Dear _____,
First
of all, I want to thank you for your continuing interest in what Vernon and I
are trying to do. As I think you know, we have asked a substantial number of
people, scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, and serious thinkers of
various kinds, to review our work. The most important of these reviewers, from
my point of view, are those with sufficient training in mathematics and physics
to be able to understand the basic concepts underlying Transcendental Physics
and TDVP. These thinkers, one would hope, would be very open-minded and
objective. However, based on the comments and statements of those who have
responded to date, open-mindedness is quite rare. In, my opinion, those who
have commented fall into of one the following categories:
1.)
Those
who assume we don’t know what we are talking about. Their approach is to look
for obvious errors and be done with us.
2.)
Those
who have unconventional theories of their own. Their approach is to determine
to what extent our ideas might support theirs. When they find at some point that
they do not, they quickly lose interest.
3.)
Those
with heavily vested interest in the so-called Standard Model. As with group #1,
they search for any error at all to discredit our ideas because, if we are
right, the paradigm they have invested their lives in must be wrong, and their
life’s work is threatened. Our experience shows that they will do anything they
can to defend the current paradigm.
4.)
Those
who are truly open minded, as all scientists should be, and are willing to
follow the logic of new ideas wherever it leads, even when the results conflict
with their life’s work and/or their own belief system. So far, our experience
is that such minds are very few and far between.
I
have found that discussions with people in the first three categories are largely
a waste of time. The first two have no interest in anything outside their own
ideas, or ideas with which they are familiar, and people in the third group
have no interest in anything outside the box of the current materialistic
paradigm. I think you can probably identify some individuals in the discussions
of the past couple of years who fall in to these categories. Two or three, for
example, who sought to find flaws in the math, started by criticizing
references to, and use of, some simple, basic mathematical concepts, but failed
to understand the significance of these concepts in the new paradigm. Next,
they offered counter examples to certain mathematical proofs and conclusions.
When I pointed out flaws in their reasoning, they at first grudgingly admitted
a mistake or two, and then got upset. One even told me that the discussion was
not about criticizing his ideas. He even posted that he had “refuted” certain
of my arguments, when it was easy to show that he had not.
I
want to address your comments, but first, please permit me to recount a little more
history to put the current discussions into proper perspective:
After
studying the works of Planck, Einstein, Minkowski, Lorentz, Schrödinger, Bohr,
and Heisenberg, while I was an undergrad physics student, I was convinced as
early as 1956, that a theory of everything, even if it was defined only as a
theory that would unify the known forces of nature, was not possible without
including the actions of consciousness in the equations. I wrote about this
around 1957 - 1959 or so. I also recognized that new math was needed, and that
I needed to know more about number theory. I earned a degree in mathematics in
1962, and started in a graduate program in theoretical physics. I also found the
basis for the new math I needed in George Spencer Brown’s ‘Laws of Form’ in
1962; coincidentally about the same time I studied John Bell’s inequality
theorem and learned of Alain Aspect’s experimental resolution of the EPR
paradox.
I
developed the Calculus of Distinctions to deal with the interaction of
consciousness and physical reality; and I first published some of the results
of including consciousness in the equations in 1989 in “Infinite Continuity”.
Prior to publication, I sent a copy of the manuscript to Stephen Hawking for
review. He had a problem with the concept of three-dimensional time and
rejected, out of hand the idea that consciousness had anything to do with
reality at the quantum level.
I
expanded some of the ideas, and published them again in ‘Transcendental
Physics’ in 1996. My ideas were accepted and heralded as the new paradigm
uniting relativity and quantum physics by several, including experimental
physicist Dr. Henry Swift and astrophysicist Dr. Philip Anderson. It was
discussed for months on the Karl Jaspers Forum and other internet forums and in
the journal “Science within Consciousness” in the period 1996 – 1998. One
participant suggested that I should be careful about sharing my ideas so freely
on the internet, because “the ideas clearly represent a new paradigm, and
unscrupulous individuals will steal them and call them their own.” Another
participant quipped: “If you have something truly new, no one will steal it.
You’ll have to cram it down their throats!” Unfortunately, the second comment
proved to be the more accurate. Most people it seems, even scientists, believe
that if they don’t understand something immediately, it must be wrong. As Max
Planck said, “Science advances one funeral at a time.”
Now,
on to your comments: I am thankful for
your comments because they give me an opportunity to more fully explain the
concepts underlying the mathematics of TDVP. I will copy from your email and
then respond:
You
wrote:
“Here´s some new feedback, specifically about theoretical
physics (or at least its required methods) within your theories, but not about
the *whole* TDVP theory (except physics, possibly extended to broader,
non-materialist realms), and especially about QM (again) in relation to your
(or Ed's) 9 dim. Spin model:
When I first mentioned to you in some mails years ago
theories with hidden
variables in QM (David Bohm), and now when you have a 9D
spin model with apparently more detailed variables, I point to the necessity of
QM again, or at least consistency with experiments.”
My response:
You
refer to ‘hidden variables’. This term, as used in QM, refers to attempts by
some physicists, notably David Bohm, Eugene Wigner, and a few others, to
explain the non-locality quantum entanglement of Bell’s inequality and the EPR
paradox in terms of underlying, inaccessible variables which, if there, would
validate Einstein’s opinion that QM as developed by Bohr and Heisenberg was
incomplete, and eliminate, theoretically, the probabilistic uncertainty
formalized by Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.
The
additional variables of TRUE units in TDVP are in no way hidden variables of
this sort. They are hidden only in the sense that they are not directly
measurable. The magnitudes of TRUE units, including mass, energy and gimmel
(the third form) for specific sub-atomic entities are all indirectly
determinable, like many things in science. The amount of gimmel in a given
particle does not affect the quantum uncertainty between the measurements of
location and angular momentum any more than the amount of mass or energy in the
particle does. Heisenberg’s relationship of probabilistic uncertainty is not
affected by Gimmel, an indirectly measurable variable combining with units of
mass and energy to make up the TRUE quantum units of all stable particles, and
thus they are not ‘hidden’ variables in the sense proposed by Bohm, et al.
You
wrote:
“I do not see how the use of integers only will improve
consistency with the known QM framework and the experiments; there needs to be
some randomization as well i -strongly-suspect. The reason is, like I posted, because
of the (statistical nature of the) measurements.
My response:
Let
me explain the importance of using integers in the analysis of the combination
of elementary particles to form stable compound particles like protons and
neutrons: Planck’s discovery that elementary particles are always integer
multiples of a basic unit means that we are dealing with discrete, as opposed
to continuous values in the statistical analysis of collider data. A discrete
random variable has a very different probability distribution than a continuous
random variable, and functions representing compound entities formed by the
combination of integral numbers of basic units can only have integer values. This
means we are dealing with equations with integer variables, known to mathematicians
as Diophantine equations. I’ll elaborate on this more as I respond to your
further comments.
You
wrote:
In some way with some quantum logic Ed or your other math
assistant might
be able to add this to this spin-model, in order to generate
the most common
QM experiments, but it won't be easy.
My response:
This
has already been done. And, while it wasn’t as difficult as you might imagine,
it may be hard to grasp at first. This is actually what Dimensional
Extrapolation with unitary extensions and integer solutions to the Conveyance
Equations in TRUE units are all about. The 9-D spin model is an outcome of the
mathematics, not the other way around.
You
wrote:
“For the rest when describing physics at the Planck scale,
just a 9D spin model is not enough of course, because it's not only *particle*
spin, there also is QM involved with
(mass-less) *photons*, and in fact with a
whole of other particles (some
with rapid decay); called the particle 'zoo'. In fact the existence of most of
these particles seems to come out of the quantum field theories inherent in the
Standard Model, but that's another -and slightly broader- subject.”
My response:
Actually,
the mathematics of TDVP accurately encompasses all known QM processes. The
derivation of TRUE units is fully consistent with, and actually dependent upon
the statistical nature of the quantum measurements of collider data. TDVP is
also consistent with the existence of mass-less photons and the entire ‘particle
zoo’. All of the particles detected in the debris from high-energy collisions
decay under ‘normal’ conditions into photons, electrons and up- and down-quarks,
the four sub-atomic entities that make up the physical structures of our
everyday world. The other particles are teased into existence by high-energy
collisions here on Earth, or are naturally produced in extreme conditions of
heat and pressure like those in stellar processes. This becomes clear in the
9-D integral model. TRUE units describe the total mass/energy/consciousness
composition of sub-atomic particles under normal conditions. Only the particle
combinations with the TRUE unit values that satisfy integer solutions of the
Conveyance Equation for n = m = 3, dictated by Fermat’s Last Theorem achieve
symmetric stability.
You
wrote:
“Now I understand you
or Ed have to start somewhere within the TDVP framework, i.e. with the 9D
particle spin model, but then this would
only be a (minor) start, and certainly not a description or foundation of
some 'new physics' or new paradigm in physics at large.”
My response:
As
you might gather from my explanations above, I strongly disagree with this
statement. While our presentations, as you say, must ‘start somewhere’, as a
new paradigm, TDVP does not start with randomly chosen concepts. As a new
paradigm must, it starts with proven fundamental mathematical and physical
basics and expands them with new mathematics, new definitions and a new, more
comprehensive theoretical framework, just as relativity and quantum mechanics
did.in the early part of the last century.
Since
1935, there have been no paradigm-shifting new physics discoveries, only
experimental and technological evidence of fields, particles and concepts that
fit within the current materialistic paradigm. TDVP, on the other hand, with
the inclusion of the action of consciousness, and detailed mathematical and
dimensionometric applications of the Calculus of Distinctions, Dimensional
Extrapolation and the Conveyance Equations, provides a new, expanded paradigm
that not only encompasses and integrates known physics, chemistry, the life
sciences, and verified paranormal phenomena, it provides answers and
explanations for quantum and macro-scale phenomena not explained, or even
explainable in the current paradigm.
You
wrote:
Also i would like to come back on the subject of peer review
(about stuff like
this 9D spin model) in the area of -theoretical- *physics*.
… I would be more interested with which modern physicists you and-or Ed
are talking in detail about the mathematical theories within your TDVP context.
My response:
My response:
We
certainly agree about the importance of colleague review, and we have been eagerly seeking
it for years. I have approached people like Stephen Hawking, Menos Kafatos,
Henry Stapp, and Roger Penrose, and a number of mathematicians to get these
ideas peer reviewed, and Vernon has approached many others. But finding
qualified reviewers who are willing to spend their precious time reviewing
something outside the box is easier said than done. See my comments above
regarding the four categories of reviewers.
You
continue:
This also because imho inventing workable validated theories
in mathematical physics usually should not be much determined only by 'creativity'
(although this may apply for generating hypotheses) but by having an
understanding of experimental physics as w ell. Without the experiments, imho
you are most of the time -in fact almost always-only creating (highly) speculative 'theories' (in
fact more hypotheses than theories); a well known fact in the
philosophy of science btw, and mentioning things as new paradigms or being
decades ahead of the others do not change such facts. NB it is not intended as
(severe) criticism, but more as a suggestion how to continue the research and
if also focus on the interconnections between your 'new physics' and the well-established
older theories.
My response:
I
certainly understand and appreciate this, as I’m sure Vernon does, but you apparently
didn’t know that I’ve relied heavily on experimental physics in developing the
mathematics.
You
continued:
At least in your latest response on Ning you now seem to
have acknowledged this, but then you also should admit that there is not much 'linkage'
(yet?) between all the new ideas (including these TRUE units) with conventional
'fundamental' physics (apart from the periodic table, but that's not enough.
Like i wrote earlier, in theoretical physics the quantum mechanics of the
electron bands around the core (and the Pauli Exclusion Principle) are
determining the periodic index; and also their reactivity with other elements.
But that's another subject. While it
looks like an 'Eureka' experience finding such a new way of setting up the
periodic table, together with some possible new findings, imho again more
validation and verification is to be done to make it a workable theory instead
of just a (wild) hypothesis.”
My response:
Again,
you seem to be unaware of much of what we’ve published. As my previous discussion
shows, there are multiple linkages between TDVP and fundamental physics,
quantum mechanics and relativity. In addition to explaining why quarks combine in
triads, the unique value of the Cabibbo angle, explaining the Periodic Table
consistent with electron shell theory and Pauli’s exclusion principle, -but in much
more detail-, explaining why fermions have an intrinsic spin number of ½, why
photons, electrons, protons, and neutrons have the physical characteristics
they do, and the quantization of angular momentum, as well as explaining
non-locality and quantum entanglement, we are finding more links and
explanations almost daily. If this doesn’t make TDVP “a workable theory instead
of just a (wild) hypothesis”, I’d like to know what would.
You
wrote:
About the methods used in general in your physics theories
as part of your
Toe: maybe this '' C.O.D.' theory by Ed indeed is innovative
new method which can be used in mathematical physics, to be recognized as such
it should be studied more in detail by
others i suppose, and only then later it might be acknowledged as such.”
My response:
Unless
you’ve read the published articles associated with “Reality Begins with
Consciousness” and/or the posts on my Transcendental Physics blog, located at www.ERCloseTPhysics.com, you wouldn’t
know that over the years, I have discussed the mathematical basis of
Transcendental Physics and TDVP with a substantial number of professional mathematicians
and mathematical physicists; I have approached at least fifty or sixty. I have
documentation of many of these discussions in the form of letters and emails. Of
these, only a handful, I believe 5 or 6 actually took the time to look at my
work in any detail. The problem, as with getting reviewers for TDVP, is few are
willing to invest much time to review anything outside the mainstream paradigm,
especially if it involves new math. One professional mathematician, Dr.
Vladimir Brandin, has endorsed CoD and used it in his studies of intelligence.
We published one paper together:
Brandin
V, Close ER: The calculus of dimensional distinctions: Elements of mathematical
theory of intellect. Moscow: 2003.
Details
of CoD and applications have been published in journal articles. We can supply
copies if you want to see them.
I’d
like to elaborate a bit more on the mathematical and dimensionometric bases of
Transcendental Physics and TDVP for you by pointing out the difference between
classical Aristotelian and Platonic reasoning as it pertains to mathematics and
scientific research: Aristotelians see mathematics simply as a man-made tool,
while Platonists see mathematics as symbolic reflections of an underlying
reality. As such, the imperfect tools of human formulation can always be improved
to more and more closely mimic and reveal the perfectly logical patterns of reality.
I see the value of the Aristotelian point of view in technological and engineering
applications, but I also subscribe to the Platonic point of view as valid in
constructing a paradigm to illustrate the nature of reality.
To
understand TDVP and the use of the CoD, I think it will be helpful for you to
know that there are three basic concepts behind the mathematics of TDVP:
1.)
There is a direct correlation between the structures of number theory and the
structures of the universe. This is why even the most abstract mathematical theorem
finds application in the real world sooner or later.
2.)
The experimental resolution (Aspect, et al) of the EPR paradox implies
consciousness involvement and non-locality. These features are explainable
within the framework of a universe with more dimensions than the four of the
space-time of Minkowski and Einstein (3S – 1T).
3.)
Max Planck discovered that we live in a quantized universe, but mathematical
physics has not been properly adjusted to accommodate this fact.
You
may agree or disagree with basic concept #1. If you are primarily Aristotelian
in your thinking, as many scientists are, you may see the correlation between
the types of numbers and the measures of dimensions, as shown by Dimensional
Extrapolation, as a remarkable coincidence. If you accept basic concept #1, you
will agree that the correlations we’ve discovered are not coincidental.
Basic
concept #2 by itself does not imply any specific number of discrete dimensions,
but when combined with #1, a maximum number of nine finite orthogonal
dimensions are derived.
Concerning
basic concept #3, to adjust mathematical physics to a quantized universe, we
must first recognize that the calculus of Newton and Leibniz does not apply at
the quantum level because, for applications of differential and integral
calculus to yield valid results, the domains of the variables involved must be
continuous. In a quantized universe, distinctions of content, like mass, energy
and consciousness, exist only in finite, discrete integer amounts, and, as we have
shown in TDVP, the distinctions of extent, like space and time, are also limited
to finite, discrete volumes due to the relativistic light-speed limitation on
velocity.
So
the dimensional domains of a quantized universe are not continuous. No variable
in a quantized universe can approach zero infinitesimally closely, as it must
be able to do for Newtonian calculus to yield valid results at the quantum
scale. In TDVP, the infinitesimals of Newtonian calculus are replaced by the
minimal distinctions of TRUE units, and the Calculus of Distinctions is the
mathematical system I’ve developed to extend calculus to the sub-quark level. To
be clear, the CoD does not replace Newtonian calculus at the macro scale; it
extends calculation to the quark scale, analogous to the way relativity does
not replace Newtonian physics at normal scales of measurement, and only comes
to play in the vicinity of extremely massive objects, or when relative
velocities are near light-speed.
In
summary, contrary to the impressions you have portrayed in your email of Feb.
3, 2015, TDVP is, in fact a comprehensive new paradigm with new mathematics, allowing
consciousness to be included in the equations of mathematical physics for the
first time. This paradigm has explained a number of empirical observations not
explained by the current paradigm. The new mathematics, rigorously defined in several
published books and articles, reveals an existential nine-dimensional finite domain
embedded in an infinite substrate which contains the blueprints of all of the stable
forms that support life and consciousness in the universe. I have tried
repeatedly since 1989 to obtain competent peer review, and Vernon and I have
sought colleague review in every venue available to us over the past six years
as we’ve continued to develop the new paradigm. If you have any questions or
concerns, or require more detailed explanations, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Edward
R. Close, PhD, PE, DISPE
