von Neumann projection”, i.e. why the large-scale world of ordinary experience seems “definite” without us being alive and dead at the same time in the same place as a naïve extrapolation of the quantum properties of tiny simple objects suggests. Note that while our inner perceptions of the outer world seem definite without the same object being in two places at the same time, our pure inner conscious thought has quantum superposition in which we hold two, or more, incompatible ideas in our mind’s eye simultaneously as in Hamlet’s speech “To be, or not to be. That is The Question …” On the other hand John Archibald Wheeler says “The Question is: What is The Question.” “Quantum logic” is the study of “quantum binary questions” arranged in a non-Boolean partially-ordered lattice. This is very different from our computers whose logic is that of a Boolean lattice. The non-Boolean lattice, where each question is a node on a graph, has “Isles of Boolean lattices” corresponding to compatible questions that can be answered definitely simultaneously with the same configuration of detectors. There is an approach to quantum gravity called “consistent histories” which consists of a “story line” of questions (Lee Smolin’s “The Three Roads to Quantum Gravity”) the problem is that knowing which questions to ask to tell the story is an insolvable problem, or perhaps I should say, is an undecidable question in the sense of Godel’s “incompleteness theorem” of 1931 and it’s corollaries like the “Halting Problem” of computer theory asking the question “When exactly will the program stop?” So this is what Wheeler is alluding to in his cryptographic remark: “The Question is: What is The Question?”
Now first thing we need to understand in looking at Rovelli’s version of Lee Smolin’s “Three Roads to Quantum Gravity” is that all three roads are top -> down. But there is a Gurdjieffian “Fourth (bottom -> up) Way” of “emergence”, ignored completely by Smolin and Rovelli and All The King’s Men trying to put Humpty Dumpty together again, due to the great Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov and also the Princeton physicist P.W. Anderson. Sakharov called it “metric elasticity”. Anderson called it “More is different” with an information-rich (low thermodynamic entropy) giant quantum coherence field that is local without entanglement with “generalized phase rigidity” making it immune to “environmental decoherence” that in a special case is Sakharov’s metric elasticity and also the “tension” of “string theory”. The fact that the giant quantum coherence field is local automatically explains why the outer world is definite without the same object being in two places at the same time and why we are not alive and dead at the same time like Schrodinger’s Cat out of a story by Lewis Carroll. As Wheeler wrote: “Physics is simple when it is local.” P.W. Anderson’s “More is different” explains why large –scale physics is local without needing Oxford’s David Deutsch’s “excess metaphysical baggage” (Wheeler’s term) of the quantum “Multiverse” of “shadow objects”. This is not to exclude “parallel universes”, but one must be vary careful on how “universe" is defined. It all depends on what you mean by "is". It's the ontology stupid! J
Preamble to Smolin’s and Rovelli’s “Three Royal Roads to Quantum Gravity.”
What does it mean to quantize a theory? This is a top -> down idea. You start with a classical physics theory. What are the key classical theories?
(i) Newton’s test particle mechanics in Galilean relativity with an infinite speed of light, Einstein’s 1905 special relativity with a finite speed of light barrier but without gravity and Einstein’s geometrodynamic 1915 general relativity with gravity.
(ii) Maxwell’s electromagnetic field theory that cannot be consistently formulated in Galilean relativity because electromagnetic waves propagate at the finite speed of light that is the same number for all observers independent of their speed or motion or their acceleration. Maxwell’s theory is automatically special relativistic and can be extended to general relativity with gravity as seen in the cosmological red shifts of our expanding universe accelerated by repulsive exotic vacua “dark energy”, and in the gravitational lensing showing clumps of attractive exotic vacuum “dark matter.”
(iii) Yang-Mills field theories of the weak and strong short-range forces.
(iv) Einstein’s geometrodynamic field theory of gravity as the curving of a dynamical space-time that is not merely a rigid stage, like in special relativity where the full action-reaction principle is violated and on which all the other fields play, but is, rather, itself a player in “two-way relation” (Bohm and Hiley) obeying the full action-reaction principle.
The top -> down approach then replaces the real number particle and field “observables” by square arrays of complex numbers called “matrices” that are “representations” or faithful images of certain mathematical groups of transformations of different kinds of “frames of reference” that represent configurations of macroscopic detectors making “measurements” of these observables. The measured numbers are real “eigenvalues” of the square matrix arrays corresponding to columns (or rows) of complex numbers called “eigenstates”. These matrices are “quantum computers” or “gates”. The set of eigenstates are strings of a new kind of non-classical information called “qubits” and they form a “basis” in which the square matrices are “diagonal” i.e. the real eigenvalues are on the diagonal positions and all the off-diagonal positions in the matrix array are zero. A key property is that these eigenstates can be coherently superposed posed to form a set of eigenstates that are a basis for a different set of matrices that represent a different incompatible configuration of detectors. The “basis” spans a “Hilbert space” or “house” or “container” (the “Bayt” of Qabala), as it were, where all the quantum strings “live.” This is where the Heisenberg uncertainty principle comes from -- that not all observable properties of a system can be measured simultaneously to arbitrarily high precision, i.e vanishingly small errors. There is also another important counter-intuitive property called “entanglement” (technically a “tensor product of Hilbert spaces” – one space for each part of the entangled whole) in which several quantum systems share a common pool of quantum information and do not have qubit strings of their own. Quantum wholes are greater than the simple sum of their parts. The quantum information comes in two forms called “active” and “inactive.” This is explained in detail in David Bohm’s and Basil Hiley’s “The Undivided Universe.” Entanglement is important in quantum computing applications like “teleportation of qubits” and “untappable cryptography.” It also is the key idea in “environmental decoherence”, which is an attempt, only partly successful, that tries to explain the irreversible thermodynamic flow or “arrow of time” and the “collapse of the quantum state” or “Von Neumann projection”, i.e. why the large-scale world of ordinary experience seems “definite” without us being alive and dead at the same time in the same place as a naïve extrapolation of the quantum properties of tiny simple objects suggests. Note that while our inner perceptions of the outer world seem definite without the same object being in two places at the same time, our pure inner conscious thought has quantum superposition in which we hold two, or more, incompatible ideas in our mind’s eye simultaneously as in Hamlet’s speech “To be, or not to be. That is The Question …” On the other hand John Archibald Wheeler says “The Question is: What is The Question.” “Quantum logic” is the study of “quantum binary questions” arranged in a non-Boolean partially-ordered lattice. This is very different from our computers whose logic is that of a Boolean lattice. The non-Boolean lattice, where each question is a node on a graph, has “Isles of Boolean lattices” corresponding to compatible questions that can be answered definitely simultaneously with the same configuration of detectors. There is an approach to quantum gravity called “consistent histories” which consists of a “story line” of questions (Lee Smolin’s “The Three Roads to Quantum Gravity”) the problem is that knowing which questions to ask to tell the story is an insolvable problem, or perhaps I should say, is an undecidable question in the sense of Godel’s “incompleteness theorem” of 1931 and it’s corollaries like the “Halting Problem” of computer theory asking the question “When exactly will the program stop?” So this is what Wheeler is alluding to in his cryptographic remark: “The Question is: What is The Question?”
Now first thing we need to understand in looking at Rovelli’s version of Lee Smolin’s “Three Roads to Quantum Gravity” is that all three roads are top -> down. But there is a Gurdjieffian “Fourth (bottom -> up) Way” of “emergence”, ignored completely by Smolin and Rovelli and All The King’s Men trying to put Humpty Dumpty together again, due to the great Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov and also the Princeton physicist P.W. Anderson. Sakharov called it “metric elasticity”. Anderson called it “More is different” with an information-rich (low thermodynamic entropy) giant quantum coherence field that is local without entanglement with “generalized phase rigidity” making it immune to “environmental decoherence” that in a special case is Sakharov’s metric elasticity and also the “tension” of “string theory”. The fact that the giant quantum coherence field is local automatically explains why the outer world is definite without the same object being in two places at the same time and why we are not alive and dead at the same time like Schrodinger’s Cat out of a story by Lewis Carroll. As Wheeler wrote: “Physics is simple when it is local.” P.W. Anderson’s “More is different” explains why large –scale physics is local without needing Oxford’s David Deutsch’s “excess metaphysical baggage” (Wheeler’s term) of the quantum “Multiverse” of “shadow objects”. This is not to exclude “parallel universes”, but one must be vary careful on how “universe" is defined. It all depends on what you mean by "is". It's the ontology stupid! J
The new issue of Scientific American Feb 2004 has several very relevant articles on all this.
On Jan 30, 2004, at 8:20 AM, Johan M ...wrote:
I appreciate your comments and have responded marked ***.
On Jan 29, 2004, at 6:47 PM, Johan M... wrote:
"Dear Jack,
I have just read the first chapter in your book and agree with you that the task of reconciling QM with GR is most important. If you read my paper and also studiedwww.estfound.orgyou will realize that we might be very close to this goal. But, we have to take a few steps backward and ask some fundamental soul-searching questions. For example, how can time have a beginning and how can something be created from nothing I think Parmenides was right: He reasoned: Only being is - non-being is not. But, if only being is, there can be nothing outside this being that articulates it or could bring about change. Hence being must be conceived as eternal, uniform and unlimited in space and time."
Jack: I think you should read Lee Smolin's "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" about stuff like that. Also chaotic inflation is that picture on a very large scale of an infinity of parallel Hubble bubble universes with baby universes sprouting off at different levels. See Max Tegmark's article in May 2003 Scientific American.
JM :The answer proposed by my .. theory is that the cosmological expansion is a scale expansion:
ds^2=S(t)(dt^2-(dx^2+dy^2+dz^2)"
Jack: I think is this called a conformal dilation?
The problem is that your equation here is probably not a cosmological large-scale solution to Einstein's field equation
Guv + /\zpfguv + 8pi(G/c^4)Tuv = 0
JM: I agree, Einstein's equation is based on a continuous manifold, but both you and I know that the quantum world is discontinuous. So, Einstein's equations cannot model the universe at the quantum level. In the EST this is overcome by extending GR to include discrete scale changes, which do not alter the equations. This corresponds to discrete changes in the pace of proper time."
Jack: Your error here is in confusing scales. You have confused the cosmological scale with the tiny micro-quantum scales. The simple fact is that Einstein's equation as I wrote it above agrees with all the known observational facts to about 2% error as shown in all the references I have given you. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
that is in accord with the observational facts of precision cosmology.
"JM: But, it is not in accord with facts. There are many severe disagreements with observations. See my web pagewww.estfound.orgor for example Alan Lightman's book "Ancient light". In fact, the disagreement with observations should be an embarrassment. I will list a few:
Fundamental problems:
-The creation event.
-There is no explanation to the progression of time.
-The incompatibility between GR and QM.
Cosmological problems:
-The horizon problem and its "fix" - Inflation theory
-The Omega problem
-The age problem
-Galaxy formation
-Dark Matter
-Dark Energy
-Accelerating universe
-Preceded by decelerating universe.
Observational discrepancies with the standard model predictions:
-The angular size test
-The number count test
-The surface brightness test
-The supernovae Ia observations
-Metal rich old galaxies
-The CMB smoothness
-Galaxies in the Hubble far field are too small
As you see the problems with the big bang picture are many and are steadily increasing the more we learn."
Jack: I strongly disagree with your assessment of the facts here. Yes, there are issues like the dark energy and dark matter whose nature I have explained as standard exotic vacuum micro-quantum zero point fluctuation effects consistent with battle-tested physics especially Einstein's equation that I wrote above. Inflation theory is working very well! Most of the problems you list above have in fact been solved. Most importantly I do not see how your simple metric solves any of these problems.
JM: "S(t)=exp(t/T); T=Hubble time "
Jack: What is your definition of "Hubble time"? Is it a constant in your model? How do you measure it?
JM: "This models a universe in which the metrics of space and time change with time. However, this line element is GR equivalent only if the temporal expansion is discrete.
t+=t-+delta t
With this discrete model the GR equations never change - the universe always remains the same."
Jack: Your argument here makes no sense to me.
That contradicts observations. How do you explain cosmic black body radiation and its temperature fluctuations all over the sky? How do you explain the spectra of Type Ia supernovae and all the other facts shown on http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/ ?
JM: "***The CMB is easy to explain since Planck's spectrum is preserved in a scale expanding cosmos. It is the natural relaxation spectrum. The universe is in thermal equilibrium where radiated energy equals energy lost by tired light redshift.
The SNe Ia observations have unfortunately been misinterpreted. They presume:
a. That SNe Ia are standard candles. This is not true; 20+/-7% are more powerful and 16+/- 7% less powerful, see Li et. al., 2000, astro-ph 0006292
b. That there is time dilation, which is not the case in the EST universe.
The SNe Ia observations were obtained by taking photos of the night sky to detect sources that increase in strength and then fades. This will favor more luminous SNe with wider light curves. The lightcurve widths are then adjusted for time dilation. The conclusion that the cosmological expansion accelerates is based on this procedure. However, the wider light curves might have been chosen by selection bias and without time dilation there is no discrepancy with the EST model. In the EST we see what we expect to see in the SNe Ia observations."
Jack: Thanks, but no thanks. Talk to the experts in the field on that like Saul Perlmutter at Berkeley. Also I see no evidence that the universe as a whole on all scales is in thermal equilibrium even though we see the large-scale cosmic microwave background. The CMB T is not the "temperature of the universe".
How do you explain the "organic" large-scale structure of cosmic walls, filaments and voids that looks like an electron microscope image of a biological cell?
JM: ***If the universe is eternal these huge structures may form over very long times.
Jack: Scientifically meaningless as a proper explanation. Much too vague.
JM: "Thus, the EST universe could be eternal, resolving Parmenides puzzle. Also, since the progression of time occurs in scale "beyond spacetime" it is no wonder that it cannot be modeled by GR.
The EST universe agrees with observations much better than the Big Bang model and also explains the Pioneer anomaly.
This could have fundamental impact on quantum gravity since it no longer is the 3-space that changes with the cosmological expansion, but the 4-space of GR is updated at a high frequency. Furthermore, discrete scale expansion may operate across the spacetime of GR regardless of coordinate representation. What we give up is the continuous GR manifold. What we gain is better agreement with observations, the resolution of fundamental cosmological enigmas, and a clear link between GR and QM."
Jack: Scientifically meaningless as a proper explanation. Much too vague. I have no idea of what you are talking about with your use of "high frequency".
JM: "How would this approach work out in the context of your quantum loop theory?"
Jack: It's not my loop theory. There are a large number of Big Shots working on it. I am just learning it.
First of all real the three articles by Turner, Schwarzschild and Perlmutter in the April 2003 Physics Today on the observed facts and then show how your math model is consistent with those facts. :-)
You can see some of that data in myhttp://qedcorp.com/APS/StarGate1.mov
JM: " What I think should be of most interest to anyone working on quantum gravity is that the use of a scale increment rather than a time increment (with the progression of time) will preserve the four-dimensional GR manifold and its diffeomorphism. There is no longer a need to partition spacetime artificially into time and space. This would eliminate a very severe problem with quantum gravity."
Jack: Scientifically meaningless as a proper explanation. Much too vague. I have no idea of what you are talking about.
On Jan 30, 2004, at 8:20 AM, Johan M ...wrote:
I appreciate your comments and have responded marked ***.
On Jan 29, 2004, at 6:47 PM, Johan M... wrote:
"Dear Jack,
I have just read the first chapter in your book and agree with you that the task of reconciling QM with GR is most important. If you read my paper and also studiedwww.estfound.orgyou will realize that we might be very close to this goal. But, we have to take a few steps backward and ask some fundamental soul-searching questions. For example, how can time have a beginning and how can something be created from nothing I think Parmenides was right: He reasoned: Only being is - non-being is not. But, if only being is, there can be nothing outside this being that articulates it or could bring about change. Hence being must be conceived as eternal, uniform and unlimited in space and time."
Jack: I think you should read Lee Smolin's "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" about stuff like that. Also chaotic inflation is that picture on a very large scale of an infinity of parallel Hubble bubble universes with baby universes sprouting off at different levels. See Max Tegmark's article in May 2003 Scientific American.
JM :The answer proposed by my .. theory is that the cosmological expansion is a scale expansion:
ds^2=S(t)(dt^2-(dx^2+dy^2+dz^2)"
Jack: I think is this called a conformal dilation?
The problem is that your equation here is probably not a cosmological large-scale solution to Einstein's field equation
Guv + /\zpfguv + 8pi(G/c^4)Tuv = 0
JM: I agree, Einstein's equation is based on a continuous manifold, but both you and I know that the quantum world is discontinuous. So, Einstein's equations cannot model the universe at the quantum level. In the EST this is overcome by extending GR to include discrete scale changes, which do not alter the equations. This corresponds to discrete changes in the pace of proper time."
Jack: Your error here is in confusing scales. You have confused the cosmological scale with the tiny micro-quantum scales. The simple fact is that Einstein's equation as I wrote it above agrees with all the known observational facts to about 2% error as shown in all the references I have given you. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
that is in accord with the observational facts of precision cosmology.
"JM: But, it is not in accord with facts. There are many severe disagreements with observations. See my web pagewww.estfound.orgor for example Alan Lightman's book "Ancient light". In fact, the disagreement with observations should be an embarrassment. I will list a few:
Fundamental problems:
-The creation event.
-There is no explanation to the progression of time.
-The incompatibility between GR and QM.
Cosmological problems:
-The horizon problem and its "fix" - Inflation theory
-The Omega problem
-The age problem
-Galaxy formation
-Dark Matter
-Dark Energy
-Accelerating universe
-Preceded by decelerating universe.
Observational discrepancies with the standard model predictions:
-The angular size test
-The number count test
-The surface brightness test
-The supernovae Ia observations
-Metal rich old galaxies
-The CMB smoothness
-Galaxies in the Hubble far field are too small
As you see the problems with the big bang picture are many and are steadily increasing the more we learn."
Jack: I strongly disagree with your assessment of the facts here. Yes, there are issues like the dark energy and dark matter whose nature I have explained as standard exotic vacuum micro-quantum zero point fluctuation effects consistent with battle-tested physics especially Einstein's equation that I wrote above. Inflation theory is working very well! Most of the problems you list above have in fact been solved. Most importantly I do not see how your simple metric solves any of these problems.
JM: "S(t)=exp(t/T); T=Hubble time "
Jack: What is your definition of "Hubble time"? Is it a constant in your model? How do you measure it?
JM: "This models a universe in which the metrics of space and time change with time. However, this line element is GR equivalent only if the temporal expansion is discrete.
t+=t-+delta t
With this discrete model the GR equations never change - the universe always remains the same."
Jack: Your argument here makes no sense to me.
That contradicts observations. How do you explain cosmic black body radiation and its temperature fluctuations all over the sky? How do you explain the spectra of Type Ia supernovae and all the other facts shown on http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/ ?
JM: "***The CMB is easy to explain since Planck's spectrum is preserved in a scale expanding cosmos. It is the natural relaxation spectrum. The universe is in thermal equilibrium where radiated energy equals energy lost by tired light redshift.
The SNe Ia observations have unfortunately been misinterpreted. They presume:
a. That SNe Ia are standard candles. This is not true; 20+/-7% are more powerful and 16+/- 7% less powerful, see Li et. al., 2000, astro-ph 0006292
b. That there is time dilation, which is not the case in the EST universe.
The SNe Ia observations were obtained by taking photos of the night sky to detect sources that increase in strength and then fades. This will favor more luminous SNe with wider light curves. The lightcurve widths are then adjusted for time dilation. The conclusion that the cosmological expansion accelerates is based on this procedure. However, the wider light curves might have been chosen by selection bias and without time dilation there is no discrepancy with the EST model. In the EST we see what we expect to see in the SNe Ia observations."
Jack: Thanks, but no thanks. Talk to the experts in the field on that like Saul Perlmutter at Berkeley. Also I see no evidence that the universe as a whole on all scales is in thermal equilibrium even though we see the large-scale cosmic microwave background. The CMB T is not the "temperature of the universe".
How do you explain the "organic" large-scale structure of cosmic walls, filaments and voids that looks like an electron microscope image of a biological cell?
JM: ***If the universe is eternal these huge structures may form over very long times.
Jack: Scientifically meaningless as a proper explanation. Much too vague.
JM: "Thus, the EST universe could be eternal, resolving Parmenides puzzle. Also, since the progression of time occurs in scale "beyond spacetime" it is no wonder that it cannot be modeled by GR.
The EST universe agrees with observations much better than the Big Bang model and also explains the Pioneer anomaly.
This could have fundamental impact on quantum gravity since it no longer is the 3-space that changes with the cosmological expansion, but the 4-space of GR is updated at a high frequency. Furthermore, discrete scale expansion may operate across the spacetime of GR regardless of coordinate representation. What we give up is the continuous GR manifold. What we gain is better agreement with observations, the resolution of fundamental cosmological enigmas, and a clear link between GR and QM."
Jack: Scientifically meaningless as a proper explanation. Much too vague. I have no idea of what you are talking about with your use of "high frequency".
JM: "How would this approach work out in the context of your quantum loop theory?"
Jack: It's not my loop theory. There are a large number of Big Shots working on it. I am just learning it.
First of all real the three articles by Turner, Schwarzschild and Perlmutter in the April 2003 Physics Today on the observed facts and then show how your math model is consistent with those facts. :-)
You can see some of that data in myhttp://qedcorp.com/APS/StarGate1.mov
JM: " What I think should be of most interest to anyone working on quantum gravity is that the use of a scale increment rather than a time increment (with the progression of time) will preserve the four-dimensional GR manifold and its diffeomorphism. There is no longer a need to partition spacetime artificially into time and space. This would eliminate a very severe problem with quantum gravity."
Jack: Scientifically meaningless as a proper explanation. Much too vague. I have no idea of what you are talking about.
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Lecture 4: Gauge Symmetries and Invariances as Plato’s Theory of Forms
See 2.1.3 on p. 28 and study the complex list on p. 29 with the three kinds of gauge symmetries and how they act differently on the set of fundamental objects .
(i) are the spin gauge force symmetries that can be viewed as internal symmetries of Lie group G, or as symmetries in extra dimensions like in the Kaluza-Klein hyperspace Geometrodynamics of electric charge from the radius R of a curled up (AKA “compactified”) fourth space dimension. This has been generalized to “Calabi-Yau” spaces of “string theory” in the sense of Brian Greene’s NOVA PBS TV show “The Elegant Universe.” The gravity field tetrad e from locally gauging the translation group T4 and the spin connection W for parallel transport in warped base space-time from the Lie algebra of the tangent vector fiber space Lorentz group of rotations in 4D space-time are invariants under these Yang-Mills electro-weak-strong spin 1 gauge force symmetry transformations. See eqs. (2.47) to (2.51) on p.29. Note (2.49) how the gauge force potentials, AKA the connection field for parallel transport along paths in the extra dimensions, do not transform homogeneously like a multi-linear tensor of the group G.
(ii) LIF Lorentz transformation in the quasi-flat tangent vector fiber space to the warped base space-time. I use the term “quasi-flat” because the local curvature tensor, if it does not vanish, can still be locally measured in a LIF whose approximate metric is that of globally flat special relativity. See eqs. (2.52) to (2.56) on p. 29. Note (2.56) how the so(3,1) spin connection transforms inhomogeneously under O(3,1). This is what Tesla & “Philadelphia Experiment” expert” Jim Corum called the “anholonomic object” in his Ph.D. electrical engineering thesis under John Kraus at Ohio State that caused a lot of confusion at ISSO’s UFO Physics Project in 1999-2000. See my two books “Destiny Matrix” and “Space-Time and Beyond II” both published 2002 for that story. Kraus’s radio telescope also got the “WOW” possible ET signal I think in the 1970’s? Nick Herbert, author of “Quantum Realty” also worked on that telescope for Kraus.
(iii) Finally the vexing “active” (“pullback”) nonlocal x -> x’ =/= x Diffeomorphisms and their relation to the local passive general coordinate transformations at fixed space-time event x that even seemed to confuse Einstein for awhile. Look at (2.57) to (2.61) on p. 29. Note (2.61) which is a tensor transformation, but only on the one LNIF index. The two other indices are LIF in class (ii) above. Go back to the mixed LIF/LNIF equation (2.56) in (ii) for the O(3,1) Group LIF -> LIF’ transformations at fixed x. Note there is a typo error in the indices in Rovelli’s (2.56). Let o denote a O(3,1) LIF -> LIF’ transformation.
W^IvJ -> o^IKWv^KLo^LJ + o^Iko^KJ,v (2.56)
The first term on the RHS is the homogeneous multi-linear O(3,1) tensor transformation. The second term on the RHS is the inhomogeneous part that spoils the O(3,1) tensor property for the spin connection field for these tangent space fiber transformations.
How do we get Einstein’s 1915 Levi-Civita Christoffel connection field {^uvw} for parallel transport of tensors in the curved (warped) LNIF “base” space-time? What is the relation of it to the spin connection? On p. 27 eq. (2.42) is
{^uvw} = e^lJ e^J^u(elIe^I(,v w) + ewIe ^I[,vl] + evIe^I[,wl])
( ) is symmetrized anti-commutator of the LNIF Diff(4)indices and [ ] is the anti-symmetrized commutator of the indices. The comma denotes ordinary partial differentiation. Note, for example that e^I(,v w) means (1/2)[e^Iw,v + e^Iv,w]. Applying eq. (2.60) to eq. (2.42) gives a non-tensor transformation under the Diff(4) gauge symmetry group that is similar in form to eq. (2.56) for a different group of course!
Note that the active Diff(4) symmetry group of (iii) comes from locally gauging the global T4 translation group of the Poincare space-time symmetry group of special relativity. T4 is intertwined with the O(3,1) Lorentz group as a semi-direct product, which is why the spin connection valued in the Lorentz group comes into the notion of parallel transport even in the curved space-time. Look again at eq. (2.3) on p. 23 for the covariant derivative
DuV^I = V^I,u + Wu^IJV^J i.e. (2.3) p. 23 in a mixed LNIF/LIF representation.
V^I = e^IvV^v (S8a)
Therefore
V^I,u = (V^ve^Iv),u (S8b)
Wu^IJ = Wu^vwe^IveJ^w (S8c)
V^J = V^v’e^Jv’ (S8d)
Therefore (2.3) is equivalent to
Du e^IvV^v = (V^ve^Iv),u + Wu^vwe^IveJ^w V^v’e^Jv’ (S8e)
Assume metricity, so that
Due^Iv = 0 (S8f)
Therefore, by the chain rule of elementary calculus
Du e^IvV^v = e^IvDuV^v (S8g)
Also by the product rule of elementary calculus
(V^ve^Iv),u = e^IvV^v,u + e^Iv,uV^v (S8h)
Therefore
e^IvDuV^v = e^IvV^v,u + e^Iv,uV^v + e^IvWu^vweJ^w V^v’e^Jv’ (S8i)
Hence
DuV^v = V^v,u + Wu^vweJ^w e^Jl V^l + eI^v^e^Il,uV^l (S8j)
However, we know that
DuV^v = V^v,u + {^vul}V^l (S8k)
Therefore
{^vul} = Wu^vweJ^w e^Jl + eI^v^e^Il,u (S8l)
We now have deduced the relationship between the connection field in the curved base space-time and the spin connection in the tangent vector bundle as the above inhomogeneous non-tensor expression. Whew! Let me wipe the sweat off my brow.
“Elegance is for tailors.” ;-)
See 2.1.3 on p. 28 and study the complex list on p. 29 with the three kinds of gauge symmetries and how they act differently on the set of fundamental objects .
(i) are the spin gauge force symmetries that can be viewed as internal symmetries of Lie group G, or as symmetries in extra dimensions like in the Kaluza-Klein hyperspace Geometrodynamics of electric charge from the radius R of a curled up (AKA “compactified”) fourth space dimension. This has been generalized to “Calabi-Yau” spaces of “string theory” in the sense of Brian Greene’s NOVA PBS TV show “The Elegant Universe.” The gravity field tetrad e from locally gauging the translation group T4 and the spin connection W for parallel transport in warped base space-time from the Lie algebra of the tangent vector fiber space Lorentz group of rotations in 4D space-time are invariants under these Yang-Mills electro-weak-strong spin 1 gauge force symmetry transformations. See eqs. (2.47) to (2.51) on p.29. Note (2.49) how the gauge force potentials, AKA the connection field for parallel transport along paths in the extra dimensions, do not transform homogeneously like a multi-linear tensor of the group G.
(ii) LIF Lorentz transformation in the quasi-flat tangent vector fiber space to the warped base space-time. I use the term “quasi-flat” because the local curvature tensor, if it does not vanish, can still be locally measured in a LIF whose approximate metric is that of globally flat special relativity. See eqs. (2.52) to (2.56) on p. 29. Note (2.56) how the so(3,1) spin connection transforms inhomogeneously under O(3,1). This is what Tesla & “Philadelphia Experiment” expert” Jim Corum called the “anholonomic object” in his Ph.D. electrical engineering thesis under John Kraus at Ohio State that caused a lot of confusion at ISSO’s UFO Physics Project in 1999-2000. See my two books “Destiny Matrix” and “Space-Time and Beyond II” both published 2002 for that story. Kraus’s radio telescope also got the “WOW” possible ET signal I think in the 1970’s? Nick Herbert, author of “Quantum Realty” also worked on that telescope for Kraus.
(iii) Finally the vexing “active” (“pullback”) nonlocal x -> x’ =/= x Diffeomorphisms and their relation to the local passive general coordinate transformations at fixed space-time event x that even seemed to confuse Einstein for awhile. Look at (2.57) to (2.61) on p. 29. Note (2.61) which is a tensor transformation, but only on the one LNIF index. The two other indices are LIF in class (ii) above. Go back to the mixed LIF/LNIF equation (2.56) in (ii) for the O(3,1) Group LIF -> LIF’ transformations at fixed x. Note there is a typo error in the indices in Rovelli’s (2.56). Let o denote a O(3,1) LIF -> LIF’ transformation.
W^IvJ -> o^IKWv^KLo^LJ + o^Iko^KJ,v (2.56)
The first term on the RHS is the homogeneous multi-linear O(3,1) tensor transformation. The second term on the RHS is the inhomogeneous part that spoils the O(3,1) tensor property for the spin connection field for these tangent space fiber transformations.
How do we get Einstein’s 1915 Levi-Civita Christoffel connection field {^uvw} for parallel transport of tensors in the curved (warped) LNIF “base” space-time? What is the relation of it to the spin connection? On p. 27 eq. (2.42) is
{^uvw} = e^lJ e^J^u(elIe^I(,v w) + ewIe ^I[,vl] + evIe^I[,wl])
( ) is symmetrized anti-commutator of the LNIF Diff(4)indices and [ ] is the anti-symmetrized commutator of the indices. The comma denotes ordinary partial differentiation. Note, for example that e^I(,v w) means (1/2)[e^Iw,v + e^Iv,w]. Applying eq. (2.60) to eq. (2.42) gives a non-tensor transformation under the Diff(4) gauge symmetry group that is similar in form to eq. (2.56) for a different group of course!
Note that the active Diff(4) symmetry group of (iii) comes from locally gauging the global T4 translation group of the Poincare space-time symmetry group of special relativity. T4 is intertwined with the O(3,1) Lorentz group as a semi-direct product, which is why the spin connection valued in the Lorentz group comes into the notion of parallel transport even in the curved space-time. Look again at eq. (2.3) on p. 23 for the covariant derivative
DuV^I = V^I,u + Wu^IJV^J i.e. (2.3) p. 23 in a mixed LNIF/LIF representation.
V^I = e^IvV^v (S8a)
Therefore
V^I,u = (V^ve^Iv),u (S8b)
Wu^IJ = Wu^vwe^IveJ^w (S8c)
V^J = V^v’e^Jv’ (S8d)
Therefore (2.3) is equivalent to
Du e^IvV^v = (V^ve^Iv),u + Wu^vwe^IveJ^w V^v’e^Jv’ (S8e)
Assume metricity, so that
Due^Iv = 0 (S8f)
Therefore, by the chain rule of elementary calculus
Du e^IvV^v = e^IvDuV^v (S8g)
Also by the product rule of elementary calculus
(V^ve^Iv),u = e^IvV^v,u + e^Iv,uV^v (S8h)
Therefore
e^IvDuV^v = e^IvV^v,u + e^Iv,uV^v + e^IvWu^vweJ^w V^v’e^Jv’ (S8i)
Hence
DuV^v = V^v,u + Wu^vweJ^w e^Jl V^l + eI^v^e^Il,uV^l (S8j)
However, we know that
DuV^v = V^v,u + {^vul}V^l (S8k)
Therefore
{^vul} = Wu^vweJ^w e^Jl + eI^v^e^Il,u (S8l)
We now have deduced the relationship between the connection field in the curved base space-time and the spin connection in the tangent vector bundle as the above inhomogeneous non-tensor expression. Whew! Let me wipe the sweat off my brow.
“Elegance is for tailors.” ;-)
On Jan 29, 2004, at 6:47 PM, ... wrote:
Dear Jack,
"I have just read the first chapter in your book and agree with you that the task of reconciling QM with GR is most important. If you read my paper and also studiedwww.estfound.orgyou will realize that we might be very close to this goal. But, we have to take a few steps backward and ask some fundamental soul-searching questions. For example, how can time have a beginning and how can something be created from nothing."
Did you know that Werner Erhard had an "est Foundation"?
"I think Parmenides was right: He reasoned: Only being is - non-being is not. But, if only being is, there can be nothing outside this being that articulates it or could bring about change. Hence being must be conceived as eternal, uniform and unlimited in space and time."
I think you should read Lee Smolin's "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" about stuff like that.
"The answer proposed by my EST theory is that the cosmological expansion is a scale expansion:
ds^2=S(t)(dt^2-(dx^2+dy^2+dz^2) "
I think is this called a conformal dilation? The problem is that your equation here is probably not a cosmological large-scale solution to Einstein's field equation
Guv + /\zpfguv + 8pi(G/c^4)Tuv = 0
that is in accord with the observational facts of precision cosmology.
"S(t)=exp(t/T); T=Hubble time
This models a universe in which the metrics of space and time change with time. However, this line element is GR equivalent only if the temporal expansion is discrete.
t+=t-+delta t
With this discrete model the GR equations never change - the universe always remains the same."
That contradicts observations. How do you explain cosmic black body radiation and its temperature fluctuations all over the sky? How do you explain the spectra of Type Ia supernovae and all the other facts shown on http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/ ?
How do you explain the "organic" large-scale structure of cosmic walls, filaments and voids that looks like an electron microscope image of a biological cell?
"Thus, the EST universe could be eternal, resolving Parmenides puzzle. Also, since the progression of time occurs in scale "beyond spacetime" it is no wonder that it cannot be modeled by GR. The EST universe agrees with observations much better than the Big Bang model and also explains the Pioneer anomaly. This could have fundamental impact on quantum gravity since it no longer is the 3-space that changes with the cosmological expansion, but the 4-space of GR is updated at a high frequency. Furthermore, discrete scale expansion may operate across the spacetime of GR regardless of coordinate representation. What we give up is the continuous GR manifold. What we gain is better agreement with observations, the resolution of fundamental cosmological enigmas, and a clear link between GR and QM. How would this approach work out in the context of your quantum loop theory?"
It's not my loop theory. There are a large number of Big Shots working on it. I am just learning it.
First of all read the three articles by Turner, Schwarzschild and Perlmutter in the April 2003 Physics Today on the observed facts and then show how your math model is consistent with those facts. :-)
You can see some of that data in my http://qedcorp.com/APS/StarGate1.mov
Lecture 3 is at the end. I have also modified Lectures 1 and 2. Please delete previous versions.
Also the page references to Rovelli's text book for this "Star Fleet Academy" course have
been fixed to match Rovelli's and not Adobe's labeling. Rovelli makes a "mistake"
it seems in confusing the tangent spaces of LIFs with the base space of LNIFs in the
sense of MTW's "Gravitation". Perhaps it is only a linguistic problem with Rovelli's
English or perhaps it is something deep I have missed. So I give this Caveat.
Sarfatti Lecture 1 on the Zero Point Dark Energy Metric Engineering of UFOs
“the article's online version at
http://www.livingreviews.org/Articles/Volume4/2001-1carroll/ .
Owing to the fact that a Living Reviews article can evolve over time, we
recommend to cite the article as follows:
Carroll, S.M.,
“The Cosmological Constant",
Living Rev. Relativity, 4, (2001),
“General relativity is a paradigmatic example of a scientific theory of impressive
power and simplicity. The cosmological constant, meanwhile, is a paradigmatic
example of a modification, originally introduced [81] to help fit the data, which appears at least on the surface to be superfluous and unattractive. Its original role, to allow static homogeneous solutions to Einstein's equations in the presence of matter, turned out to be unnecessary when the expansion of the universe was discovered [131], and there have been a number of subsequent episodes in which a nonzero cosmological constant was put forward as an explanation for a set of observations and later withdrawn when the observational case evaporated. Meanwhile, particle theorists have realized that the cosmological constant can be interpreted as a measure of the energy density of the vacuum. This energy density is the sum of a number of apparently unrelated contributions, each of magnitude much larger than the upper limits on the cosmological
constant today; the question of why the observed vacuum energy is so small in comparison to the scales of particle physics has become a celebrated puzzle, although it is usually thought to be easier to imagine an unknown mechanism which would set it precisely to zero than one which would suppress it by just the right amount to yield an observationally accessible cosmological constant. This checkered history has led to a certain reluctance to consider further invocations of a nonzero cosmological constant; however, recent years have provided the best evidence yet that this elusive quantity does play an important dynamical role in the universe.”
Note in the above excerpt:
“particle theorists have realized that the cosmological constant can be interpreted as a measure of the energy density of the vacuum. This energy density is the sum of a number of apparently unrelated contributions, each of magnitude much larger than the upper limits on the cosmological constant today; the question of why the observed vacuum energy is so small in comparison to the scales of particle physics has become a celebrated puzzle”
I allege I have solved this problem using the idea of “vacuum coherence” missing from the orthodox theory in the precise way I use it. The idea of “vacuum condensate” is in orthodox theory. It is a related idea, but not exactly the way I mean it.
Einstein’s GR local geometrodynamical field equation with the cosmological term /\guv is
Ruv – (1/2)Rguv + /\guv = 8pi(G/c^4)Tuv (1)
Impose the large-scale coarse-grained isotropic homogeneous Friedman-Robert-Walker solution
ds^2 = -(cdt)^2 + a^2(t)Ro^2[(dr)^2/(1 – kr^2) + r^2dO^2] (2)
r is dimensionless and the Her Majesty’s Royal Navy’s navigational “celestial sphere” spherical angular line element is
dO^2 = (dtheta)^2 + (sintheta)^2(dphi)^2 (3)
in usual polar coordinates for latitude theta and longitude phi on the 2D sphere of unit radius. a(t) is dimensionless = R(t)/Ro. Subscript o means “now”. k is +1 (closed universe in 3D like a sphere) or 0 (spatially flat like an infinite plane in Euclid’s geometry) or – 1 like a hyperboloid. Both k = 0 and k = -1 are open universes of infinite spatial extent.
The cosmological redshift z of retarded radiation from a co-moving source in the “Hubble flow” where the Cosmic Black Body Radiation (CBR) is maximally isotropic from the past till now obeys the equation
a(past) = [1 + z(now)]^-1 (4)
The symmetric stress-energy density tensor Tuv for “stuff” on the RHS of eq (1) is of the form
Tuv = (energy density + pressure)UuUv + pressure guv
= (energy density)[(1 + w)UuUv + wguv] (5)
Uv is the dimensionless 4-velocity dx^u/ds of this “cosmic fluid” stuff.
w = 0 for cold matter (6a)
w = 1/3 for electromagnetic radiation (far field) (6b)
w = -1 for any kind of zero point vacuum fluctuation (ZPF) of any quantum field including string and brane fields (6c)
An “exotic vacuum” is any kind of virtual stuff with w = -1 and a non-vanishing pressure.
Virtual stuff will not make any particle detector click, but it still has “dark” gravity and anti-gravity properties bending EM radiation signals for example. Dark matter exotic vacuum in a clump will act like a convex converging gravity lens. Dark energy in a clump will act like a diverging gravity lens. Dark matter makes a gravity red shift and dark energy makes a gravity blue shift.
The global cosmic time t (~ 1/(Absolute temperature of CBR) as a convenient measure) dependent Hubble parameter is
H(t) = a^-1(da/dt) (7)
Einstein’s tensor field equation (1) forced into the highly symmetric “Killing vector field” mold of FRW eq (2) simplifies to TWO ordinary differential equations:
H^2 = 8pi(G/c^2)(energy density) + c^2/\/3 –kc^2/a^2Ro^2 (8a)
Note that H^2 is analogous to Newton’s Laplacian of the Gravity Potential Energy of ANY Source Stuff (real or virtual in sense of quantum field theory’s “on” or “off” “mass shell”) per unit test particle that has dimensions of (time)^-2. But an even closer fit analogy to Newton’s Poisson equation in this spatially homogeneous strictly large-scale approximation is the second equation
a^-1d^2a/dt^2 = -(4pi/3)(G/c^2)[(energy density) + 3(pressure)] + c^2/\/3
= -(4pi/3)(G/c^2)(energy density)[(1 + 3w) + c^2/\/3 (8b)
to be continued
PROBLEM SET #1
1.1 Term Paper Project # 1
What does Hal Puthoff write about zero point energy and gravity and its relation to “interstellar flight” and UFOs?
Go to http://www.earthtech.org/publications/
Also download all articles by Eric Davis at
http://www.nidsci.org/articles/articles3.html
Compare what Puthoff and Davis profess with the physics in these lectures.
Sarfatti Lecture 2 on Metric Engineering the Zero Point Dark Energy
Rovelli’s formalism in http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/book.pdf
Note indices I,J,K,L… are in the LIF representation and indices u,v,w, l are in the LNIF representation. The two are connected by Einstein’s local version of the equivalence principle. “Physics is simple when it is local.” (John A. Wheeler). There is also a global version of the equivalence principle that Hal Puthoff prefers that I shall not use unless explicitly noted. Problems of interpretation arise as mentioned by Paul Zielinski because the local tidal curvature tensor is an absolute distinction between a timelike geodesic LIF near a large source mass warping space-time and a timelike geodesic LIF far away from that same large source mass. Similarly with LNIFs near and far from the same large source mass.
e^I(x) = eu^I(x)dx^u = “gravitational field” Cartan 1-form in the LIF representation i.e. his eq. 2.1 p. 23
I in Minkowski “LIF”space, but Rovelli says u in Tangent vector space TxM not in base space M. This is odd since the local tangent space has the Minkowski metric and the curved base space has guv metric.
*Note that the locally variable tetrad components eu^I(x) and its inverse eI^u(x) at space-time event x express Einstein’s Equivalence Principle (EEP) of the passive transformation between the Locally Inertial Frame (LIF) that is non-rotating on a timelike geodesic and a momentarily concident Locally Non-Inertial Frame (LNIF) that can be rotating and whose center is on a timelike non-geodesic that intersects the timelike geodesic at x. This is not the same as the active “gauge-equivalent” diffeomorphisms where x -> x’ =/= x.
The globally flat solution is
eu^I(x) = (Kronecker Delta)u^I i.e. eq 2.44 p. 27
With a globally vanishing spin-connection WIJ = 0 in a region of space-time not only at a point or on timelike geodesic world lines.
My elastic-plastic Kleinert “world crystal” distortion field must be in the LNIF representation on the LHS
L^u(x) = [e^uI(x) - (Kronecker Delta)^uI]dx^I
= (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)arg(Vacuum Coherence),u (S1a)
,u is ordinary partial derivative in the LNIF representation
L^I(x) = eu^I L^u(x) (S1b) in the LIF representation,
Next introduce the antisymmetric Lorentz group algebra “spin connection” that will apply to spinning tops for example. The spin connection is also a Cartan 1-form
W^IJ(x) = Wu^Ijdx^u i.e. eq. (2.2) p. 23
There are 6 of these generators of the Lie algebra so(3,1)of the 6 parameter Lorentz group of 3 space-time rotations (boosts) and 3 space-space rotations (total angular momentum)
WIJ = - WJI (S2) in the LIF representation.
Note that L^u(x) is the local gauge force compensating field restoring the broken 4-parameter translation group symmetry T4. However, while the T4 and so(3,1) are intertwined as a “semi-direct product” and as seen in the Thomas precession and the Sagnac effect, there is no local gauge force compensating field for Lie algebra so(3,1) when we use a torsion-free spin connection to define the tidal force tensor curvature that intimately uses so(3,1). Thus, the generally covariant partial derivative of General Relativity in the Cartan formalism starts from
DuV^I = V^I,u + Wu^IJV^J i.e. (2.3) p. 23 in a mixed LNIF/LIF representation.
More generally the generally covariant Cartan exterior derivative on a 1-form v^I is the 2-form
DV^I = dV^I + W^IJ/\V^J i.e. (2.4) p. 24 in the LIF representation
Where d is the Cartan exterior derivative and /\ is the wedge product. Do not confuse this “/\” the exterior wedge product with “/\zpf” the “metric engineering” random micro-quantum zero point exotic vacuum dark energy/matter induced curvature scale. What is the relation of /\ to Clifford algebra? Note that the Lorentz group Lie algebra so(3,1) is the fundamental connection field from the breaking of the global symmetry of T4 whose Lie algebra is total energy-momentum. This total “mom-energy” (Wheeler) is not a natural concept in General Relativity because locally variable curvature breaks global translational symmetry even though curvature’s definition involves the rotations of so(3,1) since local curvature is the anholonomy disclination “Berry phase” in the orientation of a vector parallel transported around a closed space-time loop as the area of the loop shrinks to zero. Torsion T^I means that the loop in tangent fiber space is broken or dislocated for a closed loop in base space or vice versa. That is, with torsion, closed loops do not map to closed loops in parallel transport.
The condition of zero torsion gauge force field is the vanishing Cartan torsion field 2-form
T^I = De^I = de^I + W^IJ/\e^J = 0 i.e. (2.6) p. 24
Again note that it is the spin connection from so(3,1) that plays the vital role!
Finally the tidal relative acceleration or timelike geodesic deviation is also a Cartan 2-form from the zero torsion so(3,1) spin connection (which allows fermions as well as bosons)
R^IJ = dW^IJ + W^IK/\W^KJ i.e. (2.8) p. 24
i.e. tidal curvature is the nonlinear self-organizing spin connection covariant exterior derivative on itself! This is why there are curved vacuums independent of real mass-energy sources! Gravity acts on itself in a non-Abelian way.
The Einstein local field equation with the zero point energy cosmological /\zpf term is in Cartan formalism is the Euler-Lagrange equation
[IJKL]e^I/\R^J^K + /\zpf e^I/\e^J/\e^K = 0 i.e. (2.9) p. 24
where [IJKL] is the anti-symmetric 4-symbol
Note the cubic nonlinearity in the zero point energy /\ “metric engineering” term.
The dynamical action density is ~
e^I/\e^J/\R^K^L + /\zpf e^I/\e^J/\e^K/\e^L contracted with [IJKL] to make an invariant scalar i.e. eq. (2.10) p. 24
Sarfatti Lecture 3 on Metric Engineering Super Cosmos
Rovelli in Footnote 3 p. 42 in http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/book.pdf makes an important remark for metric engineering that the space-time stiffness factor is only important in the coupling of ordinary mass-energy to the warped spacetime geometrodynamic field. The space-time stiffness factor is G/c^4 with the dimensions of length/energy = (string tension)^-1 = Witten’s alpha’/hc ~ (Loop Quantum of Area)/hc.
Coupling of gravity warped space-time to ordinary mass-energy sources. Here one can think of the Kaluza-Klein extra space dimensions or, alternatively, internal dimensions, which is not as “geometrodynamic” lacking a common super-metric.
1. Electromagnetism spin 1 compensating gauge force field from breaking global U(1) phase symmetry: here the so(3,1) spin connection WIJ is replaced by the U(1) “Maxwell potential” connection Cartan 1-form in the extra dimensions
A(x) = Au(x)dx^u i.e. eq. (2.25) p. 26
This 1x1 connection field for parallel transport in the extra dimensions restores the broken global U(1) symmetry generated by electric charge just as the so(3,1) spin connection restores the broken global T4 symmetry generated by mom-energy. A(x)’s globally flat exterior U(1) gauge-invariant derivative is the EM field tensor internal (fiber)curvature 2-form:
F = dA = Fuvdx^u/\dx^v (S3a)
Fuv = Au,v – Av,u (S3b)
The dynamical action density is
Lem = (1/4)F*/\F i.e.
Where F* is the Hodge star transform, in flat spacetime
F*IJ = [IJKL]F^K^L i.e. eq. (3) p. xiv
* Always with summation over repeated lower and upper pairs of tensor indices.
And in curved spacetime
Fuv* = (-detg)^1/2[uvwl]F^w&l = |dete|[uvwl]F^w&l i.e. eq. (4) p. xiv
2. Yang-Mills non-Abelian e.g. G -> SU(2) weak beta decay radioactive spin 1 W+0- bosons “flavor” gauge force, or G -> SU(3) gluon “color” strong sub-nuclear spin 1 gauge force, have the connection field 1-form A(YM) that is a matrix representation of the Lie algebra of whatever the Lie group G is e.g. (2.27) p. 26.
3. See also the boson scalar spin 1 fields and the fermion O(3,1) Lorentz group spinor fields on p. 26.
The complete local Einstein field equation with the ordinary mass-energy source term and the exotic vacuum random micro-quantum zero point dark energy/matter term in Cartan form notation is in the locally quasi-flat non-rotating timelike geodesic “LIF” (Local Inertial Frame) is the Cartan 3-form equation
[IJKL](e^I/\R^J^K + /\zpf e^I/\e^J/\e^K) = 8pi(G/c^4)TI i.e. eq. (2.34) p. 27
Where the source stress-energy density Cartan 3-form is
TI = T^uI[uvwl]dx^v/\dx^w/\dx^w i.e. eq. (2.35) p. 27
This stress-energy density 3-form comes from the functional derivative of the dynamical action of the ordinary matter-energy S(matter) with respect to the tetrad gravity field eu^I(x), i.e. in mixed LIF/LNIF representation
T^uI(x) = &S(matter)/&eu^I(x) (2.36) p. 27
The stress-energy density tensor of ordinary vacuum is zero. The Yilmaz theory is plain wrong IMHO. There is a micro-quantum stress-energy tensor for exotic vacuum of course that is in pure LNIF representation
Tuv(Exotic Vacuum Zero Point Energy) ~ (String Tension)/\zpf guv (S4)
What is the anti-symmetric spin-connection.? Let o(3,1)IJ be the 6 independent generator elements of the Lie Algebra of the Lorentz group O(3,1). I propose for consideration
WIJ(x) = [IJKL]eK^u(x)eL^u(argVacuum Coherence)[,u,v] (S5) ????
Where [ , ] is the anti-symmetrizer or commutator of the partial derivatives ,u and ,v.
This is a “Goldstone” phase anholonomy where the mixed partial derivatives of the MACRO-QUANTUM vacuum coherent phase are not equal. This only happens in string superfluid “vortex cores” that are topological defects where the virtual off-mass-shell superfluid condensate inflation field “Higgs” amplitude |Vacuum Coherence| -> 0 inside a “coherence length”. This picture of string defects for the complex numbered Vacuum Coherence inflation field fits Hagen Kleinert’s world crystal lattice long-wave Infra Red (IR) curvature and torsion as string disclination and dislocation lattice defect densities.
WIJ(x) = WIJ(x)disclination + WIJ(x)dislocation (S6)
This idea gets us to the key notion of nonlocal string holonomies and “Wilson loops”of lattice gauge theory and the resolution scale dependent “wavelet transform” renormalization group flows to “fixed points”. Rovelli in 1.2.1 on pp. 10-11 traces the origin of this idea back to Michael Faraday’s idea of the “field” as “lines of force” in the early 19th Century. Given any connection field Cartan 1-form, the “holonomy” is the parallel transport of the “force vector” around a closed string loop. Now one can, no doubt, probably generalize this “holonomy” to higher-dimensional “branes” like in the Clifford Algebra “Extended Relativity” of Castro and Pavsic, for example, and in other probably equivalent algebraic matrix formalisms.
In Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) the nonlocal holonomy becomes a quantum matrix operator and an elementary closed string loop quantum state |l> is where the “force vector” vanishes everywhere except on the closed string loop. An example is shown in Fig 1.1 with equation (1.6) on p. 11. Now our example in eq. (S6) is an inverted image of what Rovelli is talking about. We have a phase singularity or anholonomy in which the Higgs amplitude |Vacuum Coherence| vanishes on the closed string loop so that the mixed second order partial derivatives of the Goldstone phase of the Vacuum Coherence field are not equal.
3D “pre-space-like” SU(2) group quantum bit (qubit) computer spintronic networks (I use “spintronic” rather than “spin” to call attention to the technology applications pursued with DARPA funding) are coherent superpositions of these elementary loop states. These become interesting when the loops intertwine and intersect and form “knots”. One can form a finite-norm orthogonal basis of a separable Hilbert space of these 3D spintronic network quantum computer states in the pre-geometry prior to the emergence of classical c-number warped space-time provided that there is a world crystal lattice structure whose unit cells do not vanish in the continuum limit. That is there is an indivisible “Loop Gravity Quantum of Area”.
One can do continuous active diffeomorphisms on these discrete lattice qubit spintronic network states. Infinitesimal active diffeomorphisms on a spintronic net make “gauge group equivalent representation” of the same nonlocal network state. These equivalent representations that are connected by infinitesimal active diffeomorphisms equivalence relation ~ must be factored out in a “quotient set = set/~” of “cosets” algebraic process.
See Rovelli’s argument on p. 12 how these ideas of gauge equivalence of infinitesimal continuous active diffeomorphisms with a quantum of area in a discrete combinatoric qubit computing network pre-space-time lead to a separable kosher quantum Hilbert space of spintronic networks that permit a dynamical “background independent” quantum gravity theory and indeed a background independent quantum field string theory for all fields in a purely relational frame work. Rovelli pictures pre-space-time as the Hobbes-Melville “Great Leviathan” the “Great White Whale” “Big Fish” with the other fermion and boson fields like smaller fish clinging to it and sliding relative to it and each other.
The condition that the loops cannot shrink in area to zero also leads to the Witten M-theory string duality generalized “conformal inversion”
w = z + z^-1 uncertainty principle in which
Uncertainty in position ~ h/(uncertainty in momentum) + (cWitten alpha’)(uncertainty in momentum) (S7a)
And its dual:
Uncertainty in momentum = h/(uncertainty in position) + (1/cWitten alpha’)(uncertainty in position) (S7b)
Recall that:
Witten alpha’ = (String Tension)^-1 = (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)/hc (S7c)
cWitten alpha’ = Loop Gravity Quantum of Area/h (S7d)
Also the page references to Rovelli's text book for this "Star Fleet Academy" course have
been fixed to match Rovelli's and not Adobe's labeling. Rovelli makes a "mistake"
it seems in confusing the tangent spaces of LIFs with the base space of LNIFs in the
sense of MTW's "Gravitation". Perhaps it is only a linguistic problem with Rovelli's
English or perhaps it is something deep I have missed. So I give this Caveat.
Sarfatti Lecture 1 on the Zero Point Dark Energy Metric Engineering of UFOs
“the article's online version at
http://www.livingreviews.org/Articles/Volume4/2001-1carroll/ .
Owing to the fact that a Living Reviews article can evolve over time, we
recommend to cite the article as follows:
Carroll, S.M.,
“The Cosmological Constant",
Living Rev. Relativity, 4, (2001),
“General relativity is a paradigmatic example of a scientific theory of impressive
power and simplicity. The cosmological constant, meanwhile, is a paradigmatic
example of a modification, originally introduced [81] to help fit the data, which appears at least on the surface to be superfluous and unattractive. Its original role, to allow static homogeneous solutions to Einstein's equations in the presence of matter, turned out to be unnecessary when the expansion of the universe was discovered [131], and there have been a number of subsequent episodes in which a nonzero cosmological constant was put forward as an explanation for a set of observations and later withdrawn when the observational case evaporated. Meanwhile, particle theorists have realized that the cosmological constant can be interpreted as a measure of the energy density of the vacuum. This energy density is the sum of a number of apparently unrelated contributions, each of magnitude much larger than the upper limits on the cosmological
constant today; the question of why the observed vacuum energy is so small in comparison to the scales of particle physics has become a celebrated puzzle, although it is usually thought to be easier to imagine an unknown mechanism which would set it precisely to zero than one which would suppress it by just the right amount to yield an observationally accessible cosmological constant. This checkered history has led to a certain reluctance to consider further invocations of a nonzero cosmological constant; however, recent years have provided the best evidence yet that this elusive quantity does play an important dynamical role in the universe.”
Note in the above excerpt:
“particle theorists have realized that the cosmological constant can be interpreted as a measure of the energy density of the vacuum. This energy density is the sum of a number of apparently unrelated contributions, each of magnitude much larger than the upper limits on the cosmological constant today; the question of why the observed vacuum energy is so small in comparison to the scales of particle physics has become a celebrated puzzle”
I allege I have solved this problem using the idea of “vacuum coherence” missing from the orthodox theory in the precise way I use it. The idea of “vacuum condensate” is in orthodox theory. It is a related idea, but not exactly the way I mean it.
Einstein’s GR local geometrodynamical field equation with the cosmological term /\guv is
Ruv – (1/2)Rguv + /\guv = 8pi(G/c^4)Tuv (1)
Impose the large-scale coarse-grained isotropic homogeneous Friedman-Robert-Walker solution
ds^2 = -(cdt)^2 + a^2(t)Ro^2[(dr)^2/(1 – kr^2) + r^2dO^2] (2)
r is dimensionless and the Her Majesty’s Royal Navy’s navigational “celestial sphere” spherical angular line element is
dO^2 = (dtheta)^2 + (sintheta)^2(dphi)^2 (3)
in usual polar coordinates for latitude theta and longitude phi on the 2D sphere of unit radius. a(t) is dimensionless = R(t)/Ro. Subscript o means “now”. k is +1 (closed universe in 3D like a sphere) or 0 (spatially flat like an infinite plane in Euclid’s geometry) or – 1 like a hyperboloid. Both k = 0 and k = -1 are open universes of infinite spatial extent.
The cosmological redshift z of retarded radiation from a co-moving source in the “Hubble flow” where the Cosmic Black Body Radiation (CBR) is maximally isotropic from the past till now obeys the equation
a(past) = [1 + z(now)]^-1 (4)
The symmetric stress-energy density tensor Tuv for “stuff” on the RHS of eq (1) is of the form
Tuv = (energy density + pressure)UuUv + pressure guv
= (energy density)[(1 + w)UuUv + wguv] (5)
Uv is the dimensionless 4-velocity dx^u/ds of this “cosmic fluid” stuff.
w = 0 for cold matter (6a)
w = 1/3 for electromagnetic radiation (far field) (6b)
w = -1 for any kind of zero point vacuum fluctuation (ZPF) of any quantum field including string and brane fields (6c)
An “exotic vacuum” is any kind of virtual stuff with w = -1 and a non-vanishing pressure.
Virtual stuff will not make any particle detector click, but it still has “dark” gravity and anti-gravity properties bending EM radiation signals for example. Dark matter exotic vacuum in a clump will act like a convex converging gravity lens. Dark energy in a clump will act like a diverging gravity lens. Dark matter makes a gravity red shift and dark energy makes a gravity blue shift.
The global cosmic time t (~ 1/(Absolute temperature of CBR) as a convenient measure) dependent Hubble parameter is
H(t) = a^-1(da/dt) (7)
Einstein’s tensor field equation (1) forced into the highly symmetric “Killing vector field” mold of FRW eq (2) simplifies to TWO ordinary differential equations:
H^2 = 8pi(G/c^2)(energy density) + c^2/\/3 –kc^2/a^2Ro^2 (8a)
Note that H^2 is analogous to Newton’s Laplacian of the Gravity Potential Energy of ANY Source Stuff (real or virtual in sense of quantum field theory’s “on” or “off” “mass shell”) per unit test particle that has dimensions of (time)^-2. But an even closer fit analogy to Newton’s Poisson equation in this spatially homogeneous strictly large-scale approximation is the second equation
a^-1d^2a/dt^2 = -(4pi/3)(G/c^2)[(energy density) + 3(pressure)] + c^2/\/3
= -(4pi/3)(G/c^2)(energy density)[(1 + 3w) + c^2/\/3 (8b)
to be continued
PROBLEM SET #1
1.1 Term Paper Project # 1
What does Hal Puthoff write about zero point energy and gravity and its relation to “interstellar flight” and UFOs?
Go to http://www.earthtech.org/publications/
Also download all articles by Eric Davis at
http://www.nidsci.org/articles/articles3.html
Compare what Puthoff and Davis profess with the physics in these lectures.
Sarfatti Lecture 2 on Metric Engineering the Zero Point Dark Energy
Rovelli’s formalism in http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/book.pdf
Note indices I,J,K,L… are in the LIF representation and indices u,v,w, l are in the LNIF representation. The two are connected by Einstein’s local version of the equivalence principle. “Physics is simple when it is local.” (John A. Wheeler). There is also a global version of the equivalence principle that Hal Puthoff prefers that I shall not use unless explicitly noted. Problems of interpretation arise as mentioned by Paul Zielinski because the local tidal curvature tensor is an absolute distinction between a timelike geodesic LIF near a large source mass warping space-time and a timelike geodesic LIF far away from that same large source mass. Similarly with LNIFs near and far from the same large source mass.
e^I(x) = eu^I(x)dx^u = “gravitational field” Cartan 1-form in the LIF representation i.e. his eq. 2.1 p. 23
I in Minkowski “LIF”space, but Rovelli says u in Tangent vector space TxM not in base space M. This is odd since the local tangent space has the Minkowski metric and the curved base space has guv metric.
*Note that the locally variable tetrad components eu^I(x) and its inverse eI^u(x) at space-time event x express Einstein’s Equivalence Principle (EEP) of the passive transformation between the Locally Inertial Frame (LIF) that is non-rotating on a timelike geodesic and a momentarily concident Locally Non-Inertial Frame (LNIF) that can be rotating and whose center is on a timelike non-geodesic that intersects the timelike geodesic at x. This is not the same as the active “gauge-equivalent” diffeomorphisms where x -> x’ =/= x.
The globally flat solution is
eu^I(x) = (Kronecker Delta)u^I i.e. eq 2.44 p. 27
With a globally vanishing spin-connection WIJ = 0 in a region of space-time not only at a point or on timelike geodesic world lines.
My elastic-plastic Kleinert “world crystal” distortion field must be in the LNIF representation on the LHS
L^u(x) = [e^uI(x) - (Kronecker Delta)^uI]dx^I
= (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)arg(Vacuum Coherence),u (S1a)
,u is ordinary partial derivative in the LNIF representation
L^I(x) = eu^I L^u(x) (S1b) in the LIF representation,
Next introduce the antisymmetric Lorentz group algebra “spin connection” that will apply to spinning tops for example. The spin connection is also a Cartan 1-form
W^IJ(x) = Wu^Ijdx^u i.e. eq. (2.2) p. 23
There are 6 of these generators of the Lie algebra so(3,1)of the 6 parameter Lorentz group of 3 space-time rotations (boosts) and 3 space-space rotations (total angular momentum)
WIJ = - WJI (S2) in the LIF representation.
Note that L^u(x) is the local gauge force compensating field restoring the broken 4-parameter translation group symmetry T4. However, while the T4 and so(3,1) are intertwined as a “semi-direct product” and as seen in the Thomas precession and the Sagnac effect, there is no local gauge force compensating field for Lie algebra so(3,1) when we use a torsion-free spin connection to define the tidal force tensor curvature that intimately uses so(3,1). Thus, the generally covariant partial derivative of General Relativity in the Cartan formalism starts from
DuV^I = V^I,u + Wu^IJV^J i.e. (2.3) p. 23 in a mixed LNIF/LIF representation.
More generally the generally covariant Cartan exterior derivative on a 1-form v^I is the 2-form
DV^I = dV^I + W^IJ/\V^J i.e. (2.4) p. 24 in the LIF representation
Where d is the Cartan exterior derivative and /\ is the wedge product. Do not confuse this “/\” the exterior wedge product with “/\zpf” the “metric engineering” random micro-quantum zero point exotic vacuum dark energy/matter induced curvature scale. What is the relation of /\ to Clifford algebra? Note that the Lorentz group Lie algebra so(3,1) is the fundamental connection field from the breaking of the global symmetry of T4 whose Lie algebra is total energy-momentum. This total “mom-energy” (Wheeler) is not a natural concept in General Relativity because locally variable curvature breaks global translational symmetry even though curvature’s definition involves the rotations of so(3,1) since local curvature is the anholonomy disclination “Berry phase” in the orientation of a vector parallel transported around a closed space-time loop as the area of the loop shrinks to zero. Torsion T^I means that the loop in tangent fiber space is broken or dislocated for a closed loop in base space or vice versa. That is, with torsion, closed loops do not map to closed loops in parallel transport.
The condition of zero torsion gauge force field is the vanishing Cartan torsion field 2-form
T^I = De^I = de^I + W^IJ/\e^J = 0 i.e. (2.6) p. 24
Again note that it is the spin connection from so(3,1) that plays the vital role!
Finally the tidal relative acceleration or timelike geodesic deviation is also a Cartan 2-form from the zero torsion so(3,1) spin connection (which allows fermions as well as bosons)
R^IJ = dW^IJ + W^IK/\W^KJ i.e. (2.8) p. 24
i.e. tidal curvature is the nonlinear self-organizing spin connection covariant exterior derivative on itself! This is why there are curved vacuums independent of real mass-energy sources! Gravity acts on itself in a non-Abelian way.
The Einstein local field equation with the zero point energy cosmological /\zpf term is in Cartan formalism is the Euler-Lagrange equation
[IJKL]e^I/\R^J^K + /\zpf e^I/\e^J/\e^K = 0 i.e. (2.9) p. 24
where [IJKL] is the anti-symmetric 4-symbol
Note the cubic nonlinearity in the zero point energy /\ “metric engineering” term.
The dynamical action density is ~
e^I/\e^J/\R^K^L + /\zpf e^I/\e^J/\e^K/\e^L contracted with [IJKL] to make an invariant scalar i.e. eq. (2.10) p. 24
Sarfatti Lecture 3 on Metric Engineering Super Cosmos
Rovelli in Footnote 3 p. 42 in http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/book.pdf makes an important remark for metric engineering that the space-time stiffness factor is only important in the coupling of ordinary mass-energy to the warped spacetime geometrodynamic field. The space-time stiffness factor is G/c^4 with the dimensions of length/energy = (string tension)^-1 = Witten’s alpha’/hc ~ (Loop Quantum of Area)/hc.
Coupling of gravity warped space-time to ordinary mass-energy sources. Here one can think of the Kaluza-Klein extra space dimensions or, alternatively, internal dimensions, which is not as “geometrodynamic” lacking a common super-metric.
1. Electromagnetism spin 1 compensating gauge force field from breaking global U(1) phase symmetry: here the so(3,1) spin connection WIJ is replaced by the U(1) “Maxwell potential” connection Cartan 1-form in the extra dimensions
A(x) = Au(x)dx^u i.e. eq. (2.25) p. 26
This 1x1 connection field for parallel transport in the extra dimensions restores the broken global U(1) symmetry generated by electric charge just as the so(3,1) spin connection restores the broken global T4 symmetry generated by mom-energy. A(x)’s globally flat exterior U(1) gauge-invariant derivative is the EM field tensor internal (fiber)curvature 2-form:
F = dA = Fuvdx^u/\dx^v (S3a)
Fuv = Au,v – Av,u (S3b)
The dynamical action density is
Lem = (1/4)F*/\F i.e.
Where F* is the Hodge star transform, in flat spacetime
F*IJ = [IJKL]F^K^L i.e. eq. (3) p. xiv
* Always with summation over repeated lower and upper pairs of tensor indices.
And in curved spacetime
Fuv* = (-detg)^1/2[uvwl]F^w&l = |dete|[uvwl]F^w&l i.e. eq. (4) p. xiv
2. Yang-Mills non-Abelian e.g. G -> SU(2) weak beta decay radioactive spin 1 W+0- bosons “flavor” gauge force, or G -> SU(3) gluon “color” strong sub-nuclear spin 1 gauge force, have the connection field 1-form A(YM) that is a matrix representation of the Lie algebra of whatever the Lie group G is e.g. (2.27) p. 26.
3. See also the boson scalar spin 1 fields and the fermion O(3,1) Lorentz group spinor fields on p. 26.
The complete local Einstein field equation with the ordinary mass-energy source term and the exotic vacuum random micro-quantum zero point dark energy/matter term in Cartan form notation is in the locally quasi-flat non-rotating timelike geodesic “LIF” (Local Inertial Frame) is the Cartan 3-form equation
[IJKL](e^I/\R^J^K + /\zpf e^I/\e^J/\e^K) = 8pi(G/c^4)TI i.e. eq. (2.34) p. 27
Where the source stress-energy density Cartan 3-form is
TI = T^uI[uvwl]dx^v/\dx^w/\dx^w i.e. eq. (2.35) p. 27
This stress-energy density 3-form comes from the functional derivative of the dynamical action of the ordinary matter-energy S(matter) with respect to the tetrad gravity field eu^I(x), i.e. in mixed LIF/LNIF representation
T^uI(x) = &S(matter)/&eu^I(x) (2.36) p. 27
The stress-energy density tensor of ordinary vacuum is zero. The Yilmaz theory is plain wrong IMHO. There is a micro-quantum stress-energy tensor for exotic vacuum of course that is in pure LNIF representation
Tuv(Exotic Vacuum Zero Point Energy) ~ (String Tension)/\zpf guv (S4)
What is the anti-symmetric spin-connection.? Let o(3,1)IJ be the 6 independent generator elements of the Lie Algebra of the Lorentz group O(3,1). I propose for consideration
WIJ(x) = [IJKL]eK^u(x)eL^u(argVacuum Coherence)[,u,v] (S5) ????
Where [ , ] is the anti-symmetrizer or commutator of the partial derivatives ,u and ,v.
This is a “Goldstone” phase anholonomy where the mixed partial derivatives of the MACRO-QUANTUM vacuum coherent phase are not equal. This only happens in string superfluid “vortex cores” that are topological defects where the virtual off-mass-shell superfluid condensate inflation field “Higgs” amplitude |Vacuum Coherence| -> 0 inside a “coherence length”. This picture of string defects for the complex numbered Vacuum Coherence inflation field fits Hagen Kleinert’s world crystal lattice long-wave Infra Red (IR) curvature and torsion as string disclination and dislocation lattice defect densities.
WIJ(x) = WIJ(x)disclination + WIJ(x)dislocation (S6)
This idea gets us to the key notion of nonlocal string holonomies and “Wilson loops”of lattice gauge theory and the resolution scale dependent “wavelet transform” renormalization group flows to “fixed points”. Rovelli in 1.2.1 on pp. 10-11 traces the origin of this idea back to Michael Faraday’s idea of the “field” as “lines of force” in the early 19th Century. Given any connection field Cartan 1-form, the “holonomy” is the parallel transport of the “force vector” around a closed string loop. Now one can, no doubt, probably generalize this “holonomy” to higher-dimensional “branes” like in the Clifford Algebra “Extended Relativity” of Castro and Pavsic, for example, and in other probably equivalent algebraic matrix formalisms.
In Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) the nonlocal holonomy becomes a quantum matrix operator and an elementary closed string loop quantum state |l> is where the “force vector” vanishes everywhere except on the closed string loop. An example is shown in Fig 1.1 with equation (1.6) on p. 11. Now our example in eq. (S6) is an inverted image of what Rovelli is talking about. We have a phase singularity or anholonomy in which the Higgs amplitude |Vacuum Coherence| vanishes on the closed string loop so that the mixed second order partial derivatives of the Goldstone phase of the Vacuum Coherence field are not equal.
3D “pre-space-like” SU(2) group quantum bit (qubit) computer spintronic networks (I use “spintronic” rather than “spin” to call attention to the technology applications pursued with DARPA funding) are coherent superpositions of these elementary loop states. These become interesting when the loops intertwine and intersect and form “knots”. One can form a finite-norm orthogonal basis of a separable Hilbert space of these 3D spintronic network quantum computer states in the pre-geometry prior to the emergence of classical c-number warped space-time provided that there is a world crystal lattice structure whose unit cells do not vanish in the continuum limit. That is there is an indivisible “Loop Gravity Quantum of Area”.
One can do continuous active diffeomorphisms on these discrete lattice qubit spintronic network states. Infinitesimal active diffeomorphisms on a spintronic net make “gauge group equivalent representation” of the same nonlocal network state. These equivalent representations that are connected by infinitesimal active diffeomorphisms equivalence relation ~ must be factored out in a “quotient set = set/~” of “cosets” algebraic process.
See Rovelli’s argument on p. 12 how these ideas of gauge equivalence of infinitesimal continuous active diffeomorphisms with a quantum of area in a discrete combinatoric qubit computing network pre-space-time lead to a separable kosher quantum Hilbert space of spintronic networks that permit a dynamical “background independent” quantum gravity theory and indeed a background independent quantum field string theory for all fields in a purely relational frame work. Rovelli pictures pre-space-time as the Hobbes-Melville “Great Leviathan” the “Great White Whale” “Big Fish” with the other fermion and boson fields like smaller fish clinging to it and sliding relative to it and each other.
The condition that the loops cannot shrink in area to zero also leads to the Witten M-theory string duality generalized “conformal inversion”
w = z + z^-1 uncertainty principle in which
Uncertainty in position ~ h/(uncertainty in momentum) + (cWitten alpha’)(uncertainty in momentum) (S7a)
And its dual:
Uncertainty in momentum = h/(uncertainty in position) + (1/cWitten alpha’)(uncertainty in position) (S7b)
Recall that:
Witten alpha’ = (String Tension)^-1 = (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)/hc (S7c)
cWitten alpha’ = Loop Gravity Quantum of Area/h (S7d)
We gave money (more than $50,000 as I recall) to John Brandenburg at ISSO 1999-2000 for his conventional table-top hot fusion experiments done at a lab in Princeton actually. John is an expert on the Moon and Mars as well and he consults for USG Intelligence community.
On Jan 29, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Victor Martinez wrote:
www.stardrive.org
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/
SUBJECT: CUTTING EDGE NEW PHYSICS IDEAS / SEMINAL WORK ON DARK MATTER
IN OUR UNIVERSE - by Dr Jack Sarfatti, Theoretical Physicist
NOTE: See attached forwarded message
for the latest news on "Dark Matters" to be aired on Saturday, January
31, 2004 at 8 p.m.; check Web site below for details.
www.realityradionetwork.com
www.ufo.mag.com
------------------------------------------
1. "Dark energy" is almost 2/3 of the Universe and is a repelling
anti-gravity field.
2. "Dark matter is almost 1/3 of the Universe and is an attractive
gravity field that is not made of the elementary particles the stars and
us are made of.
3. Ordinary matter and light is only a very tiny part of the Universe.
4. Put a chunk of dark energy near a chunk of dark matter and you
basically have a weightless warp drive. This means you feel weightless
and the Universe passes by you seemingly faster than the speed of light.
You can time travel to your past and to your future and beyond under
certain conditions.
5. Einstein's theory of special relativity from 1905 is the unification
of space with time into a rigid "space-time" and the unification of
matter and energy.
6. Einstein's general theory of relativity shows that space-time is not
rigid but is warped not only by energy but also even by itself in a
self-organizing way.
7. Quantum theory is about the informational relationship between the
observer and the observed. Some important physicists like John Von
Neumann, Eugene Wigner and Roger Penrose thought that our inner
consciousness plays a key role in quantum physics. Other important
physicists violently disagree. It depends what you mean by "quantum
theory."
There are many different ways of interpreting it and its boundary of
validity is not yet understood especially in the strong gravity field of
a black hole. A key issue is "signal nonlocality," i.e. the use of
entanglement as a direct communication channel without an auxiliary
light speed limited classical channel as in quantum teleportation and
cryptography where Eve cannot tap the channel between Alice and Bob
without them knowing it.
These applications require irreducible quantum randomness that is
thought to forbid "signal nonlocality," i.e. to enforce "signal
locality" or "passion at a distance" (Abner Shimony). On the other hand
see http://www.quantumfields.com/469Maclay.pdf The analysis of Lenny
Susskind, for example, of information loss behind the event horizon of a
black hole, depends on "signal locality" as does the non-Boolean
"topos""quantum logic" of cosmology mentioned by Lee Smolin.
Yet, the Bohmian analysis of Antony Valentini suggests otherwise. The
idea here is that orthodox nonlocal micro-quantum theory with
irreducible randomness and consequent signal locality is only the
sub-quantal thermal equilibrium limit of a more general non-equilibrium
local MACRO-QUANTUM theory for cosmology and the emergence of "classical
curved space-time" with signal nonlocality.
http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.pdf
8. The cutting edge of physics today in 2004 is "quantum gravity" which
has two main schools of thought, string theory and loop theory. The two
theories may simply be dual dimensional images of each other. The basic
object of loop theory is a two-dimensional undivided quantum of "area"
and the basic object of string theory is a one-dimensional undivided
quantum of "length," which together make a three-dimensional "space."
Loop theory describes three-dimensional "space" as zero-dimensional
"point" on a kind of quantum computing "spin network." When you add a
kind of proto "time" to it you get a "spin foam." Two-dimensional area
is described by a 1-dimensional stringy "edge" on the spin network. The
duality is intuitively obvious. The 1-dimensional physical string is
really like a linked chain with each link as a "bit" of information not
unlike the purely mathematical "strings" of computer theory.
No matter that the string is embedded in a higher dimensional
"hyperspace" since all but three of those extra "spacelike" dimensions
are curled up into tiny circles with radii called "moduli" forming what
the mathematicians like to call a "Calabi-Yau space." Brian Greene
calls this an "Elegant Universe" in which the spin foam is "weaved" into
the fabric of reality. God is seen by Brian as a kind of tailor or
fashion designer reminding me of the Vatican scene in Fellini's "Roma."
9. Both the string and the loop theorists think that the quanta of
length and area respectively are always very tiny. They may be mistaken
in this belief.
Then again, I MAY BE MISTAKEN....
From: "Don Ecker"
Date: January 29, 2004 7:49:40 AM PST
To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@webtv.net>
Subject: Dr. John Brandenburg-Mars Expert on DARK MATTERS!
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On Jan 29, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Victor Martinez wrote:
www.stardrive.org
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/
SUBJECT: CUTTING EDGE NEW PHYSICS IDEAS / SEMINAL WORK ON DARK MATTER
IN OUR UNIVERSE - by Dr Jack Sarfatti, Theoretical Physicist
NOTE: See attached forwarded message
for the latest news on "Dark Matters" to be aired on Saturday, January
31, 2004 at 8 p.m.; check Web site below for details.
www.realityradionetwork.com
www.ufo.mag.com
------------------------------------------
1. "Dark energy" is almost 2/3 of the Universe and is a repelling
anti-gravity field.
2. "Dark matter is almost 1/3 of the Universe and is an attractive
gravity field that is not made of the elementary particles the stars and
us are made of.
3. Ordinary matter and light is only a very tiny part of the Universe.
4. Put a chunk of dark energy near a chunk of dark matter and you
basically have a weightless warp drive. This means you feel weightless
and the Universe passes by you seemingly faster than the speed of light.
You can time travel to your past and to your future and beyond under
certain conditions.
5. Einstein's theory of special relativity from 1905 is the unification
of space with time into a rigid "space-time" and the unification of
matter and energy.
6. Einstein's general theory of relativity shows that space-time is not
rigid but is warped not only by energy but also even by itself in a
self-organizing way.
7. Quantum theory is about the informational relationship between the
observer and the observed. Some important physicists like John Von
Neumann, Eugene Wigner and Roger Penrose thought that our inner
consciousness plays a key role in quantum physics. Other important
physicists violently disagree. It depends what you mean by "quantum
theory."
There are many different ways of interpreting it and its boundary of
validity is not yet understood especially in the strong gravity field of
a black hole. A key issue is "signal nonlocality," i.e. the use of
entanglement as a direct communication channel without an auxiliary
light speed limited classical channel as in quantum teleportation and
cryptography where Eve cannot tap the channel between Alice and Bob
without them knowing it.
These applications require irreducible quantum randomness that is
thought to forbid "signal nonlocality," i.e. to enforce "signal
locality" or "passion at a distance" (Abner Shimony). On the other hand
see http://www.quantumfields.com/469Maclay.pdf The analysis of Lenny
Susskind, for example, of information loss behind the event horizon of a
black hole, depends on "signal locality" as does the non-Boolean
"topos""quantum logic" of cosmology mentioned by Lee Smolin.
Yet, the Bohmian analysis of Antony Valentini suggests otherwise. The
idea here is that orthodox nonlocal micro-quantum theory with
irreducible randomness and consequent signal locality is only the
sub-quantal thermal equilibrium limit of a more general non-equilibrium
local MACRO-QUANTUM theory for cosmology and the emergence of "classical
curved space-time" with signal nonlocality.
http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.pdf
8. The cutting edge of physics today in 2004 is "quantum gravity" which
has two main schools of thought, string theory and loop theory. The two
theories may simply be dual dimensional images of each other. The basic
object of loop theory is a two-dimensional undivided quantum of "area"
and the basic object of string theory is a one-dimensional undivided
quantum of "length," which together make a three-dimensional "space."
Loop theory describes three-dimensional "space" as zero-dimensional
"point" on a kind of quantum computing "spin network." When you add a
kind of proto "time" to it you get a "spin foam." Two-dimensional area
is described by a 1-dimensional stringy "edge" on the spin network. The
duality is intuitively obvious. The 1-dimensional physical string is
really like a linked chain with each link as a "bit" of information not
unlike the purely mathematical "strings" of computer theory.
No matter that the string is embedded in a higher dimensional
"hyperspace" since all but three of those extra "spacelike" dimensions
are curled up into tiny circles with radii called "moduli" forming what
the mathematicians like to call a "Calabi-Yau space." Brian Greene
calls this an "Elegant Universe" in which the spin foam is "weaved" into
the fabric of reality. God is seen by Brian as a kind of tailor or
fashion designer reminding me of the Vatican scene in Fellini's "Roma."
9. Both the string and the loop theorists think that the quanta of
length and area respectively are always very tiny. They may be mistaken
in this belief.
Then again, I MAY BE MISTAKEN....
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Date: January 29, 2004 7:49:40 AM PST
To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@webtv.net>
Subject: Dr. John Brandenburg-Mars Expert on DARK MATTERS!
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On Jan 29, 2004, at 6:40 AM, vic xianto wrote:
Dear Prof. J. Sarfatti:
thanks for info. I will not argue of negative energies
in terms of negative curvature BUT perhaps in terms of
negative energies in Dirac equation. Perhaps you'd
like to read Hestenes' SPINOR article.
No none of this is relevant. You had a common misconception. I have explained how it works. This is known
text book physics taught at Cal Tech. No mystery here.
Classical general relativity HAS NEGATIVE CURVATURE components but NO ANTIGRAVITY.
NEGATIVE CURVATURE has nothing to do with ANTIGRAVITY!
The Schwarzschild solution (the simplest in GR) for example is PURE ATTRACTIVE GRAVITY yet SOME of the components of the CURVATURE TENSOR are NEGATIVE! See John Wheeler's very nice clear "A Journey into Gravity and Space-Time" for details on how that works.
Antigravity is purely a micro-quantum effect! Positive zero point energy density makes anti-gravity because of its equal and opposite NEGATIVE PRESSURE. The gravity influence of the PRESSURE is THREE TIMES STRONGER than the gravity influence of the ENERGY DENSITY.
That's the story. This is relatively simple and very well known.
The problem is how to control the sign of the zero point pressure. That was not well known. That's where the Vacuum Coherence and the Josephson effect come in. That's the real problem of metric engineering of UFO warp drives and star gate time travel machines that I briefly talk about in
Paramount Pictures Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Special Collector's Edition DVD Disk 2 "Time Travel:The Art of the Possible".
thanks
Victor C.
--- Jack Sarfatti wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Jack Sarfatti
Date: January 28, 2004 3:55:00 PM PST
To: Sarfatti_Physics_Seminars@yahoogroups.com
Cc: SarfattiScienceSeminars@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Sarfatti_Physics_Seminars] Re: Negative
Curvature & Negative
Energy? NO!
Reply-To:
Sarfatti_Physics_Seminars@yahoogroups.com
On Jan 28, 2004, at 2:59 PM, zenodestiny wrote:
Is negative curvature the key to AG?
What's "AG"? You mean "Anti-Gravity"?
The answer is NO!
You have not understood what I have been writing.
Perhaps I have not
been clear enough?
What makes anti-gravity in Einstein's theory of
gravity is well known.
It is a solved problem.
Einstein's theory in the weak field limit reduces
to the Newtonian
limit Poisson equation
Laplacian of the Gravity Potential Energy of any
source per unit test
particle mass = 4pi(G/c^2)(energy density)[1+ 3w]
See, for example Mike Turner's article in April
2003 Physics Today or
Ch 1 of John Peacock's "Cosmological Physics"
the text book used at Cal Tech in 2000.
w = pressure/energy density
You get universally repelling anti-gravity when
1 + 3w < 0
using sign conventions when positive energy
density means ordinary
universally attractive gravity as in
V(Newton) = -GMm/r = gravity potential energy
between M and m
separated by r
M and m are positive.
The force F is the negative gradient of the
gravity potential energy
F = -GradV(Newton)
Grad(1/r) = -(r/r^3)
There are 3 minus signs multiplied here, therefore
F = -GMmr/r^3
3-vectors in BOLD
the surviving - sign means the mutual
action-reaction forces between M
and m are attractive.
Now, Einstein's principle of equivalence and the
principle of local
covariance together plus Heisenberg's quantum
uncertainty principle
implies that
w = -1 for any quantum field of any spin.
This implies that any net positive zero point
energy density has an
equal negative zero point pressure.
Such a region of exotic vacuum is "dark energy"
that universally
anti-gravitates because of the factor of 3 in the
Poisson equation.
Similarly, any net negative zero point energy
density has positive
pressure and will gravitate as "dark matter".
In general, in the weak curvature Newtonian limit
Laplacian of Exotic Vacuum Potential Energy per
unit test particle ~
c^2/\zpf
where
/\zpf = (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^-1[(Loop
Gravity Quantum of
Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]
with sign conventions that /\zpf > 0 is
anti-gravity dark energy
exotic vacuum
/\zpf < 0 is gravitating dark matter exotic vacuum
Note that G plays no overt role here. These can be
very strong effects!
The Alcubuierre warp drive is relevant here and
this goes back 45
years or more to Herman Bondi's "negative matter
propulsion".
Bondi, nor Stalin's Terletskii, did not know about
dark zero point
energy back then, nor did they know about "vacuum
coherence".
Hal Puthoff still does not know about "vacuum
coherence". :-)
If a disk is rotating then it
is known that it has a curvature exactly opposite
to that of normal
gravity. It would seem that this could be the
cause of weight loss in
rotating objects as is seen by spinning
gyroscopes. I have never
heard anyone saying this before, but the
connection seems straight
forward enough. Also it is known that negative
energy or so-called
exotic matter will have the same effect on
space-time.
NO.
So then the question is can we mimic the vacuum
conditions that are
associated with negative energy to try to achieve
a warp drive? I
think the answer is yes and the solution is so
simple that I am
surprised that the idea has been overlooked by
scientists all this
time.
NO.
So how do we get a negative energy density in
the vacuum?
You don't want that!
We know
the Casmir effect can do it, but it is too small.
But are there
electric effects that can do it? Are there
magnetic effects that can
do it? Can it be done by fusing nuclei together
whose products are
heavier than their reactants?
Asking the wrong question.
Furthermore, if we have a craft whose front is
positive energy
density vacuum and the back is negative energy
density vacuum, will
this be a warp drive in the sense of Albercurie?
You have it backwards. The front "bow" has
negative zero point energy
density exotic vacuum, the rear "stern" has
positive zero point energy
density vacuum. Signals from the bow are red
shifted, signals from the
stern are blue shifted. This is the "reverse
Doppler effect" which is
a simple "radar" signature the the UFO "bogey"
coming at you is in
"warp drive" and you had better take cover and man
your battle
stations "Red Shift Alert!" ;-)
Quantum field theory says that between a
parallel plate capacitor
with the same charge there is positive energy in
between the
electrodes. In a capacitor with different charges
there is negative
energy with respect to a "flat vacuum" or
space-time
=== message truncated ===
Dear Prof. J. Sarfatti:
thanks for info. I will not argue of negative energies
in terms of negative curvature BUT perhaps in terms of
negative energies in Dirac equation. Perhaps you'd
like to read Hestenes' SPINOR article.
No none of this is relevant. You had a common misconception. I have explained how it works. This is known
text book physics taught at Cal Tech. No mystery here.
Classical general relativity HAS NEGATIVE CURVATURE components but NO ANTIGRAVITY.
NEGATIVE CURVATURE has nothing to do with ANTIGRAVITY!
The Schwarzschild solution (the simplest in GR) for example is PURE ATTRACTIVE GRAVITY yet SOME of the components of the CURVATURE TENSOR are NEGATIVE! See John Wheeler's very nice clear "A Journey into Gravity and Space-Time" for details on how that works.
Antigravity is purely a micro-quantum effect! Positive zero point energy density makes anti-gravity because of its equal and opposite NEGATIVE PRESSURE. The gravity influence of the PRESSURE is THREE TIMES STRONGER than the gravity influence of the ENERGY DENSITY.
That's the story. This is relatively simple and very well known.
The problem is how to control the sign of the zero point pressure. That was not well known. That's where the Vacuum Coherence and the Josephson effect come in. That's the real problem of metric engineering of UFO warp drives and star gate time travel machines that I briefly talk about in
Paramount Pictures Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Special Collector's Edition DVD Disk 2 "Time Travel:The Art of the Possible".
thanks
Victor C.
--- Jack Sarfatti
Begin forwarded message:
From: Jack Sarfatti
Date: January 28, 2004 3:55:00 PM PST
To: Sarfatti_Physics_Seminars@yahoogroups.com
Cc: SarfattiScienceSeminars@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Sarfatti_Physics_Seminars] Re: Negative
Curvature & Negative
Energy? NO!
Reply-To:
Sarfatti_Physics_Seminars@yahoogroups.com
On Jan 28, 2004, at 2:59 PM, zenodestiny wrote:
Is negative curvature the key to AG?
What's "AG"? You mean "Anti-Gravity"?
The answer is NO!
You have not understood what I have been writing.
Perhaps I have not
been clear enough?
What makes anti-gravity in Einstein's theory of
gravity is well known.
It is a solved problem.
Einstein's theory in the weak field limit reduces
to the Newtonian
limit Poisson equation
Laplacian of the Gravity Potential Energy of any
source per unit test
particle mass = 4pi(G/c^2)(energy density)[1+ 3w]
See, for example Mike Turner's article in April
2003 Physics Today or
Ch 1 of John Peacock's "Cosmological Physics"
the text book used at Cal Tech in 2000.
w = pressure/energy density
You get universally repelling anti-gravity when
1 + 3w < 0
using sign conventions when positive energy
density means ordinary
universally attractive gravity as in
V(Newton) = -GMm/r = gravity potential energy
between M and m
separated by r
M and m are positive.
The force F is the negative gradient of the
gravity potential energy
F = -GradV(Newton)
Grad(1/r) = -(r/r^3)
There are 3 minus signs multiplied here, therefore
F = -GMmr/r^3
3-vectors in BOLD
the surviving - sign means the mutual
action-reaction forces between M
and m are attractive.
Now, Einstein's principle of equivalence and the
principle of local
covariance together plus Heisenberg's quantum
uncertainty principle
implies that
w = -1 for any quantum field of any spin.
This implies that any net positive zero point
energy density has an
equal negative zero point pressure.
Such a region of exotic vacuum is "dark energy"
that universally
anti-gravitates because of the factor of 3 in the
Poisson equation.
Similarly, any net negative zero point energy
density has positive
pressure and will gravitate as "dark matter".
In general, in the weak curvature Newtonian limit
Laplacian of Exotic Vacuum Potential Energy per
unit test particle ~
c^2/\zpf
where
/\zpf = (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^-1[(Loop
Gravity Quantum of
Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]
with sign conventions that /\zpf > 0 is
anti-gravity dark energy
exotic vacuum
/\zpf < 0 is gravitating dark matter exotic vacuum
Note that G plays no overt role here. These can be
very strong effects!
The Alcubuierre warp drive is relevant here and
this goes back 45
years or more to Herman Bondi's "negative matter
propulsion".
Bondi, nor Stalin's Terletskii, did not know about
dark zero point
energy back then, nor did they know about "vacuum
coherence".
Hal Puthoff still does not know about "vacuum
coherence". :-)
If a disk is rotating then it
is known that it has a curvature exactly opposite
to that of normal
gravity. It would seem that this could be the
cause of weight loss in
rotating objects as is seen by spinning
gyroscopes. I have never
heard anyone saying this before, but the
connection seems straight
forward enough. Also it is known that negative
energy or so-called
exotic matter will have the same effect on
space-time.
NO.
So then the question is can we mimic the vacuum
conditions that are
associated with negative energy to try to achieve
a warp drive? I
think the answer is yes and the solution is so
simple that I am
surprised that the idea has been overlooked by
scientists all this
time.
NO.
So how do we get a negative energy density in
the vacuum?
You don't want that!
We know
the Casmir effect can do it, but it is too small.
But are there
electric effects that can do it? Are there
magnetic effects that can
do it? Can it be done by fusing nuclei together
whose products are
heavier than their reactants?
Asking the wrong question.
Furthermore, if we have a craft whose front is
positive energy
density vacuum and the back is negative energy
density vacuum, will
this be a warp drive in the sense of Albercurie?
You have it backwards. The front "bow" has
negative zero point energy
density exotic vacuum, the rear "stern" has
positive zero point energy
density vacuum. Signals from the bow are red
shifted, signals from the
stern are blue shifted. This is the "reverse
Doppler effect" which is
a simple "radar" signature the the UFO "bogey"
coming at you is in
"warp drive" and you had better take cover and man
your battle
stations "Red Shift Alert!" ;-)
Quantum field theory says that between a
parallel plate capacitor
with the same charge there is positive energy in
between the
electrodes. In a capacitor with different charges
there is negative
energy with respect to a "flat vacuum" or
space-time
=== message truncated ===
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Sarfatti Lecture 2 on Metric Engineering the Zero Point Dark Energy for UFO Super Technology of "Men Like Gods" (H.G. Wells)
http://books.fantasticfiction.co.uk/n0/n1391.htm?authorid=3082
http://www.troynovant.com/Franson/Wells/Men-Like-Gods.html
Rovelli’s formalism in http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/book.pdf
e^I(x) = eu^I(x)dx^u = “gravitational field” Cartan 1-form i.e. his eq. 2.1 p.41
I in Minkowski space, but Rovelli says u in Tangent vector space TxM not in base space M. This is odd since the local tangent space has the Minkowski metric and the curved base space has guv metric.
The globally flat solution is
eu^I(x) = (Kronecker Delta)u^I i.e. eq 2.44 p.45
My elastic-plastic Kleinert “world crystal” distortion field must be
L^u(x) = [e^uI(x) - (Kronecker Delta)^uI]dx^I
= (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)arg(Vacuum Coherence),u (S1)
,u is ordinary partial derivative
Next introduce the antisymmetric “spin connection” that will apply to spinning tops for example. The spin connection is also a Cartan 1-form
W^IJ(x) = Wu^Ijdx^u i.e. eq. (2.2) p. 41
There are 6 of these generators of the Lie algebra so(3,1)of the 6 parameter Lorentz group of 3 space-time rotations (boosts) and 3 space-space rotations (total angular momentum)
WIJ = - WJI
Note that L^u(x) is the local gauge force compensating field restoring the broken 4-parameter translation group symmetry T4. However, while the T4 and so(3,1) are intertwined as a “semi-direct product” and as seen in the Thomas precession and the Sagnac effect, there is no local gauge force compensating field for Lie algebra so(3,1) when we use a torsion-free spin connection to define the tidal force tensor curvature that intimately uses so(3,1). Thus, the generally covariant partial derivative of General Relativity in the Cartan formalism starts from
DuV^I = V^I,u + Wu^IJV^J i.e. (2.3) p. 41
More generally the generally covariant Cartan exterior derivative on a 1-form v^I is the 2-form
DV^I = dV^I + W^IJ/\V^J i.e. (2.4) p. 42
Where d is the Cartan exterior derivative and /\ is the wedge product. What is the relation of /\ to Clifford algebra? Note that the Lorentz group Lie algebra so(3,1) is the fundamental connection field from the breaking of the global symmetry of T4 whose Lie algebra is total energy-momentum. Total “momenergy” (Wheeler) is not a natural concept in General Relativity because locally variable curvature breaks global translational symmetry even though curvature’s definition involves the rotations of so(3,1) since local curvature is the anholonomy disclination “Berry phase” in the orientation of a vector parallel transported around a closed space-time loop as the area of the loop shrinks to zero. Torsion T^I means that the loop in tangent fiber space is broken or dislocated for a closed loop in base space or vice versa. That is, with torsion, closed loops do not map to closed loops in parallel transport.
The condition of zero torsion gauge force field is the vanishing Cartan torsion field 2-form
T^I = De^I = de^I + W^IJ/\e^J = 0 i.e. (2.6) p. 42
Again note that it is the spin connection from so(3,1) that plays the vital role!
Finally the tidal relative acceleration or timelike geodesic deviation is also a Cartan 2-form from the zero torsion so(3,1) spin connection (which allows fermions as well as bosons)
R^IJ = dW^IJ + W^IK/\W^KJ i.e. (2.8) p. 4.2
i.e. tidal curvature is the nonlinear self-organizing spin connection covariant exterior derivative on itself! This is why there are curved vacuums independent of real mass-energy sources! Gravity acts on itself in a non-Abelian way.
The Einstein local field equation with the zero point energy cosmological /\zpf term is in Cartan formalism is the Euler-Lagrange equation
[IJKL]e^I/\R^J^K + /\zpf e^I/\e^J/\e^K = 0 i.e. (2.9) p. 42
where [IJKL] is the antisymmetric 4-symbol
Note the cubic nonlinearity in the zero point energy /\ “metric engineering” term.
The dynamical action density is ~
e^I/\e^J/\R^K^L + /\zpf e^I/\e^J/\e^K/\e^L contracted with [IJKL] to make an invariant scalar i.e. eq. (2.10) p. 42
On Jan 28, 2004, at 6:26 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:
Sarfatti Lecture 1 (typo corrected) on the Zero Point Dark Energy Metric Engineering of UFOs
“the article's online version at
http://www.livingreviews.org/Articles/Volume4/2001-1carroll/ .
Owing to the fact that a Living Reviews article can evolve over time, we
recommend to cite the article as follows:
Carroll, S.M.,
“The Cosmological Constant",
Living Rev. Relativity, 4, (2001),
“General relativity is a paradigmatic example of a scientific theory of impressive power and simplicity. The cosmological constant, meanwhile, is a paradigmatic example of a modification, originally introduced [81] to help fit the data, which appears at least on the surface to be superfluous and unattractive. Its original role, to allow static homogeneous solutions to Einstein's equations in the presence of matter, turned out to be unnecessary when the expansion of the universe was discovered [131], and there have been a number of subsequent episodes in which a nonzero cosmological constant was put forward as an explanation for a set of observations and later withdrawn when the observational case evaporated. Meanwhile, particle theorists have realized that the cosmological constant can be interpreted as a measure of the energy density of the vacuum. This energy density is the sum of a number of apparently unrelated contributions, each of magnitude much larger than the upper limits on the cosmological constant today; the question of why the observed vacuum energy is so small in comparison to the scales of particle physics has become a celebrated puzzle, although it is usually thought to be easier to imagine an unknown mechanism which would set it precisely to zero than one which would suppress it by just the right amount to yield an observationally accessible cosmological constant. This checkered history has led to a certain reluctance to consider further invocations of a nonzero cosmological constant; however, recent years have provided the best evidence yet that this elusive quantity does play an important dynamical role in the universe.”
Note in the above excerpt:
“particle theorists have realized that the cosmological constant can be interpreted as a measure of the energy density of the vacuum. This energy density is the sum of a number of apparently unrelated contributions, each of magnitude much larger than the upper limits on the cosmological constant today; the question of why the observed vacuum energy is so small in comparison to the scales of particle physics has become a celebrated puzzle”
I allege I have solved this problem using the idea of “vacuum coherence” missing from the orthodox theory in the precise way I use it. The idea of “vacuum condensate” is in orthodox theory. It is a related idea, but not exactly the way I mean it.
Einstein’s GR local geometrodynamical field equation with the cosmological term /\guv is
Ruv – (1/2)Rguv + /\guv = 8pi(G/c^4)Tuv (1)
Impose the large-scale coarse-grained isotropic homogeneous Friedman-Robert-Walker solution
ds^2 = -(cdt)^2 + a^2(t)Ro^2[(dr)^2/(1 – kr^2) + r^2dO^2] (2)
r is dimensionless and the Her Majesty’s Royal Navy’s navigational “celestial sphere” spherical angular line element is
dO^2 = (dtheta)^2 + (sintheta)^2(dphi)^2 (3)
in usual polar coordinates for latitude theta and longitude phi on the 2D sphere of unit radius. a(t) is dimensionless = R(t)/Ro. Subscript o means “now”. k is +1 (closed universe in 3D like a sphere) or 0 (spatially flat like an infinite plane in Euclid’s geometry) or – 1 like a hyperboloid. Both k = 0 and k = -1 are open universes of infinite spatial extent.
The cosmological redshift z of retarded radiation from a co-moving source in the “Hubble flow” where the Cosmic Black Body Radiation (CBR) is maximally isotropic from the past till now obeys the equation
a(past) = [1 + z(now)]^-1 (4)
The symmetric stress-energy density tensor Tuv for “stuff” on the RHS of eq (1) is of the form
Tuv = (energy density + pressure)UuUv + pressure guv
= (energy density)[(1 + w)UuUv + wguv] (5)
Uv is the dimensionless 4-velocity dx^u/ds of this “cosmic fluid” stuff.
w = 0 for cold matter (6a)
w = 1/3 for electromagnetic radiation (far field) (6b)
w = -1 for any kind of zero point vacuum fluctuation (ZPF) of any quantum field including string and brane fields (6c)
An “exotic vacuum” is any kind of virtual stuff with w = -1 and a non-vanishing pressure.
Virtual stuff will not make any particle detector click, but it still has “dark” gravity and anti-gravity properties bending EM radiation signals for example. Dark matter exotic vacuum in a clump will act like a convex converging gravity lens. Dark energy in a clump will act like a diverging gravity lens. Dark matter makes a gravity red shift and dark energy makes a gravity blue shift.
The global cosmic time t (~ 1/(Absolute temperature of CBR) as a convenient measure) dependent Hubble parameter is
H(t) = a^-1(da/dt) (7)
Einstein’s tensor field equation (1) forced into the highly symmetric “Killing vector field” mold of FRW eq (2) simplifies to TWO ordinary differential equations:
H^2 = 8pi(G/c^2)(energy density) + c^2/\/3 –kc^2/a^2Ro^2 (8a)
Note that H^2 is analogous to Newton’s Laplacian of the Gravity Potential Energy of ANY Source Stuff (real or virtual in sense of quantum field theory’s “on” or “off” “mass shell”) per unit test particle that has dimensions of (time)^-2. But an even closer fit analogy to Newton’s Poisson equation in this spatially homogeneous strictly large-scale approximation is the second equation
a^-1d^2a/dt^2 = -(4pi/3)(G/c^2)[(energy density) + 3(pressure)] + c^2/\/3
= -(4pi/3)(G/c^2)(energy density)[(1 + 3w) + c^2/\/3
to be continued
PROBLEM SET #1
1.1 Term Paper Project # 1
What does Hal Puthoff write about zero point energy and gravity and its relation to “interstellar flight” and UFOs?
Go to http://www.earthtech.org/publications/
Also download all articles by Eric Davis at
http://www.nidsci.org/articles/articles3.html
Compare what Puthoff and Davis profess with the physics in these lectures.
http://books.fantasticfiction.co.uk/n0/n1391.htm?authorid=3082
http://www.troynovant.com/Franson/Wells/Men-Like-Gods.html
Rovelli’s formalism in http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/book.pdf
e^I(x) = eu^I(x)dx^u = “gravitational field” Cartan 1-form i.e. his eq. 2.1 p.41
I in Minkowski space, but Rovelli says u in Tangent vector space TxM not in base space M. This is odd since the local tangent space has the Minkowski metric and the curved base space has guv metric.
The globally flat solution is
eu^I(x) = (Kronecker Delta)u^I i.e. eq 2.44 p.45
My elastic-plastic Kleinert “world crystal” distortion field must be
L^u(x) = [e^uI(x) - (Kronecker Delta)^uI]dx^I
= (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)arg(Vacuum Coherence),u (S1)
,u is ordinary partial derivative
Next introduce the antisymmetric “spin connection” that will apply to spinning tops for example. The spin connection is also a Cartan 1-form
W^IJ(x) = Wu^Ijdx^u i.e. eq. (2.2) p. 41
There are 6 of these generators of the Lie algebra so(3,1)of the 6 parameter Lorentz group of 3 space-time rotations (boosts) and 3 space-space rotations (total angular momentum)
WIJ = - WJI
Note that L^u(x) is the local gauge force compensating field restoring the broken 4-parameter translation group symmetry T4. However, while the T4 and so(3,1) are intertwined as a “semi-direct product” and as seen in the Thomas precession and the Sagnac effect, there is no local gauge force compensating field for Lie algebra so(3,1) when we use a torsion-free spin connection to define the tidal force tensor curvature that intimately uses so(3,1). Thus, the generally covariant partial derivative of General Relativity in the Cartan formalism starts from
DuV^I = V^I,u + Wu^IJV^J i.e. (2.3) p. 41
More generally the generally covariant Cartan exterior derivative on a 1-form v^I is the 2-form
DV^I = dV^I + W^IJ/\V^J i.e. (2.4) p. 42
Where d is the Cartan exterior derivative and /\ is the wedge product. What is the relation of /\ to Clifford algebra? Note that the Lorentz group Lie algebra so(3,1) is the fundamental connection field from the breaking of the global symmetry of T4 whose Lie algebra is total energy-momentum. Total “momenergy” (Wheeler) is not a natural concept in General Relativity because locally variable curvature breaks global translational symmetry even though curvature’s definition involves the rotations of so(3,1) since local curvature is the anholonomy disclination “Berry phase” in the orientation of a vector parallel transported around a closed space-time loop as the area of the loop shrinks to zero. Torsion T^I means that the loop in tangent fiber space is broken or dislocated for a closed loop in base space or vice versa. That is, with torsion, closed loops do not map to closed loops in parallel transport.
The condition of zero torsion gauge force field is the vanishing Cartan torsion field 2-form
T^I = De^I = de^I + W^IJ/\e^J = 0 i.e. (2.6) p. 42
Again note that it is the spin connection from so(3,1) that plays the vital role!
Finally the tidal relative acceleration or timelike geodesic deviation is also a Cartan 2-form from the zero torsion so(3,1) spin connection (which allows fermions as well as bosons)
R^IJ = dW^IJ + W^IK/\W^KJ i.e. (2.8) p. 4.2
i.e. tidal curvature is the nonlinear self-organizing spin connection covariant exterior derivative on itself! This is why there are curved vacuums independent of real mass-energy sources! Gravity acts on itself in a non-Abelian way.
The Einstein local field equation with the zero point energy cosmological /\zpf term is in Cartan formalism is the Euler-Lagrange equation
[IJKL]e^I/\R^J^K + /\zpf e^I/\e^J/\e^K = 0 i.e. (2.9) p. 42
where [IJKL] is the antisymmetric 4-symbol
Note the cubic nonlinearity in the zero point energy /\ “metric engineering” term.
The dynamical action density is ~
e^I/\e^J/\R^K^L + /\zpf e^I/\e^J/\e^K/\e^L contracted with [IJKL] to make an invariant scalar i.e. eq. (2.10) p. 42
On Jan 28, 2004, at 6:26 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:
Sarfatti Lecture 1 (typo corrected) on the Zero Point Dark Energy Metric Engineering of UFOs
“the article's online version at
http://www.livingreviews.org/Articles/Volume4/2001-1carroll/ .
Owing to the fact that a Living Reviews article can evolve over time, we
recommend to cite the article as follows:
Carroll, S.M.,
“The Cosmological Constant",
Living Rev. Relativity, 4, (2001),
“General relativity is a paradigmatic example of a scientific theory of impressive power and simplicity. The cosmological constant, meanwhile, is a paradigmatic example of a modification, originally introduced [81] to help fit the data, which appears at least on the surface to be superfluous and unattractive. Its original role, to allow static homogeneous solutions to Einstein's equations in the presence of matter, turned out to be unnecessary when the expansion of the universe was discovered [131], and there have been a number of subsequent episodes in which a nonzero cosmological constant was put forward as an explanation for a set of observations and later withdrawn when the observational case evaporated. Meanwhile, particle theorists have realized that the cosmological constant can be interpreted as a measure of the energy density of the vacuum. This energy density is the sum of a number of apparently unrelated contributions, each of magnitude much larger than the upper limits on the cosmological constant today; the question of why the observed vacuum energy is so small in comparison to the scales of particle physics has become a celebrated puzzle, although it is usually thought to be easier to imagine an unknown mechanism which would set it precisely to zero than one which would suppress it by just the right amount to yield an observationally accessible cosmological constant. This checkered history has led to a certain reluctance to consider further invocations of a nonzero cosmological constant; however, recent years have provided the best evidence yet that this elusive quantity does play an important dynamical role in the universe.”
Note in the above excerpt:
“particle theorists have realized that the cosmological constant can be interpreted as a measure of the energy density of the vacuum. This energy density is the sum of a number of apparently unrelated contributions, each of magnitude much larger than the upper limits on the cosmological constant today; the question of why the observed vacuum energy is so small in comparison to the scales of particle physics has become a celebrated puzzle”
I allege I have solved this problem using the idea of “vacuum coherence” missing from the orthodox theory in the precise way I use it. The idea of “vacuum condensate” is in orthodox theory. It is a related idea, but not exactly the way I mean it.
Einstein’s GR local geometrodynamical field equation with the cosmological term /\guv is
Ruv – (1/2)Rguv + /\guv = 8pi(G/c^4)Tuv (1)
Impose the large-scale coarse-grained isotropic homogeneous Friedman-Robert-Walker solution
ds^2 = -(cdt)^2 + a^2(t)Ro^2[(dr)^2/(1 – kr^2) + r^2dO^2] (2)
r is dimensionless and the Her Majesty’s Royal Navy’s navigational “celestial sphere” spherical angular line element is
dO^2 = (dtheta)^2 + (sintheta)^2(dphi)^2 (3)
in usual polar coordinates for latitude theta and longitude phi on the 2D sphere of unit radius. a(t) is dimensionless = R(t)/Ro. Subscript o means “now”. k is +1 (closed universe in 3D like a sphere) or 0 (spatially flat like an infinite plane in Euclid’s geometry) or – 1 like a hyperboloid. Both k = 0 and k = -1 are open universes of infinite spatial extent.
The cosmological redshift z of retarded radiation from a co-moving source in the “Hubble flow” where the Cosmic Black Body Radiation (CBR) is maximally isotropic from the past till now obeys the equation
a(past) = [1 + z(now)]^-1 (4)
The symmetric stress-energy density tensor Tuv for “stuff” on the RHS of eq (1) is of the form
Tuv = (energy density + pressure)UuUv + pressure guv
= (energy density)[(1 + w)UuUv + wguv] (5)
Uv is the dimensionless 4-velocity dx^u/ds of this “cosmic fluid” stuff.
w = 0 for cold matter (6a)
w = 1/3 for electromagnetic radiation (far field) (6b)
w = -1 for any kind of zero point vacuum fluctuation (ZPF) of any quantum field including string and brane fields (6c)
An “exotic vacuum” is any kind of virtual stuff with w = -1 and a non-vanishing pressure.
Virtual stuff will not make any particle detector click, but it still has “dark” gravity and anti-gravity properties bending EM radiation signals for example. Dark matter exotic vacuum in a clump will act like a convex converging gravity lens. Dark energy in a clump will act like a diverging gravity lens. Dark matter makes a gravity red shift and dark energy makes a gravity blue shift.
The global cosmic time t (~ 1/(Absolute temperature of CBR) as a convenient measure) dependent Hubble parameter is
H(t) = a^-1(da/dt) (7)
Einstein’s tensor field equation (1) forced into the highly symmetric “Killing vector field” mold of FRW eq (2) simplifies to TWO ordinary differential equations:
H^2 = 8pi(G/c^2)(energy density) + c^2/\/3 –kc^2/a^2Ro^2 (8a)
Note that H^2 is analogous to Newton’s Laplacian of the Gravity Potential Energy of ANY Source Stuff (real or virtual in sense of quantum field theory’s “on” or “off” “mass shell”) per unit test particle that has dimensions of (time)^-2. But an even closer fit analogy to Newton’s Poisson equation in this spatially homogeneous strictly large-scale approximation is the second equation
a^-1d^2a/dt^2 = -(4pi/3)(G/c^2)[(energy density) + 3(pressure)] + c^2/\/3
= -(4pi/3)(G/c^2)(energy density)[(1 + 3w) + c^2/\/3
to be continued
PROBLEM SET #1
1.1 Term Paper Project # 1
What does Hal Puthoff write about zero point energy and gravity and its relation to “interstellar flight” and UFOs?
Go to http://www.earthtech.org/publications/
Also download all articles by Eric Davis at
http://www.nidsci.org/articles/articles3.html
Compare what Puthoff and Davis profess with the physics in these lectures.
Sarfatti Lecture 1 on the Zero Point Dark Energy Metric Engineering of UFOs
“the article's online version at
http://www.livingreviews.org/Articles/Volume4/2001-1carroll/ .
Owing to the fact that a Living Reviews article can evolve over time, we
recommend to cite the article as follows:
Carroll, S.M.,
“The Cosmological Constant",
Living Rev. Relativity, 4, (2001),
“General relativity is a paradigmatic example of a scientific theory of impressive power and simplicity. The cosmological constant, meanwhile, is a paradigmatic example of a modification, originally introduced [81] to help fit the data, which appears at least on the surface to be superfluous and unattractive. Its original role, to allow static homogeneous solutions to Einstein's equations in the presence of matter, turned out to be unnecessary when the expansion of the universe was discovered [131], and there have been a number of subsequent episodes in which a nonzero cosmological constant was put forward as an explanation for a set of observations and later withdrawn when the observational case evaporated. Meanwhile, particle theorists have realized that the cosmological constant can be interpreted as a measure of the energy density of the vacuum. This energy density is the sum of a number of apparently unrelated contributions, each of magnitude much larger than the upper limits on the cosmological constant today; the question of why the observed vacuum energy is so small in comparison to the scales of particle physics has become a celebrated puzzle, although it is usually thought to be easier to imagine an unknown mechanism which would set it precisely to zero than one which would suppress it by just the right amount to yield an observationally accessible cosmological constant. This checkered history has led to a certain reluctance to consider further invocations of a nonzero cosmological constant; however, recent years have provided the best evidence yet that this elusive quantity does play an important dynamical role in the universe.”
Note in the above excerpt:
“particle theorists have realized that the cosmological constant can be interpreted as a measure of the energy density of the vacuum. This energy density is the sum of a number of apparently unrelated contributions, each of magnitude much larger than the upper limits on the cosmological constant today; the question of why the observed vacuum energy is so small in comparison to the scales of particle physics has become a celebrated puzzle”
I allege I have solved this problem using the idea of “vacuum coherence” missing from the orthodox theory in the precise way I use it. The idea of “vacuum condensate” is in orthodox theory. It is a related idea, but not exactly the way I mean it.
Einstein’s GR local geometrodynamical field equation with the cosmological term /\guv is
Ruv – (1/2)Rguv + /\guv = 8pi(G/c^4)Tuv (1)
Impose the large-scale coarse-grained isotropic homogeneous Friedman-Robert-Walker solution
ds^2 = -(cdt)^2 + a^2(t)Ro^2[(dr)^2/(1 – kr^2) + r^2dO^2] (2)
r is dimensionless and the Her Majesty’s Royal Navy’s navigational “celestial sphere” spherical angular line element is
dO^2 = (dtheta)^2 + (sintheta)^2(dphi)^2 (3)
in usual polar coordinates for latitude theta and longitude phi on the 2D sphere of unit radius. a(t) is dimensionless = R(t)/Ro. Subscript o means “now”. k is +1 (closed universe in 3D like a sphere) or 0 (spatially flat like an infinite plane in Euclid’s geometry) or – 1 like a hyperboloid. Both k = 0 and k = -1 are open universes of infinite spatial extent.
The cosmological redshift z of retarded radiation from a co-moving source in the “Hubble flow” where the Cosmic Black Body Radiation (CBR) is maximally isotropic from the past till now obeys the equation
a(past) = [1 + z(now)]^-1 (4)
The symmetric stress-energy density tensor Tuv for “stuff” on the RHS of eq (1) is of the form
Tuv = (energy density + pressure)UuUv + pressure guv
= (energy density)[(1 + w)UuUv + wguv] (5)
Uv is the dimensionless 4-velocity dx^u/ds of this “cosmic fluid” stuff.
w = 0 for cold matter (6a)
w = 1/3 for electromagnetic radiation (far field) (6b)
w = -1 for any kind of zero point vacuum fluctuation (ZPF) of any quantum field including string and brane fields (6c)
An “exotic vacuum” is any kind of virtual stuff with w = -1 and a non-vanishing pressure.
Virtual stuff will not make any particle detector click, but it still has “dark” gravity and anti-gravity properties bending EM radiation signals for example. Dark matter exotic vacuum in a clump will act like a convex converging gravity lens. Dark energy in a clump will act like a diverging gravity lens. Dark matter makes a gravity red shift and dark energy makes a gravity blue shift.
The global cosmic time t (~ 1/(Absolute temperature of CBR) as a convenient measure) dependent Hubble parameter is
H(t) = a^-1(da/dt) (7)
Einstein’s tensor field equation (1) forced into the highly symmetric “Killing vector field” mold of FRW eq (2) simplifies to TWO ordinary differential equations:
H^2 = 8pi(G/c^2)(energy density) + c^2/\/3 –kc^2/a^2Ro^2 (8a)
Note that H^2 is analogous to Newton’s Laplacian of the Gravity Potential Energy of ANY Source Stuff (real or virtual in sense of quantum field theory’s “on” or “off” “mass shell”) per unit test particle that has dimensions of (time)^-2. But an even closer fit analogy to Newton’s Poisson equation in this spatially homogeneous strictly large-scale approximation is the second equation
a^-1d^2a/dt^2 = -(4pi/3)(G/c^2)[(energy density) + 3(pressure)] + c^2/\/3
= -(4pi/3)(G/c^2)(energy density)[(1 + 3w) + c^2/\/3
to be continued
PROBLEM SET #1
1.1 Term Paper Project # 1
What does Hal Puthoff write about zero point energy and gravity and its relation to “interstellar flight” and UFOs?
Go to http://www.earthtech.org/publications/
Also download all articles by Eric Davis at
http://www.nidsci.org/articles/articles3.html
Compare what Puthoff and Davis profess with the physics in these lectures.
1.2 Here is a “hard problem” I do not know answer to from NASA:
On Jan 28, 2004, at 6:00 PM, Creon Levit wrote:
“Hi,
While reading http://www.math.ku.dk/~topsoe/ISIT2004JSD.pdf, I noticed (I think) a simple way to "picture" the Jensen-Shannon divergence of two distributions p and q. If I read their eq (10) correctly, then JSD(p,q) is the following:
JSD(p,q) = H((p+q)/2) - [H(p) + H(q)] / 2
I.e., the JSD is the difference (in bits) between the entropy of the average and the average of the entropies, See e.g. ibid. eq (10).
Question - what are some examples of nontrivial (distinct) distributions p and q where JSD(p,q) = 0 ? E.g. does JSD(p(x), p(x-const)) = 0 ?
Question - what is the (undoubtedly well known) simple formula like this in terms of H for the KL divergence?
Question (Henze and Levit) - what happens if we replace the KL divergence in the definition of mutual information (MI) with the JS divergence? We get a new definition of MI, which might turn out to be useful!
Also, note that in the same paper, mention is made to all sorts of generalizations of JSD. See eq. 7-9. I'll try to order some of the references from the library.
Finally, and probably unrelated, it is tantalizing that in cosmology and quantum gravity at least, entropy is proportional to area. I am not sure what the unit conversion factors are (Jack will know). I think this has to do with holography and that if you specify the boundary conditions (on an enclosing surface area) you have all the *information* necessary to compute the values everywhere on the interior of the enclosed volume. 1 bit = 1 Planck area, I believe, due to Beckenstein.”
“the article's online version at
http://www.livingreviews.org/Articles/Volume4/2001-1carroll/ .
Owing to the fact that a Living Reviews article can evolve over time, we
recommend to cite the article as follows:
Carroll, S.M.,
“The Cosmological Constant",
Living Rev. Relativity, 4, (2001),
“General relativity is a paradigmatic example of a scientific theory of impressive power and simplicity. The cosmological constant, meanwhile, is a paradigmatic example of a modification, originally introduced [81] to help fit the data, which appears at least on the surface to be superfluous and unattractive. Its original role, to allow static homogeneous solutions to Einstein's equations in the presence of matter, turned out to be unnecessary when the expansion of the universe was discovered [131], and there have been a number of subsequent episodes in which a nonzero cosmological constant was put forward as an explanation for a set of observations and later withdrawn when the observational case evaporated. Meanwhile, particle theorists have realized that the cosmological constant can be interpreted as a measure of the energy density of the vacuum. This energy density is the sum of a number of apparently unrelated contributions, each of magnitude much larger than the upper limits on the cosmological constant today; the question of why the observed vacuum energy is so small in comparison to the scales of particle physics has become a celebrated puzzle, although it is usually thought to be easier to imagine an unknown mechanism which would set it precisely to zero than one which would suppress it by just the right amount to yield an observationally accessible cosmological constant. This checkered history has led to a certain reluctance to consider further invocations of a nonzero cosmological constant; however, recent years have provided the best evidence yet that this elusive quantity does play an important dynamical role in the universe.”
Note in the above excerpt:
“particle theorists have realized that the cosmological constant can be interpreted as a measure of the energy density of the vacuum. This energy density is the sum of a number of apparently unrelated contributions, each of magnitude much larger than the upper limits on the cosmological constant today; the question of why the observed vacuum energy is so small in comparison to the scales of particle physics has become a celebrated puzzle”
I allege I have solved this problem using the idea of “vacuum coherence” missing from the orthodox theory in the precise way I use it. The idea of “vacuum condensate” is in orthodox theory. It is a related idea, but not exactly the way I mean it.
Einstein’s GR local geometrodynamical field equation with the cosmological term /\guv is
Ruv – (1/2)Rguv + /\guv = 8pi(G/c^4)Tuv (1)
Impose the large-scale coarse-grained isotropic homogeneous Friedman-Robert-Walker solution
ds^2 = -(cdt)^2 + a^2(t)Ro^2[(dr)^2/(1 – kr^2) + r^2dO^2] (2)
r is dimensionless and the Her Majesty’s Royal Navy’s navigational “celestial sphere” spherical angular line element is
dO^2 = (dtheta)^2 + (sintheta)^2(dphi)^2 (3)
in usual polar coordinates for latitude theta and longitude phi on the 2D sphere of unit radius. a(t) is dimensionless = R(t)/Ro. Subscript o means “now”. k is +1 (closed universe in 3D like a sphere) or 0 (spatially flat like an infinite plane in Euclid’s geometry) or – 1 like a hyperboloid. Both k = 0 and k = -1 are open universes of infinite spatial extent.
The cosmological redshift z of retarded radiation from a co-moving source in the “Hubble flow” where the Cosmic Black Body Radiation (CBR) is maximally isotropic from the past till now obeys the equation
a(past) = [1 + z(now)]^-1 (4)
The symmetric stress-energy density tensor Tuv for “stuff” on the RHS of eq (1) is of the form
Tuv = (energy density + pressure)UuUv + pressure guv
= (energy density)[(1 + w)UuUv + wguv] (5)
Uv is the dimensionless 4-velocity dx^u/ds of this “cosmic fluid” stuff.
w = 0 for cold matter (6a)
w = 1/3 for electromagnetic radiation (far field) (6b)
w = -1 for any kind of zero point vacuum fluctuation (ZPF) of any quantum field including string and brane fields (6c)
An “exotic vacuum” is any kind of virtual stuff with w = -1 and a non-vanishing pressure.
Virtual stuff will not make any particle detector click, but it still has “dark” gravity and anti-gravity properties bending EM radiation signals for example. Dark matter exotic vacuum in a clump will act like a convex converging gravity lens. Dark energy in a clump will act like a diverging gravity lens. Dark matter makes a gravity red shift and dark energy makes a gravity blue shift.
The global cosmic time t (~ 1/(Absolute temperature of CBR) as a convenient measure) dependent Hubble parameter is
H(t) = a^-1(da/dt) (7)
Einstein’s tensor field equation (1) forced into the highly symmetric “Killing vector field” mold of FRW eq (2) simplifies to TWO ordinary differential equations:
H^2 = 8pi(G/c^2)(energy density) + c^2/\/3 –kc^2/a^2Ro^2 (8a)
Note that H^2 is analogous to Newton’s Laplacian of the Gravity Potential Energy of ANY Source Stuff (real or virtual in sense of quantum field theory’s “on” or “off” “mass shell”) per unit test particle that has dimensions of (time)^-2. But an even closer fit analogy to Newton’s Poisson equation in this spatially homogeneous strictly large-scale approximation is the second equation
a^-1d^2a/dt^2 = -(4pi/3)(G/c^2)[(energy density) + 3(pressure)] + c^2/\/3
= -(4pi/3)(G/c^2)(energy density)[(1 + 3w) + c^2/\/3
to be continued
PROBLEM SET #1
1.1 Term Paper Project # 1
What does Hal Puthoff write about zero point energy and gravity and its relation to “interstellar flight” and UFOs?
Go to http://www.earthtech.org/publications/
Also download all articles by Eric Davis at
http://www.nidsci.org/articles/articles3.html
Compare what Puthoff and Davis profess with the physics in these lectures.
1.2 Here is a “hard problem” I do not know answer to from NASA:
On Jan 28, 2004, at 6:00 PM, Creon Levit wrote:
“Hi,
While reading http://www.math.ku.dk/~topsoe/ISIT2004JSD.pdf, I noticed (I think) a simple way to "picture" the Jensen-Shannon divergence of two distributions p and q. If I read their eq (10) correctly, then JSD(p,q) is the following:
JSD(p,q) = H((p+q)/2) - [H(p) + H(q)] / 2
I.e., the JSD is the difference (in bits) between the entropy of the average and the average of the entropies, See e.g. ibid. eq (10).
Question - what are some examples of nontrivial (distinct) distributions p and q where JSD(p,q) = 0 ? E.g. does JSD(p(x), p(x-const)) = 0 ?
Question - what is the (undoubtedly well known) simple formula like this in terms of H for the KL divergence?
Question (Henze and Levit) - what happens if we replace the KL divergence in the definition of mutual information (MI) with the JS divergence? We get a new definition of MI, which might turn out to be useful!
Also, note that in the same paper, mention is made to all sorts of generalizations of JSD. See eq. 7-9. I'll try to order some of the references from the library.
Finally, and probably unrelated, it is tantalizing that in cosmology and quantum gravity at least, entropy is proportional to area. I am not sure what the unit conversion factors are (Jack will know). I think this has to do with holography and that if you specify the boundary conditions (on an enclosing surface area) you have all the *information* necessary to compute the values everywhere on the interior of the enclosed volume. 1 bit = 1 Planck area, I believe, due to Beckenstein.”
On Jan 28, 2004, at 2:59 PM, zenodestiny wrote:
Is negative curvature the key to AG?
What's "AG"? You mean "Anti-Gravity"?
The answer is NO!
You have not understood what I have been writing. Perhaps I have not been clear enough?
What makes anti-gravity in Einstein's theory of gravity is well known.
It is a solved problem.
Einstein's theory in the weak field limit reduces to the Newtonian limit Poisson equation
Laplacian of the Gravity Potential Energy of any source per unit test particle mass = 4pi(G/c^2)(energy density)[1+ 3w]
See, for example Mike Turner's article in April 2003 Physics Today or Ch 1 of John Peacock's "Cosmological Physics"
the text book used at Cal Tech in 2000.
w = pressure/energy density
You get universally repelling anti-gravity when
1 + 3w < 0
using sign conventions when positive energy density means ordinary universally attractive gravity as in
V(Newton) = -GMm/r = gravity potential energy between M and m separated by r
M and m are positive.
The force F is the negative gradient of the gravity potential energy
F = -GradV(Newton)
Grad(1/r) = -(r/r^3)
There are 3 minus signs multiplied here, therefore
F = -GMmr/r^3
3-vectors in BOLD
the surviving - sign means the mutual action-reaction forces between M and m are attractive.
Now, Einstein's principle of equivalence and the principle of local covariance together plus Heisenberg's quantum uncertainty principle implies that
w = -1 for any quantum field of any spin.
This implies that any net positive zero point energy density has an equal negative zero point pressure.
Such a region of exotic vacuum is "dark energy" that universally anti-gravitates because of the factor of 3 in the Poisson equation.
Similarly, any net negative zero point energy density has positive pressure and will gravitate as "dark matter".
In general, in the weak curvature Newtonian limit
Laplacian of Exotic Vacuum Potential Energy per unit test particle ~ c^2/\zpf
where
/\zpf = (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^-1[(Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]
with sign conventions that /\zpf > 0 is anti-gravity dark energy exotic vacuum
/\zpf < 0 is gravitating dark matter exotic vacuum
Note that G plays no overt role here. These can be very strong effects!
The Alcubuierre warp drive is relevant here and this goes back 45 years or more to Herman Bondi's "negative matter propulsion".
Bondi, nor Stalin's Terletskii, did not know about dark zero point energy back then, nor did they know about "vacuum coherence".
Hal Puthoff still does not know about "vacuum coherence". :-)
If a disk is rotating then it
is known that it has a curvature exactly opposite to that of normal
gravity. It would seem that this could be the cause of weight loss in
rotating objects as is seen by spinning gyroscopes. I have never
heard anyone saying this before, but the connection seems straight
forward enough. Also it is known that negative energy or so-called
exotic matter will have the same effect on space-time.
NO.
So then the question is can we mimic the vacuum conditions that are
associated with negative energy to try to achieve a warp drive? I
think the answer is yes and the solution is so simple that I am
surprised that the idea has been overlooked by scientists all this
time.
NO.
So how do we get a negative energy density in the vacuum?
You don't want that!
We know
the Casmir effect can do it, but it is too small. But are there
electric effects that can do it? Are there magnetic effects that can
do it? Can it be done by fusing nuclei together whose products are
heavier than their reactants?
Asking the wrong question.
Furthermore, if we have a craft whose front is positive energy
density vacuum and the back is negative energy density vacuum, will
this be a warp drive in the sense of Albercurie?
You have it backwards. The front "bow" has negative zero point energy density exotic vacuum, the rear "stern" has positive zero point energy density vacuum. Signals from the bow are red shifted, signals from the stern are blue shifted. This is the "reverse Doppler effect" which is a simple "radar" signature the the UFO "bogey" coming at you is in "warp drive" and you had better take cover and man your battle stations "Red Shift Alert!" ;-)
Quantum field theory says that between a parallel plate capacitor
with the same charge there is positive energy in between the
electrodes. In a capacitor with different charges there is negative
energy with respect to a "flat vacuum" or space-time metric in
between the electrodes. Could it be this easy and we are just missing
the obvious?
NO. That is not even wrong. You do not have the right idea and neither does Hal Puthoff IMHO. ;-)
Is negative curvature the key to AG?
What's "AG"? You mean "Anti-Gravity"?
The answer is NO!
You have not understood what I have been writing. Perhaps I have not been clear enough?
What makes anti-gravity in Einstein's theory of gravity is well known.
It is a solved problem.
Einstein's theory in the weak field limit reduces to the Newtonian limit Poisson equation
Laplacian of the Gravity Potential Energy of any source per unit test particle mass = 4pi(G/c^2)(energy density)[1+ 3w]
See, for example Mike Turner's article in April 2003 Physics Today or Ch 1 of John Peacock's "Cosmological Physics"
the text book used at Cal Tech in 2000.
w = pressure/energy density
You get universally repelling anti-gravity when
1 + 3w < 0
using sign conventions when positive energy density means ordinary universally attractive gravity as in
V(Newton) = -GMm/r = gravity potential energy between M and m separated by r
M and m are positive.
The force F is the negative gradient of the gravity potential energy
F = -GradV(Newton)
Grad(1/r) = -(r/r^3)
There are 3 minus signs multiplied here, therefore
F = -GMmr/r^3
3-vectors in BOLD
the surviving - sign means the mutual action-reaction forces between M and m are attractive.
Now, Einstein's principle of equivalence and the principle of local covariance together plus Heisenberg's quantum uncertainty principle implies that
w = -1 for any quantum field of any spin.
This implies that any net positive zero point energy density has an equal negative zero point pressure.
Such a region of exotic vacuum is "dark energy" that universally anti-gravitates because of the factor of 3 in the Poisson equation.
Similarly, any net negative zero point energy density has positive pressure and will gravitate as "dark matter".
In general, in the weak curvature Newtonian limit
Laplacian of Exotic Vacuum Potential Energy per unit test particle ~ c^2/\zpf
where
/\zpf = (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^-1[(Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]
with sign conventions that /\zpf > 0 is anti-gravity dark energy exotic vacuum
/\zpf < 0 is gravitating dark matter exotic vacuum
Note that G plays no overt role here. These can be very strong effects!
The Alcubuierre warp drive is relevant here and this goes back 45 years or more to Herman Bondi's "negative matter propulsion".
Bondi, nor Stalin's Terletskii, did not know about dark zero point energy back then, nor did they know about "vacuum coherence".
Hal Puthoff still does not know about "vacuum coherence". :-)
If a disk is rotating then it
is known that it has a curvature exactly opposite to that of normal
gravity. It would seem that this could be the cause of weight loss in
rotating objects as is seen by spinning gyroscopes. I have never
heard anyone saying this before, but the connection seems straight
forward enough. Also it is known that negative energy or so-called
exotic matter will have the same effect on space-time.
NO.
So then the question is can we mimic the vacuum conditions that are
associated with negative energy to try to achieve a warp drive? I
think the answer is yes and the solution is so simple that I am
surprised that the idea has been overlooked by scientists all this
time.
NO.
So how do we get a negative energy density in the vacuum?
You don't want that!
We know
the Casmir effect can do it, but it is too small. But are there
electric effects that can do it? Are there magnetic effects that can
do it? Can it be done by fusing nuclei together whose products are
heavier than their reactants?
Asking the wrong question.
Furthermore, if we have a craft whose front is positive energy
density vacuum and the back is negative energy density vacuum, will
this be a warp drive in the sense of Albercurie?
You have it backwards. The front "bow" has negative zero point energy density exotic vacuum, the rear "stern" has positive zero point energy density vacuum. Signals from the bow are red shifted, signals from the stern are blue shifted. This is the "reverse Doppler effect" which is a simple "radar" signature the the UFO "bogey" coming at you is in "warp drive" and you had better take cover and man your battle stations "Red Shift Alert!" ;-)
Quantum field theory says that between a parallel plate capacitor
with the same charge there is positive energy in between the
electrodes. In a capacitor with different charges there is negative
energy with respect to a "flat vacuum" or space-time metric in
between the electrodes. Could it be this easy and we are just missing
the obvious?
NO. That is not even wrong. You do not have the right idea and neither does Hal Puthoff IMHO. ;-)
Thanks 1981 is about the right time when we saw it.
I would like to get a copy. If anyone has it let me know. Thanks.
I seem to recall "Satori Trilogy" on the paperback cover?
On Jan 28, 2004, at 2:03 PM, Tony Smith wrote:
Jack, it seems that Satori is the third book of a series of four.
According to
http://www.gaslightbooks.com.au/4part/authors1.html
---------------------------------------------------------------
SCHMIDT, DENNIS
Kensho
1 1978 Way-farer
2 1979 Kensho
3 1981 Satori -- this should be the one with reference to Sarfatti and Josephson as inventing the Starship drive.
4 1985 Wanderer
Questioner Trilogy
1 1989 Labyrinth
2 1990 City of crystal shadow
3 1990 Dark Paradise
Twilight of the Gods
1 1985 The First name
2 1986 Groa's other eye
3 1988 Three trumps sounding
-------------------------------------------------------------------
According to
http://www.bestjudo.com/brsatori3.shtml
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Satori
Kensho Novel #3 of 4
Author: Dennis Schmidt
Pub: 1981 by The Berkeley Publishing Group
"... Satori - The Earthmen are coming...
For a thousand years the men and women of Kensho have been evolving
a way of living, a civilization that combines technology and spirit
in a fashion that the visionaries of old Earth could hardly imagine
as the two essential parts of a healthy whole, rather than as deadly
enemies out to destroy each other.
In another century Kensho would have become invulnerable to the
violence of Earth, but the starship bristling with fearful weapons,
an armada at its beck, is orbiting the planet now.
... Must the New Humanity return to the sad old ways of Earth? ...".
--------------------------------------------------------------------
I think that you can buy the books from Amazon (I think Satori was $4.00).
Tony
I would like to get a copy. If anyone has it let me know. Thanks.
I seem to recall "Satori Trilogy" on the paperback cover?
On Jan 28, 2004, at 2:03 PM, Tony Smith wrote:
Jack, it seems that Satori is the third book of a series of four.
According to
http://www.gaslightbooks.com.au/4part/authors1.html
---------------------------------------------------------------
SCHMIDT, DENNIS
Kensho
1 1978 Way-farer
2 1979 Kensho
3 1981 Satori -- this should be the one with reference to Sarfatti and Josephson as inventing the Starship drive.
4 1985 Wanderer
Questioner Trilogy
1 1989 Labyrinth
2 1990 City of crystal shadow
3 1990 Dark Paradise
Twilight of the Gods
1 1985 The First name
2 1986 Groa's other eye
3 1988 Three trumps sounding
-------------------------------------------------------------------
According to
http://www.bestjudo.com/brsatori3.shtml
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Satori
Kensho Novel #3 of 4
Author: Dennis Schmidt
Pub: 1981 by The Berkeley Publishing Group
"... Satori - The Earthmen are coming...
For a thousand years the men and women of Kensho have been evolving
a way of living, a civilization that combines technology and spirit
in a fashion that the visionaries of old Earth could hardly imagine
as the two essential parts of a healthy whole, rather than as deadly
enemies out to destroy each other.
In another century Kensho would have become invulnerable to the
violence of Earth, but the starship bristling with fearful weapons,
an armada at its beck, is orbiting the planet now.
... Must the New Humanity return to the sad old ways of Earth? ...".
--------------------------------------------------------------------
I think that you can buy the books from Amazon (I think Satori was $4.00).
Tony
Thanks
On Jan 28, 2004, at 11:09 AM, Gary S. Bekkum wrote:
Issues regarding vev of Higgs and braneworld configurations etc. see pages
9-14
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0205106
Remember that the Higgs mechanism for a ODLRO (Oliver Penrose & Lars Onsager) vacuum condensate uses a phenomenological quartic "Mexican Hat" action in the VEV (vacuum expectation value) because only that quartic nonlinearity that spontaneously breaks the symmetry ("More is different"P.W. Anderson) give renormalizable perturbation quantum field theory in a globally flat non-dynamical background space-time "stage" that is NOT also an "actor".
The "phase" quanta of the complex scalar VEV are the "massless" Goldstone spin 0 bosons. The "amplitude" quanta of the VEV are the massive "Higgs bosons".
This essentially same math was in my "The Goldstone Theorem and the Jahn-Teller Effect" with Marshall Stoneham of UKAERE, Harwell written in 1966 but published in Proceedings of Physical Society of London - I think 1967 also cited in American Physical Society Resource Letter on Symmetry in Physics applied to a real nuclear reactor problem in condensed matter physics that AERE was concerned with. I was visiting Imperial College listening to Kibble and Salam et-al at that time which is how I got the idea on general and Stoneham saw how to apply it to a real problem.
Stoneham later replaced Ron Bullough as head of Theory Division. It was Bullough who met me in Chicago in 1964 and later invited me to Harwell from UCSD where I was working for DOD JASON's Keith Brueckner because of my original intuitive ideas on gamma ray lasers in nuclear isomers and using laser radiation pressure to confine hot fusion plasma. This is when in 1966 I stayed at ex RAF Officer's Club Ridgway House meeting no doubt members of British Intelligence explaining the Dennis Bardens meeting at Cambridge in 1973 as told in "Destiny Matrix".
Now in my present model inhomogeneities in the "rigid" Goldstone coherent LOCAL phase field of Sakharov's "metric elasticity" give Einstein's c-number geometrodynamic guv field. Similarly the Higgs field gives both the anti-gravity dark energy and the gravitating dark matter. The VEV is essentially the chaotic inflation cosmological field in the large-scale limit. This particular VEV is mainly from a dynamical instability in the globally flat QED vacuum where virtual electron-positron pairs close to the -mc^2 Dirac-Fermi surface Bose-Einstein condense into a virtual bound state from their attraction in virtual photon exchange. This is an analog to the BCS model. The virtual electron-positron have zero charge, but with finite virtual 3D current density in an applied electric field since opposite charges in back to back motion have electric currents that add rather than subtract.
On Jan 28, 2004, at 11:09 AM, Gary S. Bekkum wrote:
Issues regarding vev of Higgs and braneworld configurations etc. see pages
9-14
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0205106
Remember that the Higgs mechanism for a ODLRO (Oliver Penrose & Lars Onsager) vacuum condensate uses a phenomenological quartic "Mexican Hat" action in the VEV (vacuum expectation value) because only that quartic nonlinearity that spontaneously breaks the symmetry ("More is different"P.W. Anderson) give renormalizable perturbation quantum field theory in a globally flat non-dynamical background space-time "stage" that is NOT also an "actor".
The "phase" quanta of the complex scalar VEV are the "massless" Goldstone spin 0 bosons. The "amplitude" quanta of the VEV are the massive "Higgs bosons".
This essentially same math was in my "The Goldstone Theorem and the Jahn-Teller Effect" with Marshall Stoneham of UKAERE, Harwell written in 1966 but published in Proceedings of Physical Society of London - I think 1967 also cited in American Physical Society Resource Letter on Symmetry in Physics applied to a real nuclear reactor problem in condensed matter physics that AERE was concerned with. I was visiting Imperial College listening to Kibble and Salam et-al at that time which is how I got the idea on general and Stoneham saw how to apply it to a real problem.
Stoneham later replaced Ron Bullough as head of Theory Division. It was Bullough who met me in Chicago in 1964 and later invited me to Harwell from UCSD where I was working for DOD JASON's Keith Brueckner because of my original intuitive ideas on gamma ray lasers in nuclear isomers and using laser radiation pressure to confine hot fusion plasma. This is when in 1966 I stayed at ex RAF Officer's Club Ridgway House meeting no doubt members of British Intelligence explaining the Dennis Bardens meeting at Cambridge in 1973 as told in "Destiny Matrix".
Now in my present model inhomogeneities in the "rigid" Goldstone coherent LOCAL phase field of Sakharov's "metric elasticity" give Einstein's c-number geometrodynamic guv field. Similarly the Higgs field gives both the anti-gravity dark energy and the gravitating dark matter. The VEV is essentially the chaotic inflation cosmological field in the large-scale limit. This particular VEV is mainly from a dynamical instability in the globally flat QED vacuum where virtual electron-positron pairs close to the -mc^2 Dirac-Fermi surface Bose-Einstein condense into a virtual bound state from their attraction in virtual photon exchange. This is an analog to the BCS model. The virtual electron-positron have zero charge, but with finite virtual 3D current density in an applied electric field since opposite charges in back to back motion have electric currents that add rather than subtract.
bcc
On Jan 28, 2004, at 9:52 AM, art wagner wrote:
3rd Version of Beatriz Gato-Rivera's E.T. paper "Brane Worlds, the Subanthropic Principle and the Undetectability Conjecture" (http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0308078)
On Jan 27, 2004, at 5:48 PM, Tony Smith wrote:
"Jack,
'your idea
"... De Sitter space is a space of constant curvature
with scale R so that the cosmological constant is /\ = 1/R^2.
Can we imagine a more general tangent bundle where the tangent spaces
are ... variable R or /\? That would correspond to /\ not as a constant,
but as a local variable field. ...'.
What about Conformal space?"
Yes, I already have been playing with that. I forget off-hand, which is more general? I know they are deeply inter-related.
"Here is maybe a way to see your idea: deSitter has group Spin(1,4) - an extra space dimension,
for dark matter anti-deSitter has group Spin(2,3) - an extra time dimension, for dark energy"
I don't need any extra dimensions for that. In my theory using only 4D space-time with quantum fields
BOTH dark energy and dark matter are the SAME thing! Both are w = -1 zero point energy density from
ALL quantum fields with negative and positive pressure respectively. Which it will be in a given spacetime
region is a simple function of the dynamical background-independent vacuum coherence local field that obeys
a self-organizing covariant Landau-Ginzburg equation with connection field coming from the Goldstone phase of the vacuum coherence field in a very nonlinear self-organizing way.
IT FROM BIT + BIT FROM IT
of course the quantum fields or "string fields" may be the "extra dimensions" in the usual way of Kaluza-Klein.
Note that
Zero Point Exotic Vacuum Local Warp Geometrodynamic Field = (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^-1[(Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]
The range of the real function on the LHS is positive (anti gravity dark energy of ADS) of negative pressure, zero (ordinary "equilibrium" vacuum of zero pressure) or negative (gravitating dark matter of DS of positive pressure).
The metric engineering control field is the local vacuum coherence field intensity and that is controlled by a Josephson weak link with a real superconductor similar to Ray Chiao's "gravity radio", but in near field not far field. We do not want EM waves and gravity waves to leak away the "solitonic" as it were local warp field as, for example, in Alcubierre's "warp drive" and Kip Thorne's "traversable wormhole" toy model metrics that glimpse the super-technology that we see in the UFO phenomenon.
BTW I forgot to mention the "reverse Doppler effect" that Bruce Cornet claims to measure. In a zero point energy warp drive with no g-forces in the interior of the ship the region of anti-gravity dark energy negative pressure makes a strong universal blue shift all EM and sound signals radiating away from the ship. Similarly, the region of gravitating dark matter positive pressure makes a strong universal red shift. This acts OPPOSITE to the normal motional Doppler effect. I have an animated movie of this effect in
http://qedcorp.com/APS/StarGate1.mov
when I made my theory I did not know of Bruce Cornet's alleged experimental results nor he of my theory.
"conformal has group Spin(2,4) - both extra space and extra time,
for dark matter and dark energy
---------------------------------------------------------
You also mention:
'... Susskind's hologram idea ...
the thermodynamic entropy in Shannon c-bits is ~ A/a.
...
the thermal entropy in c-bits decreases. This must be
compensated by an increase in qubits
... a tradeoff between string qubits and loop area c-bits ...'.
If you are saying that Susskind's hologram stuff is
mostly classical (based on semi-classical Hawking radiation
from classical black holes) with classical Shannon information,
and that to do it right (quantum) you must use quantum information qubits,
which can have negative conditional entropy and "absorb" enough
information to resolve the paradox (a la Cerf and Adami)
then I think that you may be correctly showing how the Cerf and Adami
picture fits with Chapline's quantum condensate picture
and with Mathur et al's superstring/brane fuzzball picture. *"
My early relations with both Lenny Susskind and George Chapline in the 1960's is synchronistic for sure. They are obviously part of "the others" but do not realize it. :-) See also Lenny Susskind's interview in John Brockman's edge.org.
See Lee Smolin's emphasis on "consistent histories" "story telling" the questions that bring the universe into being in "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" in Wheeler's Observer-Participator" "Universe as a self-excited circuit".
"The Question is: What is The Question?"
Yes, something like that. The duality between the background dependent string picture and
the background-independent loop picture suggests that.
String Tension = hc/(Loop Quantum of Area)
Discrete String Theory on the "world hologram plate" boundary, as it were, whose projection is Loop Quantum Gravity in the bulk inside the boundary?
The c-bits are the links on the string, the qubits are the area quanta? Areas are lines in the 3D "spintronic quantum computing networks" carrying representations of SU(2), so they must be the qubits. The basic idea is the "Wilson loop", but not taken to the continuum limit. The spintronic quantum computing networks are BEYOND effective geometrodynamic c-number ODLRO field theory in IR limit. Spintronic qubit networks in the locationless atemporal Saint Augustine combinatorial Penrosian "pre-geometry" are built out of quanta of Faraday force line "Wilson loops" and form an orthonormal quantum basis of a kosher Hilbert space out of which classical space-time emerge. Like in string theory there is no UV divergence and back-ground independence of diffeomorphism invariance is built in at the beginning - that allows the kosher Hilbert space of spintronic quantum computing networks to exist. Now how I get a giant local exotic vacuum condensate wave for the cosmic inflation field out of that is what I am working on. See Rovelli's brand new book:
http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/book.pdf
which IMHO answers ALL of Paul Zielinski's objections to MTW.
The links on the string give the Bekenstein entropy in c-bits, so that seems to work?
"I won't comment on Susskind's superstring theory,
because I think that it is nonsense as physics,
and irrelevant to the good ideas in your message."
You mean his "Landscape" with WAP that is similar to Max Tegmark's and Lee Smolin's
chaotic inflation picture with "Levels I" to "IV" (Plato)? I am keeping an open mind on
all pictures at the moment.
(However, plain old string theory in 26-dim IS probably
physically the way to describe in detail post-Bohm quantum potentials,
but that is NOT superstrings, and is another story.)
*-(Just because I quote Mathur et al about fuzzballs does not
mean that I like the superstring/brane formalism with which
they define fuzzballs.)
------------------------------------------------------------
Your idea
"... We metric engineer by a Josephson interference of a control
superconductor with the vacuum coherence wave."
What's weird here is that Kim Burrafato and I found a sci-fi book
over 20 years ago, I think it was "Satori Trilogy" by "Dennis Schmidt"
that said something like "Jack Sarfatti and Brian Josephson discovered the
Star Ship warp drive ..."
Now there had been a San Francisco Chronicle article in 1976 about
Brian Josephson visiting me at Physics Consciousness Research Group
on top of Nob Hill and his visit to SRI with Puthoff and Targ on
paranormal stuff. Also my name was known in the Bay Area sci-fi
circles. However, I was not seriously thinking of starships at that
time although ex-DIA spook George Koopman was pushing us in
that direction (see Saul-Paul Sirag's chapter in "Destiny Matrix").
Also this was the time when Susskind and many top physicists
were going to Werner Erhard's via David Finkelstein who I
introduced to Werner at Esalen as told in Gary Zukav's "The Dancing
Wu Li Masters" etc. Like a fool I didn't buy the book. I was on
a power walk to Marina and I planned to pick up the book later, but did not.
...
'This theory does not use Tuv(Matter) directly because that is not the
way to control space-time warps because the string tension is too
stiff. ...'
"sounds very promising to me. I think that it can also be formulated
in terms of conformal group special conformal generators, etc.,
in the spirit of Segal's work with conformal gravity."
Yes, all that stuff is interesting and I am studying it slowly but surely.
On Jan 27, 2004, at 9:35 PM, Tony Smith wrote:
"Carlos,
I thought that the dimension/normalization question had been
taken care of over 30 years ago, when Robert Gilmore replied
to such objections to Armand Wyler's work.
Gilmore, in a paper "Scaling of Wyler's Expression for alpha",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 28 (1972) 462-464, said (in part):
"... Several objections to ... Wyler's expression ... were
raised, the principal one being based on a scaling argument.
We present the mathematical reason for fixing the scale at r = 1.
...
Only for the choice r = 1 are all elements in the bounded domain
... coset representatives and therefore group operations.
...
Using the finite Euclidean volumes rather than the infinite
invariant volumes, in analogy with Bethe's dropping of an
infinite correction term to obtain a finite result,
may be another instance in which the replacement of
a divergent value by a finite value can lead to a well-defined
and significant result.
The occurrence of the Euclidean volumes ... should be considered
a strong point of Wyler's result, rather than an objectionable feature.
These volumes arise naturally as the normalizing coefficients
in the Poisson and Bergman kernels, which are reproducing kernels
and are defined in a nonlinear way.
...
Wyler's work has pointed out that it is possible to map
an unbounded physical domain - the interior of the forward light cone
- onto the exterior of a bounded domain on which there also exists
a complex structure. ... This transformation from unbounded to
bounded complex domains is mathematically rigorous, and is valid
whether or not the fine-structure constant can in fact be
calculated following Wyler's heuristic arguments.
Although serious objections can be raised about Wyler's calculation
of the fine-structure constant,
the scaling argument is not one of them. ...".
I had already specifically noted the use of unit radius in my paper at
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/9302030
which paper had a reference to Gilmore's paper quoted above.
---------------------------------
The physical motivation for each of the volumes is given
in my CERN CDS preprint EXT-2003-087,
and
consistent application of my procedure gives accurate
relative force strength constants
and
I think that Gilmore's 1972 paper answers any scaling objections,
but
it is true that people who don't like my work and don't want to
go to the trouble of really trying to understand it can say
that I "... cleverly divided things by suitable powers of a
length scale ... as if ...[I]... were "cheating ". ...",
but,
as Gilmore's 1972 paper shows, they would be wrong. *
Tony
* - Of course,
it is far from unprecedented for high authorities to be wrong,
so maybe the fate of my work is to be rejected by humanity.
On Jan 27, 2004, at 8:09 PM, Carlos Castro wrote:
Dear Jack and Tony :
Jack can see a review by Nottale in the Int. Jour.
Mod. Physics A , vol. 7 , No. 20 ( 1992 ) 4899-4936
where in the last sections he discusses/proposes how
to solve the cosmological constant problem.
Write to : < Laurent.Nottale@obspm.fr >
and ask him to give you his webpage. I do not remember
it off hand. Tell him that I asked you to write to
him. Mkae sure you ask for the section on the
Cosmologiacl Constant.
One thing I forgot to tell Tony and Walter Smilga
about Wyler's formula and the others for the coupling
constants is about the negative reaction people may
have in the issue of dimensions and units.
I have to spend more time with Tony on this. The basic
problem is that anybody who sees the Wyler formula,
etc... is going to argue like this :
We are familiar with the famous Buffon's needle
problem which allows us to experimentally measure the
value of PI based on the notion of Geometric
Probability = ratio of two areas = 2 a^2 / PI a^2 =
2/PI = probablity that after tossing a tooth-pick of
size *a* it will fall on a line in the tiled-floor....
The probability for an electron to emit a photon is
the value of charge squared, etc.... it is a
dimensionless number ( in natural units ) so by
writing its value as the ratios of the geometric
volumes in bounded complex homogeneous domains, Shilov
boundaries, Hermitean symmetric spaces, etc...is
problematic because you do not necessary get a number
that is devoid of dimensions.
The volumes involved in the calculation of the
probabilities have different dimensions and their
ratios do not yield a dimensionless number.
The problem persists if you normalize the
probabilities by the geometric force strength of
gravity and/or if you include a scale parameter that
you can set to unity. Even if you introduce a scale
parameter, like a radius of a four-sphere, or
whatever, it does not decouple like in the Buffon
needle problem.
Another thing that may cause problems is that people
may attack Smilga by saying that he tailored his paper
to fit Tony's work. It would have been so helpful if
Smilga had drawn some crucial pictures explaining
his arguments.
People may have troubles with the normalization
arguments mentioned by Tony, where he argues that in
order to reconcile the dimensions of the Shilov
boundaries (the link from the orgin-to-target
vertices) with the irreducible dimensions of the
target internal symmetry spaces....one has to divide
by a suitable fractional power of the volume of the
homogeneous complex bounded domain.
Again, the dimensions of the numerators do not match
the dimensions of the denominators. Even if you
includes the ( mass )^2 terms , the dimensions still
do not cancel out so it leads to a probablity which
has dimensions, instead of a dimensionless number.
It is difficlut to view these geometric volumes as
being devoid of dimensions. They Shilov boundary like
RP^1 x S^4 = Real Projective space x the
four-sphere has overall dimension five, etc...
Of course to cure all this one can say that one is
working with volumes devoid of any dimensions because
we cleverly divided things by suitable powers of a
length scale. But this sounds as if one were
"cheating ".
When one works with homogeneous coordinates in
Projectives spaces these coordinates are suitably
normalized to make everything dimensionless. However
Tony and Smilga did not mention this important crucial
point. The readers are going to make a simple
dimensional-count and will see that the dimensions do
not cancel out. They are not going to bother with it
and will believe in David Gross nasty attack on Wyler.
People in string theory for years have argued that the
coupling constants can be determined in terms of the
of volumes of the moduli spaces associated with the
Calabi-Yau compactifications. These numbers are
dimensionless after the correct normalizations are
made.
Let us look at Wyler's formula :
[(8 PI) V ( D_5 )^{ 1/4 } ] / V ( S^4 ) V ( Shilov ).
8 PI is the volume of S^1 x S^1 x S^1 x S^1 =
(length)^4 .
The V (D_5)^{ 1/4 } has dimensions =
(length^5)^{ 1/4 } = (length)^{ 5/4 } .
The dimensions of the numerator are
( length )^{ 21/4 }
which do not match the dimensions of the denominator.
Of course, by working with *dimensionless* volumes
from the very start we bypass these problems. But this
requires introducing scale parameters = sizes of the
spaces to make each separate term dimensionless.
My major problem is the argument by Tony about
reconciling the dimensions of the Shilov boundary with
the irreducible dimensions of the target internal
space. To my opinion, this is not clear in the text
and the readers are going to be confused. For example,
in Wyler's formula :
By subtracting 5/4 = dimensions of V ( D_5 )^{ 1/4 }
from the 5-dim Shilov boundary 5 - 5/4 is not equal
to 4 ( irreducible dimensions of S^4 ).
Again, pictures would have been so useful and a
discussion on this issue about units and dimensions
would have been very helpful.
Best wishes
Carlos"
On Jan 28, 2004, at 9:52 AM, art wagner wrote:
3rd Version of Beatriz Gato-Rivera's E.T. paper "Brane Worlds, the Subanthropic Principle and the Undetectability Conjecture" (http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0308078)
On Jan 27, 2004, at 5:48 PM, Tony Smith wrote:
"Jack,
'your idea
"... De Sitter space is a space of constant curvature
with scale R so that the cosmological constant is /\ = 1/R^2.
Can we imagine a more general tangent bundle where the tangent spaces
are ... variable R or /\? That would correspond to /\ not as a constant,
but as a local variable field. ...'.
What about Conformal space?"
Yes, I already have been playing with that. I forget off-hand, which is more general? I know they are deeply inter-related.
"Here is maybe a way to see your idea: deSitter has group Spin(1,4) - an extra space dimension,
for dark matter anti-deSitter has group Spin(2,3) - an extra time dimension, for dark energy"
I don't need any extra dimensions for that. In my theory using only 4D space-time with quantum fields
BOTH dark energy and dark matter are the SAME thing! Both are w = -1 zero point energy density from
ALL quantum fields with negative and positive pressure respectively. Which it will be in a given spacetime
region is a simple function of the dynamical background-independent vacuum coherence local field that obeys
a self-organizing covariant Landau-Ginzburg equation with connection field coming from the Goldstone phase of the vacuum coherence field in a very nonlinear self-organizing way.
IT FROM BIT + BIT FROM IT
of course the quantum fields or "string fields" may be the "extra dimensions" in the usual way of Kaluza-Klein.
Note that
Zero Point Exotic Vacuum Local Warp Geometrodynamic Field = (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^-1[(Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]
The range of the real function on the LHS is positive (anti gravity dark energy of ADS) of negative pressure, zero (ordinary "equilibrium" vacuum of zero pressure) or negative (gravitating dark matter of DS of positive pressure).
The metric engineering control field is the local vacuum coherence field intensity and that is controlled by a Josephson weak link with a real superconductor similar to Ray Chiao's "gravity radio", but in near field not far field. We do not want EM waves and gravity waves to leak away the "solitonic" as it were local warp field as, for example, in Alcubierre's "warp drive" and Kip Thorne's "traversable wormhole" toy model metrics that glimpse the super-technology that we see in the UFO phenomenon.
BTW I forgot to mention the "reverse Doppler effect" that Bruce Cornet claims to measure. In a zero point energy warp drive with no g-forces in the interior of the ship the region of anti-gravity dark energy negative pressure makes a strong universal blue shift all EM and sound signals radiating away from the ship. Similarly, the region of gravitating dark matter positive pressure makes a strong universal red shift. This acts OPPOSITE to the normal motional Doppler effect. I have an animated movie of this effect in
http://qedcorp.com/APS/StarGate1.mov
when I made my theory I did not know of Bruce Cornet's alleged experimental results nor he of my theory.
"conformal has group Spin(2,4) - both extra space and extra time,
for dark matter and dark energy
---------------------------------------------------------
You also mention:
'... Susskind's hologram idea ...
the thermodynamic entropy in Shannon c-bits is ~ A/a.
...
the thermal entropy in c-bits decreases. This must be
compensated by an increase in qubits
... a tradeoff between string qubits and loop area c-bits ...'.
If you are saying that Susskind's hologram stuff is
mostly classical (based on semi-classical Hawking radiation
from classical black holes) with classical Shannon information,
and that to do it right (quantum) you must use quantum information qubits,
which can have negative conditional entropy and "absorb" enough
information to resolve the paradox (a la Cerf and Adami)
then I think that you may be correctly showing how the Cerf and Adami
picture fits with Chapline's quantum condensate picture
and with Mathur et al's superstring/brane fuzzball picture. *"
My early relations with both Lenny Susskind and George Chapline in the 1960's is synchronistic for sure. They are obviously part of "the others" but do not realize it. :-) See also Lenny Susskind's interview in John Brockman's edge.org.
See Lee Smolin's emphasis on "consistent histories" "story telling" the questions that bring the universe into being in "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" in Wheeler's Observer-Participator" "Universe as a self-excited circuit".
"The Question is: What is The Question?"
Yes, something like that. The duality between the background dependent string picture and
the background-independent loop picture suggests that.
String Tension = hc/(Loop Quantum of Area)
Discrete String Theory on the "world hologram plate" boundary, as it were, whose projection is Loop Quantum Gravity in the bulk inside the boundary?
The c-bits are the links on the string, the qubits are the area quanta? Areas are lines in the 3D "spintronic quantum computing networks" carrying representations of SU(2), so they must be the qubits. The basic idea is the "Wilson loop", but not taken to the continuum limit. The spintronic quantum computing networks are BEYOND effective geometrodynamic c-number ODLRO field theory in IR limit. Spintronic qubit networks in the locationless atemporal Saint Augustine combinatorial Penrosian "pre-geometry" are built out of quanta of Faraday force line "Wilson loops" and form an orthonormal quantum basis of a kosher Hilbert space out of which classical space-time emerge. Like in string theory there is no UV divergence and back-ground independence of diffeomorphism invariance is built in at the beginning - that allows the kosher Hilbert space of spintronic quantum computing networks to exist. Now how I get a giant local exotic vacuum condensate wave for the cosmic inflation field out of that is what I am working on. See Rovelli's brand new book:
http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/book.pdf
which IMHO answers ALL of Paul Zielinski's objections to MTW.
The links on the string give the Bekenstein entropy in c-bits, so that seems to work?
"I won't comment on Susskind's superstring theory,
because I think that it is nonsense as physics,
and irrelevant to the good ideas in your message."
You mean his "Landscape" with WAP that is similar to Max Tegmark's and Lee Smolin's
chaotic inflation picture with "Levels I" to "IV" (Plato)? I am keeping an open mind on
all pictures at the moment.
(However, plain old string theory in 26-dim IS probably
physically the way to describe in detail post-Bohm quantum potentials,
but that is NOT superstrings, and is another story.)
*-(Just because I quote Mathur et al about fuzzballs does not
mean that I like the superstring/brane formalism with which
they define fuzzballs.)
------------------------------------------------------------
Your idea
"... We metric engineer by a Josephson interference of a control
superconductor with the vacuum coherence wave."
What's weird here is that Kim Burrafato and I found a sci-fi book
over 20 years ago, I think it was "Satori Trilogy" by "Dennis Schmidt"
that said something like "Jack Sarfatti and Brian Josephson discovered the
Star Ship warp drive ..."
Now there had been a San Francisco Chronicle article in 1976 about
Brian Josephson visiting me at Physics Consciousness Research Group
on top of Nob Hill and his visit to SRI with Puthoff and Targ on
paranormal stuff. Also my name was known in the Bay Area sci-fi
circles. However, I was not seriously thinking of starships at that
time although ex-DIA spook George Koopman was pushing us in
that direction (see Saul-Paul Sirag's chapter in "Destiny Matrix").
Also this was the time when Susskind and many top physicists
were going to Werner Erhard's via David Finkelstein who I
introduced to Werner at Esalen as told in Gary Zukav's "The Dancing
Wu Li Masters" etc. Like a fool I didn't buy the book. I was on
a power walk to Marina and I planned to pick up the book later, but did not.
...
'This theory does not use Tuv(Matter) directly because that is not the
way to control space-time warps because the string tension is too
stiff. ...'
"sounds very promising to me. I think that it can also be formulated
in terms of conformal group special conformal generators, etc.,
in the spirit of Segal's work with conformal gravity."
Yes, all that stuff is interesting and I am studying it slowly but surely.
On Jan 27, 2004, at 9:35 PM, Tony Smith wrote:
"Carlos,
I thought that the dimension/normalization question had been
taken care of over 30 years ago, when Robert Gilmore replied
to such objections to Armand Wyler's work.
Gilmore, in a paper "Scaling of Wyler's Expression for alpha",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 28 (1972) 462-464, said (in part):
"... Several objections to ... Wyler's expression ... were
raised, the principal one being based on a scaling argument.
We present the mathematical reason for fixing the scale at r = 1.
...
Only for the choice r = 1 are all elements in the bounded domain
... coset representatives and therefore group operations.
...
Using the finite Euclidean volumes rather than the infinite
invariant volumes, in analogy with Bethe's dropping of an
infinite correction term to obtain a finite result,
may be another instance in which the replacement of
a divergent value by a finite value can lead to a well-defined
and significant result.
The occurrence of the Euclidean volumes ... should be considered
a strong point of Wyler's result, rather than an objectionable feature.
These volumes arise naturally as the normalizing coefficients
in the Poisson and Bergman kernels, which are reproducing kernels
and are defined in a nonlinear way.
...
Wyler's work has pointed out that it is possible to map
an unbounded physical domain - the interior of the forward light cone
- onto the exterior of a bounded domain on which there also exists
a complex structure. ... This transformation from unbounded to
bounded complex domains is mathematically rigorous, and is valid
whether or not the fine-structure constant can in fact be
calculated following Wyler's heuristic arguments.
Although serious objections can be raised about Wyler's calculation
of the fine-structure constant,
the scaling argument is not one of them. ...".
I had already specifically noted the use of unit radius in my paper at
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/9302030
which paper had a reference to Gilmore's paper quoted above.
---------------------------------
The physical motivation for each of the volumes is given
in my CERN CDS preprint EXT-2003-087,
and
consistent application of my procedure gives accurate
relative force strength constants
and
I think that Gilmore's 1972 paper answers any scaling objections,
but
it is true that people who don't like my work and don't want to
go to the trouble of really trying to understand it can say
that I "... cleverly divided things by suitable powers of a
length scale ... as if ...[I]... were "cheating ". ...",
but,
as Gilmore's 1972 paper shows, they would be wrong. *
Tony
* - Of course,
it is far from unprecedented for high authorities to be wrong,
so maybe the fate of my work is to be rejected by humanity.
On Jan 27, 2004, at 8:09 PM, Carlos Castro wrote:
Dear Jack and Tony :
Jack can see a review by Nottale in the Int. Jour.
Mod. Physics A , vol. 7 , No. 20 ( 1992 ) 4899-4936
where in the last sections he discusses/proposes how
to solve the cosmological constant problem.
Write to : < Laurent.Nottale@obspm.fr >
and ask him to give you his webpage. I do not remember
it off hand. Tell him that I asked you to write to
him. Mkae sure you ask for the section on the
Cosmologiacl Constant.
One thing I forgot to tell Tony and Walter Smilga
about Wyler's formula and the others for the coupling
constants is about the negative reaction people may
have in the issue of dimensions and units.
I have to spend more time with Tony on this. The basic
problem is that anybody who sees the Wyler formula,
etc... is going to argue like this :
We are familiar with the famous Buffon's needle
problem which allows us to experimentally measure the
value of PI based on the notion of Geometric
Probability = ratio of two areas = 2 a^2 / PI a^2 =
2/PI = probablity that after tossing a tooth-pick of
size *a* it will fall on a line in the tiled-floor....
The probability for an electron to emit a photon is
the value of charge squared, etc.... it is a
dimensionless number ( in natural units ) so by
writing its value as the ratios of the geometric
volumes in bounded complex homogeneous domains, Shilov
boundaries, Hermitean symmetric spaces, etc...is
problematic because you do not necessary get a number
that is devoid of dimensions.
The volumes involved in the calculation of the
probabilities have different dimensions and their
ratios do not yield a dimensionless number.
The problem persists if you normalize the
probabilities by the geometric force strength of
gravity and/or if you include a scale parameter that
you can set to unity. Even if you introduce a scale
parameter, like a radius of a four-sphere, or
whatever, it does not decouple like in the Buffon
needle problem.
Another thing that may cause problems is that people
may attack Smilga by saying that he tailored his paper
to fit Tony's work. It would have been so helpful if
Smilga had drawn some crucial pictures explaining
his arguments.
People may have troubles with the normalization
arguments mentioned by Tony, where he argues that in
order to reconcile the dimensions of the Shilov
boundaries (the link from the orgin-to-target
vertices) with the irreducible dimensions of the
target internal symmetry spaces....one has to divide
by a suitable fractional power of the volume of the
homogeneous complex bounded domain.
Again, the dimensions of the numerators do not match
the dimensions of the denominators. Even if you
includes the ( mass )^2 terms , the dimensions still
do not cancel out so it leads to a probablity which
has dimensions, instead of a dimensionless number.
It is difficlut to view these geometric volumes as
being devoid of dimensions. They Shilov boundary like
RP^1 x S^4 = Real Projective space x the
four-sphere has overall dimension five, etc...
Of course to cure all this one can say that one is
working with volumes devoid of any dimensions because
we cleverly divided things by suitable powers of a
length scale. But this sounds as if one were
"cheating ".
When one works with homogeneous coordinates in
Projectives spaces these coordinates are suitably
normalized to make everything dimensionless. However
Tony and Smilga did not mention this important crucial
point. The readers are going to make a simple
dimensional-count and will see that the dimensions do
not cancel out. They are not going to bother with it
and will believe in David Gross nasty attack on Wyler.
People in string theory for years have argued that the
coupling constants can be determined in terms of the
of volumes of the moduli spaces associated with the
Calabi-Yau compactifications. These numbers are
dimensionless after the correct normalizations are
made.
Let us look at Wyler's formula :
[(8 PI) V ( D_5 )^{ 1/4 } ] / V ( S^4 ) V ( Shilov ).
8 PI is the volume of S^1 x S^1 x S^1 x S^1 =
(length)^4 .
The V (D_5)^{ 1/4 } has dimensions =
(length^5)^{ 1/4 } = (length)^{ 5/4 } .
The dimensions of the numerator are
( length )^{ 21/4 }
which do not match the dimensions of the denominator.
Of course, by working with *dimensionless* volumes
from the very start we bypass these problems. But this
requires introducing scale parameters = sizes of the
spaces to make each separate term dimensionless.
My major problem is the argument by Tony about
reconciling the dimensions of the Shilov boundary with
the irreducible dimensions of the target internal
space. To my opinion, this is not clear in the text
and the readers are going to be confused. For example,
in Wyler's formula :
By subtracting 5/4 = dimensions of V ( D_5 )^{ 1/4 }
from the 5-dim Shilov boundary 5 - 5/4 is not equal
to 4 ( irreducible dimensions of S^4 ).
Again, pictures would have been so useful and a
discussion on this issue about units and dimensions
would have been very helpful.
Best wishes
Carlos"
Memorandum For The Record
Hal Puthoff coined the term "metric engineering" for flying saucer technology. Hal has been working on this problem for many decades and has held high USG security clearances and has been privy to reliable information that the saucers are real and are "alien". Otherwise he would not be working on the problem. However, IMHO Hal's theories, both of the zero point energy and of the gravity field will not solve the problem because they are too naively based and do not ask the right questions. The basic physics is in Rovelli's new book on Quantum Gravity
http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/book.pdf
and in my paper
http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.pdf
see also
http://qedcorp.com/APS/StarGate1.mov
Metric engineering is the control of exotic vacuum coherence by electromagnetic tuning of its holographic phase. The usual stress-energy tensor of matter and electromagnetic field (AKA "Mass-Energy) Tuv, that Hal relies upon in all his "action" calculations, is not at all relevant to the problem because space-time is too stiff to bend for practical propulsion.
Einstein's 1915 geometrodynamic local field equation without the quantum zero point energy correction is the "Archimedes Balance":
Space-Time Warp + (Space-Time Stiffness)(Stress-Energy Tensor of Mass-Energy) = 0
The quantum-corrected equation is
Space-Time Warp + Zero Point Stress-Energy Warp + (Space-Time Stiffness)(Stress-Energy Tensor of Mass-Energy) = 0
However, the third term on the LHS of this equation can be neglected to a good approximation. Therefore, the basic field equation for practical metric engineering is
Space-Time Warp + Zero Point Stress-Energy Warp ~ 0
The second term on the LHS is controlled by a generalization of the Josephson tunneling effect in which a real superconductor is impedance-matched to the vacuum superconductor in a way akin to Ray Chiao's "gravity radio".
The whole idea here is that the flying saucer is able to control its own world line and to keep that world line "timelike geodesic" as in Alcubierie's "warp drive". This means that the ship is in weightless free-float with no interior g-forces even though it appears to the outside observers to be making impossible maneuvers and even going faster than light (disappearing and reappearing discontinuously). This corresponds to what Paul Hill called the "acceleration field" in "Unconventional Flying Objects" and to "negative matter propulsion" in the sense of Robert Forward's paper on the idea of Herman Bondi also studied by Joseph Stalin's WWII Los Alamos Manhattan Project physics spy-master Yacov Terletskii.
The recent discovery is that 96% of the "stuff" of the Universe is precisely exotic vacuum zero point "dark" stress-energy density. Only 4% is the baryonic matter and electrons we are made out of. The "cosmic energy" that General Douglas MacArthur bade us "harness" in his 1962 Farewell Address at West Point "Duty, Honor, Country" is the Dark Energy/Matter only recently discovered decades after his death. It is no accident IMHO that Colonel Phillip J. Corso was on MacArthur's staff.
On Jan 27, 2004, at 4:56 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:
Tony et-al
Imagine a curved space-time manifold as in orthodox general relativity.
The tangent space fibers are locally flat. The latter is an expression of
the equivalence principle. But can this be generalized?
De Sitter space is a space of constant curvature with scale R so
that the cosmological constant is /\ = 1/R^2.
Can we imagine a more general tangent bundle where the tangent spaces are De Sitter
spaces of variable R or /\? That would correspond to /\ not as a constant, but as
a local variable field.
/\ < 0 is De Sitter space (like a sphere), i.e. attractive "dark matter"
and /\ > 0 is anti-Desitter space (like a hyperbolid), i.e. repulsive "dark energy"
Susskind's hologram idea is partly that quantum gravity in D+1 dimensions is dual to a
flat spacetime quantum field or string theory in D dimensions.
Imagine the "strings" have both meanings of a string in computer theory as well as a string in a space of D dimensions.
Imagine a variable "quantum of area" a in the sense of loop quantum gravity.
Given a bulk region V with boundary A, the thermodynamic entropy in Shannon c-bits is ~ A/a.
As a increases the thermal entropy in c-bits decreases. This must be compensated by an increase in qubits.
It works both ways - a tradeoff between string qubits and loop area c-bits where we have the duality
(Number of Loop c-bits)(Number of string qubits) = A large integer.
What about metric engineering of traversable wormhole star gates and weightless Alcubierre warp drives for alleged "flying saucers"?
Forget Tuv(Matter). It plays no practical role at all. This is why the whole Puthoff PV idea is a wrong path to take IMHO.
The basic equation of metric engineering is
Guv + /\zpfguv = 0
The covariant 4 divergence is
Guv^;v + /\zpfguv^;v + /\zpf^,vguv = 0
I include a nonmetricity term ~ guv^;v in case there are extra space dimensions both bosonic and fermionic. Also there may be torsion fields and special-conformal and dilaton fields beyond the local gauging of the 4-parameter translation subgroup of special relativity's Poincare group out of which Einstein's 1915 theory emerges.
/\ = a^-1[a^3/2|Coherence|^2 - 1]
Coherence = Vacuum Coherence + Control Superconductor Coherence
These are MACRO-QUANTUM "Feynman amplitudes".
We metric engineer by a Josephson interference of a control superconductor with the vacuum coherence wave.
There is an anti-symmetric Cartan 2 form Fuv that also includes the Berry topological phases as well as the dynamical Bohm-Aharonov phases.
The general phase control parameter is the flux "surface integral" of Fuvdx^u/\dx^v
Start in the non-exotic vacuum where
a^3/2|Vacuum Coherence| = 1 corresponding to /\ = 0.
Also Superconductor Coherence << Vacuum Coherence
The induced exotic vacuum zero point energy field is then
/\(exotic vacuum) ~ 2(Loop Quantum of Area)^-1/4|Superconductor Coherence|cos(phase control parameter)
Note that |Coherence| has dimension |area|^-3/4
That is /\ has dimension area^-1
|Superconductor Coherence| = (Condensate density of bound real electron pairs)^1/2
Where the local De Sitter/Anti-De Sitter fiber parameter for the local unified dark matter/energy exotic vacuum zero point energy field is R = /\^-1/2.
Note that
Guv^;v is the geometrodynamic current density.
The zero point exotic vacuum Josephson tunnel current density is ~ sin(phase control parameter).
Geometrodynamic current density + Exotic vacuum Josephson current density = 0
The Josephson current density is controlled by the Berry phase 2-form Fuv that depends on both EM fields and topological variables.
This theory does not use Tuv(Matter) directly because that is not the way to control space-time warps because the string tension is too stiff.
Hal Puthoff coined the term "metric engineering" for flying saucer technology. Hal has been working on this problem for many decades and has held high USG security clearances and has been privy to reliable information that the saucers are real and are "alien". Otherwise he would not be working on the problem. However, IMHO Hal's theories, both of the zero point energy and of the gravity field will not solve the problem because they are too naively based and do not ask the right questions. The basic physics is in Rovelli's new book on Quantum Gravity
http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~rovelli/book.pdf
and in my paper
http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.pdf
see also
http://qedcorp.com/APS/StarGate1.mov
Metric engineering is the control of exotic vacuum coherence by electromagnetic tuning of its holographic phase. The usual stress-energy tensor of matter and electromagnetic field (AKA "Mass-Energy) Tuv, that Hal relies upon in all his "action" calculations, is not at all relevant to the problem because space-time is too stiff to bend for practical propulsion.
Einstein's 1915 geometrodynamic local field equation without the quantum zero point energy correction is the "Archimedes Balance":
Space-Time Warp + (Space-Time Stiffness)(Stress-Energy Tensor of Mass-Energy) = 0
The quantum-corrected equation is
Space-Time Warp + Zero Point Stress-Energy Warp + (Space-Time Stiffness)(Stress-Energy Tensor of Mass-Energy) = 0
However, the third term on the LHS of this equation can be neglected to a good approximation. Therefore, the basic field equation for practical metric engineering is
Space-Time Warp + Zero Point Stress-Energy Warp ~ 0
The second term on the LHS is controlled by a generalization of the Josephson tunneling effect in which a real superconductor is impedance-matched to the vacuum superconductor in a way akin to Ray Chiao's "gravity radio".
The whole idea here is that the flying saucer is able to control its own world line and to keep that world line "timelike geodesic" as in Alcubierie's "warp drive". This means that the ship is in weightless free-float with no interior g-forces even though it appears to the outside observers to be making impossible maneuvers and even going faster than light (disappearing and reappearing discontinuously). This corresponds to what Paul Hill called the "acceleration field" in "Unconventional Flying Objects" and to "negative matter propulsion" in the sense of Robert Forward's paper on the idea of Herman Bondi also studied by Joseph Stalin's WWII Los Alamos Manhattan Project physics spy-master Yacov Terletskii.
The recent discovery is that 96% of the "stuff" of the Universe is precisely exotic vacuum zero point "dark" stress-energy density. Only 4% is the baryonic matter and electrons we are made out of. The "cosmic energy" that General Douglas MacArthur bade us "harness" in his 1962 Farewell Address at West Point "Duty, Honor, Country" is the Dark Energy/Matter only recently discovered decades after his death. It is no accident IMHO that Colonel Phillip J. Corso was on MacArthur's staff.
On Jan 27, 2004, at 4:56 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:
Tony et-al
Imagine a curved space-time manifold as in orthodox general relativity.
The tangent space fibers are locally flat. The latter is an expression of
the equivalence principle. But can this be generalized?
De Sitter space is a space of constant curvature with scale R so
that the cosmological constant is /\ = 1/R^2.
Can we imagine a more general tangent bundle where the tangent spaces are De Sitter
spaces of variable R or /\? That would correspond to /\ not as a constant, but as
a local variable field.
/\ < 0 is De Sitter space (like a sphere), i.e. attractive "dark matter"
and /\ > 0 is anti-Desitter space (like a hyperbolid), i.e. repulsive "dark energy"
Susskind's hologram idea is partly that quantum gravity in D+1 dimensions is dual to a
flat spacetime quantum field or string theory in D dimensions.
Imagine the "strings" have both meanings of a string in computer theory as well as a string in a space of D dimensions.
Imagine a variable "quantum of area" a in the sense of loop quantum gravity.
Given a bulk region V with boundary A, the thermodynamic entropy in Shannon c-bits is ~ A/a.
As a increases the thermal entropy in c-bits decreases. This must be compensated by an increase in qubits.
It works both ways - a tradeoff between string qubits and loop area c-bits where we have the duality
(Number of Loop c-bits)(Number of string qubits) = A large integer.
What about metric engineering of traversable wormhole star gates and weightless Alcubierre warp drives for alleged "flying saucers"?
Forget Tuv(Matter). It plays no practical role at all. This is why the whole Puthoff PV idea is a wrong path to take IMHO.
The basic equation of metric engineering is
Guv + /\zpfguv = 0
The covariant 4 divergence is
Guv^;v + /\zpfguv^;v + /\zpf^,vguv = 0
I include a nonmetricity term ~ guv^;v in case there are extra space dimensions both bosonic and fermionic. Also there may be torsion fields and special-conformal and dilaton fields beyond the local gauging of the 4-parameter translation subgroup of special relativity's Poincare group out of which Einstein's 1915 theory emerges.
/\ = a^-1[a^3/2|Coherence|^2 - 1]
Coherence = Vacuum Coherence + Control Superconductor Coherence
These are MACRO-QUANTUM "Feynman amplitudes".
We metric engineer by a Josephson interference of a control superconductor with the vacuum coherence wave.
There is an anti-symmetric Cartan 2 form Fuv that also includes the Berry topological phases as well as the dynamical Bohm-Aharonov phases.
The general phase control parameter is the flux "surface integral" of Fuvdx^u/\dx^v
Start in the non-exotic vacuum where
a^3/2|Vacuum Coherence| = 1 corresponding to /\ = 0.
Also Superconductor Coherence << Vacuum Coherence
The induced exotic vacuum zero point energy field is then
/\(exotic vacuum) ~ 2(Loop Quantum of Area)^-1/4|Superconductor Coherence|cos(phase control parameter)
Note that |Coherence| has dimension |area|^-3/4
That is /\ has dimension area^-1
|Superconductor Coherence| = (Condensate density of bound real electron pairs)^1/2
Where the local De Sitter/Anti-De Sitter fiber parameter for the local unified dark matter/energy exotic vacuum zero point energy field is R = /\^-1/2.
Note that
Guv^;v is the geometrodynamic current density.
The zero point exotic vacuum Josephson tunnel current density is ~ sin(phase control parameter).
Geometrodynamic current density + Exotic vacuum Josephson current density = 0
The Josephson current density is controlled by the Berry phase 2-form Fuv that depends on both EM fields and topological variables.
This theory does not use Tuv(Matter) directly because that is not the way to control space-time warps because the string tension is too stiff.
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Tony et-al
Imagine a curved space-time manifold as in orthodox general relativity.
The tangent space fibers are locally flat. The latter is an expression of
the equivalence principle. But can this be generalized?
De Sitter space is a space of constant curvature with scale R so
that the cosmological constant is /\ = 1/R^2.
Can we imagine a more general tangent bundle where the tangent spaces are De Sitter
spaces of variable R or /\? That would correspond to /\ not as a constant, but as
a local variable field.
/\ < 0 is De Sitter space (like a sphere), i.e. attractive "dark matter"
and /\ > 0 is anti-Desitter space (like a hyperbolid), i.e. repulsive "dark energy"
Susskind's hologram idea is partly that quantum gravity in D+1 dimensions is dual to a
flat spacetime quantum field or string theory in D dimensions.
Imagine the "strings" have both meanings of a string in computer theory as well as a string in a space of D dimensions.
Imagine a variable "quantum of area" a in the sense of loop quantum gravity.
Given a bulk region V with boundary A, the thermodynamic entropy in Shannon c-bits is ~ A/a.
As a increases the thermal entropy in c-bits decreases. This must be compensated by an increase in qubits.
It works both ways - a tradeoff between string qubits and loop area c-bits where we have the duality
(Number of Loop c-bits)(Number of string qubits) = A large integer.
What about metric engineering of traversable wormhole star gates and weightless Alcubierre warp drives for alleged "flying saucers"?
Forget Tuv(Matter). It plays no practical role at all. This is why the whole Puthoff PV idea is a wrong path to take IMHO.
The basic equation of metric engineering is
Guv + /\zpfguv = 0
The covariant 4 divergence is
Guv^;v + /\zpfguv^;v + /\zpf^,vguv = 0
I include a nonmetricity term ~ guv^;v in case there are extra space dimensions both bosonic and fermionic. Also there may be torsion fields and special-conformal and dilaton fields beyond the local gauging of the 4-parameter translation subgroup of special relativity's Poincare group out of which Einstein's 1915 theory emerges.
/\ = a^-1[a^3/2|Coherence|^2 - 1]
Coherence = Vacuum Coherence + Control Superconductor Coherence
These are MACRO-QUANTUM "Feynman amplitudes".
We metric engineer by a Josephson interference of a control superconductor with the vacuum coherence wave.
There is an anti-symmetric Cartan 2 form Fuv that also includes the Berry topological phases as well as the dynamical Bohm-Aharonov phases.
The general phase control parameter is the flux "surface integral" of Fuvdx^u/\dx^v
Start in the non-exotic vacuum where
a^3/2|Vacuum Coherence| = 1 corresponding to /\ = 0.
Also Superconductor Coherence << Vacuum Coherence
The induced exotic vacuum zero point energy field is then
/\(exotic vacuum) ~ 2(Loop Quantum of Area)^-1/4|Superconductor Coherence|cos(phase control parameter)
Note that |Coherence| has dimension |area|^-3/4
That is /\ has dimension area^-1
|Superconductor Coherence| = (Condensate density of bound real electron pairs)^1/2
Where the local De Sitter/Anti-De Sitter fiber parameter for the local unified dark matter/energy exotic vacuum zero point energy field is R = /\^-1/2.
Note that
Guv^;v is the geometrodynamic current density.
The zero point exotic vacuum Josephson tunnel current density is ~ sin(phase control parameter).
Geometrodynamic current density + Exotic vacuum Josephson current density = 0
The Josephson current density is controlled by the Berry phase 2-form Fuv that depends on both EM fields and topological variables.
This theory does not use Tuv(Matter) directly because that is not the way to control space-time warps because the string tension is too stiff.
On Jan 27, 2004, at 9:45 AM, Tony Smith wrote:
Carlos and Jack, here are some comments on Nottale's work.
Thanks to Carlos for mentioning Nottale's work, as it motivated me
to write up these comments about it, based on the web page at
http://www.chez.com/etlefevre/rechell/ukrechel.htm
and some of its linked material.
In summary, I don't fully understand everything Nottale is doing,
and I find his work interesting and worthy of publication etc,
but
I prefer my way of looking at things (particularly dark matter
and dark energy as I mention in comment 8).
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Here are some comments about scale relativity,
based on quotes from the above-cited material (set off by quotation marks):
1 - "... GR seems to be more fundamental .. better founded ...
and thus more complete than QM ...".
I disagree. I think that GR is a large-scale low-energy effective
theory that is derived from a generalized MacDowell-Mansouri mechanism.
2 - "... The fundamental principle of ScR: ... laws of nature must be
valid in every coordinate systems, whatever their state of motion
and of scale. ...".
I like having a scale symmetry, but I get it from the dilation generator,
one of the 15 generators of the conformal group.
I also use the 4 special conformal transformations,
as well as 6 rotations and 4 translations.
3 - "... The fractal Space-Time, explicitely dependent on resolutions,
can be reduced to the definition of a "Space-Time-Zoom"
with 5 dimensions (x,y,z,t,D).
It is the fractal dimension, became a variable,
which plays the role of a 5th dimension for scale laws
(just as relativistic motion laws are implemented
by the interpretation of time as a 4th dimension). ..."
How is the fractal dimension D different from a "second time" dimension,
such as the 2 time dimensions in anti-seSitter Spin(2,3) = Sp(2)
or in the conformal group Spin(2,4) = SU(2,2) ?
Note that the conformal group that I like not only has a "second time"
dimension, it also has a "fourth space" dimension.
4 - "... Equation (40) can be used to theoretically predict
the electron mass from the experimental value of
the fine structure constant. ...".
I prefer my model, because I can calclulate both the electron mass
and the fine structure constant. Although I don't fully understand
everything Nottale is doing here, it seems to me to be primarily
related to renormalization group stuff, which is related to
changes of scale = energy levels.
5 - "... existence of 2 asymptotic, unexceedable and invariant
under dilation scales : lP: Planck length (minimal scale)
and L: cosmological length (maximal scale) ...".
I can understand a physical effective minimal scale such as the
Planck length at which space-time structure breaks down (like a
condensate evaporating),
but
I don't understand a similarly fixed maximal scale, because it
seems to me that if our universe keeps on expanding (as is indicated
by observation) it will eventually be larger than any such fixed scale.
Also, the dilation generator of the conformal group does not,
as far as I know, have any inherent minimal or maximal scale,
the Planck scale minimum not being due to dilation stuff,
but due to high-energy evaporation of spacetime, which appears
to me to be a condensate related to interactions of ALL gauge boson
generators, not just the dilation one.
6 - "... Elementary fermion mass spectrum: recovered from
a cancellation effect between special scale-relativistic
corrections and radiative corrections. (However, except
concerning the muon mass, this is still a model, not a
totally constrained theory, because an unknown free parameter
remains in this generation mechanism). ...".
I like my model better because fermion mass ratios are in my model
completely fixed with no free paramaters.
7 - "... Top quark mass: predicted by the above mechanism to fall
just beyond the W/Z mass, at 150 ± 50 GeV
(experimental value: 174 ± 17 GeV). ...".
My fundamental 130 GeV t-quark mass calculation has less uncertainty
than the +/- 50 GeV quoted. Also, I consider the experimental results
to be consisent with a ground state of 130 GeV, and excitations
around 173 GeV and 225 GeV, as described in my CERN CDS preprint
EXT-2003-087.
8 - "... Value of the cosmological constant:
it is predicted to be L = 1.36 10^-56 cm-2,
under the assumption that the fractal-nonfractal transition
for the vacuum energy density occurs at [about] 70 MeV,
which is the scale of the classical radius of the electron
(or, equivalently, at the 6 flavor QCD scale):
this value could arise from the quark-hadron transition
in the primeval universe. ...".
I don't see how 70 MeV is a fractal-nonfractal transition.
In fact, if the scale relativity has a minimal Planck length
and a maximal universe-size length, then it seems to me that
everything between those lengths/energies (including 70 MeV) would
be in a fractal region.
Also, 70 MeV does not seem to me to be any natural energy level
with respect to particle physics:
The electron mass is 0.5 MeV.
The quark-antiquark pion has mass about 140 MeV.
The 3-quark proton has mass about 938 MeV.
The Higgs vacuum expectation value is about 245 GeV.
I prefer my model's treatment, with dark matter and dark energy,
somewhat similar to Jack's way of looking at it.
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Imagine a curved space-time manifold as in orthodox general relativity.
The tangent space fibers are locally flat. The latter is an expression of
the equivalence principle. But can this be generalized?
De Sitter space is a space of constant curvature with scale R so
that the cosmological constant is /\ = 1/R^2.
Can we imagine a more general tangent bundle where the tangent spaces are De Sitter
spaces of variable R or /\? That would correspond to /\ not as a constant, but as
a local variable field.
/\ < 0 is De Sitter space (like a sphere), i.e. attractive "dark matter"
and /\ > 0 is anti-Desitter space (like a hyperbolid), i.e. repulsive "dark energy"
Susskind's hologram idea is partly that quantum gravity in D+1 dimensions is dual to a
flat spacetime quantum field or string theory in D dimensions.
Imagine the "strings" have both meanings of a string in computer theory as well as a string in a space of D dimensions.
Imagine a variable "quantum of area" a in the sense of loop quantum gravity.
Given a bulk region V with boundary A, the thermodynamic entropy in Shannon c-bits is ~ A/a.
As a increases the thermal entropy in c-bits decreases. This must be compensated by an increase in qubits.
It works both ways - a tradeoff between string qubits and loop area c-bits where we have the duality
(Number of Loop c-bits)(Number of string qubits) = A large integer.
What about metric engineering of traversable wormhole star gates and weightless Alcubierre warp drives for alleged "flying saucers"?
Forget Tuv(Matter). It plays no practical role at all. This is why the whole Puthoff PV idea is a wrong path to take IMHO.
The basic equation of metric engineering is
Guv + /\zpfguv = 0
The covariant 4 divergence is
Guv^;v + /\zpfguv^;v + /\zpf^,vguv = 0
I include a nonmetricity term ~ guv^;v in case there are extra space dimensions both bosonic and fermionic. Also there may be torsion fields and special-conformal and dilaton fields beyond the local gauging of the 4-parameter translation subgroup of special relativity's Poincare group out of which Einstein's 1915 theory emerges.
/\ = a^-1[a^3/2|Coherence|^2 - 1]
Coherence = Vacuum Coherence + Control Superconductor Coherence
These are MACRO-QUANTUM "Feynman amplitudes".
We metric engineer by a Josephson interference of a control superconductor with the vacuum coherence wave.
There is an anti-symmetric Cartan 2 form Fuv that also includes the Berry topological phases as well as the dynamical Bohm-Aharonov phases.
The general phase control parameter is the flux "surface integral" of Fuvdx^u/\dx^v
Start in the non-exotic vacuum where
a^3/2|Vacuum Coherence| = 1 corresponding to /\ = 0.
Also Superconductor Coherence << Vacuum Coherence
The induced exotic vacuum zero point energy field is then
/\(exotic vacuum) ~ 2(Loop Quantum of Area)^-1/4|Superconductor Coherence|cos(phase control parameter)
Note that |Coherence| has dimension |area|^-3/4
That is /\ has dimension area^-1
|Superconductor Coherence| = (Condensate density of bound real electron pairs)^1/2
Where the local De Sitter/Anti-De Sitter fiber parameter for the local unified dark matter/energy exotic vacuum zero point energy field is R = /\^-1/2.
Note that
Guv^;v is the geometrodynamic current density.
The zero point exotic vacuum Josephson tunnel current density is ~ sin(phase control parameter).
Geometrodynamic current density + Exotic vacuum Josephson current density = 0
The Josephson current density is controlled by the Berry phase 2-form Fuv that depends on both EM fields and topological variables.
This theory does not use Tuv(Matter) directly because that is not the way to control space-time warps because the string tension is too stiff.
On Jan 27, 2004, at 9:45 AM, Tony Smith wrote:
Carlos and Jack, here are some comments on Nottale's work.
Thanks to Carlos for mentioning Nottale's work, as it motivated me
to write up these comments about it, based on the web page at
http://www.chez.com/etlefevre/rechell/ukrechel.htm
and some of its linked material.
In summary, I don't fully understand everything Nottale is doing,
and I find his work interesting and worthy of publication etc,
but
I prefer my way of looking at things (particularly dark matter
and dark energy as I mention in comment 8).
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Here are some comments about scale relativity,
based on quotes from the above-cited material (set off by quotation marks):
1 - "... GR seems to be more fundamental .. better founded ...
and thus more complete than QM ...".
I disagree. I think that GR is a large-scale low-energy effective
theory that is derived from a generalized MacDowell-Mansouri mechanism.
2 - "... The fundamental principle of ScR: ... laws of nature must be
valid in every coordinate systems, whatever their state of motion
and of scale. ...".
I like having a scale symmetry, but I get it from the dilation generator,
one of the 15 generators of the conformal group.
I also use the 4 special conformal transformations,
as well as 6 rotations and 4 translations.
3 - "... The fractal Space-Time, explicitely dependent on resolutions,
can be reduced to the definition of a "Space-Time-Zoom"
with 5 dimensions (x,y,z,t,D).
It is the fractal dimension, became a variable,
which plays the role of a 5th dimension for scale laws
(just as relativistic motion laws are implemented
by the interpretation of time as a 4th dimension). ..."
How is the fractal dimension D different from a "second time" dimension,
such as the 2 time dimensions in anti-seSitter Spin(2,3) = Sp(2)
or in the conformal group Spin(2,4) = SU(2,2) ?
Note that the conformal group that I like not only has a "second time"
dimension, it also has a "fourth space" dimension.
4 - "... Equation (40) can be used to theoretically predict
the electron mass from the experimental value of
the fine structure constant. ...".
I prefer my model, because I can calclulate both the electron mass
and the fine structure constant. Although I don't fully understand
everything Nottale is doing here, it seems to me to be primarily
related to renormalization group stuff, which is related to
changes of scale = energy levels.
5 - "... existence of 2 asymptotic, unexceedable and invariant
under dilation scales : lP: Planck length (minimal scale)
and L: cosmological length (maximal scale) ...".
I can understand a physical effective minimal scale such as the
Planck length at which space-time structure breaks down (like a
condensate evaporating),
but
I don't understand a similarly fixed maximal scale, because it
seems to me that if our universe keeps on expanding (as is indicated
by observation) it will eventually be larger than any such fixed scale.
Also, the dilation generator of the conformal group does not,
as far as I know, have any inherent minimal or maximal scale,
the Planck scale minimum not being due to dilation stuff,
but due to high-energy evaporation of spacetime, which appears
to me to be a condensate related to interactions of ALL gauge boson
generators, not just the dilation one.
6 - "... Elementary fermion mass spectrum: recovered from
a cancellation effect between special scale-relativistic
corrections and radiative corrections. (However, except
concerning the muon mass, this is still a model, not a
totally constrained theory, because an unknown free parameter
remains in this generation mechanism). ...".
I like my model better because fermion mass ratios are in my model
completely fixed with no free paramaters.
7 - "... Top quark mass: predicted by the above mechanism to fall
just beyond the W/Z mass, at 150 ± 50 GeV
(experimental value: 174 ± 17 GeV). ...".
My fundamental 130 GeV t-quark mass calculation has less uncertainty
than the +/- 50 GeV quoted. Also, I consider the experimental results
to be consisent with a ground state of 130 GeV, and excitations
around 173 GeV and 225 GeV, as described in my CERN CDS preprint
EXT-2003-087.
8 - "... Value of the cosmological constant:
it is predicted to be L = 1.36 10^-56 cm-2,
under the assumption that the fractal-nonfractal transition
for the vacuum energy density occurs at [about] 70 MeV,
which is the scale of the classical radius of the electron
(or, equivalently, at the 6 flavor QCD scale):
this value could arise from the quark-hadron transition
in the primeval universe. ...".
I don't see how 70 MeV is a fractal-nonfractal transition.
In fact, if the scale relativity has a minimal Planck length
and a maximal universe-size length, then it seems to me that
everything between those lengths/energies (including 70 MeV) would
be in a fractal region.
Also, 70 MeV does not seem to me to be any natural energy level
with respect to particle physics:
The electron mass is 0.5 MeV.
The quark-antiquark pion has mass about 140 MeV.
The 3-quark proton has mass about 938 MeV.
The Higgs vacuum expectation value is about 245 GeV.
I prefer my model's treatment, with dark matter and dark energy,
somewhat similar to Jack's way of looking at it.
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Monday, January 26, 2004
Solution to the Cosmological Constant Paradox?
One sees a lot of fancy math in most theory papers on the Cornell e-print archive about strings and loops, branes and stuff without much contact with experiments and astronomical observations. Well here is an elementary math “toy model” with a lot of contact to the facts. The idea is simple. Our Universe is a giant quantum vacuum coherence information wave. Einstein’s gravity of curved space-time emerges as ripples in the holographic phase of the giant quantum vacuum coherence information wave. Both anti-gravity dark energy and gravitating dark matter that is 96% of the stuff of the universe emerge from the intensity ripples in this same vacuum wave. Now if you can really understand what John Baez & Co (All The King’s Men) is really talking about on the WEB then explain it to me in your own words and equations showing the contact with the facts. So here is how I put Humpty Dumpty back together again! “It’s alive Igor. It’s alive!”
“Although there is no compelling model for inflation based on what we know of particles physics, the core idea and its predictions seem to be in excellent agreement with observations. … Quantum physics predicts that all fields have a sort of fundamental inescapable jitter. Since all that moves carry energy, this quantum jitter has an associated energy, called zero-point energy [24, 25]. This energy is most certainly related to the cosmological constant. … The problem is, if one would naively compute the zero-point energy in the universe, the result would be a cosmological constant some 120 orders of magnitude too large. In other words, we don’t understand the cosmological constant. Until we have a better grasp of it, dark energy will remain mysterious. … . It turns out that the stuff we and stars are made of is by far the universes’s subdominant energy component. Even this familiar component is only partially accessible; some of ordinary matter is also “dark” in the sense that it does not produce visible radiation. (But it produces other kinds of radiation, such as infrared, as we have seen in the hunt for extrasolar planets.) However, the bets are still off for what is the dark matter component. Unless we are missing something very basic about gravity at large distances, dark matter is not of the ordinary kind. … Unless we are missing something very basic about gravity at large distances, dark matter is not of the ordinary kind. It may not be of a single kind either: maybe several exotic particles and more complex objects contribute to Omega(Dark Matter) A tremendous amount of effort is being dedicated to disclose some of its nature, be it by direct detection (cryogenic detectors that would “count” the dark matter particles as they impact its collecting area or resonate in special cavities) or by production in the laboratory (if dark matter is related to supersymmetry, it may possibly be produced in particle accelerators very soon [26].) Whatever dark matter is, the stakes are high: we are talking of an unknown kind of matter, over six times more abundant in the universe than ordinary matter. Both dark energy and dark matter promise new physics ahead.”
My prediction: these dark matter detectors will never click with the right stuff only with false positives because dark matter is all “virtual” not “real” it is an exotic vacuum effect.
This paper below is a good pop article but it falls apart at end re: “cosmological constant” vs. “quintessence”. Although they have notion of a “condensate” it’s a more limited use of the idea than is my “vacuum coherence” which solves the cosmological constant problem of too large w pressure/energy density = -1 zero point energy in the exotic vacuum that is 96% of the stuff of our at least local universe out to the Hubble horizon of 13.7 billion years into the past.
The inflation field is essentially the vacuum coherence field that emerges from the background-dependent non-dynamical globally-flat quantum electrodynamic vacuum instability where virtual electron-positron pairs near the –mc^2 Dirac-Fermi energy surface form a virtual bound state condensate. The Fermi surface momentum is ~ h/(Planck Length) i.e. “off mass shell”. That is, the effective virtual rest mass is tachyonic M^2 < 0 which non-perturbatively spontaneously breaks the globally flat vacuum symmetry forming a more perfect metastable vacuum background independent low energy c-number curved space-time vacuum of Einstein’s gravity with the bonus of the unified dark energy/matter exotic vacuum field.
(mc^2)^2 = (hc/Lp)^2 + (Mc^2)^2
mc^2 ~ (1/2)Mev
hc/Lp ~ 10^22Mev
“Cosmological Constant” = (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^-1[(Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 – 1]
That’s only the large scale limit of what is really a local field of “spin 0”.
The exotic vacuum zero-point dark stress-energy/matter current density local tensor field is
Tuv(Dark Energy/Matter) = (M-Theory String Tension) (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^-1[(Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 – 1] guv(Curved Space-Time)
guv = “spin 2” strain tensor of world crystal lattice distortion “spin 1” field Lu
Lu = (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)(Phase of Vacuum Coherence),u
,u = partial derivative
M-Theory String Tension = hc/(Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)
h = Planck’s quantum of action
c = vacuum speed of light (at low frequency in non-exotic vacuum)
Lu is IT
Vacuum Coherence is BIT
In sense of John Archibald Wheeler’s
“IT FROM BIT”
Nonlinear non unitary local covariant Landau-Ginzburg equation is the
BIT FROM IT
Equation ensuring “signal nonlocality” piloting the tilted changing causal light cone structure of IT’s Lu geometrodynamic field.
Dark energy is when
Too(Dark Energy/Matter) > 0 i.e. negative pressure
Dark matter is when
Too(Dark Energy/Matter) < 0 i.e. positive pressure
The sign of the zero point exotic vacuum pressure is controlled by the intensity of the vacuum coherence field. Control that and you have “metric engineering” Ad Astra!
Below is the “Keynote address at the International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics, October 12-16 2003, Olinda, Brazil.
†Electronic address: gleiser@dartmouth.edu
arXiv:astro-ph/0401213 v1 12 Jan 2004
What We Know and What we Don’t Know About the Universe _
Marcelo Gleiser†
Department of Physics and Astronomy Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755, USA
(Dated: January 12, 2004)
I present a non-technical and necessarily biased and incomplete overview of our present under-standing of the physical universe and its constituents, emphasizing what we have learned from the explosive growth in cosmological and astrophysical data acquisition and some of the key open questions that remain. The topics are organized under the labels space, time, and matter. Most bibliographical references are for the non-expert.
I. INTRODUCTION
It is true that the words “cosmology” and “revolution” have appeared together in many reviews and lectures in recent years. Even though to a cynic it may seem that cosmologists produce a lot of hot air, I claim that there is indeed reason for this excitement. Until the mid-sixties, cosmology was regarded with much suspicion by many scientists, who thought it closer to metaphysics than to physics. The reason for the skepticism was an appalling lack of observational data, or at least consistent observational data. For example, since the time of Hubble, the universe’s age has varied from 2 billion years (mcu below the known Earth’s age even in 1929) to over 20 billion. Its geometry has been bent and closed like the surface of a sphere, flat as a tabletop, or bent and open like the surface of a saddle. (Of course, generalized to 3 spatial dimensions.) Its material composition has also been a mystery: which chemical elements are made in stars and which during the first moments after the “bang”? What of other, exotic kinds of matter? And what about the cosmological constant? Is it there or not? And if it is, what is it? [1] Questions related to the shape, age, and material composition of the cosmos have been at the forefront of cosmology since Einstein’s pioneering use of his theory of relativity to the study of the universe as a whole. Controversy is a good thing for science only when there are ways of resolving it. This is why these are exciting times for cosmology. We have convincing answers to many of the questions above, and are close to answering some more. Of course, this does not mean that cosmology is approaching its end. Quite the contrary, as with any mature area of science, new technologies and observational tools will continue to provide both answers and new questions and surprises.
II. SPACE
In astronomy and cosmology the yardstick is the light-year (ly), the distance covered by light in 1 year, equal to 9.46 10^12 km. That’s 63, 200 times the Earth-Sun distance, also known as astronomical unit (A.U.). Pluto is at about 40 A.U. from the Sun. Oort’s cloud, the nursery of long-period comets at the outskirts of the solar system, is at roughly 100, 000 A.U., about 1.58 ly from the Sun. The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is at 4.29 ly from the Sun. So, when people say that interstellar space is mostly empty you better believe it. At least of “visible” stuff It turns out, paraphrasing the fox in Saint Exup´ery’s The Little Prince, “what is essential [to the universe] is invisible to the eye.” Invisible but very real, as will be seen below.
Once we start thinking about other stars, it is inevitable to ask if there are other planets as well. The thought that our solar system is unique in some way brings nightmares to most (but not all) post-copernican scientists. Although the curiosity about extrasolar planets existed for as long as modern astronomy (and before [2]), the hunt started in earnest in the mid-1990s when minute variations of stellar light frequency could be detected due to improved observational technologies and computer data analysis software. At the time of writing (January 2004), 104 planetary systems with 119 planets have been detected [See http://www.obspm.fr/planets ]. The curious lack of multiple planetary systems is most probably due to the limitations of the observational methods; one should not consider this as any indication of our uniqueness. NASA (Terrestrial Planet Finder Mission) and the European Space Agency (Darwin Mission) are formulating competing (possibly future collaborations) missions with a projected capability of not only imaging Earth-size planets in the infrared but also of studying the chemical composition of their atmospheres. The goal is to explore the possibility that these planets may harbor life. We may know the answer within a decade or two. Or sooner, if programs like SETI are successful, or if we receive a visitor or message. Improbable but not impossible.
Jumping farther out, the Milky Way – our home galaxy – is a spiral containing about 300 billion stars and diameter of 100, 000 ly or 30 kpc, where kpc stands for 103 parsecs. (1 pc equals 3.3 ly.) Strong evidence indicates that a giant black hole with a mass of about 3 million suns is at the dead center of the Milky Way, at Sagittarius A. Possibly most other galaxies also host giant black holes at their centers, given the huge outpour of radiation many produce at varying wavelengths. If you think 3 million solar masses is large think again; observations indicate that the huge galaxy M87 in the Virgo Cluster host a black hole with 3 billion solar masses. Which brings me to clusters of galaxies and to the large-scale structure of the universe. The Andromeda galaxy, our nearest neighbor, is at about 2.5 Mly (million light-years) from the Milky Way. As we consider distances of millions
of light-years, galaxies become the units by which we visualize the cosmos. When the Hubble Space Telescope or other large terrestrial telescopes image deep space, the light they collect as point or small sources is coming from huge galaxies millions and even billions of light-years away. What we see as stars when we look at the night sky, large-scale astronomers see as galaxies, each with millions or billions of stars. And what they see is that galaxies may coexist in groups or clusters due to their mutual gravitational attraction, like islands in an archipelago. Furthermore, galaxies and clusters of galaxies are not randomly distributed across space; they tend to collect in curved sheet-like surfaces, reminiscent of the shapes we see in bubble baths. Only at distances of 100 million Mpc or more these “bubbly” structures seem to disappear, with the universe becoming smoother. One of the successes of modern cosmology was to shed partial light on the origin of such complex large-scale structures. The answer involves of course gravity as the conductor, and three players: ordinary, or baryonic, matter, the stuff made of protons as we are; a different kind of matter known as dark matter [3], which we know exists from its gravitational pull on ordinary matter (there are some dissenters, though); and small energy inhomogeneities, the seeds that cause matter (first dark and then baryonic) to start condensing. You may think of these energy inhomogeneities as lumps in an otherwise smooth cookie dough, regions where the local density of energy (recall that matter and energy are treated equally in relativity) varies from the average. So, we need three players. Computer simulations using them at the right proportions (more about that later) reproduce quite well astronomical observations. But what is this dark matter stuff and what was the mechanism that generated the seeds that triggered structure and
galaxy formation? We will leave dark matter for later. It is believed that the inhomogeneities were originated during the earliest moments of cosmic existence, in a process called inflation[4]. During inflation, the universe expanded extremely fast. Even small fluctuations in its quite smooth energy were amplified enormously. Those are the culprits for large-scale structure, some 100, 000 years after inflation ended. Although there is no compelling model for inflation based on what we know of particles physics, the core idea and its predictions seem to be in excellent agreement with observations. If nothing else, the final answer will contain some of its elements. What of the shape of the whole cosmos? When Einstein wrote his paper on cosmology, he assumed the universe was static and with the closed geometry of a 3-sphere. At the time, there was no compelling reason to suppose otherwise, and spheres, since the time of the Pythagoreans, have had an alluring effect on the minds of philosophers and scientists alike [5]. A spherical universe is closed yet has no boundary, and all its points are equivalent. (Imagine the surface of a perfect ball.) The question remained open until the advent of inflation in the early-1980s. For when one talks of an expanding universe, one is referring to an expanding geometry, as if the surface of a ball were inflating like a party balloon. (But no one is blowing on it from the outside!) All points rush away from each other, and distances increase at tremendous rates. Imagine then the balloon inflating, and focus your attention on a patch on its surface. As it inflates, the patch becomes flatter. An enormous amount of inflation leads to a practically flat patch. This patch, according to inflationary cosmology, is where we live. Thus, inflation predicts a flat cosmos. This prediction has been spectacularly confirmed by observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the fossil radiation from the time cosmic structure started to form [6]. But our cosmos may be flat only locally. We can’t say much about other folds of the cosmos, far removed from us. In fact, we will never be able to know about those remote cosmic regions, as no signal can be sent or arrive from there in able time: light is only so fast, and our cosmic patch has been around for about 13 billion years. We cannot see beyond the flat island of 13 ly radius we call our universe. Some models of inflation even predict that the universe is really a “multiverse,” a bubbling soup of cosmoids forever bursting in and out of existence [7]. We will have to wait a bit on this one.
III. TIME
The big bang model is our current best description of cosmic history. It states that the universe had a very hot and dense infancy, and that it has been expanding ever since. There is now excellent concordance between different methods that estimate the age of the universe. Here are a few: Measurements of the Hubble constant all the way to galaxies at 500 Mpc give Ho = 72 km/sec/Mpc in a universe with 1/3 matter and 2/3 dark energy (more about this soon). This results in an age of to = 13.7 10^9 years with an uncertainty of 1.5 10^9 years [8]; measurements of the CMB, independent of Ho, give to = 13.7 +- 0.2 10^9 years[9, 10]; Finally, the ages of the oldest stars in globular clusters are estimated to be about 12.5 10^9 years [11]. A consistent age is to = 13.5 +- 1.0 10^9 years. Within the big bang framework, the evolving cosmic history is a history of increasing complexification: at the earliest times, matter was broken down to its smallest components. To understand cosmic history is equivalent to recreate how the structures that make up the material universe emerged. Complexification happened in stages, controlled mostly by the cosmic temperature. At a given temperature, only certain particles or their bound states (atomic nuclei, atoms, perhaps solitons) are in thermal equilibrium with the ambient radiation. One may picture this as a love triangle, where photons and possibly other light particles such as neutrinos (the radiation) interact with matter particles which are trying to bind. If these interactions proceed fast enough, the particles (or their bound states) are in equilibrium; otherwise, they are left behind as fossils of this era. Since different interactions have different associated energy (temperature) scales, the cosmic history evolves in stages, depending when a certain interaction goes out of equilibrium, from the most to the least energetic. Thus, the early cosmic history went through at least three stages: a particle era, a nuclear era, and an atomic era. The boundary between the particle and nuclear eras is at about 10-5 sec, when quarks and gluons combined to make the baryons, particles that interact by the strong nuclear force such as protons, neutrons, and mesons [12]. Since protons have lifetimes of at least 1031 years, we can say that they are fossils from this era. Once protons and neutrons were around, they could start to bind into the lightest nuclei, H2, H3, He4, He3, and Li7. This happened when the universe was about 1 minute old. One of the great triumphs of the big bang model is predicting successfully the abundances of these nuclei. In particular, He4 account for about 23% of the baryonic matter in the cosmos, and hydrogen to about 75%. The next step in the cosmic history is the formation of hydrogen atoms, at about 380, 000 years. This is when protons bind with electrons and photons are free to roam across space, responding here and there to variations in the average energy density by having cold and hot spots. Measuring the properties of these photons, known as the CMB, is equivalent to taking a snapshot of the universe at that early time [13, 14]. From then on, the universe became transparent to radiation. This means that it is impossible to try to study the cosmos before this time by direct measurements of electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength; to probe the early universe we need to hunt for fossils. Dozens of terrestrial missions and the satellites COBE and WMAP (and soon PLANCK) have produced high precision measurements of the CMB, re-energizing modern cosmology and confirming yet again the predictions of the big bang model. Measurements of the CMB allowed us to confirm the flatness of space [15]. (Recent claims to the contrary [16], remain a possibility, albeit a very improbable one.) They have also allowed us to learn when the first stars were born (roughly at 200 million years).
Understanding the nature of time remains one of the great challenges of physics. A classical theory of gravity (and thus the big bang model) predicts the existence of an “initial singularity,” the instant in time when the energy density reaches an infinite value and space collapses to a point. At the heart of the problem is a proper formulation of a quantum theory of gravity, explaining its behavior at very small distances and high energies. Although there are models describing the origin of the universe (at least our local patch) by a quantum tunneling event [17, 18], the transition from a quantum to a classical universe one described by the big bang model remains obscure. We need guidance from particle physics to pick the proper theory to work with. String theory [19] and/or loop gravity [20] have made much progress, but we still don’t have a compelling connection between their realm and that of 4-dimensional spacetime particle physics.
IV. MATTER
It must be clear to the reader that within modern cosmology, treating space, time, and matter as three separate topics is highly artificial. The three are deeply intertwined. A point in case is the questions of the “end of time” [2]. Up to 1998, the standard big bang model had a very simple prediction: if we know the total energy density of the universe (_tot), we can tell what will happen to it. The cosmic fate is controlled by the critical density, rhocrit = 3Ho^2 /8piG = 10-29 g/cm3, where G is Newton’s gravitational constant. It is convenient to define the ratio Omegai = rhoi/rhocrit for a given contribution to Omegatot. Of course, rhotot = Sum rhoi, and Omegatot = rhotot/rhocrit. If Omega tot > 1, the universe will recollapse in the distant future. Otherwise, it will continue its expansion indefinitely. The discovery in 1998 that the universe is presently accelerating blurred the clarity of this prediction [21]. The culprit of this acceleration
is called dark energy, a ghostly contribution to the total energy density (and pressure, which makes ’dark energy’ a somewhat imprecise name) spread out homogeneously or nearly so across the universe. Its net effect is to push the cosmic geometry apart, somewhat like an anti-gravitational force. Measurements of distant supernovae and of the
CMB give Omega(Dark Energ) = 0.73 +- 0.04. So, not only there is an unknown energy component in the universe, but it is also the dominant one: CMB and other measurements place Omegatot = 1.02 +-0.02, meaning that everything else must amount to no more than 27% or so of cosmic stuff. Most probably this implies that the universe is marginally flat and hence will expand forever. But what if the universe were supercritical Omegatot > 1? Without dark energy (pre 1998), we would say it would recollapse in a finite time. But with dark energy things are more subtle [2, 22]. Dark energy is extremely difficult to pinpoint; its effects on the CMB are mostly relegated to very large fluctuations. The two main contenders are the infamous cosmological constant, created by Einstein to balance out his collapsing static spherical model, and a hypothetical scalar field called quintessence [23]. The main difference between a cosmological constant and a scalar field is in their pressures and clustering properties. Scalar fields may have pressures of smaller absolute magnitude and respond to variations in the gravitational field: i.e., quintessence may cluster, even if very subtly. The problem is that the models for quintessence are somewhat contrived, at least from a particle physics viewpoint. If quintessence exists, it will almost certainly not be a fundamental field, but a phenomenological order parameter or condensate of some sort. The cosmological constant is not in much better shape. Quantum physics predicts that all fields have a sort of fundamental inescapable jitter. Since all that moves carry energy, this quantum jitter has an associated energy, called zero-point energy [24, 25]. This energy is most certainly related to the cosmological constant. Quintessence has nothing to say about this. The problem is, if one would naively compute the zero-point energy in the universe, the result would be a cosmological constant some 120 orders of magnitude too large. In other words, we don’t understand the cosmological constant. Until we have a better grasp of it, dark energy will remain mysterious. What then is the cosmic recipe, circa January 2004? Taking Omega tot = 1, the total normal (baryonic) matter and dark matter components add up to 27%, or Omega(Matter + Dark Matter) = 0.27. Nucleosynthesis constrains Omega(Matter) ~0.04, leaving Omega(Dark Matter) ~ 0.23. That measurements of the distribution of dark matter in galaxies and clusters of galaxies, as well as CMB measurements, concur very nearly with this estimate speaks to the robustness of modern observational and theoretical cosmology. It turns out that the stuff we and stars are made of is by far the universes’s subdominant energy component. Even this familiar component is only partially accessible; some of ordinary matter is also “dark” in
the sense that it does not produce visible radiation. (But it produces other kinds of radiation, such as infrared, as we have seen in the hunt for extrasolar planets.) However, the bets are still off for what is the dark matter component. Unless we are missing something very basic about gravity at large distances, dark matter is not of the ordinary
kind. It may not be of a single kind either: maybe several exotic particles and more complex objects contribute to Omega(Dark Matter) A tremendous amount of effort is being dedicated to disclose some of its nature, be it by direct detection (cryogenic detectors that would “count” the dark matter particles as they impact its collecting area or resonate in special cavities) or by production in the laboratory (if dark matter is related to supersymmetry, it may possibly be produced in particle accelerators very soon [26].) Whatever dark matter is, the stakes are high: we are talking of an unknown kind of matter, over six times more abundant in the universe than ordinary matter. Both dark energy and dark matter promise new physics ahead.
V. CONCLUSIONS
I hope this brief overview has given the reader at least a general flavor of the excitement permeating present cosmological and astrophysical research. We have learned a tremendous amount about the physical universe, its material composition, its shape, and its age. Yet, science teaches us that there will always be more to learn. In fact, the old aphorism, “the more we know the more we don’t know” seems to apply very well here. As new tools and ideas open new vistas to the physical universe, we stand in awe of nature’s creativity and of our ability to understand so much of it. To those that cynically comment on the state of “mystery” in cosmology, “too much dark stuff around,”
I say that this is precisely how science progresses: by teaching us to accept ignorance as the main precondition for learning. Only then we stand a chance of rationally answering some of the many questions we have, and the many more that will surely come. What we have learned so far speaks for itself.
Acknowledgments
I’d like to express my gratitude to the organizers of IWARA 2003, and in particular to Helio Coelho, Sandra Prado, and Cesar Vasconcellos for their invitation and wonderful hospitality. My research is sponsored in part by a NSF grant PHY-0099543.
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Publishing, New York, 1993).
[2] M. Gleiser, The Prophet and the Astronomer: A Scientific Journey to the End of Time (W. W. Norton, New York, 2001).
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(HarperCollins, New York, 1993) L. Krauss, Quintessence: The Mystery of Missing Mass in the Universe (Basic Books,
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Cambridge University Press (2004).
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[astro-ph/0310233].
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its more recent o_springs.
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Norton, New York, 1999).
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Wiley, New York, 2001).
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[25] T. Padmanabhan, Phys. Rep. 380, 235 (2003).
[26] G. L. Kane, Supersymmetry: Squarks, Photinos, and the Unveiling of the Ultimate Laws of Nature (Perseus Publishing,
New York, 2000).”
One sees a lot of fancy math in most theory papers on the Cornell e-print archive about strings and loops, branes and stuff without much contact with experiments and astronomical observations. Well here is an elementary math “toy model” with a lot of contact to the facts. The idea is simple. Our Universe is a giant quantum vacuum coherence information wave. Einstein’s gravity of curved space-time emerges as ripples in the holographic phase of the giant quantum vacuum coherence information wave. Both anti-gravity dark energy and gravitating dark matter that is 96% of the stuff of the universe emerge from the intensity ripples in this same vacuum wave. Now if you can really understand what John Baez & Co (All The King’s Men) is really talking about on the WEB then explain it to me in your own words and equations showing the contact with the facts. So here is how I put Humpty Dumpty back together again! “It’s alive Igor. It’s alive!”
“Although there is no compelling model for inflation based on what we know of particles physics, the core idea and its predictions seem to be in excellent agreement with observations. … Quantum physics predicts that all fields have a sort of fundamental inescapable jitter. Since all that moves carry energy, this quantum jitter has an associated energy, called zero-point energy [24, 25]. This energy is most certainly related to the cosmological constant. … The problem is, if one would naively compute the zero-point energy in the universe, the result would be a cosmological constant some 120 orders of magnitude too large. In other words, we don’t understand the cosmological constant. Until we have a better grasp of it, dark energy will remain mysterious. … . It turns out that the stuff we and stars are made of is by far the universes’s subdominant energy component. Even this familiar component is only partially accessible; some of ordinary matter is also “dark” in the sense that it does not produce visible radiation. (But it produces other kinds of radiation, such as infrared, as we have seen in the hunt for extrasolar planets.) However, the bets are still off for what is the dark matter component. Unless we are missing something very basic about gravity at large distances, dark matter is not of the ordinary kind. … Unless we are missing something very basic about gravity at large distances, dark matter is not of the ordinary kind. It may not be of a single kind either: maybe several exotic particles and more complex objects contribute to Omega(Dark Matter) A tremendous amount of effort is being dedicated to disclose some of its nature, be it by direct detection (cryogenic detectors that would “count” the dark matter particles as they impact its collecting area or resonate in special cavities) or by production in the laboratory (if dark matter is related to supersymmetry, it may possibly be produced in particle accelerators very soon [26].) Whatever dark matter is, the stakes are high: we are talking of an unknown kind of matter, over six times more abundant in the universe than ordinary matter. Both dark energy and dark matter promise new physics ahead.”
My prediction: these dark matter detectors will never click with the right stuff only with false positives because dark matter is all “virtual” not “real” it is an exotic vacuum effect.
This paper below is a good pop article but it falls apart at end re: “cosmological constant” vs. “quintessence”. Although they have notion of a “condensate” it’s a more limited use of the idea than is my “vacuum coherence” which solves the cosmological constant problem of too large w pressure/energy density = -1 zero point energy in the exotic vacuum that is 96% of the stuff of our at least local universe out to the Hubble horizon of 13.7 billion years into the past.
The inflation field is essentially the vacuum coherence field that emerges from the background-dependent non-dynamical globally-flat quantum electrodynamic vacuum instability where virtual electron-positron pairs near the –mc^2 Dirac-Fermi energy surface form a virtual bound state condensate. The Fermi surface momentum is ~ h/(Planck Length) i.e. “off mass shell”. That is, the effective virtual rest mass is tachyonic M^2 < 0 which non-perturbatively spontaneously breaks the globally flat vacuum symmetry forming a more perfect metastable vacuum background independent low energy c-number curved space-time vacuum of Einstein’s gravity with the bonus of the unified dark energy/matter exotic vacuum field.
(mc^2)^2 = (hc/Lp)^2 + (Mc^2)^2
mc^2 ~ (1/2)Mev
hc/Lp ~ 10^22Mev
“Cosmological Constant” = (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^-1[(Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 – 1]
That’s only the large scale limit of what is really a local field of “spin 0”.
The exotic vacuum zero-point dark stress-energy/matter current density local tensor field is
Tuv(Dark Energy/Matter) = (M-Theory String Tension) (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^-1[(Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 – 1] guv(Curved Space-Time)
guv = “spin 2” strain tensor of world crystal lattice distortion “spin 1” field Lu
Lu = (Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)(Phase of Vacuum Coherence),u
,u = partial derivative
M-Theory String Tension = hc/(Loop Gravity Quantum of Area)
h = Planck’s quantum of action
c = vacuum speed of light (at low frequency in non-exotic vacuum)
Lu is IT
Vacuum Coherence is BIT
In sense of John Archibald Wheeler’s
“IT FROM BIT”
Nonlinear non unitary local covariant Landau-Ginzburg equation is the
BIT FROM IT
Equation ensuring “signal nonlocality” piloting the tilted changing causal light cone structure of IT’s Lu geometrodynamic field.
Dark energy is when
Too(Dark Energy/Matter) > 0 i.e. negative pressure
Dark matter is when
Too(Dark Energy/Matter) < 0 i.e. positive pressure
The sign of the zero point exotic vacuum pressure is controlled by the intensity of the vacuum coherence field. Control that and you have “metric engineering” Ad Astra!
Below is the “Keynote address at the International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics, October 12-16 2003, Olinda, Brazil.
†Electronic address: gleiser@dartmouth.edu
arXiv:astro-ph/0401213 v1 12 Jan 2004
What We Know and What we Don’t Know About the Universe _
Marcelo Gleiser†
Department of Physics and Astronomy Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755, USA
(Dated: January 12, 2004)
I present a non-technical and necessarily biased and incomplete overview of our present under-standing of the physical universe and its constituents, emphasizing what we have learned from the explosive growth in cosmological and astrophysical data acquisition and some of the key open questions that remain. The topics are organized under the labels space, time, and matter. Most bibliographical references are for the non-expert.
I. INTRODUCTION
It is true that the words “cosmology” and “revolution” have appeared together in many reviews and lectures in recent years. Even though to a cynic it may seem that cosmologists produce a lot of hot air, I claim that there is indeed reason for this excitement. Until the mid-sixties, cosmology was regarded with much suspicion by many scientists, who thought it closer to metaphysics than to physics. The reason for the skepticism was an appalling lack of observational data, or at least consistent observational data. For example, since the time of Hubble, the universe’s age has varied from 2 billion years (mcu below the known Earth’s age even in 1929) to over 20 billion. Its geometry has been bent and closed like the surface of a sphere, flat as a tabletop, or bent and open like the surface of a saddle. (Of course, generalized to 3 spatial dimensions.) Its material composition has also been a mystery: which chemical elements are made in stars and which during the first moments after the “bang”? What of other, exotic kinds of matter? And what about the cosmological constant? Is it there or not? And if it is, what is it? [1] Questions related to the shape, age, and material composition of the cosmos have been at the forefront of cosmology since Einstein’s pioneering use of his theory of relativity to the study of the universe as a whole. Controversy is a good thing for science only when there are ways of resolving it. This is why these are exciting times for cosmology. We have convincing answers to many of the questions above, and are close to answering some more. Of course, this does not mean that cosmology is approaching its end. Quite the contrary, as with any mature area of science, new technologies and observational tools will continue to provide both answers and new questions and surprises.
II. SPACE
In astronomy and cosmology the yardstick is the light-year (ly), the distance covered by light in 1 year, equal to 9.46 10^12 km. That’s 63, 200 times the Earth-Sun distance, also known as astronomical unit (A.U.). Pluto is at about 40 A.U. from the Sun. Oort’s cloud, the nursery of long-period comets at the outskirts of the solar system, is at roughly 100, 000 A.U., about 1.58 ly from the Sun. The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is at 4.29 ly from the Sun. So, when people say that interstellar space is mostly empty you better believe it. At least of “visible” stuff It turns out, paraphrasing the fox in Saint Exup´ery’s The Little Prince, “what is essential [to the universe] is invisible to the eye.” Invisible but very real, as will be seen below.
Once we start thinking about other stars, it is inevitable to ask if there are other planets as well. The thought that our solar system is unique in some way brings nightmares to most (but not all) post-copernican scientists. Although the curiosity about extrasolar planets existed for as long as modern astronomy (and before [2]), the hunt started in earnest in the mid-1990s when minute variations of stellar light frequency could be detected due to improved observational technologies and computer data analysis software. At the time of writing (January 2004), 104 planetary systems with 119 planets have been detected [See http://www.obspm.fr/planets ]. The curious lack of multiple planetary systems is most probably due to the limitations of the observational methods; one should not consider this as any indication of our uniqueness. NASA (Terrestrial Planet Finder Mission) and the European Space Agency (Darwin Mission) are formulating competing (possibly future collaborations) missions with a projected capability of not only imaging Earth-size planets in the infrared but also of studying the chemical composition of their atmospheres. The goal is to explore the possibility that these planets may harbor life. We may know the answer within a decade or two. Or sooner, if programs like SETI are successful, or if we receive a visitor or message. Improbable but not impossible.
Jumping farther out, the Milky Way – our home galaxy – is a spiral containing about 300 billion stars and diameter of 100, 000 ly or 30 kpc, where kpc stands for 103 parsecs. (1 pc equals 3.3 ly.) Strong evidence indicates that a giant black hole with a mass of about 3 million suns is at the dead center of the Milky Way, at Sagittarius A. Possibly most other galaxies also host giant black holes at their centers, given the huge outpour of radiation many produce at varying wavelengths. If you think 3 million solar masses is large think again; observations indicate that the huge galaxy M87 in the Virgo Cluster host a black hole with 3 billion solar masses. Which brings me to clusters of galaxies and to the large-scale structure of the universe. The Andromeda galaxy, our nearest neighbor, is at about 2.5 Mly (million light-years) from the Milky Way. As we consider distances of millions
of light-years, galaxies become the units by which we visualize the cosmos. When the Hubble Space Telescope or other large terrestrial telescopes image deep space, the light they collect as point or small sources is coming from huge galaxies millions and even billions of light-years away. What we see as stars when we look at the night sky, large-scale astronomers see as galaxies, each with millions or billions of stars. And what they see is that galaxies may coexist in groups or clusters due to their mutual gravitational attraction, like islands in an archipelago. Furthermore, galaxies and clusters of galaxies are not randomly distributed across space; they tend to collect in curved sheet-like surfaces, reminiscent of the shapes we see in bubble baths. Only at distances of 100 million Mpc or more these “bubbly” structures seem to disappear, with the universe becoming smoother. One of the successes of modern cosmology was to shed partial light on the origin of such complex large-scale structures. The answer involves of course gravity as the conductor, and three players: ordinary, or baryonic, matter, the stuff made of protons as we are; a different kind of matter known as dark matter [3], which we know exists from its gravitational pull on ordinary matter (there are some dissenters, though); and small energy inhomogeneities, the seeds that cause matter (first dark and then baryonic) to start condensing. You may think of these energy inhomogeneities as lumps in an otherwise smooth cookie dough, regions where the local density of energy (recall that matter and energy are treated equally in relativity) varies from the average. So, we need three players. Computer simulations using them at the right proportions (more about that later) reproduce quite well astronomical observations. But what is this dark matter stuff and what was the mechanism that generated the seeds that triggered structure and
galaxy formation? We will leave dark matter for later. It is believed that the inhomogeneities were originated during the earliest moments of cosmic existence, in a process called inflation[4]. During inflation, the universe expanded extremely fast. Even small fluctuations in its quite smooth energy were amplified enormously. Those are the culprits for large-scale structure, some 100, 000 years after inflation ended. Although there is no compelling model for inflation based on what we know of particles physics, the core idea and its predictions seem to be in excellent agreement with observations. If nothing else, the final answer will contain some of its elements. What of the shape of the whole cosmos? When Einstein wrote his paper on cosmology, he assumed the universe was static and with the closed geometry of a 3-sphere. At the time, there was no compelling reason to suppose otherwise, and spheres, since the time of the Pythagoreans, have had an alluring effect on the minds of philosophers and scientists alike [5]. A spherical universe is closed yet has no boundary, and all its points are equivalent. (Imagine the surface of a perfect ball.) The question remained open until the advent of inflation in the early-1980s. For when one talks of an expanding universe, one is referring to an expanding geometry, as if the surface of a ball were inflating like a party balloon. (But no one is blowing on it from the outside!) All points rush away from each other, and distances increase at tremendous rates. Imagine then the balloon inflating, and focus your attention on a patch on its surface. As it inflates, the patch becomes flatter. An enormous amount of inflation leads to a practically flat patch. This patch, according to inflationary cosmology, is where we live. Thus, inflation predicts a flat cosmos. This prediction has been spectacularly confirmed by observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the fossil radiation from the time cosmic structure started to form [6]. But our cosmos may be flat only locally. We can’t say much about other folds of the cosmos, far removed from us. In fact, we will never be able to know about those remote cosmic regions, as no signal can be sent or arrive from there in able time: light is only so fast, and our cosmic patch has been around for about 13 billion years. We cannot see beyond the flat island of 13 ly radius we call our universe. Some models of inflation even predict that the universe is really a “multiverse,” a bubbling soup of cosmoids forever bursting in and out of existence [7]. We will have to wait a bit on this one.
III. TIME
The big bang model is our current best description of cosmic history. It states that the universe had a very hot and dense infancy, and that it has been expanding ever since. There is now excellent concordance between different methods that estimate the age of the universe. Here are a few: Measurements of the Hubble constant all the way to galaxies at 500 Mpc give Ho = 72 km/sec/Mpc in a universe with 1/3 matter and 2/3 dark energy (more about this soon). This results in an age of to = 13.7 10^9 years with an uncertainty of 1.5 10^9 years [8]; measurements of the CMB, independent of Ho, give to = 13.7 +- 0.2 10^9 years[9, 10]; Finally, the ages of the oldest stars in globular clusters are estimated to be about 12.5 10^9 years [11]. A consistent age is to = 13.5 +- 1.0 10^9 years. Within the big bang framework, the evolving cosmic history is a history of increasing complexification: at the earliest times, matter was broken down to its smallest components. To understand cosmic history is equivalent to recreate how the structures that make up the material universe emerged. Complexification happened in stages, controlled mostly by the cosmic temperature. At a given temperature, only certain particles or their bound states (atomic nuclei, atoms, perhaps solitons) are in thermal equilibrium with the ambient radiation. One may picture this as a love triangle, where photons and possibly other light particles such as neutrinos (the radiation) interact with matter particles which are trying to bind. If these interactions proceed fast enough, the particles (or their bound states) are in equilibrium; otherwise, they are left behind as fossils of this era. Since different interactions have different associated energy (temperature) scales, the cosmic history evolves in stages, depending when a certain interaction goes out of equilibrium, from the most to the least energetic. Thus, the early cosmic history went through at least three stages: a particle era, a nuclear era, and an atomic era. The boundary between the particle and nuclear eras is at about 10-5 sec, when quarks and gluons combined to make the baryons, particles that interact by the strong nuclear force such as protons, neutrons, and mesons [12]. Since protons have lifetimes of at least 1031 years, we can say that they are fossils from this era. Once protons and neutrons were around, they could start to bind into the lightest nuclei, H2, H3, He4, He3, and Li7. This happened when the universe was about 1 minute old. One of the great triumphs of the big bang model is predicting successfully the abundances of these nuclei. In particular, He4 account for about 23% of the baryonic matter in the cosmos, and hydrogen to about 75%. The next step in the cosmic history is the formation of hydrogen atoms, at about 380, 000 years. This is when protons bind with electrons and photons are free to roam across space, responding here and there to variations in the average energy density by having cold and hot spots. Measuring the properties of these photons, known as the CMB, is equivalent to taking a snapshot of the universe at that early time [13, 14]. From then on, the universe became transparent to radiation. This means that it is impossible to try to study the cosmos before this time by direct measurements of electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength; to probe the early universe we need to hunt for fossils. Dozens of terrestrial missions and the satellites COBE and WMAP (and soon PLANCK) have produced high precision measurements of the CMB, re-energizing modern cosmology and confirming yet again the predictions of the big bang model. Measurements of the CMB allowed us to confirm the flatness of space [15]. (Recent claims to the contrary [16], remain a possibility, albeit a very improbable one.) They have also allowed us to learn when the first stars were born (roughly at 200 million years).
Understanding the nature of time remains one of the great challenges of physics. A classical theory of gravity (and thus the big bang model) predicts the existence of an “initial singularity,” the instant in time when the energy density reaches an infinite value and space collapses to a point. At the heart of the problem is a proper formulation of a quantum theory of gravity, explaining its behavior at very small distances and high energies. Although there are models describing the origin of the universe (at least our local patch) by a quantum tunneling event [17, 18], the transition from a quantum to a classical universe one described by the big bang model remains obscure. We need guidance from particle physics to pick the proper theory to work with. String theory [19] and/or loop gravity [20] have made much progress, but we still don’t have a compelling connection between their realm and that of 4-dimensional spacetime particle physics.
IV. MATTER
It must be clear to the reader that within modern cosmology, treating space, time, and matter as three separate topics is highly artificial. The three are deeply intertwined. A point in case is the questions of the “end of time” [2]. Up to 1998, the standard big bang model had a very simple prediction: if we know the total energy density of the universe (_tot), we can tell what will happen to it. The cosmic fate is controlled by the critical density, rhocrit = 3Ho^2 /8piG = 10-29 g/cm3, where G is Newton’s gravitational constant. It is convenient to define the ratio Omegai = rhoi/rhocrit for a given contribution to Omegatot. Of course, rhotot = Sum rhoi, and Omegatot = rhotot/rhocrit. If Omega tot > 1, the universe will recollapse in the distant future. Otherwise, it will continue its expansion indefinitely. The discovery in 1998 that the universe is presently accelerating blurred the clarity of this prediction [21]. The culprit of this acceleration
is called dark energy, a ghostly contribution to the total energy density (and pressure, which makes ’dark energy’ a somewhat imprecise name) spread out homogeneously or nearly so across the universe. Its net effect is to push the cosmic geometry apart, somewhat like an anti-gravitational force. Measurements of distant supernovae and of the
CMB give Omega(Dark Energ) = 0.73 +- 0.04. So, not only there is an unknown energy component in the universe, but it is also the dominant one: CMB and other measurements place Omegatot = 1.02 +-0.02, meaning that everything else must amount to no more than 27% or so of cosmic stuff. Most probably this implies that the universe is marginally flat and hence will expand forever. But what if the universe were supercritical Omegatot > 1? Without dark energy (pre 1998), we would say it would recollapse in a finite time. But with dark energy things are more subtle [2, 22]. Dark energy is extremely difficult to pinpoint; its effects on the CMB are mostly relegated to very large fluctuations. The two main contenders are the infamous cosmological constant, created by Einstein to balance out his collapsing static spherical model, and a hypothetical scalar field called quintessence [23]. The main difference between a cosmological constant and a scalar field is in their pressures and clustering properties. Scalar fields may have pressures of smaller absolute magnitude and respond to variations in the gravitational field: i.e., quintessence may cluster, even if very subtly. The problem is that the models for quintessence are somewhat contrived, at least from a particle physics viewpoint. If quintessence exists, it will almost certainly not be a fundamental field, but a phenomenological order parameter or condensate of some sort. The cosmological constant is not in much better shape. Quantum physics predicts that all fields have a sort of fundamental inescapable jitter. Since all that moves carry energy, this quantum jitter has an associated energy, called zero-point energy [24, 25]. This energy is most certainly related to the cosmological constant. Quintessence has nothing to say about this. The problem is, if one would naively compute the zero-point energy in the universe, the result would be a cosmological constant some 120 orders of magnitude too large. In other words, we don’t understand the cosmological constant. Until we have a better grasp of it, dark energy will remain mysterious. What then is the cosmic recipe, circa January 2004? Taking Omega tot = 1, the total normal (baryonic) matter and dark matter components add up to 27%, or Omega(Matter + Dark Matter) = 0.27. Nucleosynthesis constrains Omega(Matter) ~0.04, leaving Omega(Dark Matter) ~ 0.23. That measurements of the distribution of dark matter in galaxies and clusters of galaxies, as well as CMB measurements, concur very nearly with this estimate speaks to the robustness of modern observational and theoretical cosmology. It turns out that the stuff we and stars are made of is by far the universes’s subdominant energy component. Even this familiar component is only partially accessible; some of ordinary matter is also “dark” in
the sense that it does not produce visible radiation. (But it produces other kinds of radiation, such as infrared, as we have seen in the hunt for extrasolar planets.) However, the bets are still off for what is the dark matter component. Unless we are missing something very basic about gravity at large distances, dark matter is not of the ordinary
kind. It may not be of a single kind either: maybe several exotic particles and more complex objects contribute to Omega(Dark Matter) A tremendous amount of effort is being dedicated to disclose some of its nature, be it by direct detection (cryogenic detectors that would “count” the dark matter particles as they impact its collecting area or resonate in special cavities) or by production in the laboratory (if dark matter is related to supersymmetry, it may possibly be produced in particle accelerators very soon [26].) Whatever dark matter is, the stakes are high: we are talking of an unknown kind of matter, over six times more abundant in the universe than ordinary matter. Both dark energy and dark matter promise new physics ahead.
V. CONCLUSIONS
I hope this brief overview has given the reader at least a general flavor of the excitement permeating present cosmological and astrophysical research. We have learned a tremendous amount about the physical universe, its material composition, its shape, and its age. Yet, science teaches us that there will always be more to learn. In fact, the old aphorism, “the more we know the more we don’t know” seems to apply very well here. As new tools and ideas open new vistas to the physical universe, we stand in awe of nature’s creativity and of our ability to understand so much of it. To those that cynically comment on the state of “mystery” in cosmology, “too much dark stuff around,”
I say that this is precisely how science progresses: by teaching us to accept ignorance as the main precondition for learning. Only then we stand a chance of rationally answering some of the many questions we have, and the many more that will surely come. What we have learned so far speaks for itself.
Acknowledgments
I’d like to express my gratitude to the organizers of IWARA 2003, and in particular to Helio Coelho, Sandra Prado, and Cesar Vasconcellos for their invitation and wonderful hospitality. My research is sponsored in part by a NSF grant PHY-0099543.
[1] N. S. Hetherington ed., Cosmology: Historical, Literary, Philosophical, Religious, and Scientific Perspectives (Garland
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Thanks Gary. This is interesting. However, again
"The Question is: What is The Question?" J.A. Wheeler (2003)
I do not think Hartle, Gell-Mann and All The King's Men in, for example, Lee Smolin's very excellent
"Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" are asking The Right Question.
First look at the paper by Brian Josephson and Fotini Pallikari
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/papers/bell.html
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/
On how living matter may differ from dead matter in regard to a violation of the "signal locality" of orthodox micro-quantum theory in ALL interpretations Bohmian and others.
This issue has been further developed by Antony Valentini
http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/valentini.html
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0104067
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0112151
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0203049
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0112151
Note that Valentini thinks of "non-equilbrium" "relic particles" not realizing the exotic vacuum zero point "dark energy" and "dark matter" with w = pressure/energy density = -1 may play an equivalent role giving effective "signal nonlocality" violating micro-quantum theory on the MACRO-QUANTUM scale in our local past light cone Hubble horizon limited universe that is not in thermal equilibrium on "classical" (i.e. a misnomer for MACRO-QUANTUM), micro-quantum, or sub-quantum levels.
None of The Pundits in quantum gravity and quantum cosmology today have really considered P.W. Anderson's "More is different" in its fullness IMHO at the level of what Lenny Susskind aptly terms "organizing ideas" of high compression with immense heuristic value in terms of guides to the The Question.
Lee Smolin in Ch 3 gives ample reason why the micro-quantum approach, assumed above, can be expected to break down at the MACRO level. Hartle et-al are simply over-extrapolating IMHO and have not been asking the right questions.
Micro-quantum theory is linear nonlocal (entanglement) and unitary in time evolution in a non-dynamical space-time background with signal locality and no cloning of qubits where uncontrolled environmental decoherence dominates.
MACRO-QUANTUM theory is nonlinear local (complementary to entanglements) and distinctly non-unitary in time evolution in a dynamical background-independent local curved space-time geometry at the low energy c-number ODLRO regime of cosmology and large scale physics i.e. ~ 1 fermi or greater in current cosmological epoch. There is no "sub-quantal heat death" here. There is no Born probability interpretation here. The latter is not fundamental in Bohm's ontology BTW. The "generalized phase rigidity" (P.W. Anderson) of the single-valued giant (MACRO) quantum vacuum wave is immune from uncontrolled environmental decoherence. This is Andrei Sakharov's "metric elasticity" in one instance.
"Physics is simple when it is local." (J.A. Wheeler) and I have just explained why and how that happens on the large low energy scales.
The micro-quantum vacuum with the immutable non-dynamical globally flat spacetime is unstable to the non-perturbative formation of the MACRO-QUANTUM dynamical mutable curved space-time c-number vacuum (Action with direct "two-way" reaction) whose long-range holographic coherence (i.e. phase rigidity) is essentially the "inflation field".
Einstein's gravity, the guv field emerges from phase ripples in the inflation vacuum coherence LOCAL c-number ODLRO (Oliver Penrose & Lars Onsager) field and both dark energy and dark matter emerge from the amplitude ripples in the same vacuum coherence field. A simple pretty picture on the level of the "organizing idea" that can be intuitively comprehended by ordinary intelligent people who are not physicists.
On Jan 26, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Gary S. Bekkum wrote:
Bohmian Histories and Decoherent Histories
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0209104
Authors: James B. Hartle (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, Revtex, improved format and references,
several points clarified
"The predictions of the Bohmian and the decoherent (or consistent) histories
formulations of the quantum mechanics of a closed system are compared for
histories -- sequences of alternatives at a series of times. For certain
kinds of histories, Bohmian mechanics and decoherent histories may both be
formulated in the same mathematical framework within which they can be
compared. In that framework, Bohmian mechanics and decoherent histories
represent a given history by different operators. Their predictions for the
probabilities of histories therefore generally differ. However, in an
idealized model of measurement, the predictions of Bohmian mechanics and
decoherent histories coincide for the probabilities of records of
measurement outcomes. The formulations are thus difficult to distinguish
experimentally. They may differ in their accounts of the past history of the
universe in quantum cosmology."
"The Question is: What is The Question?" J.A. Wheeler (2003)
I do not think Hartle, Gell-Mann and All The King's Men in, for example, Lee Smolin's very excellent
"Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" are asking The Right Question.
First look at the paper by Brian Josephson and Fotini Pallikari
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/papers/bell.html
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/
On how living matter may differ from dead matter in regard to a violation of the "signal locality" of orthodox micro-quantum theory in ALL interpretations Bohmian and others.
This issue has been further developed by Antony Valentini
http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/valentini.html
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0104067
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0112151
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0203049
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0112151
Note that Valentini thinks of "non-equilbrium" "relic particles" not realizing the exotic vacuum zero point "dark energy" and "dark matter" with w = pressure/energy density = -1 may play an equivalent role giving effective "signal nonlocality" violating micro-quantum theory on the MACRO-QUANTUM scale in our local past light cone Hubble horizon limited universe that is not in thermal equilibrium on "classical" (i.e. a misnomer for MACRO-QUANTUM), micro-quantum, or sub-quantum levels.
None of The Pundits in quantum gravity and quantum cosmology today have really considered P.W. Anderson's "More is different" in its fullness IMHO at the level of what Lenny Susskind aptly terms "organizing ideas" of high compression with immense heuristic value in terms of guides to the The Question.
Lee Smolin in Ch 3 gives ample reason why the micro-quantum approach, assumed above, can be expected to break down at the MACRO level. Hartle et-al are simply over-extrapolating IMHO and have not been asking the right questions.
Micro-quantum theory is linear nonlocal (entanglement) and unitary in time evolution in a non-dynamical space-time background with signal locality and no cloning of qubits where uncontrolled environmental decoherence dominates.
MACRO-QUANTUM theory is nonlinear local (complementary to entanglements) and distinctly non-unitary in time evolution in a dynamical background-independent local curved space-time geometry at the low energy c-number ODLRO regime of cosmology and large scale physics i.e. ~ 1 fermi or greater in current cosmological epoch. There is no "sub-quantal heat death" here. There is no Born probability interpretation here. The latter is not fundamental in Bohm's ontology BTW. The "generalized phase rigidity" (P.W. Anderson) of the single-valued giant (MACRO) quantum vacuum wave is immune from uncontrolled environmental decoherence. This is Andrei Sakharov's "metric elasticity" in one instance.
"Physics is simple when it is local." (J.A. Wheeler) and I have just explained why and how that happens on the large low energy scales.
The micro-quantum vacuum with the immutable non-dynamical globally flat spacetime is unstable to the non-perturbative formation of the MACRO-QUANTUM dynamical mutable curved space-time c-number vacuum (Action with direct "two-way" reaction) whose long-range holographic coherence (i.e. phase rigidity) is essentially the "inflation field".
Einstein's gravity, the guv field emerges from phase ripples in the inflation vacuum coherence LOCAL c-number ODLRO (Oliver Penrose & Lars Onsager) field and both dark energy and dark matter emerge from the amplitude ripples in the same vacuum coherence field. A simple pretty picture on the level of the "organizing idea" that can be intuitively comprehended by ordinary intelligent people who are not physicists.
On Jan 26, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Gary S. Bekkum wrote:
Bohmian Histories and Decoherent Histories
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0209104
Authors: James B. Hartle (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Comments: 7 pages, 3 figures, Revtex, improved format and references,
several points clarified
"The predictions of the Bohmian and the decoherent (or consistent) histories
formulations of the quantum mechanics of a closed system are compared for
histories -- sequences of alternatives at a series of times. For certain
kinds of histories, Bohmian mechanics and decoherent histories may both be
formulated in the same mathematical framework within which they can be
compared. In that framework, Bohmian mechanics and decoherent histories
represent a given history by different operators. Their predictions for the
probabilities of histories therefore generally differ. However, in an
idealized model of measurement, the predictions of Bohmian mechanics and
decoherent histories coincide for the probabilities of records of
measurement outcomes. The formulations are thus difficult to distinguish
experimentally. They may differ in their accounts of the past history of the
universe in quantum cosmology."
Sunday, January 25, 2004
"The Question is: What is The Question?" John Archibald Wheeler (2003)
http://www.holidays.net/passover/question.html
From Lee Smolin's "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity"
Contextual background:
Orthodox micro-quantum theory in the Gell-Mann/Hartle decoherent "consistent histories" interpretation, taken naively to the macro-realm as in conventional "quantum cosmology" and "quantum gravity" with the Wheeler-Dewitt "timeless" eq. HPSI(Universe) = 0 in Wheeler's "superspace" of 3D space-like geometries in the canonical 3+1 split (ADM), has many "BIT" thought-like parallel universes (attractor basins sans system point in Susskind's non-Bohmian "Landscape" that is subject to the Darwinian natural selection of the Weak Anthropic Principle (WAP) for the "arbitrary" parameters in the standard models of lepto-quarks and chaotic inflationary cosmology):
"These universes differ not only in the answers that the theory gives to questions, but by the questions that are asked. Everett's relative-state form of the theory, must therefore be supplemented by a theory of why what we observe corresponds to the answers of certain questions, and not to an infinite number of other questions." p. 43
"Dowker's and Kent's results showed that there had to be an infinite number of other worlds too. ... Even more disturbing there were worlds that were classical now that were arbitrarily mixed up superpositions of classical [worlds] at any point in the past. Dowker concluded [in 1995] that, if the consistent histories interpretation is correct, we have no right to deduce from the existence of fossils now that dinosaurs roamed the Earth one hundred million years ago. ... the people sitting near me were as shocked as I was ... Jim Hartle insisted that the work he and Murray Gell-Mann had done on the consistent histories approach was not contradicted by anything Fay Dowker had said. They were fully aware that their proposal imposed on reality a radical context dependence: one cannot talk meaningfully about the existence of any object or the truth of any statement without first completely specifying the questions that are to be asked. It's almost as if the questions bring reality into being." p.44
It is ironic that Murray Gell-Mann in Chapter 11 of his "The Quark and the Jaguar" alludes to the Chickering letter to Under Secretary of Defense Richard De Lauer I helped to write in 1981 (see my book "Destiny Matrix") that talks about signal nonlocality, which does violate micro-quantum theory. Gell-Mann's interpretation of micro-quantum theory is equally if not more bizarre than a sub-quantal non-equilibrium universe with signal-nonlocality that allows communication between the decoherent parallel BIT worlds and pulls the rug out from under the non-Boolean topos approach of Fotini Markopoulo-Kalamara (Ch 3 of Smolin's book). Of course, even with signal nonlocality allowing communication between parallel Hubble sphere worlds in Max Tegmark's "Level 1" and "Level 2", no single observer inside the relational multi-verse is ever able to have complete information. Therefore, some kind of Bayesean epistemology is needed. The problem here is that the boundary between epistemology and ontology is fuzzy.
"... there are other troubles with this conventional formulation of quantum cosmology. ... one is not free to ask any set of questions: instead these are constrained by having to be solutions to certain equations. ... It seems unlikely that this can ever be done." p. 45
On Jan 25, 2004, at 8:12 AM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:
Thanks Tony. I need to think about this.
The area is fundamental in my model for how Einstein's curved metric field guv EMERGES as the phase ripples in the inflation vacuum coherence field from a globally flat unstable vacuum of local special relativistic quantum field theory like in the standard model. This in turn may emerge from spin foam where area is quantized. I guess the hologram idea may really boil down to the idea that there is only ONE independent spin foam quantum that is essentially Witten's alpha'?
alpha' = (M theorystring tension)^-1 = (Loop Quantum of Area)/hc
Witten's M theory and Loop Theory (or "extended relativity" in Castro's "Clifford" algebra formalism) are dual descriptions like in Cartan forms and projective geometry.
Note, when you read Ch 3 of Lee Smolin's "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" it becomes clear why
1. signal locality from linearity + unitarity + Born probability "sub-quantal equilibrium"
2. decoherence, consistent histories
must break down in large scale physics. Smolin points out that for awhile he did not understand what Gell-Mann and Hartle were really talking about. It took a talk by Fay Dowker to show the very bizarre features of consistent histories like universes mixing different times as in Fred Hoyle's sci fi story "Black Cloud". It gets down to the contingent sequence of "quantum questions" (projection operators" in selecting out the mutually exclusive parallel world consistent histories. This is non-trivial and this is partly what Wheeler is alluding to in his
"The Question is: What is The Question?"
Much more on this in coming weeks.
http://www.holidays.net/passover/question.html
From Lee Smolin's "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity"
Contextual background:
Orthodox micro-quantum theory in the Gell-Mann/Hartle decoherent "consistent histories" interpretation, taken naively to the macro-realm as in conventional "quantum cosmology" and "quantum gravity" with the Wheeler-Dewitt "timeless" eq. HPSI(Universe) = 0 in Wheeler's "superspace" of 3D space-like geometries in the canonical 3+1 split (ADM), has many "BIT" thought-like parallel universes (attractor basins sans system point in Susskind's non-Bohmian "Landscape" that is subject to the Darwinian natural selection of the Weak Anthropic Principle (WAP) for the "arbitrary" parameters in the standard models of lepto-quarks and chaotic inflationary cosmology):
"These universes differ not only in the answers that the theory gives to questions, but by the questions that are asked. Everett's relative-state form of the theory, must therefore be supplemented by a theory of why what we observe corresponds to the answers of certain questions, and not to an infinite number of other questions." p. 43
"Dowker's and Kent's results showed that there had to be an infinite number of other worlds too. ... Even more disturbing there were worlds that were classical now that were arbitrarily mixed up superpositions of classical [worlds] at any point in the past. Dowker concluded [in 1995] that, if the consistent histories interpretation is correct, we have no right to deduce from the existence of fossils now that dinosaurs roamed the Earth one hundred million years ago. ... the people sitting near me were as shocked as I was ... Jim Hartle insisted that the work he and Murray Gell-Mann had done on the consistent histories approach was not contradicted by anything Fay Dowker had said. They were fully aware that their proposal imposed on reality a radical context dependence: one cannot talk meaningfully about the existence of any object or the truth of any statement without first completely specifying the questions that are to be asked. It's almost as if the questions bring reality into being." p.44
It is ironic that Murray Gell-Mann in Chapter 11 of his "The Quark and the Jaguar" alludes to the Chickering letter to Under Secretary of Defense Richard De Lauer I helped to write in 1981 (see my book "Destiny Matrix") that talks about signal nonlocality, which does violate micro-quantum theory. Gell-Mann's interpretation of micro-quantum theory is equally if not more bizarre than a sub-quantal non-equilibrium universe with signal-nonlocality that allows communication between the decoherent parallel BIT worlds and pulls the rug out from under the non-Boolean topos approach of Fotini Markopoulo-Kalamara (Ch 3 of Smolin's book). Of course, even with signal nonlocality allowing communication between parallel Hubble sphere worlds in Max Tegmark's "Level 1" and "Level 2", no single observer inside the relational multi-verse is ever able to have complete information. Therefore, some kind of Bayesean epistemology is needed. The problem here is that the boundary between epistemology and ontology is fuzzy.
"... there are other troubles with this conventional formulation of quantum cosmology. ... one is not free to ask any set of questions: instead these are constrained by having to be solutions to certain equations. ... It seems unlikely that this can ever be done." p. 45
On Jan 25, 2004, at 8:12 AM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:
Thanks Tony. I need to think about this.
The area is fundamental in my model for how Einstein's curved metric field guv EMERGES as the phase ripples in the inflation vacuum coherence field from a globally flat unstable vacuum of local special relativistic quantum field theory like in the standard model. This in turn may emerge from spin foam where area is quantized. I guess the hologram idea may really boil down to the idea that there is only ONE independent spin foam quantum that is essentially Witten's alpha'?
alpha' = (M theorystring tension)^-1 = (Loop Quantum of Area)/hc
Witten's M theory and Loop Theory (or "extended relativity" in Castro's "Clifford" algebra formalism) are dual descriptions like in Cartan forms and projective geometry.
Note, when you read Ch 3 of Lee Smolin's "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" it becomes clear why
1. signal locality from linearity + unitarity + Born probability "sub-quantal equilibrium"
2. decoherence, consistent histories
must break down in large scale physics. Smolin points out that for awhile he did not understand what Gell-Mann and Hartle were really talking about. It took a talk by Fay Dowker to show the very bizarre features of consistent histories like universes mixing different times as in Fred Hoyle's sci fi story "Black Cloud". It gets down to the contingent sequence of "quantum questions" (projection operators" in selecting out the mutually exclusive parallel world consistent histories. This is non-trivial and this is partly what Wheeler is alluding to in his
"The Question is: What is The Question?"
Much more on this in coming weeks.
On Jan 24, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Stan Friedman wrote:
"Colin:
While I certainly appreciate your acceptance of my labors, it is difficult
indeed for me to accept the notion that Bruce and I have trouble with
nonconformists. Just how many optical physicists with PhDs are there who
have written three books and many dozens of papers about UFOs and are fine
pianists as well? Bruce is the only one I am aware of. How many nuclear
physicists do you know who have given over 700 lectures and written two
books and many dozens of papers all about UFOs? Know anybody besides me?. I
think it is safe to say we are both nonconformists."
Indeed. :-)
"The second problem is that the vaunted accomplishments of Michael Wolf
Kruvant are, unfortunately, despite the wild claims of Boylan, mythical."
I agree with Stan here. It takes more faith to believe the hogwash about Kruvant
than in the immaculate conception of Jesus Christ, who some say I directly descend
from via Rashi de Troyes BTW (as in "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" --> "Da Vinci Code"). I do not take
those myths seriously either - for the record. This Tempest in a Teapot over Kruvant is a kind
of "double think" brainwashing right out of Orwell's "1984". True, Boylan is a Carny in the
PT Barnum tradition perhaps, but that does not mean we have to believe his obvious nonsense, whilst
being tolerant of his Constitutional Right to make a complete ass of himself. There is political
danger in the gullibility of New Age thinking. While we should not "supress" it, we need to
"expose" it for what it is. The Third Reich was built on irrational pseudo-science. Never forget.
"His
only source is Michael. No diplomas, no transcripts, no resumes, no
papers, no commencement lists, no W-2 forms, no tax returns, no marriage
license, no birth certificate for his "son" Daniel.No evidence of the
mythical New England Institute for Advanced Science"'.. or some such.. ask
Dun and Bradstreet. I did. I got so fed up with this massive
misrepresentation ( about me as well as about Kruvant), that I located and
called his brother today. He stated that Michael did flunk out of Upsala (a
non-elite college in New Jersey), that he never acquired a college degree
from anywhere, that he never worked for the government, was never in the
military, was never married, did not have a son (As a matter of fact he was
homosexual), never held a job for longer than a few days.He did visit Italy
but had to be sent money to get home. In his last years his income was SSI
and $300. per month from his mother. He was in several different mental
hospitals. He never met Clinton. I am writing him and including a
questionnaire. He does not want to be bothered. He already had told Boylan
all this, He of course knew better by his psychological intuition. "Don't
bother me with the facts, my mind is made up", is Boylan's creed."
Yes.
"Yes, I have been accused of all kinds of sins on the internet such as being
a disinformation specialist for the CIA or other such agency. The late, and
not lamented, Milton William Cooper, a very far right extremist, started
this years ago and, of course, accused Bruce and Budd Hopkins and I of
working for the CIA. This totally false accusation has been picked up by,
you guessed it, Richard Boylan. Richard,just where did you learn all your
false information about black budget programs?? Paola has accused me of
charging for every autograph. I have never ever charged anybody for an
autograph anywhere. This is a total and complete lie. She has also claimed
that I was tough to get to through a difficult secretary. I have never had a
secretary and always answer my own phone when I am home.
In short, Colin, I think you have some homework to do.
Stan Friedman"
"Colin:
While I certainly appreciate your acceptance of my labors, it is difficult
indeed for me to accept the notion that Bruce and I have trouble with
nonconformists. Just how many optical physicists with PhDs are there who
have written three books and many dozens of papers about UFOs and are fine
pianists as well? Bruce is the only one I am aware of. How many nuclear
physicists do you know who have given over 700 lectures and written two
books and many dozens of papers all about UFOs? Know anybody besides me?. I
think it is safe to say we are both nonconformists."
Indeed. :-)
"The second problem is that the vaunted accomplishments of Michael Wolf
Kruvant are, unfortunately, despite the wild claims of Boylan, mythical."
I agree with Stan here. It takes more faith to believe the hogwash about Kruvant
than in the immaculate conception of Jesus Christ, who some say I directly descend
from via Rashi de Troyes BTW (as in "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" --> "Da Vinci Code"). I do not take
those myths seriously either - for the record. This Tempest in a Teapot over Kruvant is a kind
of "double think" brainwashing right out of Orwell's "1984". True, Boylan is a Carny in the
PT Barnum tradition perhaps, but that does not mean we have to believe his obvious nonsense, whilst
being tolerant of his Constitutional Right to make a complete ass of himself. There is political
danger in the gullibility of New Age thinking. While we should not "supress" it, we need to
"expose" it for what it is. The Third Reich was built on irrational pseudo-science. Never forget.
"His
only source is Michael. No diplomas, no transcripts, no resumes, no
papers, no commencement lists, no W-2 forms, no tax returns, no marriage
license, no birth certificate for his "son" Daniel.No evidence of the
mythical New England Institute for Advanced Science"'.. or some such.. ask
Dun and Bradstreet. I did. I got so fed up with this massive
misrepresentation ( about me as well as about Kruvant), that I located and
called his brother today. He stated that Michael did flunk out of Upsala (a
non-elite college in New Jersey), that he never acquired a college degree
from anywhere, that he never worked for the government, was never in the
military, was never married, did not have a son (As a matter of fact he was
homosexual), never held a job for longer than a few days.He did visit Italy
but had to be sent money to get home. In his last years his income was SSI
and $300. per month from his mother. He was in several different mental
hospitals. He never met Clinton. I am writing him and including a
questionnaire. He does not want to be bothered. He already had told Boylan
all this, He of course knew better by his psychological intuition. "Don't
bother me with the facts, my mind is made up", is Boylan's creed."
Yes.
"Yes, I have been accused of all kinds of sins on the internet such as being
a disinformation specialist for the CIA or other such agency. The late, and
not lamented, Milton William Cooper, a very far right extremist, started
this years ago and, of course, accused Bruce and Budd Hopkins and I of
working for the CIA. This totally false accusation has been picked up by,
you guessed it, Richard Boylan. Richard,just where did you learn all your
false information about black budget programs?? Paola has accused me of
charging for every autograph. I have never ever charged anybody for an
autograph anywhere. This is a total and complete lie. She has also claimed
that I was tough to get to through a difficult secretary. I have never had a
secretary and always answer my own phone when I am home.
In short, Colin, I think you have some homework to do.
Stan Friedman"
Thanks Tony. I need to think about this.
The area is fundamental in my model for how Einstein's curved metric field guv EMERGES as the phase ripples in the inflation vacuum coherence field from a globally flat unstable vacuum of local special relativistic quantum field theory like in the standard model. This in turn may emerge from spin foam where area is quantized. I guess the hologram idea may really boil down to the idea that there is only ONE independent spin foam quantum that is essentially Witten's alpha'?
alpha' = (M theorystring tension)^-1 = (Loop Quantum of Area)/hc
Witten's M theory and Loop Theory (or "extended relativity" in Castro's "Clifford" algebra formalism) are dual descriptions like in Cartan forms and projective geometry.
Note, when you read Ch 3 of Lee Smolin's "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" it becomes clear why
1. signal locality from linearity + unitarity + Born probability "sub-quantal equilibrium"
2. decoherence, consistent histories
must break down in large scale physics. Smolin points out that for awhile he did not understand what Gell-Mann and Hartle were really talking about. It took a talk by Fay Dowker to show the very bizarre features of consistent histories like universes mixing different times as in Fred Hoyle's sci fi story "Black Cloud". It gets down to the contingent sequence of "quantum questions" (projection operators" in selecting out the mutually exclusive parallel world consistent histories. This is non-trivial and this is partly what Wheeler is alluding to in his
"The Question is: What is The Question?"
Much more on this in coming weeks.
On Jan 25, 2004, at 7:09 AM, Tony Smith wrote:
Jack, you mention "... the t'Hooft-Susskind hologram ...
The quantum of 2D area is more fundamental than
the quantum of 3D volume. ...".
The hologram/area picture may only be an artifact of
a semi-classical view of Hawking radiation,
leading to the "information paradox".
In a fully quantum view,
whether you adopt
the Chapline view - horizon as a quantum critical-opalescent condensate
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0012094
or
the Cerf-Adami view - non-equilibrium thermodynamics of quantum
information conditional entropy
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9904006
or
the superstring fuzzball view (mentioned by Lubos Motl) of Mathur et al
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/0401115
the end result is the same: the area = entropy relationship
is NOT fundamental, and there is no information paradox,
so that
it seems to me that the t'Hooft-Susskind hologram program
is not something that is part of a fundamental quantum theory,
but only something that appears to be approximately
correct from a semi-classical viewpoint.
As Mathur et al say in their above-cited paper:
"... the 'information paradox':
Hawking radiation from the hole is created by
the progressive dilation of vacuum modes near the horizon,
and if the geometry here is determined only by the above conserved
quantities ... mass, charge and angular momentum ...
then the radiation will carry no details of the matter which went in
to make the hole.
We thus get a violation of the unitarity of quantum mechanics
...
we propose that the interior of the horizon is not described
by the conventional picture ... where we have
'empty space with a central singularity'.
Rather
the differences between the ... state information is distributed
throughout the 'fuzzball' ... interior of the 'horizon' ...
the horizon is just the boundary
of the region where the typical states differ from each other.
...
consider the ... microstates that give the entropy of a black hole.
Some attempts to locate the 'hair' have looked for small
perturbations near the horizon ...
Other approaches would suggest that the microstates differ only
within a planck distance of the central singularity.
In either case
each microstate looks pretty much like ... a horizon with an area
...
But if each of the ... microstates has such a horizon,
then it must itself represent different states.
This makes no sense,
since we wanted the microstates to explain the entropy,
not have further entropy themselves.
We conclude that the ...
microstates should have no horizons individually -
the notion of a horizon should arise only after
'coarse-graining' over these microstates.
...
If we 'coarse-grain' by drawing a boundary
to enclose the region where these geometries differ
significantly from each other ... then from the area A of this boundary
we find S = A / 4G ...
Thus the Bekenstein 'area entropy' arises directly
as a 'coarse-graining over hair'.
...
Hawking's calculation of radiation showing information loss is so
robust because it uses no details of the physics at the planck scale.
Resolving the information paradox
thus needs an explicit nonlocality over macroscopic distances.
... thus the interior of the horizon is not just
'empty space with a central singularity'.
This makes it possible for radiation from the hole to pick up
information from the 'hair' and avoid the information paradox.
...
It is possible that infalling matter falls straight through
the 'fuzzball' towards r = 0
(as if it were falling through a conventional horizon),
but
over the Hawking evaporation time information is transferred
to the 'light fractional modes' and into the radiation. ...".
Tony
The area is fundamental in my model for how Einstein's curved metric field guv EMERGES as the phase ripples in the inflation vacuum coherence field from a globally flat unstable vacuum of local special relativistic quantum field theory like in the standard model. This in turn may emerge from spin foam where area is quantized. I guess the hologram idea may really boil down to the idea that there is only ONE independent spin foam quantum that is essentially Witten's alpha'?
alpha' = (M theorystring tension)^-1 = (Loop Quantum of Area)/hc
Witten's M theory and Loop Theory (or "extended relativity" in Castro's "Clifford" algebra formalism) are dual descriptions like in Cartan forms and projective geometry.
Note, when you read Ch 3 of Lee Smolin's "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" it becomes clear why
1. signal locality from linearity + unitarity + Born probability "sub-quantal equilibrium"
2. decoherence, consistent histories
must break down in large scale physics. Smolin points out that for awhile he did not understand what Gell-Mann and Hartle were really talking about. It took a talk by Fay Dowker to show the very bizarre features of consistent histories like universes mixing different times as in Fred Hoyle's sci fi story "Black Cloud". It gets down to the contingent sequence of "quantum questions" (projection operators" in selecting out the mutually exclusive parallel world consistent histories. This is non-trivial and this is partly what Wheeler is alluding to in his
"The Question is: What is The Question?"
Much more on this in coming weeks.
On Jan 25, 2004, at 7:09 AM, Tony Smith wrote:
Jack, you mention "... the t'Hooft-Susskind hologram ...
The quantum of 2D area is more fundamental than
the quantum of 3D volume. ...".
The hologram/area picture may only be an artifact of
a semi-classical view of Hawking radiation,
leading to the "information paradox".
In a fully quantum view,
whether you adopt
the Chapline view - horizon as a quantum critical-opalescent condensate
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0012094
or
the Cerf-Adami view - non-equilibrium thermodynamics of quantum
information conditional entropy
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9904006
or
the superstring fuzzball view (mentioned by Lubos Motl) of Mathur et al
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/0401115
the end result is the same: the area = entropy relationship
is NOT fundamental, and there is no information paradox,
so that
it seems to me that the t'Hooft-Susskind hologram program
is not something that is part of a fundamental quantum theory,
but only something that appears to be approximately
correct from a semi-classical viewpoint.
As Mathur et al say in their above-cited paper:
"... the 'information paradox':
Hawking radiation from the hole is created by
the progressive dilation of vacuum modes near the horizon,
and if the geometry here is determined only by the above conserved
quantities ... mass, charge and angular momentum ...
then the radiation will carry no details of the matter which went in
to make the hole.
We thus get a violation of the unitarity of quantum mechanics
...
we propose that the interior of the horizon is not described
by the conventional picture ... where we have
'empty space with a central singularity'.
Rather
the differences between the ... state information is distributed
throughout the 'fuzzball' ... interior of the 'horizon' ...
the horizon is just the boundary
of the region where the typical states differ from each other.
...
consider the ... microstates that give the entropy of a black hole.
Some attempts to locate the 'hair' have looked for small
perturbations near the horizon ...
Other approaches would suggest that the microstates differ only
within a planck distance of the central singularity.
In either case
each microstate looks pretty much like ... a horizon with an area
...
But if each of the ... microstates has such a horizon,
then it must itself represent different states.
This makes no sense,
since we wanted the microstates to explain the entropy,
not have further entropy themselves.
We conclude that the ...
microstates should have no horizons individually -
the notion of a horizon should arise only after
'coarse-graining' over these microstates.
...
If we 'coarse-grain' by drawing a boundary
to enclose the region where these geometries differ
significantly from each other ... then from the area A of this boundary
we find S = A / 4G ...
Thus the Bekenstein 'area entropy' arises directly
as a 'coarse-graining over hair'.
...
Hawking's calculation of radiation showing information loss is so
robust because it uses no details of the physics at the planck scale.
Resolving the information paradox
thus needs an explicit nonlocality over macroscopic distances.
... thus the interior of the horizon is not just
'empty space with a central singularity'.
This makes it possible for radiation from the hole to pick up
information from the 'hair' and avoid the information paradox.
...
It is possible that infalling matter falls straight through
the 'fuzzball' towards r = 0
(as if it were falling through a conventional horizon),
but
over the Hawking evaporation time information is transferred
to the 'light fractional modes' and into the radiation. ...".
Tony
Saturday, January 24, 2004
On Jan 24, 2004, at 5:42 PM, carlos castro wrote:
"Dear Friends :
I forgot to tell Jack Sarfatti when I saw him in Santa Barbara about the importance of Clifford algebras in the evaluation of quantum bits at the Planck scale an all that ......in the calculation of the logarithmic corrections to the Bekenstein-Hawking black hole entropy.
One uses Clifford Bits... The quanta OF spacetime are areas, volumes, hyper-volumes quantized in discrete Planck scale units. It is well known that Clifford algebras are very important in information theory."
Jack: Right, so how do we formulate the t'Hooft-Susskind hologram in those terms.
The quantum of 2D area is more fundamental than the quantum of 3D volume.
Is it simply (Quantum of Volume) = (Quantum of Area)^3/2 ?
They are not independent?
Note, that in my theory the curved part of the Einstein metric field guv derives fundamentally from a quantum of area because the physical distortion of the spin foam lattice is
distortion = (Quantum of Area) (4-gradient of phase of local macro-quantum vacuum wave)
guv is the symmetric strain tensor of this distortion first rank tensor.
Clearly all the 4D information in guv is then scaled by the Quantum of Area.
Since "time" is determined by relational changes in spacelike "spin networks" and the spin networks are basically determined by the "areas" the different pictures are intuitively similar.
What happens in higher dimensions?
In Cl(3) area is dual to line so that strings and area loops are "dual" images of each other.
In my theory for the "More is different" emergence of c-number Einstein LOCAL gravity from the phase modulation of the giant local vacuum wave the loop gravity quantum of area is like the quantum of vortex circulation in Bohmian quantum theory where
v(particle) = (h/m)Grad(phase of Pilot Wave)
IT FROM BIT
This vortex defect picture is consistent with Hagen Kleinert's string defect picture of curvature and torsion as disclination and dislocation in the spin foam respectively. The defects are the Berry phase singularities in the LOCAL giant vacuum wave.
All Kleinert world crystal lattices are spin foams.
The quantum cosmology in Lee Smolin's book "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" is all wrong IMHO because it over extrapolates micro-quantum theory and leaves out entirely "More is different". All the Hartle-Gell-Mann stuff is wrong, the Fay Dowker stuff all wrong - or else I am wrong. :-)
Forget "consistent histories." Forget Everett "many worlds" and all that. Linearity and unitarity are Mad Cows to the Slaughter House V! :-)
Now I really know what Wheeler means when he says:
"The Question is: What is The Question?"
The Achilles heel of consistent histories, causal sets and all that is what Wheeler is alluding to. More on that anon.
Quantum Gravity is a House of Wild Cards, all "Jokers" on the shaky ground of signal locality, about to come tumbling down like Samson at The Temple.
That Humpty Dumpty will not be put back together again, and The Emperor really has no clothes. :-)
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/MagicBean.html
Carlos: "See the article by Carlos Castro, Alex Granik :
" Extended Scale Relativity, p-loop Harmonic oscillator and Logarithmic Corrections to the Black Hole Entropy” Foundations of Physics vol. 33 ( 3 ) ( 2003 ) 445-466;"
Jack: Can you email me the files?
Carlos: "Notice that p-loops are closed strings, closed membranres, closed 3-branes....etc.... p-loops are the higher-dim generalization of ordinary loops."
Jack: What about supersymmetry, the fermionic dimensions of non-commutative geometry?
How does the detailed algebra of all this fit together?
Carlos:
"ABSTRACT :
A new relativity theory, or more concretely an extended relativity theory, actively developed by one of the authors incorporates 3 basic concepts. They are the old idea of Chew about bootstrapping, Nottale's scale relativity, and enlargement of the conventional time-space by inclusion of noncommutative Clifford manifolds where all p-branes are treated on equal footing. The latter allows one to write a master action functional. The resulting functional equation is simplified and applied to the p-loop oscillator. Its solution represents a generalization of the conventional quantum point oscillator. In addition, it exhibits some novel features: an emergence of two explicit scales delineating the asymptotic regimes (Planck scale region and a smooth region of a quantum point oscillator). In the most interesting Planck scale regime, the solution recovers in an elementary fashion some basic relations of string theory (including string tension quantization and string uncertainty relation). It is shown that the degeneracy of the first collective excited state of the p-loop oscillator yields not only the well-known Bekenstein-Hawking area-entropy linear relation but also the logarithmic corrections therein. In addition we obtain for any number of dimensions the Hawking temperature, the Schwarzschild radius, and the inequalities governing the area of a black hole formed in a fusion of two black holes. One of the interesting results is a demonstration that the evaporation of a black hole is limited by the upper bound on its temperature, the Planck temperature."
Jack: I need to get to understand this. :-)
"Dear Friends :
I forgot to tell Jack Sarfatti when I saw him in Santa Barbara about the importance of Clifford algebras in the evaluation of quantum bits at the Planck scale an all that ......in the calculation of the logarithmic corrections to the Bekenstein-Hawking black hole entropy.
One uses Clifford Bits... The quanta OF spacetime are areas, volumes, hyper-volumes quantized in discrete Planck scale units. It is well known that Clifford algebras are very important in information theory."
Jack: Right, so how do we formulate the t'Hooft-Susskind hologram in those terms.
The quantum of 2D area is more fundamental than the quantum of 3D volume.
Is it simply (Quantum of Volume) = (Quantum of Area)^3/2 ?
They are not independent?
Note, that in my theory the curved part of the Einstein metric field guv derives fundamentally from a quantum of area because the physical distortion of the spin foam lattice is
distortion = (Quantum of Area) (4-gradient of phase of local macro-quantum vacuum wave)
guv is the symmetric strain tensor of this distortion first rank tensor.
Clearly all the 4D information in guv is then scaled by the Quantum of Area.
Since "time" is determined by relational changes in spacelike "spin networks" and the spin networks are basically determined by the "areas" the different pictures are intuitively similar.
What happens in higher dimensions?
In Cl(3) area is dual to line so that strings and area loops are "dual" images of each other.
In my theory for the "More is different" emergence of c-number Einstein LOCAL gravity from the phase modulation of the giant local vacuum wave the loop gravity quantum of area is like the quantum of vortex circulation in Bohmian quantum theory where
v(particle) = (h/m)Grad(phase of Pilot Wave)
IT FROM BIT
This vortex defect picture is consistent with Hagen Kleinert's string defect picture of curvature and torsion as disclination and dislocation in the spin foam respectively. The defects are the Berry phase singularities in the LOCAL giant vacuum wave.
All Kleinert world crystal lattices are spin foams.
The quantum cosmology in Lee Smolin's book "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" is all wrong IMHO because it over extrapolates micro-quantum theory and leaves out entirely "More is different". All the Hartle-Gell-Mann stuff is wrong, the Fay Dowker stuff all wrong - or else I am wrong. :-)
Forget "consistent histories." Forget Everett "many worlds" and all that. Linearity and unitarity are Mad Cows to the Slaughter House V! :-)
Now I really know what Wheeler means when he says:
"The Question is: What is The Question?"
The Achilles heel of consistent histories, causal sets and all that is what Wheeler is alluding to. More on that anon.
Quantum Gravity is a House of Wild Cards, all "Jokers" on the shaky ground of signal locality, about to come tumbling down like Samson at The Temple.
That Humpty Dumpty will not be put back together again, and The Emperor really has no clothes. :-)
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/MagicBean.html
Carlos: "See the article by Carlos Castro, Alex Granik :
" Extended Scale Relativity, p-loop Harmonic oscillator and Logarithmic Corrections to the Black Hole Entropy” Foundations of Physics vol. 33 ( 3 ) ( 2003 ) 445-466;"
Jack: Can you email me the files?
Carlos: "Notice that p-loops are closed strings, closed membranres, closed 3-branes....etc.... p-loops are the higher-dim generalization of ordinary loops."
Jack: What about supersymmetry, the fermionic dimensions of non-commutative geometry?
How does the detailed algebra of all this fit together?
Carlos:
"ABSTRACT :
A new relativity theory, or more concretely an extended relativity theory, actively developed by one of the authors incorporates 3 basic concepts. They are the old idea of Chew about bootstrapping, Nottale's scale relativity, and enlargement of the conventional time-space by inclusion of noncommutative Clifford manifolds where all p-branes are treated on equal footing. The latter allows one to write a master action functional. The resulting functional equation is simplified and applied to the p-loop oscillator. Its solution represents a generalization of the conventional quantum point oscillator. In addition, it exhibits some novel features: an emergence of two explicit scales delineating the asymptotic regimes (Planck scale region and a smooth region of a quantum point oscillator). In the most interesting Planck scale regime, the solution recovers in an elementary fashion some basic relations of string theory (including string tension quantization and string uncertainty relation). It is shown that the degeneracy of the first collective excited state of the p-loop oscillator yields not only the well-known Bekenstein-Hawking area-entropy linear relation but also the logarithmic corrections therein. In addition we obtain for any number of dimensions the Hawking temperature, the Schwarzschild radius, and the inequalities governing the area of a black hole formed in a fusion of two black holes. One of the interesting results is a demonstration that the evaporation of a black hole is limited by the upper bound on its temperature, the Planck temperature."
Jack: I need to get to understand this. :-)
Friday, January 23, 2004
From C^3 to C^4 Advanced Conscious Intelligence
Think of this as a combination of Jazz and Chamber Music. Paola Zizzi playing the cello with me on the Jazz saxophone improvising in Caffe Beat.
Excerpts, with my Commentaries, from:
“HOLOGRAPHY, QUANTUM GEOMETRY, AND QUANTUM
INFORMATION THEORY
P. A. Zizzi
Dipartimento di Astronomia dell’ Università di Padova, Vicolo dell’ Osservatorio, 5
35122 Padova, Italy
e-mail: zizzi@pd.astro.it
ABSTRACT
We interpret the Holographic Conjecture in terms of quantum bits (qubits). N-qubit states are
associated with surfaces that are punctured in N points by spin networks’ edges labelled by the spin-
1/2 representations of SU(2) , which are in a superposed quantum state of spin "up" and spin
"down". The formalism is applied in particular to de Sitter horizons, and leads to a picture of the
early inflationary universe in terms of quantum computation. A discrete micro-causality emerges,
where the time parameter is being defined by the discrete increase of entropy.
Then, the model is analysed in the framework of the theory of presheaves (varying sets on a causal
set) and we get a quantum history. A (bosonic) Fock space of the whole history is considered.
The Fock space wavefunction, which resembles a Bose-Einstein condensate, undergoes decoherence
at the end of inflation. This fact seems to be responsible for the rather low entropy of our universe.
Contribution to the 8th UK Foundations of Physics Meeting, 13-17 September 1999, Imperial
College, London, U K..
1 INTRODUCTION
Today, the main challenge of theoretical physics is to settle a theory of quantum gravity that will
reconcile General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics.
There are three main approaches to quantum gravity: the canonical approach, the histories approach,
and string theory. In what follows, we will focus mainly on the canonical approach; however, we
will consider also quantum histories in the context of topos theory [1-2].
A novel interest in the canonical approach emerged, about ten years ago, when Ashtekar introduced
his formalism [3] which lead to the theory of loop quantum gravity [4].
In loop quantum gravity, non-perturbative techniques have led to a picture of quantum geometry. In
the non-perturbative approach, there is no background metric, but only a bare manifold. It follows
that at the Planck scale geometry is rather of a polymer type, and geometrical observables like area
and volume have discrete spectra.
Spin networks are relevant for quantum geometry. They were invented by Penrose [5] in order to
approach a drastic change in the concept of space-time, going from that of a smooth manifold to that
of a discrete, purely combinatorial structure. Then, spin networks were re-discovered by Rovelli and
Smolin [6] in the context of loop quantum gravity. Basically, spin networks are graphs embedded in
3-space, with edges labelled by spins j = 0, 1/2, 1, 3/2...and vertices labeled by intertwining
operators. In loop quantum gravity, spin networks are eigenstates of the area and volume-operators
However, this theory of quantum geometry, does not reproduce classical General Relativity in the
continuum limit.”
JS: Note that.
PZ: “For this reason, Reisenberg and Rovelli [8] proposed that the dynamics of spin
networks could be described in terms of spacetime histories, to overcome the difficulties of the
canonical approach. In this context, the spacetime histories are represented by discrete
combinatorial structures that can be visualised as triangulations. The merging of dynamical
triangulations with topological quantum field theory (TQFT) has given rise to models of quantum
gravity called "spin foam models" [9] which seem to have continuum limits.”
JS: What is the relation of Hagen Kleinert’s “world crystal lattice” to spin foam dynamical triangulations?
PZ: Anyway, as spin foam models are Euclidean, they are not suitable to recover causality at the Planck scale.
For this purpose, the theory should be intrinsically Lorentzian. However, the very concept of causality
becomes uncertain at the Planck scale, when the metric undergoes quantum fluctuations as Penrose [10] argued.
So, one should consider a discrete alternative to the Lorentzian metric, which is the causal set
(a partially ordered set-or poset- whose elements are events of a discrete spacetime).
Such theories of quantum gravity based on the casual set were formulated by Sorkin et al. [11].
Rather recently, a further effort in trying to recover causality at the Planck scale, has been undertaken by Markopoulou and Smolin [12]. They considered the evolution of spin networks in discrete time steps, and they claimed that the evolution is causal because the history of evolving spin networks is a causal set. However, it is not clear yet whether causality can really be achieved at the Planck scale, at least in the context of causal sets.
In this paper, we also consider the issue of causality at the Planck scale in the framework of causal sets, although our results do not promote this aspect as decisively as in [12]. In our opinion, the very concept of causality makes sense in the quasi-classical limit, in relation with the fact that an observer is needed, and this observer cannot "stand" on the event at the Planck scale. Moreover, our picture is related to some other issues, mainly the holographic conjecture [13-14] and quantum information theory.
The issue of quantum information started with Neumann [15], who gave a mathematical expression of quantum entropy in photons and other particles subjected to the laws of quantum mechanics.
However, Neumann’ s entropy lacked a clear interpretation in terms of information theory. It was
Schumacher [16], who showed that Neumann’s entropy has indeed a related meaning. Moreover,
Holevo [17], and Levitin [18], found that the value of quantum entropy is the upper limit of the
amount of quantum information that can be recovered from a quantum particle (or from a group of
particles). Quantum information differs from classical information [19], in several aspects.
The elementary unit of classical information is the bit, which is in one of the two states "true" = 1 and
"false" = 0, and obeys Boolean logic. A classical bit is contextual-free. i.e. it does not depend on what
other information is present. Finally, a classical bit can be perfectly copied.
In quantum information, the elementary unit is the quantum bit (or qubit), a coherent superposition
of the two basis states 0 and 1. The underlying logic is non-Boolean. Different from classical bits, a
qubit is contextual [20], and cannot be copied, or "cloned" [21].”
JS: Clearly our inner thoughts are contextual more like quantum bits than classical bits. But that is not enough. Cloning or copying the thought is needed for intelligent non-random creative evolution. The inability to clone or copy a qubit comes from the linearity of superposition in micro-quantum theory and is associated with “signal locality”, i.e. the inability in micro-quantum theory to use controlled entanglement as a stand-alone conscious-command-control-communication channel C^4 that is both its own lock and key. Antony Valentini showed that signal locality is an artifact of “sub-quantal heat death” or “sub-quantal thermodynamic equilibrium” manifested in the Born probability density interpretation dP/dx^3N ~ |psi(x)|^2 in N-particle configuration space. Bohm and Hiley showed that signal locality comes from the “fragility” of the “quantum potential”, i.e. from lack of “generalized phase rigidity” (P.W. Anderson). The rules of the game change in the “More is different” ground state phase transition from micro-quantum to MACRO-QUANTUM theory where there is a tradeoff:
Nonlocality -> locality
Quantum entropy as log of phase space volume of ground state decreases.
Linearity of nonlocal Schrodinger eq. -> nonlinearity of local Landau-Ginsburg eq.
Breakdown of Born probability game.
Fragile micro-quantum potential -> robust MACRO-QUANTUM POTENTIAL
with generalized phase rigidity and the possibility of signal nonlocality.
PZ: “The emerging fields of quantum computation [22], quantum communication and quantum
cryptography [23], quantum dense coding [24], and quantum teleportation [25], are all based on
quantum information theory. Moreover, quantum information theory is expected to illuminate some
conceptual aspects of the foundations of Quantum Mechanics.
In this paper, we shall illustrate, in particular, the interconnections between quantum information
theory and quantum gravity.
As spin networks are purely mathematical entities, they do not carry any information of their own
because information is physical [26]. However, they do carry information when they puncture a
surface transversely. Each puncture contributes to a pixel of area (a pixel is one unit of Planck area)
and, because of the holographic principle, this pixel will encode one unit of classical information (a
bit).”
JS: The idea of “puncture” is really 3D duality. A string theory line is dual to a loop quantum gravity area, and a point is dual to a 3D volume. One can generalize this to N-Dim bosonic hyperspace. The SU(2) qubit transformations are 2x2 Pauli “spintronic” matrices that introduce the hypercomplex fermion dimensions of supersymmetry (fermions <-> bosons).
The idea then is that each component of 4-vector Xu is really a quaternion rather than a real number xu. This gives a non-commutative space-time geometry. This is not the same as representing an ordinary first rank tensor as a quaternion. That is we do not have a 4D real vector space, but rather a 16 D real vector space or an 8D complex vector space or a 4D quaternion vector space.
PZ: “The starting idea of our paper is that a surface can be punctured by a spin network’s edge (labeled by the j = 1/2 representation of SU (2)), which is in a superposed quantum state of spin "up" and spin "down". This induces the pixel to be in the superposed quantum state of "on" and "off", which encodes one unit of quantum information, or qubit. By the use of the Bekenstein bound [27], we show that the entropy of an N-punctured surface is in fact the entropy of an N-qubit.
Moreover, because of the Holevo-Levitin theorem [17-18], our picture provides a time parameter in
terms of a discrete increase of entropy. Thus the time parameter is discrete, and quantized in
Planck’s units. “
JS: The problem here is how to make this Diff(4) symmetric independent on how the space-time in classical limit is sliced. On the other hand R. Kiehn says that Diff(4) is “reversible”. You need something else to get arrow of time. Pfaff dimension 4?
PZ: “This is in agreement with Penrose’ s argument [28], that a theory of quantum gravity
should be time-asymmetric. However, our result is not strong enough to claim that causality is
actually being recovered at the Planck scale. In fact, the thermodynamic arrow of time is related to
the psychological arrow of time, and at the Planck scale, the latter is missing because there are no
observers. This is not just a matter of philosophy, but it is a real handicap.
The "events" of our causal set are not just points of a discrete spacetime, but they are the elements
of a poset whose basic set is the set of qubits and whose order relation follows directly from the
quantum entropy of the qubits.
Events that are not "causally" related (qubits with the same entropy) form space-like surfaces (or
antichains).
The use of topos theory (in particular the theory of presheaves [29]) makes it possible to attach a
Hilbert space to each event, and to build up discrete evolution operators [30], between different
Hilbert spaces. In this way, we get a quantum history, which turns out to be a quantum information
interpretation of the theory of inflation.
However, as we already pointed out, we find an internal contradiction, in considering causality in
the framework of causal sets: an observer seems to be required for consistency.
In fact presheaves (or varying sets on a causal set) obey the Heyting algebra which implies the
intuitionistic logic [31-32], which in turn is related to the concept of time flow. One can then
imagine a Boolean-minded observer who has to move in time [33], in order to grasp the underlying
quantum logic of the universe.”
JS: Why a Boolean-minded observer? This is an error. While my motor activity my body is Boolean, my inner consciousness is non-Boolean even without psycho-active drugs.
PZ: “Obviously, this picture has no meaning at the Planck time, when there was no observer at all. The above picture strictly depends on the fact that in the theory of presheaves we consider Boolean sub-lattices of the quantum lattice. To drop the Boolean observer, one should discard Boolean sub-lattices and consider the entire quantum lattice as a whole, endowed with a non-Boolean logic. However, we cannot get the Hilbert space of the entire history, because of the existence of unitary evolution operators among different Hilbert spaces. Thus, in order to escape the "problem of the observer" we perform the tensor sum of all the Hilbert spaces attached to the events of the causal set, and we get a (bosonic) Fock space. Although we find that the logic associated with the Fock space is Boolean, we are able to eliminate the observer at the Planck scale by depriving him of time evolution. In fact, the Fock space wave function Y , which is the coherent quantum superposition of all the events (qubits), leads to an atemporal picture of the early universe.
The wavefunction Y is the coherent quantum state of multiple bosonic qubits, and resembles a
Bose-Einstein condensate [34].”
JS: Only “resembles”? How about “is”? Like Feynman reading Dirac on the Lagrangian in quantum theory.
PZ: “It can maintain coherence as far as thermal noise is absent, that is, as far as inflation is running: a cosmological era when the universe is cool and vacuum-dominated. We find that the coherent quantum state decoheres at the end of inflation, giving rise to the (rather) low entropy of our universe. In fact, the present entropy seems to be related to the quantum information stored in Y , which was lost to the emerging environment when thermal decoherence took place [35]. Only after Y has decohered, one can in principle retrodict the quantum past [36], "as" it was recorded by some ancient observer. It seems to us that only in this sense causality can be "restored" at the Planck scale.”
JS: John Wheeler in his “Delayed Choice” “Law without law” “Universe as a self-excited circuit” seems to invoke the “Once and Future” “Observer-Participator”. So did Sir Fred Hoyle in “The Intelligent Universe”.
PZ: This paper is organised as follows.
In Sect.2, we review the holographic conjecture by ’ t Hooft and Susskind, and we interpret the
information stored on a boundary surface in terms of quantum bits rather than classical bits.
In Sect.3, we illustrate the relation between spin networks that puncture a boundary surface, and the
qubits stored on the surface.
In Sect.4, we put forward the mathematical formalism. We select the subspace of un-entangled
symmetric qubits of the full 2 ^N-dimensional Hilbert space of N qubits. We find that the symmetric
1-qubit acts as a creation operator in this subspace. Then the formalism is applied to de Sitter
horizons, which are interpreted as qubits. This leads to an interpretation of inflation in terms of
quantum information.
In Sect.5, we show how the vacuum (the classical bit) at the unphysical time t=0, evolved to the 1-
qubit at the Planck time by passing through a quantum logic gate.
In Sect.6, we show that in this model a discrete micro-causality emerges, where the time parameter
is given in terms of the discrete increase of entropy.
In Sect.7, we formalise our model within the framework of the theory of presheaves. Qubits are
interpreted as events of a causal set, where the order relation is given in terms of the entropy. We
get thus a quantum history which is the ensemble of all the finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces of N qubits.
We find that the wavefunction of the entire history resembles a Bose-Einstein condensate.
In Sect.8, we consider decoherence of the Bose-Einstein condensate. We find that the rather low
value of the entropy of our present universe can be achieved only if the wavefunction collapsed at
the end of inflation.
In Sect.9, we interpret the N-qubits as N quantum harmonic oscillators. This allows us to find the
discrete energy spectrum, and in particular, the energy at the time when inflation ended. This energy
is interpreted as the reheating temperature.”
JS: In my theory, a local macro-coherent vacuum order parameter survives.
The reheating is still tiny because matter is only 4% of all the stuff in our at least
Tegmark “Level 1” Hubble bubble universe confined to our past light cone.
Gravity is from the phase ripples in this coherent order and dark energy/matter
that is 96% of The Right Stuff of The World is from the amplitude ripples in
this coherent order. The oil calming the waters.
This is Sarfatti’s decoding of “The Cipher of Genesis.”
Think of this as a combination of Jazz and Chamber Music. Paola Zizzi playing the cello with me on the Jazz saxophone improvising in Caffe Beat.
Excerpts, with my Commentaries, from:
“HOLOGRAPHY, QUANTUM GEOMETRY, AND QUANTUM
INFORMATION THEORY
P. A. Zizzi
Dipartimento di Astronomia dell’ Università di Padova, Vicolo dell’ Osservatorio, 5
35122 Padova, Italy
e-mail: zizzi@pd.astro.it
ABSTRACT
We interpret the Holographic Conjecture in terms of quantum bits (qubits). N-qubit states are
associated with surfaces that are punctured in N points by spin networks’ edges labelled by the spin-
1/2 representations of SU(2) , which are in a superposed quantum state of spin "up" and spin
"down". The formalism is applied in particular to de Sitter horizons, and leads to a picture of the
early inflationary universe in terms of quantum computation. A discrete micro-causality emerges,
where the time parameter is being defined by the discrete increase of entropy.
Then, the model is analysed in the framework of the theory of presheaves (varying sets on a causal
set) and we get a quantum history. A (bosonic) Fock space of the whole history is considered.
The Fock space wavefunction, which resembles a Bose-Einstein condensate, undergoes decoherence
at the end of inflation. This fact seems to be responsible for the rather low entropy of our universe.
Contribution to the 8th UK Foundations of Physics Meeting, 13-17 September 1999, Imperial
College, London, U K..
1 INTRODUCTION
Today, the main challenge of theoretical physics is to settle a theory of quantum gravity that will
reconcile General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics.
There are three main approaches to quantum gravity: the canonical approach, the histories approach,
and string theory. In what follows, we will focus mainly on the canonical approach; however, we
will consider also quantum histories in the context of topos theory [1-2].
A novel interest in the canonical approach emerged, about ten years ago, when Ashtekar introduced
his formalism [3] which lead to the theory of loop quantum gravity [4].
In loop quantum gravity, non-perturbative techniques have led to a picture of quantum geometry. In
the non-perturbative approach, there is no background metric, but only a bare manifold. It follows
that at the Planck scale geometry is rather of a polymer type, and geometrical observables like area
and volume have discrete spectra.
Spin networks are relevant for quantum geometry. They were invented by Penrose [5] in order to
approach a drastic change in the concept of space-time, going from that of a smooth manifold to that
of a discrete, purely combinatorial structure. Then, spin networks were re-discovered by Rovelli and
Smolin [6] in the context of loop quantum gravity. Basically, spin networks are graphs embedded in
3-space, with edges labelled by spins j = 0, 1/2, 1, 3/2...and vertices labeled by intertwining
operators. In loop quantum gravity, spin networks are eigenstates of the area and volume-operators
However, this theory of quantum geometry, does not reproduce classical General Relativity in the
continuum limit.”
JS: Note that.
PZ: “For this reason, Reisenberg and Rovelli [8] proposed that the dynamics of spin
networks could be described in terms of spacetime histories, to overcome the difficulties of the
canonical approach. In this context, the spacetime histories are represented by discrete
combinatorial structures that can be visualised as triangulations. The merging of dynamical
triangulations with topological quantum field theory (TQFT) has given rise to models of quantum
gravity called "spin foam models" [9] which seem to have continuum limits.”
JS: What is the relation of Hagen Kleinert’s “world crystal lattice” to spin foam dynamical triangulations?
PZ: Anyway, as spin foam models are Euclidean, they are not suitable to recover causality at the Planck scale.
For this purpose, the theory should be intrinsically Lorentzian. However, the very concept of causality
becomes uncertain at the Planck scale, when the metric undergoes quantum fluctuations as Penrose [10] argued.
So, one should consider a discrete alternative to the Lorentzian metric, which is the causal set
(a partially ordered set-or poset- whose elements are events of a discrete spacetime).
Such theories of quantum gravity based on the casual set were formulated by Sorkin et al. [11].
Rather recently, a further effort in trying to recover causality at the Planck scale, has been undertaken by Markopoulou and Smolin [12]. They considered the evolution of spin networks in discrete time steps, and they claimed that the evolution is causal because the history of evolving spin networks is a causal set. However, it is not clear yet whether causality can really be achieved at the Planck scale, at least in the context of causal sets.
In this paper, we also consider the issue of causality at the Planck scale in the framework of causal sets, although our results do not promote this aspect as decisively as in [12]. In our opinion, the very concept of causality makes sense in the quasi-classical limit, in relation with the fact that an observer is needed, and this observer cannot "stand" on the event at the Planck scale. Moreover, our picture is related to some other issues, mainly the holographic conjecture [13-14] and quantum information theory.
The issue of quantum information started with Neumann [15], who gave a mathematical expression of quantum entropy in photons and other particles subjected to the laws of quantum mechanics.
However, Neumann’ s entropy lacked a clear interpretation in terms of information theory. It was
Schumacher [16], who showed that Neumann’s entropy has indeed a related meaning. Moreover,
Holevo [17], and Levitin [18], found that the value of quantum entropy is the upper limit of the
amount of quantum information that can be recovered from a quantum particle (or from a group of
particles). Quantum information differs from classical information [19], in several aspects.
The elementary unit of classical information is the bit, which is in one of the two states "true" = 1 and
"false" = 0, and obeys Boolean logic. A classical bit is contextual-free. i.e. it does not depend on what
other information is present. Finally, a classical bit can be perfectly copied.
In quantum information, the elementary unit is the quantum bit (or qubit), a coherent superposition
of the two basis states 0 and 1. The underlying logic is non-Boolean. Different from classical bits, a
qubit is contextual [20], and cannot be copied, or "cloned" [21].”
JS: Clearly our inner thoughts are contextual more like quantum bits than classical bits. But that is not enough. Cloning or copying the thought is needed for intelligent non-random creative evolution. The inability to clone or copy a qubit comes from the linearity of superposition in micro-quantum theory and is associated with “signal locality”, i.e. the inability in micro-quantum theory to use controlled entanglement as a stand-alone conscious-command-control-communication channel C^4 that is both its own lock and key. Antony Valentini showed that signal locality is an artifact of “sub-quantal heat death” or “sub-quantal thermodynamic equilibrium” manifested in the Born probability density interpretation dP/dx^3N ~ |psi(x)|^2 in N-particle configuration space. Bohm and Hiley showed that signal locality comes from the “fragility” of the “quantum potential”, i.e. from lack of “generalized phase rigidity” (P.W. Anderson). The rules of the game change in the “More is different” ground state phase transition from micro-quantum to MACRO-QUANTUM theory where there is a tradeoff:
Nonlocality -> locality
Quantum entropy as log of phase space volume of ground state decreases.
Linearity of nonlocal Schrodinger eq. -> nonlinearity of local Landau-Ginsburg eq.
Breakdown of Born probability game.
Fragile micro-quantum potential -> robust MACRO-QUANTUM POTENTIAL
with generalized phase rigidity and the possibility of signal nonlocality.
PZ: “The emerging fields of quantum computation [22], quantum communication and quantum
cryptography [23], quantum dense coding [24], and quantum teleportation [25], are all based on
quantum information theory. Moreover, quantum information theory is expected to illuminate some
conceptual aspects of the foundations of Quantum Mechanics.
In this paper, we shall illustrate, in particular, the interconnections between quantum information
theory and quantum gravity.
As spin networks are purely mathematical entities, they do not carry any information of their own
because information is physical [26]. However, they do carry information when they puncture a
surface transversely. Each puncture contributes to a pixel of area (a pixel is one unit of Planck area)
and, because of the holographic principle, this pixel will encode one unit of classical information (a
bit).”
JS: The idea of “puncture” is really 3D duality. A string theory line is dual to a loop quantum gravity area, and a point is dual to a 3D volume. One can generalize this to N-Dim bosonic hyperspace. The SU(2) qubit transformations are 2x2 Pauli “spintronic” matrices that introduce the hypercomplex fermion dimensions of supersymmetry (fermions <-> bosons).
The idea then is that each component of 4-vector Xu is really a quaternion rather than a real number xu. This gives a non-commutative space-time geometry. This is not the same as representing an ordinary first rank tensor as a quaternion. That is we do not have a 4D real vector space, but rather a 16 D real vector space or an 8D complex vector space or a 4D quaternion vector space.
PZ: “The starting idea of our paper is that a surface can be punctured by a spin network’s edge (labeled by the j = 1/2 representation of SU (2)), which is in a superposed quantum state of spin "up" and spin "down". This induces the pixel to be in the superposed quantum state of "on" and "off", which encodes one unit of quantum information, or qubit. By the use of the Bekenstein bound [27], we show that the entropy of an N-punctured surface is in fact the entropy of an N-qubit.
Moreover, because of the Holevo-Levitin theorem [17-18], our picture provides a time parameter in
terms of a discrete increase of entropy. Thus the time parameter is discrete, and quantized in
Planck’s units. “
JS: The problem here is how to make this Diff(4) symmetric independent on how the space-time in classical limit is sliced. On the other hand R. Kiehn says that Diff(4) is “reversible”. You need something else to get arrow of time. Pfaff dimension 4?
PZ: “This is in agreement with Penrose’ s argument [28], that a theory of quantum gravity
should be time-asymmetric. However, our result is not strong enough to claim that causality is
actually being recovered at the Planck scale. In fact, the thermodynamic arrow of time is related to
the psychological arrow of time, and at the Planck scale, the latter is missing because there are no
observers. This is not just a matter of philosophy, but it is a real handicap.
The "events" of our causal set are not just points of a discrete spacetime, but they are the elements
of a poset whose basic set is the set of qubits and whose order relation follows directly from the
quantum entropy of the qubits.
Events that are not "causally" related (qubits with the same entropy) form space-like surfaces (or
antichains).
The use of topos theory (in particular the theory of presheaves [29]) makes it possible to attach a
Hilbert space to each event, and to build up discrete evolution operators [30], between different
Hilbert spaces. In this way, we get a quantum history, which turns out to be a quantum information
interpretation of the theory of inflation.
However, as we already pointed out, we find an internal contradiction, in considering causality in
the framework of causal sets: an observer seems to be required for consistency.
In fact presheaves (or varying sets on a causal set) obey the Heyting algebra which implies the
intuitionistic logic [31-32], which in turn is related to the concept of time flow. One can then
imagine a Boolean-minded observer who has to move in time [33], in order to grasp the underlying
quantum logic of the universe.”
JS: Why a Boolean-minded observer? This is an error. While my motor activity my body is Boolean, my inner consciousness is non-Boolean even without psycho-active drugs.
PZ: “Obviously, this picture has no meaning at the Planck time, when there was no observer at all. The above picture strictly depends on the fact that in the theory of presheaves we consider Boolean sub-lattices of the quantum lattice. To drop the Boolean observer, one should discard Boolean sub-lattices and consider the entire quantum lattice as a whole, endowed with a non-Boolean logic. However, we cannot get the Hilbert space of the entire history, because of the existence of unitary evolution operators among different Hilbert spaces. Thus, in order to escape the "problem of the observer" we perform the tensor sum of all the Hilbert spaces attached to the events of the causal set, and we get a (bosonic) Fock space. Although we find that the logic associated with the Fock space is Boolean, we are able to eliminate the observer at the Planck scale by depriving him of time evolution. In fact, the Fock space wave function Y , which is the coherent quantum superposition of all the events (qubits), leads to an atemporal picture of the early universe.
The wavefunction Y is the coherent quantum state of multiple bosonic qubits, and resembles a
Bose-Einstein condensate [34].”
JS: Only “resembles”? How about “is”? Like Feynman reading Dirac on the Lagrangian in quantum theory.
PZ: “It can maintain coherence as far as thermal noise is absent, that is, as far as inflation is running: a cosmological era when the universe is cool and vacuum-dominated. We find that the coherent quantum state decoheres at the end of inflation, giving rise to the (rather) low entropy of our universe. In fact, the present entropy seems to be related to the quantum information stored in Y , which was lost to the emerging environment when thermal decoherence took place [35]. Only after Y has decohered, one can in principle retrodict the quantum past [36], "as" it was recorded by some ancient observer. It seems to us that only in this sense causality can be "restored" at the Planck scale.”
JS: John Wheeler in his “Delayed Choice” “Law without law” “Universe as a self-excited circuit” seems to invoke the “Once and Future” “Observer-Participator”. So did Sir Fred Hoyle in “The Intelligent Universe”.
PZ: This paper is organised as follows.
In Sect.2, we review the holographic conjecture by ’ t Hooft and Susskind, and we interpret the
information stored on a boundary surface in terms of quantum bits rather than classical bits.
In Sect.3, we illustrate the relation between spin networks that puncture a boundary surface, and the
qubits stored on the surface.
In Sect.4, we put forward the mathematical formalism. We select the subspace of un-entangled
symmetric qubits of the full 2 ^N-dimensional Hilbert space of N qubits. We find that the symmetric
1-qubit acts as a creation operator in this subspace. Then the formalism is applied to de Sitter
horizons, which are interpreted as qubits. This leads to an interpretation of inflation in terms of
quantum information.
In Sect.5, we show how the vacuum (the classical bit) at the unphysical time t=0, evolved to the 1-
qubit at the Planck time by passing through a quantum logic gate.
In Sect.6, we show that in this model a discrete micro-causality emerges, where the time parameter
is given in terms of the discrete increase of entropy.
In Sect.7, we formalise our model within the framework of the theory of presheaves. Qubits are
interpreted as events of a causal set, where the order relation is given in terms of the entropy. We
get thus a quantum history which is the ensemble of all the finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces of N qubits.
We find that the wavefunction of the entire history resembles a Bose-Einstein condensate.
In Sect.8, we consider decoherence of the Bose-Einstein condensate. We find that the rather low
value of the entropy of our present universe can be achieved only if the wavefunction collapsed at
the end of inflation.
In Sect.9, we interpret the N-qubits as N quantum harmonic oscillators. This allows us to find the
discrete energy spectrum, and in particular, the energy at the time when inflation ended. This energy
is interpreted as the reheating temperature.”
JS: In my theory, a local macro-coherent vacuum order parameter survives.
The reheating is still tiny because matter is only 4% of all the stuff in our at least
Tegmark “Level 1” Hubble bubble universe confined to our past light cone.
Gravity is from the phase ripples in this coherent order and dark energy/matter
that is 96% of The Right Stuff of The World is from the amplitude ripples in
this coherent order. The oil calming the waters.
This is Sarfatti’s decoding of “The Cipher of Genesis.”
My idea is that Einstein's gravity including both dark energy and dark matter are emergent macro-quantum phenomena in the sense of Oliver Penrose's "ODLRO" (Off Diagonal Long Range Order) inside the vacuum. This is consistent with P.W. Anderson's "More is different" and Andrei Sakharov's "metric elasticity". The result is a background-independent non-perturbative model consistent with Loop Quantum Gravity. I give a toy model for the formation of the vacuum condensate "inflation scalar field" dominated by bound virtual electron-positron pairs that make the globally flat quantum electrodynamic vacuum unstable. Einstein's c-number space-time emerges as the more stable vacuum quite similar to the superconducting vacuum in the BCS model for a condensate of real electron pairs where the attractive virtual phonons overpower the repulsive virtual photons in the real electron pair coupling. I use general notions of the "two fluid model" where the residual random zero point vacuum fluctuations from all dynamical fields are the "normal fluid". I also use Hagen Kleinert's 4D elastic "world crystal Planck lattice" model of Einstein's gravity that is consistent with, i.e. a special case of, spin-network -> spin foam loop quantum gravity. In addition I use Bohm's pilot wave interpretation of quantum theory. The key mathematical results are:
1. Hagen Kleinert's World Crystal Lattice Distortion Field = (Area Quantum of Loop Quantum Gravity)(Partial Derivative of the Goldstone Phase of the Vacuum Coherent Inflation Field)
i.e.
du(x) = (alpha')PSI(x),u
(alpha') = Ed Witten's string parameter in units of area that is proportional to (string tension)^-1
PSI is the complex scalar local macro-quantum coherent vacuum order parameter inflation field of zero thermodynamic entropy.
Eq (1) is analogous to Bohm's guidance constraint in a quantum liquid where the velocity of the "extra variable" particle v
v = (h/m)Grad(Phase of quantum bit Pilot Wave)
That is, the quantum of circulation h/m for vortex line defects in the case of the single-valued superfluid macro wave function for a quantum liquid is replaced by Witten's "alpha') for the elastic-plastic "world crystal lattice".
The world crystal lattice is replaced in the final theory by a "spin foam". All world crystal lattices are spin foams, but not vice versa.
Einstein's "IT FROM BIT" (J.A. Wheeler) local metric tensor field guv(x) for curved c-number space-time is then
guv(x) = Globally Flat Metric + Strain Tensor of the Elastic Distortion Field
This is non-perturbative, the second term on RHS is not small compared to first term.
The "Area" dependence of Einstein's curved space-time metric field guv is consistent with the t'Hooft-Susskind "world hologram" generalization of the Bekenstein-Hawking quantized entropy of the area of the event horizon of a black hole that is also a very complex quantized string state.
guv(x) is background-independent, i.e. a dynamical field of "spin 2" for the "normal fluid" linear gravitons in the macro-coherent curved condensate dynamical background.
Sakharov's "metric elasticity" is a special case of P.W. Anderson's "generalized phase rigidity" that keeps local classical physics immune from micro-quantum environmental decoherence. This explains why the macroworld is local without giant Schrodinger Cat states. The macro-quantum coherence inflation field obeys a local covariant Landau-Ginzburg "BIT FROM IT" equation with a renormalizable cubic nonlinearity.
Sakharov's metric elasticity ~ (QED alpha)(Witten's "alpha'") ~ (QED alpha)/(String Tension) ~ G(Newton)/c^4 = (Planck Area)/hc
Note duality between Loop Gravity Quantum of Area and String Tension Quanta (i.e. links or "bits" of the quantized string).
This is not a "two metric" theory like the Yilmaz theory.
Einstein's local (passive) general coordinate transformation emerge as inhomogeneities in the local phase transformations of the vacuum coherence inflation field. Indeed, the world crystal distortion field is the compensating gauge force field needed to restore the 4-parameter spontaneously broken translational symmetry group T4 responsible for tidal curvature. Note that Hagen Kleinert has shown that tidal curvature comes from only the "disclination" defects in the world crystal lattice vacuum coherent local order parameter (inflation field). This will correspond to some topological property of the "spin foam". Any torsion field from locally gauging the Lorentz group O(1,3) would correspond to "dislocation" topological defects in Kleinert's theory. In addition, locally gauging the 4 special conformal transformation (related to the deSitter spaces) and the single dilation operator of the 15 parameter Penrose twistor Conformal Group will lead to additional dynamical compensating gauge force fields.
Both "dark energy" and "dark matter" making ~ 96% of all the large scale stuff of the Universe are w = (pressure/energy density) = -1 exotic vacuum residual zero point stress-energy current density fields with the local equation
3. tuv(Vacuum) = (Dimensionless) QED electron-virtual photon-electron coupling)(String Tension)(Quantum of Area)^-1[(Quantum of Area)^3/2|PSI(x)|^2 - l]guv(x)
4. Define the real local scalar world hologram zero point energy exotic vacuum field
/\zpf(x) = (Loop Quantum of Area)^-1[(Loop Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]
Einstein's exotic vacuum local field equation
Guv(x) + /\zpf(x)guv(x) = 0
In the weak curvature field Newtonian gravity limit reduces to the Poisson equation
Laplacian of Exotic Vacuum Gravity Potential ~ - c^2/\zpf
with the sign convention that /\zpf > 0 is anti-gravity universal repulsion and /\zpf < 0 is universal gravity attraction.
Neither of these non-classical quantum effects are limited by the weakness of large scale G(Newton).
The large scale limit of /\zpf is Einstein's "cosmological constant" where we use the FRW cosmological metric in the usual way.
On the micro-scale in stringy vortex core topological defects of the single-valued inflation field PSI(x) there is strong exotic vacuum "dark matter" attraction that prevents the electric charge of spatially extended lepto-quarks from exploding. This solves the old Abraham-Lorentz-Poincare stress problem of the electron's self-energy of 100 years ago. Large micro-scale warping of these geon strings of Wheeler's "Mass without mass" etc. make these spatially extended structures look more and more like point particles with increasing momentum transfers in high energy scattering as shown in deep inelastic electron-hadron scattering for examples. This model is consistent with observed universal slope the hadronic resonances, which are seen to be simply the exotic vacuum "dark matter" universal gravity on the short scale. The "universality" of the Regge slope at (1Gev)^-2 shows it is an equivalence principle gravity phenomenon.
w = -1 dark matter macro-geons as in the spherical Galactic halos will look like w = 0 CDM to distant observers.
In this theory dark matter detectors will never click with "the right stuff". They will only click with false positives because dark matter is not made out of real on mass shell exotic particles whizzing around in space. Dark matter is simply exotic vacuum with positive pressure, just as dark energy is simply exotic vacuum with negative pressure. Which is which depends on the local intensity of the vacuum coherence field. That the universe as it expands is more dominated by repulsive dark energy than it was in the past is a matter of dynamics of the local /\zpf(x) field. It may be contingent in the sense of Lenny Susskind's "Landscape"?
1. Hagen Kleinert's World Crystal Lattice Distortion Field = (Area Quantum of Loop Quantum Gravity)(Partial Derivative of the Goldstone Phase of the Vacuum Coherent Inflation Field)
i.e.
du(x) = (alpha')PSI(x),u
(alpha') = Ed Witten's string parameter in units of area that is proportional to (string tension)^-1
PSI is the complex scalar local macro-quantum coherent vacuum order parameter inflation field of zero thermodynamic entropy.
Eq (1) is analogous to Bohm's guidance constraint in a quantum liquid where the velocity of the "extra variable" particle v
v = (h/m)Grad(Phase of quantum bit Pilot Wave)
That is, the quantum of circulation h/m for vortex line defects in the case of the single-valued superfluid macro wave function for a quantum liquid is replaced by Witten's "alpha') for the elastic-plastic "world crystal lattice".
The world crystal lattice is replaced in the final theory by a "spin foam". All world crystal lattices are spin foams, but not vice versa.
Einstein's "IT FROM BIT" (J.A. Wheeler) local metric tensor field guv(x) for curved c-number space-time is then
guv(x) = Globally Flat Metric + Strain Tensor of the Elastic Distortion Field
This is non-perturbative, the second term on RHS is not small compared to first term.
The "Area" dependence of Einstein's curved space-time metric field guv is consistent with the t'Hooft-Susskind "world hologram" generalization of the Bekenstein-Hawking quantized entropy of the area of the event horizon of a black hole that is also a very complex quantized string state.
guv(x) is background-independent, i.e. a dynamical field of "spin 2" for the "normal fluid" linear gravitons in the macro-coherent curved condensate dynamical background.
Sakharov's "metric elasticity" is a special case of P.W. Anderson's "generalized phase rigidity" that keeps local classical physics immune from micro-quantum environmental decoherence. This explains why the macroworld is local without giant Schrodinger Cat states. The macro-quantum coherence inflation field obeys a local covariant Landau-Ginzburg "BIT FROM IT" equation with a renormalizable cubic nonlinearity.
Sakharov's metric elasticity ~ (QED alpha)(Witten's "alpha'") ~ (QED alpha)/(String Tension) ~ G(Newton)/c^4 = (Planck Area)/hc
Note duality between Loop Gravity Quantum of Area and String Tension Quanta (i.e. links or "bits" of the quantized string).
This is not a "two metric" theory like the Yilmaz theory.
Einstein's local (passive) general coordinate transformation emerge as inhomogeneities in the local phase transformations of the vacuum coherence inflation field. Indeed, the world crystal distortion field is the compensating gauge force field needed to restore the 4-parameter spontaneously broken translational symmetry group T4 responsible for tidal curvature. Note that Hagen Kleinert has shown that tidal curvature comes from only the "disclination" defects in the world crystal lattice vacuum coherent local order parameter (inflation field). This will correspond to some topological property of the "spin foam". Any torsion field from locally gauging the Lorentz group O(1,3) would correspond to "dislocation" topological defects in Kleinert's theory. In addition, locally gauging the 4 special conformal transformation (related to the deSitter spaces) and the single dilation operator of the 15 parameter Penrose twistor Conformal Group will lead to additional dynamical compensating gauge force fields.
Both "dark energy" and "dark matter" making ~ 96% of all the large scale stuff of the Universe are w = (pressure/energy density) = -1 exotic vacuum residual zero point stress-energy current density fields with the local equation
3. tuv(Vacuum) = (Dimensionless) QED electron-virtual photon-electron coupling)(String Tension)(Quantum of Area)^-1[(Quantum of Area)^3/2|PSI(x)|^2 - l]guv(x)
4. Define the real local scalar world hologram zero point energy exotic vacuum field
/\zpf(x) = (Loop Quantum of Area)^-1[(Loop Quantum of Area)^3/2|Vacuum Coherence|^2 - 1]
Einstein's exotic vacuum local field equation
Guv(x) + /\zpf(x)guv(x) = 0
In the weak curvature field Newtonian gravity limit reduces to the Poisson equation
Laplacian of Exotic Vacuum Gravity Potential ~ - c^2/\zpf
with the sign convention that /\zpf > 0 is anti-gravity universal repulsion and /\zpf < 0 is universal gravity attraction.
Neither of these non-classical quantum effects are limited by the weakness of large scale G(Newton).
The large scale limit of /\zpf is Einstein's "cosmological constant" where we use the FRW cosmological metric in the usual way.
On the micro-scale in stringy vortex core topological defects of the single-valued inflation field PSI(x) there is strong exotic vacuum "dark matter" attraction that prevents the electric charge of spatially extended lepto-quarks from exploding. This solves the old Abraham-Lorentz-Poincare stress problem of the electron's self-energy of 100 years ago. Large micro-scale warping of these geon strings of Wheeler's "Mass without mass" etc. make these spatially extended structures look more and more like point particles with increasing momentum transfers in high energy scattering as shown in deep inelastic electron-hadron scattering for examples. This model is consistent with observed universal slope the hadronic resonances, which are seen to be simply the exotic vacuum "dark matter" universal gravity on the short scale. The "universality" of the Regge slope at (1Gev)^-2 shows it is an equivalence principle gravity phenomenon.
w = -1 dark matter macro-geons as in the spherical Galactic halos will look like w = 0 CDM to distant observers.
In this theory dark matter detectors will never click with "the right stuff". They will only click with false positives because dark matter is not made out of real on mass shell exotic particles whizzing around in space. Dark matter is simply exotic vacuum with positive pressure, just as dark energy is simply exotic vacuum with negative pressure. Which is which depends on the local intensity of the vacuum coherence field. That the universe as it expands is more dominated by repulsive dark energy than it was in the past is a matter of dynamics of the local /\zpf(x) field. It may be contingent in the sense of Lenny Susskind's "Landscape"?
Book in preparation
"UFOs: Good, Bad and Bogus"
by Jack Sarfatti
with contributions from other authors
Advanced Alien Intelligence Agency
Threat Assessment Research Group
Memorandum for the Record
re: Issues of Homeland Security
key reference:
"Our Final Hour"
Sir Martin Rees
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
British Astronomer Royal
On Jan 23, 2004, at 8:52 AM, Constantin Ivanenko in Russia wrote:
HISTORICAL ROOTS OF QUEST FOR GENOME WEAPONS
In a message of Dr Sarfatti of 17 Jan 2004, 4:16 AM Re: Problem with Quantum Mind Theory there were discussed basic problems of this gaining ever more wide popularity theory, presented by such eminent researchers as Dr Max Tegmark & Dr Stuart Hameroff.
While Dr Tegmark was trying to refute foundations of this theory, - proposed (in the West) by Sir Roger Penrose, - Dr Hameroff succesfully enough defended it, pointing at weak spots in Dr Tegmark’s arguments.
JS: I am not sure about that. But I have not done a careful study of the issue. I have my own refutation to Tegmark's decoherence objections based on the "generalized phase rigidity" (P. W. Anderson) of local macro-quantum coherent order parameters in open systems pumped far off thermal equilibrium (e.g. Frohlich collective electric dipole modes) at classical, quantum and sub-quantum (Antony Valentini) levels. The latter gives "signal nonlocality" as seen IMHO in experiments on "presponse" or "presentiment" as well as Puthoff and Targ's SRI "remote viewing", possibly Global Consciousness Project ? and other plausible experiments like the retro-PK data of Helmut Schmidt.
CI: In this connection it might be relevant to mention also (in a highly compressed & abridged form) opinions on this subject of Russian researchers; - which, already 30-40 years ago, had not only successfully resolved these problems, but had also developed on basis of their theoretical approaches efficiently working devices & technologies (confirming thus opinion of authors of “"Psychic Discoveries behind The Iron Curtain"” S. Ostrander & L. Schroeder that “Soviet Leading Edge research was (in ‘60s-‘70s) at least 20 years ahead of Western”).
JS: This is open to debate because fringe beliefs in paranormal, consciousness, spirituality and UFOs have strong appeal to mentally unbalanced people prone to cult brain washing (e.g. Werner Erhard's "est") who are then used by sophisticated military intelligence agencies on all sides, with various degrees of success, for espionage. They especially focus on mentally fragile people with "access" to turn as cannon fodder for domestic terrorism and sabotage. This is not at all to deny the reality of the paranormal and UFOs BTW. However, one must not take any extraordinary claims on "faith" and "face value". There is a "hidden agenda" in most cases and a bit of paranoia is justified. :-) For example see my meeting with Dennis Bardens at Blue Boar Inn in Cambridge UK in 1974 in my book "Destiny Matrix" and then check up on who Bardens was, e.g. a biographer of Winston Churchill in a successful book, also books on the paranormal as I recall. See also Martin Gardner's "Science: Good, Bad and Bogus" especially "Magic and Paraphysics" as well as "The Star Gate Conspiracy" by Picknett and Prince and Robert Anton Wilson's "The Cosmic Trigger". There is also a good British book "Alien Intelligence" I forget name of author that came out in late 70's. A good general reference is Erik Davis's "Techgnosis".
Also before you read the stuff below listen carefully to
http://qedcorp.com/book/psi/hitweapon.html
written by me in 1978!
Note also that Mel Gibson's new film on Christ has been labeled "antisemitic" by Bnai Birith unless Gibson takes out one particularly pro-Nazi scene. See New York Times today.
CI: This might be explained by the fact that they were not just being engaged in leisurely discussions which were no’t imposing on them any concrete obligations (as are now some of their Western colleagues) but worked very hard under strong pressure of government authorities (or rather “secret Masonic elite” of Communist regime), which urged them to create as fast as possible battle-ready models of “biological weapons of magical type, more terrible than nuclear” (confirming thus opinion of Karl Marx that “a concrete practical need promotes scientific progress better than building of dozens of universities”).
Leaders of the “esoteric Communist elite” (such as Lavrenty Beriya: dreaded Soviet counterpart of Himmler – whose very name hints at his “esoteric connections on genetic level”: “Beriyah (or B’riah)” is Qabbalistic name of one of non-physical/transcendental Higher Realms; now in Russia there is underway the process of re-appraisal of role of Beriya, – who was executed, after imitation of trial, as “British agent” (but really because of his ethnic origin) by “angry military patriots” led by Khruschev & Zhukov, - in Soviet history; “National Bolsheviks’” leader E. Limonov says, – having in mind decisive role of Beriya in creation of Soviet nuclear, missile (and psychotronic, it may be added) weapons, - that without him “Russia will be Upper Volta without nuclear missiles”) were (most probably) “mentally infected” with obsessive idea of creation of “racially oriented magical bioweapons” through their contacts with top Nazi ideologists: especially with captured after WWII experts of Himmler'’s Ahnenerbe, - which had achieved in this area some remarkable results, due to use of some “unorthodox” research methods.
(Thus, it’s known that Himmler had established in exclusively controlled by him Ahnenerbe – on which Germany had spent, according to Pauwels & Bergier, more money than USA spent on Manhattan Project – a special group of highly trained & naturally gifted psychics; - whose task was exploration of “Akashic Archives”/Memories of Global Mind (about which American readers might know from works of E. Cayce, - who had undertaken similar task individually, without support of trained group), - wherefrom they extracted information about most important (predominantly from military/secret police viewpoint) scientific-technological achievements of ancient supercivilizations.
One of better known among Russian & Ukrainian Leading Edgers “achievements” of Ahnenerbe experts was “reverse engineering” from such data of design of famous “Atlantean death crystals” (mentioned, eg, in popular book of Sh. Andrews on Atlantis), - capable to annihilate not only bodies of “heretics”/”enemies of Reich” but also their “subtle bodies”/”soul solitons”; it’s supposed by some Russian researchers that mentioned in Egyptian myth about The Judgement of Osiris descriptions of horrible monster which devoured condemned souls actually represented “mythologically transformed” memories of these devices.
It’s rumoured that one of first models of such devices was installed by Himmler at lowermost (now inaccessible, after they were flooded & blasted during Germans’ retreat in ‘44) levels of Hitler’s bunker “Werewolf” near Vinnitsa, Ukraine; - allegedly, because he regarded Ukraine: “the original cradle of Aryan Race”, according to popular in Nazi Germany theory of O. Schrader, as being in greatest need of “ultimate racial purification”.
Now it’s rumoured that some German-sponsored groups of Ukrainian psychics (some of which might be connected with notorious “White Brotherhood”, organized – perhaps, with an assistance of his “former” employers - by f. employee of KGB-sponsored psi-research institution Dr Krivonogov in late '80s) are trying to decode, with the help of “computer-aided remote psi-scanning techniques”, the principles of this device’s functioning.)
It’s known also that Germans were interested in so-called “psi-microvision techniques”; - with whose help it may be possible to observe directly not only molecular-level cell structures, but even, - as writes in his “ESP of Quarks and Superstrings” SMN member Dr S. Phillips (referring to such classical treatise as publ. in 1895 “Occult Chemistry” by Theosophical leaders A. Besant & Ch. Leadbeater – which, in turn, referred to Patanjali’s “Yoga Sutras”, mentioning “Anima Siddhi”), - atomic nuclei & subquarks.
As wrote about 20 years ago Polish explorer M. Kuchinsky, – and in ’98 British researcher J. Narby (see his “DNA and Origins of Knowledge”), - such natural ability was rather widespread among inhabitant of pre-Colombian Americas (or at least among priestly elites of Mayans & Incas); - claiming that basic themes of Amerindian Sacred Art (especially image of Sacred Serpent, symbolizing DNA) represent stylized images of intracellular structures directly observed by possessors of this ability.
It’s known also that US CIA, - which, as it’s known from "“In Search of ‘Manchurian Candidate’”", manifested great interest to Amerindian magical practices, - also used such techniques: see, eg, on p. 223 of ’98 ed. of “Psychic Warrior” by D. Morehouse”.
According to modern Russian “Neo-Aryan ideologist” Dr A. Dugin, the basic tenet of Nazi ideology was “idea of conservative revolution”: that is, restoration/reincarnation in modern forms of ancient ideas (this idea, as it’s well-known, inspired also Confucius & other less destructive social reformers: the problem was, of course, in correct choice of ideas to be resurrected).
Top Nazi ideologists – such as Hess, Himmler & Rosenberg – had drawn their racial ideas from such sources as ideology of such ‘genetically oriented’ ancient civilizations as caste-based Indo-Aryan one and, - however paradoxically it might appear, - no less strict in regard of “racial purity” orthodox Judaism.
(Those who have read “Hitler'’s Table-Talks” might have noticed that, - in private, - Hitler often expressed his sincere admiration of intelligence, willpower & survival ability of Jewish nation; - which he “officially” hated & despised for these same qualities.
Russian/Jewish researcher A. Yagodinsky noted in his publ. in 2003 book “"Cosmos Rules Us”" that antisemitism of Hitler – who was at least half-(or even ¾)Jewish: it’s known that his father’s original name was Schicklgruber, which in Yiddish means “(Jewish) collector of taxes (shekels) from Jewish community” – was caused by “torments of spurned (by his Jewish compatriots: being, like Zhirinovsky, Jewish only on father’s side, he didn’t satisfy strict requirements of Talmudic Law) love”; in this connection there can be recalled also other well-known German-speaking antisemites of Jewish origin: Karl Marx & Heinrich Heine.
In 1989 (or maybe 1990) in Moscow nationalistic magazine “Molodaya Guardia” (‘Young Guards’) was published an article of American explorer of history of Nazism V. Prussakov “Hitler and his Politbureau”; - where it was claimed that almost all (with notable exception of “greedy fat pig” Goering – who demonstrated his inability by mismanagement of Luftwaffe, whose failure to defend German airspace was one of main causes of Germany’s fast defeat) members of Hitler'’s team were quarter- or half-(or even ¾, as in case of R. Heydrich) Jewish.
If true, these data might be interpreted as confirmation of this tenet of Theosophic doctrine which claims that "Aryans" are direct descendants of “Proto-Semitic race”. They, - being instinctively obedient to their “evolutionary parents”, - are at the same time also instinctively hating them; - being tormented by “racial Oedipus complex” (which more advanced of them try to transcend & overcome – as an example can be named Russian Judophile V. Rosanov: an eminent religious philosopher of “silver age” (1890s-1914).
Of course, for a Jew to be an antisemite doesn'’t necessarily mean that he/she is committing a “racial treason”; – which might prevent (or, at least, hinder) his/her access to the source of Vital Power, necessary for performance of such difficult mission.
Such persons might justify themselves (on subconscious and/or transpersonal level) by realization that thereby they prevent possibility of taking the positions of leaders of antisemitic movements (or just gangs) by representatives of other nations – which might be much more dangerous: this, for example, had been an idea of recently popular in USA film “"Fanatic”.")
As another source of Nazis’ interest to problem of “genome weapons” might be closeness of their ideology to “biologically oriented variant of Social Darwinism”, proclaiming necessity of survival of “genetically most fit” races & individuals, - which was preached by Darwin’'s cousin F. Galton: one of founders of modern genetic science; - who wrote more than 150 years ago that “discovery of material basis of heredity will inavoidably cause genetic jihad of unprecedented ferocity”.
Returning to “Problems with Quantum Mind”, one might wonder
why Sir Penrose (and other eminent researchers) have been so exclusively pre-occupied (almost to the level of obsession) with an idea that it was cellular microtubules – which perform necessary but humble enough role of “cellular skeleton” - which ought to be regarded as The Seat of Quantum Consciousness; - and not DNA: the recognized center of cell’s information-processing activity. (This will be tantamount, - if we’d use technique of “conceptual empathy”, often employed by participants of “brain storm sessions”, - to belief that human beings think with their bones (however important they may be) rather than brains.)
Such strange aberration (which caused some Russian experts to make guesses that minds of Anglo-American researchers had been deliberately blocked by ET Controllers so as to slow down, - at least, for some time, - in these countries potentially dangerous for global power equilibrium progress in area of genome weapons’ research: microtubules, to whose exploration were thus diverted their efforts (cf. popular during WWII idea to drop on Germany descriptions of recently invented by British defence intellectuals “Game of 15” in order to divert minds of their German colleagues from war efforts), simply don’t possess such tempting targets for “non-local weapons” as DNA’s “death genes”) hadn’t affected minds of (less well funded) researchers from other nations; - which, believing in wisdom of age-hallowed esoteric traditions, had regarded DNA (or, in pre-Watson/Crick times, “chromosomes & chondriomes”) as the main seat of cell’s “transphysical faculties”.
Thus, on p. 211 of ’97 Pocket Books’ edition of Philip Corso’'s “"The Day after Roswell"” it’s written: “"In one of my visits to the University of Rome (about 1944-45: C. I.) I met Dr Gislero Fleschi, a professor of anthropology and criminology, who lectured me on what he called his theory and experiments on “the basis of life”. It was a wild and, I thought, supernatural theory on what he called ‘the filaments within each cell’. The filament was activated by some cosmic action or form of electromagnetic radiation that bombarded Earth continuously from outer space and resonated against a constant refresh of electrical activity from the brain.”"
(The last sentence does imply possibility of establishing of conscious control over cellular activity, – called “bioshunt” by B. Aldiss, – whose techniques had been elaborated by Russian researchers: now in Russia & abroad (eg, on Cyprus) there is actively functioning a network of training groups, using technology of mental control (and even modification) of DNA, developed by Russian researcher Dr. Bronnikov.)
In considerably more detailed & scientifically elaborated form this hypothesis was presented in publ. in ’37 in Paris book of Russian emigrant researcher Dr. G. Lakhovsky (who is known to members of “alternative medical community” because of invented by him in ‘20s MultiWave Oscillator: one of first devices whose design was based on principles of emerging science later called “synergetics”) “How to obtain immortality”; - which got personal approval of Helen Roerich.
There he said that cells’ chromosomes & chondriomes were receiving “electric waves originating in Cosmic Space” – which were the real sources of “anti-entropic Energy of Life”, which caused growth & evolution of living beings.
(No doubt that experts of Ahnenerbe, - which did diligently monitor research of this kind throughout the world, - had taken due notice of these ideas; - to which they were highly sympathetic.
In Feb ’39 H. Roerich wrote a brief review of recenly published in Germany book of Dr. Buttersak “Resonans als Weltgesetz”; - where were presented theoretical foundations of Ahnenerbe’s psychic research, - based on systematic use of principle of resonance of forms (which is now called by R. Sheldrake “morphic resonance”).
In many respects described by Dr Buttersak properties of “resonance fields” closely remind properties of Akimov/Shipov'’s torsionic fields - as they allegedly have spiral patterns & their power doesn’t decrease with distance; also, - like in Akimov/Shipov’'s theory, - Universal Space itself is regarded as product of synthesis/superposition of resonance/torsionic fields.
JS: Again the role of biologically effective "torsion fields", indeed torsion fields of any kind is highly controversial at the present time. For example, there are no torsion fields in a orthodox version of Einstein's general theory of relativity of gravitation. Torsion fields couple to quantum spin qubits. DARPA is investing heavily in "spintronic" quantum computers. Torsion field if they exist would be relevant to spintronic C^3 technology. That is a big "IF", but no stone should be left unturned since spin qubits play the vital role in our inner consciousness IMHO.
Dr Buttersak said that there could be developed special technologies for concentration of energy (or rather potency) of resonance fields – which’ll increase immensely powers of Humankind (and especially its “chosen representatives”: cultivated by Ahnenerbe “Aryan supermen”: C. I.).
To achieve such concentration might be possible through exactly controlled intersynchronization of natural rhythms of natural (including biological) generators of morphogenetic fields: eg, through computer-aided collective meditations (which represent in fact collective seances of feedback-corrected precisely programmed psychobiorhythms’ entrainment) – whose techniques were developed by Dr Sergeyev’'s group.
Thus it’ will be possible to avoid the necessity to build clumsy (at the level of ‘60's technologies), unreliable & very costly “technotronic substitutes”; - whose creation seems so indispensable to some Western researchers.
Of course, creation of such “technotronic (or rather bionic) working models” of natural processes – which perform roles of commercial advertisement displays rather than practically useful instruments - might be highly important also from educational viewpoint; - as it helps to explain with greater ease specific points of New Paradigm-based “unorthodoxal” approaches, using visible & tangible models.
However, much more handy from this viewpoint might be “virtual models” built in cyberspace: cf. well-known words of programming expert D. Knuth, who said that “we can say that we really know something only when we can explain it to the computer”.)
Ideas of Lakhovsky (and another working in Paris Russian/Ukrainian emigrant researcher Dr. V. Grishchenko: original inventor (in ’44) of theory of “bioplasma” – which may be regarded as scientific formulation of esoteric concept of “etheric body”) had greatly inspired ‘60s-‘70s research of Dr. Sergeyev'’s group; - helping them to make their brilliant inventions.
Basing on such achievements of science as discovery of DNA’s spiral structure & Casimir Effect, Dr. Sergeyev was able to give scientifically perfectly correct formulation of his confirmed by numerous experiments theories about real nature of biological
information-processing mechanisms.
From the viewpoint of his theories, spiral shape of DNA – naturally evolved because of necessity to pack very long but thin filament inside a small volume – is ideally suited to “resonance interactions” with spiral fields whose aggregation forms, according to above mentioned Ahnenerbe'’s theories, "intelligent structure of space(/time)": Akimov/Shipov's "torsionic Brain/Mind of Universe".
(In this connection there were often used parallels with structure of quartz crystals: favourite healing instruments/psi-weapons of sorcerers & magicians of all nations; - whose structure does also comprise “spiral staircases” with tetrahedric rungs.
Let’s recall that in Qabbala tetrahedron is regarded as geometric symbol of Sacred Tetragrammaton: God’s Ineffable Name (Yod-He-Vau-He).)
Also, it’s significant that in the SF novel of f. DIA employee M. Caidin "Dark Messiah" brought to Earth by ETs “magic crystal”, amplifying energy of personal psi-fields – allegedly possessed at some time by such charismatic World Leaders as Moses, Christ, Emperor Constantine, Muhammad, Genghis-Khan, Napoleon & Hitler – is described as “a kind of compressed DNA-like stuff”. (Conversely, Russian followers of ideas of Roerich & Hurtak, - which both speak about “magic crystals”, implanted by ETs into key points of “global acupuncture meridians”, - say about the collective mass of DNA throughout the globe as “distributed/unfolded mode of Sacred Chintamani Crystal”; - which, according to Oriental legends presented in Roerichs’ books, was brought from “Sirius and Orion” millions of years ago, having been safeguarded in Shamballa: Seat of Global Spiritual Government (see in Feb/March 2002 issue of NEXUS).)
According to Sergeyev/Akimov’s theories, “fractally coiled” (that is, comprising hierarchies of patterns of secondary & tertiary coiling: “coils within coils within coils”) DNA spirals function as natural interfaces between spiral patterns of torsionic fields of "external space" (eg, produced by revolutions of cosmic bodies, - including rotation of asymmetric magnetically charged body of Earth) – and “torsionic fields of consciousness”.
(Here might be seen clear parallels with aboveoutlined theories of Prof. Fleschi; it’s clear also that rather simplistic & too rigid forms of microtubules are unfit for the role of such mediators: whose patterns must be highly dynamic & versatile because of constantly changing dynamics of relations between torsionic fields of external & Inner Space.
Also, immensely rich topology of DNA filaments’ coils – which can be described/modelled through comparing it with abstract topology of structure of lattice of Natural Numbers’ Series’ rotation groups - offers much greater opportunities for “correction of quantum errors”.)
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For justice’s sake, it’s necessary to say also about projects of more positive use of “genome weapons”; - where these super high-tech instruments of genetic manipulation are regarded (and employed) not as tools of destruction but as efficient means of upgrading human genome, - allowing to prolong human life span & cleanse “genome databank” from seeds of hereditary diseases (and, eventually, to create advanced & perfected Future Humanity).
Such “peaceful conversion” of technologies of “genome warfare” may be regarded as realization of injunctions of Roerichs’ Teaching that “every power in Universe can be directed to positive ends”.
In his early ‘60s Gifford Lectures Sir Alister Hardy said that “in near future advances of genetic technology will allow to use genes in a way similar to that in which an artist uses his paints to create new perfected masterpieces of Art of Life”. (Even earlier, in mid-30s, H. Roerich wrote that “... new advanced Humankind of The Future would not descend from Heavens on rosy wings. Here also will be indispensable scientific lab.”)
Use of torsionic technologies of genome manipulation, - capable to effectuate synchronous transformation of genomes of trillions of cells of human body, - will allow to overcome essential limitations of classical “local” genetic technologies; - which can deal only with individual cells’ genomes, - being incapable in principle to maintain necessary for healthy functioning of living organism level of coherence/mutual adjustment between morphogenetic fields of individual cells & field of entire organism (in fact, the very idea of morphogenetic field is alien to most of them).
During his experiments with plants & insects Prof. Gariaev could increase several times their life span through irradiating these organisms with torsionic waves modulated by vibrations of certain precalculated (on basis of his “theory of wave genome”) patterns. He expects that – in course of properly organized research – it might be possible to prolong life span of humans first to 300-400 years, - and then eventually to 800-900 years: life span of Bible Patriarchs (which is equal to indicated by E. Cayce life span of Atlanteans during period of acme of their civilization).
As another supremely important task of torsionic genome technologies there can be indicated replenishment & enrichment of genetic diversity of “biospheric genome fund”; - now catastrophically depleted through ecologically criminal activities of “mass consumption civilization”, - which can lead to global disaster, caused by destabilization of global mechanisms of maintenance of energoinformational equilibrium between biosphere & inorganic body of Earth.
Some followers of teachings of Roerichs & J. Hurtak propose to neutralize this danger through “plugging Earth biosphere into Cosmic Torsionic Internet”; - from whose inexhaustible databanks there can be downloaded designs of new perfected life forms.
JS: Jim Hurtak is mentioned in the tape recording of me with Brendan O regan Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ in 1973 at SRI RV project (actual tape made at Dean Brown's house in possession of Saul-Paul Sirag). Hurtak was Joe Firmage's special keynote speaker at 2000 State of the World Forum of the Gorbachev Foundation in NYC. Faustin Bray of Sound Photosynthesis has complete video tapes of all these meetings and others of similar interest.
Technologies of such plugging may be based on hints of Roerichs’ teaching; - saying that instant non-local communication with Worlds in Far Space can be realized with the help of “magnetic currents generated by revolving magnets”. (These hints had been productively used in ‘60s by experts from Dr Sergeyev’s group; - which had created & patented (see in “Morphisms of the Void” by K. Wakelam; 1995) torsionic devices for instant non-shieldable communication with submerged submarines, whose key components were revolving magnetic disks.
Some Russian experts say that widely publicized now disk-based “antigravity generator” of E. Podkletnov does represent considerably downgraded demonstration variant of these top secret naval devices.)
There are proposed in Russia some approaches to transformation of Internet, - hundreds of millions of plugged into which PCs are endowed with precisely tunable revolving magnetic disks: hard memory disks/winchesters, - into global-sized torsionic antenna; - capable to detect, - with expenses much smaller than those of “conventional” SETI/CETI projects based on use of EM radiations (whose systematic failures confirm suppositions of Russian partisans of “torsionic SETI/CETI” that really advanced civilizations just don’t use too slow & easily absorbable EM media for cosmic communication), - messages of distant civilizations (and/or detect torsionic signatures created by rotation of yet unknown planets revolving around distant suns).
Very helpful for realization of this project may be cooperation with our similarly minded Chinese colleagues (eg, those members of “Falungong” movement which are interested in search of “The Tao of Psychotronics”); - which try to draw parallels between our ideas about spiritual use of Internet & activities of cultural hero of Ancient China Kui (‘Knowledge’), - who, according to Taoist legends, had channelled to desperation- & disease-stricken (after global disaster which destroyed Atlantean metropoly about 11 000 years ago) people healing streams of Celestial Harmonies, conveniently packaged into such computer-compatible formats as those of numbers & schemes/mandalas.
Our colleagues from Pentagon Meditation Club are also sympathetic to these ideas; - recognizing that supplying through Internet, - in the “user-friendly format” of interactive audiovisual mandalas, - of immunity-enhancing (both on individual cells’ & whole organism’s levels) vibrations may be the only practically feasible way to neutralize (if even partially) biodestructive influence of chaotic turbulence of vacuum energies’ vibrations inside vast Photon Belt of Pleiades (into which, according to data of Pentagon contactees, our Solar System entered in March ’95).
C. I., Ph. D., Metaphysics
"UFOs: Good, Bad and Bogus"
by Jack Sarfatti
with contributions from other authors
Advanced Alien Intelligence Agency
Threat Assessment Research Group
Memorandum for the Record
re: Issues of Homeland Security
key reference:
"Our Final Hour"
Sir Martin Rees
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
British Astronomer Royal
On Jan 23, 2004, at 8:52 AM, Constantin Ivanenko in Russia wrote:
HISTORICAL ROOTS OF QUEST FOR GENOME WEAPONS
In a message of Dr Sarfatti of 17 Jan 2004, 4:16 AM Re: Problem with Quantum Mind Theory there were discussed basic problems of this gaining ever more wide popularity theory, presented by such eminent researchers as Dr Max Tegmark & Dr Stuart Hameroff.
While Dr Tegmark was trying to refute foundations of this theory, - proposed (in the West) by Sir Roger Penrose, - Dr Hameroff succesfully enough defended it, pointing at weak spots in Dr Tegmark’s arguments.
JS: I am not sure about that. But I have not done a careful study of the issue. I have my own refutation to Tegmark's decoherence objections based on the "generalized phase rigidity" (P. W. Anderson) of local macro-quantum coherent order parameters in open systems pumped far off thermal equilibrium (e.g. Frohlich collective electric dipole modes) at classical, quantum and sub-quantum (Antony Valentini) levels. The latter gives "signal nonlocality" as seen IMHO in experiments on "presponse" or "presentiment" as well as Puthoff and Targ's SRI "remote viewing", possibly Global Consciousness Project ? and other plausible experiments like the retro-PK data of Helmut Schmidt.
CI: In this connection it might be relevant to mention also (in a highly compressed & abridged form) opinions on this subject of Russian researchers; - which, already 30-40 years ago, had not only successfully resolved these problems, but had also developed on basis of their theoretical approaches efficiently working devices & technologies (confirming thus opinion of authors of “"Psychic Discoveries behind The Iron Curtain"” S. Ostrander & L. Schroeder that “Soviet Leading Edge research was (in ‘60s-‘70s) at least 20 years ahead of Western”).
JS: This is open to debate because fringe beliefs in paranormal, consciousness, spirituality and UFOs have strong appeal to mentally unbalanced people prone to cult brain washing (e.g. Werner Erhard's "est") who are then used by sophisticated military intelligence agencies on all sides, with various degrees of success, for espionage. They especially focus on mentally fragile people with "access" to turn as cannon fodder for domestic terrorism and sabotage. This is not at all to deny the reality of the paranormal and UFOs BTW. However, one must not take any extraordinary claims on "faith" and "face value". There is a "hidden agenda" in most cases and a bit of paranoia is justified. :-) For example see my meeting with Dennis Bardens at Blue Boar Inn in Cambridge UK in 1974 in my book "Destiny Matrix" and then check up on who Bardens was, e.g. a biographer of Winston Churchill in a successful book, also books on the paranormal as I recall. See also Martin Gardner's "Science: Good, Bad and Bogus" especially "Magic and Paraphysics" as well as "The Star Gate Conspiracy" by Picknett and Prince and Robert Anton Wilson's "The Cosmic Trigger". There is also a good British book "Alien Intelligence" I forget name of author that came out in late 70's. A good general reference is Erik Davis's "Techgnosis".
Also before you read the stuff below listen carefully to
http://qedcorp.com/book/psi/hitweapon.html
written by me in 1978!
Note also that Mel Gibson's new film on Christ has been labeled "antisemitic" by Bnai Birith unless Gibson takes out one particularly pro-Nazi scene. See New York Times today.
CI: This might be explained by the fact that they were not just being engaged in leisurely discussions which were no’t imposing on them any concrete obligations (as are now some of their Western colleagues) but worked very hard under strong pressure of government authorities (or rather “secret Masonic elite” of Communist regime), which urged them to create as fast as possible battle-ready models of “biological weapons of magical type, more terrible than nuclear” (confirming thus opinion of Karl Marx that “a concrete practical need promotes scientific progress better than building of dozens of universities”).
Leaders of the “esoteric Communist elite” (such as Lavrenty Beriya: dreaded Soviet counterpart of Himmler – whose very name hints at his “esoteric connections on genetic level”: “Beriyah (or B’riah)” is Qabbalistic name of one of non-physical/transcendental Higher Realms; now in Russia there is underway the process of re-appraisal of role of Beriya, – who was executed, after imitation of trial, as “British agent” (but really because of his ethnic origin) by “angry military patriots” led by Khruschev & Zhukov, - in Soviet history; “National Bolsheviks’” leader E. Limonov says, – having in mind decisive role of Beriya in creation of Soviet nuclear, missile (and psychotronic, it may be added) weapons, - that without him “Russia will be Upper Volta without nuclear missiles”) were (most probably) “mentally infected” with obsessive idea of creation of “racially oriented magical bioweapons” through their contacts with top Nazi ideologists: especially with captured after WWII experts of Himmler'’s Ahnenerbe, - which had achieved in this area some remarkable results, due to use of some “unorthodox” research methods.
(Thus, it’s known that Himmler had established in exclusively controlled by him Ahnenerbe – on which Germany had spent, according to Pauwels & Bergier, more money than USA spent on Manhattan Project – a special group of highly trained & naturally gifted psychics; - whose task was exploration of “Akashic Archives”/Memories of Global Mind (about which American readers might know from works of E. Cayce, - who had undertaken similar task individually, without support of trained group), - wherefrom they extracted information about most important (predominantly from military/secret police viewpoint) scientific-technological achievements of ancient supercivilizations.
One of better known among Russian & Ukrainian Leading Edgers “achievements” of Ahnenerbe experts was “reverse engineering” from such data of design of famous “Atlantean death crystals” (mentioned, eg, in popular book of Sh. Andrews on Atlantis), - capable to annihilate not only bodies of “heretics”/”enemies of Reich” but also their “subtle bodies”/”soul solitons”; it’s supposed by some Russian researchers that mentioned in Egyptian myth about The Judgement of Osiris descriptions of horrible monster which devoured condemned souls actually represented “mythologically transformed” memories of these devices.
It’s rumoured that one of first models of such devices was installed by Himmler at lowermost (now inaccessible, after they were flooded & blasted during Germans’ retreat in ‘44) levels of Hitler’s bunker “Werewolf” near Vinnitsa, Ukraine; - allegedly, because he regarded Ukraine: “the original cradle of Aryan Race”, according to popular in Nazi Germany theory of O. Schrader, as being in greatest need of “ultimate racial purification”.
Now it’s rumoured that some German-sponsored groups of Ukrainian psychics (some of which might be connected with notorious “White Brotherhood”, organized – perhaps, with an assistance of his “former” employers - by f. employee of KGB-sponsored psi-research institution Dr Krivonogov in late '80s) are trying to decode, with the help of “computer-aided remote psi-scanning techniques”, the principles of this device’s functioning.)
It’s known also that Germans were interested in so-called “psi-microvision techniques”; - with whose help it may be possible to observe directly not only molecular-level cell structures, but even, - as writes in his “ESP of Quarks and Superstrings” SMN member Dr S. Phillips (referring to such classical treatise as publ. in 1895 “Occult Chemistry” by Theosophical leaders A. Besant & Ch. Leadbeater – which, in turn, referred to Patanjali’s “Yoga Sutras”, mentioning “Anima Siddhi”), - atomic nuclei & subquarks.
As wrote about 20 years ago Polish explorer M. Kuchinsky, – and in ’98 British researcher J. Narby (see his “DNA and Origins of Knowledge”), - such natural ability was rather widespread among inhabitant of pre-Colombian Americas (or at least among priestly elites of Mayans & Incas); - claiming that basic themes of Amerindian Sacred Art (especially image of Sacred Serpent, symbolizing DNA) represent stylized images of intracellular structures directly observed by possessors of this ability.
It’s known also that US CIA, - which, as it’s known from "“In Search of ‘Manchurian Candidate’”", manifested great interest to Amerindian magical practices, - also used such techniques: see, eg, on p. 223 of ’98 ed. of “Psychic Warrior” by D. Morehouse”.
According to modern Russian “Neo-Aryan ideologist” Dr A. Dugin, the basic tenet of Nazi ideology was “idea of conservative revolution”: that is, restoration/reincarnation in modern forms of ancient ideas (this idea, as it’s well-known, inspired also Confucius & other less destructive social reformers: the problem was, of course, in correct choice of ideas to be resurrected).
Top Nazi ideologists – such as Hess, Himmler & Rosenberg – had drawn their racial ideas from such sources as ideology of such ‘genetically oriented’ ancient civilizations as caste-based Indo-Aryan one and, - however paradoxically it might appear, - no less strict in regard of “racial purity” orthodox Judaism.
(Those who have read “Hitler'’s Table-Talks” might have noticed that, - in private, - Hitler often expressed his sincere admiration of intelligence, willpower & survival ability of Jewish nation; - which he “officially” hated & despised for these same qualities.
Russian/Jewish researcher A. Yagodinsky noted in his publ. in 2003 book “"Cosmos Rules Us”" that antisemitism of Hitler – who was at least half-(or even ¾)Jewish: it’s known that his father’s original name was Schicklgruber, which in Yiddish means “(Jewish) collector of taxes (shekels) from Jewish community” – was caused by “torments of spurned (by his Jewish compatriots: being, like Zhirinovsky, Jewish only on father’s side, he didn’t satisfy strict requirements of Talmudic Law) love”; in this connection there can be recalled also other well-known German-speaking antisemites of Jewish origin: Karl Marx & Heinrich Heine.
In 1989 (or maybe 1990) in Moscow nationalistic magazine “Molodaya Guardia” (‘Young Guards’) was published an article of American explorer of history of Nazism V. Prussakov “Hitler and his Politbureau”; - where it was claimed that almost all (with notable exception of “greedy fat pig” Goering – who demonstrated his inability by mismanagement of Luftwaffe, whose failure to defend German airspace was one of main causes of Germany’s fast defeat) members of Hitler'’s team were quarter- or half-(or even ¾, as in case of R. Heydrich) Jewish.
If true, these data might be interpreted as confirmation of this tenet of Theosophic doctrine which claims that "Aryans" are direct descendants of “Proto-Semitic race”. They, - being instinctively obedient to their “evolutionary parents”, - are at the same time also instinctively hating them; - being tormented by “racial Oedipus complex” (which more advanced of them try to transcend & overcome – as an example can be named Russian Judophile V. Rosanov: an eminent religious philosopher of “silver age” (1890s-1914).
Of course, for a Jew to be an antisemite doesn'’t necessarily mean that he/she is committing a “racial treason”; – which might prevent (or, at least, hinder) his/her access to the source of Vital Power, necessary for performance of such difficult mission.
Such persons might justify themselves (on subconscious and/or transpersonal level) by realization that thereby they prevent possibility of taking the positions of leaders of antisemitic movements (or just gangs) by representatives of other nations – which might be much more dangerous: this, for example, had been an idea of recently popular in USA film “"Fanatic”.")
As another source of Nazis’ interest to problem of “genome weapons” might be closeness of their ideology to “biologically oriented variant of Social Darwinism”, proclaiming necessity of survival of “genetically most fit” races & individuals, - which was preached by Darwin’'s cousin F. Galton: one of founders of modern genetic science; - who wrote more than 150 years ago that “discovery of material basis of heredity will inavoidably cause genetic jihad of unprecedented ferocity”.
Returning to “Problems with Quantum Mind”, one might wonder
why Sir Penrose (and other eminent researchers) have been so exclusively pre-occupied (almost to the level of obsession) with an idea that it was cellular microtubules – which perform necessary but humble enough role of “cellular skeleton” - which ought to be regarded as The Seat of Quantum Consciousness; - and not DNA: the recognized center of cell’s information-processing activity. (This will be tantamount, - if we’d use technique of “conceptual empathy”, often employed by participants of “brain storm sessions”, - to belief that human beings think with their bones (however important they may be) rather than brains.)
Such strange aberration (which caused some Russian experts to make guesses that minds of Anglo-American researchers had been deliberately blocked by ET Controllers so as to slow down, - at least, for some time, - in these countries potentially dangerous for global power equilibrium progress in area of genome weapons’ research: microtubules, to whose exploration were thus diverted their efforts (cf. popular during WWII idea to drop on Germany descriptions of recently invented by British defence intellectuals “Game of 15” in order to divert minds of their German colleagues from war efforts), simply don’t possess such tempting targets for “non-local weapons” as DNA’s “death genes”) hadn’t affected minds of (less well funded) researchers from other nations; - which, believing in wisdom of age-hallowed esoteric traditions, had regarded DNA (or, in pre-Watson/Crick times, “chromosomes & chondriomes”) as the main seat of cell’s “transphysical faculties”.
Thus, on p. 211 of ’97 Pocket Books’ edition of Philip Corso’'s “"The Day after Roswell"” it’s written: “"In one of my visits to the University of Rome (about 1944-45: C. I.) I met Dr Gislero Fleschi, a professor of anthropology and criminology, who lectured me on what he called his theory and experiments on “the basis of life”. It was a wild and, I thought, supernatural theory on what he called ‘the filaments within each cell’. The filament was activated by some cosmic action or form of electromagnetic radiation that bombarded Earth continuously from outer space and resonated against a constant refresh of electrical activity from the brain.”"
(The last sentence does imply possibility of establishing of conscious control over cellular activity, – called “bioshunt” by B. Aldiss, – whose techniques had been elaborated by Russian researchers: now in Russia & abroad (eg, on Cyprus) there is actively functioning a network of training groups, using technology of mental control (and even modification) of DNA, developed by Russian researcher Dr. Bronnikov.)
In considerably more detailed & scientifically elaborated form this hypothesis was presented in publ. in ’37 in Paris book of Russian emigrant researcher Dr. G. Lakhovsky (who is known to members of “alternative medical community” because of invented by him in ‘20s MultiWave Oscillator: one of first devices whose design was based on principles of emerging science later called “synergetics”) “How to obtain immortality”; - which got personal approval of Helen Roerich.
There he said that cells’ chromosomes & chondriomes were receiving “electric waves originating in Cosmic Space” – which were the real sources of “anti-entropic Energy of Life”, which caused growth & evolution of living beings.
(No doubt that experts of Ahnenerbe, - which did diligently monitor research of this kind throughout the world, - had taken due notice of these ideas; - to which they were highly sympathetic.
In Feb ’39 H. Roerich wrote a brief review of recenly published in Germany book of Dr. Buttersak “Resonans als Weltgesetz”; - where were presented theoretical foundations of Ahnenerbe’s psychic research, - based on systematic use of principle of resonance of forms (which is now called by R. Sheldrake “morphic resonance”).
In many respects described by Dr Buttersak properties of “resonance fields” closely remind properties of Akimov/Shipov'’s torsionic fields - as they allegedly have spiral patterns & their power doesn’t decrease with distance; also, - like in Akimov/Shipov’'s theory, - Universal Space itself is regarded as product of synthesis/superposition of resonance/torsionic fields.
JS: Again the role of biologically effective "torsion fields", indeed torsion fields of any kind is highly controversial at the present time. For example, there are no torsion fields in a orthodox version of Einstein's general theory of relativity of gravitation. Torsion fields couple to quantum spin qubits. DARPA is investing heavily in "spintronic" quantum computers. Torsion field if they exist would be relevant to spintronic C^3 technology. That is a big "IF", but no stone should be left unturned since spin qubits play the vital role in our inner consciousness IMHO.
Dr Buttersak said that there could be developed special technologies for concentration of energy (or rather potency) of resonance fields – which’ll increase immensely powers of Humankind (and especially its “chosen representatives”: cultivated by Ahnenerbe “Aryan supermen”: C. I.).
To achieve such concentration might be possible through exactly controlled intersynchronization of natural rhythms of natural (including biological) generators of morphogenetic fields: eg, through computer-aided collective meditations (which represent in fact collective seances of feedback-corrected precisely programmed psychobiorhythms’ entrainment) – whose techniques were developed by Dr Sergeyev’'s group.
Thus it’ will be possible to avoid the necessity to build clumsy (at the level of ‘60's technologies), unreliable & very costly “technotronic substitutes”; - whose creation seems so indispensable to some Western researchers.
Of course, creation of such “technotronic (or rather bionic) working models” of natural processes – which perform roles of commercial advertisement displays rather than practically useful instruments - might be highly important also from educational viewpoint; - as it helps to explain with greater ease specific points of New Paradigm-based “unorthodoxal” approaches, using visible & tangible models.
However, much more handy from this viewpoint might be “virtual models” built in cyberspace: cf. well-known words of programming expert D. Knuth, who said that “we can say that we really know something only when we can explain it to the computer”.)
Ideas of Lakhovsky (and another working in Paris Russian/Ukrainian emigrant researcher Dr. V. Grishchenko: original inventor (in ’44) of theory of “bioplasma” – which may be regarded as scientific formulation of esoteric concept of “etheric body”) had greatly inspired ‘60s-‘70s research of Dr. Sergeyev'’s group; - helping them to make their brilliant inventions.
Basing on such achievements of science as discovery of DNA’s spiral structure & Casimir Effect, Dr. Sergeyev was able to give scientifically perfectly correct formulation of his confirmed by numerous experiments theories about real nature of biological
information-processing mechanisms.
From the viewpoint of his theories, spiral shape of DNA – naturally evolved because of necessity to pack very long but thin filament inside a small volume – is ideally suited to “resonance interactions” with spiral fields whose aggregation forms, according to above mentioned Ahnenerbe'’s theories, "intelligent structure of space(/time)": Akimov/Shipov's "torsionic Brain/Mind of Universe".
(In this connection there were often used parallels with structure of quartz crystals: favourite healing instruments/psi-weapons of sorcerers & magicians of all nations; - whose structure does also comprise “spiral staircases” with tetrahedric rungs.
Let’s recall that in Qabbala tetrahedron is regarded as geometric symbol of Sacred Tetragrammaton: God’s Ineffable Name (Yod-He-Vau-He).)
Also, it’s significant that in the SF novel of f. DIA employee M. Caidin "Dark Messiah" brought to Earth by ETs “magic crystal”, amplifying energy of personal psi-fields – allegedly possessed at some time by such charismatic World Leaders as Moses, Christ, Emperor Constantine, Muhammad, Genghis-Khan, Napoleon & Hitler – is described as “a kind of compressed DNA-like stuff”. (Conversely, Russian followers of ideas of Roerich & Hurtak, - which both speak about “magic crystals”, implanted by ETs into key points of “global acupuncture meridians”, - say about the collective mass of DNA throughout the globe as “distributed/unfolded mode of Sacred Chintamani Crystal”; - which, according to Oriental legends presented in Roerichs’ books, was brought from “Sirius and Orion” millions of years ago, having been safeguarded in Shamballa: Seat of Global Spiritual Government (see in Feb/March 2002 issue of NEXUS).)
According to Sergeyev/Akimov’s theories, “fractally coiled” (that is, comprising hierarchies of patterns of secondary & tertiary coiling: “coils within coils within coils”) DNA spirals function as natural interfaces between spiral patterns of torsionic fields of "external space" (eg, produced by revolutions of cosmic bodies, - including rotation of asymmetric magnetically charged body of Earth) – and “torsionic fields of consciousness”.
(Here might be seen clear parallels with aboveoutlined theories of Prof. Fleschi; it’s clear also that rather simplistic & too rigid forms of microtubules are unfit for the role of such mediators: whose patterns must be highly dynamic & versatile because of constantly changing dynamics of relations between torsionic fields of external & Inner Space.
Also, immensely rich topology of DNA filaments’ coils – which can be described/modelled through comparing it with abstract topology of structure of lattice of Natural Numbers’ Series’ rotation groups - offers much greater opportunities for “correction of quantum errors”.)
* * * * * * *
For justice’s sake, it’s necessary to say also about projects of more positive use of “genome weapons”; - where these super high-tech instruments of genetic manipulation are regarded (and employed) not as tools of destruction but as efficient means of upgrading human genome, - allowing to prolong human life span & cleanse “genome databank” from seeds of hereditary diseases (and, eventually, to create advanced & perfected Future Humanity).
Such “peaceful conversion” of technologies of “genome warfare” may be regarded as realization of injunctions of Roerichs’ Teaching that “every power in Universe can be directed to positive ends”.
In his early ‘60s Gifford Lectures Sir Alister Hardy said that “in near future advances of genetic technology will allow to use genes in a way similar to that in which an artist uses his paints to create new perfected masterpieces of Art of Life”. (Even earlier, in mid-30s, H. Roerich wrote that “... new advanced Humankind of The Future would not descend from Heavens on rosy wings. Here also will be indispensable scientific lab.”)
Use of torsionic technologies of genome manipulation, - capable to effectuate synchronous transformation of genomes of trillions of cells of human body, - will allow to overcome essential limitations of classical “local” genetic technologies; - which can deal only with individual cells’ genomes, - being incapable in principle to maintain necessary for healthy functioning of living organism level of coherence/mutual adjustment between morphogenetic fields of individual cells & field of entire organism (in fact, the very idea of morphogenetic field is alien to most of them).
During his experiments with plants & insects Prof. Gariaev could increase several times their life span through irradiating these organisms with torsionic waves modulated by vibrations of certain precalculated (on basis of his “theory of wave genome”) patterns. He expects that – in course of properly organized research – it might be possible to prolong life span of humans first to 300-400 years, - and then eventually to 800-900 years: life span of Bible Patriarchs (which is equal to indicated by E. Cayce life span of Atlanteans during period of acme of their civilization).
As another supremely important task of torsionic genome technologies there can be indicated replenishment & enrichment of genetic diversity of “biospheric genome fund”; - now catastrophically depleted through ecologically criminal activities of “mass consumption civilization”, - which can lead to global disaster, caused by destabilization of global mechanisms of maintenance of energoinformational equilibrium between biosphere & inorganic body of Earth.
Some followers of teachings of Roerichs & J. Hurtak propose to neutralize this danger through “plugging Earth biosphere into Cosmic Torsionic Internet”; - from whose inexhaustible databanks there can be downloaded designs of new perfected life forms.
JS: Jim Hurtak is mentioned in the tape recording of me with Brendan O regan Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ in 1973 at SRI RV project (actual tape made at Dean Brown's house in possession of Saul-Paul Sirag). Hurtak was Joe Firmage's special keynote speaker at 2000 State of the World Forum of the Gorbachev Foundation in NYC. Faustin Bray of Sound Photosynthesis has complete video tapes of all these meetings and others of similar interest.
Technologies of such plugging may be based on hints of Roerichs’ teaching; - saying that instant non-local communication with Worlds in Far Space can be realized with the help of “magnetic currents generated by revolving magnets”. (These hints had been productively used in ‘60s by experts from Dr Sergeyev’s group; - which had created & patented (see in “Morphisms of the Void” by K. Wakelam; 1995) torsionic devices for instant non-shieldable communication with submerged submarines, whose key components were revolving magnetic disks.
Some Russian experts say that widely publicized now disk-based “antigravity generator” of E. Podkletnov does represent considerably downgraded demonstration variant of these top secret naval devices.)
There are proposed in Russia some approaches to transformation of Internet, - hundreds of millions of plugged into which PCs are endowed with precisely tunable revolving magnetic disks: hard memory disks/winchesters, - into global-sized torsionic antenna; - capable to detect, - with expenses much smaller than those of “conventional” SETI/CETI projects based on use of EM radiations (whose systematic failures confirm suppositions of Russian partisans of “torsionic SETI/CETI” that really advanced civilizations just don’t use too slow & easily absorbable EM media for cosmic communication), - messages of distant civilizations (and/or detect torsionic signatures created by rotation of yet unknown planets revolving around distant suns).
Very helpful for realization of this project may be cooperation with our similarly minded Chinese colleagues (eg, those members of “Falungong” movement which are interested in search of “The Tao of Psychotronics”); - which try to draw parallels between our ideas about spiritual use of Internet & activities of cultural hero of Ancient China Kui (‘Knowledge’), - who, according to Taoist legends, had channelled to desperation- & disease-stricken (after global disaster which destroyed Atlantean metropoly about 11 000 years ago) people healing streams of Celestial Harmonies, conveniently packaged into such computer-compatible formats as those of numbers & schemes/mandalas.
Our colleagues from Pentagon Meditation Club are also sympathetic to these ideas; - recognizing that supplying through Internet, - in the “user-friendly format” of interactive audiovisual mandalas, - of immunity-enhancing (both on individual cells’ & whole organism’s levels) vibrations may be the only practically feasible way to neutralize (if even partially) biodestructive influence of chaotic turbulence of vacuum energies’ vibrations inside vast Photon Belt of Pleiades (into which, according to data of Pentagon contactees, our Solar System entered in March ’95).
C. I., Ph. D., Metaphysics
Thursday, January 22, 2004
Thanks this confirms how I read you as well. :-)
e-mail can be confusing as the Korf case shows. Korf misread your writing for mine. :-)
On Jan 22, 2004, at 8:36 AM, Victor Martinez wrote:
COLIN:
1) Hold on! I NEVER said Boylan's educational claims were fraudulent;
they're solid and accurate. What I said in another e-mail is that the
educational claims of a government "insider" that Boylan has
consistently supported, that of the late "Dr" Michael Wolf, were
fradulent.
2) Also, Boylan seems to have lost his license more because of the fear
and paranoia of the abduction phenomenon he injected into his already
fragile patients than the hot tub hanky panky.
If the allegations had been confined to ONLY the hot tub incidents
(there was a third filed complaint that I chose not to detail because of
space limitations), I think Boylan could have gotten away w/ a simple
written reprimand or a short suspension at the worst.
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From: jsarfatti@earthlink.net
Date: January 22, 2004 5:23:57 AM PST
To: "Colin Bennett"
Cc: SARFattiScienceSeminars@yahoogroups.com, ItalianPhysicsCenter
Subject: Re: Boylan as Scarred Hero: In Defense of Kooks
Hey Colin, I will be in London March 7 to 22 (possibly a few days in Scotland or Paris before the 14th).
You are on that side of the pond?
Yes, I agree. It does appear that Boylan is getting a bad rap on the seduction allegations.
It looks however that he did not lose his license because of sexual stuff, but because he allegedly
interjected false memories of UFO abduction into his fragile patients. Your literary analysis below
is brilliant and unexpected and adds a new dimension to the discussion. :-)
On Jan 22, 2004, at 1:35 AM, Colin Bennett wrote:
Hello all good savants,
Here is my reply and thanks to Victor Martinez, whose interesting and
detailed
response followed my mail of yesterday, 21st January, concerning Richard
Boylan.
Hello Victor,
Yes, I think yourself and others have certainly established that many
of Boylan'’s educational claims were fraudulent,
Huh? I thought Victor said Boylan's educational claims about himself are accurate. It's his claims about Michael Wolf that are false?
and his actions damaging to
his
so-called patients, many of whom as you point out, were damaged already.
Michael Faraday himself belonged for example to a very odd Christian
fundamentalist group of no more than thirty people, and the activities of
this
group caused him to have a complete nervous breakdown.
But by modern standards of gross criminality Boylan'’s behaviour does not
amount to a great deal. The sexual excess as described appears certainly to
fall well below junior dorm standard and as for telling tales to get an
attractive
woman into a hot tub, well fellahs, admit it, aren’t we all being a bit
hypocritical
here?
But I must admit I am somewhat protective of the kooks in many
respects,
if only because I do not want to see them slaughtered by people such as
author
Donna Kossy whose anus is probably as clean as her Mary Tyler Moore kitchen
top.
Having written books about both George Adamski and Charles Fort, I do not
see
exactly an enemy of society here in Boylan, or Corso. The big picture is
that all
these men are fallen American heroes, straight out of Melville’'s novel The
Confidence Man. Howard Hughes and Ron Hubbard, are yet another part of
American
triumph and tragedy, scarred adventurers that make the American Mind bigger
than any other. It is the path they took rather than their achievement that
counts.
They arouse our bourgeois anger, if only because in a vital sense they have
dared
to try and escape from the rule-box, using means which admittedly are not
the
most reputable. Frankly I think as straight people, we are
all just a little jealous and secretly somewhat admiring of the deviant. Our
Entertainment State is full of him and her. If the deviant has nothing else
he
has courage. In the non-conformist, there has not been what Norman Mailer
called a massive failure of nerve (essay, White Negro).
The human Imagination is as precious a resource as the rainforest. But as
the
Romantic poets found out, the risks are great. Like the rainforest the
Imagination
can kill, confuse, and cause people to lose their way.
Boylan and company may be noisy social elements, but are only just beginning
to
realise in studies in Artificial Intelligence for example that noise is
somehow functional.
It is not something to get rid of in terms of old-fashioned late Victorian
mechanical
science, it is rather a model of how and why the noisy brain uses noise for
“reasoning.”
We have yet to develop a paradigm for deviancy.
Without such a thing, as human beings, we are little more than a bundle of
robot spanners.
So don'’t let’s be too fascist-hard as regards people like Boylan. Just think
what
the world would be like without people like him!
Colin Bennett B.A. (Oxon)*
My Degree has not yet been withdrawn for deviant behaviour. But there is
time yet.
Is there a "Boylan" in James Joyce's works? "Straight"? Who's "straight" in sense of bourgeoisie around here? :-)
I think we are all "Rogue Scholars" on this Pirate Ship.
On Jan 22, 2004, at 9:19 AM, Victor Martinez wrote:
Dr GREEN:
You posed the following questions:
1) How did he (Michael Wolf) die?
He died of pancreatic cancer in September 2000 (CONNECTING THE DOTS, p.
93) which he claims he got in part from a "black monolith" which had
been brought to Earth from the moon (like in Clarke's '2001; A SPACE
ODYSSEY) by the "secret" U.S. government space program.
He also claims that all of the other scientists who were trying to
figure out what the monolith was and how it worked and for what purpose
it served also contracted cancer. He wanted the government to return it
to the moon.
2) Did his family have any money?
If they had, they wouldn't have been squabbling over over which parent
would pay for Wolf's hospitilization in a private mental institution.
3) Is his book any good?
Well, that depends. Wolf said that his book was a work of fiction (that
was the only way his "handlers" in the "secret government" would permit
him to publish it), but in fact he said it wasn't and told of the secret
government agenda as it related to the various extraterrestrial
civilizations visiting and monitoring Sol III.
Here is an excerpt from p. 45 from THE CATCHERS OF HEAVEN ($24.95, ISBN#
0805939075, ©1993, ©1996 second printing) so you can get a flavor
for what and how he writes:
"...,when, and only when He Himself extends a personalized, engraved
invitation to join Him for celestial discussion, perhaps even POLICY
making. What, at this particular moment, fills me with such revulsion
are these extraordinary hostile feelings you seem to have for The
Almighty and Mankind,..." (not for the children, is my thought at this
point in his verbal assault) "..., some sort of blame you seem to be
throwing in His direction, daring him to come to earth so that you may
war with Him. How dare you presume yourself to be ALL-KNOWING! How
dare you presume yourself to be His equal!"
This sounds like Collins's writing! :-)
Other than the footnotes, his book is just near unintelligible
gibberish.
From: "Green, Christopher"
Date: January 22, 2004 6:05:37 AM PST
To: "Victor Martinez"
Subject: RE: {Spam?} Stan Friedman questions Wolf's 'Higher Education': NOT enough time!
Wow!
Thank you so much for the background.
First, I agree with everything you say: nit-picking whether a person may
or may not get an MD at an early age in an accelerated program, before
or after a residency, etc. is very unimportant in the skein of story!
And there is definitely a rationale' for forensic "arm-chair"
investigation and analysis.
I never heard of Wolf, but his diagnosis (including from the Institute
For Living (IFL), which by chance I just visited to see their functional
brain imaging program, which is what I do at my Medical School in
Detroit) :
..."passive aggressive personality, passive dependent type" ...
...is really interesting. He was apparently also quite Borderline,
Delusional, Paranoid, Histrionic, Grandiose, and Manic-depressive. He
must have been a diagnostic nightmare.
How did he die? Is his book any good? Did his family have money? The IFL
has been a foundational mental health facility associated with Yale, and
was actually founded in 1822! How did he get there? It is very
expensive.
I am interested in a string of psychoses that physicians seem to have
(some of them) in this field (although it appears Wolf was certainly not
a physician.) I have a set of hypotheses that are framed around the
notion that delusions can be treated as an infection: as in "Virus of
the Mind" of a few years back (sorry I can't recall the author just
now). Why so many MD's get crazy in this area is a sub-plot.
This seems to be describing Richard Boylan?
And, there
is a form of paranoid delusion that used to be in the US Psychiatric
Nosology (and still is in the standard textbook of Psychiatry by
reference, and still in the British medical Nosology of Mental
Disorders) called "Paraphrenia" in which people can be quite
high-functioning, but crazier than a loon (sorry for the medical jargon)
about one delusion only, and never actually become otherwise psychotic.
The conventional wisdom (with which I disagree is that schizoid behavior
that includes paranoid delusions and hallucinations are unremitting and
progressive. Not so. At least not in this field!
Kit
e-mail can be confusing as the Korf case shows. Korf misread your writing for mine. :-)
On Jan 22, 2004, at 8:36 AM, Victor Martinez wrote:
COLIN:
1) Hold on! I NEVER said Boylan's educational claims were fraudulent;
they're solid and accurate. What I said in another e-mail is that the
educational claims of a government "insider" that Boylan has
consistently supported, that of the late "Dr" Michael Wolf, were
fradulent.
2) Also, Boylan seems to have lost his license more because of the fear
and paranoia of the abduction phenomenon he injected into his already
fragile patients than the hot tub hanky panky.
If the allegations had been confined to ONLY the hot tub incidents
(there was a third filed complaint that I chose not to detail because of
space limitations), I think Boylan could have gotten away w/ a simple
written reprimand or a short suspension at the worst.
----------------------------------------------
Dr SARFATTI:
Make sure and send me a postcard when you're in London; I'll add it to
my collection of students who sent me one when traveling there w/ the
Foreign Study League!
I'll also suspend any e-mails during that time period so that your
e-mail box isn't overwhelmed,... I'll let that guy w/ the three
personalities clog your box! --
VICTOR MARTINEZ
P O Box 314
Monrovia, CA 91017-0314
victorgm@webtv.net
From: jsarfatti@earthlink.net
Date: January 22, 2004 5:23:57 AM PST
To: "Colin Bennett"
Cc: SARFattiScienceSeminars@yahoogroups.com, ItalianPhysicsCenter
Subject: Re: Boylan as Scarred Hero: In Defense of Kooks
Hey Colin, I will be in London March 7 to 22 (possibly a few days in Scotland or Paris before the 14th).
You are on that side of the pond?
Yes, I agree. It does appear that Boylan is getting a bad rap on the seduction allegations.
It looks however that he did not lose his license because of sexual stuff, but because he allegedly
interjected false memories of UFO abduction into his fragile patients. Your literary analysis below
is brilliant and unexpected and adds a new dimension to the discussion. :-)
On Jan 22, 2004, at 1:35 AM, Colin Bennett wrote:
Hello all good savants,
Here is my reply and thanks to Victor Martinez, whose interesting and
detailed
response followed my mail of yesterday, 21st January, concerning Richard
Boylan.
Hello Victor,
Yes, I think yourself and others have certainly established that many
of Boylan'’s educational claims were fraudulent,
Huh? I thought Victor said Boylan's educational claims about himself are accurate. It's his claims about Michael Wolf that are false?
and his actions damaging to
his
so-called patients, many of whom as you point out, were damaged already.
Michael Faraday himself belonged for example to a very odd Christian
fundamentalist group of no more than thirty people, and the activities of
this
group caused him to have a complete nervous breakdown.
But by modern standards of gross criminality Boylan'’s behaviour does not
amount to a great deal. The sexual excess as described appears certainly to
fall well below junior dorm standard and as for telling tales to get an
attractive
woman into a hot tub, well fellahs, admit it, aren’t we all being a bit
hypocritical
here?
But I must admit I am somewhat protective of the kooks in many
respects,
if only because I do not want to see them slaughtered by people such as
author
Donna Kossy whose anus is probably as clean as her Mary Tyler Moore kitchen
top.
Having written books about both George Adamski and Charles Fort, I do not
see
exactly an enemy of society here in Boylan, or Corso. The big picture is
that all
these men are fallen American heroes, straight out of Melville’'s novel The
Confidence Man. Howard Hughes and Ron Hubbard, are yet another part of
American
triumph and tragedy, scarred adventurers that make the American Mind bigger
than any other. It is the path they took rather than their achievement that
counts.
They arouse our bourgeois anger, if only because in a vital sense they have
dared
to try and escape from the rule-box, using means which admittedly are not
the
most reputable. Frankly I think as straight people, we are
all just a little jealous and secretly somewhat admiring of the deviant. Our
Entertainment State is full of him and her. If the deviant has nothing else
he
has courage. In the non-conformist, there has not been what Norman Mailer
called a massive failure of nerve (essay, White Negro).
The human Imagination is as precious a resource as the rainforest. But as
the
Romantic poets found out, the risks are great. Like the rainforest the
Imagination
can kill, confuse, and cause people to lose their way.
Boylan and company may be noisy social elements, but are only just beginning
to
realise in studies in Artificial Intelligence for example that noise is
somehow functional.
It is not something to get rid of in terms of old-fashioned late Victorian
mechanical
science, it is rather a model of how and why the noisy brain uses noise for
“reasoning.”
We have yet to develop a paradigm for deviancy.
Without such a thing, as human beings, we are little more than a bundle of
robot spanners.
So don'’t let’s be too fascist-hard as regards people like Boylan. Just think
what
the world would be like without people like him!
Colin Bennett B.A. (Oxon)*
My Degree has not yet been withdrawn for deviant behaviour. But there is
time yet.
Is there a "Boylan" in James Joyce's works? "Straight"? Who's "straight" in sense of bourgeoisie around here? :-)
I think we are all "Rogue Scholars" on this Pirate Ship.
On Jan 22, 2004, at 9:19 AM, Victor Martinez wrote:
Dr GREEN:
You posed the following questions:
1) How did he (Michael Wolf) die?
He died of pancreatic cancer in September 2000 (CONNECTING THE DOTS, p.
93) which he claims he got in part from a "black monolith" which had
been brought to Earth from the moon (like in Clarke's '2001; A SPACE
ODYSSEY) by the "secret" U.S. government space program.
He also claims that all of the other scientists who were trying to
figure out what the monolith was and how it worked and for what purpose
it served also contracted cancer. He wanted the government to return it
to the moon.
2) Did his family have any money?
If they had, they wouldn't have been squabbling over over which parent
would pay for Wolf's hospitilization in a private mental institution.
3) Is his book any good?
Well, that depends. Wolf said that his book was a work of fiction (that
was the only way his "handlers" in the "secret government" would permit
him to publish it), but in fact he said it wasn't and told of the secret
government agenda as it related to the various extraterrestrial
civilizations visiting and monitoring Sol III.
Here is an excerpt from p. 45 from THE CATCHERS OF HEAVEN ($24.95, ISBN#
0805939075, ©1993, ©1996 second printing) so you can get a flavor
for what and how he writes:
"...,when, and only when He Himself extends a personalized, engraved
invitation to join Him for celestial discussion, perhaps even POLICY
making. What, at this particular moment, fills me with such revulsion
are these extraordinary hostile feelings you seem to have for The
Almighty and Mankind,..." (not for the children, is my thought at this
point in his verbal assault) "..., some sort of blame you seem to be
throwing in His direction, daring him to come to earth so that you may
war with Him. How dare you presume yourself to be ALL-KNOWING! How
dare you presume yourself to be His equal!"
This sounds like Collins's writing! :-)
Other than the footnotes, his book is just near unintelligible
gibberish.
From: "Green, Christopher"
Date: January 22, 2004 6:05:37 AM PST
To: "Victor Martinez"
Subject: RE: {Spam?} Stan Friedman questions Wolf's 'Higher Education': NOT enough time!
Wow!
Thank you so much for the background.
First, I agree with everything you say: nit-picking whether a person may
or may not get an MD at an early age in an accelerated program, before
or after a residency, etc. is very unimportant in the skein of story!
And there is definitely a rationale' for forensic "arm-chair"
investigation and analysis.
I never heard of Wolf, but his diagnosis (including from the Institute
For Living (IFL), which by chance I just visited to see their functional
brain imaging program, which is what I do at my Medical School in
Detroit) :
..."passive aggressive personality, passive dependent type" ...
...is really interesting. He was apparently also quite Borderline,
Delusional, Paranoid, Histrionic, Grandiose, and Manic-depressive. He
must have been a diagnostic nightmare.
How did he die? Is his book any good? Did his family have money? The IFL
has been a foundational mental health facility associated with Yale, and
was actually founded in 1822! How did he get there? It is very
expensive.
I am interested in a string of psychoses that physicians seem to have
(some of them) in this field (although it appears Wolf was certainly not
a physician.) I have a set of hypotheses that are framed around the
notion that delusions can be treated as an infection: as in "Virus of
the Mind" of a few years back (sorry I can't recall the author just
now). Why so many MD's get crazy in this area is a sub-plot.
This seems to be describing Richard Boylan?
And, there
is a form of paranoid delusion that used to be in the US Psychiatric
Nosology (and still is in the standard textbook of Psychiatry by
reference, and still in the British medical Nosology of Mental
Disorders) called "Paraphrenia" in which people can be quite
high-functioning, but crazier than a loon (sorry for the medical jargon)
about one delusion only, and never actually become otherwise psychotic.
The conventional wisdom (with which I disagree is that schizoid behavior
that includes paranoid delusions and hallucinations are unremitting and
progressive. Not so. At least not in this field!
Kit
BTW I have removed "sonata", "cosifan frutti" and is other aliases from my list.
I suggest you do also. Collins, seemingly part of Boylan's group of paranoid Neo Nutzies telling the same silly stories about CIA's James Jesus Angleton and including one about me at a crashed UFO in 1973 is obviously a UFO intellectual fraud who has crawled away with his tail between his legs snarling after I asked him to put up or put off with a lecture on what he means by "antigravity". He cited a paper by Hal Puthoff, which in fact did not support his allegations on secret saucer technology. ;-)
On Jan 22, 2004, at 6:02 AM, visions wrote:
FYI, Dave Haith
----- Original Message -----
From: UFO UpDates - Toronto
To: - UFO - UpDates Subscribers - :
Sent:Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:57 AM
Subject:UFO UpDate: Extraterrestrial Edge Helps The Balance Sheet
Source: The Houston Chronicle - Texas
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2365195
Jan. 21, 2004
Extraterrestrial edge helps the balance sheet
By A. Craig Copetas
Bloomberg News
A galactic mystery hovers over the World Economic Forum meeting
in Davos, Switzerland: How many of the 2,280 global leaders,
including 31 heads of state, gathered in this Alpine resort
conduct business with extraterrestrials?
This is no whimsy for Davosians.
It's on the agenda of the annual powwow of the influential and
affluent who will ask forum participants such as Vice President
Dick Cheney, Coca-Cola Chairman Douglas Daft and De La Rue Chief
Executive Ian Much if the aliens have landed and are
collaborating with them to concoct government policy, brew soda
pop and mint Iraq's new bank notes.
"The extraterrestrials have yet to make contact with me," said
Much, who will help moderate tonight's dinner seminar (closed
except to forum participants) on The Conspiracy Behind
Conspiracy Theories: Have Extraterrestrials Made Contact With
Government Leaders?
The British moneymaker is confident - at least for now - that De
La Rue remains the largest nongovernment printer of bank notes
in the Milky Way.
"If the aliens are here," Much reckoned, "I'd absolutely expect
them to call me to have their currency printed."
Despite the twilight zone topic arching many an eyebrow along
the snow-covered strip of fashionable hotel bars, forum
officials maintain their five-day program on Partnering for
Security and Prosperity requires an unambiguous examination of
extraterrestrial presence on Earth.
"The panelists are the best in their domain; they all have
expertise in specific fields," explained Philippe Bourguignon,
the forum's co-chief executive officer and a former CEO of Club
Mediterranee. "The themes and sessions at Davos reflect the
global agenda."
And the public's pulse. A 1996 Gallup Poll found that 71 percent
of Americans believe the government knows more about UFOs than
it has disclosed. A Roper poll found that some 80 percent of
those questioned think Wall Street and Washington are hiding
knowledge of extraterrestrial contact. And the Internet search
engine Google turns up as many Web pages dedicated to UFOs as it
does for investment banking.
"It is possible that UFOs really do contain aliens, and the
government is hushing it up," Cambridge University physicist
Stephen Hawking told British television viewers in a 1998
interview.
President Bush's recent call to put a man on Mars before 2030
has swelled investor interest in exotic technologies, last week
boosting the Bloomberg Aerospace Index 1.9 percent, its biggest
gain since October.
Earth's leaders prospecting extraterrestrial commerce as part of
the forum's agenda has set off anticipation not seen among UFO
analysts since Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released
on DVD.
Richard Boylan, a retired professor of behavioral science at the
University of California, couldn't be more gleeful if Capt. Kirk
had beamed him aboard the Enterprise.
"The Davos dinner may represent the great leap forward we need
to unravel the fact that corporations and governments are doing
business with star visitors," says Boylan, widely regarded by
ufologists as a specialist in intergalactic mergers and
acquisitions.
Ah! Tongue in cheek. :-)
Boylan says he isn't surprised the forum neglected to invite him
and his colleagues to Davos for the first significant, high-
level discussion on emerging alien markets and other popular
conspiracy theories that stretch from whether the U.S.
government was behind the attacks of Sept. 11 to the question of
whether Humpty Dumpty fell or was pushed off the wall.
"I've learned to live with insults," the 64-year-old
psychologist says from his home in California. "Billions of
dollars have been spent to intimidate witnesses and use the
giggle factor to put on a funny farm anyone who suggests
corporations have privatized extraterrestrial technology."
According to the calmly resolute Boylan, more than 100
extraterrestrial races are in cahoots with companies including
IBM, Ford, Lucent Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Dow Corning,
Monsanto, Boeing and European Aeronautic, Defense & Space Co.
"Most Earth corporations are working with visitors from the
Altair star system," Boylan says.
Altair is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila, 15.7
light-years from Wall Street.
Forum participant Martin Reese, Britain's royal astronomer,
says, "There is no logical or illogical reason why Earth
corporations would be doing business with Altair."
Although Altairian executives were unavailable for comment,
Francois Auque, a managing director at EADS, says he's eager to
hear from them.
"I'd love to establish links with extraterrestrials," says
Auque, one of the businessmen behind the Aurora Project to
discover if there's water on Mars. "So far, no messages on my
cell phone."
Rattling off lists of purported government documents and first-
person testimonies, Boylan says star visitors have instructed
global leaders to publicly reveal the intergalactic mergers by
2007.
Still, the American academic frets that the politicians of Earth
won't honor the deal and that the forum's conspiracy dinner may
be part of the conspiracy.
"If all the extraterrestrial technology came out at once,"
Boylan reasons, "it would hurt stockholders in obsolescent
industries, and the multinationals don't want to lose their
power."
As Boylan tells it, the extraterrestrials first came to Wall
Street in 1947 by way of Roswell, N.M. It was that year when
U.S. Army Col. Philip Corso said he found five aliens amid the
buzzards and rattlesnakes at a UFO crash site in the desert. The
new arrivals were just over 4 feet tall, with grayish-brown
skin, four- fingered hands and watermelon-size heads without
hair.
In his book The Day After Roswell, Corso says he salvaged parts
from the downed UFO and managed a government-sponsored reverse-
engineering program that decanted the technology to IBM, Bell
Labs and Dow Corning. The flotsam of Roswell and other UFO
encounters, Boylan adds, was used to formulate laser beams,
fiber optics and Microsoft Corp.
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I suggest you do also. Collins, seemingly part of Boylan's group of paranoid Neo Nutzies telling the same silly stories about CIA's James Jesus Angleton and including one about me at a crashed UFO in 1973 is obviously a UFO intellectual fraud who has crawled away with his tail between his legs snarling after I asked him to put up or put off with a lecture on what he means by "antigravity". He cited a paper by Hal Puthoff, which in fact did not support his allegations on secret saucer technology. ;-)
On Jan 22, 2004, at 6:02 AM, visions wrote:
FYI, Dave Haith
----- Original Message -----
From: UFO UpDates - Toronto
To: - UFO - UpDates Subscribers - :
Sent:Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:57 AM
Subject:UFO UpDate: Extraterrestrial Edge Helps The Balance Sheet
Source: The Houston Chronicle - Texas
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2365195
Jan. 21, 2004
Extraterrestrial edge helps the balance sheet
By A. Craig Copetas
Bloomberg News
A galactic mystery hovers over the World Economic Forum meeting
in Davos, Switzerland: How many of the 2,280 global leaders,
including 31 heads of state, gathered in this Alpine resort
conduct business with extraterrestrials?
This is no whimsy for Davosians.
It's on the agenda of the annual powwow of the influential and
affluent who will ask forum participants such as Vice President
Dick Cheney, Coca-Cola Chairman Douglas Daft and De La Rue Chief
Executive Ian Much if the aliens have landed and are
collaborating with them to concoct government policy, brew soda
pop and mint Iraq's new bank notes.
"The extraterrestrials have yet to make contact with me," said
Much, who will help moderate tonight's dinner seminar (closed
except to forum participants) on The Conspiracy Behind
Conspiracy Theories: Have Extraterrestrials Made Contact With
Government Leaders?
The British moneymaker is confident - at least for now - that De
La Rue remains the largest nongovernment printer of bank notes
in the Milky Way.
"If the aliens are here," Much reckoned, "I'd absolutely expect
them to call me to have their currency printed."
Despite the twilight zone topic arching many an eyebrow along
the snow-covered strip of fashionable hotel bars, forum
officials maintain their five-day program on Partnering for
Security and Prosperity requires an unambiguous examination of
extraterrestrial presence on Earth.
"The panelists are the best in their domain; they all have
expertise in specific fields," explained Philippe Bourguignon,
the forum's co-chief executive officer and a former CEO of Club
Mediterranee. "The themes and sessions at Davos reflect the
global agenda."
And the public's pulse. A 1996 Gallup Poll found that 71 percent
of Americans believe the government knows more about UFOs than
it has disclosed. A Roper poll found that some 80 percent of
those questioned think Wall Street and Washington are hiding
knowledge of extraterrestrial contact. And the Internet search
engine Google turns up as many Web pages dedicated to UFOs as it
does for investment banking.
"It is possible that UFOs really do contain aliens, and the
government is hushing it up," Cambridge University physicist
Stephen Hawking told British television viewers in a 1998
interview.
President Bush's recent call to put a man on Mars before 2030
has swelled investor interest in exotic technologies, last week
boosting the Bloomberg Aerospace Index 1.9 percent, its biggest
gain since October.
Earth's leaders prospecting extraterrestrial commerce as part of
the forum's agenda has set off anticipation not seen among UFO
analysts since Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released
on DVD.
Richard Boylan, a retired professor of behavioral science at the
University of California, couldn't be more gleeful if Capt. Kirk
had beamed him aboard the Enterprise.
"The Davos dinner may represent the great leap forward we need
to unravel the fact that corporations and governments are doing
business with star visitors," says Boylan, widely regarded by
ufologists as a specialist in intergalactic mergers and
acquisitions.
Ah! Tongue in cheek. :-)
Boylan says he isn't surprised the forum neglected to invite him
and his colleagues to Davos for the first significant, high-
level discussion on emerging alien markets and other popular
conspiracy theories that stretch from whether the U.S.
government was behind the attacks of Sept. 11 to the question of
whether Humpty Dumpty fell or was pushed off the wall.
"I've learned to live with insults," the 64-year-old
psychologist says from his home in California. "Billions of
dollars have been spent to intimidate witnesses and use the
giggle factor to put on a funny farm anyone who suggests
corporations have privatized extraterrestrial technology."
According to the calmly resolute Boylan, more than 100
extraterrestrial races are in cahoots with companies including
IBM, Ford, Lucent Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Dow Corning,
Monsanto, Boeing and European Aeronautic, Defense & Space Co.
"Most Earth corporations are working with visitors from the
Altair star system," Boylan says.
Altair is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila, 15.7
light-years from Wall Street.
Forum participant Martin Reese, Britain's royal astronomer,
says, "There is no logical or illogical reason why Earth
corporations would be doing business with Altair."
Although Altairian executives were unavailable for comment,
Francois Auque, a managing director at EADS, says he's eager to
hear from them.
"I'd love to establish links with extraterrestrials," says
Auque, one of the businessmen behind the Aurora Project to
discover if there's water on Mars. "So far, no messages on my
cell phone."
Rattling off lists of purported government documents and first-
person testimonies, Boylan says star visitors have instructed
global leaders to publicly reveal the intergalactic mergers by
2007.
Still, the American academic frets that the politicians of Earth
won't honor the deal and that the forum's conspiracy dinner may
be part of the conspiracy.
"If all the extraterrestrial technology came out at once,"
Boylan reasons, "it would hurt stockholders in obsolescent
industries, and the multinationals don't want to lose their
power."
As Boylan tells it, the extraterrestrials first came to Wall
Street in 1947 by way of Roswell, N.M. It was that year when
U.S. Army Col. Philip Corso said he found five aliens amid the
buzzards and rattlesnakes at a UFO crash site in the desert. The
new arrivals were just over 4 feet tall, with grayish-brown
skin, four- fingered hands and watermelon-size heads without
hair.
In his book The Day After Roswell, Corso says he salvaged parts
from the downed UFO and managed a government-sponsored reverse-
engineering program that decanted the technology to IBM, Bell
Labs and Dow Corning. The flotsam of Roswell and other UFO
encounters, Boylan adds, was used to formulate laser beams,
fiber optics and Microsoft Corp.
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From: jsarfatti@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: Boylan as Scarred Hero: In Defense of Kooks
Date: January 22, 2004 5:23:57 AM PST
To: sharkley1@panzerben1.fsworld.co.uk
Cc: SARFattiScienceSeminars@yahoogroups.com, ItalianPhysicsCenter@YahooGroups.com
Hey Colin, I will be in London March 7 to 22 (possibly a few days in Scotland or Paris before the 14th).
You are on that side of the pond?
Yes, I agree. It does appear that Boylan is getting a bad rap on the seduction allegations.
It looks however that he did not lose his license because of sexual stuff, but because he allegedly
interjected false memories of UFO abduction into his fragile patients. Your literary analysis below
is brilliant and unexpected and adds a new dimension to the discussion. :-)
On Jan 22, 2004, at 1:35 AM, Colin Bennett wrote:
Hello all good savants,
Here is my reply and thanks to Victor Martinez, whose interesting and
detailed
response followed my mail of yesterday, 21st January, concerning Richard
Boylan.
Hello Victor,
Yes, I think yourself and others have certainly established that many
of Boylan'’s educational claims were fraudulent,
Huh? I thought Victor said Boylan's educational claims about himself are accurate. It's his claims about Michael Wolf that are false?
and his actions damaging to
his
so-called patients, many of whom as you point out, were damaged already.
Michael Faraday himself belonged for example to a very odd Christian
fundamentalist group of no more than thirty people, and the activities of
this
group caused him to have a complete nervous breakdown.
But by modern standards of gross criminality Boylan'’s behaviour does not
amount to a great deal. The sexual excess as described appears certainly to
fall well below junior dorm standard and as for telling tales to get an
attractive
woman into a hot tub, well fellahs, admit it, aren’t we all being a bit
hypocritical
here?
But I must admit I am somewhat protective of the kooks in many
respects,
if only because I do not want to see them slaughtered by people such as
author
Donna Kossy whose anus is probably as clean as her Mary Tyler Moore kitchen
top.
Having written books about both George Adamski and Charles Fort, I do not
see
exactly an enemy of society here in Boylan, or Corso. The big picture is
that all
these men are fallen American heroes, straight out of Melville’'s novel The
Confidence Man. Howard Hughes and Ron Hubbard, are yet another part of
American
triumph and tragedy, scarred adventurers that make the American Mind bigger
than any other. It is the path they took rather than their achievement that
counts.
They arouse our bourgeois anger, if only because in a vital sense they have
dared
to try and escape from the rule-box, using means which admittedly are not
the
most reputable. Frankly I think as straight people, we are
all just a little jealous and secretly somewhat admiring of the deviant. Our
Entertainment State is full of him and her. If the deviant has nothing else
he
has courage. In the non-conformist, there has not been what Norman Mailer
called a massive failure of nerve (essay, White Negro).
The human Imagination is as precious a resource as the rainforest. But as
the
Romantic poets found out, the risks are great. Like the rainforest the
Imagination
can kill, confuse, and cause people to lose their way.
Boylan and company may be noisy social elements, but are only just beginning
to
realise in studies in Artificial Intelligence for example that noise is
somehow functional.
It is not something to get rid of in terms of old-fashioned late Victorian
mechanical
science, it is rather a model of how and why the noisy brain uses noise for
“reasoning.”
We have yet to develop a paradigm for deviancy.
Without such a thing, as human beings, we are little more than a bundle of
robot spanners.
So don'’t let’s be too fascist-hard as regards people like Boylan. Just think
what
the world would be like without people like him!
Colin Bennett B.A. (Oxon)*
My Degree has not yet been withdrawn for deviant behaviour. But there is
time yet.
Is there a "Boylan" in James Joyce's works? "Straight"? Who's "straight" in sense of bourgeoisie around here? :-)
I think we are all "Rogue Scholars" on this Pirate Ship.
Subject: Re: Boylan as Scarred Hero: In Defense of Kooks
Date: January 22, 2004 5:23:57 AM PST
To: sharkley1@panzerben1.fsworld.co.uk
Cc: SARFattiScienceSeminars@yahoogroups.com, ItalianPhysicsCenter@YahooGroups.com
Hey Colin, I will be in London March 7 to 22 (possibly a few days in Scotland or Paris before the 14th).
You are on that side of the pond?
Yes, I agree. It does appear that Boylan is getting a bad rap on the seduction allegations.
It looks however that he did not lose his license because of sexual stuff, but because he allegedly
interjected false memories of UFO abduction into his fragile patients. Your literary analysis below
is brilliant and unexpected and adds a new dimension to the discussion. :-)
On Jan 22, 2004, at 1:35 AM, Colin Bennett wrote:
Hello all good savants,
Here is my reply and thanks to Victor Martinez, whose interesting and
detailed
response followed my mail of yesterday, 21st January, concerning Richard
Boylan.
Hello Victor,
Yes, I think yourself and others have certainly established that many
of Boylan'’s educational claims were fraudulent,
Huh? I thought Victor said Boylan's educational claims about himself are accurate. It's his claims about Michael Wolf that are false?
and his actions damaging to
his
so-called patients, many of whom as you point out, were damaged already.
Michael Faraday himself belonged for example to a very odd Christian
fundamentalist group of no more than thirty people, and the activities of
this
group caused him to have a complete nervous breakdown.
But by modern standards of gross criminality Boylan'’s behaviour does not
amount to a great deal. The sexual excess as described appears certainly to
fall well below junior dorm standard and as for telling tales to get an
attractive
woman into a hot tub, well fellahs, admit it, aren’t we all being a bit
hypocritical
here?
But I must admit I am somewhat protective of the kooks in many
respects,
if only because I do not want to see them slaughtered by people such as
author
Donna Kossy whose anus is probably as clean as her Mary Tyler Moore kitchen
top.
Having written books about both George Adamski and Charles Fort, I do not
see
exactly an enemy of society here in Boylan, or Corso. The big picture is
that all
these men are fallen American heroes, straight out of Melville’'s novel The
Confidence Man. Howard Hughes and Ron Hubbard, are yet another part of
American
triumph and tragedy, scarred adventurers that make the American Mind bigger
than any other. It is the path they took rather than their achievement that
counts.
They arouse our bourgeois anger, if only because in a vital sense they have
dared
to try and escape from the rule-box, using means which admittedly are not
the
most reputable. Frankly I think as straight people, we are
all just a little jealous and secretly somewhat admiring of the deviant. Our
Entertainment State is full of him and her. If the deviant has nothing else
he
has courage. In the non-conformist, there has not been what Norman Mailer
called a massive failure of nerve (essay, White Negro).
The human Imagination is as precious a resource as the rainforest. But as
the
Romantic poets found out, the risks are great. Like the rainforest the
Imagination
can kill, confuse, and cause people to lose their way.
Boylan and company may be noisy social elements, but are only just beginning
to
realise in studies in Artificial Intelligence for example that noise is
somehow functional.
It is not something to get rid of in terms of old-fashioned late Victorian
mechanical
science, it is rather a model of how and why the noisy brain uses noise for
“reasoning.”
We have yet to develop a paradigm for deviancy.
Without such a thing, as human beings, we are little more than a bundle of
robot spanners.
So don'’t let’s be too fascist-hard as regards people like Boylan. Just think
what
the world would be like without people like him!
Colin Bennett B.A. (Oxon)*
My Degree has not yet been withdrawn for deviant behaviour. But there is
time yet.
Is there a "Boylan" in James Joyce's works? "Straight"? Who's "straight" in sense of bourgeoisie around here? :-)
I think we are all "Rogue Scholars" on this Pirate Ship.
Thanks Dick. :-)
On Jan 22, 2004, at 2:56 AM, Dick Bierman wrote:
This is a clear cut variation on presentiment.
Dick
On Jan 22, 2004, at 6:35 AM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Kim Burrafato
Date: January 21, 2004 9:16:39 PM PST
To: Jack Sarfatti
Subject: Very interesting physical evidence of precog?
Very interesting physical evidence of precog:
www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2004/04jan08/mindsight.html
____________________________________________
Dick J. Bierman
UvA, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, Netherlands
ph: +31 20 5256727 fax: +31 20 6391656
http://a1162.fmg.uva.nl/~djb
On Jan 22, 2004, at 2:56 AM, Dick Bierman wrote:
This is a clear cut variation on presentiment.
Dick
On Jan 22, 2004, at 6:35 AM, Jack Sarfatti wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Kim Burrafato
Date: January 21, 2004 9:16:39 PM PST
To: Jack Sarfatti
Subject: Very interesting physical evidence of precog?
Very interesting physical evidence of precog:
www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2004/04jan08/mindsight.html
____________________________________________
Dick J. Bierman
UvA, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, Netherlands
ph: +31 20 5256727 fax: +31 20 6391656
http://a1162.fmg.uva.nl/~djb
Memorandum for the Record
Note I now have Sarfatti_Physics_Seminars now at yahoogroups.com for technical stuff on foundations of physics, cosmology, consciousness.
I have a Blog "Destiny Matrix" for everything I want recorded for history on the WEB at
http://new.blogger.com/
BTW I heard General Wesley Clarke in detail in New Hampshire on C-Span. I agreed with him 100%. He is clear, articulate and charismatic with good objectives. A real decent leader. I think he would make a fine President. Kerry also. I think Dean knocked himself out of the race with his TV performance when he lost Iowa. He reminded me of Stephen Schwartz with his angry grimaces. Edwards is also a real charmer in the Clinton mode.
500 American dead in Iraq and how many thousands badly wounded? Was it worth it? I defer to General Clarke on this. That Saddam is out is clearly a good thing. It's a tough call. Where Bush is most vulnerable IMHO is not Iraq, but on his catering to the the rich and neglect of the poor and on his not dealing with impending environmental collapse and on his letting the extremist Neo Con Cabal control foreign policy and alienate our natural allies. General Clarke and probably Kerry can correct that. I am not sure if Edwards has the experience. Then there is the alleged erosion of civil liberties in the Patriot Act. Again I defer to General Clarke on that one. I have not personally been paying enough attention to these important political issues. General Wesley Clarke really made a good impression on me now that I paid attention to his in-depth Town Meeting with a veteran's group in New Hampshire.
Thanks Victor. :-) Very interesting. BTW I corrected a misconception from Korf who I never heard of before. Also I removed "Sonata" or "Collins" or "cosifan" or whoever he is since he asked. BTW I have never initiated contact with him or them.:-) On every occasion it was Collins, or one of his multiple personalities, who first contacted me. Indeed I had forgotten his name or his idle "threats". When he told me he was going to Iraq I wished him well, then he berated me and told me it was a "joke", some "joke" for a person who alleges he was a USAF Intelligence Officer - another Walter Mitty "Wolf"? Here is my reply to "Korf"
To Korf: I never wrote about you. That was Victor Martinez I think. In fact I never heard your name before. :-)
BTW on alien abductions ;-)
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/spectra.html
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/bovines.html
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/USSKron.hrml
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/coffee.html
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/dan.htm
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/MagicBean.html
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/Saturn.html
On Jan 21, 2004, at 10:53 PM, Kal Korff wrote:
Dear Jack,
I read your comments about me on de ja and I am requesting that you CORRECT THEM SO THEY ARE ACCURATE.
I wish you had CHECKED WITH ME FIRST before 'speaking" for me.
FOR THE RECORD: I am NOT a UFO 'debunker' or "skeptic".
INSTEAD, I am JUST A RESEARCHER. I had my OWN UFO SIGHTING (as far as I know even Stanton Friedman cannot make this claim, NOT a criticism of him at all - just stating a fact) and to this day I have NO CONVENTIONAL EXPLANATION for what it was that I saw in the presence of two other witnesses.
If you do not post a CORRECTION setting the record straight, I will do so among all of the list groups and on my web site, using your email as a fine example of what happens when one does NOT check with primary sources -- meaning, you could HAVE JUST ASKED ME, and I would have told you.
Respectfully yours,
Kal
On Jan 21, 2004, at 11:18 PM, Victor Martinez wrote:
If you reside in the State of California -- or even outside of it as a
researcher -- BOOKMARK this very useful Web site:
Dept of Consumer Affairs - Licensing:
http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/wllquery$.startup
http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/WLLQRYNA$LCEV2.QueryView?P_LICENSE_NUMBER=10047&P_LTE_ID=725
COLIN BENNETT:
In the attached e-mail, you asked for the facts, specifics and
circumstances under Richard James Boylan had his license revoked by the
State of California's Dept of Consumer Affairs, on Friday, August 4,
1995 [See 2004 THE WORLD ALMANAC & BOOK OF FACTS, Perpetual Calendar,
pp. 640-641]
In the attached e-mail, you asked:
1) Was Boylan's certificate of practice removed because of his work with
so-called "Starchildren?"
No.
2) If so, what were the reasons for this?
N/A
3) Was his work judged to be immoral or damaging in some way?
Immoral: questionable. Damaging: Yes, to his patients
4) Did he appeal?
I don't know, but if he did, his appeal was rejected/denied.
5) Was there a hearing?
Yes
6) Were the reasons made public?
Yes; see the SECOND Web site link typed above for you. Certified copies
of the hard copy documents can also be requested under California's
Public Records Act similar in spirit, scope and breadth to the federal
government's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
7) Was "damaging" evidence presented?
Yes, of course, that's why his license was revoked!
8) I thought he may have lost his license by pinching a toothbrush at
Woolworths!
No!
On 1-21-04 at 6:52 p.m., Dr Jack Sarfatti wrote:
"I was told it had nothing to do with Star Children. It allegedly had to
do with attractive women patients in his hot tub? :-)"
NOT exactly true, but pretty close. Though there MIGHT have been
others, there was only one (1) patient who came forth with THIS story
though there were other complaints.
All of these details are contained in the "Findings of Fact" which is a
public record of the testimony given during the licensing review by the
State of California. The documents are available from the State of
California as permitted under the California Public Records Act and is
marked as Case #1F1993027362 and W-14 and OAH #N-9404129.
The complaining witness and woman Boylan met, was a member of ISA
(Incest Survivors Anonymous) and named "DW." During her many hypnosis
sessions with Boylan, she NEVER recounted any abductions by alien
beings. However, that all changed when DW happened to hear a radio talk
show discussing alien abductions (Art Bell?) and she asked Boylan about
it. Boylan took the question very seriously and suggested that perhaps
she, too, had been abducted by aliens.
The history of DW now paralleled that of many abductees in Boylan's
group. She had gone from NO concious memory of ANY experiences of alien
abduction to attending a UFO conference in Las Vegas to tell others of
her "experiences!" Any dream or nightmare was transformed by Boylan
into a real alien abduction.
Prior to the Las Vegas conference, there was one last session at
Boylan's home. This was to be a planning session for the trip, and that
part of the planning would take place in Boylan's hot tub. He made it
clear that suits were NOT optional because he "believed residual
detergent in the suits left soap scum in the tub."
During their trip to Las Vegas with a few chosen members, Boylan and DW
made a trip alone out to Area 51, about 110 miles north of Las Vegas.
Upon returning from their excursion late at night, they discovered that
the man and woman who had not accompanied them on their expedition were
already asleep in separate beds in one of the two rooms. Boylan invited
DW to share his room with him.
According to the "Findings of Fact," after the lights went out, DW began
moaning from gastric distress as a result of some bad fast food she had
eaten on the Area 51 trek.
"Respondent [Boylan] offered to give her a massage to help relieve the
pains. Both DW and respondent [Boylan] were nude, although respondent
was covered by the sheet. As DW came over to respondent's bed, she
stated she did not want any sexual relationship. Respondent [Boylan]
advised her that he did not want one because he did not want to risk his
license, his marriage or his therapeutic relationship with DW. He then
gave her an abdominal massage. Afterward, he turned over and went to
sleep, expecting DW to return to her bed. She did not and slept next to
respondent until the alarm went off at 6 a.m."
DW wasn't the only Boylan patient who showed up with one set of symptoms
and developed a new set.
With DW, Boylan didn't mention the alien abductions. DW leanred of the
phenomenon from a radio talk show and then asked Boylan about it,
believing he would reject the notion as ridiculous. However, with the
SECOND complaining witness, "DS," it was Boylan who introduced the
extraterrestrials into the sessions.
DS also had "a recurring dream involving small figures which looked like
monks at the end of the hall." DS thought of the monks as part of a
dream, but Boylan told her it WASN'T a dream,...it was a REAL
visitation. The monks she described were a type of alien that Boylan
labeled as "Jawas," small, hooded characters who appear in the "Star
Wars" series.
During DS' first session she attended at Boylan's home with other
abductees, he talked about Area 51, the government coverup, that his
phone was probably tapped (undoubtedly by the secret government's Cabal)
because he was becoming vocal about alien abductions. Boylan, feeding
the paranoia of his patients in the abduction group, suggested that
others were being spied on as well. It was all part of the government
plan to keep the information buried.
In the "Findings of Fact," DS apprised the Board of Psychology's
hearing: "He told me that they [the 'secret' government] have the
ability to make a person die very quickly looking like it was natural
causes [the poison ricin from the castor bean plant does this]. They
have the ability to use a little dart that doesn't leave a trace. They
can make a person die of cancer within a few weeks [like they did to
Jack Ruby!]. That he would probably be the target because he was the
leader."
It was also in the fall of 1992 that DS began to complain of
difficulties eating and sleeping, and of a persistent ringing in her
ears. Boylan told her that maybe the extraterrestrials were: "doing a
tune-up on her." (Findings of Fact)
It seems reasonable to believe that Boylan, in his search for alien
abductions was able to weave, retrieve and combine DS' memory into some
sort of a space spectacular that fit his personal agenda. DS, in
attempting to answer his questions, used the earlier experience as a
basis for her answers to Boylan.
In their final report on Boylan, The California Psychology Board wrote:
"Respondent [Boylan] was NOT fueled by evil motive. He believes in
extraterrestrial life and believes he has had ET experiences. In 1989,
he had three patients who presented him with stories of ET contact. It
was those contacts that inspired his interest in researching ET issues.
He formed his CE-IV group so that experiencers would have others with
him to share, so they would not feel isolated."
There are two other points that impact all of this.
1) First, Boylan does have impressive academic credentials. He was
graduated from a small private college in California in 1966, received
a MA in educational administration in 1977, a second in social work and
in 1984 received a PhD in anthropological psychology. What is usually
left OUT of the picture is that Boylan -- according to the "Findings of
Fact" -- was also a Catholic priest! It is the Catholic church that
seems to have had the most intense interest in the paranormal and the
supernatural. It is the Catholic church that brings the realm of the
supernatural down to Earth, and it is Catholic priests who perform
exorcisms.
2) During a trip to the Southwest, Boylan told DW that he would be
visiting various sites that were a hotbed of UFO activity; these
included Dulce, New Mexico, Area 51 and even the Very Large Array Radio
Observatory, west of Socorro, NM. Boylan told DW that he would be
abducted by aliens.
Boylan says his prediction proved to be accurate. On U.S. Highway 180,
north of Deming, NM, Boylan drove into a cloud of smoke. He experienced
an hour of "missing time",... yes, Boylan was claiming that he was taken
aboard a crashed flying saucer. Not only was he a UFO researcher, but he
had now also become a victim/abductee complete with a nasal implant!
Basically, the revocation of his license was because, Boylan, with an
agenda, injected an element of extraterrestrial terror into the lives of
his patients, priming them with books and magazine articles on
abduction. He suggested that the aliens often returned, said that his
life was in danger (implying that his patients' lives were also in
danger), and that the U.S. government was out to get him. He talked of
the government coverup and, on a trip to explore the "secret" bases for
himself, claims to have been abducted.
COLIN, in addition to the State of California's Dept of Consumer Affairs
Board of Psychology, a book detailing all of this -- which I borrowed
from -- was published in 1999 entitled, THE ABDUCTION ENIGMA: THE TRUTH
BEHIND THE MASS ALIEN ABDUCTIONS OF THE LATE 20th CENTURY by Randle,
Estes and Cone, PhD, ISBN# 031 286 7085, $25.95 (original hardcover
price). See Chapter 10, "Richard Boylan," pp. 151 - 163.
You may also go to this Web site for an abstract/summary overview of the
book:
www.rbookshop.com/unusual_subjects/a/Alien_Abduction/The_Abduction_Enigma_0312867085.htm
I hope this information has answered most -- if not all -- of the
questions you posed.
-------------------------------------------
On Jan 19, 2004, at 2:50 PM, Robert Sheaffer wrote:
Yes, Boylan's loss of his license is well-known in UFOlogy. Here's a
little bit more information about it:
http://www.skepticfiles.org/misc3/boylan1.htm
From: "Colin Bennett"
Date: January 21, 2004 11:08:19 AM PST
To:,
Subject: Re: Boylan's Loss of License
Good sirs and dames all,
May I ask a question at this point in the frenetic proceedings? Was Boylan's certficate of practice removed because of his work with so-called "starchildren?" If so, what were the reasons for this? Was his work judged to be immoral, or damaging in some way? Did he appeal? Was there a Hearing? Were the reasons made public? Was "damaging" evidence presented? These reasons should now be discussed, if only because he might have lost his license not through being a flake, but through pinching a toothbrush from Woolworths!
I ask these questions because I am preparing an article that discusses how all too often the ufologist in particular is often framed as a social deviant. This process appears to be authomatically activated by covert paradigm constraints which trigger embedded alarm-systems both in language and concept, and society and culture. Thus an implicit conspiracy is formed as well as there being a tangible form of such a thing.
My idea, when developed, might lead to an interesting theory of the MJ12 phenomenon.
Best wishes to all,
Colin Bennett (from ye olde curiosity shoppe)
-------Original Message-------
From: sonata
Date: 21 January 2004 03:57:02
To: Jack Sarfatti
Subject: Re: Boylan's Loss of License
MY MY Jack, thought you said Checkmate.
Now you're talking again. I could careless
about how you were born again with GW.
And so could most of Calif.......Rmc
Jack Sarfatti wrote:
On Jan 20, 2004, at 7:30 PM, sonata wrote:
You gave up? Can't believe it.
Last time you were going to call the SF Cops
on me because I threatened to knock your teeth
out. I waited with baited breath but nothing
happened. What happened Jack?.....
I was Born Again in the Spirit of Jesus listening to our President just now in
State of the Union. You are obviously getting senile in your old age. Thanks
for reminding me of your threat of physical violence, which I had quite
forgotten. I had even forgotten your name. Remember I wished you
good luck in Iraq a few months ago because I thought you were going to
defend America. Now you say it was a joke. Oh well, it looks as if
everything you stand for is a joke. I can well understand why your
associates cannot tell fact from fiction.
BTW, what got you so pissed off? I seem to remember it was because I
dared to question the physics of your Guru Hal Puthoff? Is that correct?
The note from you that Saul-Paul Sirag sent me has you being quite
friendly. Indeed, you first contacted me not the other way round. Or maybe
it was "Angleton's grandson"? I note you have used several different
e-mail names "fidelio" and "sonata" and "cosifan". I think a Shrink might
diagnose you with MPD, Jekyl & Hyde, or maybe Louie, Hooey and Dooey.
Especially Hooey! ;-)
Disappointed Again in you Jack in above, Very Disappointed........Rmc
Note I now have Sarfatti_Physics_Seminars now at yahoogroups.com for technical stuff on foundations of physics, cosmology, consciousness.
I have a Blog "Destiny Matrix" for everything I want recorded for history on the WEB at
http://new.blogger.com/
BTW I heard General Wesley Clarke in detail in New Hampshire on C-Span. I agreed with him 100%. He is clear, articulate and charismatic with good objectives. A real decent leader. I think he would make a fine President. Kerry also. I think Dean knocked himself out of the race with his TV performance when he lost Iowa. He reminded me of Stephen Schwartz with his angry grimaces. Edwards is also a real charmer in the Clinton mode.
500 American dead in Iraq and how many thousands badly wounded? Was it worth it? I defer to General Clarke on this. That Saddam is out is clearly a good thing. It's a tough call. Where Bush is most vulnerable IMHO is not Iraq, but on his catering to the the rich and neglect of the poor and on his not dealing with impending environmental collapse and on his letting the extremist Neo Con Cabal control foreign policy and alienate our natural allies. General Clarke and probably Kerry can correct that. I am not sure if Edwards has the experience. Then there is the alleged erosion of civil liberties in the Patriot Act. Again I defer to General Clarke on that one. I have not personally been paying enough attention to these important political issues. General Wesley Clarke really made a good impression on me now that I paid attention to his in-depth Town Meeting with a veteran's group in New Hampshire.
Thanks Victor. :-) Very interesting. BTW I corrected a misconception from Korf who I never heard of before. Also I removed "Sonata" or "Collins" or "cosifan" or whoever he is since he asked. BTW I have never initiated contact with him or them.:-) On every occasion it was Collins, or one of his multiple personalities, who first contacted me. Indeed I had forgotten his name or his idle "threats". When he told me he was going to Iraq I wished him well, then he berated me and told me it was a "joke", some "joke" for a person who alleges he was a USAF Intelligence Officer - another Walter Mitty "Wolf"? Here is my reply to "Korf"
To Korf: I never wrote about you. That was Victor Martinez I think. In fact I never heard your name before. :-)
BTW on alien abductions ;-)
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/spectra.html
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/bovines.html
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/USSKron.hrml
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/coffee.html
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/dan.htm
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/MagicBean.html
http://stardrive.org/cartoon/Saturn.html
On Jan 21, 2004, at 10:53 PM, Kal Korff wrote:
Dear Jack,
I read your comments about me on de ja and I am requesting that you CORRECT THEM SO THEY ARE ACCURATE.
I wish you had CHECKED WITH ME FIRST before 'speaking" for me.
FOR THE RECORD: I am NOT a UFO 'debunker' or "skeptic".
INSTEAD, I am JUST A RESEARCHER. I had my OWN UFO SIGHTING (as far as I know even Stanton Friedman cannot make this claim, NOT a criticism of him at all - just stating a fact) and to this day I have NO CONVENTIONAL EXPLANATION for what it was that I saw in the presence of two other witnesses.
If you do not post a CORRECTION setting the record straight, I will do so among all of the list groups and on my web site, using your email as a fine example of what happens when one does NOT check with primary sources -- meaning, you could HAVE JUST ASKED ME, and I would have told you.
Respectfully yours,
Kal
On Jan 21, 2004, at 11:18 PM, Victor Martinez wrote:
If you reside in the State of California -- or even outside of it as a
researcher -- BOOKMARK this very useful Web site:
Dept of Consumer Affairs - Licensing:
http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/wllquery$.startup
http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/WLLQRYNA$LCEV2.QueryView?P_LICENSE_NUMBER=10047&P_LTE_ID=725
COLIN BENNETT:
In the attached e-mail, you asked for the facts, specifics and
circumstances under Richard James Boylan had his license revoked by the
State of California's Dept of Consumer Affairs, on Friday, August 4,
1995 [See 2004 THE WORLD ALMANAC & BOOK OF FACTS, Perpetual Calendar,
pp. 640-641]
In the attached e-mail, you asked:
1) Was Boylan's certificate of practice removed because of his work with
so-called "Starchildren?"
No.
2) If so, what were the reasons for this?
N/A
3) Was his work judged to be immoral or damaging in some way?
Immoral: questionable. Damaging: Yes, to his patients
4) Did he appeal?
I don't know, but if he did, his appeal was rejected/denied.
5) Was there a hearing?
Yes
6) Were the reasons made public?
Yes; see the SECOND Web site link typed above for you. Certified copies
of the hard copy documents can also be requested under California's
Public Records Act similar in spirit, scope and breadth to the federal
government's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
7) Was "damaging" evidence presented?
Yes, of course, that's why his license was revoked!
8) I thought he may have lost his license by pinching a toothbrush at
Woolworths!
No!
On 1-21-04 at 6:52 p.m., Dr Jack Sarfatti wrote:
"I was told it had nothing to do with Star Children. It allegedly had to
do with attractive women patients in his hot tub? :-)"
NOT exactly true, but pretty close. Though there MIGHT have been
others, there was only one (1) patient who came forth with THIS story
though there were other complaints.
All of these details are contained in the "Findings of Fact" which is a
public record of the testimony given during the licensing review by the
State of California. The documents are available from the State of
California as permitted under the California Public Records Act and is
marked as Case #1F1993027362 and W-14 and OAH #N-9404129.
The complaining witness and woman Boylan met, was a member of ISA
(Incest Survivors Anonymous) and named "DW." During her many hypnosis
sessions with Boylan, she NEVER recounted any abductions by alien
beings. However, that all changed when DW happened to hear a radio talk
show discussing alien abductions (Art Bell?) and she asked Boylan about
it. Boylan took the question very seriously and suggested that perhaps
she, too, had been abducted by aliens.
The history of DW now paralleled that of many abductees in Boylan's
group. She had gone from NO concious memory of ANY experiences of alien
abduction to attending a UFO conference in Las Vegas to tell others of
her "experiences!" Any dream or nightmare was transformed by Boylan
into a real alien abduction.
Prior to the Las Vegas conference, there was one last session at
Boylan's home. This was to be a planning session for the trip, and that
part of the planning would take place in Boylan's hot tub. He made it
clear that suits were NOT optional because he "believed residual
detergent in the suits left soap scum in the tub."
During their trip to Las Vegas with a few chosen members, Boylan and DW
made a trip alone out to Area 51, about 110 miles north of Las Vegas.
Upon returning from their excursion late at night, they discovered that
the man and woman who had not accompanied them on their expedition were
already asleep in separate beds in one of the two rooms. Boylan invited
DW to share his room with him.
According to the "Findings of Fact," after the lights went out, DW began
moaning from gastric distress as a result of some bad fast food she had
eaten on the Area 51 trek.
"Respondent [Boylan] offered to give her a massage to help relieve the
pains. Both DW and respondent [Boylan] were nude, although respondent
was covered by the sheet. As DW came over to respondent's bed, she
stated she did not want any sexual relationship. Respondent [Boylan]
advised her that he did not want one because he did not want to risk his
license, his marriage or his therapeutic relationship with DW. He then
gave her an abdominal massage. Afterward, he turned over and went to
sleep, expecting DW to return to her bed. She did not and slept next to
respondent until the alarm went off at 6 a.m."
DW wasn't the only Boylan patient who showed up with one set of symptoms
and developed a new set.
With DW, Boylan didn't mention the alien abductions. DW leanred of the
phenomenon from a radio talk show and then asked Boylan about it,
believing he would reject the notion as ridiculous. However, with the
SECOND complaining witness, "DS," it was Boylan who introduced the
extraterrestrials into the sessions.
DS also had "a recurring dream involving small figures which looked like
monks at the end of the hall." DS thought of the monks as part of a
dream, but Boylan told her it WASN'T a dream,...it was a REAL
visitation. The monks she described were a type of alien that Boylan
labeled as "Jawas," small, hooded characters who appear in the "Star
Wars" series.
During DS' first session she attended at Boylan's home with other
abductees, he talked about Area 51, the government coverup, that his
phone was probably tapped (undoubtedly by the secret government's Cabal)
because he was becoming vocal about alien abductions. Boylan, feeding
the paranoia of his patients in the abduction group, suggested that
others were being spied on as well. It was all part of the government
plan to keep the information buried.
In the "Findings of Fact," DS apprised the Board of Psychology's
hearing: "He told me that they [the 'secret' government] have the
ability to make a person die very quickly looking like it was natural
causes [the poison ricin from the castor bean plant does this]. They
have the ability to use a little dart that doesn't leave a trace. They
can make a person die of cancer within a few weeks [like they did to
Jack Ruby!]. That he would probably be the target because he was the
leader."
It was also in the fall of 1992 that DS began to complain of
difficulties eating and sleeping, and of a persistent ringing in her
ears. Boylan told her that maybe the extraterrestrials were: "doing a
tune-up on her." (Findings of Fact)
It seems reasonable to believe that Boylan, in his search for alien
abductions was able to weave, retrieve and combine DS' memory into some
sort of a space spectacular that fit his personal agenda. DS, in
attempting to answer his questions, used the earlier experience as a
basis for her answers to Boylan.
In their final report on Boylan, The California Psychology Board wrote:
"Respondent [Boylan] was NOT fueled by evil motive. He believes in
extraterrestrial life and believes he has had ET experiences. In 1989,
he had three patients who presented him with stories of ET contact. It
was those contacts that inspired his interest in researching ET issues.
He formed his CE-IV group so that experiencers would have others with
him to share, so they would not feel isolated."
There are two other points that impact all of this.
1) First, Boylan does have impressive academic credentials. He was
graduated from a small private college in California in 1966, received
a MA in educational administration in 1977, a second in social work and
in 1984 received a PhD in anthropological psychology. What is usually
left OUT of the picture is that Boylan -- according to the "Findings of
Fact" -- was also a Catholic priest! It is the Catholic church that
seems to have had the most intense interest in the paranormal and the
supernatural. It is the Catholic church that brings the realm of the
supernatural down to Earth, and it is Catholic priests who perform
exorcisms.
2) During a trip to the Southwest, Boylan told DW that he would be
visiting various sites that were a hotbed of UFO activity; these
included Dulce, New Mexico, Area 51 and even the Very Large Array Radio
Observatory, west of Socorro, NM. Boylan told DW that he would be
abducted by aliens.
Boylan says his prediction proved to be accurate. On U.S. Highway 180,
north of Deming, NM, Boylan drove into a cloud of smoke. He experienced
an hour of "missing time",... yes, Boylan was claiming that he was taken
aboard a crashed flying saucer. Not only was he a UFO researcher, but he
had now also become a victim/abductee complete with a nasal implant!
Basically, the revocation of his license was because, Boylan, with an
agenda, injected an element of extraterrestrial terror into the lives of
his patients, priming them with books and magazine articles on
abduction. He suggested that the aliens often returned, said that his
life was in danger (implying that his patients' lives were also in
danger), and that the U.S. government was out to get him. He talked of
the government coverup and, on a trip to explore the "secret" bases for
himself, claims to have been abducted.
COLIN, in addition to the State of California's Dept of Consumer Affairs
Board of Psychology, a book detailing all of this -- which I borrowed
from -- was published in 1999 entitled, THE ABDUCTION ENIGMA: THE TRUTH
BEHIND THE MASS ALIEN ABDUCTIONS OF THE LATE 20th CENTURY by Randle,
Estes and Cone, PhD, ISBN# 031 286 7085, $25.95 (original hardcover
price). See Chapter 10, "Richard Boylan," pp. 151 - 163.
You may also go to this Web site for an abstract/summary overview of the
book:
www.rbookshop.com/unusual_subjects/a/Alien_Abduction/The_Abduction_Enigma_0312867085.htm
I hope this information has answered most -- if not all -- of the
questions you posed.
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On Jan 19, 2004, at 2:50 PM, Robert Sheaffer wrote:
Yes, Boylan's loss of his license is well-known in UFOlogy. Here's a
little bit more information about it:
http://www.skepticfiles.org/misc3/boylan1.htm
From: "Colin Bennett"
Date: January 21, 2004 11:08:19 AM PST
To:
Subject: Re: Boylan's Loss of License
Good sirs and dames all,
May I ask a question at this point in the frenetic proceedings? Was Boylan's certficate of practice removed because of his work with so-called "starchildren?" If so, what were the reasons for this? Was his work judged to be immoral, or damaging in some way? Did he appeal? Was there a Hearing? Were the reasons made public? Was "damaging" evidence presented? These reasons should now be discussed, if only because he might have lost his license not through being a flake, but through pinching a toothbrush from Woolworths!
I ask these questions because I am preparing an article that discusses how all too often the ufologist in particular is often framed as a social deviant. This process appears to be authomatically activated by covert paradigm constraints which trigger embedded alarm-systems both in language and concept, and society and culture. Thus an implicit conspiracy is formed as well as there being a tangible form of such a thing.
My idea, when developed, might lead to an interesting theory of the MJ12 phenomenon.
Best wishes to all,
Colin Bennett (from ye olde curiosity shoppe)
-------Original Message-------
From: sonata
Date: 21 January 2004 03:57:02
To: Jack Sarfatti
Subject: Re: Boylan's Loss of License
MY MY Jack, thought you said Checkmate.
Now you're talking again. I could careless
about how you were born again with GW.
And so could most of Calif.......Rmc
Jack Sarfatti wrote:
On Jan 20, 2004, at 7:30 PM, sonata wrote:
You gave up? Can't believe it.
Last time you were going to call the SF Cops
on me because I threatened to knock your teeth
out. I waited with baited breath but nothing
happened. What happened Jack?.....
I was Born Again in the Spirit of Jesus listening to our President just now in
State of the Union. You are obviously getting senile in your old age. Thanks
for reminding me of your threat of physical violence, which I had quite
forgotten. I had even forgotten your name. Remember I wished you
good luck in Iraq a few months ago because I thought you were going to
defend America. Now you say it was a joke. Oh well, it looks as if
everything you stand for is a joke. I can well understand why your
associates cannot tell fact from fiction.
BTW, what got you so pissed off? I seem to remember it was because I
dared to question the physics of your Guru Hal Puthoff? Is that correct?
The note from you that Saul-Paul Sirag sent me has you being quite
friendly. Indeed, you first contacted me not the other way round. Or maybe
it was "Angleton's grandson"? I note you have used several different
e-mail names "fidelio" and "sonata" and "cosifan". I think a Shrink might
diagnose you with MPD, Jekyl & Hyde, or maybe Louie, Hooey and Dooey.
Especially Hooey! ;-)
Disappointed Again in you Jack in above, Very Disappointed........Rmc
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
This is an interesting exercise in cyberdemocracy and the filtering of fringe ideas Good, Bad, and Bogus.
PT Barnum was right.
I wonder if I should do a book "UFOs: Good, Bad and Bogus"
I would invite Hal Puthoff and Eric Davis and others to contribute chapters if only defend themselves against my constructive objections of their physics ideas not them personally. :-)
Victor, what is your subject matter for your teaching? What level do you teach? I think you would be good with young people. :-) Are you a history teacher? Social studies? Police Science? We have drafted you into the Advanced Intelligence Agency. :-)
Nice job below. :-)
On Jan 21, 2004, at 6:06 PM, Victor Martinez wrote:
www.geocities.com/dreamingbones/wolf.html
Dr GREEN:
Speaking for myself and everyone else on this stream e-mail list, we all
thank you for the specific medical requirements at McGill University
Medical School you kindly provided. I also assume that you are in
receipt of Eric Davis' e-mail
[tachyondavis@hotmail.com]
in which he suggested that we run "Dr" Michael Wolf's name and SS#
through:
www.degreecheck.com
Such an endeavor would prove worthless because Wolf's supporters would
simply claim that the "black world" of the U.S. government had "erased"
all of his academic records and would actually use that as further
evidence that he in fact DID have all the degrees he claimed.
As apollinair@aol.com wrote in an e-mail dated: 1-19-04 at 8:48 a.m.:
"As with Bob Lazar, I guess they expunged his [Wolf's] records, recalled
all the school yearbooks and shot all of the classmates and teachers."
However, Wolf's claims that he obtained all of those degrees can be
proven FALSE using another method which Stanton Friedman addressed
earlier: There simply was NOT enough time for "Dr" Michael Wolf to have
ever obtained ALL of the degrees he claimed ownership to.
Let me break down the strongest arguments against Wolf and the time
frame for you in three (3) sections which hopefully will be the final
nail in this issue:
1) According to the custody documents filed by Wolf's parents in the
Essex County, Chancery Division, Family Court on case file nos
#M-2359-57 and #A402 - A471 [AC-973 693-5700], Michael Wolf Kruvant was
remanded to the custody of two (2) mental institutions from age 23 - 25
at the Carrier Clinic in Belle Mead, N.J. and The Institute For Living
in Hartford, CT and was diagnosed with "passive aggressive personality,
passive dependent type" by his psychiatrists on December 8, 1965 which
would be around age 25-26 for Wolf; he was released at this time.
Now, at age 25, he was free to pursue all of those degrees he claimed to
have; the degrees Michael Wolf claimed to have earned in a filing made
to Dunn & Bradstreet were:
Starting at age 25:
4 - years for Bachelor's Degree (according to Paola Harris' book
CONNECTING THE DOTS, it was in "Biogenetics," p. 93, 4th paragraph)
1964 - McGill University Medical School
Note: Only four (4) years.
1968 - MIT Theoretical Physics, PhD
Change that to "Theo-heretical Pseudo-Physics" :-)
1976 - Cal Tech: TWO (2) PhDs in Theoretical
Physics (again) and Computer Science
Special Note: Wolf's brilliance enabled him to obtain TWO (2) PhDs in
only ONE (1) year before moving on to the next school! Note also that
Cal Tech allowed him to obtain a SECOND degree in Theoretical Physics
despite the fact that MIT had already conferred such a degree on him!
1977- Cambridge Univeristy, EDD in Education
1978 - Georgia Tech, Computer Science
??? - Georgetown University Law School, Juris Doctorate in International
Law (CONNECTING THE DOTS, p. 93)
[Special Note: Of all the schools Wolf claims to have attended, the one
(1) school he in fact DID attend -- Upsala University -- is NOT listed
by Wolf and that is the one school he flunked out with "C's" and "D's."
according to his transcripts.]
Now, let's dissect, scrutinize and pinpoint the time necesaary to obtain
all of these degrees.
I phoned the USC School of Medicine here in L.A. where I reside at
AC-323 442-2552 or 3021 and AC-323 226-6931 and spoke with the graduate
advisers, counselors attending physicains at the USC School of Medicine.
Here's the time frames they told me one would be working with:
4 years - B.A. degree
2 years - pre-med
4 years - medical school
4 years - residency
1-4 years - fellowship (depending on the speciality one decides to
pursue)
According to Harris' book, CONNECTING THE DOTS, Wolf's specialty was in
neurology (p. 93) which for USC is a one (1) year fellowship.
Futhermore, Wolf told Harris (p. 93) that he also had a M.S. (Master of
Science) in "Electromagnetic Fields' Influence on Organisms" though the
school he attended for this was NOT specified in her book and Wolf
forgot to list it in his filing with Dunn & Bradstreet; a slight
oversight I'm sure.
Now, let's add up ALL OF THE YEARS these degrees would take and see what
we come up with!
Age 25 - Wolf released from mental hospital
4 years - B.A. Biogenetics
2 years- premed at McGill University
4 years - medical school " "
4 years residency " "
1 year - Fellowship in Neurology
4 years - MIT, Theoretical Physics, PhD
4 years - Cal Tech, PhDs in Computer Science AND Theoretical Physics
(again)
4 years - Cambridge University, EDD in Education
3 years - Georgetown University, JD in International Law
3 years - M.S. Electromagnetic Fields (school UNknown)
= 33 YEARS for all of these degrees! This means that "Dr" Michael Wolf
started his career as a medic in Vietnam -- even though the war was over
in '71 -- at age 58 only one (1) year BEFORE he died at age 59 in 2000!
Clearly, NO purpose would have been served for anyone to have obtained
all of these degrees and even if they could because of an inheritance or
winning a lottery, one would barely have enough time to do them all
before it was time to retire!
For Wolf's apologists -- of which there seem to be many -- they call
those who point out Wolf's numerous false claims as "debunkers." I take
issue with that term which has a perjorative feel to it as written in
this sense.
According to Webster's New World College Dictionary, p. 373, column one,
to "debunk" means: "expose the FALSE or exaggerated claims, pretensions,
glamour, etc."
However, in the UFO field, it's taken on an additional context and
peripheral meaning in my view: ANYone who slam- dunks ANY UFO, "flying
saucer" stories. This would be descriptive of the well-known Phillip
Klass or Kal K Korff [THE ROSWELL UFO CRASH: WHAT THEY DON'T WANT YOU
KNOW] both of whom outright DENY the credibility/authenticity of each
and EVERY UFO sighting and/or abductee and/or contactee claim made. In
my view, these are "Debunkers": Individuals who have already arrived at
a conclusion BEFORE they've evaluated ANY of the facts!
These individuals are to be distinguished from highly regarded,
respected researchers/investigators such as Professor Jim Marrs (ALIEN
AGENDA, RULE BY SECRECY, Timothy Good (ABOVE TOP SECRET, ALIEN LIAISON,
BEYOND TOP SECRET), Don Ecker (UFO Magazine), Drs Hal Puthoff and Jack
Sarfatti (THE STARGATE CONSPIRACY; Dr Puthoff featured on p. 55 of the
Feb 2004 issue of POPULAR MECHANICS Magazine), Stanton Friedman (too
many books to list), etc.
All of these individuals do evaluate the facts -- Unlike Klass and Korff
-- and are only pursuing the TRUTH about UFO matters and the people who
claim to be "insiders" into the phenomenon as the late Michael Wolf
claimed to be.
As Dr Jack Sarfatti so aptly put it: "Extraordinary claims require
extraordinary evidence."
Some of Wolf's apologists are now backtracking and now claim that the
degrees they saw in his small Hartford, CT apartment may have been
HONORARY degrees conferred upon him for his "highly secret, sensitive
work in the black world." If that's true, then they mean NOTHING!
Only degrees where one WORKED for what one is awarded years later under
the studied guidance of a thesis adviser and all of the grueling
coursework has the right to say that they have a PhD in this or that.
2) The Wolf apologists have also slammed "armchair researchers." For
someone living in Italy like Paola L Harris, I can understand why she
might think this and also failed to understand the scope, breadth and
magnitude of Wolf's claimed academic degrees and the fact that there
simply would never have been enough time to have ever accomplsihed all
of them.
Unlike Italy, we in America can now, with the advent and refinement of
the Internet, conduct a tremendous and ACCURATE amount of research via
the Internet hence the "armchair" criticism. Most of you on this list
-- unless residing Ouside of the United States -- are acutely aware of
the valuable resorces we can now access online without ever leaving the
privacy and comfort of our homes. And if that's not available, then
there's always the phone (such as the calls I made to the USC School of
Medicine).
A friend of mine who works for the L.A.
Dept of Water & Power travels to Italy for his yearly vacation and he
informs me that Italy is about 10-15 years behind the U.S. in terms on
their online public access to public records; NO "armchair research"
there, you have to go and retrieve what you want in PERSON!
Years and years ago, a person would have to go through boxes and files
of musty old documents to find what they were looking for; now MUCH is
available online.
Paola Harris seems to think that ONLY in-person interviews can yield the
only valid inormation. Not so! I agree with her that MUCH can be
gleaned from interviewing the SUBJECT of an investigation by seeing and
speaking w/ them in person, however, that's NOT necessary when
addressing peripheral matters.
For example, on the Web site:
www.geocities.com/dreamingbones/wolf.html
"Dr Wolf asked me [Richard Boylan] if I had seen the movie 'Peacemaker.'
When I replied that I had, he said, "The women (sic) in that movie was
based on a real person I WORKED WITH, Dr Jessica Stern of the National
Security Council."
I phoned Dr Jessica Stern on her private, direct line at Harvard
University at: AC-617 496-3623 and I was referred to her assistant
Michael Johnson at AC-617 495-9455 and I received both a return call AND
an e-mail categorically DENYING that she ever worked with Wolf much less
knowing him.
[ jessica_stern@harvard.edu ]
Note: Dr Stern's book TERROR IN THE NAME OF GOD is a current national
bestseller on the non-fiction listing. Her PhD is REAL, UNlike Wolf's.
Paola is suggesting that somehow my spending $2,000 for my air fare,
room, board and a rent-a-car, and then running down Dr Stern between
classes and asking her in person about Michael Wolf might someow yield a
different answer. In other words, she lied to me on the phone and in an
e-mail, but in person she'll tell me the "truth" and acknoweldge that
she worked with Michael Wolf in the Clinton administration,... what?!
WHY would her answer differ from the phone/e-mail and asking her in
person?!
In an e-mail Paola sent me dated 1-16-04, she wrote: "Dr Wolf never
mentioned Jack Sarfatti to me in all 70 taped conversations. I met Jack
in Rome in September and he is a fine sincere person,... All of my
research is FIRST HAND; I dispel armchair research as solid."
Once again the inference is that if I were to hop on a plane and go meet
Dr Jack Sarfatti and ask him if he ever worked on a recovered alien disc
to reverse engineer it in 1973 as Wolf allegedly relayed to Richard
Boylan, his answer to me would somehow be different than what his
response has been to me thus far via e-mail: NO, he NEVER worked on a
retrieved alien disc in 1973 -- though he wishes he had! -- and the
story put out by the ne'er-do-wells in the UFO community is totally
false; I believe Dr Sarfatti, not Wolf nor Boylan. What would Dr
Sarfatti's motivation be to lie to me and everyone else on his open
list?!
Paola also dropped the ball when she uttered her surprise that Wolf
never brought up Dr Sarfatti's name to her; I'm sure Wolf discussed
things w/ other researchers that he hadn't w/ her and vice versa.
If I ever meet Dr Sarfatti, I might discuss x, y and Z with him, but I
might discuss a,b, c and y with Dr Puthoff; people can't be expected to
talk about the SAME exact things with others even if they're all in the
same field of endeavor.
Bottom line: YES! "Armchair research" is solid when done for the RIGHT
ISSUES.
3) Other apologists have (mistakenly) compared the late Michael Wolf to
the Nobel Prize winner and Princeton University Professor, Dr John
Forbes Nash on whose life the movie A BEAUTIFUL MIND was based on.
NOT a good comparison and here's why: As Dr Jack Sarfatti so astutely
pointed out, Dr John Nash provided ample PROOF of his capabilities and
accomplishments by having been awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic
Science for his work on game theory along with Harsanyi and Selten.
Moreover, he was awarded the Leroy P Steele Prize by the American
Mathematical Society "for a seminal contribution to research."
May he rest in peace, but Wolf leaves us NOTHING to substantiate his
fantastic, wild-eyed claims either in the area of research, products
gleaned and developed for general use nor proof of ANY of his schooling.
Paola Harris compared Wolf's "secret government work" to that of John
Nash. Again, not a good comparison. Clearly, with all of the mental
problems Michael Wolf had, NO government agency would have ever employed
him since he would have failed the demanding, detailed, full-field
background investigation.
Likewise, John Nash NEVER worked for the U.S. government, at least
directly. John Nash entered Bluefield College in 1941 (the year Wolf
was born) and there he took mathematics as well as science courses.
From there, Nash won a scholarship in the George Westinghouse
Competition and was accepted by the Carnegie Institute of Technology
(now Carnegie-Mellon University) in 1945. There he switched from a
chemical engineering major to a mathematics major with an interst in
tensor calculus and relativity.
Nash received a BA and an MA in mathematics in 1948. Nash was accepted
for doctoral studies at Harvard, Princeton, Chicago and Michigan and
ended up attending Princeton as they made him the most generous offer.
It was here and in 1949 that Dr Nash wrote a paer that 45 years LATER
would win him a Nobel prize for economics. This is what Dr Sarfatti
meant that Dr Nash's accomplishment's were evident and could be
produced.
This is what Dr Nashs's thesis adviser wrote about him:
"The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important
idea in noncooperative game theory,... Whether we are analysing
candidates' election strategies, the causes of war, agenda manipulation
in legislatures, or the actions of interest groups, predictions about
events reduce to a search for and description of equilibria. Put
simply, equilibrium strategies are the things that we predict about
people."
In 1950, Nash received his PhD from Princeton with a thesis entitled,
"Non-Cooperative Games." While at Princeton, he went to see Einstein
not long after he had arrived and told him an idea he had regarding
gravity. After explaining complicated mathematics to Einstein for about
an hour, Einstein advised him to go and learn more physics. Apparently,
a physicist DID publish a similar idea some years later.
After leaving Princeton, Dr Nash went to work for the RAND Corporation
where his game theory made him a leading expert on the Cold War conflict
and which dominated RAND's work; they tried to apply game theory to
military and diplomatic strategy. His famous theorem: that any compact
real manifold is diffeomorphic to a component of a real-algebraic
variety was Nash's "backup" had his game thoery not been considered
suitable for a doctoral thesis.
Michael Wolf published his only book in 1993, THE CATCHERS OF HEAVEN;
compare that to Dr Nash's first paper published in 1952, REAL ALGEBRAIC
MANIFOLDS IN THE ANNALS OF MATHEMATICS. The most important result in
this paper is that two real algebraic manifolds are equivalent if and
only if they are analytically homeomorphic.
From 1952 on, Dr Nash taught at MIT where his research on the theory of
real algebraic varieties, Riemannian geometry, parabolic and elliptic
equations was very significant in the development of all these topics.
In 1956, Dr Nash published a paper on his Riemannian manifolds and this
paper was also famous for its deep implicit function theorem.
Much like Michael Wolf being Involuntarily remanded to a mental
hospital, Dr John Nash was too when his wife Alicia had him committed at
McLean Hospital, a private psychiatiric hospital olutside of Boston.
Upon his release, he resigned from MIT, left for Europe, but then
retunred to the U.S. where he hung around the Princeton campus talking
about himself in the third person as John von Nassau, writing
nonsensical postcards and making phone calls to former colleagues with
whom he discussed numerology and world political affairs.
In 1961, his wife, mother and sister remanded him to the Trenton State
Hosptal in New Jersey where he endured insulin-coma therapy. Over the
next decade plus, Nash slowly recovered and in 1996, describing his
illness at the tenth World Congress of Psychiatry in 1996, he said:
"...,the staff at my university, the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and later all of Boston were behaving strangely towards
me,... I started to see crypto-communists everywhere,... I started to
think I was a man of great religious importance and to hear voices all
the time. I began to hear something like telephone calls in my head
from people ooposed to my ideas,... The delerium was like a dream from
which I seemed never to awake."
YES! Both Michael Wolf and Dr John Nash had severe mental
problems/issues, but UNlike Wolf, Dr Nash made invaluable, PROVABLE
contributions to society while Wolf did not. Both Wolf and Nash were
committed to two (2) mental hospitals, but that's where any similarities
END.
In an eerie sort of way, Paola Harris' remarks on p. 97 of CONNECTING
THE DOTS certainly has the ring of truth:
"I long realized that too many things in this story do NOT fall into
neat piles, especially with Dr Wolf's physical and medical records."
Amen, Paola!
In closing, the way and manner in which dedicated, well-meaning UFO
researchers have swallowed Wolf's story hook, line and sinker is
reminiscent of what Houston millionaire and health spa tycoon Richard
Minns wrote back in the late '70s as the three (3) maxims he lived his
life by:
1) NEVER OVERestimate the intelligence of the average man.
2) MOST people are STUPID.
3) EVERY man has his price.
WithOUT a doubt, the late Michael Wolf Kruvant was acutely aware of the
FIRST maxim!
Dr John F Nash biography online:
www-gap.dcs.st-and.a.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Nash.html
www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Nash.html
John F Nash, Jr Home Page:
www.math.princeton.edu/jfnj/
From: "Green, Christopher"
Date: January 20, 2004 8:24:31 AM PST
Subject: RE: Friedman questions Wolf's 'Higher Education'
On the other hand; McGill Medical School (alas; they turned me down and I had to go to U of Wisconsin and U of Colorado) does accept entry-level medical students after 2 undergraduate years, and then confers an MD. In the US (about 5 states) and a couple of provinces in Canada, it is possible top get a license to practice without an internship and/or residency: becoming less common all the time, however. Thus, one can theoretically get an MD from McGill by about age 21 or 22. I would like a web site about Wolf if there is one.
-----Original Message-----
From:Jack Sarfatti [mailto:sarfatti@pacbell.net]
Sent:Sunday, January 18, 2004 7:07 PM
Subject:Re: Friedman questions Wolf's 'Higher Education'
Memorandum for the Record
Yes, for the record I agree with Stan on all this. The facts are obvious. In this case as Stan correctly points out all one need do is the arithmetic as he does below.
On Jan 18, 2004, at 1:00 PM, visions wrote:
Stan Friedman has sent me this email for distribution among this group, Dave Haith
I wonder if Paola understands the North American Higher Education system. It is claimed that Michael Wolf received an MD from McGill (a very prestigious university in Montreal) in 1964. Now to receive an MD required 4 years of premed, 3 years of Medical School and 2-3 or more years of internship and residencies.. That would mean a total of about 9 years. Boylan claimed that in 1998 Michael was 55 which means he was 21 in 1964... I guess he started when he was 12. He flunked out of Upsala in the late 1950s. Getting into medical school is a very competitive process requiring outstanding performance in premed. There is no listing of any undergraduate work prior to Med school.
A PhD in Physics at MIT requires a minimum of 3-5 years after receipt of a bachelor's degree with outstanding grades and preparation in an undergraduate college or University. Neither a premed education nor an MD would could provide sufficient background in Mathematics and Physics to qualify a person for admission to Graduate work in Physics at MIT. Yet Michael supposedly received his PhD in Theoretical Physics at MIT in 1968. According to MIT, and every other campus I have talked to a PhD requires sign off by a Thesis advisor. Neither a title nor an advisor has been named. Anybody know of anyone who has advanced degrees in Medicine, Physics , and law?
Once one has a PhD in theoretical Physics from MIT, it would be extraordinarily unlikely that California Institute of Technology (another top flight, difficult to gain admission to, University) would accept such a person to do another PhD in Theoretical Physics. Yet another one is claimed for Cal Tech in 1976. Cal Tech, as with the other schools, says they never heard of Michael Wolf or Michael Wolf Kruvant. Again no thesis advisor and no thesis title. Georgetown claims it takes 3 years to obtain a JD. There would have seemed to be no space for this during his incredible life.
Michael has claimed to be an AF pilot and Colonel.. normally that requires years as a Captain and years as a Major. Just when did these take place?
Michael told Dun and Bradstreet that his Institute (located in the same small apartment where he lived) had 31 employees. D and B could find no such institute though anybody with 31 employees must be registered since there are taxes and social security to be collected, etc.
In summary, Michael was a bright Walter Mitty,not a scientist with any degrees, not a colonel, not an AF pilot, not head of an institute,not a doctor, not a lawyer, not a physicist, not a buddy of President Clinton.
Whether or not he was in Italy and spoke fluent Italian is totally irrelevant.
Stan Friedman
PT Barnum was right.
I wonder if I should do a book "UFOs: Good, Bad and Bogus"
I would invite Hal Puthoff and Eric Davis and others to contribute chapters if only defend themselves against my constructive objections of their physics ideas not them personally. :-)
Victor, what is your subject matter for your teaching? What level do you teach? I think you would be good with young people. :-) Are you a history teacher? Social studies? Police Science? We have drafted you into the Advanced Intelligence Agency. :-)
Nice job below. :-)
On Jan 21, 2004, at 6:06 PM, Victor Martinez wrote:
www.geocities.com/dreamingbones/wolf.html
Dr GREEN:
Speaking for myself and everyone else on this stream e-mail list, we all
thank you for the specific medical requirements at McGill University
Medical School you kindly provided. I also assume that you are in
receipt of Eric Davis' e-mail
[tachyondavis@hotmail.com]
in which he suggested that we run "Dr" Michael Wolf's name and SS#
through:
www.degreecheck.com
Such an endeavor would prove worthless because Wolf's supporters would
simply claim that the "black world" of the U.S. government had "erased"
all of his academic records and would actually use that as further
evidence that he in fact DID have all the degrees he claimed.
As apollinair@aol.com wrote in an e-mail dated: 1-19-04 at 8:48 a.m.:
"As with Bob Lazar, I guess they expunged his [Wolf's] records, recalled
all the school yearbooks and shot all of the classmates and teachers."
However, Wolf's claims that he obtained all of those degrees can be
proven FALSE using another method which Stanton Friedman addressed
earlier: There simply was NOT enough time for "Dr" Michael Wolf to have
ever obtained ALL of the degrees he claimed ownership to.
Let me break down the strongest arguments against Wolf and the time
frame for you in three (3) sections which hopefully will be the final
nail in this issue:
1) According to the custody documents filed by Wolf's parents in the
Essex County, Chancery Division, Family Court on case file nos
#M-2359-57 and #A402 - A471 [AC-973 693-5700], Michael Wolf Kruvant was
remanded to the custody of two (2) mental institutions from age 23 - 25
at the Carrier Clinic in Belle Mead, N.J. and The Institute For Living
in Hartford, CT and was diagnosed with "passive aggressive personality,
passive dependent type" by his psychiatrists on December 8, 1965 which
would be around age 25-26 for Wolf; he was released at this time.
Now, at age 25, he was free to pursue all of those degrees he claimed to
have; the degrees Michael Wolf claimed to have earned in a filing made
to Dunn & Bradstreet were:
Starting at age 25:
4 - years for Bachelor's Degree (according to Paola Harris' book
CONNECTING THE DOTS, it was in "Biogenetics," p. 93, 4th paragraph)
1964 - McGill University Medical School
Note: Only four (4) years.
1968 - MIT Theoretical Physics, PhD
Change that to "Theo-heretical Pseudo-Physics" :-)
1976 - Cal Tech: TWO (2) PhDs in Theoretical
Physics (again) and Computer Science
Special Note: Wolf's brilliance enabled him to obtain TWO (2) PhDs in
only ONE (1) year before moving on to the next school! Note also that
Cal Tech allowed him to obtain a SECOND degree in Theoretical Physics
despite the fact that MIT had already conferred such a degree on him!
1977- Cambridge Univeristy, EDD in Education
1978 - Georgia Tech, Computer Science
??? - Georgetown University Law School, Juris Doctorate in International
Law (CONNECTING THE DOTS, p. 93)
[Special Note: Of all the schools Wolf claims to have attended, the one
(1) school he in fact DID attend -- Upsala University -- is NOT listed
by Wolf and that is the one school he flunked out with "C's" and "D's."
according to his transcripts.]
Now, let's dissect, scrutinize and pinpoint the time necesaary to obtain
all of these degrees.
I phoned the USC School of Medicine here in L.A. where I reside at
AC-323 442-2552 or 3021 and AC-323 226-6931 and spoke with the graduate
advisers, counselors attending physicains at the USC School of Medicine.
Here's the time frames they told me one would be working with:
4 years - B.A. degree
2 years - pre-med
4 years - medical school
4 years - residency
1-4 years - fellowship (depending on the speciality one decides to
pursue)
According to Harris' book, CONNECTING THE DOTS, Wolf's specialty was in
neurology (p. 93) which for USC is a one (1) year fellowship.
Futhermore, Wolf told Harris (p. 93) that he also had a M.S. (Master of
Science) in "Electromagnetic Fields' Influence on Organisms" though the
school he attended for this was NOT specified in her book and Wolf
forgot to list it in his filing with Dunn & Bradstreet; a slight
oversight I'm sure.
Now, let's add up ALL OF THE YEARS these degrees would take and see what
we come up with!
Age 25 - Wolf released from mental hospital
4 years - B.A. Biogenetics
2 years- premed at McGill University
4 years - medical school " "
4 years residency " "
1 year - Fellowship in Neurology
4 years - MIT, Theoretical Physics, PhD
4 years - Cal Tech, PhDs in Computer Science AND Theoretical Physics
(again)
4 years - Cambridge University, EDD in Education
3 years - Georgetown University, JD in International Law
3 years - M.S. Electromagnetic Fields (school UNknown)
= 33 YEARS for all of these degrees! This means that "Dr" Michael Wolf
started his career as a medic in Vietnam -- even though the war was over
in '71 -- at age 58 only one (1) year BEFORE he died at age 59 in 2000!
Clearly, NO purpose would have been served for anyone to have obtained
all of these degrees and even if they could because of an inheritance or
winning a lottery, one would barely have enough time to do them all
before it was time to retire!
For Wolf's apologists -- of which there seem to be many -- they call
those who point out Wolf's numerous false claims as "debunkers." I take
issue with that term which has a perjorative feel to it as written in
this sense.
According to Webster's New World College Dictionary, p. 373, column one,
to "debunk" means: "expose the FALSE or exaggerated claims, pretensions,
glamour, etc."
However, in the UFO field, it's taken on an additional context and
peripheral meaning in my view: ANYone who slam- dunks ANY UFO, "flying
saucer" stories. This would be descriptive of the well-known Phillip
Klass or Kal K Korff [THE ROSWELL UFO CRASH: WHAT THEY DON'T WANT YOU
KNOW] both of whom outright DENY the credibility/authenticity of each
and EVERY UFO sighting and/or abductee and/or contactee claim made. In
my view, these are "Debunkers": Individuals who have already arrived at
a conclusion BEFORE they've evaluated ANY of the facts!
These individuals are to be distinguished from highly regarded,
respected researchers/investigators such as Professor Jim Marrs (ALIEN
AGENDA, RULE BY SECRECY, Timothy Good (ABOVE TOP SECRET, ALIEN LIAISON,
BEYOND TOP SECRET), Don Ecker (UFO Magazine), Drs Hal Puthoff and Jack
Sarfatti (THE STARGATE CONSPIRACY; Dr Puthoff featured on p. 55 of the
Feb 2004 issue of POPULAR MECHANICS Magazine), Stanton Friedman (too
many books to list), etc.
All of these individuals do evaluate the facts -- Unlike Klass and Korff
-- and are only pursuing the TRUTH about UFO matters and the people who
claim to be "insiders" into the phenomenon as the late Michael Wolf
claimed to be.
As Dr Jack Sarfatti so aptly put it: "Extraordinary claims require
extraordinary evidence."
Some of Wolf's apologists are now backtracking and now claim that the
degrees they saw in his small Hartford, CT apartment may have been
HONORARY degrees conferred upon him for his "highly secret, sensitive
work in the black world." If that's true, then they mean NOTHING!
Only degrees where one WORKED for what one is awarded years later under
the studied guidance of a thesis adviser and all of the grueling
coursework has the right to say that they have a PhD in this or that.
2) The Wolf apologists have also slammed "armchair researchers." For
someone living in Italy like Paola L Harris, I can understand why she
might think this and also failed to understand the scope, breadth and
magnitude of Wolf's claimed academic degrees and the fact that there
simply would never have been enough time to have ever accomplsihed all
of them.
Unlike Italy, we in America can now, with the advent and refinement of
the Internet, conduct a tremendous and ACCURATE amount of research via
the Internet hence the "armchair" criticism. Most of you on this list
-- unless residing Ouside of the United States -- are acutely aware of
the valuable resorces we can now access online without ever leaving the
privacy and comfort of our homes. And if that's not available, then
there's always the phone (such as the calls I made to the USC School of
Medicine).
A friend of mine who works for the L.A.
Dept of Water & Power travels to Italy for his yearly vacation and he
informs me that Italy is about 10-15 years behind the U.S. in terms on
their online public access to public records; NO "armchair research"
there, you have to go and retrieve what you want in PERSON!
Years and years ago, a person would have to go through boxes and files
of musty old documents to find what they were looking for; now MUCH is
available online.
Paola Harris seems to think that ONLY in-person interviews can yield the
only valid inormation. Not so! I agree with her that MUCH can be
gleaned from interviewing the SUBJECT of an investigation by seeing and
speaking w/ them in person, however, that's NOT necessary when
addressing peripheral matters.
For example, on the Web site:
www.geocities.com/dreamingbones/wolf.html
"Dr Wolf asked me [Richard Boylan] if I had seen the movie 'Peacemaker.'
When I replied that I had, he said, "The women (sic) in that movie was
based on a real person I WORKED WITH, Dr Jessica Stern of the National
Security Council."
I phoned Dr Jessica Stern on her private, direct line at Harvard
University at: AC-617 496-3623 and I was referred to her assistant
Michael Johnson at AC-617 495-9455 and I received both a return call AND
an e-mail categorically DENYING that she ever worked with Wolf much less
knowing him.
[ jessica_stern@harvard.edu ]
Note: Dr Stern's book TERROR IN THE NAME OF GOD is a current national
bestseller on the non-fiction listing. Her PhD is REAL, UNlike Wolf's.
Paola is suggesting that somehow my spending $2,000 for my air fare,
room, board and a rent-a-car, and then running down Dr Stern between
classes and asking her in person about Michael Wolf might someow yield a
different answer. In other words, she lied to me on the phone and in an
e-mail, but in person she'll tell me the "truth" and acknoweldge that
she worked with Michael Wolf in the Clinton administration,... what?!
WHY would her answer differ from the phone/e-mail and asking her in
person?!
In an e-mail Paola sent me dated 1-16-04, she wrote: "Dr Wolf never
mentioned Jack Sarfatti to me in all 70 taped conversations. I met Jack
in Rome in September and he is a fine sincere person,... All of my
research is FIRST HAND; I dispel armchair research as solid."
Once again the inference is that if I were to hop on a plane and go meet
Dr Jack Sarfatti and ask him if he ever worked on a recovered alien disc
to reverse engineer it in 1973 as Wolf allegedly relayed to Richard
Boylan, his answer to me would somehow be different than what his
response has been to me thus far via e-mail: NO, he NEVER worked on a
retrieved alien disc in 1973 -- though he wishes he had! -- and the
story put out by the ne'er-do-wells in the UFO community is totally
false; I believe Dr Sarfatti, not Wolf nor Boylan. What would Dr
Sarfatti's motivation be to lie to me and everyone else on his open
list?!
Paola also dropped the ball when she uttered her surprise that Wolf
never brought up Dr Sarfatti's name to her; I'm sure Wolf discussed
things w/ other researchers that he hadn't w/ her and vice versa.
If I ever meet Dr Sarfatti, I might discuss x, y and Z with him, but I
might discuss a,b, c and y with Dr Puthoff; people can't be expected to
talk about the SAME exact things with others even if they're all in the
same field of endeavor.
Bottom line: YES! "Armchair research" is solid when done for the RIGHT
ISSUES.
3) Other apologists have (mistakenly) compared the late Michael Wolf to
the Nobel Prize winner and Princeton University Professor, Dr John
Forbes Nash on whose life the movie A BEAUTIFUL MIND was based on.
NOT a good comparison and here's why: As Dr Jack Sarfatti so astutely
pointed out, Dr John Nash provided ample PROOF of his capabilities and
accomplishments by having been awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic
Science for his work on game theory along with Harsanyi and Selten.
Moreover, he was awarded the Leroy P Steele Prize by the American
Mathematical Society "for a seminal contribution to research."
May he rest in peace, but Wolf leaves us NOTHING to substantiate his
fantastic, wild-eyed claims either in the area of research, products
gleaned and developed for general use nor proof of ANY of his schooling.
Paola Harris compared Wolf's "secret government work" to that of John
Nash. Again, not a good comparison. Clearly, with all of the mental
problems Michael Wolf had, NO government agency would have ever employed
him since he would have failed the demanding, detailed, full-field
background investigation.
Likewise, John Nash NEVER worked for the U.S. government, at least
directly. John Nash entered Bluefield College in 1941 (the year Wolf
was born) and there he took mathematics as well as science courses.
From there, Nash won a scholarship in the George Westinghouse
Competition and was accepted by the Carnegie Institute of Technology
(now Carnegie-Mellon University) in 1945. There he switched from a
chemical engineering major to a mathematics major with an interst in
tensor calculus and relativity.
Nash received a BA and an MA in mathematics in 1948. Nash was accepted
for doctoral studies at Harvard, Princeton, Chicago and Michigan and
ended up attending Princeton as they made him the most generous offer.
It was here and in 1949 that Dr Nash wrote a paer that 45 years LATER
would win him a Nobel prize for economics. This is what Dr Sarfatti
meant that Dr Nash's accomplishment's were evident and could be
produced.
This is what Dr Nashs's thesis adviser wrote about him:
"The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important
idea in noncooperative game theory,... Whether we are analysing
candidates' election strategies, the causes of war, agenda manipulation
in legislatures, or the actions of interest groups, predictions about
events reduce to a search for and description of equilibria. Put
simply, equilibrium strategies are the things that we predict about
people."
In 1950, Nash received his PhD from Princeton with a thesis entitled,
"Non-Cooperative Games." While at Princeton, he went to see Einstein
not long after he had arrived and told him an idea he had regarding
gravity. After explaining complicated mathematics to Einstein for about
an hour, Einstein advised him to go and learn more physics. Apparently,
a physicist DID publish a similar idea some years later.
After leaving Princeton, Dr Nash went to work for the RAND Corporation
where his game theory made him a leading expert on the Cold War conflict
and which dominated RAND's work; they tried to apply game theory to
military and diplomatic strategy. His famous theorem: that any compact
real manifold is diffeomorphic to a component of a real-algebraic
variety was Nash's "backup" had his game thoery not been considered
suitable for a doctoral thesis.
Michael Wolf published his only book in 1993, THE CATCHERS OF HEAVEN;
compare that to Dr Nash's first paper published in 1952, REAL ALGEBRAIC
MANIFOLDS IN THE ANNALS OF MATHEMATICS. The most important result in
this paper is that two real algebraic manifolds are equivalent if and
only if they are analytically homeomorphic.
From 1952 on, Dr Nash taught at MIT where his research on the theory of
real algebraic varieties, Riemannian geometry, parabolic and elliptic
equations was very significant in the development of all these topics.
In 1956, Dr Nash published a paper on his Riemannian manifolds and this
paper was also famous for its deep implicit function theorem.
Much like Michael Wolf being Involuntarily remanded to a mental
hospital, Dr John Nash was too when his wife Alicia had him committed at
McLean Hospital, a private psychiatiric hospital olutside of Boston.
Upon his release, he resigned from MIT, left for Europe, but then
retunred to the U.S. where he hung around the Princeton campus talking
about himself in the third person as John von Nassau, writing
nonsensical postcards and making phone calls to former colleagues with
whom he discussed numerology and world political affairs.
In 1961, his wife, mother and sister remanded him to the Trenton State
Hosptal in New Jersey where he endured insulin-coma therapy. Over the
next decade plus, Nash slowly recovered and in 1996, describing his
illness at the tenth World Congress of Psychiatry in 1996, he said:
"...,the staff at my university, the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and later all of Boston were behaving strangely towards
me,... I started to see crypto-communists everywhere,... I started to
think I was a man of great religious importance and to hear voices all
the time. I began to hear something like telephone calls in my head
from people ooposed to my ideas,... The delerium was like a dream from
which I seemed never to awake."
YES! Both Michael Wolf and Dr John Nash had severe mental
problems/issues, but UNlike Wolf, Dr Nash made invaluable, PROVABLE
contributions to society while Wolf did not. Both Wolf and Nash were
committed to two (2) mental hospitals, but that's where any similarities
END.
In an eerie sort of way, Paola Harris' remarks on p. 97 of CONNECTING
THE DOTS certainly has the ring of truth:
"I long realized that too many things in this story do NOT fall into
neat piles, especially with Dr Wolf's physical and medical records."
Amen, Paola!
In closing, the way and manner in which dedicated, well-meaning UFO
researchers have swallowed Wolf's story hook, line and sinker is
reminiscent of what Houston millionaire and health spa tycoon Richard
Minns wrote back in the late '70s as the three (3) maxims he lived his
life by:
1) NEVER OVERestimate the intelligence of the average man.
2) MOST people are STUPID.
3) EVERY man has his price.
WithOUT a doubt, the late Michael Wolf Kruvant was acutely aware of the
FIRST maxim!
Dr John F Nash biography online:
www-gap.dcs.st-and.a.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Nash.html
www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Nash.html
John F Nash, Jr Home Page:
www.math.princeton.edu/jfnj/
From: "Green, Christopher"
Date: January 20, 2004 8:24:31 AM PST
Subject: RE: Friedman questions Wolf's 'Higher Education'
On the other hand; McGill Medical School (alas; they turned me down and I had to go to U of Wisconsin and U of Colorado) does accept entry-level medical students after 2 undergraduate years, and then confers an MD. In the US (about 5 states) and a couple of provinces in Canada, it is possible top get a license to practice without an internship and/or residency: becoming less common all the time, however. Thus, one can theoretically get an MD from McGill by about age 21 or 22. I would like a web site about Wolf if there is one.
-----Original Message-----
From:Jack Sarfatti [mailto:sarfatti@pacbell.net]
Sent:Sunday, January 18, 2004 7:07 PM
Subject:Re: Friedman questions Wolf's 'Higher Education'
Memorandum for the Record
Yes, for the record I agree with Stan on all this. The facts are obvious. In this case as Stan correctly points out all one need do is the arithmetic as he does below.
On Jan 18, 2004, at 1:00 PM, visions wrote:
Stan Friedman has sent me this email for distribution among this group, Dave Haith
I wonder if Paola understands the North American Higher Education system. It is claimed that Michael Wolf received an MD from McGill (a very prestigious university in Montreal) in 1964. Now to receive an MD required 4 years of premed, 3 years of Medical School and 2-3 or more years of internship and residencies.. That would mean a total of about 9 years. Boylan claimed that in 1998 Michael was 55 which means he was 21 in 1964... I guess he started when he was 12. He flunked out of Upsala in the late 1950s. Getting into medical school is a very competitive process requiring outstanding performance in premed. There is no listing of any undergraduate work prior to Med school.
A PhD in Physics at MIT requires a minimum of 3-5 years after receipt of a bachelor's degree with outstanding grades and preparation in an undergraduate college or University. Neither a premed education nor an MD would could provide sufficient background in Mathematics and Physics to qualify a person for admission to Graduate work in Physics at MIT. Yet Michael supposedly received his PhD in Theoretical Physics at MIT in 1968. According to MIT, and every other campus I have talked to a PhD requires sign off by a Thesis advisor. Neither a title nor an advisor has been named. Anybody know of anyone who has advanced degrees in Medicine, Physics , and law?
Once one has a PhD in theoretical Physics from MIT, it would be extraordinarily unlikely that California Institute of Technology (another top flight, difficult to gain admission to, University) would accept such a person to do another PhD in Theoretical Physics. Yet another one is claimed for Cal Tech in 1976. Cal Tech, as with the other schools, says they never heard of Michael Wolf or Michael Wolf Kruvant. Again no thesis advisor and no thesis title. Georgetown claims it takes 3 years to obtain a JD. There would have seemed to be no space for this during his incredible life.
Michael has claimed to be an AF pilot and Colonel.. normally that requires years as a Captain and years as a Major. Just when did these take place?
Michael told Dun and Bradstreet that his Institute (located in the same small apartment where he lived) had 31 employees. D and B could find no such institute though anybody with 31 employees must be registered since there are taxes and social security to be collected, etc.
In summary, Michael was a bright Walter Mitty,not a scientist with any degrees, not a colonel, not an AF pilot, not head of an institute,not a doctor, not a lawyer, not a physicist, not a buddy of President Clinton.
Whether or not he was in Italy and spoke fluent Italian is totally irrelevant.
Stan Friedman
Max Tegmark's homepage http://www.hep.upenn.edu/~max/index.html
is a good resource on recent progress in cosmology.
For example:
"What are these cosmological parameters?
In our standard cosmological model, the Universe was once in an extremely dense and hot state, where things were essentially the same everywhere in space, with only tiny fluctuations (at the level of 0.00001) in the density. As the Universe expanded and cooled, gravitational instability caused these these fluctuations to grow into the galaxies and the large-scale structure that we observe in the Universe today. To calculate the details of this, we need to know about a dozen numbers, so-called cosmological parameters. Most of these parameters specify the cosmic matter budget, i.e., what the density of the Universe is made up of - the amounts of the following ingredients:
• Baryons - the kind of particles that you and I and all the chemical elements we learned about in school are made of: protons & neutrons. Baryons appear to make up only about 5% of all stuff in the Universe.
• Photons - the particles that make up light. Their density is the best measured one on this list.
• Massive neutrinos - neutrinos are very shy particles. They are known to exist, and now at least two of the three or more kinds are known to have mass.
• Cold dark matter - unseen mystery particles widely believed to exist. There seems to be about six times more of this strange stuff than baryons, making us a minority in the Universe."
Here is where I suggest that Max and all the main physicists have made an unwarranted false assumption that dark matter is made out of "unseen mystery particles". Such particles can be detected by "clicks" on a suitable detector. This will never happen is my prediction. Sure one will see some false positives. Dark matter and dark energy are both w = -1 exotic vacuum regions of zero point energy stress-energy density of positive and negative pressure respectively. The sign and strength of the zero point pressure is controlled by a vacuum coherence field. Metric engineering is the control of this vacuum coherence field out of which Einstein's gravity emerges.
• "Curvature - if the total density differs from a certain critical value, space will be curved. Sufficiently high density would make space be finite, curving back on itself like the 3D surface of a 4D hypersphere.
• Dark energy - little more than a fancy name our ignorance of what seems to make up about two thirds of the matter budget. One popular candidates is a "Cosmological constant", a.k.a. Lambda, which Einstein invented and then later called his greatest blunder. Other candidates are more complicated modifications to Einsteins theory of Gravity as well as energy fields known as "quintessence". Dark energy causes gravitational repulsion in place of attraction. Einstein invented it and called it his greatest mistake, but combining new SN 1a and CMB data indicates that we might be living with Lambda after all."
is a good resource on recent progress in cosmology.
For example:
"What are these cosmological parameters?
In our standard cosmological model, the Universe was once in an extremely dense and hot state, where things were essentially the same everywhere in space, with only tiny fluctuations (at the level of 0.00001) in the density. As the Universe expanded and cooled, gravitational instability caused these these fluctuations to grow into the galaxies and the large-scale structure that we observe in the Universe today. To calculate the details of this, we need to know about a dozen numbers, so-called cosmological parameters. Most of these parameters specify the cosmic matter budget, i.e., what the density of the Universe is made up of - the amounts of the following ingredients:
• Baryons - the kind of particles that you and I and all the chemical elements we learned about in school are made of: protons & neutrons. Baryons appear to make up only about 5% of all stuff in the Universe.
• Photons - the particles that make up light. Their density is the best measured one on this list.
• Massive neutrinos - neutrinos are very shy particles. They are known to exist, and now at least two of the three or more kinds are known to have mass.
• Cold dark matter - unseen mystery particles widely believed to exist. There seems to be about six times more of this strange stuff than baryons, making us a minority in the Universe."
Here is where I suggest that Max and all the main physicists have made an unwarranted false assumption that dark matter is made out of "unseen mystery particles". Such particles can be detected by "clicks" on a suitable detector. This will never happen is my prediction. Sure one will see some false positives. Dark matter and dark energy are both w = -1 exotic vacuum regions of zero point energy stress-energy density of positive and negative pressure respectively. The sign and strength of the zero point pressure is controlled by a vacuum coherence field. Metric engineering is the control of this vacuum coherence field out of which Einstein's gravity emerges.
• "Curvature - if the total density differs from a certain critical value, space will be curved. Sufficiently high density would make space be finite, curving back on itself like the 3D surface of a 4D hypersphere.
• Dark energy - little more than a fancy name our ignorance of what seems to make up about two thirds of the matter budget. One popular candidates is a "Cosmological constant", a.k.a. Lambda, which Einstein invented and then later called his greatest blunder. Other candidates are more complicated modifications to Einsteins theory of Gravity as well as energy fields known as "quintessence". Dark energy causes gravitational repulsion in place of attraction. Einstein invented it and called it his greatest mistake, but combining new SN 1a and CMB data indicates that we might be living with Lambda after all."
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
On Jan 19, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Tony Smith wrote:
Jack, here are some more answers:
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My pdf web book (about 75 to 80 mb in size)
JS: Too big for download.
TS: can be downloaded from
http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/TonySwebBook.pdf
It is basically my web site in one tagged pdf file
that can be read with Adobe Acrobat Reader
without being connected to the internet.
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You ask that I "... do a Hans Bethe back of the envelope
toy model like he did for the Lamb shift on the train ...".
I have been there and done that with no good result.
Years ago I did my fine structure constant calculation,
which involves ratios of geometric volumes related to
the conformal group etc.
The result is 1 / 137.03608...
JS: What is the idea here? What are these "geometric volumes" and how do they derive from the group structure?
Can you make a toy model of ratios of volumes with say some simple group like O(2)?
TS: Similar calculations have been done by people for a long
time, from the time of Wyler in the 1960s-70s (which is
where I learned about the math structures)
to the present, such as Smilga's work in 2003.
JS: I remember when that came out.
TS: Such back-of-the-envelope calculations are routinely
dismissed as mere numerology.
JS: OK that's why one needs to make clear what the "paradigm" is. What are the key "organizing ideas"?
The philosophy if you will.
TS: For example,
Wyler was savagely criticised by David Gross
in Physics Today (December 1989, pp. 9-11)
where Gross said "... The most recent example
that attracted widespread attention was the work
of the mathematician Armand Wyler, who related
alpha to the ratio of some (strangely normalized)
group volumes. His formula ... is accurate to 1 ppm
... It proved surprisingly simple to find formulas
of equal simplicity, accuracy and vacuity. ...".
JS: Strange. Yes, they have their own Mafia. They
got 8 million dollars for the Santa Barbara Center
from a man who lives there.
OK the continuous group is a manifold and
you have integrals I suppose. Can you review how
all that works using simple groups as examples?
I don't mean for you to do that instantly in next email. :-)
What are the ratios? Among subgroups?
What groups are used to get alpha? How does U(1) come it?
TS: In order to show that my alpha calculation is better
that Wyler's (or Smilga's), I would have to show
that my group volumes come from the context of
a nice unified structure,
and
as I have said in a previous message,
I cannot do that in any short exposition
JS: No one said it need be short or done quickly. It needs to be as linear step by step as possible to make it
understandable. Not easy. :-)
TS: without assuming
a lot of stuff that most people don't know,
JS: Right so you need to explain the background.
TS: so
the result is that, even though I have a lot of calculations,
I am not only ignored by the physics establishment,
I am now a blacklisted outlaw.
JS: Yes, but if they cannot understand where you are coming from that's not surprising. :-)
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TS: You ask how to visualize a Clifford algebra Cl(N),
with graded structure
1 N ... (binomial stuff) ... N 1
It looks like an (N-1)-simplex.
JS: OK that's what I thought.
TS: For example, Cl(4) has graded structure 1 4 6 4 1
and the grades can be visualized as
1 - empty set
4 - vertices
6 - edges
4 - faces
1 - volume
so that Cl(4) looks like a 3-simplex, or tetrahedron.
Another way to see it is as a generalized wedge-algebra for:
one scalar
N vectors
some bivectors
...
one N-vectors (volume)
in which the product is not just the /\ (which would give
you a Grassmann algebra for an N-dim vector space)
but
the Clifford product which combines the /\ exterior product
with an interior product.
JS: Is that the "bracket product" below?
TS: The resulting algebra was called a Geometric Algebra by
Clifford because it described both inner and outer product,
and is a natural algebra of the vector subspaces of a
given N-dim vector space.
JS: OK I seem to recall that. :-)
TS: Note that the Grassman algebra gives you the SU(n) series
of Lie algebras, with NO spinor reps (except in a few exceptional
cases like SU(2) = Spin(3) and SU(4) = Spin(6), which had lead
to a lot of conceptual confusion in the world of physics).
JS: Fleshing this out with worked examples would be good.
TS: Spinors (and consequently fermions) naturally live in
Clifford algebras whose bivectors, under the bracket product,
form Lie algebras for the Lie groups Spin(N).
Unfortunately (in my view), a lot of physicists insist on
trying to represent fermions by Grassman elements,
which is (in my view) an abomination against nature,
and only succeeds to the extent that physicists use
"spinors" related to such as SU(2) or SU(4) , the success
being due to the exceptional isomorphisms mentioned above.
JS: This sounds important and you need to expand on that point.
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TS: As to "tetrads", which are effectively Dirac gammas being
parallel transported in spacetime,
my 8-dim vectors don't do that by themselves,
but in conjunction with 8-dim half-spinor gammas,
to which the vectors correspond by Spin(8) triality
outer automorphism.
JS: This needs to be expanded as well.
TS: The parallel transport works nicely because globally
my 8-dim spacetime looks like S1xS7,
which is parallelizable because both S1 and S7 are parallelizable.
JS: "Parallizable" means you can make a "connection field"?
TS: In 4-dim (after dimensional reduction),
my physical 4-dim spacetime looks like S1xS3,
which is also parallelizable.
Note that S0, S1, S3, and S7 are the ony parallelizable spheres,
and
that the S1xS7 and S1xS3 structures come from
symmetric spaces related to the group structure of my model.
JS:
Is this where the De Sitter group comes in? The "radius" R of the sphere is related to Einstein's cosmological constant
/\ = R^-2
So this would only be for large-scale cosmology. In my theory R is a locally gauged variable R(x), i.e. a dynamic background-independent
inhomogeneous space-time with local De Sitter space fibers? Note /\ positive here would be "dark matter" and negative would be "dark energy" opposite to my normal sign convention which is /\ = -R^-2
The "dark" zero point w = -1 stress-energy exotic vacuum current density is
tuv(vac) = (Witten String Tension)(alpha)^-1/\(x)guv(x)
------------------------------------------------
TS: You ask
"... How does U(1)xSU(2)xSU(3) come out
with 1 + 3 + 8 = 12 gauge force bosons? ...".
The 12 gauge bosons are the 12 generators left over
from the 28 generators of Spin(8) (or Spin(1,7) if you pay
attention to signature)
after you take out the 16 generators of the U(2,2) subalgebra
that is used for conformal gravity and some Higgs stuff.
JS: OK so you are making local gauge compensating fields from all the group structure?
How do you get spin 2 tensor fields? I suppose supersymmetry means spin 1/2 and spin 3/2 compensating
fields as well. All that from different levels of the graded algebra? I mean the "simplex", which maybe
is really a "spin foam" unit cell of some kind?
Take your Cl(N) so that's all "boson" stuff. I mean simplices and polytopes in ordinary higher dimensional spaces.
How do you get the fermion dimensions? You need to use matrices instead of c-numbers. How does that happen?
Is that the Spin(8) et-al? I need to see exactly how the algebra works.
TS: The way they come out is VERY unconventional,
and one of the few "original" parts of my model.
It is based on decomposition of the root vector polytope of Spin(8),
and I came to figure it out by studying the Weyl group
while reading some of Saul-Paul's work on the Weyl group.
JS: Yeah, well all that needs to be explained in a detailed as intuitive way as possible.
Elegance in mathematics is complementary to physical understanding.
For example the Elegant Tailors prematurely set
h = c = G = k = 1 and in doing so missed a lot of interesting obvious connections between
string theory, loop quantum gravity and general relativity and quantum electrodynamics
that a simple Bridgman analysis suggests. Lee Smolin says that the loop theorists have
not yet derived
Guv = -(8p^/c^4)Tuv
from spin foams? Maybe I misunderstand what he wrote?
TS: It is NOT based on Cartesian product substructure
at the Lie group or Lie algebra level,
but
is based on the substructure at the Weyl group level,
which
is something that as far as I know is not even in the math
literature, much less physics.
JS: I do not understand this stuff yet. I sense it is important however.
TS: It is therefore VERY unfamiliar to anybody in conventional
math or physics, and I am sure that my use of it causes
great skepticism and hostility.
I suspect that it caused David Finkelstein to dismiss my
work to others as "mere numerology" (I have not heard him
say that myself, but I have been told by others that he said
that to third parties who inquired about my work at Ga Tech).
It also is the method by which my model bypasses
the Coleman-Mandula theorem against unifying gravity and
the Standard Model by making a Cartesian product of them
into a big group.
Referees and commentators on my work have dismissed it
based on Coleman-Mandula grounds, and when I try to explain
that Coleman-Mandula no more applies to my model than
it does to supergravity (which was, in a different way, also
constructed so that the Coleman-Mandula Theorem does not apply)
they close their eyes, ears, and minds to my Weyl group level
construction.
JS: I do not have the background here for your last remark.
TS: My guess is that Saul-Paul is the only person on earth who
might possibly be able to understand it without a huge amount
of work.
JS: Yes, him and Carlos Castro. BTW Paul Ginsparg's abuse of Carlos is incomprehensible
on rational grounds. Carlos has good degrees in physics, has many papers published
in top journals and writes quite clearly compared to most of the similar papers
published on the Cornell archive. He does not write about the paranormal, or
consciousness or UFOs in any of his physics papers. So why did Ginsparg
go after Carlos?
----------------------------------------------------------
TS: You ask "... Are there additional gauge force bosons?
All spin 1? ...".
There are no additional ones,
except the 16 U(2,2) generators used for conformal gravity etc.
They are all spin 1,
including the conformal gravity ones,
which start out as spin 1 but are "morphed" by the MacDowell-Mansouri
process into effectively spin 2 gravitons,
JS: I need to see the details of that magic. :-)
TS: which
give a spacetime that is effectively like curved spacetime
at large distances and low energies (a la Stanley Deser's work
that is described in Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler, Gravitation,
Freeman 1973, pp. 424-425 where they say:
".... this approach to Einstein's field equations can be summarized
as "curvature without curvature" or - equally well -
as "flat spacetime without flat spacetime"! ...").
Note that the Foreword to Feynmans' book on Gravitation states
that Deser's work was actually done first by Kraichnan, and
that "... Einstein ... was appalled by an approach to gravitation
that rejected Einstein's own hard-won geometrical insights ...".
JS: Roger Penrose also says that in his comments on the
"nonlinear graviton".
----------------------------------------------------------
TS: At the 8-dim level, there is only one generation of
8 fermion particles and 8 fermion antiparticles.
(electron, neutrino, red up quark, blue up quark, green up quark,
red down quark, blue down quark, green down quark and antiparticles)
The 3 generations come from splitting 8-dim spacetime
into 4-dim physical spacetime (PST)
plus
4-dim internal symmetry space (ISS).
JS: Sounds interesting. I would need to see the complete details.
TS: If at the 8-dim level a given fermion's path from A to B
is entirely in 4-dim PST,
then
we see it as a first-generation fermion simply going from A to B.
However,
if the fermion starts at A in 4-dim PST and ends in a part of
8-dim spacetime that becomes part of ISS,
then
since we only see 4-dim PST,
that fermion is seen by us as starting at A in PST
but ending at a B' in PST that comes back to PST from B in ISS:
PST ISS
A
B'--- B
What we see at our 4 + 4 dim low-energy level is not a direct
path from A to B, because B is not in our PST.
What we see is a 2-segment path, that has a second "node" in ISS
that introduces a second "fermion degree of freedom",
so that we see such fermions as second-generation fermions
that look like two-fold composites of first-generation fermions.
JS: Sounds interesting.
TS: It is easy to see that the only more complicated composite
permitted by that structure is
PST ISS
A ---- A'
|
|
|
|
B'--- B
which clearly corresponds to third-generation fermions being
effectively "triples" of first-generation fermions.
Clearly, in this model there are only three generations of fermions.
JS: I don't understand the diagrams off hand.
TS: The resulting combinatorics account realistically for the
facts that the up and down quarks are similar in mass,
the strange and charm quarks have different masses,
and the truth quark is MUCH more massive that the beauty quark.
When I have tried to explain this (VERY nonstandard) picture
to theoretical physicists, I have only gotten blank stares
of incomprehension.
JS: I can understand that! :-)
You simply need to slowly develop a comprehensive review of pre-requisites.
TS: However,
one EXPERIMENTAL physicist to whom I explained it said something
like:
"That is neat - it is like the second and third generations
have hooks into the higher dimensions."
JS: Yes, that is a helpful image. Keep talking to that guy.
TS: However, he was no more able to help me be taken seriously
by theorists than was a chemistry grad student at Princeton who
saw my calculations on the web and said something like
"Those calculations cover a lot of ground - why don't the
physics theory people work on them?"
I could only respond something like "Don't ask me"
and
he could only reply something like "If I were in physics,
I would study it closely, but I'm not, and I don't have
any influence with them."
JS: "If at first you don't succeed ... "
---------------------------------------------------------
TS: All this recollection of bad past experiences is getting
me depressed, since I am beginning to realize that
my fate is in fact to be a "mute inglorious Milton."
as far as human history is concerned.
Tony
JS: That's up to you. :-)
Jack, here are some more answers:
------------------------------------------------------------
My pdf web book (about 75 to 80 mb in size)
JS: Too big for download.
TS: can be downloaded from
http://www.innerx.net/personal/tsmith/TonySwebBook.pdf
It is basically my web site in one tagged pdf file
that can be read with Adobe Acrobat Reader
without being connected to the internet.
------------------------------------------------------------
You ask that I "... do a Hans Bethe back of the envelope
toy model like he did for the Lamb shift on the train ...".
I have been there and done that with no good result.
Years ago I did my fine structure constant calculation,
which involves ratios of geometric volumes related to
the conformal group etc.
The result is 1 / 137.03608...
JS: What is the idea here? What are these "geometric volumes" and how do they derive from the group structure?
Can you make a toy model of ratios of volumes with say some simple group like O(2)?
TS: Similar calculations have been done by people for a long
time, from the time of Wyler in the 1960s-70s (which is
where I learned about the math structures)
to the present, such as Smilga's work in 2003.
JS: I remember when that came out.
TS: Such back-of-the-envelope calculations are routinely
dismissed as mere numerology.
JS: OK that's why one needs to make clear what the "paradigm" is. What are the key "organizing ideas"?
The philosophy if you will.
TS: For example,
Wyler was savagely criticised by David Gross
in Physics Today (December 1989, pp. 9-11)
where Gross said "... The most recent example
that attracted widespread attention was the work
of the mathematician Armand Wyler, who related
alpha to the ratio of some (strangely normalized)
group volumes. His formula ... is accurate to 1 ppm
... It proved surprisingly simple to find formulas
of equal simplicity, accuracy and vacuity. ...".
JS: Strange. Yes, they have their own Mafia. They
got 8 million dollars for the Santa Barbara Center
from a man who lives there.
OK the continuous group is a manifold and
you have integrals I suppose. Can you review how
all that works using simple groups as examples?
I don't mean for you to do that instantly in next email. :-)
What are the ratios? Among subgroups?
What groups are used to get alpha? How does U(1) come it?
TS: In order to show that my alpha calculation is better
that Wyler's (or Smilga's), I would have to show
that my group volumes come from the context of
a nice unified structure,
and
as I have said in a previous message,
I cannot do that in any short exposition
JS: No one said it need be short or done quickly. It needs to be as linear step by step as possible to make it
understandable. Not easy. :-)
TS: without assuming
a lot of stuff that most people don't know,
JS: Right so you need to explain the background.
TS: so
the result is that, even though I have a lot of calculations,
I am not only ignored by the physics establishment,
I am now a blacklisted outlaw.
JS: Yes, but if they cannot understand where you are coming from that's not surprising. :-)
-------------------------------------------------------------
TS: You ask how to visualize a Clifford algebra Cl(N),
with graded structure
1 N ... (binomial stuff) ... N 1
It looks like an (N-1)-simplex.
JS: OK that's what I thought.
TS: For example, Cl(4) has graded structure 1 4 6 4 1
and the grades can be visualized as
1 - empty set
4 - vertices
6 - edges
4 - faces
1 - volume
so that Cl(4) looks like a 3-simplex, or tetrahedron.
Another way to see it is as a generalized wedge-algebra for:
one scalar
N vectors
some bivectors
...
one N-vectors (volume)
in which the product is not just the /\ (which would give
you a Grassmann algebra for an N-dim vector space)
but
the Clifford product which combines the /\ exterior product
with an interior product.
JS: Is that the "bracket product" below?
TS: The resulting algebra was called a Geometric Algebra by
Clifford because it described both inner and outer product,
and is a natural algebra of the vector subspaces of a
given N-dim vector space.
JS: OK I seem to recall that. :-)
TS: Note that the Grassman algebra gives you the SU(n) series
of Lie algebras, with NO spinor reps (except in a few exceptional
cases like SU(2) = Spin(3) and SU(4) = Spin(6), which had lead
to a lot of conceptual confusion in the world of physics).
JS: Fleshing this out with worked examples would be good.
TS: Spinors (and consequently fermions) naturally live in
Clifford algebras whose bivectors, under the bracket product,
form Lie algebras for the Lie groups Spin(N).
Unfortunately (in my view), a lot of physicists insist on
trying to represent fermions by Grassman elements,
which is (in my view) an abomination against nature,
and only succeeds to the extent that physicists use
"spinors" related to such as SU(2) or SU(4) , the success
being due to the exceptional isomorphisms mentioned above.
JS: This sounds important and you need to expand on that point.
-------------------------------------------
TS: As to "tetrads", which are effectively Dirac gammas being
parallel transported in spacetime,
my 8-dim vectors don't do that by themselves,
but in conjunction with 8-dim half-spinor gammas,
to which the vectors correspond by Spin(8) triality
outer automorphism.
JS: This needs to be expanded as well.
TS: The parallel transport works nicely because globally
my 8-dim spacetime looks like S1xS7,
which is parallelizable because both S1 and S7 are parallelizable.
JS: "Parallizable" means you can make a "connection field"?
TS: In 4-dim (after dimensional reduction),
my physical 4-dim spacetime looks like S1xS3,
which is also parallelizable.
Note that S0, S1, S3, and S7 are the ony parallelizable spheres,
and
that the S1xS7 and S1xS3 structures come from
symmetric spaces related to the group structure of my model.
JS:
Is this where the De Sitter group comes in? The "radius" R of the sphere is related to Einstein's cosmological constant
/\ = R^-2
So this would only be for large-scale cosmology. In my theory R is a locally gauged variable R(x), i.e. a dynamic background-independent
inhomogeneous space-time with local De Sitter space fibers? Note /\ positive here would be "dark matter" and negative would be "dark energy" opposite to my normal sign convention which is /\ = -R^-2
The "dark" zero point w = -1 stress-energy exotic vacuum current density is
tuv(vac) = (Witten String Tension)(alpha)^-1/\(x)guv(x)
------------------------------------------------
TS: You ask
"... How does U(1)xSU(2)xSU(3) come out
with 1 + 3 + 8 = 12 gauge force bosons? ...".
The 12 gauge bosons are the 12 generators left over
from the 28 generators of Spin(8) (or Spin(1,7) if you pay
attention to signature)
after you take out the 16 generators of the U(2,2) subalgebra
that is used for conformal gravity and some Higgs stuff.
JS: OK so you are making local gauge compensating fields from all the group structure?
How do you get spin 2 tensor fields? I suppose supersymmetry means spin 1/2 and spin 3/2 compensating
fields as well. All that from different levels of the graded algebra? I mean the "simplex", which maybe
is really a "spin foam" unit cell of some kind?
Take your Cl(N) so that's all "boson" stuff. I mean simplices and polytopes in ordinary higher dimensional spaces.
How do you get the fermion dimensions? You need to use matrices instead of c-numbers. How does that happen?
Is that the Spin(8) et-al? I need to see exactly how the algebra works.
TS: The way they come out is VERY unconventional,
and one of the few "original" parts of my model.
It is based on decomposition of the root vector polytope of Spin(8),
and I came to figure it out by studying the Weyl group
while reading some of Saul-Paul's work on the Weyl group.
JS: Yeah, well all that needs to be explained in a detailed as intuitive way as possible.
Elegance in mathematics is complementary to physical understanding.
For example the Elegant Tailors prematurely set
h = c = G = k = 1 and in doing so missed a lot of interesting obvious connections between
string theory, loop quantum gravity and general relativity and quantum electrodynamics
that a simple Bridgman analysis suggests. Lee Smolin says that the loop theorists have
not yet derived
Guv = -(8p^/c^4)Tuv
from spin foams? Maybe I misunderstand what he wrote?
TS: It is NOT based on Cartesian product substructure
at the Lie group or Lie algebra level,
but
is based on the substructure at the Weyl group level,
which
is something that as far as I know is not even in the math
literature, much less physics.
JS: I do not understand this stuff yet. I sense it is important however.
TS: It is therefore VERY unfamiliar to anybody in conventional
math or physics, and I am sure that my use of it causes
great skepticism and hostility.
I suspect that it caused David Finkelstein to dismiss my
work to others as "mere numerology" (I have not heard him
say that myself, but I have been told by others that he said
that to third parties who inquired about my work at Ga Tech).
It also is the method by which my model bypasses
the Coleman-Mandula theorem against unifying gravity and
the Standard Model by making a Cartesian product of them
into a big group.
Referees and commentators on my work have dismissed it
based on Coleman-Mandula grounds, and when I try to explain
that Coleman-Mandula no more applies to my model than
it does to supergravity (which was, in a different way, also
constructed so that the Coleman-Mandula Theorem does not apply)
they close their eyes, ears, and minds to my Weyl group level
construction.
JS: I do not have the background here for your last remark.
TS: My guess is that Saul-Paul is the only person on earth who
might possibly be able to understand it without a huge amount
of work.
JS: Yes, him and Carlos Castro. BTW Paul Ginsparg's abuse of Carlos is incomprehensible
on rational grounds. Carlos has good degrees in physics, has many papers published
in top journals and writes quite clearly compared to most of the similar papers
published on the Cornell archive. He does not write about the paranormal, or
consciousness or UFOs in any of his physics papers. So why did Ginsparg
go after Carlos?
----------------------------------------------------------
TS: You ask "... Are there additional gauge force bosons?
All spin 1? ...".
There are no additional ones,
except the 16 U(2,2) generators used for conformal gravity etc.
They are all spin 1,
including the conformal gravity ones,
which start out as spin 1 but are "morphed" by the MacDowell-Mansouri
process into effectively spin 2 gravitons,
JS: I need to see the details of that magic. :-)
TS: which
give a spacetime that is effectively like curved spacetime
at large distances and low energies (a la Stanley Deser's work
that is described in Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler, Gravitation,
Freeman 1973, pp. 424-425 where they say:
".... this approach to Einstein's field equations can be summarized
as "curvature without curvature" or - equally well -
as "flat spacetime without flat spacetime"! ...").
Note that the Foreword to Feynmans' book on Gravitation states
that Deser's work was actually done first by Kraichnan, and
that "... Einstein ... was appalled by an approach to gravitation
that rejected Einstein's own hard-won geometrical insights ...".
JS: Roger Penrose also says that in his comments on the
"nonlinear graviton".
----------------------------------------------------------
TS: At the 8-dim level, there is only one generation of
8 fermion particles and 8 fermion antiparticles.
(electron, neutrino, red up quark, blue up quark, green up quark,
red down quark, blue down quark, green down quark and antiparticles)
The 3 generations come from splitting 8-dim spacetime
into 4-dim physical spacetime (PST)
plus
4-dim internal symmetry space (ISS).
JS: Sounds interesting. I would need to see the complete details.
TS: If at the 8-dim level a given fermion's path from A to B
is entirely in 4-dim PST,
then
we see it as a first-generation fermion simply going from A to B.
However,
if the fermion starts at A in 4-dim PST and ends in a part of
8-dim spacetime that becomes part of ISS,
then
since we only see 4-dim PST,
that fermion is seen by us as starting at A in PST
but ending at a B' in PST that comes back to PST from B in ISS:
PST ISS
A
B'--- B
What we see at our 4 + 4 dim low-energy level is not a direct
path from A to B, because B is not in our PST.
What we see is a 2-segment path, that has a second "node" in ISS
that introduces a second "fermion degree of freedom",
so that we see such fermions as second-generation fermions
that look like two-fold composites of first-generation fermions.
JS: Sounds interesting.
TS: It is easy to see that the only more complicated composite
permitted by that structure is
PST ISS
A ---- A'
|
|
|
|
B'--- B
which clearly corresponds to third-generation fermions being
effectively "triples" of first-generation fermions.
Clearly, in this model there are only three generations of fermions.
JS: I don't understand the diagrams off hand.
TS: The resulting combinatorics account realistically for the
facts that the up and down quarks are similar in mass,
the strange and charm quarks have different masses,
and the truth quark is MUCH more massive that the beauty quark.
When I have tried to explain this (VERY nonstandard) picture
to theoretical physicists, I have only gotten blank stares
of incomprehension.
JS: I can understand that! :-)
You simply need to slowly develop a comprehensive review of pre-requisites.
TS: However,
one EXPERIMENTAL physicist to whom I explained it said something
like:
"That is neat - it is like the second and third generations
have hooks into the higher dimensions."
JS: Yes, that is a helpful image. Keep talking to that guy.
TS: However, he was no more able to help me be taken seriously
by theorists than was a chemistry grad student at Princeton who
saw my calculations on the web and said something like
"Those calculations cover a lot of ground - why don't the
physics theory people work on them?"
I could only respond something like "Don't ask me"
and
he could only reply something like "If I were in physics,
I would study it closely, but I'm not, and I don't have
any influence with them."
JS: "If at first you don't succeed ... "
---------------------------------------------------------
TS: All this recollection of bad past experiences is getting
me depressed, since I am beginning to realize that
my fate is in fact to be a "mute inglorious Milton."
as far as human history is concerned.
Tony
JS: That's up to you. :-)
PS The new group that I control can be reached at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sarfatti_Physics_Seminars/
I did not moderate the old SarfattiScienceSeminars with 200 members. Someone unknown set it up and now has apparently taken it down?
On Jan 20, 2004, at 2:42 PM, jacobsarfatti wrote:
bcc
No I did not. Thanks. Also Sladale who worked on the WOW signal with Kraus at Ohio State back then is in contact with me. I did not see the attachment. Nick Herbert worked for Kraus also?
On Jan 20, 2004, at 12:51 PM, S-P & M-M Sirag wrote:
Jack,
Did you notice that the 1988 paper B... .... sent is by Jim Corum, et
alia ;-). And Jim was a student of John Kraus, who built the "Big Ear" radio
telescope in Ohio -- the one that got the "WOW" signal.
Remember that Jim took the UFO phenomenon seriously -- as we do.
Nuff said!
Saul-Paul
Subject: Re: Schumann resonance cavity for an Electromagnetic Distribution and
Propulsion System
Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2004, 12:10 PM
Thanks for the response. I have no numbers, except maybe from paper ref.
and comments (not mine) mentioned at bottom. Just an idea for now.
I thought that the available energy would not be enough. Perhaps the needed
energy could be induced with radiating stations (using amplification by
stimulated emission of radiation) and maybe make use of the 400KV potential
difference from the ionosphere to the surface of the earth.
JS: No, IMHO that is not the way to go at all. :-) I suggest you join my new
Sarfatti_Physics_Seminars@yahoogroups.com to keep up with advanced technical
developments in "metric engineering" relevant to the new Bush Manned Space Program,
though the ostensible planners are focusing on "conventional technology" in the short term.
What we are working on is "exotic technology".
Also check out
http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.pdf
http://qedcorp.com/APS/StarDrive1.mov
and my book
Space-Time and Beyond II (2002) on Amazon.
Oh, I see Corum's idea I think is to use the Schuman resonance as a kind of power transmission line with a conventional ground source?
Even if something like that could work, I do not know, it begs the question of deep space flight to the Stars and Beyond including time travel.
You can see me give a short talk on all that in Paramount Pictures DVD of Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home, Special Collector's Edition Disk 2 "Time Travel: The Art of the Possible" also on Learning Channel's "Ultra Science: Time Travel" with David Deutsch.
----------------------------------------------
PROCEEDINGS of the 1988 INTERNATIONAL TESLA SYMPOSIUM, 1988, edited by
Steven R. Elswick, BSEE, Mem.IEEE, published by the International Tesla
Society, ISBN 0-9620394-2-X, chapter 3, pp1-16, "Concerning Cavity Q" James
F. Corum, Ph.D., Kenneth L. Corum, Craig Spaniol, PhD, PE.
"Abstract"
"In this note we discuss the issue of low Q for the Schumann cavity and its
effect on global power distribution. We deter- mined that the observed Q is
attributable to shunt atmospheric conductivity, and as such is equivalent
to the excitation loss of conventional power transformers. We conclude that
low Q is not an issue of substance for global power distribution in Tesla's
system."
To accurately paraphrase, they included excitation and resistance losses
and determined that even though the earth is far from "perfectly
conducting" it conducts resonate current rather well.
"We suggest that Tesla, although he was one of the pioneers of distributed
tuned resonance and was here dealing with a cavity resonator, would have
approached the terrestial resonator from a power engineer's perspective. As
with the power transformers and distribution elements of his 60 Hertz
system, Tesla would have wanted to determine both the propagation and the
equi- valent shunt losses of the terrestrial resonator system. As a power
engineer, the Colorado Springs ELF experiments led him to conclude that
both are inconsequential."
Remember that Tesla designed the 60 cycle power grid, and never backed down
from his statement that the worldwide wireless system was even more
efficient. Corum, Corum and Spaniol concluded that the more power pumped
through the wireless system the better. The calculated losses remain rather
constant regardless of the amount of power conducted.
In a later paper (same reference, Chapter 3, pp17-23) John F. Sutton
(Goddard Space Flight Center) and Dr. Spaniol (referenced above): " A
Measurement of the Magnetic Earth-Ionosphere Cavity Resonances in the 3 -
30 Hz. Range "
"It is a common complaint that low cavity Q's imply that one of Tesla's
greatest schemes, wireless transmission of power on a global scale, would
be impractical. In their paper [see above] "Concerning Cavity Q," Corum,
Corum, and Spaniol point out that low cavity Q's do not necessarily limit
the practicality of such a system. Our current measurements indicate that
the cavity Q's are one or two orders of magnitude higher than previously
estimated and therefore would not be a limitation in any case."
I should mention: These cavity Q measurements include the resistance of the
conductor (earth) at the frequency measured. Dr. Spaniol was using very
good equipment (able to detect lightning strikes on the far side of the
planet). One problem with Schumann's measurements of the 1950's, and
Rycroft's measurements of the 1960's was the low resolution of the
available detection equipment at these ELF and VLF frequencies. Dr. Spaniol
states that using Rycroft's scope (sweep frequency analyzer) it was
impossible to measure a Q factor above 8 at a resonate frequency of 8
Hertz. Want some hard numbers?
"Figures 6 and 7 are plots of resonances at 25.00 Hz and 35.96 Hz,
respectively, both with Q's of approximately 600. Figure 8 is a plot of an
8.4 Hz cavity resonance response with a Q of at least 100. Figure 9 is a
cavity response at 19 Hz just resolved above the noise level. It has a Q of
at least 1,000."
At 11:48 AM 1/20/2004 -0800, jacobsarfatti wrote:
On Jan 20, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Brian W. Farmer wrote:
(Please see the attached document for a diagram)
Has anyone ever considered an Electromagnetic Distribution and Propulsion
System using ELF (Extremely Low Frequency), 3 Hz-50 Hz, of the Schumann
Resonance (SR) cavity?
Off hand, I doubt there is enough available energy there to be tapped?
Also, at best that would be an impulse EM stress drive with g-forces not a
weightless warp drive like in Alcubierre's toy metric. We are working on
"metric engineering", i.e. controlling the local space-time geometry of
the ship so that it literally "free floats" in "zero g" whilst executing
seemingly impossible "dog fight" maneuvers.
Background
Between the earth's terrestrial surface and ionosphere, a resonating
cavity is formed. Broadband electromagnetic impulses, like those from
lightning flashes, fill this cavity and create globally the so-called SR
at frequencies 5 - 50 Hz (Schumann, 1952; Bliokh et al., 1980). The
nominal average frequencies observed are 7.8, 14, 20, 26, 33, 39, and 45
Hz with slight diurnal variation. Applications have been generally
applied with a long wire antenna (tether) from the space shuttle for both
electric power generation and ELF signal radiation (Grossi, 1982).
Yes, but Too(EM) ~ E^2 + B^2 much too weak I suspect. Have you looked at
the numbers? If you have more detailed studies I would certainly want to
take a look. :-)
Risk and Payoff:
Interesting possibilities could exist in the "Access to Space" NASA
mission area with:
ELF ASER (amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), EASER, for
electromagnetic powered and guided flight assistance to/from space/earth.
Accomplished by one tether in space and/or one/two antennas on the
surface of the earth, using a directional standing wave.
References
Bliokh, P. V., A. P. Nikolaenko, and Y. F. Filippov, Schumann Resonances
in the Earth-
Ionosphere Cavity, Peter Perigrinus, London, 1980.
Grossi, M.D., 1982. New technology for ELF radiators: a review of
airborne, rocket borne and
space borne antennas. In: Medium Long and Very Long Wave Propagation.
AGARD Conference Proceedings, Vol. 305, pp. 41.1-41.18.
Schumann, W. O., Uber die strahlungslosen Eigenschwingungen einer
leitenden Kugel, die von
einer Luftshicht und einer Ionosphärenhulle umgeben ist, Z. Naturforsch
_____________________________________________________
B ..., Electronics Engineer
NASA Langley ...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sarfatti_Physics_Seminars/
I did not moderate the old SarfattiScienceSeminars with 200 members. Someone unknown set it up and now has apparently taken it down?
On Jan 20, 2004, at 2:42 PM, jacobsarfatti wrote:
bcc
No I did not. Thanks. Also Sladale who worked on the WOW signal with Kraus at Ohio State back then is in contact with me. I did not see the attachment. Nick Herbert worked for Kraus also?
On Jan 20, 2004, at 12:51 PM, S-P & M-M Sirag wrote:
Jack,
Did you notice that the 1988 paper B... .... sent is by Jim Corum, et
alia ;-). And Jim was a student of John Kraus, who built the "Big Ear" radio
telescope in Ohio -- the one that got the "WOW" signal.
Remember that Jim took the UFO phenomenon seriously -- as we do.
Nuff said!
Saul-Paul
Subject: Re: Schumann resonance cavity for an Electromagnetic Distribution and
Propulsion System
Date: Tue, Jan 20, 2004, 12:10 PM
Thanks for the response. I have no numbers, except maybe from paper ref.
and comments (not mine) mentioned at bottom. Just an idea for now.
I thought that the available energy would not be enough. Perhaps the needed
energy could be induced with radiating stations (using amplification by
stimulated emission of radiation) and maybe make use of the 400KV potential
difference from the ionosphere to the surface of the earth.
JS: No, IMHO that is not the way to go at all. :-) I suggest you join my new
Sarfatti_Physics_Seminars@yahoogroups.com to keep up with advanced technical
developments in "metric engineering" relevant to the new Bush Manned Space Program,
though the ostensible planners are focusing on "conventional technology" in the short term.
What we are working on is "exotic technology".
Also check out
http://qedcorp.com/APS/EmergentGravity.pdf
http://qedcorp.com/APS/StarDrive1.mov
and my book
Space-Time and Beyond II (2002) on Amazon.
Oh, I see Corum's idea I think is to use the Schuman resonance as a kind of power transmission line with a conventional ground source?
Even if something like that could work, I do not know, it begs the question of deep space flight to the Stars and Beyond including time travel.
You can see me give a short talk on all that in Paramount Pictures DVD of Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home, Special Collector's Edition Disk 2 "Time Travel: The Art of the Possible" also on Learning Channel's "Ultra Science: Time Travel" with David Deutsch.
----------------------------------------------
PROCEEDINGS of the 1988 INTERNATIONAL TESLA SYMPOSIUM, 1988, edited by
Steven R. Elswick, BSEE, Mem.IEEE, published by the International Tesla
Society, ISBN 0-9620394-2-X, chapter 3, pp1-16, "Concerning Cavity Q" James
F. Corum, Ph.D., Kenneth L. Corum, Craig Spaniol, PhD, PE.
"Abstract"
"In this note we discuss the issue of low Q for the Schumann cavity and its
effect on global power distribution. We deter- mined that the observed Q is
attributable to shunt atmospheric conductivity, and as such is equivalent
to the excitation loss of conventional power transformers. We conclude that
low Q is not an issue of substance for global power distribution in Tesla's
system."
To accurately paraphrase, they included excitation and resistance losses
and determined that even though the earth is far from "perfectly
conducting" it conducts resonate current rather well.
"We suggest that Tesla, although he was one of the pioneers of distributed
tuned resonance and was here dealing with a cavity resonator, would have
approached the terrestial resonator from a power engineer's perspective. As
with the power transformers and distribution elements of his 60 Hertz
system, Tesla would have wanted to determine both the propagation and the
equi- valent shunt losses of the terrestrial resonator system. As a power
engineer, the Colorado Springs ELF experiments led him to conclude that
both are inconsequential."
Remember that Tesla designed the 60 cycle power grid, and never backed down
from his statement that the worldwide wireless system was even more
efficient. Corum, Corum and Spaniol concluded that the more power pumped
through the wireless system the better. The calculated losses remain rather
constant regardless of the amount of power conducted.
In a later paper (same reference, Chapter 3, pp17-23) John F. Sutton
(Goddard Space Flight Center) and Dr. Spaniol (referenced above): " A
Measurement of the Magnetic Earth-Ionosphere Cavity Resonances in the 3 -
30 Hz. Range "
"It is a common complaint that low cavity Q's imply that one of Tesla's
greatest schemes, wireless transmission of power on a global scale, would
be impractical. In their paper [see above] "Concerning Cavity Q," Corum,
Corum, and Spaniol point out that low cavity Q's do not necessarily limit
the practicality of such a system. Our current measurements indicate that
the cavity Q's are one or two orders of magnitude higher than previously
estimated and therefore would not be a limitation in any case."
I should mention: These cavity Q measurements include the resistance of the
conductor (earth) at the frequency measured. Dr. Spaniol was using very
good equipment (able to detect lightning strikes on the far side of the
planet). One problem with Schumann's measurements of the 1950's, and
Rycroft's measurements of the 1960's was the low resolution of the
available detection equipment at these ELF and VLF frequencies. Dr. Spaniol
states that using Rycroft's scope (sweep frequency analyzer) it was
impossible to measure a Q factor above 8 at a resonate frequency of 8
Hertz. Want some hard numbers?
"Figures 6 and 7 are plots of resonances at 25.00 Hz and 35.96 Hz,
respectively, both with Q's of approximately 600. Figure 8 is a plot of an
8.4 Hz cavity resonance response with a Q of at least 100. Figure 9 is a
cavity response at 19 Hz just resolved above the noise level. It has a Q of
at least 1,000."
At 11:48 AM 1/20/2004 -0800, jacobsarfatti wrote:
On Jan 20, 2004, at 10:11 AM, Brian W. Farmer wrote:
(Please see the attached document for a diagram)
Has anyone ever considered an Electromagnetic Distribution and Propulsion
System using ELF (Extremely Low Frequency), 3 Hz-50 Hz, of the Schumann
Resonance (SR) cavity?
Off hand, I doubt there is enough available energy there to be tapped?
Also, at best that would be an impulse EM stress drive with g-forces not a
weightless warp drive like in Alcubierre's toy metric. We are working on
"metric engineering", i.e. controlling the local space-time geometry of
the ship so that it literally "free floats" in "zero g" whilst executing
seemingly impossible "dog fight" maneuvers.
Background
Between the earth's terrestrial surface and ionosphere, a resonating
cavity is formed. Broadband electromagnetic impulses, like those from
lightning flashes, fill this cavity and create globally the so-called SR
at frequencies 5 - 50 Hz (Schumann, 1952; Bliokh et al., 1980). The
nominal average frequencies observed are 7.8, 14, 20, 26, 33, 39, and 45
Hz with slight diurnal variation. Applications have been generally
applied with a long wire antenna (tether) from the space shuttle for both
electric power generation and ELF signal radiation (Grossi, 1982).
Yes, but Too(EM) ~ E^2 + B^2 much too weak I suspect. Have you looked at
the numbers? If you have more detailed studies I would certainly want to
take a look. :-)
Risk and Payoff:
Interesting possibilities could exist in the "Access to Space" NASA
mission area with:
ELF ASER (amplification by stimulated emission of radiation), EASER, for
electromagnetic powered and guided flight assistance to/from space/earth.
Accomplished by one tether in space and/or one/two antennas on the
surface of the earth, using a directional standing wave.
References
Bliokh, P. V., A. P. Nikolaenko, and Y. F. Filippov, Schumann Resonances
in the Earth-
Ionosphere Cavity, Peter Perigrinus, London, 1980.
Grossi, M.D., 1982. New technology for ELF radiators: a review of
airborne, rocket borne and
space borne antennas. In: Medium Long and Very Long Wave Propagation.
AGARD Conference Proceedings, Vol. 305, pp. 41.1-41.18.
Schumann, W. O., Uber die strahlungslosen Eigenschwingungen einer
leitenden Kugel, die von
einer Luftshicht und einer Ionosphärenhulle umgeben ist, Z. Naturforsch
_____________________________________________________
B ..., Electronics Engineer
NASA Langley ...
Monday, January 19, 2004
Thanks Saul-Paul
On Jan 19, 2004, at 5:45 PM, S-P & M-M Sirag wrote:
Jack,
James Jesus Angleton was referred to in the context of Paola Harris' interview with Michael Wolf:
Michael: That's where uh Jesse's grandfather got involved (Jesse Jesus Angleton).
{Note by S.-P.: Paola wrote "(Jesse Jesus Angleton)"}
[Jack}: You mean "James" Jesus Angleton I think.
[end of quote from the taped interview]
[Jack]: OK that fits with the guy who claimed to be Angleton's grandson getting in touch with me and explains why Boylan and he tell the same false story about me in ~ 1973 that I was taken by USG to see a retrieved alien saucer. Sounds like a garbled version of a conversation we had with George Koopman and 1155 Jones eh Saul-Paul? I mean the one where George told us about CIA's interest in UFOs - how they fly, which also fit with Brendan O Regan's story.
[end of quote from email from Jack]
You need to read Paola's interview with Wolf to get the context. This is not very long (around 7 pages). I will quote the section on "Jesse Jesus Angleton":
Michel: That's where uh Jesse's grandfather got involved (Jesse Jesus Angleton)
Paola: Yes, I know.
Michel: And I'm all through his diaries. Jesse was able before they grabbed the diaries, Jesse was able to read them. And he saw my name, over and over and over again, almost on every page.
Paola: Well somebody grabbed the diaries?
Michael: Well...
Paola: They had to take away his diaries?
Michael: He was keeping...He was a member of the, he was
Paola: A member of the company...
Michael: A member of counter intelligence at the CIA
Paola: Right. So that means nobody gets to keep diaries.
Michael: Well, they are not suppose to. But he kept it in encryption. He encryptioned [sic] everything. But you know, he was very close to his Grandfather and his Grandfather...he took him to "no such agency."
Paola: What's "no such agency"?
Michael: NSA
Paola: Ouch.
Michael: It didn't suppose to exist. And yet there was a best seller written. And I put that in the book. Called the PUZZLE PALLACE. And the New York Times reviewed it and said that the only thing missing from this book is the combination of the Director's safe. Bobby Inman was once the director of NSA. NSA happens to be on of our BEST agencies because its least known. And it does incredible work. And I'm very proud that we did it.
[end of quote from Paola Harris]
Now to refresh your memory, I'm including an email you sent me on Feb. 17, 2001 about JJA and JJA Jr. Note the discrepancy between Robert Collins account and Michael Wolf's account in Paola's transcript. Wolf is talking about JJA's grandson. Collins seems to be talking about JJAJr as JJA son.
JS: Ah! The name of the alleged USAF Intelligence Captain who is one of Hal Puthoff's groupies and was very hostile to me because I said Hal's physics of UFOs is wrong is "Robert Collins". I had forgotten his name. Thanks. :-)
SPS: Also: Michael Wolf is talking about the grandson's diaries or the grandson's encryption of JJA's diaries; whereas Collins is talking about JJA's notes kept somehow by JJAJr. This seems bogus to me. And the discrepancies here increase the probability that these "diaries" or "notes" are phony.
JS: Yes the whole affair is almost certainly bogus I agree.
BTW: the guy who was writing to you claimed to be the grandson of JJA. Was that "grandson" named Jesse? I seem to remember that he called himself Jesse. I haven't been able to locate those e-mails yet.
As for George Koopman: Yes, he did claim to have worked for the "Nut Desk" at the DIA (along with Jeff Leaf). And he told us that the two highest priorities of items to be checked out were UFO accounts and anything involving the Soviet Union.
Nuff said -- for now ;-)
Saul-Paul
JS: Oh I see that Collins was on friendly terms with me when he wrote the letter below. He got real angry at me only when I questioned Hal Puthoff's infallibility on the UFO physics. :-) Note reference to neocon Schwartzy as well. :-)
---------
From: "Dr. J. Cesare Sarfatti"
To: Robert Collins
Subject: Re: James Angleton Sr's alleged CIA notes on Jack Sarfatti
Date: Sat, Feb 17, 2001, 6:26 PM
Robert Collins wrote:
"Jack S; remember that last email
and that "guy" doing "Gilbert and
Sullivan" tricks ? Well, he thought
same of your answer...That "guy" happens
to be JJA jr or the son of JJA see
http://home.sprintmail.com/~rigoletto/reports/tim_james_angleton.html "
JS: Well now, I owe you a very big favor! Can you back that up? This is extremely important. I always suspected as much. Of course, I know who James Angleton is and greatly admired the man! I think Stephen Schwartz actually met him? Schwartz and I argue with each other at times over stupid irrational testosterone based ego nonsense, this has happened since 1970's, but we are basically on same wavelength on all the issues he is expert at i.e. history of Soviet espionage especially in USA etc.
I suspect that Hal Chipman was working for James Angleton, Sr at time he was supporting me in 1985, so I am not surprised. I would guess that Angleton, Sr. had something to do with my meeting with Dennis Bardens in Cambridge UK Spring 74' where I was essentially "drafted" into Psy Ops whether I liked it or not! :-)
Now, I still do not understand what JJA is having a problem with? Tell him I will be glad to discuss these things with him in complete detail once I am sure I am dealing with the real Mc Coy of course. I think part of the problem is that his only contact with physics is from "Banking 101"! Again I repeat, and please forward to him, that my remarks on psychotronics - consciousness physics are all out there in complete detail. The problem is basically Mickey Mouse simple from the physics point of view once one sees the essential elements. I am not talking about psychology or neurology levels. Now the second thing is the hyperspace physics and how it relates to UFOs your own major interest. Which is JJA alluding to? The psychotronics "nonlethal weapons" angle is pretty much in the bag. So is, IMO the hyperspace explanation of the kind of stuff in Jacques Vallee's "Fast Walker".
Of course Angleton, Sr knew about Margherita Sarfatti. Did he ever meet her?
RC: "He got your name from his father's notes ref
classified meetings you had: JJA jr has been
sending his father's notes to us in bits and
pieces"
JS: I would like to see those notes about me. I will keep them confidential if he wishes. I will comment in detail on the accuracy of those notes as I remember the alleged events.
RC: "to check against our other sources since
May of 2000: He also verified the Gleason story
of seeing an Alien cadaver on ice at Homstead AFB
FL:"
JS: You know I defend Colonel Phil Corso on this sort of thing, or did you not know?
RC: "Those present were, Gleason, Nixon, BB Riboso,
JJA, and JJA jr."
JS: Kim Burrafato spoke personally with Nixon, I don't know if Kim discussed UFOs with him. He did discuss me with him. Several of our Caffe Trieste Irregulars were in the Pumpkin Papers group.
The father of one of my serious girlfriends from late 70's, a former SAC pilot, knew Reboso pretty well in Miami, in fact he built the boat for Reboso that Nixon used to go on. I think he also navigated the boat for them while they were on board? Stapleton Boat Company, Miami.
RC: "Said the cadaver smelled bad.
All this goes back to the JFK assassination as well."
JS: Shall I say I am not surprised?
RC: "Lots of this info from JJA jr and others is not
releasable and will probably wind up in a book.
Our Sources, Tim and I will probably be co-authoring
a book at some point: No point in giving things
away.....Rmc"
--
CREATE, COMMUNICATE, COLLABORATE
http://stardrive.org
On Jan 19, 2004, at 5:45 PM, S-P & M-M Sirag wrote:
Jack,
James Jesus Angleton was referred to in the context of Paola Harris' interview with Michael Wolf:
Michael: That's where uh Jesse's grandfather got involved (Jesse Jesus Angleton).
{Note by S.-P.: Paola wrote "(Jesse Jesus Angleton)"}
[Jack}: You mean "James" Jesus Angleton I think.
[end of quote from the taped interview]
[Jack]: OK that fits with the guy who claimed to be Angleton's grandson getting in touch with me and explains why Boylan and he tell the same false story about me in ~ 1973 that I was taken by USG to see a retrieved alien saucer. Sounds like a garbled version of a conversation we had with George Koopman and 1155 Jones eh Saul-Paul? I mean the one where George told us about CIA's interest in UFOs - how they fly, which also fit with Brendan O Regan's story.
[end of quote from email from Jack]
You need to read Paola's interview with Wolf to get the context. This is not very long (around 7 pages). I will quote the section on "Jesse Jesus Angleton":
Michel: That's where uh Jesse's grandfather got involved (Jesse Jesus Angleton)
Paola: Yes, I know.
Michel: And I'm all through his diaries. Jesse was able before they grabbed the diaries, Jesse was able to read them. And he saw my name, over and over and over again, almost on every page.
Paola: Well somebody grabbed the diaries?
Michael: Well...
Paola: They had to take away his diaries?
Michael: He was keeping...He was a member of the, he was
Paola: A member of the company...
Michael: A member of counter intelligence at the CIA
Paola: Right. So that means nobody gets to keep diaries.
Michael: Well, they are not suppose to. But he kept it in encryption. He encryptioned [sic] everything. But you know, he was very close to his Grandfather and his Grandfather...he took him to "no such agency."
Paola: What's "no such agency"?
Michael: NSA
Paola: Ouch.
Michael: It didn't suppose to exist. And yet there was a best seller written. And I put that in the book. Called the PUZZLE PALLACE. And the New York Times reviewed it and said that the only thing missing from this book is the combination of the Director's safe. Bobby Inman was once the director of NSA. NSA happens to be on of our BEST agencies because its least known. And it does incredible work. And I'm very proud that we did it.
[end of quote from Paola Harris]
Now to refresh your memory, I'm including an email you sent me on Feb. 17, 2001 about JJA and JJA Jr. Note the discrepancy between Robert Collins account and Michael Wolf's account in Paola's transcript. Wolf is talking about JJA's grandson. Collins seems to be talking about JJAJr as JJA son.
JS: Ah! The name of the alleged USAF Intelligence Captain who is one of Hal Puthoff's groupies and was very hostile to me because I said Hal's physics of UFOs is wrong is "Robert Collins". I had forgotten his name. Thanks. :-)
SPS: Also: Michael Wolf is talking about the grandson's diaries or the grandson's encryption of JJA's diaries; whereas Collins is talking about JJA's notes kept somehow by JJAJr. This seems bogus to me. And the discrepancies here increase the probability that these "diaries" or "notes" are phony.
JS: Yes the whole affair is almost certainly bogus I agree.
BTW: the guy who was writing to you claimed to be the grandson of JJA. Was that "grandson" named Jesse? I seem to remember that he called himself Jesse. I haven't been able to locate those e-mails yet.
As for George Koopman: Yes, he did claim to have worked for the "Nut Desk" at the DIA (along with Jeff Leaf). And he told us that the two highest priorities of items to be checked out were UFO accounts and anything involving the Soviet Union.
Nuff said -- for now ;-)
Saul-Paul
JS: Oh I see that Collins was on friendly terms with me when he wrote the letter below. He got real angry at me only when I questioned Hal Puthoff's infallibility on the UFO physics. :-) Note reference to neocon Schwartzy as well. :-)
---------
From: "Dr. J. Cesare Sarfatti"
To: Robert Collins
Subject: Re: James Angleton Sr's alleged CIA notes on Jack Sarfatti
Date: Sat, Feb 17, 2001, 6:26 PM
Robert Collins wrote:
"Jack S; remember that last email
and that "guy" doing "Gilbert and
Sullivan" tricks ? Well, he thought
same of your answer...That "guy" happens
to be JJA jr or the son of JJA see
http://home.sprintmail.com/~rigoletto/reports/tim_james_angleton.html "
JS: Well now, I owe you a very big favor! Can you back that up? This is extremely important. I always suspected as much. Of course, I know who James Angleton is and greatly admired the man! I think Stephen Schwartz actually met him? Schwartz and I argue with each other at times over stupid irrational testosterone based ego nonsense, this has happened since 1970's, but we are basically on same wavelength on all the issues he is expert at i.e. history of Soviet espionage especially in USA etc.
I suspect that Hal Chipman was working for James Angleton, Sr at time he was supporting me in 1985, so I am not surprised. I would guess that Angleton, Sr. had something to do with my meeting with Dennis Bardens in Cambridge UK Spring 74' where I was essentially "drafted" into Psy Ops whether I liked it or not! :-)
Now, I still do not understand what JJA is having a problem with? Tell him I will be glad to discuss these things with him in complete detail once I am sure I am dealing with the real Mc Coy of course. I think part of the problem is that his only contact with physics is from "Banking 101"! Again I repeat, and please forward to him, that my remarks on psychotronics - consciousness physics are all out there in complete detail. The problem is basically Mickey Mouse simple from the physics point of view once one sees the essential elements. I am not talking about psychology or neurology levels. Now the second thing is the hyperspace physics and how it relates to UFOs your own major interest. Which is JJA alluding to? The psychotronics "nonlethal weapons" angle is pretty much in the bag. So is, IMO the hyperspace explanation of the kind of stuff in Jacques Vallee's "Fast Walker".
Of course Angleton, Sr knew about Margherita Sarfatti. Did he ever meet her?
RC: "He got your name from his father's notes ref
classified meetings you had: JJA jr has been
sending his father's notes to us in bits and
pieces"
JS: I would like to see those notes about me. I will keep them confidential if he wishes. I will comment in detail on the accuracy of those notes as I remember the alleged events.
RC: "to check against our other sources since
May of 2000: He also verified the Gleason story
of seeing an Alien cadaver on ice at Homstead AFB
FL:"
JS: You know I defend Colonel Phil Corso on this sort of thing, or did you not know?
RC: "Those present were, Gleason, Nixon, BB Riboso,
JJA, and JJA jr."
JS: Kim Burrafato spoke personally with Nixon, I don't know if Kim discussed UFOs with him. He did discuss me with him. Several of our Caffe Trieste Irregulars were in the Pumpkin Papers group.
The father of one of my serious girlfriends from late 70's, a former SAC pilot, knew Reboso pretty well in Miami, in fact he built the boat for Reboso that Nixon used to go on. I think he also navigated the boat for them while they were on board? Stapleton Boat Company, Miami.
RC: "Said the cadaver smelled bad.
All this goes back to the JFK assassination as well."
JS: Shall I say I am not surprised?
RC: "Lots of this info from JJA jr and others is not
releasable and will probably wind up in a book.
Our Sources, Tim and I will probably be co-authoring
a book at some point: No point in giving things
away.....Rmc"
--
CREATE, COMMUNICATE, COLLABORATE
http://stardrive.org
bcc
On Jan 19, 2004, at 3:02 PM, Tony Smith wrote:
Jack, here are a few specific answers:
------------------------------
You ask "... how does Cl(8) relate to the Dirac matrices? ..."
Cl(8) is the 256-element algebra of 16x16 real matrices,
and the 1x16 column vectors roughly correspond to
two sets of 1x8 half-spinors, which by triality roughly
correspond to the 8-dim vectors and to a set of 8 generalized
Dirac gammas.
JS: OK, I need to ponder this a bit. :-)
---------------------------------
TS: You ask "... what is the formula? ..." for the 8-dim Lagrangian.
The Cl(8) Clifford algebra has graded structure
1 8 28 56 70 56 28 8 1
JS: This can also be viewed alternatively as in terms of topological simplices? Polytopes? Graphs? Super-Spin foams? Cartan forms? Extended relativity? Be good to show all the different isomorphic ways of looking at this same thing.
There is also a n - 8-n duality n = 1 to 8. Dirac matrices are Cl(4) correct? Paul spinors are Cl(3)? So spin foams are in Cl(4) and spin networks are in Cl(3) and supersymmetry must be automatic in there somehow? OK 8 reals is like SU(4), SU(2,2) and of course SU(2) is inside which Saul-Paul likes because of V.I. Arnold's math. So basically this is also a complex space-time twistor theory and should also be related to a symplectic "space-time" phase space?
TS: The 1-dim grade-0 element gives a scalar term.
JS: Will the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian density (-g)^1/2R come from that term or its dual or both? What about Higgs field?
TS: The 8-dim grade-1 vector elements give the 8-dim spacetime over
which the 8-dim Lagrangian density is integrated.
JS: Will that term also give "tetrads"?
TS: The 28-dim grade-2 bivector elements give the gauge boson term,
corresponding to the Fuv term in usual 4-dim Lagrangians.
JS: How does U(1)xSU(2)xSU(3) come out with 1 + 3 + 8 = 12 gauge force bosons? Are there additional gauge force bosons? All spin 1?
TS: The two sets of 8-dim half-spinors give the spinor term,
corresponding to the Dirac spinor term in usual 4-dim Lagrangians.
JS: How do you get three generations of lepto-quarks from that?
TS: So the 8-dim Lagrangian generally looks like
L = INTEGRAL ( scalar term + gauge boson term + spinor fermion term )
spacetime
Details are in the paper that you "... cannot understand ..."
and also found in material on my web site and my web book.
JS: URL for web book? Include http:// thanks.
Does scalar term include Einstein-Hilbert with Higgs field? I mean can you get curved space-time or is this still a globally flat theory?
----------------------------------
TS: You ask "... the internal fiber part in 4 real dimensions?
4 real dimensions seems too small? ...".
Not if you construct it properly. It is CP2.
CP2 = SU(3) / SU(2)xU(1) as a symmetric space
so that
CP2 has as "little group" isotropy symmetries electroweak SU(2)xU(1)
and
as global symmetry group color SU(3),
so
it can act as a "representation space" for the Standard Model.
JS: OK, that is a bit clearer, but I would need to see all the detailed algebra step by step to understand it.
------------------------------------
TS: You ask
"... Do you have the Higgs symmetry-breaking to get rest masses?
Do you have supersymmetry?
Do you need to stick in any empirical numbers as input? ...".
Yes, No, and No, respectively.
JS: OK I need to see how each of those work in detail. So you predict NO supersymmetry partners will ever be found?
That is consistent with my prediction that no dark matter detectors will ever click with the "right stuff" as on-mass-shell
exotic particles since I say that dark matter is simply w = -1 zero point stress-energy current densities of positive pressure
that simulate w = 0 CDM for distant observers as we discussed months ago. Dark energy is same sort of zero point energy
but with negative pressure, both are controlled by the local Vacuum Coherence Field.
TS: By the No on supersymmetry, I mean No with respect to the naive
1-1 fermion-boson supersymmetry that most physicists try to use
nowadays and that has never been seen in any experiment.
However,
if you look at my 8-dim Lagrangian closely,
you will see that the degrees of freedom in the gauge boson term
exactly match the degrees of freedom in the spinor fermion term,
so there IS a subtle high-energy supersymmetry that lets you
get nice things like ultraviolet finiteness etc.
In effect,
the high-dimensional counterparts of our ordinary observed
bosons and fermions DO give the nice cancellations that you
want in a unified theory. Note that you must include the gauge
bosons of the gravity conformal group to get the cancellations.
JS: That last statement is interesting. Is your Cl(8) the globally flat
Lie algebra that generates the Lie group that must be completely
locally gauged? Do you get spin 2 gauge bosons as well as spin 1
gauge bosons? I need to see all that in detail.
----------------------------------
TS: You say "... I can follow Carlo's general development of ideas
in his papers on a fast read without understanding every point
in detail without a lot of hard work.
But I cannot get to that point looking at your above URLs ...".
That is because Carlos's work (despite being disliked by Ginsparg)
is much closer to conventional formulations of physics than my work.
For example,
Carlos's work has some contact with superstring theory,
and mine has none.
There are things that I must use to get my model to work that
are very unfamiliar to most physicists, such as:
1 - Clifford algebra viewpoint with 8-dim spacetime.
A few people, such as David Hestenes, have tried to take a similar
viewpoint with 4-dim spacetime, and some have expanded his approach
in various ways (none exactly like mine), but their work is not currently
well-known and I have to explain a lot of Clifford algebra stuff
from scratch to most physicists.
JS: Yes, exactly that is what I am asking you to do, which you are now beginning to do. :-)
TS: 2 - The Meinhard Mayer dimensional reduction mechanism is not
well known and takes a lot of exposition to explain.
3 - The McDowell-Mansouri mechanism also takes a lot of exposition.
4 - The work of Hua on complex domains and symmetric spaces is
not well known, and, further, got a black eye in the physics
community when Armand Wyler used such techniques in his
controversial calculation of the fine structure constant
about 30 years ago.
ALL OF THESE UNFAMILIAR AREAS ARE ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL
PARTS OF MY UNIFIED PHYSICS MODEL.
JS: Until you explain them in a compelling way no one will understand what you
are really trying to say. First do a Hans Bethe back of the envelope toy model
like he did for the Lamb shift on the train. Show sort of how to compute say
one of the interesting experimental fudge factors of the standard model
from scratch without putting in any experimental numbers at all.
If you can really do that you will demolish the WAP "Landscape"
idea of Max Tegmark, Lee Smolin and Lenny Susskind and Paul Steinhardt
will like that. As you know computing numbers that agree with experiment
that none of the Pundits know how to compute will definitely raise eyebrows.
TS: It is probably a fact that, although there are a few experts
in each such area, the intersection of people familiar with
all of those areas would probably be empty except for me.
There is no way anybody not already familiar with all those areas
can
follow my general development of ideas in my papers on a fast read
without a lot of hard work.
Any efforts by me "... to explain in [my] own words what
the key concepts are in [my] model ..."
beyond what I have already done
would be pointless,
because there is no Royal Road to understanding those areas.
JS: Nevertheless try, or else you will be a "mute inglorious Milton." ;-)
TS: It simply requires a lot of work learning stuff that
the present physics community does not value highly,
and
most physicists would prefer to work on stuff that is
valued by the community so that they can get jobs, grants, etc.
Therefore,
it is my expectation that my work will never be understood
here in my lifetime. Most probably, never at all.
I find that sad in a way.
JS: Cheer up. :-)
TS: I have the (as of here and now, unique) pleasure of seeing how
all our observations fit together in a coherent way,
so
I myself am OK, my sadness is for those who will never see it.
Tony
JS: http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/princess_ida/html/pi_14.html
http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/princess_ida/colin/pi_14.mid
On Jan 19, 2004, at 3:02 PM, Tony Smith wrote:
Jack, here are a few specific answers:
------------------------------
You ask "... how does Cl(8) relate to the Dirac matrices? ..."
Cl(8) is the 256-element algebra of 16x16 real matrices,
and the 1x16 column vectors roughly correspond to
two sets of 1x8 half-spinors, which by triality roughly
correspond to the 8-dim vectors and to a set of 8 generalized
Dirac gammas.
JS: OK, I need to ponder this a bit. :-)
---------------------------------
TS: You ask "... what is the formula? ..." for the 8-dim Lagrangian.
The Cl(8) Clifford algebra has graded structure
1 8 28 56 70 56 28 8 1
JS: This can also be viewed alternatively as in terms of topological simplices? Polytopes? Graphs? Super-Spin foams? Cartan forms? Extended relativity? Be good to show all the different isomorphic ways of looking at this same thing.
There is also a n - 8-n duality n = 1 to 8. Dirac matrices are Cl(4) correct? Paul spinors are Cl(3)? So spin foams are in Cl(4) and spin networks are in Cl(3) and supersymmetry must be automatic in there somehow? OK 8 reals is like SU(4), SU(2,2) and of course SU(2) is inside which Saul-Paul likes because of V.I. Arnold's math. So basically this is also a complex space-time twistor theory and should also be related to a symplectic "space-time" phase space?
TS: The 1-dim grade-0 element gives a scalar term.
JS: Will the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian density (-g)^1/2R come from that term or its dual or both? What about Higgs field?
TS: The 8-dim grade-1 vector elements give the 8-dim spacetime over
which the 8-dim Lagrangian density is integrated.
JS: Will that term also give "tetrads"?
TS: The 28-dim grade-2 bivector elements give the gauge boson term,
corresponding to the Fuv term in usual 4-dim Lagrangians.
JS: How does U(1)xSU(2)xSU(3) come out with 1 + 3 + 8 = 12 gauge force bosons? Are there additional gauge force bosons? All spin 1?
TS: The two sets of 8-dim half-spinors give the spinor term,
corresponding to the Dirac spinor term in usual 4-dim Lagrangians.
JS: How do you get three generations of lepto-quarks from that?
TS: So the 8-dim Lagrangian generally looks like
L = INTEGRAL ( scalar term + gauge boson term + spinor fermion term )
spacetime
Details are in the paper that you "... cannot understand ..."
and also found in material on my web site and my web book.
JS: URL for web book? Include http:// thanks.
Does scalar term include Einstein-Hilbert with Higgs field? I mean can you get curved space-time or is this still a globally flat theory?
----------------------------------
TS: You ask "... the internal fiber part in 4 real dimensions?
4 real dimensions seems too small? ...".
Not if you construct it properly. It is CP2.
CP2 = SU(3) / SU(2)xU(1) as a symmetric space
so that
CP2 has as "little group" isotropy symmetries electroweak SU(2)xU(1)
and
as global symmetry group color SU(3),
so
it can act as a "representation space" for the Standard Model.
JS: OK, that is a bit clearer, but I would need to see all the detailed algebra step by step to understand it.
------------------------------------
TS: You ask
"... Do you have the Higgs symmetry-breaking to get rest masses?
Do you have supersymmetry?
Do you need to stick in any empirical numbers as input? ...".
Yes, No, and No, respectively.
JS: OK I need to see how each of those work in detail. So you predict NO supersymmetry partners will ever be found?
That is consistent with my prediction that no dark matter detectors will ever click with the "right stuff" as on-mass-shell
exotic particles since I say that dark matter is simply w = -1 zero point stress-energy current densities of positive pressure
that simulate w = 0 CDM for distant observers as we discussed months ago. Dark energy is same sort of zero point energy
but with negative pressure, both are controlled by the local Vacuum Coherence Field.
TS: By the No on supersymmetry, I mean No with respect to the naive
1-1 fermion-boson supersymmetry that most physicists try to use
nowadays and that has never been seen in any experiment.
However,
if you look at my 8-dim Lagrangian closely,
you will see that the degrees of freedom in the gauge boson term
exactly match the degrees of freedom in the spinor fermion term,
so there IS a subtle high-energy supersymmetry that lets you
get nice things like ultraviolet finiteness etc.
In effect,
the high-dimensional counterparts of our ordinary observed
bosons and fermions DO give the nice cancellations that you
want in a unified theory. Note that you must include the gauge
bosons of the gravity conformal group to get the cancellations.
JS: That last statement is interesting. Is your Cl(8) the globally flat
Lie algebra that generates the Lie group that must be completely
locally gauged? Do you get spin 2 gauge bosons as well as spin 1
gauge bosons? I need to see all that in detail.
----------------------------------
TS: You say "... I can follow Carlo's general development of ideas
in his papers on a fast read without understanding every point
in detail without a lot of hard work.
But I cannot get to that point looking at your above URLs ...".
That is because Carlos's work (despite being disliked by Ginsparg)
is much closer to conventional formulations of physics than my work.
For example,
Carlos's work has some contact with superstring theory,
and mine has none.
There are things that I must use to get my model to work that
are very unfamiliar to most physicists, such as:
1 - Clifford algebra viewpoint with 8-dim spacetime.
A few people, such as David Hestenes, have tried to take a similar
viewpoint with 4-dim spacetime, and some have expanded his approach
in various ways (none exactly like mine), but their work is not currently
well-known and I have to explain a lot of Clifford algebra stuff
from scratch to most physicists.
JS: Yes, exactly that is what I am asking you to do, which you are now beginning to do. :-)
TS: 2 - The Meinhard Mayer dimensional reduction mechanism is not
well known and takes a lot of exposition to explain.
3 - The McDowell-Mansouri mechanism also takes a lot of exposition.
4 - The work of Hua on complex domains and symmetric spaces is
not well known, and, further, got a black eye in the physics
community when Armand Wyler used such techniques in his
controversial calculation of the fine structure constant
about 30 years ago.
ALL OF THESE UNFAMILIAR AREAS ARE ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL
PARTS OF MY UNIFIED PHYSICS MODEL.
JS: Until you explain them in a compelling way no one will understand what you
are really trying to say. First do a Hans Bethe back of the envelope toy model
like he did for the Lamb shift on the train. Show sort of how to compute say
one of the interesting experimental fudge factors of the standard model
from scratch without putting in any experimental numbers at all.
If you can really do that you will demolish the WAP "Landscape"
idea of Max Tegmark, Lee Smolin and Lenny Susskind and Paul Steinhardt
will like that. As you know computing numbers that agree with experiment
that none of the Pundits know how to compute will definitely raise eyebrows.
TS: It is probably a fact that, although there are a few experts
in each such area, the intersection of people familiar with
all of those areas would probably be empty except for me.
There is no way anybody not already familiar with all those areas
can
follow my general development of ideas in my papers on a fast read
without a lot of hard work.
Any efforts by me "... to explain in [my] own words what
the key concepts are in [my] model ..."
beyond what I have already done
would be pointless,
because there is no Royal Road to understanding those areas.
JS: Nevertheless try, or else you will be a "mute inglorious Milton." ;-)
TS: It simply requires a lot of work learning stuff that
the present physics community does not value highly,
and
most physicists would prefer to work on stuff that is
valued by the community so that they can get jobs, grants, etc.
Therefore,
it is my expectation that my work will never be understood
here in my lifetime. Most probably, never at all.
I find that sad in a way.
JS: Cheer up. :-)
TS: I have the (as of here and now, unique) pleasure of seeing how
all our observations fit together in a coherent way,
so
I myself am OK, my sadness is for those who will never see it.
Tony
JS: http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/princess_ida/html/pi_14.html
http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/princess_ida/colin/pi_14.mid
From Colonel Alexander (the real one)
Thanks John. End of story. Wolf is an obvious fake.
Also note:
On Jan 19, 2004, at 8:48 AM, APOLLINAIR@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 1/18/2004 4:07:49 PM Pacific Standard Time, Stanton Friedman writes:
"Michael has claimed to be an AF pilot and Colonel.. normally that requires years as a Captain and years as a Major. Just when did these take place?"
Colonel John Alexander US Army ret, author of "Future War" former director of Los Alamos Non Lethal Weapons Project wrote:
"This would normally take about 18-20 years. Maybe 16 for a really fast-burner. However, this time could overlap with some of the education period as mine did. A FOIA request would show his career in the military.
As with Bob Lazar, I guess they expunged his records, recalled all the school yearbooks, and shot all of the classmates & teachers."
John a
Thanks John. End of story. Wolf is an obvious fake.
Also note:
On Jan 19, 2004, at 8:48 AM, APOLLINAIR@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 1/18/2004 4:07:49 PM Pacific Standard Time, Stanton Friedman writes:
"Michael has claimed to be an AF pilot and Colonel.. normally that requires years as a Captain and years as a Major. Just when did these take place?"
Colonel John Alexander US Army ret, author of "Future War" former director of Los Alamos Non Lethal Weapons Project wrote:
"This would normally take about 18-20 years. Maybe 16 for a really fast-burner. However, this time could overlap with some of the education period as mine did. A FOIA request would show his career in the military.
As with Bob Lazar, I guess they expunged his records, recalled all the school yearbooks, and shot all of the classmates & teachers."
John a
Thanks for the record. :-)
On Jan 19, 2004, at 12:24 PM, visions wrote:
I noted that Saul-Paul downpage in this thread mentioned the Stanford brothers.
As Ray Stanford is an aquaintance - even a friend - I copied him in on the email.
This is how he responded - below, Regards, Dave Haith
PS To try to keep everything fair and square I am copying to Jacques Vallee.
Hi Dave,
I thought you might like to have my comments on Vallee's ludicrous, unobjective, and conceivably deliberate attempt to slander Rex and me in his book MESSENGERS OF DECEPTION. I hope you will forward my response to those to whom you sent the message shown below, since when I tried to address this to all those to whom you sent it, my system only chooses to address it to you, alone.
Vallee said in the book:
"John McCoy, who co-authored with Williamson the book *UFOs Confidential*, operated the Essene Press. He introduced into the picture the idea that the Jewish Banker conspiracy was involved in the UFO problem. The Stanford brothers were living in the same Texas town as McCoy (Corpus Christi), and in the mid-fifties produced a series of contact books, one of which had McCoy as co-author."
Wow! Talk about evidence that Rex and I shared 'Ric' Williamson's paranoid obsessions about a Jewish Banker conspiracy! :) We lived in the same city as John McCoy! Proof positive! :) If Vallee had done his homework before writing his unfounded and slanderous speculation, he would also have learned that John McCoy attended the same high school as did Rex and I. I suppose, in Jacques' mind, that would have cinched Vallee's allegation that we believed in a Jewish conspiracy. :)
"...in the mid-fifties produced a series on contact books..."? What a sin! In early 1957 we mimeographed a little book with John on his home Mimeograph machine called From Out of This World. I don't recall the number of copies we ran off, but there were very few. In it, we related the multi-witness 'contacts', as we interpreted them then, as teen-aged believers in Adamski's claims.
Those UFO encounters were well-witnessed, regardless of our over-exuberant teenage interpretation of them: The nocturnal November 6, 1954, UFO visual 'contact' had ELEVEN WITNESSES including three police officers (with law officer's affidavits), and one successful photo (although it was a bit distorted in the horizontal plane due to the photographer trying to hand-hold the camera atop a fence post for a time exposure) taken of the domed disc by one of the witnesses using an inexpensive camera with a short-focal-length lens. The nocturnal June 12, 1956, 'contact' event involved SEVEN WITNESSES, with severe physiological after-effects on the eldest witness, a nurse. The noon-hour September 18, 1956, event had THREE WITNESSES and a color, daylight 8mm movie was made as two Air Force interceptors chased the descending object away. The October 21, 1956, nocturnal event involved a close encounter with a rather 'fat' bi-convex disc ('oblate spheroid' might be a more accurate description) approximately 40-foot-in-diameter. It involved FOUR AFFIDAVIT-SWORN WITNESSES above whose heads the disc passed at an altitude of no more that six feet, with attendant auditory and electrostatic perceptions (plus temporary central nervous system paralysis by unknown means), and which landed (evidently leaving effects on plant growth for at least two decades afterward) about 175 feet from us. Finally, the nocturnal January 5, 1957, 'contact' in which there were EIGHT WITNESSES involved a gigantic black rather cigar-shaped (seeming ellipsoidal) object which arrived from the northwest, hovered just to the south-east of our zenith, and projected an incredible luminous, 'telescoping' beam onto three of us with an absolutely startling effect upon us.
The fact is, if as teenage Adamski believers we had not been politically incorrect in interpreting and describing those well-documented events as 'contacts', they should have gone down in UFOlogical history as substantial and very major UFO events. The January 5, 1957, EIGHT-WITNESS beaming of three of us by a slowly 'telescoping' beam was so far as I know the very first time anyone had described the now famous telescoping type beam from a UFO. The three of us who were projected-upon by that beam described it at a good-sized public lecture on the evening of January 20, 1957, in Port Arthur, Texas. Each of those encounters (to use the politically correct term of 2004) were also related in a 1958 book Rex and I wrote called Look Up! Too bad we called them "contacts". Unfortunately, that was a couple of years before we wised up to Adamski with my subsequent release of evidence exposing his hoaxes, and started interpreting our UFO encounters in more politically correct terms.
But search throughout those two books with my name and Rex's name on them and anyone will learn that there is not one word about any International Banker, Jewish conspiracy or anything that is anti-Jewish. If fact, Rex and I had always 'laughed our asses off' at Ric Williamson's paranoid delusions about such and had even cautioned our friend John McCoy that he shouldn't co-author a book with 'Ric' making those kinds of claims in Williamson's part of that book. Rex and I were in no way anti-Jew (in fact, we had Jewish friends in high school, college, and have had ever since), but Vallee must have his own reasons for painting us that way. Ask Vallee why he did it, if you like, but don't hold Rex or me responsible for his delusions, disinformation, or mis-information about us.
Let it be a matter of record that just following the SciFi Channel sponsored, November, 2002, UFO event in Washington, D.C., and in the presence of Dr. Peter Sturrock, I confronted Vallee with his injustice in painting Rex and me in such a totally unfounded, false, and unjust light. I told him that he had no idea how close he came to a serious lawsuit because of the slanderous references to us and demanded an apology. Jacques sheepishly apologized, but I wish he would do so publicly. I should have thought that one as versed in the methods of science as Vallee, would have avoided making such unfounded and ignorant insinuations about people, but in his reference to Rex and me in that book, a less-than-scientific side of an otherwise esteemed-by-me UFO writer was showing.
Rex's very closest friend and colleague at the large eastern university where he is a tenured professor of psychology is another professor of psychology who just happens to be Jewish. Ever since Rex went to work there several decades ago, Rex and he have been as close as any brothers I have ever known!
It is a fact that in 1972, I almost married a Jewish girl, who was a student at the University of Texas. In fact, I would have done so except that a beloved Jewish couple who are very close friends of mine in New York city talked me out of it with the sage advice that my girlfriend's family would likely not take very well to her marrying someone of another faith, and that it might negatively effect our marriage. The girl and I talked that over very frankly, and she admitted that her family would be very disturbed if she married me. So, despite our love for one another, I encouraged her to seek out a companion of her own faith, which she eventually did.
I say, "Drive those nails in the coffin of your baseless, scurrilous insinuations to the world that Rex and I were ever anti-Jewish, Jacques Vallee!"
And let me give Dr. Vallee one more nail for that coffin: In 1958 I enrolled in Del Mar College in Corpus Christi. A Jewish girl who had been a friend since junior high-school was in the same world history class as was I. Our professor was a woman with a Ph.D. whose first name I do not recall, but whose last name was Tilley. Anyhow, one day in class Dr. Tilley told us that pirates in the 1500s were "...nothing but disgusting unchristian bastards boarding Spanish ships of those conquistadors and priests, stealing all the gold and other valuables they had worked so hard to get in South America!"
I raised my hand and when acknowledged by Tilley, declared, "Pardon me, but it seems to me that those Conquistadors and priests got justice done to them by the pirates, and as,you surely know if you have ever read William Hickling Prescott's, The Conquest of Peru, the Spaniards tortured, raped, and brutally killed far more people ('Indians') for much more gold than the pirates ever took from them."
Dr. Tilley's response to my statement astonished and offended me and the Jewish girl mentioned earlier: "Mr. Stanford, I will have you know that the Spanish deserved that gold for themselves because the Peruvians Indians were nothing but godless non-Christians! They worked hard to harvest that gold from the pagans, and to bring religion to those godless Indians, and then unchristian pirates stole it from the Spaniards as they headed home! The Spaniards deserved the gold because they were civilized Christians. The Indians and pirates were neither, Mr. Stanford!"
I responded immediately, "Dr. Tilley, if you consider what the Spanish did to conquer Peru a civilized act, then I'm glad you're not in power! Furthermore, if I were Jewish, as are some in our class here, I would have special reason to be mad as hell about your remarks! I'm leaving to go tell Dr. Harvin (President of Del Mar College at the time) about your incredibly bigoted remarks! They are intolerable!"
I proceeded directly to Dr. Harvin's office and was quickly granted the chance to talk to him, my confidence up since I had been a very admired student of his wife when she had taught me in the sixth grade and he knew that. After relating Dr. Tilley's remarks and advising him about how astonished and bewildered my Jewish friend had looked in response, I demanded he fire Dr. Tilley for those offenses to Jews in the class or else I would drop out of the college.
Dr. Harvin said he was sorry for what happened but added, "Don't worry, Dr. Tilley is a well known historian of tobacco, and she will be leaving us after this year because she has accepted a well-paying contract to write the history of tobacco."
I told him that was not good enough, that my friend since junior high-school was totally bewildered. "Do the Jewish students in that class not deserve some justice?" I asked.
"They may well have been offended, Ray, and I understand your concern," Dr. Harvin said in response, "But we can't fire Dr. Tilley just because of what she said today."
I walked out of Dr. Harvin's office and out of that college forever, even thou
On Jan 19, 2004, at 12:24 PM, visions wrote:
I noted that Saul-Paul downpage in this thread mentioned the Stanford brothers.
As Ray Stanford is an aquaintance - even a friend - I copied him in on the email.
This is how he responded - below, Regards, Dave Haith
PS To try to keep everything fair and square I am copying to Jacques Vallee.
Hi Dave,
I thought you might like to have my comments on Vallee's ludicrous, unobjective, and conceivably deliberate attempt to slander Rex and me in his book MESSENGERS OF DECEPTION. I hope you will forward my response to those to whom you sent the message shown below, since when I tried to address this to all those to whom you sent it, my system only chooses to address it to you, alone.
Vallee said in the book:
"John McCoy, who co-authored with Williamson the book *UFOs Confidential*, operated the Essene Press. He introduced into the picture the idea that the Jewish Banker conspiracy was involved in the UFO problem. The Stanford brothers were living in the same Texas town as McCoy (Corpus Christi), and in the mid-fifties produced a series of contact books, one of which had McCoy as co-author."
Wow! Talk about evidence that Rex and I shared 'Ric' Williamson's paranoid obsessions about a Jewish Banker conspiracy! :) We lived in the same city as John McCoy! Proof positive! :) If Vallee had done his homework before writing his unfounded and slanderous speculation, he would also have learned that John McCoy attended the same high school as did Rex and I. I suppose, in Jacques' mind, that would have cinched Vallee's allegation that we believed in a Jewish conspiracy. :)
"...in the mid-fifties produced a series on contact books..."? What a sin! In early 1957 we mimeographed a little book with John on his home Mimeograph machine called From Out of This World. I don't recall the number of copies we ran off, but there were very few. In it, we related the multi-witness 'contacts', as we interpreted them then, as teen-aged believers in Adamski's claims.
Those UFO encounters were well-witnessed, regardless of our over-exuberant teenage interpretation of them: The nocturnal November 6, 1954, UFO visual 'contact' had ELEVEN WITNESSES including three police officers (with law officer's affidavits), and one successful photo (although it was a bit distorted in the horizontal plane due to the photographer trying to hand-hold the camera atop a fence post for a time exposure) taken of the domed disc by one of the witnesses using an inexpensive camera with a short-focal-length lens. The nocturnal June 12, 1956, 'contact' event involved SEVEN WITNESSES, with severe physiological after-effects on the eldest witness, a nurse. The noon-hour September 18, 1956, event had THREE WITNESSES and a color, daylight 8mm movie was made as two Air Force interceptors chased the descending object away. The October 21, 1956, nocturnal event involved a close encounter with a rather 'fat' bi-convex disc ('oblate spheroid' might be a more accurate description) approximately 40-foot-in-diameter. It involved FOUR AFFIDAVIT-SWORN WITNESSES above whose heads the disc passed at an altitude of no more that six feet, with attendant auditory and electrostatic perceptions (plus temporary central nervous system paralysis by unknown means), and which landed (evidently leaving effects on plant growth for at least two decades afterward) about 175 feet from us. Finally, the nocturnal January 5, 1957, 'contact' in which there were EIGHT WITNESSES involved a gigantic black rather cigar-shaped (seeming ellipsoidal) object which arrived from the northwest, hovered just to the south-east of our zenith, and projected an incredible luminous, 'telescoping' beam onto three of us with an absolutely startling effect upon us.
The fact is, if as teenage Adamski believers we had not been politically incorrect in interpreting and describing those well-documented events as 'contacts', they should have gone down in UFOlogical history as substantial and very major UFO events. The January 5, 1957, EIGHT-WITNESS beaming of three of us by a slowly 'telescoping' beam was so far as I know the very first time anyone had described the now famous telescoping type beam from a UFO. The three of us who were projected-upon by that beam described it at a good-sized public lecture on the evening of January 20, 1957, in Port Arthur, Texas. Each of those encounters (to use the politically correct term of 2004) were also related in a 1958 book Rex and I wrote called Look Up! Too bad we called them "contacts". Unfortunately, that was a couple of years before we wised up to Adamski with my subsequent release of evidence exposing his hoaxes, and started interpreting our UFO encounters in more politically correct terms.
But search throughout those two books with my name and Rex's name on them and anyone will learn that there is not one word about any International Banker, Jewish conspiracy or anything that is anti-Jewish. If fact, Rex and I had always 'laughed our asses off' at Ric Williamson's paranoid delusions about such and had even cautioned our friend John McCoy that he shouldn't co-author a book with 'Ric' making those kinds of claims in Williamson's part of that book. Rex and I were in no way anti-Jew (in fact, we had Jewish friends in high school, college, and have had ever since), but Vallee must have his own reasons for painting us that way. Ask Vallee why he did it, if you like, but don't hold Rex or me responsible for his delusions, disinformation, or mis-information about us.
Let it be a matter of record that just following the SciFi Channel sponsored, November, 2002, UFO event in Washington, D.C., and in the presence of Dr. Peter Sturrock, I confronted Vallee with his injustice in painting Rex and me in such a totally unfounded, false, and unjust light. I told him that he had no idea how close he came to a serious lawsuit because of the slanderous references to us and demanded an apology. Jacques sheepishly apologized, but I wish he would do so publicly. I should have thought that one as versed in the methods of science as Vallee, would have avoided making such unfounded and ignorant insinuations about people, but in his reference to Rex and me in that book, a less-than-scientific side of an otherwise esteemed-by-me UFO writer was showing.
Rex's very closest friend and colleague at the large eastern university where he is a tenured professor of psychology is another professor of psychology who just happens to be Jewish. Ever since Rex went to work there several decades ago, Rex and he have been as close as any brothers I have ever known!
It is a fact that in 1972, I almost married a Jewish girl, who was a student at the University of Texas. In fact, I would have done so except that a beloved Jewish couple who are very close friends of mine in New York city talked me out of it with the sage advice that my girlfriend's family would likely not take very well to her marrying someone of another faith, and that it might negatively effect our marriage. The girl and I talked that over very frankly, and she admitted that her family would be very disturbed if she married me. So, despite our love for one another, I encouraged her to seek out a companion of her own faith, which she eventually did.
I say, "Drive those nails in the coffin of your baseless, scurrilous insinuations to the world that Rex and I were ever anti-Jewish, Jacques Vallee!"
And let me give Dr. Vallee one more nail for that coffin: In 1958 I enrolled in Del Mar College in Corpus Christi. A Jewish girl who had been a friend since junior high-school was in the same world history class as was I. Our professor was a woman with a Ph.D. whose first name I do not recall, but whose last name was Tilley. Anyhow, one day in class Dr. Tilley told us that pirates in the 1500s were "...nothing but disgusting unchristian bastards boarding Spanish ships of those conquistadors and priests, stealing all the gold and other valuables they had worked so hard to get in South America!"
I raised my hand and when acknowledged by Tilley, declared, "Pardon me, but it seems to me that those Conquistadors and priests got justice done to them by the pirates, and as,you surely know if you have ever read William Hickling Prescott's, The Conquest of Peru, the Spaniards tortured, raped, and brutally killed far more people ('Indians') for much more gold than the pirates ever took from them."
Dr. Tilley's response to my statement astonished and offended me and the Jewish girl mentioned earlier: "Mr. Stanford, I will have you know that the Spanish deserved that gold for themselves because the Peruvians Indians were nothing but godless non-Christians! They worked hard to harvest that gold from the pagans, and to bring religion to those godless Indians, and then unchristian pirates stole it from the Spaniards as they headed home! The Spaniards deserved the gold because they were civilized Christians. The Indians and pirates were neither, Mr. Stanford!"
I responded immediately, "Dr. Tilley, if you consider what the Spanish did to conquer Peru a civilized act, then I'm glad you're not in power! Furthermore, if I were Jewish, as are some in our class here, I would have special reason to be mad as hell about your remarks! I'm leaving to go tell Dr. Harvin (President of Del Mar College at the time) about your incredibly bigoted remarks! They are intolerable!"
I proceeded directly to Dr. Harvin's office and was quickly granted the chance to talk to him, my confidence up since I had been a very admired student of his wife when she had taught me in the sixth grade and he knew that. After relating Dr. Tilley's remarks and advising him about how astonished and bewildered my Jewish friend had looked in response, I demanded he fire Dr. Tilley for those offenses to Jews in the class or else I would drop out of the college.
Dr. Harvin said he was sorry for what happened but added, "Don't worry, Dr. Tilley is a well known historian of tobacco, and she will be leaving us after this year because she has accepted a well-paying contract to write the history of tobacco."
I told him that was not good enough, that my friend since junior high-school was totally bewildered. "Do the Jewish students in that class not deserve some justice?" I asked.
"They may well have been offended, Ray, and I understand your concern," Dr. Harvin said in response, "But we can't fire Dr. Tilley just because of what she said today."
I walked out of Dr. Harvin's office and out of that college forever, even thou