Thursday, January 17, 2019

TDVP CRITICISM AND RESPONSE




Close and Neppe receiving Excellence in Education Award


To read the article criticizing TDVP go to http://iqnexus.org/Graphics/Mag/IQNJ%2010-4%202018.pdf 



Beyond the limits of 3S-1t: Interpreting the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm Appropriately:
A Response to “An Evaluation of TDVP”

Edward R. Close PhD, PE, DSPE, DF (ECA)
With Vernon M Neppe MD, PhD, Fellow Royal Society (SA),
DSPE, DPCP (ECA)

ABSTRACT
An innovative consciousness-based paradigm was published by Neppe and Close in a volume titled Reality Begins with Consciousness in 2011. It was the combination and culmination of many years of independent research by the authors, carried out long before they met. Hailed by some peer-reviewers as the next major paradigm shift, the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) has been further developed and significantly expanded over the past seven years in a number of papers and articles, published outside of mainstream scientific journals because of the unspoken taboo against including consciousness in mathematical physics. This article is a response to criticisms leveled in the article An Evaluation of TDVP, published in Telicom XXX.5 – Fourth Quarter 2018, by physicists J.E.F. Kaan and Simon Olling Rebsdorf. The article underlines the difficulty that mainstream scientists have understanding the basics and implications of TDVP. This article is a response to the criticisms in the article, and an explanation of some of the basic ideas that make TDVP such a controversial shift from materialistic physicalism to a comprehensive consciousness-based scientific paradigm.

INTRODUCTION
TDVP is an inter-disciplinary scientific model 1 developed and published by Vernon M. Neppe, DSPE and Edward R. Close, DSPE, between 2008 and the present. 2 An article titled An Evaluation of TDVP by J.E.F. Kaan, MSPE and Simon Ollings Rebsdorf, MSPE, was published in Telicom XXX.5, Fourth Quarter 2018. 3 This is a response to that article.  
Dr. Neppe and I are eager to engage in meaningful discussions about TDVP concepts with anyone interested in doing so. Personally, I am especially interested in evaluations of the mathematical logic and physical concepts of TDVP by people with training and a depth of knowledge in those subjects. Over the past ten years, I have had the good fortune to have many useful discussions about TDVP concepts with dozens of competent scientists, many of whom are PhDs in mathematical physics or related fields. The following quotes are representative:

“I rank Dr. Edward R. Close and Dr. Vernon M. Neppe as peers of the major authors of modern physics and mathematics. I equate them with greats, such as Planck, Einstein, … Newton…. Their work has clarified, and extended the science and mathematics that these geniuses originated …I foresee the day when they will both be awarded other honors, such as a Nobel Prize in Physics and (equivalent in) Mathematics.” … “The Close-Neppe seminal work in creating TDVP constitutes one of the most profound and far-reaching discoveries and developments in the history of the sciences.When two polymaths make discoveries that are so groundbreaking they change the whole fabric of reality, it is clear that this is Nobel Prize material.”- Dr. David M. Stewart, PhD, ND, geophysicist, author of 17 books, international educator and speaker

The 21st Century's revolutionary paradigm shift”; … “unprecedented brilliance and potentially limitless scientific and philosophical outreach …yielding a fresh and accurate understanding of various investigation fields of Nature, and opening … groundbreaking development perspectives for Sciences (emphatically plural!)”. The Neppe-Close contributions will change mankind's futureA seismic shift in understanding the understanding process itself! The 21st Century's revolutionary paradigm shift. Dr. Adrian Klein, DD, PhD, Dimensional Biopsychophysicist

“After having first read their papers my initial personal reaction was “This deserves a Nobel prize”. Later, I discovered that these two polymaths belong to the same high intellect societies in which I held personal membership, and in my opinion, they appear to be amongst the most creative thinkers currently advancing science in our world today.” … “When taken altogether, the entire work is worthy of several separate Nobel Prizes. Ultimately, these two creative genius scientists have changed the world. in order to look at the mathematics, Neppe and Close have recognized that there needs to be volume in everything. And if something is volumetric, this means it is 3-dimensional; it effectively can be calculated mathematically in terms of cubes. This leads to a whole string of Diophantine equations and what calculations do and do not fit within our empirical reality.”- Dr. Alan Hugenot, PhD, Author, Lecturer

“Dear Ed and Vernon, First, it was wonderful hearing Ed present at the ASCI meetings. … I found myself understanding, appreciating, and celebrating what the two of you have been doing. In fact, as I look over the 40 years of my attending scientific meetings, Ed's presentation is among THE MOST MEMORABLE AND MEANINGFUL of my entire academic (and personal) life”. – Dr. Gary E. Schwartz, PhD, Professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson

“We cannot have any particle, tiny or macroscopic or in our astronomical reality, without what is called ‘gimmel’— Neppe, Close and I and others regard gimmel as consciousness, or its vehicle as there is simply no other explanation … Neppe and Close have provided the data to solve complex questions by TDVP. Effectively, once one introduces extra dimensions, infinite continuity which embeds the 9 finite quantized dimensions, and consciousness/gimmel—“the God Matrix”— with math proofs plus unified reality as key points, the solutions for all finite reality become easier. This is why their TDVP model—unlike any other scientific model based on the Theory of Everything (TOE) criteria analysis—works, and why TDVP so closely reflects and encompasses the spiritual aspects.”- Dr. Surendra Pokharna PhD, Physicist, Ahmedabad, India

We are currently corresponding with PhD professionals interested in the applications and implications of TDVP and the natural quantum units of the calculus of dimensional distinctions. I have had a number of informal discussions with Mr. Kaan over a period of several years, but I can’t say that they were very productive, because his comments were generally negative, with no in-depth discussion of the math and physics behind TDVP; and I have had no previous discussions with Mr. Rebsdorf. Similar to their practice of shortening Neppe and Close to N&C, I will refer to them as K&R. We want to be respectful to K&R’s work, but understandably, we need to correct the obvious errors. 
When I was told that a critique of TDVP had been submitted to Telicom, I was hopeful that there would be something of substance to discuss — and there was. I am, however, disappointed with the K&R article because, much like some of Mr. Kaan’s informal comments, it is basically an opinion piece, with no in-depth scientific or mathematical evaluation of any of the innovative ideas in TDVP, even though it attempts to address, unsuccessfully, as I will show, the gimmel and Cabibbo angle derivations.

I am thankful that K&R took the time and effort to write this critique, and pleased to be able to respond to some of the misunderstandings and misinterpretations of TDVP found in the article. Except for a few general comments, I will confine my responses to K&R criticisms of the math and physics of TDVP, and leave other topics, like feasibility, falsifiability, and philosophy of science questions to Dr. Neppe. But, there will likely be some overlap in our responses, because physics and mathematics, while very important in any scientific paradigm, are only one part of the greater question concerning the nature of reality.

GENERAL COMMENTS
First, it is probably a good idea to acknowledge that we (N&C) have a fundamentally different opinion about the nature of reality than K&R, who apparently accept the physicalist belief that consciousness is an epiphenomenon, only arising when a certain level of physical complexity happens. We favor the opposite concept, that consciousness, in some form, had to precede the organization of elementary particles into stable, life-supporting structures. For me personally, this position is not just a philosophical belief, but a conclusion based on experience and reason.

At a very young age, I was inspired by the genius of scientists like Newton 4, Leibniz 5 and Einstein 6-8, and mathematicians like Euler 9, Gӧdel 10; 11and von Neumann 12, but I  knew from personal experiences, that my consciousness can and does exist outside of and beyond my physical body. Most of the scientists, engineers and physicists I know who now support the view that consciousness is a fundamental part of reality, were mainstream physicalists before paradigm-shattering experiences changed their worldviews forever. I know several well-educated, professional scientists who have experienced unsought out-of-body experiences as the result of horrifying  accidents, or flat-lining on the operating table, and who later returned to normal bodily awareness, defying all conventional physicalist medical theories.

Second, K&R 3 state on page 144 of the Telicom article that: “TDVP seems to be based on two fallacious assumptions, namely:

1.     Physics excludes the paranormal (or “spiritual”).

2.     In order to be able to allow for paranormal events, you can modify the fundamentals of mainstream physics – without checking if the new theories still work for old experiments”

TDVP is not based on such assumptions. If I accepted assumption #1, I never could have written Transcendental Physics 13 in the early 1990s to make the point that physics could be expanded to include spiritual reality without detracting from what had already been discovered, by including consciousness in the equations. Concerning #2, in fact, we have checked upwards of fifty specific instances to see if TDVP actually works for prior existing experiments, and it does. And, finally, the conclusion of the article seems to be: TDVP simply can’t be right, because it doesn’t agree with the mainstream model of particle physics. I, like K&R, was trained in modern mathematical physics, but I have to reject this argument because it makes mainstream physics seem much like a religion. If you don’t agree with the physicalist doctrine, you are wrong by definition. Unfortunately, this is the kind of thinking that stifles real progress in the scientific understanding of the nature of reality.

In my opinion, academic specialization, and the division of natural science into separate academic fields, each with their own specialized assumptions, theories and arcane jargon, is the greatest single barrier to an integrated understanding of the nature of reality. Science and spirituality are both part of reality, and should not be incompatible. I understand why Georges Lemaître 14; 15 (mentioned by K&R) and other thinkers like him in the past, whose interests included both science and theology, avoided integrating their research: It would have been very difficult from the standpoint of an individual’s ability to study several subjects in one lifetime, and doing so could have literally resulted in losing one’s head. Governments and religions organized in the Middle Ages to control the masses had no compunction about physically enforcing their authority with torture and murder, when they were challenged. Perhaps the time has finally come for the reconnection of natural science with its metaphysical roots. We need to  expand science to include more than just the tip of the iceberg of reality represented by physical theory.

K&R CRITICISM OF THE MATH AND PHYSICS OF TDVP
K&R’s criticisms of the math and physics of TDVP are presented in Section 3 of their article, titled: “Critical Results and Analysis”. This section takes bits and pieces of some TDVP derivations out of context, and out of the logic in which they were developed. Because of this, it misses the importance of the need for a quantum calculus. And K&R, like physicalists in general, ignore the clues pointing to the errors in their own paradigm.

K&R’s arguments contain several misunderstandings and/or misrepresentations. They also, rather predictably, fall back on some of the refrains adopted by mainstream physicists trying to avoid the empirical evidence that points to something very distasteful for physicalists: the implication that consciousness may have a direct effect on reality. In the article we find the claim that “spin, related to quantum phenomena is not mechanical spin; quantum spin is a quantum property” without any explanation of what is meant by that. This is one of several statements mainstream physicists put forth as if they were self-evident facts, culminating in the statement “Quantum Mechanics Does Not Require Any Conscious Observer” 16. K&R do not offer any proof of this statement, but simply state that “This fact is undisputed and well established, comprehensively described and empirically demonstrated in any graduate-level theoretical physics textbook.”

K&R are correct that the mainstream physicalist position is that quantum mechanics does not require a conscious observer. But they grossly overstate the case when they say that this belief is undisputed and empirically demonstrated. If one reads the existing literature on the measurement problem arising from the interaction of the observer with quantum phenomena, and not just the mainstream physicalist opinion, one finds that avoidance of interpretation of empirical evidence suggesting the involvement of the observer is the unstated bias of mainstream physicalists.17 The result is that the measurement problem is treated totally within the mathematical formulation of the physicalist interpretation of quantum theory. If the problem is approached in a theory-neutral manner, a number of physicists have concluded that no interpretation of quantum phenomena can completely avoid the existence of a measurement problem involving the observer. 18; 19 A few mainstream physicists like David Bohm 20; 21, John Wheeler 22; 23, Amit Goswami 24; 25, Fred Alan Wolf 26, Menas Kafatos 27, and Henry Stapp 28-30 have been bold enough to think outside the box of strict physicalist interpretations of the data from quantum experiments like the double-slit 31 and delayed-choice experiments. 22

The subjectively biased position of most mainstream scientists is that the laws governing quantum phenomena are so different from the laws of “classical” physics, that you should not bother to think about the possibility that there might be logical relationships between them. A common refrain of mainstream physicists 32 is: “Quantum physics is simply weird. We must just accept that there is no explaining it, and go on with practical application of what we know about quantum-scale phenomena, even though it conflicts the laws of macro-scale physics,”  But, in fact, reality is never in conflict with itself, the conflict is between scientific theories.

Before addressing the misunderstandings in K&R’s analysis of the TDVP derivation of the Cabibbo angle and gimmel, perhaps some history of the origin of the party-line used by physicalists to avoid dealing with consciousness 19, is in order. The basic dodge is the intellectual smokescreen provided by the statement that some of the physical processes of quantum phenomena are so strange, that they cannot be compared with, or explained in “classical” physical concepts. This mental barrier prevents mainstream scientists from asking why the standard model has massless and mathematical singularity “particles”. We can see why and how this wizard-of-Oz curtain was fabricated by examining the thinking of some leading physicists.

THE EINSTEIN-BOHR DEBATE
The main players in the publicized version of the drama called the Einstein-Bohr debate 33 were Albert Einstein 7 and Niels Bohr. 34 The argument was about the nature of reality at the quantum scale, which is also what we are talking about here. The argument was over whether reality at the quantum scale is inherently probabilistic to the degree specified by Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle 35, or completely deterministic. Einstein argued for determinism 7; 33, and Bohr for probabilism 34.

The argument centered around a paper that became known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) Paradox. 33 Using a well-known quantum phenomenon, and applying classical dynamics, the EPR paper produced a clear contradiction of the Uncertainty Principle. Einstein argued that this paradox implied that quantum theory, as formalized by Bohr 34; 36, Heisenberg and Schrӧdinger 37-39, must be incomplete. Bohr countered with what became known as the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics 40, which stated that quantum phenomena are not localized until observed or measured, and implied that elementary particles could not be described in classical terms. This was unacceptable to most mainstream physicists because it implied that, as theoretical physicist John Wheeler put it:

 “There is no elementary phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon”. 41 

Most quantum physicists believe that the only way the EPR paradox is avoided is by concluding that quantum phenomena do not obey the classical laws of physics. The exact location and momentum of an elementary particle cannot be known simultaneously, as is the case with macro-scale objects like baseballs or missiles.

The eventual resolution of the Einstein-Bohr debate, made possible by Bell’s Inequality (also known as Bell’s Theorem 42-44) applied to the EPR experiment, resulted in a consistent demonstration of quantum uncertainty. This result is well known, and has been discussed and written about ad nauseam, but the point to be made here is that it raises profound questions about the nature of reality, and establishes quantum entanglement 45-47, a concept that helps to explain the results of quantum experiments like the double-slit 18; 31 and delayed-choice experiments 22, dealing with electrons, photons and other elementary particles.

Niels Bohr had some interesting things to say about quantum mechanics that I think may have started mainstream physicists on the yellow brick road to the Land of Oz and the impenetrable magic curtain of quantum weirdness 48:

·       If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't yet understood it.
·       Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
·       It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics is only concerned with what we can say about our experience of Nature.
But, I agree with Bohr when he said 48:

·       Nothing exists until it is measured.
·       A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
·       Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by classical theory.

This last quote tells us that, even though some of Bohr’s statements may have inspired the attitude that quantum weirdness cannot be explained in terms of classical physical theory, he himself did not believe that!

Physicalists like Richard Feynman 32, and most experimental particle physicists since Bohr, have perpetuated the idea that quantum physics is weird, counter-intuitive, and cannot be reconciled with classical physics. The following Feynman quotes are revealing:

·       One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much…The more you see how strangely Nature behaves, the harder it is to make a model that explains how even the simplest phenomena actually work. So theoretical physics has given up on that 49
·       “What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see, my physics students don't understand it.... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.” 49

Lest anyone think that I disrespect Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman because I trace the beginnings of the irrational doctrine of quantum weirdness to them, I assure you, I do not.
Niels Bohr was a great physicist. Also, in my opinion, Richard Feynman was a great teacher of physics. I choose to call him a teacher rather than a professor, as a compliment, because there are many professional scientists who haven’t the foggiest notion how to teach as well as he did. And I admire his  honesty very much. He never pretended to know more than he did, a very rare thing among physicists!

CRITIQUE OF THE CRITICISM
Reading through Sections 3 and 4, I found that they contain no less than forty (40) erroneous statements about TDVP. Most of them are easily rebutted, but addressing each statement separately would be tedious and not very instructive because they are presented in a random order, suggesting that K&R might be deliberately misrepresenting TDVP definitions and derivations primarily in order to defend the standard model. But, after carefully reading the article again, and thinking about each statement, I conclude that they were probably not deliberately twisting and garbling the ideas behind TDVP; they just didn’t understand them. Most of the incorrect statements were related to a few basic misunderstandings. So, I will clarify the misunderstandings first, because I think that will be the best way to explain TDVP. Of course, not everything K&R have said is false, and by weeding out the things that are, we may be able to find some common ground.

Putting the Basic Concepts in the Proper Context
The critique addresses two aspects of TDVP seen by K&R as key concepts: (1) The discovery of gimmel, the third form of the substance of reality, and (2) the TDVP derivation of the Cabibbo angle. But they are taken out of context because K&R did not understand the need for a natural quantum equivalence unit as the basis of a quantum calculus. Most of the errors in the article can be cleared up by addressing the criticisms in proper order: First, the derivation of natural quantum units. second, the discovery of gimmel, and third, the Cabibbo angle derivation.

The Need for a Quantum Equivalence Unit and a Quantum Calculus

We can’t solve problems using the same kind of thinking that created them. – Albert Einstein

The most basic thing that K&R missed, is the need for a calculus with measurement units that are tied to the natural quanta of the real world. This mis-step is evidenced by their reference to Figure 1, displayed on page 147 of the article:

 “… the mass values are assumed to be integers, apparently to be in line with quantum physics. Yet from the data in Figure 1, we can see the quark masses are not integer at all. The same will, of course, be found in any text on this topic.”

Indeed, these masses for quarks, from the statistical evaluation of terabytes of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data are not integer, and they are readily available. But these data for up-quarks and down-quarks, along with the mass of the electron, are the same data used in the derivation of the basic quantum units of mass in the TDVP calculations. The way they are naturalized is straight-forward and should be understood by any undergraduate physics or math student. The derivation of natural quantum units for TDVP has been published several times, including in Reality Begins with Consciousness 78 and in several 79-81 peer-reviewed papers 79; 82 in addition to my Transcendental Physics blog — http://www.erclosetphysics.com. 83

I would expect anyone trained in modern physics to be familiar with the conversion of SI units to natural units. Naturalized units of measurement are created in a number of ways, and as physicists, K&R should at least be familiar with naturalized Planck units. They shouldn’t have to be told why, even though mass is quantized in the real world, the values in Figure 1 are not integers. They are not integers because the units of measurement being used are not naturalized quantum units.

Quantization of energy and mass means that, if the units used to measure mass are normalized to the value of the smallest stable mass in natural elements, which happens to be the mass of the electron, then all stable masses should be integer multiples of that quantum mass.

Shortly after this misunderstanding, on page 148, K&R state: “N&C’s detailed calculation method can be found in a blog by Close (but not in any peer-reviewed physics journal article)30. In his calculation, the use of the equation (charge3 + mass3 + gimmel3 )1/3 is really obscure physics …”
There are several errors in this statement,[1] including the fact that  this expression cited by K&R is not an equation.  The type of equation we apply in the derivation is the Diophantine equation: W3 + X3 + Y3 = Z3, where W, X, Y, and Z are each converted to quantum equivalence units of mass, energy and gimmel.

As K&R suggest, dimensional analysis is an excellent tool to help assure that there are no errors in an equation. The unitary equation should reduce to the same basic units on both sides. Adding Coulombs, kilograms and quantum equivalence units of gimmel would make no sense at all, and that is never done in TDVP derivations. All of the terms in TDVP equations are in quantum equivalence units. Note: When scalar quantum equivalence units are raised to any multiple of the third power, they become volumetric and are called Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence (TRUE).
Missing the most basic and critical step of TDVP analysis, i.e., the conversion of SI units to quantum equivalence units, K&R failed to follow the derivations. For example:

“Close calculated negative numbers for gimmel, but then continued with some number juggling (with arbitrary integers for gimmel), until the whole thing seemed to work again, which is not an established sound method in physics.”

This shows, to their credit, that they read some of the TDVP derivations, but, unfortunately, they didn’t understand them. The negative calculated values were simply part of the iteration to establish the simplest possible solution. None of the values used in determining the amount of gimmel in naturalized quantum equivalence units in each quark were “arbitrary’. And any experimental or theoretical physicist should be familiar with the method of using reasonable estimates as a starting point and then iteratively zeroing in on the values that actually satisfy an equation. This method is used routinely and extensively in applied physics and engineering. It is called iterative computation. 84

The Discovery of Gimmel and a Simpler Approach to Explaining Subatomic Phenomena

When the solution is simple, God is answering – Albert Einstein 85

Nature follows the rule of parsimony 86; 87: the simplest theory that explains the most, is best. The Ptolemaic geo-centric model of the universe, e.g., with cycles and epi-cycles, explained the observed movements of the known planets at the time of Ptolemy (second century AD), but it was very complex, and it became even more complex every time a new astronomical body was discovered. The helio-centric solar system model that eventually replaced it, was much simpler, and explained more.

We are now again at the same kind of flex point. And the clues have been piling up after relativity 8; 88; 89 and quantum mechanics 25; 90; 91 revolutionized our understanding of reality, and application of the new knowledge advanced technology. Experiments began to show that something was wrong. Science was becoming more and more complicated. Particle-wave duality 92 was introduced by de Broglie 93; 94, Planck declared there is no matter as such 95 and Einstein concluded that space-time has no existence of its own 96, and reality is a field phenomenon 7. Resolution of the EPR paradox revealed strange new phenomena like non-locality 77; 97 and quantum entanglement 45; 98. Not only that, particle physics would not work without the existence of objects that are not really particles. Some “particles” have no mass, and some are dimensionless, violating the very definition of a physical particle.

The standard model holds that gluons, defined as vector bosons, with little or no mass, mediate the strong force that holds protons together, but just how they do this is unknown. It is wrapped up in the quantum weirdness of abstract terms called “quantum properties” 50 like spin numbers 60; 99; 100 , “flavors” and “colors”. 49On the other hand, our 2011 2 discovery 1 that something without mass or energy, i.e., something non-physical, has to be present in up-quarks and down-quarks for stable protons 69; 101to exist 79; 80, tells us that there is much more to reality than matter and energy interacting in time and space. The discovery that the greater part of reality, the part that assures that the atomic structures supporting organic life forms are the most stable is non-physical, is revolutionary. 2 When the LHC masses of up- and down-quarks are converted to integer multiples of the natural quantum units of the electron, we find that protons, composed of two up-quarks of four quantum equivalence units each, and one down-quark of nine quantum equivalence units, would be asymmetric and rotationally unstable without a specific number of quantum equivalence units of something that cannot be measured as mass or energy. 79; 82

The existence of this third form of content 79, which we have called gimmel 69; 81; 82; 102-104, makes the physical structure of the proton larger and symmetrically stable, so that classical relativistic dynamics explains the weak and strong forces, and the exact amount of mass measured experimentally for the proton, is determined mathematically. Clearly, with gimmel, TDVP explains more, in simpler terms, than the standard model explains. It also explains why quarks only combine in triples, why fermions have ½ intrinsic spin, and even why there is something, rather than nothing. 73; 105; 106  Quite independently, Saul-Paul Sirag also showed prior to us doing this, that fermion groups come in three 107 (our work with 2 quarks and an electron would be an example).

TDVP is simple, but it is hard for scientists trained in the physicalist philosophy of the mainstream educational system to comprehend, because it expands scientific investigation beyond the limited range of energies revealed by the physical senses and physical extensions by including consciousness in the equations 76 describing the combination of quarks to form stable protons and other stable structures 108.

The TDVP Derivation of the Cabibbo Angle
One of the earliest challenges to the TDVP model, came from a Johns Hopkins astronomer. He said that if we could explain why the Cabibbo angle has the strange value it has, he would take TDVP more seriously. The empirical value of the angle was 13.04 degrees, but no one could explain why it should be that value. It could not be derived from the standard particle physics theory. Our initial response was that TDVP was a metaparadigm and that this question was outside the scope of TDVP at that time. If the model proved to be successful, such technical detail might be something we could investigate later.

Before I explain the TDVP derivation, some history may again be in order: I was accepted into a graduate program in theoretical physics at the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1964. That was the same year Murray Gell-Mann introduced the idea that protons and neutrons, thought at that time to be the ultimate building blocks of atomic nuclei, were actually composed of yet smaller components that he called quarks. The existence of these sub-proton particles was confirmed experimentally in 1968 in the Stanford linear accelerator. Physicist Richard Feynman called the sub-proton particles partons, but it soon became clear that they were the same objects that Gell-Mann had called quarks, and that name stuck. In 1969, Gell-Mann received the Nobel Prize in Physics for defining the family of elementary particles called quarks.

In 1963, just one year prior to Gell-Mann’s introduction of subatomic quarks, the Italian physicist Nicola Cabibbo introduced what became known as the Cabibbo angle, written θC. It was the angle of rotation of the eigenvectors of matrices describing the inertial bodies of elementary particles, preserving the universality of the so-called weak interaction thought to govern the formation and decay of elementary particles.

What are eigenvectors? To answer that question, we go back about 200 years, when the Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler noted the importance of the principal axis of rotation in analyzing rotating rigid bodies, and one of his contemporaries, French mathematician Joseph-Luis Lagrange, recognized that the principal axes of rotation were the characteristic vectors of inertia matrices describing rotating objects. But the terms eigenwert (eigenvalue) and eigenvector may be traced back even farther, to the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz. Eigen is the verb “to own” in German, and is also used to mean something’s “own characteristic”, or something specific, or peculiar to a person or object; so, it was natural to call the characteristic vector of a matrix the eigenvector of the matrix.

Later, θC became known as the quark mixing angle, a matrix feature related to the probability of strange-quarks and down-quarks decaying to up-quarks. And finally, the Cabibbo angle is now recognized as part of the Standard Model of particle physics Cabibbo–Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix, or CKM matrix. The CKM matrix is a unitary matrix, containing information about the strength of the flavor-changing weak interaction force among quarks. It specifies the asymmetry of the quantum states of quarks, and is relevant to the understanding of CP violation in the three generations of quarks. Bear in mind that Gell-Mann’s quark theory was unknown to Nicola Cabibbo when he described θC in 1963. [Nicola Cabibbo. Phys. Rev. Lett. 10, 531 – Published 15 June 1963]

Because of the challenge by the Johns Hopkins astronomer, I began to think about it, and soon became convinced that the value of the Cabibbo angle could be derived by applying the math of TDVP to the dynamics of the rotation of quarks and electrons. The basis of my optimism was the fact that I had been able to explain the ½ intrinsic spin of fermions by simulating an object spinning in multiple planes at the same time, suggesting that the Cabibbo angle might also be the result of vortical rotation, i.e. spin in multiple dimensions.

In the derivation of quantum equivalence units in the Calculus of Dimensional distinctions (CoDD), the quantum calculus of TDVP, it was determined that the angular velocity of a spinning elementary object reaches light speed before its diameter shrinks to zero. This means that the angular velocity at the minimum quantum volume is calculated to be 2.9974 x108 m/sec, a large fraction of the speed of light. Applying the Lorentz contraction equation, the contraction for each dimensional rotation is calculated to be a factor of 0.01810, or 1.629 degrees REF. For an observer, one axis of rotation is stationary as part of the reference frame, so only 8 of the 9 dimensions in a 9-D reality are rotating with respect to the observer. Consequently, 1.629 is multiplied by 8, yielding 13.032 degrees, in agreement with θC derived from experimental data for the Cabibbo angle (13.04±0.01 degrees).

Reading K&R’s discussion of the Cabibbo angle reveals another deep misunderstanding: They appear to think that TDVP contradicts and seeks to replace Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and Quantum Field theory (CFT). It does not. QCD and QFT describe the structure of the family of quarks revealed by LHC experiments, TDVP explains why there is a family of quarks. QCD and QFT are primarily descriptive, TDVP is explanatory.

One of the things K&R got right, was the statement that “… because N&C include consciousness 76 in particle physics, we expect the academic community at large will likely not give much attention to TDVP.” Achieving publication of TDVP derivations in mainstream math and physics journals has been difficult because of the interdisciplinary nature of TDVP. We have had negative responses from editors of mainstream journals citing reluctance to publish “material outside the journal discipline” and the “unavailability of peer-reviewers with the appropriate interdisciplinary expertise”.

How does a concept outside the mainstream paradigm get published in mainstream journals dominated by editors who share the physicalist philosophy? We thought that explaining phenomena not explained by the mainstream paradigm might get their attention; but apparently that does not work if the word ‘consciousness’ 76 is mentioned. The idea that consciousness is fundamental is rejected as pseudoscience by physicalists. The sad part is that they don’t seem to realize that their position is unscientific.

K&R say that both of the following statements are unscientific and unfalsifiable:

A) The universe cannot exist without consciousness.
B) The universe could exist without consciousness.

TDVP actually falsifies B and proves that A is true. It does this simply by showing that the most stable structure in the universe, the proton, cannot be stable without the existence of consciousness 77. This makes ‘physicalism pseudoscience’ and TDVP a real paradigm shift.

CONCLUSION
The article by K&R is not an effective evaluation of TDVP. It is little more than a weak defense of outdated physicalist theory. The authors rush to judgement, presenting their conclusions first, reflecting their belief that TDVP can’t be correct, because it addresses consciousness as a fundamental part of reality, which doesn’t conform to the physicalist dogma of mainstream physics. The article misconstrues TDVP as an attack on QCD and QFT, which are descriptions of subatomic structure, while TDVP actually explains the phenomena that QCD and QFT describe. Instead of trying to understand TDVP, the authors appear to be looking for a way to dismiss it without going to the trouble of trying to understand the basic concepts, or following the detailed derivations, mathematical proofs, and verified results it contains, to their logical conclusion.




[1] With respect, K&R’s detailed TDVP derivations are not in the cited reference #30 in K&R 1. Kaan J, Rebsdorf SO: An evaluation of TDVP. Telicom 30: 5; 142-157, 2018.  and (charge3 + mass3 + gimmel3 )1/3 is certainly not an expression used in the TDVP derivations.


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Monday, January 7, 2019

A COSMIC LOVE STORY

SECRETS OF THE SACRED CUBE
A Cosmic Love Story
By Edward R. Close and Jacquelyn A. Close

Copyright © 2019




When I started writing this book about three years ago, it was intended to be about how to solve the Rubik’s cube and how solution of the three-tiered cube could be used to simulate certain aspects of mathematics, quantum physics, elements of the Periodic Table, cosmology, and the physical, mental and spiritual development of human consciousness. This was essentially done in about a year, and in about 125 pages. But I thought that the last part of it, concerning the spiritual development of human consciousness, needed to be substantiated and validated with factual events from personal experience, and as I began to write about the relevant events, I realized that many experiences of Jacqui Close, my life-partner of more than 40 years, were an integral part of the story. The relevant events in her life were entwined with mine, even long before we met in this life. So I asked her if she would tell her part of the story in the book, in her own words. She agreed with some reluctance, and began to write.

As the book evolved, it became clear that it was a joint autobiographical sketch of our lives together, focusing mainly on our mission of learning, growing and helping others. The book shows how the cube can be useful as a physical representation of the nine-dimensional structure of the reality we experience. With three sets of three orthogonal tiers of sub-cubes, rotating with respect to each other, it can simulate our personal experiences of cause and effect and recurring patterns. The patterns observed while solving the cube are analogous, in some ways, to the patterns that arise in our lives. Thus the book offers a framework for analyzing life’s challenges and explaining life’s mysteries. But. since our work in this world was not over yet, how would we end the book? As we searched for a way to finish the book, Jacqui’s health began to deteriorate as a result of issues from the past: she had survived cancer in 1985 and acute kidney failure in 2012. She was hospitalized in mid-July 2018, and endured several intensely spiritual near-death, out-of-body experiences. She decided to go into hospice December 10th and left the body for the last time on December 15, 2018. In addition to providing a glimpse into the past, the book includes what Jacqui wrote about her experiences while in the hospital, and it concludes with the documentation of her ascension to a higher realm. 

The manuscript is finally finished and I plan to have it published as soon as I can, hopefully within a few months.

Update: Secrets of the Sacred Cube, A cosmic Love Story was published in September, 2019. Links:

Information on how to get Secrets of the Sacred Cube, A Cosmic Love Story
Is Consciousness Primary? [my contribution is Chapter 4 and Appendix A]:
Http://www.Amazon.com Search for “Is Consciousness Primary?”
New Thinking Allowed ERC Interview No. 1: The Delayed-Choice Double-Slit Experiment Scheduled for release October 11

New Thinking Allowed ERC Interview No. 2: The Constancy of the Speed of Light 
Scheduled for release October 21

New Thinking Allowed ERC Interview No. 3: Spiritual Practice and Scientific Inquiry 
Scheduled for release November 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYAkX4-LsR8

New Thinking Allowed ERC Interview No. 4: The Mysterious Component of Reality 

ER Close, November 14, 2019

Saturday, January 5, 2019

A RATIONAL APPROACH TO THE BORDER DISPUTE



AS everyone knows, we currently have a stand-off between the executive and legislative branches of our government over border security. This schism is reflected in the same split of opinions in the general citizenry of the country as well. We hear heated discussions on TV and radio talk shows, and on line, with both sides calling the other side names and declaring their arguments disingenuous. Both sides have access to the same facts, and most people on both sides say they want a “comprehensive” solution to the problem. So, why can’t they agree on a course of action that will resolve the problem? Especially when innocent people are being seriously harmed as long as no action is taken. How is it that intelligent people can disagree so completely about something about which the facts are readily available?

 

The purpose of this post is NOT to try to convince you that one side is right and the other wrong. What I want to do is explore the anatomy of seemingly unresolvable arguments objectively, and use the current acrimonious stand-off as an example.
First, we must recognize that most of those framing the arguments in this case are politicians, and about 50% of all US politicians are lawyers. Why is this important? Because it is simply the modus operandi of politicians to always interpret facts to their advantage, and lawyers are trained in law school to represent the best interests of their clients, regardless of the facts. Both of these approaches lead to a tendency to depreciate the value of truth and facts in favor of biased interpretations that lead to vested-interest outcomes. Operating this way on a daily basis leads to the acceptance of an irrational belief system that holds that facts are just data to be interpreted, and “truth is what you make it”.

When people with this irrational mindset say that they are just trying to get to the truth at the bottom of the issue, they are lying, not just to the other side, but even to themselves. They are not interested in truth, reality or facts, they are only interested in the specific outcomes they and those they represent prefer. Unfortunately, this is the mindset of most politicians, lawyers, and many ordinary American citizens today. When people on both sides of a dispute have this irrational mindset, they become adamant about wanting to achieve completely different, incompatible outcomes, and neither side will accept a compromise, because the elements of their arguments are incommensurable, and you have a stand-off.

Let’s look at the concept of incommensurability. What do we mean when we say two things are incommensurable? Here’s the dictionary definition:

incommensurable

(ˌɪnkəˈmɛnʃərəbəl)
adj
1. incapable of being judged, measured, or considered comparatively
2. (followed by: with) not in accordance; incommensurate
3. (Mathematics)
a. (of two numbers) having an irrational ratio
b. not measurable in the same units
c. unrelated to another measurement by integral multiples

I submit to you that incommensurability is an outcome of inaccurate and imprecise human thinking, not something that actually exists in the real world. Mathematical incommensurability, e.g., does not exist in a quantized reality, and our reality is quantized. Any two facts or truths, i.e., things that actually exist, can be related unambiguously if emotion-based actions are not allowed.

So the solution to a stand-off like the one we have now over border security is simple. This does not mean that it is easy. It will be very difficult, not because of incommensurable facts, but because it requires that the participants forget about their desired outcomes and look at the facts without emotional attachments to specific spins and interpretations. This will be difficult for most people, and some, with the irrational mindset described above, may even be psychologically incapable of doing it.

The rational approach would be to start with two or more facts that both sides have to accept as indisputable. There will always be at least two. Then determine how these facts, truths or realities are factually related to each other. This analysis can be expanded until all relevant facts, effective actions, and real outcomes are identified. If the analysis is thorough and deep enough, all relevant facts, relationships, actions, and outcomes can be discovered and articulated. If all relevant facts, actions and outcomes are correctly identified, they will not be incommensurate. Paradoxes borne of incommensurable concepts exist in human thought, but incommensurable facts do not exist in reality.
Reality is self-referential and internally consistent. If it were not, there could be no laws of science; chaos would be prevalent and there would be no stable life-supporting universe.


The final steps of the rational solution are to identify the actions that can be implemented and evaluate or rank their outcomes in terms of effects in the real world, and then to implement the actions that lead to the best results. Do I think this rational approach would be effective in the border security dispute? Yes, definitely. Will it be applied? Probably not, because, as I said above, it is difficult for most people, and especially politicians, to drop their vested interests in specific outcomes, and that causes them to ignore or misinterpret the facts.

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THREE, SIX AND NINE



The Significance of Three, Six and Nine and Solving the Cube

“If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have a key to the universe.” – Nikola Tesla
The cube has 3 axes of rotations, 6 sides and 9 rotational planes. There are 3 forms of the essence of reality, 6 relationships between them, and each of the three forms have 3 dimensions, making 3x3 = 9 dimensions in total.

Solving the cube  is achieved by carefully observing the patterns that appear in the arrangement of the colored faces of the three layers and developing our intuition to improve our ability to choose the moves that will lead to symmetric coherence. The three layers of the cube are inter-connected by nine sets of pieces that may be rotated in nine orthogonal planes. The logic and mathematics of nine-dimensional geometry is the same for all manifestations of reality, quantum, personal and cosmic. Consider these analogies:
The first layer, which is the easiest to complete, is analogous to the physical body, and a completed first layer is analogous to a strong, healthily structured body. The second layer, analogous to the mind, is a bit more difficult to complete, and a completed second layer is analogous to a clear and healthy mental state. Completion of the third layer, analogous to spirit, while maintaining the coherence of the first two layers, is the most difficult to attain, and is analogous to achieving the ultimate enlightenment, also known as cosmic consciousness. 
The three layers taken together as a unit, i.e. the cube, is analogous to the individual soul, and the interactions of the layers with each other and the rest of reality through rotations of the nine orthogonal planes, are analogous to the individual soul’s interactions with the nine dimensions of reality. A completed cube, with color coherence and the six dimensions aligned with the six directions, is analogous to the state of cosmic consciousness, which is the alignment of all aspects of life, physical, mental and spiritual, with the ultimate state of reality. Finally, the purpose of life is the full realization of the consciousness of the oneness of all things. 
Most of us on this planet at this point in time, are in various states of confusion much like the scrambled cube. Each one of us exists in our own unique scrambled state, a reflection of our past choices and actions. The question is: How do we become aligned with the positive patterns of reality, traditionally known as the will of God?
There are three worlds existing within the infinity of the reality we experience. They are not separate. They seem to be separate only because of our limited perceptions of them. The world of the experiences of conscious beings seems to exist suspended between the quantum world of elementary particles, atoms and molecules and the cosmic world of planets, suns and galaxies. However, these three worlds are intimately related, and, as we learn, we are aware of some of the relationships, but we cannot be completely aware of their multi-dimensional connections until we reach the final, coherent state of cosmic consciousness. 
Analogous to the progression from one of the scrambled states of the cube to the solved state of color coherence, the purpose of life is to progress from the random confusion of an incoherent body, mind and soul to the beauty, elegance and stability of complete alignment with universal law and cosmic consciousness. This is the magnificence Tesla spoke of. It is reflected in the dimensions of the quantum realm, the macro-world and the cosmos, and it is reflected in the 3 dimensions, 6 directions and 9 rotational planes of the cube.