tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88265927880873297222024-03-19T03:40:28.072-07:00EntanglementQuantum Mechanics and Self ImprovementAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192522405699056766noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826592788087329722.post-78579102859111236042014-12-05T13:50:00.000-08:002014-12-05T13:52:25.731-08:00Inertia and matter wavesSo this is NOT a real blog post. Instead it's out loud brainstorming. I've got an idea that I want to suss out a little bit. I've basically entirely put the Blain Laboratory aside in terms of the philosophy of it, and will turn my attention to Q-Time. (The only thing left for the Blain Lab is the mathematical machinations, which I have to wait to do later when I get textbooks to study from.)<br />
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Regarding Q-Time, I've been thinking in the back of my head - the great physicists postulate special inertial states, those states where Newton's Laws work. I've been mulling over these concepts a lot because to build the Blain Lab, I had to redefine what is an allowable inertial state and include one more special one, for particles only. Multiparticle objects aren't allowed to participate in this special extra inertial state, that of orientating automatically towards all incoming photons. This special inertial state is **required** to keep the speed of light as a constant from the perspective of particles.<br />
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Of course, that's only the first step, and only what I'll be giving to people in the first document, but they'll still be operating under the paradigm of Newton's First Law.<br />
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In my next document, I will show that this basic type of particle interaction is always in governance, but we don't notice as much, because the interactions of matter particles is mediated the their own interactions with photons. The interactions become highlighted when we consider that the momentum of photons is basically fixed for a given wavelength, p=h/lambda, but for particles it is flexible through p=mv.<br />
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I'm getting off topic; my point is, I've been thinking a lot about these special inertial states, and wondering why they must exist at all? Certainly it would be cleaner and more satisfying to me if the mathematics worked out isomorphically. An example of two states that may or may not be isomorphic -<br />
* Particle O on the origin, particle A stationary on (0, 1), particle B starting at (1, 0) and accelerating towards (infinity, 0)<br />
* Particle O on the origin, particle B stationary at (1, 0), and particle A starting at (0, 1) and moving towards (0,0) but decelerating.<br />
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This is NOT apparently physical. It must be one or the other, to keep inertia and the speed of light happy.<br />
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But what if the special new inertial state I've discovered hints at a deeper reality where things ARE perfectly isomorphic like this?? We might still run into trouble with the Planck length, which gives a definite measure of distance and kills isomorphism, but I'd like to consider it anyway.<br />
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Planck length aside, we can't achieve perfect isomorphism right now because of the special inertial states. So, I've been thinking - multiparticle objects can't achieve the rotational freedom of the special inertial state I discovered for zero-dimensional points. Maybe "multiwave" items (i.e. particles) can't achieve perfect isomorphickness for a similar reason. The isomorphickness is blocked because there are multiple waves, but if we were talking about single waves, then the isomorphism would work out just fine.<br />
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In FACT, just like the real theory is really there, underneath, at all times, the same way the Blain Laboratory is there and working all the time though we can't generally see it, so it should be true that the universe *really is* isomorphic with respect to velocities and accelerations, we just generally can't see it because the waves are mostly bundled up into particles, hiding the isomorphism.<br />
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If true, how the hell would I figure that out?<br />
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I could start by looking at the inertial states, and not just the special one either, but all inertial states. When two Laboratories are moving at constant speed relative to each other and at least one is "Newtonian", how are the particle waves (matter/photon) operating with respect to each other??<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192522405699056766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826592788087329722.post-25210888792252200642014-12-01T19:42:00.001-08:002014-12-01T19:42:19.763-08:00Project MedusaAlright so this is a genuine blog post, not a project document masquerading as a blog post.<br />
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I'm really liking the direction that I'm heading in, and the format of my submission to the Physics Review Letters. Short and to the point, good for a TL;DR of the theory itself, which should contain derivations and the real mathematics.<br />
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I want to keep up in this regard and cover three subjects with these quick submissions:<br />
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<li><span style="line-height: 1.6;">REQUIRED: COMPLETE DISCUSSION within the constraints of a short communication.</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.6;">REQUIRED: CLEARLY WRITTEN, devoid of unnecessary jargon, symbols defined, figures well drawn, and tables and figures thoroughly captioned. When appropriate, a Letter should be followed by a more extensive report in the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Physical Review</i><span style="line-height: 1.6;"> or elsewhere.</span></li>
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The goal of <i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Physical Review Letters</i> is to keep a broad readership of physicists well informed of the essential current research in all subfields. To this end, there must be compelling reasons why a result should be published as a Letter, and not in a more specialized journal.</div>
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THESIS (INTRO): In Special Relativity, there exists a vagueness. It can be fixed with clever application of Einstein's 2nd Postulate of Special Relativity (invariance of c), but only at the cost of rejecting and replacing General Relativity as we know it.<br />
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POINT 1 - The train of logic is pretty undeniable. Before Einstein, Newton's Laws of Mechanics were very strong. Similarly, Maxwell's Electromagnetism represented a synthesis of earlier physical theories into a beautiful whole.<br />
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POINT 2 - The problem was that Maxwell's Electromagnetism was at odds with Newton's laws of mechanics, through electromagnetic radiation that was predicted to move at a speed that didn't seem relative to anything; the speed of light.<br />
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POINT 3 - Einstein felt that the key to unification was to keep the spirit of relativity alive under the constraints that the speed of light is a constant. Reflected in the postulates of Special Relativity.<br />
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POINT 4 - Using the postulates, Einstein uncovered a solution to the problem of making the theories connect, through the Lorentz transformation. Here is the Lorentz transformation, from (such and such source).<br />
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POINT 5 - However, there's a vagueness in his solution. Einstein built the theories with the Galilean Laboratory in mind. The Galilean Laboratory has extents.<br />
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POINT 6 - Here's what happens when we apply the same logic to a zero-dimensional point. Vagueness appears in whether or how fast a single particle (the Blain Laboratory) rotates in a Special Relativistic situation.<br />
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Conclusion: This solution solves the vagueness but leads to a vastly different physical theory than Einstein's Special Relativity, and will require a new theory of gravity. However, it's worth the effort since it may offer a chance to connect Special Relativity and gravity (whatever it may be) with quantum mechanics. Please see more of my ideas for gravity, etc.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192522405699056766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826592788087329722.post-52263780707791372762014-11-27T11:58:00.000-08:002014-11-28T22:38:04.962-08:00The Princess and the PeaWhen I began my journey, I treated the physical theories of science that already exist as "Innocent, until proven Guilty". Whenever I had a difference of opinion with a physical theory, it was significantly more likely that my opinion was based on too limited information than it was that the physical theory was incorrect. (Actually, it is more accurate to say that I made my own foray into understanding these theories, but treated physical theory as "the answer book" to show me where I was missing information or making mistakes in my assumptions.)<br />
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However, I have come to point where I'm confident that I know all there is to know about Special Relativity - what issues evoked a need for it, how it resolves those issues, the mathematical mechanics of how it works, and how the engine core of Special Relativity (both in theoretical terms and in mathematical mechanics) has spread out to General Relativity and by extension, all of Cosmology.<br />
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In learning it so thoroughly, I have also come to identify what my instincts have been forcing me to seek out. A tiny (literally point-sized) gap in the mechanics, where Special Relativity doesn't quite solve the problem as it is supposed to. Though tiny, the point-sized problem explodes into a major issue in General Relativity, defeating it as a proper theory of gravity. I also strongly expect that a correction to the theory will show dark matter, and possibly also dark energy, to be artefacts of General Relativity, an incorrect model of the universe.<br />
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This is why I'm now adopting a more offensive approach. Given that I can identify the location of the problem, I can then trace it through physics, and I can confidently say which physical theories can be left alone and which need to be recalculated.<br />
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My goals now consist of the following -<br />
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Special Relativity is a touch incomplete.<br />
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The incompleteness is difficult to spot, and it will be easier to demonstrate if I first compare the Galilean transformation (where the velocity of a baseball relative to Earth is u+v, if the velocity of the train carrying the thrower is u) and the Lorentz transformation, used by Einstein to maintain the speed of light relative to all observers in different inertial reference frames.<br />
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Two notable effects of the Lorentz transformation are length contraction and time dilation. Lengths of the observed object (like a baseball thrown from a train) are shortened along the direction of motion and it experiences time ticking away at a longer relative rate than a person watching it standing on the Earth. That way, both the baseball and the person standing on Earth see the light leaving the train headlight at the same velocity.<br />
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For straight line movement at constant velocity, it is a single transformation but for non-inertial movement (i.e. accelerations, rotations, or revolutions), the situation is more complicated.<br />
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Rotations, as mentioned, do not appear to maintain inertia. Let us confirm by finding out what happens when a Galilean Laboratory is rotated about the center, and we'll fire a beam of light towards the center.<br />
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The pre-Einstein Galilean Laboratory reacts in a way that is congruous with what we expect in day-to-day life. Figure 1a is similar to what we might see if we throw a baseball at a randomly spinning person. The baseball travels in a straight line towards the person while they spin.<br />
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The perspective of the spinning person is also natural. As the ball comes towards them, the baseball veers left and right in their field of vision. Humans are equipped with biology so that we still generally understand we're spinning and ball is moving in a straight line, but if we're watching a video of that person's perspective, it's not necessarily obvious. Is the object onscreen moving left and right, or is the camera operator rotating around?<br />
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Einstein knew that an application of the Lorentz transformation was required here. He reasoned that the outer edges of the spinning Laboratory are moving at a greater velocity than the center, and therefore are subject to Special Relativity to a greater degree than the stationary center, and that the effects of Special Relativity are increasing from the center to the edges. The circumference of the Laboratory shrinks by length contraction, an effect of Special Relativity, and experiences time at a dilated rate compared with the center. By this, he reasoned that the spacetime of the laboratory "bubbles up". You might have seen videos online of how matter affects the fabric of spacetime by creating a dimple in the fabric.<br />
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If the Laboratory is rotating wildly back and forth, clockwise and counterclockwise, then it dimples and undimples spacetime with its movement. The Laboratory shrinks and expands again to its stationary size, and the edges of the Laboratory move slightly ahead in time before equalizing with the center again as a clockwise rotation turns into counterclockwise, and visa versa. In short, an observer on Earth sees the Laboratory undergoing some pretty spectacular effects in terms of length contraction and time dilation. However, an observer on Earth sees the beam of light head straight towards the center of the laboratory at the speed of light, exactly as required.<br />
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From the perspective of an observer inside the Laboratory, many experiments do not perform as expected, and some might even throw themselves against the outer edge of the Lab. An observer looking outside the Laboratory would see the universe itself shrinking and growing to normal size, and time dilating, as required by the Lorentz transformation to keep the speed of light constant for all observers. The path of the beam of light itself becomes difficult to calculate, with all the length contractions and time dilations going on around it, but it is a warped version of the path from Figure 1b.<br />
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Notice that in all of the previous examples, we used the Galilean Laboratory. It is large and spacious, and sensitive to rotations. When a beam of light approaches the Laboratory from the outside, the scientist in the lab can determine what part of the lab detected it. I'm now going to attempt these experiments with the Blain Laboratory, which is a single point rather than a large, spacious laboratory.<br />
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I required a Chapter 0 to explain that this piece is a work in progress, not a final output. This isn't a final version that I've tweaked to perfection and am finally putting on the internet. Instead it's the earliest draft with vastly incomplete sections, that I'm building on the internet instead of on my computer at home.<br />
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I'm putting it here for a few reasons - ease of access (because I'm rarely outside a WiFi zone), to keep it public (so reviewers can come back later and confirm dates for posterity), and because I'm hoping to get an audience sooner rather than later (though I'm not actively taking efforts to find an audience because most people think I'm out of my gourd).<br />
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As a work in progress, chapters will spring up and disappear during construction, and the order may be revised extensively. Don't expect the same work to still be here a month later, as it may be completely revised.<br />
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The audience of the document is intended to be me, but as if I don't remember my own theories. Maybe the audience is me-twenty-five-years ago, even before learning Newtonian mechanics.<br />
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* When we try to perform scientific experiments, a good way to start is to remove influences that may affect the results. For example, if a contaminant gets into a sample of blood, are we measuring the contaminant, or is something bad in that person's blood?!<br />
(INTRO - STATEMENT ABOUT HOW MOVEMENT AND INERTIA AFFECT VERY MANY MECHANICAL EXPERIMENTS. IF WE WANT TO UNDERSTAND MECHANICS, WE MUST REMOVE THE INERTIA OF THE LABORATORY AS A FACTOR.)<br />
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* Galileo started by considering how his experiments run perfectly well on his smooth sailing boat. Smoke flows up in the cabin but backwards on the deck.<br />
(STATEMENTS ABOUT INERTIA BEING THE FOUNDATION OF EXPERIMENTATION IN THE LABORATORY - GALILEAN LABORATORY.)<br />
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* Newton's Three Laws build upon these ideas. Inertial Reference Frame - more than just constant velocity relative to another inertial frame.<br />
(STATEMENTS ABOUT NEWTON CODIFYING OBSERVATIONS OF GALILEO'S OBSERVATIONS OF INERTIA INTO A SET OF THREE LAWS.)<br />
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* Lorentz and Einstein built the equations and the model on top, correcting the Galilean laboratory to respect light and giving Special Relativity.<br />
(STATEMENT POINTING OUT THAT THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION CORRECTS FOR PHOTONS.. IMPLICITLY SHOW EXAMPLES THAT IT'S FOR A COLLINEARLY MOVING SOURCE.)<br />
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* What about situations of arbitrary inertia, acceleration? Accelerating train example. The obvious thing to do is assume Einstein's solution works but must be generalized. Note that this works for arbitrarily complex movements, and led Einstein to General Relativity. Back this up with statements from his actual book.<br />
(STATEMENT NOTING THAT GENERAL RELATIVITY GENERALIZES SPECIAL RELATIVITY FOR SITUATIONS OF ARBITRARY INERTIA/ENERGY.)<br />
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* So the state of modern physics, with respect to gravity and inertial reference frames, was built with the intention of understanding how the laws of physics change depending upon the state of motion of the laboratory. If we understand how inertia and movement must affect our results, we can remove them as a factor affecting the results of our experiments.<br />
(STATEMENTS CONCLUDING THAT THE GOAL OF THE EFFORTS OF GALILEO, NEWTON, EINSTEIN, IS TO UNDERSTAND INERTIA AND MOVEMENT WITH THE REALIZATION THAT PHOTONS ARE SPECIAL.)<br />
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* STATEMENTS POINTING OUT THAT DESPITE THE LOGIC, GENERAL RELATIVITY DOESN'T AGREE WITH QUANTUM MECHANICS, AND QM DOESN'T HAVE LARGE GAPING UNKNOWNS. GRAVITY DOES, WITH DARK MATTER, DARK ENERGY.<br />
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* INTRO - STATEMENT ABOUT HOW COORDINATE CHANGES HELP TO REMOVE BIAS AS A FACTOR IN ONE'S MODELS.<br />
* STATEMENTS POINTING OUT HOW THE GALILEAN LABORATORY IS BIG, AND PHOTONS ARE DETECTED AT AN ANGLE<br />
* STATEMENTS NOTING HOW OUR CONSTRUCTIONS RUN INTO AMBIGUITY WITH A POINT-SIZE LABORATORY. PHOTON IS MEASURED TO MOVE **NOT** AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT UNLESS WE ARE COLLINEAR.)<br />
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* I'm going to suggest that we simply proceed forward with this information and apply the Lorentz transformation just in a peculiar way, to restore the speed of the photon to the proper speed of light. We'll have to apply it in different "strengths" at each angle. The photon's velocity is broken up into c-vector = c-radial-vector + c-tangential-vector. (Diagram please.) The "source speed" is the c-radial-vector, and the Lorentz Transform applies here.<br />
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* The properties of this laboratory solve the ambiguity left behind in the SR-enhanced Galilean laboratory. I'll call it the Blain Laboratory for the rest of the document. The Blain lab has all the advantages of the Galilean Laboratory, but it gains rotational ability to deal respect the movement of photons. It is not a general theory of inertia and movement as is General Relativity, but it is a seed that can be grown into a much different theory that is much more conformable to the movement of photons.<br />
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<br />* Conclusion: Weapon #1 - The Blain Laboratory<br />
(STATEMENTS CONCLUDING THAT THE GALILEAN LAB IS DIRECTIONAL AND FAILS TO RESPECT SPEED OF LIGHT. BLAIN LABORATORY IS MORE RESPECTFUL TO PHOTONS. IT IS A POINT-SIZED LAB CAPABLE OF CRAZY RANDOM ROTATIONS BUT ONLY CONSTANT TRANSLATIONS. A MAJOR CHANGE TO GENERAL RELATIVITY IS ON THE HORIZON.)<br />
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* Intro: Changing gears. If I'm changing the nature of relativity.<br />* B-Series time: Time is a series of snapshots, like a movie film<br />
* B-Series time used in modern physics: a facet of spacetime, Minkowski<br />
* B-Series time seems at odds with Quantum Mechanics - Objects don't exist until observed, some effects violate causality (spontaneous pair production, spooky action at a distance)<br />
* A-Series time: suffers a vicious circle as described by McTaggart<br />
* Clones running a race<br />
* The sun versus a sun-dial: spontaneous generation of "change"<br />
* Quantum Probability Theory as the explanation of Time's Arrow<br />
* Q-Theory time - Now is fuzzy, the future is probability, and past is memory<br />
* How anti-time demonstrates the non-reversibility of Q-time<br />
* Conclusion: Weapon #3 - Q-Time<br />
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* The Magic River: why location and momentum are fundamentally at odds<br />
* Conjugate variables in Quantum Mechanics<br />
* Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: the deep connection between location and momentum<br />
* Special Relativity unifies location and time - what would result if we had it operating upon not spacetime but something involving location and also momentum?<br />
* Dan's Intuition - Momentum seems mixed up with time<br />
* Relational momentum - does it work with Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle? Would need to change the constant but I don't see why not.<br />
* Conclusion: Weapon #2 - Relational Momentum<br />
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* Reviewing Newton's 1st Law - movement is currently undefined because Newton's 1st Law doesn't work anymore<br />
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* Building a 2D+ Q-Clock - To give us natural movement, in place of Newton's 1st Law<br />
* Recognizing the echo of gravity (Subjective, Handwaved)<br />
* Building a new theory of gravity: As pure, unforced movement and inertia; Relational momentum in the Blain Laboratory running on Q-Time.<br />
* Equation of Q-Gravity<br />
* Possibly dismissing Dark Matter, Dark Energy as simply artefacts of the difference between Q-Gravity and General Relativity<br />
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REMINDER OF OUR WEAPONS - #1 - Relational Momentum, #2 - Q-Time, #3 - The Blain Laboratory<br />
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As you can see, although we're attempting to simulate known physics, by approaching it under the restriction that we are unable to use the t-variable for time, we have come to some different equations for basic mechanics. Although they are different, they fulfill exactly the same role as their regular (modern physics) counterparts, and you can confirm that they produce the same numbers under all conditions except with regards to gravity.<br />
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These equations hinge upon one key assumption - that the known uncertainty in their momentum (per Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle) implies that they don't necessarily exist in exactly the same moment of time. Consequently, the need for a time variable t evaporates, as shown above.<br />
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I haven't yet attempted to simulate General Relativity with what I've built so far. However, since General Relativity is built under the paradigm of Newton's First Law, it makes little sense to try it anyway. I will press on and input my equations into a computer to see what results.<br />
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HERE, POST: Differences between my simulation and Modern Physics, and how my simulation beats modern physics but otherwise should produce EXACTLY the same results. (I cheat by depending heavily upon existing theories. If same equation, clearly same results.)<br />
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* ---> Expired: time; though time should be kept as a derived unit, useful for Newtonian approximation calculations<br />
* ---> Location (distance):<br />
* ---> Relational momentum (as a DeBroglie Wavelength, not the same as distance):<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192522405699056766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826592788087329722.post-46917078056178254912014-10-31T09:38:00.003-07:002014-11-28T20:45:51.024-08:00Le StuffWikispaces is shutting down free non-educational wikis, so I'm going to blindly transplant the information here. I'd like to hold on to it. It's hideously incomplete so there are large holes of void.<br />
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At the time I made an attempt to build my theory from scratch, I'll like to sort through the garbage and try again, keeping in mind what I believe now (i.e. the relevance of DeBroglie matter waves).<br />
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Preparation<br />
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To prepare for reading this document, I'd like to warn the reader in advance of a few important things.<br />
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Regarding basic Geometry / Physics<br />
For math and modern some of modern physics, I won't be going into much detail since my goal here is not to teach the material. The people who already understand it won't need a refresher course, and for the people who don't yet know the material, I only want to express the ideas in an intuitive way, to get us quickly to my own ideas. I'll be describing my own ideas in a lot more depth, using genuine formulas.<br />
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It is dangerous to try and work with existing modern theory, since much of it has a vast amount of experimental evidence behind it, except for the bleeding edge science (which is out of my reach anyway).<br />
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Therefore, what I'll do instead is this: rather than invent my own premises and work against existing theories, I'm simply going to fail to assume that the premises of existing theories are correct. By doing this, I ought to be led to an incomplete model of the universe, if I'm educated enough and being rigorous in my work.<br />
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I emphasize "ought to", because here's where my own ideas come in. I believe I can explain more phenomena by using less of what is taken as true in modern physics.<br />
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To pull this off, I'll need to be stepping very carefully in the presentation of the relevant modern physics and of my own ideas. It is therefore worthwhile to read the whole document in order, rather than skipping the easy bits. The later sections depend very heavily upon a critical and thoughtful take on ideas that we may normally take for granted.<br />
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Educational Requirements<br />
Despite the fact I'll be trying to make the Wiki legible to laypeople, I want to conclude the Wiki by presenting formulas. (I'm using this Wiki as motivation to actually build them.)<br />
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The paper will start out discussing content that one would find in a grade-school science class.<br />
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It will next discuss topics that go into quantum physics, but I won't be going into the math here so most adults should still be able to grasp the ideas (maybe).<br />
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Finally, I'll present my own research, which will only be understandable to those who have actually studied quantum physics in school or professionally, even if only a little bit.<br />
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Euclidean space<br />
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Dimensionality<br />
Although the term may frighten mathophobes, it's pretty easy to understand with just our everyday intuitions alone.<br />
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An infinitely small dot is zero-dimensional. It does not extend out in any direction.<br />
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If you smear the dot straight in a single direction, the line you create is one dimensional. The line can be measured with, say, a ruler. Just as there are infinitely many numbers, so too is a mathematical dimension actually defined as an infinitely long line.<br />
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Now, there are only two relevant "ways" to smear the infinitely long line:<br />
Along its own direction<br />
In any other single direction<br />
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If you smear it along its own direction, you still have an infinitely long line and nothing has changed. It's as if you did nothing at all.<br />
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If you smear it in any other direction (and assuming you keep smearing to infinity), you create something that looks like an infinitely large, utterly flat piece of paper. This is called a plane, and it is two dimensional because it stretches in two directions.<br />
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Linear Independence<br />
I'd like to talk about linear independence now, another math term that isn't as scary as it sounds.<br />
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Let's say you're trying to build new dimensions. It is important to note that, as I mentioned above, moving the line in the same direction (or the negative of the same direction) as the original line will never help. In fact, when you're smearing the new line, any movement along the direction of the original line implies that part of the movement is "wasted" because part of the smearing moves in first dimension, which we were already aware of.<br />
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To make your smearing worthwhile in the discovery of a new dimension, you must move the line in such a way that its movement in the original dimension is zero. This might sound impossible, but it's easy for the second and third dimensions. You just build a perfectly rectangular corner.<br />
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We can now measure locations on it much more easily, just by measuring distances along the two lines relative to their intersection. These lines are called "linearly independent".<br />
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Euclidean Space = Three-Dimensional Rectangular Space<br />
We can use the same logic discussed above one more time and build a third line. This creates a three-dimension volume. It is called a Euclidean space simply to honor its Greek founder, considered the father of geometry.<br />
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This logic can also be generalized to spaces with more than three dimensions. However, note that it seems impossible to actually visualize (i.e. create or imagine) such a space. Take a three-dimensional Euclidean space, and try to draw a linearly independent line, i.e. a line that doesn't have a component along at least one of the existing three dimensions. It just can't be done.<br />
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The concept of Euclidean Space is an important foundation for many ideas in modern physics, so I'll be studying it in more depth in later sections.<br />
Other kinds of spaces can be created, and I'll touch on that in the section on General Relativity, but I won't go into any depth since I'm starting with a failure in assuming that General Relativity is a correct model of gravity.<br />
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Galileo observed that within his laboratory in the hold of a boat moving slowly down a quiet river, all experiments functioned identically to how they would in a laboratory he'd set up on land. If there were no windows on the boat, how would he know whether the room is moving relative to the surface of the Earth?<br />
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Galilean Relativity is a statement about inertia; i.e. the way in which objects "naturally" move, in the absence of forces. It suggests that an object, sufficiently removed from the influence of forces, will either remain stationary or else move at a constant rate in a straight line.<br />
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Galileo's laboratory on the boat allows objects to move as they naturally would (excluding gravity, of course). A fish in a fishbowl doesn't have to swim any harder in any direction as it would have if the bowl were stationary on the shore. Compare this to a fishbowl on a quickly turning or accelerating car. The fish and the water it's swimming in could very easily get dumped on the car rider's lap.<br />
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Frames of reference that allow natural movement are called "inertial reference frames", and such frames form the basis of Einstein's Relativity, but we'll get to that later.<br />
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The Galilean Transformation<br />
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The Galilean Tranformation, like any transformation", is a mathematical trick that allows you to change your perspective. For example, if one observer is on a riverbank, and another observer is on the boat as it floats slowly, unswervingly down the river, then the Galilean perspective allows one observer to predict how the movement of objects will be perceived of the other observer. Note that this only applies in day-to-day circumstances (i.e. at speeds significantly less than the speed of light).<br />
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James Clerk Maxwell was studying the laws of electricity and magnetism and noticed heavy similarities between the different laws. In short, he discovered that they weren't just twins, but different facets of the same law. It is through his work that we know there is only a single force, known as electromagnetism, at work rather than the two separate forces of electricity and magnetism.<br />
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The part of his work that is relevant here is that the equations he was working with described photons (i.e. particles of light) as moving at a speed of approximately 300,000,000 meters per second.<br />
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This speed didn't appear to be relative to anything. At the time, physicists assumed it was relative to the "aether", a mysterious absolute background of space. If you were at rest relative to the aether, supposedly you were "truly" at rest.<br />
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The Problem with the Speed of Light and Galileo's Addition of Velocities<br />
What happens if a photon is launched forward from a moving train? If a photon's speed can't get larger (or even smaller), then this seems to break Galileo's Addition of Velocities or else photons can't really move at a fixed speed.<br />
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Einstein's Revelation<br />
Several experiments were performed in attempt to measure our speed relative to the aether, most notably that of Michaelson and Morley. Against all expectations, the experiments returned negative results and slowly physicists came to realize that the aether was a myth, implying there was no absolute background. At about the same time, Einstein had a revelation and was able to reconcile the fixed speed of light with the addition of velocities.<br />
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He kept the assumption that the speed of light is fixed and independent of the speed of the source, but introduced a new transformation known as Special Relativity. In other words, changing from the perspective of a person on land to the perspective of a person on a moving train is not as simple as merely adding the velocity of the train.<br />
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Technically the transformation was created by a fellow named Hendrik Lorentz, and so the equations are known as the Lorentz transformations, but Lorentz created the equations to try and save the concept of an aether. Einstein was the first person to correctly interpret the actual physics, and determine that it was measurements of space and time that change when you go from the perspectives of a person on land to the perspective of a person on a moving train. Although it seems counter-intuitive, these changes are just enough to allow both perspectives to measure photons as moving at the same speed.<br />
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Einstein's premise might sound counter-intuitive at first. A common example used to demonstrates how it works is of a lightbulb on the floor of a rocketship, where the lightbulb is visible to an outside observer and a passenger in the rocket. The height of the rocketship is 1 unit high. (1 unit is chosen to make the math easier, but it would work with any distance).<br />
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Einstein was unsatisfied with the fact that Special Relativity failed to be a general transformation for all kinds of movement; i.e. it left out the rather large class of non-inertial movements, or those movements that involve acceleration or rotation.<br />
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Through some logic, he took gravitation and inertia to be equivalent, and used this as a springboard to come up with the General Theory of Relativity. I won't discuss the theory at all except to point out a few things, as follows.<br />
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Minkowski Spacetime<br />
Minkowski took Einstein's theory of General Relativity and built a larger mathematical basis for it, forming a single unit called spacetime, where the dimensions of space and time are each just facets of this unit.<br />
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However, the structure is almost a Euclidean space in nature. Although one of the dimensions is "complex" (in mathematical terms), it otherwise functions as a rectangular space so that beams of light move in a straight line and so do objects with mass if they are sufficiently far away from other objects with mass.<br />
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As suggested by Einstein's General Relativity, the presence of mass and energy will warp and bend the surrounding space. As objects pass through warped space, they will follow the curves in the same way that the paths of rolling balls on a trampoline will be bent towards each other as they pass by closely.<br />
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Before describing why I prefer the one to the other, I'll first describe each experiment. The descriptions will be rough because I'm only interested in expressing the core "fuzziness" of Quantum Physics, rather than in treating these experiments scientifically.<br />
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The Cat in the Box<br />
This experiment was first posed by Erwin Schrodinger, one of the major players in Quantum Physics. He first posed the experiment to express the absurdity of quantum physics.<br />
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The experiment goes like this:<br />
Take a particle that may or may not decay into another particle. How long it takes to decay is random, being 50% likely after a given time T.<br />
Take this particle and hook it up to a detector, and hook the detector up to some gaseous toxin. When the detector discovers that the particle has decayed, it releases the toxin into the air.<br />
Put the whole contraption in a box, so that outside observers don't know what's going on in the box.<br />
Put a cat into the box too.<br />
After the given time T, there is a 50% chance that the cat will be found dead, and a 50% chance that the cat will be found alive.<br />
What if we don't check? It is often stated that until we check, the cat is both dead and alive.<br />
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The reason I don't like this experiment is that it is easy to assume that, although we haven't checked, there really is one answer "in reality". In other words, that the cat inside the box is either already dead OR still alive, and that our checking under the box simply adds to our knowledge this existing fact.<br />
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However,despite the famousness of this example, the knee-jerk assumption of how it works doesn't truly demonstrate the inherent fuzziness in quantum physics works. Let's now talk about the double-slit experiment.<br />
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The Double-slit Experiment<br />
In the double-slit experiment, we shoot electrons at two slits and measure where they hit a screen placed on the other side.<br />
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Initially, the goal of the experiment was to try and determine if the electron travels through space like a particle or a wave.<br />
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If it travelled like a particle, it was imagined that it would travel in a straight line through either one slit or the other (or else miss entirely and hit the barrier with the two slits).<br />
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If it travelled like a wave, it was imagined that the travelling of the electron would form a pattern in space much like you'd see by dropping a stone into a pond. Ripples would expand outward from the launch point. When the ripples made it through the two slits, they would continue to expand but create a pattern against the back wall of high and low intensity; i.e. where the waves from the two slits would add together or cancel out.<br />
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So what actually happens?<br />
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Both actually, depending on the conditions of the experiment. If you "don't peek" and allow the electrons to go where they may, they create the waveform pattern, suggesting they travel as a wave.<br />
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If you "peek" and try to check which barrier each individual particle is moving through before they make it through the barrier, they travel like baseballs and appear to move through space in one direction, through one slit or the other, but not both.<br />
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It's as if the experimenter has some weird mystical control over the behaviour of the electrons, which defies common sense.<br />
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Our New Weapon in Science<br />
Going back to the cat-in-a-box example, by the same argument, the cat would truly have no official is-only-dead or is-only-alive state until we have tested the experiment by opening the box. Its state is both-dead-and-alive, which utterly defies common sense.<br />
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I'm not going to get into the implications, instead just leaving the topic behind by saying "it's weird".<br />
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Later, I'm going to be re-examining physics from the ground up. The discovery of this fuzziness in Quantum Physics, i.e. in reality itself, grants us an extraordinary, thought-provoking tool to use in our analysis of the foundations of modern physics.<br />
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What I do want to take away from this experiment is that the state of a particle does not even necessarily exist in any absolute, observer-independent way.<br />
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To remind, Newton's First Law sets down Galilean Relativity as a law of mechanics. It states that an object either at rest or moving unaccelerated in a straight line will continue in this way relative to any and all other objects at rest or moving unaccelerated in a straight line, unless its motion is altered by a force.<br />
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Revisiting General Relativity<br />
Newton's First Law was first written when space was assumed to be flat (i.e. curveless) and time was universally constant, long before General Relativity. Einstein first proposed spacetime with General Relativity, but he actually didn't damage Newton's First Law which is why it has been kept. If a spaceship is floating around Earth in an orbit without using its engines, it is moving in a curve only because it is moving with the curvature of spacetime. If spacetime curved in a different way, the rocket would be impelled to move that way instead. This is a consequence of the equivalence, as proposed by Einstein, between inertia and gravitation. The foundation of inertia is Newton's First Law.<br />
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Silly Question<br />
This question will seem arbitrary and fruitless at first, but please bear with me: how do we know Newton's First Law, really Galilean Relativity, is true?<br />
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Newton backed up his First Law with a thought experiment; he asked what would happen if you shot a cannonball with successively more powerful cannons. With enough power, it would shoot off into space, with its path of movement eventually becoming a straight line as it escaped Earth's gravity.<br />
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This is a reasonable logical proof and Newton's First Law is actually depended upon in lots (and lots) of experiments. In fact, virtually every mechanical experiment depends in some way, more or less, upon this law.<br />
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Photons and Accelerating Electrons<br />
A corollary of Newton's First Law is that acceleration is a different mode of movement that can be felt, or more scientifically, that it has a potentially measurable effect upon the body undergoing accelerated movement.<br />
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Continuing along the same vein as the silly question: my body is built from a vast, complex configuration of basic particles. I have absolutely no trouble believing that the acceleration of my body can be detected as the particles all interact with each other and transmit the acceleration through the whole of my body. When I'm in a car and that car corners quickly, I feel it.<br />
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However, would an electron "feel" when it is being accelerated?<br />
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As it turns out: yes. When electrons are accelerated, they absorb or emit photons of light. I won't go into detail, but the lightning bolts we see during thunderstorms are an example of this process.<br />
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Photons themselves seem to obey Newton's First Law more or less. They have no rest mass, meaning that there is no point of view you can adopt in which a photon is relatively stationary, but they travel through space following "straight" paths (i.e. the geodesics of spacetime).<br />
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Killing the Silly Question<br />
Though Newton's First Law was proposed well before the discovery of quantum physics, it genuinely seems to have a basis in reality because, in addition to thought experiments "proving" it, a lot of evidence confirms it, such as that provided by electrons and photons.<br />
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I mentioned at the beginning that I would not challenge existing physical law. As such, I will not challenge Newton's First Law. What I will do is this: in spite of all the evidence in favor of Newton's First Law, later I will "forget" it and instead see if I rediscover it in the work that follows.<br />
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Time versus Momentum<br />
Time is a variable that seems to fundamentally underlie most of the rest of physics. However, in Quantum Physics..<br />
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Note, you'll find that there are four quantities for relational momentum. The classical mind would reduce them to two quantities, but in a quantum space, they may be four distinct values at a given moment:<br />
A.1 - your relational momentum relative to me, from your perspective<br />
A.2 - your relational momentum relative to me, from my perspective<br />
B.1 - my relational momentum relative to you, from your perspective<br />
B.2 - my relational momentum relative to you, from my perspective<br />
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This is also true for relative position.<br />
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Here we start transitioning into ideas of my own.<br />
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Please note: as I have mentioned earlier, rather than challenge any particular existing physical theories, what I'll do is simply take a few and "forget" them. If I'm sufficiently thorough, I ought to come up with modern science as we know it now.<br />
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Incongruity of General Relativity with Quantum Physics, Revisited<br />
As I mentioned in General Relativity, modern physics suggests that time is a dimension similar (but not equivalent) to a dimension of space. This isn't exactly intuitive, but General Relativity has produced some decent results despite the fact it hasn't yet fit into Quantum Physics.<br />
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Quantum Physics, on the other hand, has some very weird features that seem to run counter to the modern definition of time as a dimension. For example, there is Quantum Entanglement, called "spooky action at a distance" by Einstein, where particles interact with each other faster than the speed of light, which is impossible according to Special Relativity.<br />
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What is Time?<br />
It begs the very sincere and serious question: what is time? If General Relativity may be incorrect, then so may be our definition of time.<br />
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I'm not going to suggest an answer. However, I'd still like a working definition of time, even if I don't know what time "really" is. I'll have to step carefully, given that Newton's First Law and General Relativity fail to make sense without a proper definition of time coming first.<br />
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Loss of Time in a Classical Universe<br />
In a classical universe, every particle has a precise location and a precise momentum which exists in reality. Though we cannot measure the precise values, increasing the strength of our technology always produces better answers.<br />
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In this imaginary universe, if I remove time, I'm forced to stop dead.<br />
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Without a definition of time, the particles do not move relative to each other, and so there is no change. It is like a Medusa's gallery, with everything becoming a statue, locked in its position due to the absence of time.<br />
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Here, I can't even begin to build a working definition of time with what's left.<br />
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First Failed Attempt to Kill Time in an Einstein / Minkowski Universe<br />
A modern physicist will tell you that there are some indications that elements of the universe are classical (such as the as-yet intractable problem of the observer, demonstrated by the double slit experiment). However, there is no denying that the universe is otherwise largely ruled by Quantum Physics.<br />
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In classical space, the dimensions of time and space were fundamentally separate, so we could easily rip away time as we would a dimension of space. This is true even with our modern definition of spacetime.<br />
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However, in quantum physics, every dimension of space (i.e. set of relative positions) is intimately connected to a dual dimension of momentum (i.e. set of relative momentums). The knee-jerk reaction is to assume that, if we try to forcefully recreate an existence without what we think of as time, then we should get a Medusa's Gallery as we would in a classical universe; i.e.:<br />
the relative position of any particle can be precisely known and<br />
the relative momentum of any particle is precisely zero<br />
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Heisenberg demonstrated that both of those statements cannot be true simultaneously for a single given particle, which hints that a universe that is capable of change without a definition of time may be possible. However, momentum can no longer be defined because it depends on the existence of the Einstein / Minkowski notion of time.<br />
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Momentum Ratios and Relational Momentum<br />
The momentum for objects with mass is traditionally defined as: p = mv = m * (dx / dt).<br />
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This equation has a long history and has been thoroughly tested beyond all rational doubt. To continue on my mission to remove time, I need to define something that can do the job of a momentum variable that is congruent with this equation but steps around the need to define time.<br />
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One tricky way to do it is to define a momentum ratio and just cancel out time in the ratio.<br />
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Take the ratio of classical momentums of particle A and particle B. We get pA/pB = ma * (dxa/dta) / mb * (dxb/dtb)<br />
If the span of "time" between measurements of both A and B is the same, we can eliminate dta and dtb because dta = dtb.<br />
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We're left with pA/pB = ma*dxa / mb*dxB, which can be reduced to two separate statements: pA = ma*dxa, and pB = mb*dxb. The statements can be generalized to a formula I'll call relational momentum: p = m * dx. This formula looks similar to classical momentum, but we have to remember that the equation is meaningful only in specific situations.<br />
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Namely, it only provides the momentum of an object or particle in terms of the momentum of another object or particle. We lose a definition of momentum defined absolutely against a dimension of time, in favour of a much more relational definition (thus, the name "relational momentum").<br />
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As hoped, relational momentum can be defined in a universe without the Galilei/Newton or Einstein/Minkowski definitions of time. The next step is to see if it can be used in most or all places that the traditional momentum variable could be used. Success in this endeavor will allow us to replace all physical formulae that include instances of a time variable with some variation that instead includes relational momentum variables.<br />
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It may sound like I'm being optimistic. Maybe so, but please follow me down this path of logic. Also note: I will not be using relational momentum interchangeably with classical momentum.<br />
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Wiggle Room<br />
To see if relational momentum can take the place of regular momentum in Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (HUP), we have to find out how the HUP first came about, what role it fills, and what boundaries it faces.<br />
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Given the lack of dependence upon a dimension of time in this version of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, we can consider the relationship between position and relational momentum. Ignorant "common sense" may still drive us to think that, without time, the universe will have both of the following properties:<br />
the relative position of any particle can be precisely known and<br />
the relational momentum of any particle is precisely zero.<br />
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We're still restricted by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle to say that both cannot be true "simultaneously" (where "simultaneous" is defined in relation to the changing states of particles in the universe, not in time). Since either statement can be true for a given particle but not both simultaneously, we are forced out of believing in the possibility of a Medusa Gallery universe.<br />
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The one counterargument I can see is if all particles in the entire universe have a relational momentum of zero. They'd be frozen relative to each other, but they couldn't ever know each others' positions within the universe. I can't honestly answer this one, but it is a boundary case and seems to be very wound up in the effect of the observer (described in the Two Slit Experiment).<br />
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Since I freely admit I that I cannot explain the effect of the observer, I'll leave this case out of it, and be comfortable in the knowledge that all other cases imply a universe that is capable of change even in the absence of Newton or Einstein / Minkowski time. I'll call this a Quantum Relational universe.<br />
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We saw in the previous section "Stepping Around Time" that we could build the basic framework of a changing universe even without invoking an imaginary dimension of time. I called it the quantum-relational universe.<br />
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This framework does not yet give us a definition of the experiential time that we encounter in our day to day lives. The universe may be changing but it seems to be a massive jumble of particles jumping in and out of existence.<br />
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The "Arrow of Time": the Modern Take<br />
Before moving on, I want to talk about the "Arrow of Time", or namely, the inherent directionality that time seems to have. This directionality is highlighted when I, say, run a movie backwards. In all but very, very specific scenes, it is obvious to the audience which way time is moving. Bullets go back into guns, fallen people stand back up, people levitate backwards onto building-tops and so on. It is easy to understand the concept, but actually understanding how it comes about is much more difficult.<br />
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Therefore, I'll draw a parallel by talking about space. Think of this example of the relativity of position and movement: why is it more reasonable to say that the Earth is floating around the sun than it is to say that the sun is floating around the Earth?<br />
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For a long stretch of human history, we believed that everything orbited Earth, but when astronomers in the time of Galileo attempted to make mathematical models, the models became very complex, and increased in complexity as their technology allowed them to know more about the movements of objects in space.<br />
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However, Galileo took the position that the solar system was indeed a solar system, and objects floated around the Earth. This proposition makes the calculations of movements of objects in the solar system vastly simpler. That said, my original question remains. The answer is: it doesn't matter to the laws of physics whether you imagine the Earth to be moving around the sun or the sun to be moving around the Earth. As long as your calculations are followed rigidly, they will produce correct answers in both cases. Luckily, astronomers are not so masochistic and therefore choose models of the universe that are as simple as possible (while still producing correct predictions).<br />
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The point I'm trying to reach is the relativity of observers in space. One position is functionally equivalent to another. The modern view is that this is true of time as well. In Minkowski spacetime, all objects are always moving through spacetime at the speed of light. By being at rest relative to another object, you are both moving fully through time at the speed of light. When you start moving through space relative to each other, each participant sees himself moving through time fully at the speed of light but observes the other participant as having traded in some "time speed" to get some "space speed".<br />
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In modern times, with the introduction of Minkowski's spacetime, this leads us to a reasonably convincing explanation of where an arrow of time comes from. Just as it is no more reasonable to say the Earth is moving and the Sun is still than it is to say the Sun is moving and the Earth is still, so too is it no more reasonable to say that one participant is moving through time at the speed of light and the other participant is moving through space and time, than it is to say visa versa. It's just a matter of perspective, and both perspectives are correct.<br />
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In the case of the two participants moving through time, unlike the movement of the Earth and Sun, neither has preference based on easier mathematics.<br />
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Working in a Quantum-Relational Universe<br />
Surprisingly, we may be able to simulate an arrow of time that is built upon a quantum-relational universe. Before I describe it, I would like to stress: this simulation of the arrow of time produces an experience that is similar or equivalent to what might come out of the arrow of time from modern physics, but the mechanics of the simulation are vastly different! The "engine" behind the simulation needs to be extremely different in order to be able to function without a Newton or Einstein / Minkowski definition of time to drive it.<br />
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The core of the simulation is change. Change in the quantum-relational universe occurs because each particle is not quite certain where any other particle is, nor how much relational momentum it has (i.e. momentum in relation to itself). However, as mentioned earlier, every particle has a definite statistical probability of being at some given location moving with some given relational momentum. If particle B is likely going to be detected further down a pathway through space (defined by its relational momentum) by particle A, then as change in the universe occurs through the observer effect, particle B will likely be detected further down that pathway.<br />
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Future Probabilities<br />
Obviously my previous statement is tautological; if true, then true. I use it to drive the point home.<br />
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Quantum Physics already maps for us a set of probabilities for where particles will be detected in space and what their relational momentums will be. The universe's inherent fuzziness is enough to drive everything in it to (approximately) follow the paths of likeliest probability (in most instance).<br />
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In this simulation of time, the future is then simply the tree of probabilities that the universe could follow as it changes due to its own quantum fuzziness. The future doesn't actually exist nor is it predefined beforehand because the randomness of quantum physics seems to be something that can't be woven out whatsoever. (On the other hand, if one subscribes to the idea of multiple universe, maybe all possibilities play themselves out in independent universes. I won't consider that possibility since, for now, we can only be aware of our own.)<br />
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The Fuzzy Present<br />
By destroying a future that is fully mapped out along a dimension, we've past the point of no return. We need to discover the meaning of "present" and "past" for this example to be a true simulation of time.<br />
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The "present" is a difficult thing to get your hands on in a quantum universe. The observer effect, highlighted in the Double-Slit Experiment, makes it something of a mystery because there may be no single, fixed reality for the observed state of any given particle. This makes the present rather fuzzy though highly predictable for a single observer.<br />
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Einstein's Special Relativity further muddies the mix as well. What I detect to be a simultaneous pair of events may not be detected by you as simultaneous. Our ingrained idea of the present as a sharply-defined "now" clashes with a loss of simultaneity.<br />
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However, in a fuzzy quantum universe, a present "now" that is also fuzzy a bit into what we think of as the past and future is compatible. If an observer detects an event, then that event is within the present of the object at the moment of detection, even if the apparent time-order of detection clashes with the time order as detected by another observer. Furthermore, the locations and relational momentums of the two particles upon the moment of their mutual detection is random, though highly predictable.<br />
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Past Memories<br />
As mentioned, the boundary between the past and the present is muddled because of the fuzziness of the present, but the past state of a particle as detected by an observer is any state no longer in its present.<br />
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The past is a completely different beast than the future. Though the future was non-existent, any given future at least had the potential to become the state of the present.<br />
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The past is also non-existent. However, to move back into the past, you would have to reverse the relational momentums of each and every particle in the universe, and even then you'd likely not reach an exact duplicate of the past you remember because quantum fuzziness forces you to keep rolling the dice as the present changes. The probability of the universe reaching a previous state is virtually (if not exactly) zero.<br />
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Therefore, the past truly is a memory.<br />
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The "Arrow of Time": the Timeless Take<br />
To bring everything together; in our quantum-relational simulation of time:<br />
time does not exist, except for the present<br />
although the present is singular for a given observer, it is chosen from a large number of random though predictable possibilities<br />
the present, taken as a sum of "now" moments across all observers, slips slightly into the future and past<br />
different observers need not necessarily gather the same results from the large number of random possibilities<br />
despite the previous statement, the probability of a given future state for a particle is the same across all observers, mapped into the relative state of the observer<br />
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Our Model, So Far..<br />
In Stepping Around Time, we've seen how change inexorably emerges within a Quantum Relational universe; the relative positions of quantum particles must change through their relational momentums since, by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, those values cannot be simultaneously precisely fixed for a given particle from the perspective of any observer. We've also seen how the relational momentums have a probabilistic "direction" which one could call a fuzzy kind of Arrow of Time. All of this is despite the fact that our model has been constructed without a dimension or property of time in and of itself.<br />
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Incompatibilities With Modern Science - Newton's FIrst Law<br />
Though we have particles with relative positions and relational momentums in the universe and, from that, a simulation of time and movement, we can't yet assume that Newton's First Law will simply pop out of the model.<br />
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One might try to blindly reinterpret Newton's First Law in the context of a Quantum Relational universe by asserting that for an object far removed from all other objects in the universe, the relational momentum of that object can equivalently be said to be zero or any constant value, both resulting in an identical situation when it comes to the laws of physics.<br />
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This fails quite miserably for a few reasons.<br />
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First of all, relational momentum is defined relationally. The relational momentum cannot be said to even exist in the absence of another object. By using relational momentum in our model, we are utterly barred from asking questions about the properties of a lone object in the universe. We must always assume there are at least two. Therefore, it makes no sense to examine the behaviour of a single object "sufficiently far away from all other objects in the universe".<br />
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Furthermore, an "inertial reference frame" becomes impossible to really define in our model; let's say two objects start at some closest distance of approach and then move in a parallel way (i.e. parallel as if drawn on a flat sheet of paper) in opposite directions. From this, our model comes into serious conflict with Newton's First Law. In Newtonian space, parallel movement is simple. One object moves in an arbitrarily-defined positive direction along a line in space, and another object moves in the negative direction along the parallel line in space.<br />
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For us, it's not so simple. We can only talk about the relationship between objects and not the space they exist in. Two objects can never really be said to move in a parallel direction if they only have themselves as reference points. Parallel according to whom? If you try to force the objects in a supposedly parallel direction, the only effect observable by the objects is that they move farther away from each other along the line connecting them. This becomes their reality since, again, we cannot talk about the space they exist in.<br />
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Counterarguments come into play when you start talking about objects with non-zero size and consequently their orientations and relative rates of rotation. However, the Law ought to work the same way with zero-dimensional objects with mass if it is a correct description of the universe, so I won't talk about "big" objects yet and instead continue to focus on incompatibilities at the level of zero-dimensional particles.<br />
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Incompatibilities With Modern Science - General Relativity<br />
Another big difference between our model and the definitions of modern physics is highlighted when we consider General Relativity and its description of gravity and non-inertial movement.<br />
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In General Relativity, a constant acceleration is equivalent to the application of an appropriate gravitational field. Einstein's example is of a chest being accelerated in space by a rocket pulling it with a rope, far away from all other objects in the universe (so that their gravitational fields don't interfere with the experiment). If the acceleration is constant, the person in the chest has no way to determine whether he is being accelerated at a constant rate or is stationary in a gravitational field. (Note that this is a very similar logic used by Galileo to determine the equivalency of inertial reference frames: experiments performed in the lab function the same way regardless of whether the laboratory is on land or on a smoothly moving, non-accelerating vehicle.)<br />
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Acceleration in General Relativity is a real, measurable effect. Let's say you have two rockets but they're powered by specialized warp drives that look the same whether they're active or not. Two people, one on each rocket, see each other accelerating by relative to each other. Since neither rocket appears to be causing an acceleration thanks to their special engines, how can the rocket riders determine which of their ships is doing the accelerating? In one ship, the person floats freely around the ship. In the other, the person and all his gear and equipment will be pushed towards one side of the rocket. The latter astronaut is therefore in the accelerating reference frame and is experiencing the equivalent of a gravitational pull.<br />
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Acceleration works differently in our model.<br />
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In Quantum Relational space, the following scenarios are isomorphic and therefore identical in this context for two particles alone in space:<br />
two stationary particles<br />
one stationary particle, the other orbiting in a circle<br />
one stationary particle and another moving along any random paths at any random varying speeds<br />
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The reason that the scenarios are identical in our model is that the apparent movement is always collinear, as judged by the zero-dimensional participants, and their relational momentums become utterly arbitrary since they can only measure their relative distance by using each other as a reference point in the first place.<br />
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(Note that there is a boundary condition here, when the particles approach so closely that absorption occurs. Clearly they can no longer be said to be two separate particles in that instance. I'll discuss this later.)<br />
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Charging Forward<br />
It might be tempting to throw up our hands and reject the model outright at this point, because all of our experience and innumerable experiments are in favour of Newton's First Law and General Relativity, and the incompatibilities of our model are scary. However, I suggest we continue down this path just to see what's at the end of it, since it may be enlightening even if it's an incorrect model of reality. Let's start from the very bottom and work our way up.<br />
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As discussed, objects in a Quantum Relational space are only capable of influencing each other based on their relativepositions and relational momentums. In a tricky sort of way, we can define a type of "clock" that is better likened to a sun-dial than a wristwatch. We tend to conceive of wristwatches as running with the flow of "true time", time as a dimension or as a fundamental property of the universe. However, the clock we'll define is different since it measures time by comparing the relative positions of moving objects. We are able to get away with this in a Quantum Relational universe since, as discussed, objects can change their positions despite the lack of a dimension of time thanks to their relational momentums.<br />
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Revisiting the Common Sense Definition of "Stationary"<br />
To continue the journey, we need to define the word "stationary" in Quantum Relational space in a way conformable to the way we already think of the term.<br />
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For a short while, I'll begin by using the word "stationary" in its traditional sense just to point out a problem with its usual definition; i.e. perfectly (relatively) stationary with precisely zero momentum.<br />
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You may remember from the Double-Slit Experiment that, as I shoot an individual electron at a barrier with two slits, I can never know both its actual location and momentum to infinite accuracy simultaneously, I can only know the probability of its location anywhere in space and the probability of it having a given momentum.<br />
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Let's build two Double-Slit Experiments side by side and fire electrons at as close to simultaneously as we can. For someone stationary beside the experiment, they might wonder how the electrons view each other: before the electron waveform passes through the double-slit, wouldn't the electrons see each other as having relatively zero momentums, i.e. being relatively stationary?<br />
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No. Even before the electrons pass through the barrier with double-slits, they travel as a probabilistic wave. If the electrons were to observe each other, they would find each other being almost relatively stationary with relative momentums that areapproximately (but not exactly) zero.<br />
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To summarize, even supposedly "stationary" particles cannot be truly stationary in the way that we're used to thinking of the term. The word "stationary", in the sense of a Medusa-gallery with perfectly unmoving statues with precisely relatively fixed locations, is a myth.<br />
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Stationary Relative to Self<br />
Despite the loss of the term "stationary", there is something we can do to push forward.<br />
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Although this does not constitute a complete, new definition of "stationary" yet, we can comfortably define any particle as being stationary relative to itself. Although its actual location and relational momentum are random, its waveform does not change relative to its own waveform.<br />
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Careful! As I have discussed at length, in Quantum Relational space, no single particle can really be said to exist in the absence of a reference particle against which we can define its properties. Therefore, my definition of a particle being stationary relative to itself doesn't actually hold.<br />
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However, consider this: when we do finally build a complete definition of the word "stationary", other particles will then be granted the ability to define themselves as stationary relative to other particles, and if they are stationary relative to each other then our day to day sense of the word "stationary" suggests that we ought to define each particle as being stationary relative to itself. This idea can be extended so that it works even when a particle defines itself as moving and defines another particle as stationary.<br />
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A Look at the Origin<br />
Before continuing with our reconstruction of the word "stationary", we will take a look at the word "origin". Origin is simply another word for "the point of reference". In any Cartesian coordinate system, it is the zero point in all dimensions. It is tied in very tightly with the concept of a reference frame.<br />
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In both classical and modern physics, the choice of origin may be defined as an arbitrary point "in space" rather than an actual particle. In General Relativity, although the properties of space are dependent upon the distribution of mass and energy within space, it remains true that we can talk about reference frames independently of any reference particles.<br />
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For Quantum Relational space, I will insist that for any given reference frame, we must always choose a particle as our origin.<br />
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You might question my reasons for doing so. It seems logical to assume that, regardless of whether or not a particle isactually placed at the origin, simply flagging a location as origin is sufficient. I agree with this logic in part and will admit that it works just fine in General Relativity.<br />
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However, this is a dangerous step to take in Quantum Relational space. The language of General Relativity is spacetime, i.e. location and duration, but the language of the Quantum Relational model is relative location and relational momentum. Reducing momentum to mass and velocity and then forgetting about mass means we're likely to lose something in translation. It is therefore important to transform the relational momentums properly in addition to transforming the relative locations.<br />
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Besides, it is a short journey from granting a point in space an identity to granting space itself its own identity which, as I have repeatedly advised, simply cannot be done in Quantum Relational space.<br />
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Therefore, it just easier to keep track of the origin by simply allowing a particle to exist there, once and for all. Each frame of reference will have its own origin particle O and the particle will always be stationary within the frame (with "stationary" being defined as I have rebuilt it so far; i.e. stationary relative to itself, so to speak).<br />
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"Stationary" - Completing the Definition<br />
So far we chosen to define particles as stationary relative to themselves and we've chosen to always use an origin particle in our reference frames, defined to always be stationary at the zero point of the reference frame.<br />
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Note that if we decide to start adding more particles, there are an infinite number of isomorphisms as those particles start moving. As I mentioned in Incompatibilities with Modern Science, we get an infinite number of isomorphisms even with two particles, even when one particle is defined as a permanent origin.<br />
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Therefore, whether a particle is stationary in the frame comes down to our choice. We can freely define any particle as stationary relative to the origin, granting it the same qualities as we would grant a particle which is "stationary relative to itself"; i.e. a waveform which is unchanging relative to its own waveform.<br />
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Note that although we are initially free to define a particle as stationary relative to the origin, any subsequent choices are restricted and become increasingly restricted depending on how many particles whose movements we have assigned. If the origin is stationary in the frame and a secondary particle is stationary at (0, 1) on a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, then we may no longer be able assert that a third particle is stationary.<br />
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For example, say that you have three particles in the frame: origin O, particle A and particle B. We may be equally justified in asserting that:<br />
(i) A is stationary at (0, 1) while B is running off to infinity along the negative x-axis<br />
(ii) A is approaching the origin at an infinitely decreasing rate while B is stationary at (0, -1)<br />
any other isomorphic scenario, possibly with the particles approaching or receding from the origin at variable rates<br />
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However, in this example, we could never assert that, for example, both particles A and B are approaching the origin.<br />
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Inertial versus Non-inertial<br />
The irksome quality of the definition as I have given the word "stationary" is that there is no quantitative difference between inertial and non-inertial. The allowance of isomorphisms that I've woven into the definition of the word imply that the difference becomes merely arbitrary choice between what is stationary, what is moving inertially, and what is moving non-inertially.<br />
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This quite effectively kills any hope we may have had of recovering Galilean Relativity, Newton's First Law, Special Relativity and General Relativity. Basically, major portions of modern physics are destroyed.<br />
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As I suggested at the beginning, I would still like to continue down this path of logic to see what results we'll find, though they may be incorrect. We can still hold quantum physics to be true, because it is far less dependent upon Newtonian physics.<br />
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Building a Clock Simulation<br />
For now, I'm going to restrict my considerations to a one dimensional universe.<br />
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Even in one dimension, the clock is a bit of a complicated device. We'll require a total of three separate particles, excluding any other particles that may actually want to make use of the clock. They are -<br />
the origin, O: the relationships of the moving parts of the clock will be defined in relation to the origin in this frame of reference. In other words, although some parts of the clock move, the clock structure itself is effectively stationary in the frame.<br />
the gnomon particle G: we will arbitrarily define the gnomon to be stationary at a fixed distance from the origin in this frame of reference. It indicates the length of a "clock tick" (as well as defining dimensional length and orientation in a one dimensional Euclidean space). The word "gnomon" is, to quote Wikipedia, an ancient Greek word meaning "indicator", "one who discerns," or "that which reveals."<br />
the shadow or clock particle Φ: This particle travels along the axis in the direction from O to G at a rate defined all other particles as constant. It measures the passage of time (or at least the passage of the simulation of time in this context), serving the same function as the shadow on a sundial.<br />
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Unlike particles O and G, which can be chosen at random from the particles available, the shadow particle Φ must be expressly chosen so that it has following relationship to the other two clock particles: it travels along the axis in the direction from O to G (its actual location being irrelevant) and its relational momentum is such that the ratio of distances from it to O and from it to G is always u/u-1 for some u. The distance variable u is defined by all other particles to be increasing at a constant rate as the universe changes naturally, i.e. as "now" advances.<br />
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The purpose of enforcing the u/u-1 ratio is so that the scenario is isomorphic to one where O is stationary at x=0, G is stationary at x=1, and Φ is travelling at a constant rate in the positive x-direction. In this way, the clock "ticks" every time the shadow particle measures a distance ΔΦ = |u - (u-1)| = 1, so all particles can measure durations using it.<br />
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I'd like to repeat the point made earlier that, without Newton's First Law, we have no way to know beforehand which particles are "really" stationary and which are "actually" moving or accelerating. As discussed, in Quantum Relational space these decisions are arbitrary and, for all we know, the "speed" of the clock could vary or go in reverse.<br />
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However, precisely because the decisions are arbitrary, by simply asserting them, all duration measurements that are based on this clock will work out to be accurate relative to everything else that measures time with the same clock. These assertions are similar to the decision of where North points. As long as everyone agrees, we can all build consistent maps.<br />
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This reduces the question of whether each and every particle in the entire system is moving as it "really" would, down to the singular question of whether a few key particles (the origin and the gnomon) are moving as they "really" would for all time. The clock would then work best if we choose particles with relational momentums that match our expectations most closely. In other words, the best clocks consist of the particles most likely to operate like the parts of a clock.<br />
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In any case, we have enough that we can start constructing simulations of time-dependent laws of physics.<br />
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Now that we have a clock, the next useful tool to construct is an equation of velocity. The equation of velocity is arguably the simplest in physics, defining movement in a straight line. The traditional equation of velocity is: v = x / t<br />
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Note that for this discussion, I will be dodging a rather major assumption about velocity as we currently understand it. Without Newton's First Law in place, we have no reason to think that the particles ought to be moving at constant rates or even in a single direction when in the absence of forces. This is even after we've taken time into consideration as it is modelled using the clock defined earlier.<br />
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Fortunately, I am able to cheat to define velocity in a way specialized for my purposes: though a particular particle may not rely on Newton's First Law to maintain a single velocity over a large distance, given that at least some kind of movement is possible in our Quantum Relational universe (as discussed in Stepping Around Time), I can consider a particle as having an infinitesimal velocity over an infinitesimal amount of distance, or at least I can consider its waveform as having a velocity since the particle itself is fuzzy. This instantaneous velocity is the only variable I'll need to consider for now.<br />
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The next problem with the traditional equation is the time variable, t, since the fundamental version of time does not exist in our Quantum Relational simulation. Instead, we need to use our own clock simulation. Time is therefore measured by the distance travelled by the shadow particle Φ, as compared to the standard unit of measure in a given reference frame, |O-G|.<br />
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A simple substitution will resolve the traditional velocity equation into one that is compatible with Quantum Relational space: dv = dx / dΦ.<br />
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As this new equation highlights, velocity is now simply a ratio of distances; namely, the distance covered by a particle as the shadow particle crosses an infinitesimal fraction of the distance |O-G|. The fact that both variables dx and dΦ are units of distance means that velocity actually turns out to be a unitless factor. You may rename the units of distance crossed by the shadow particle to be something else, such as "seconds", but I will avoid doing this. Although the results will appear more familiar and comfortable, I expect that this will introduce needless complication later.<br />
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The Assumptions behind the Galilean Transformation<br />
Galilean Relativity and, its predecessor, Newton's First Law are based on the following assumptions:<br />
time is fundamental, and is independent of its measurement<br />
straight-line movement in space makes sense when talking about a lone object<br />
constant, straight-line movement of an object is equivalent to the object being stationary when it comes to the universal laws of motion/mechanics<br />
length measurements are not affected by the speed of a particle<br />
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Point #1 was somewhat modified by Einstein when he suggested that time itself was a dimension similar to space, but point #1 effectively survives in modern theory. Rather than having a universal time, we now have the concept of personal time.<br />
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I'll describe now in what way we are failing to make the above assumptions, point by point.<br />
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1) Time is fundamental<br />
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As should be obvious by now, time is not fundamental in Quantum Relational space. Instead, time is an emergent phenomenon that comes from:<br />
the natural relative changes in the universe, which themselves come from the uncertainty in relative position and momentum between particles<br />
arbitrary assignment of being "stationary" to certain particles, in order use them as a reference to measure time<br />
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This construction does not quite give us time as we know it in our day to day lives, but it's already very different from the idea of time being a fundamental quantity.<br />
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2) Straight-line movement makes sense<br />
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It should also be fairly obvious that, given our construction of Quantum Relational space up to now, the idea of a lone object moving in a straight-line in space doesn't make sense in it. We cannot talk about the properties of lone objects, nor can we talk about straight-lines in space without reference to anything.<br />
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One object can travel by another in a "straight line" only by some serious artificial movement. If we have other particles to define a Cartesian coordinate system, the two objects themselves will observe each other to be approaching at a decreasing rate, becoming momentarily relatively stationary, and then accelerating away from each other at an increasing rate.<br />
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3) Constant velocity is equivalent to being stationary<br />
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I want to highlight this point in particular, because it represents a huge divergence of the Quantum Relational model from modern physics.<br />
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As natural as it feels, nothing in our model of Quantum Relational space gives us any reason to believe that constant, straight-line movement and the state of being stationary are equivalent when it comes to the laws of physics, even taking into account point #2, that straight line movement only makes sense in reference to some particle.<br />
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Originally, it was taken to be true by Galileo based on plain experience, and it's an experience so ubiquitous that it seems ludicrous to disbelieve the assumption. However, I'm choosing not to trust experience now and am going to fail to make this assumption.<br />
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4) Length measurements are not affected by the speed of a particle<br />
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Einstein already tackled this assumption behind Newtonian physics, and brought science into a new age by taking the next step and inventing Special Relativity. I won't be discussing this point much more from now on, but it should be interesting to note that failing to make this assumption (i.e. by wondering how length measurements are affected by the speed of a particle) automatically implies that measurements of time in Quantum Relational space are highly suspect, since time is no more than a measurement of distance of the shadow particle in your clock.<br />
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The precise way in which time and space are affected is covered in the Lorentz transformation in modern physics. We'll have to rediscover on our own what happens in Quantum Relational space.<br />
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The Assumptions behind Einstein's Special Relativity<br />
I'm not even going to try to reinvent Galilean Relativity at this point, because it turns out to be incorrect and is instead a limiting case of Einstein's Special Relativity anyway (i.e. the Lorentz transformation).<br />
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So lets jump right into trying to simulate Einstein's Special Relativity. We've abandoned the major assumptions of Galilean Relativity so let us now consider the assumptions behind Special Relativity.<br />
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The Principle of Relativity – The laws of physics should be the same for all observers in uniform motion. All uniform motion is relative.<br />
The Principle of Invariant Light Speed – The behaviour of light is correctly described by Maxwell's Theory of electromagnetism. The speed of light is the same for all observers in uniform motion.<br />
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The Principle of Relativity is effectively Galilean Relativity which, as discussed above,<br />
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If we introduce a second dimension, we now get an even greater array of strange possibilities.<br />
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Let's arrange three objects named A, B, C. We'll call A the observer, so that he's the object doing the measuring and philosophizing. We'll only be arranging the objects in a 2D plane for now and the observer, object A, will be fixed at location (0, 0).<br />
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In arrangement Alpha, B is fixed, unmoving at (0, 1), and C is starting at (1, 0) and is moving in the +x direction at an increasing rate to infinity.<br />
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In arrangement Beta, B is placed at some (0, 1) and then travels towards (0, 0) at a decreasing rate to zero, with the limit at (0, 0). Object C is fixed at (1, 0).<br />
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Think carefully about these two arrangements. If you choose the rates of movement carefully, you produce isomorphicscenarios, where "isomorphic" means that the relative proportions of all components of each scenario are the same.<br />
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To modern astrophysicists (or even Galileo), this is merely an interesting mathematical trick with no bearing on reality since acceleration is measurable. Therefore, we can distinguish between the two arrangements. Is C detecting acceleration? Then we're dealing with arrangement Alpha. Is B decelerating? Then arrangement Beta is the case.<br />
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However, our model shows a solid deviation from Galilean Relativity. As I mentioned earlier, in our model, acceleration is a relationship between objects and cannot be detected absolutely. Therefore, the two arrangements are not just isomorphic butequivalent. There is no way to distinguish between the two situations in Quantum Relational space.<br />
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So I just lost the original version of this particular post. Meh, it contained nothing I can't rewrite. ANYWAY, so the purpose of this post is to sum up what I've got so far. I've reached a critical point in my research.<br />
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When I began my journey, I treated the physical theories of science that already exist as "Innocent, until proven Guilty". Whenever I had a difference of opinion with a physical theory, it was significantly more likely that my opinion was based on too limited information than it was that the physical theory was incorrect. (Actually, it is more accurate to say that I made my own foray into understanding these theories, but treated physical theory as "the answer book" to show me where I was missing information or making mistakes in my assumptions.)<br />
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However, I have come to point where I'm confident that I know all there is to know about Special Relativity - what issues evoked a need for it, how it resolves those issues, the mathematical mechanics of how it works, and how the engine core of Special Relativity (both in theoretical terms and in mathematical mechanics) has spread out to General Relativity and by extension, all of Cosmology.<br />
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I have also identified what my instincts have been forcing me to seek out. A tiny (literally point-sized) gap in the mechanics, where the Lorentz transformation doesn't quite solve the problem it is meant to solve. Though tiny, the point-sized problem explodes into a major issue in General Relativity, defeating it as a proper theory of gravity. I also strongly expect that a correction to the theory will show dark matter, and possibly also dark energy, to be artefacts of General Relativity, an incorrect model of the universe.<br />
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This is why I'm now adopting a more offensive approach. Given that I can identify the location of the problem, I can then trace it through physics, and I can confidently say which physical theories can be left alone and which need to be recalculated.<br />
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My goals now consist of the following -<br />
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<li>Create a conceptual model of the corrected Special Relativity</li>
<li>Build the mathematics corresponding to the conceptual model</li>
<li>Rebuild the equations of relevant physical theories to match; i.e. mechanics and electrodynamics</li>
<li>Extend the mathematics of the corrected Special Relativity into a general equation of gravity</li>
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Special Relativity is a touch incomplete.<br />
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The incompleteness is difficult to spot, and it will be easier to demonstrate if I first compare the Galilean transformation (where the velocity of a baseball relative to Earth is u+v, if the velocity of the train carrying the thrower is u) and the Lorentz transformation, used by Einstein to maintain the speed of light relative to all observers in different inertial reference frames.<br />
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Two notable effects of the Lorentz transformation are length contraction and time dilation. Lengths of the observed object (like a baseball thrown from a train) are shortened along the direction of motion and it experiences time ticking away at a longer relative rate than a person watching it standing on the Earth. That way, both the baseball and the person standing on Earth see the light leaving the train headlight at the same velocity.<br />
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For straight line movement at constant velocity, it is a single transformation but for non-inertial movement (i.e. accelerations, rotations, or revolutions), the situation is more complicated.<br />
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Rotations, as mentioned, do not appear to maintain inertia. Let us confirm by finding out what happens when a Galilean Laboratory is rotated about the center, and we'll fire a beam of light towards the center.<br />
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The pre-Einstein Galilean Laboratory reacts in a way that is congruous with what we expect in day-to-day life. Figure 1a is similar to what we might see if we throw a baseball at a randomly spinning person. The baseball travels in a straight line towards the person while they spin.<br />
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The perspective of the spinning person is also natural. As the ball comes towards them, the baseball veers left and right in their field of vision. Humans are equipped with biology so that we still generally understand we're spinning and ball is moving in a straight line, but if we're watching a video of that person's perspective, it's not necessarily obvious. Is the object onscreen moving left and right, or is the camera operator rotating around?<br />
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Keep in mind, this commonsense perspective does not necessarily keep the speed of light intact, and if not, it doesn't correspond with reality.<br />
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Einstein knew that an application of the Lorentz transformation was required here. He reasoned that the outer edges of the spinning Laboratory are moving at a greater velocity than the center, and therefore are subject to Special Relativity to a greater degree than the stationary center, and that the effects of Special Relativity are increasing from the center to the edges. The circumference of the Laboratory shrinks by length contraction, an effect of Special Relativity, and experiences time at a dilated rate compared with the center. By this, he reasoned that the spacetime of the laboratory "bubbles up". You might have seen videos online of how matter affects the fabric of spacetime by creating a dimple in the fabric.<br />
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If the Laboratory is rotating wildly back and forth, clockwise and counterclockwise, then it dimples and undimples spacetime with its movement. The Laboratory shrinks and expands again to its stationary size, and the edges of the Laboratory move slightly ahead in time before equalizing with the center again as a clockwise rotation turns into counterclockwise, and visa versa. In short, an observer on Earth sees the Laboratory undergoing some pretty spectacular effects in terms of length contraction and time dilation. However, an observer on Earth sees the beam of light head straight towards the center of the laboratory at the speed of light, exactly as required.<br />
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From the perspective of an observer inside the Laboratory, many experiments do not perform as expected, and some might even throw themselves against the outer edge of the Lab. An observer looking outside the Laboratory would see the universe itself shrinking and growing to normal size, and time dilating, as required by the Lorentz transformation to keep the speed of light constant for all observers. The path of the beam of light itself becomes difficult to calculate, with all the length contractions and time dilations going on around it, but it is a warped version of the path from Figure 1b.<br />
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Notice that in all of the previous examples, we used the Galilean Laboratory. It is large and spacious, and sensitive to rotations. When a beam of light approaches the Laboratory from the outside, the scientist in the lab can determine what part of the lab detected it. I'm now going to attempt these experiments with the Blain Laboratory, which is a single point rather than a large, spacious laboratory.<br />
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When the photon begins it's journey from the emitter (stationary on Earth) towards the Blain Laboratory, we are also stationary with respect to Earth, and so the photon travels at the speed of light as we expect. It hits the Blain Laboratory on-time and at the proper velocity.<br />
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However, something strange happens when we observe from the perspective of the Blain Laboratory. The Laboratory is zero-dimensional and therefore has no implicit orientation. With no implicit orientation, we cannot determine how Lorentz transformation applies. If the Blain Laboratory is stationary (i.e. not rotating), then the Lorentz transformation reduces to the regular Galilean transformation and light is travelling at the speed of light toward us, but we can't guarantee that. If the Blain Laboratory is rotating wildly (as in previous examples), then <i>we need to know</i> its precise pattern of rotation or else we cannot properly account for it to correct the speed of light, and we risk losing the correct speed of light. The physics inside the Blain Laboratory would be thrown into utter chaos.<br />
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We seem to be stuck in a sea of confusion. Fortunately, Einstein left us a lifeboat.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192522405699056766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826592788087329722.post-88108211594624449382014-01-30T00:27:00.001-08:002014-01-30T00:27:57.745-08:00Progressing with Self-AnalysisSo, after further talks with my therapist, I'm becoming convinced that he's uncovering a definite pattern in my behaviour. The best defence is an utter lack of participation, or so I seem to tell myself.<br />
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It's true, I suppose. I know even consciously I've thought to myself that I'd rather not get involved when things get messy. It's a bit of egoism, because I imagine myself to be better than those filthy animals that choose to get involved in the mud and blood, tearing each other apart. They seem to act on instinct and without any civility.<br />
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The thing is, I'm using it as a shield to defend myself against a lot of good things. I think my whole life has been about pain avoidance instead of standing up and making real choices, and accepting the consequences. Or maybe I'm being dramatic.<br />
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(.. or maybe I'm NOT being dramatic and that "Or.." statement is another reflection of my unwillingness to stand behind my serious claims.)<br />
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Self analysis is tricky. The doctor who tries to heal himself has a P'tagh as a patient.<br />
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Aaaaaaaaaaanyway, onward and upward. No rest for the wicked.<br />
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I'd like to examine my different roles further but using a tool gleaned from my therapy; namely with *positive* reinforcement rather than negative reinforcement. I've always understood the difference intellectually (because they're rather obvious) but never really *felt* the difference before. I would talk about positive reinforcement in the past but it was a shallow specter of genuine positive reinforcement. The real reinforcement that has cropped up in my life is negative reinforcement and it drives me to a large degree but also makes me unhappy.<br />
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The real question now is .. what rewards will drive me? I'm looking at the question in a new light now, that I can't easily describe.<br />
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If I can get a good reward system working, I can maybe build a real system for mechanistically pushing my motivation.<br />
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On top of that I'd like to start managing my budget.. to start paying for my tutor again!! It will be nice to resume my studies in Quantum Mechanics (though I'm quite nervous).<br />
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Alright, I'm tired. Bedtime.<br />
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(I really should start planning to do this blog in the middle of the day when I'm not tired.)<br /><br />Oh and I still plan to do videos as well, but maybe I'll put it off until I get this self-management under control. My therapy sessions are making me re-evaluate my approach to a lot of things in my life. (I don't know if I'm repeating myself now, as I'm typing this from a distance and can hardly make out the text.)<br />
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SO for next time, continue with breaking down my roles and start building them up again from the ground up, infusing the idea of positive reinforcement as well. And rewards. What drives me?<br />
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LALALALALALAAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192522405699056766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826592788087329722.post-52838582661264883802014-01-12T23:30:00.002-08:002014-01-12T23:30:27.800-08:00Co-opted blogSo I'm visiting a therapist on a regular basis, let's call him Tom and let's call me Frank. (Names changed to protect the innocent and not so innocent.)<br />
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He's attempting to teach me to be more mindful of the emotions that surge forth in me, where I'm still trying to figure out exactly what "mindful" means. It seems to be an almost entirely objective awareness of the emotions so that, rather than trying to suppress (necessarily) or control them, I can direct them like the flow of a river.<br />
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I'm also attempting to acclimate myself to unfounded fears (like the fear of .. I'll just say it .. spontaneously urinating in public). Becoming acclimated is the first step. Once that's done, I can forget the fear entirely. Like managing the fear of jumping out of a plane by doing it over and over and over.<br />
<br />Who knows though, maybe I've got it all wrong.<br /><br />The title of this blog entry is in reference to the fact that Tom has asked me to try and be aware of the emotions I'm feeling while I write my "script" for the first video of my second attempt at posting to YouTube; the continuation of my gravity project. I'm regretting that because I worry that by giving the project a second purpose (as a tool for self-analysis), I'll pull it away from the first (as a tool to help me learn Quantum Mechanics).<br />
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However, Alpha doesn't care. He's holding fast to the motto, Produce or Perish. I can hear him shouting it over and over like a mantra. He's having trouble fighting Yin, but then again.. I'm here aren't I? Anyway, I have titled this blog "Self-Improvement and Quantum Mechanics" so I suppose it fits.<br />
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Alright so, Tom asked me to list my emotions when I am writing my first script. Here comes the script and I'll follow up with a listing of what I'm feeling, with the intention of practicing my skills at looking inward objectively.<br />
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<li>Goal: Teach Quantum Mechanics clearly and explicitly, but through a bare-bones route from basic (highschool) math and algebra.</li>
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The major milestones are listed on that sheet of milestones I whipped up:</div>
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The image is rough but I'll post a clearer version (or hell, just write it out), later. Ultimately it will end up on the YouTube channel anyway.</div>
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Wow, that was shorter than I thought. I suppose I'm done for now. It's not a script but I don't want to use a script. Instead I want to get comfortable with just "presentation-talking", i.e. going over the stuff I want to talk about in a casual engagey manner to an audience. No second takes, but no second takes required. I'll use the list of milestones and the goal listed above as my touchstones.<br /><br />Otherwise it should look and feel a lot like the Khan Academy videos, but I don't want to explicitly mention that in the video either.</div>
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Now to discuss my "inputs", the stuff being funnelled into my brain, everything I'm feeling. Again this is to get practice with inward-facing analysis.</div>
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I feel the chair beneath my bum, my legs and foot, my elbow. I feel the carpet through my other foot. I feel my arm against my tummy and the keyboard beneath my fingertips. I feel my tongue in my mouth, rough from eating throughout the day. I feel my tummy not at all hungry and in fact a bit full from the potato chips. I'm not thirsty but I desire cola. I imagine the cool of it going down my throat. Itches, scratches, random patches on my chin and because of my beard. Crap, now I feel other itches on my arm and head. Especially my head. I don't have to urinate right now and my bladder feels a bit sore from holding it in while I was just emerging out of sleep and too tired to pee this morning.</div>
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I hear the repetitive buzzing of my fan and my computer's fan. The clicking and clacking of the keys on the keyboard. I wonder if the voice in my head counts as "hearing" ? The creaks and groans of my chair. Is that someone hammering outside? At this time of night? Whatever it was, it's gone now. I commented on it because it registered in my memory from maybe a minute ago (now two). I hear my yawn and my body making those indescribable joint noises, halfway between a crack and a thump. Yup someone's hammering. Trying to deconstruct the room fan: there's the steady whine of moving air and several cyclic clicks of differing variety.</div>
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I don't taste much, but a bit of salt from the potato chips. Tongue is a bit burnt from a too-hot dinner. Being aware of my bladder like this makes me think more about urinating. Feel the wet in my eyes as I yawn more, and my eyes water. Hear my fridge change gears to a now-audible pitch, which it does regularly.</div>
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Okay I'm officially bored and I think I've captured all the input I possibly can at this point.</div>
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Despite the fact I'm working on self-improvement across the board, I want to keep setting aside time exclusively for gravity, so let's start doing that. I want to produce my first YouTube video next week. Despite my earlier suggestion, I do want to have some sort of list of topics to go through if not a complete script, to guide my casual chatting. I'll do that.. Wednesday, because I'll have the time.</div>
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Wednesday at 7:30pm. Sounds good. I'll mark my calendar.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192522405699056766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826592788087329722.post-59926721908395592472014-01-09T00:03:00.002-08:002014-01-09T00:03:23.875-08:00Skill ListsI don't want to spend too much time setting this up. In the spirit of Produce or Perish, I'll jot it up quickly for the sake of getting it done.<br /><br />I'm trying to order them in terms of relative priority. (With those higher being more important to me simply staying alive, and those lower being important for my goals but decreasing priority for keeping me alive.)<br /><br />
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Skills: Budgeting (food, etc.), Basic cooking, basic meal-making, washing; first aid?</div>
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Skills: phone skills, technology skills (troubleshooting), email skills, knowledge of Absolute products; public speaking?</div>
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Scientist / Entrepreneur Modifier: +2 Mundane</div>
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Skills: Budgeting (for any materials), Time management; none others required except those to be learned</div>
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Skills: Budgeting (downloadable content i.e. songs), Time management; none others required except those to be developed through practice</div>
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Well that's it. <span style="font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Dear lord. Everything really does require money and time.</span></div>
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What's next? I suppose I should start breaking things down. The *specific* tasks and what actual day-to-day skills they require. I hope to spend no more than three "sessions" doing this.</div>
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Let's plan to do it Saturday. (I'm busy tomorrow, and I don't want to plan anything Friday night.)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192522405699056766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826592788087329722.post-39543945646890601772014-01-04T17:00:00.002-08:002014-01-04T17:00:27.193-08:00Brainstorming for the long journey of Self-ImprovementUgh, so I'm late. Finally got out of bed after twitting about it. About four hours from 11am, I'm here. This highlights part of the problem. Yin doesn't respect the deadlines set by Yang, and without that fundamental cornerstone in place, the whole system collapses.<br /><br />On the other hand, the fact that I'm here at all show I'm at least capable of fighting this problem. I'm not certain how to make Yin/Yang work together to take these self-made appointments more seriously, but as long as something happens, the engine still runs, however poorly.<br />
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Last time I spoke about my R&Gs. Here they are again -<br />
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<li><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.199999809265137px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Role: Efficient, effective Content Producer</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Role: Lifeform (eating, sleeping)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Role: Functioning social human (hygiene, dishes/laundry, apartment upkeep)</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Role: Society member (finances, bills)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Role: Practicing guitar player (no specific goals; I just want to assign time to practice so it is a role)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Role: Employee of Absolute Software</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Role: Son / Brother (family)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Role: Friend (Simon, Bryan, Colin, etc.)</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Goal: Produce a "time / gravity" document to submit for peer-review</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Goal: Produce educational videos for YouTube re: Quantum Mechanics</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Goal: Maintain current weight or lose some weight (of a specific amount to be determined shortly)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Goal: Clean out the gamesroom closet</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Goal: Reorganize the apartment for better space usage (assign specific, achievable goals later)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Goal: Expand my fucking wardrobe before I go naked</li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Goal: Eventual old man; I really need to start setting up long-term financial retirement plans</li>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;"><br />I've split the list up.<br /><br />The primary role, me as an efficient, effective Content Producer, is at the top because it drives everything else. If I do not account for this role, I'm not just "winging" the role itself, I'm approaching my whole life from a casual perspective and there's no reason to think anything will ever change. Yang will be unhappy and Yin will rule, driving me life in a negative trajectory.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">The other roles are, as you'd guess, the various roles I need to adopt at different times in my life in order for my life to continue functioning. If I entirely fail to adopt one of these roles, my life won't necessarily collapse but there will be serious consequences and major changes in my life.<br /><br />I've added a new role that's rather implicit but which deserves attention, Lifeform. Obviously failure to achieve the basic necessities of *this* role implies I *will die*. If I never eat and try to literally never sleep, the consequences will be catastrophic. Yet, I can't just take this role for granted. I *must* account for time to sleep, and budgeting to eat! "Winging" this role isn't as bad a winging my role as content producer, but it will make my role as content producer significantly harder.<br /><br />(I can already hear Yin complaining. "You mean I'm going to be giving myself a bedtime? Dude what the fuck?!")<br /><br />The goals should be approached separately, because they're achievable. I haven't checked whether my current list of goals matches the properties of "SMART goals" as defined by many-a-time-management program I've learned about but I can check that soon enough as I construct a roadmap between my life and roles, and the goals. (SMART = specific, manageable, achievable, .. err.. googling .. no, specific, measurable, action-oriented, reasonable, timely)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">Alright so, the goals I listed above can be temporarily set aside. They're important to me, but they're no more and no less than milestones in my journey of self-improvement, like destinations in a road-trip.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">(</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTFz0La-aOevYdtcdq1Z6WIU5JVG8qzNyWAvp2qlYSGB4L5TD1AKvht4P6MMRMube7Ohjlx2Vl4wBui4eyHGi-5XX9OV6ajqcAtkluRczWkdEJAKaL0uA7WJqS2MVcGMYwCG-Z3g3FMVI/s1600/Heart.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTFz0La-aOevYdtcdq1Z6WIU5JVG8qzNyWAvp2qlYSGB4L5TD1AKvht4P6MMRMube7Ohjlx2Vl4wBui4eyHGi-5XX9OV6ajqcAtkluRczWkdEJAKaL0uA7WJqS2MVcGMYwCG-Z3g3FMVI/s1600/Heart.PNG" /></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">) </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">Physical - required to literally not die.</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">One (1): Important. Serious negative consequences in my life will occur if I fail to maintain this role. It will short-circuit one or more other roles.</span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">Lifeform</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTFz0La-aOevYdtcdq1Z6WIU5JVG8qzNyWAvp2qlYSGB4L5TD1AKvht4P6MMRMube7Ohjlx2Vl4wBui4eyHGi-5XX9OV6ajqcAtkluRczWkdEJAKaL0uA7WJqS2MVcGMYwCG-Z3g3FMVI/s1600/Heart.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTFz0La-aOevYdtcdq1Z6WIU5JVG8qzNyWAvp2qlYSGB4L5TD1AKvht4P6MMRMube7Ohjlx2Vl4wBui4eyHGi-5XX9OV6ajqcAtkluRczWkdEJAKaL0uA7WJqS2MVcGMYwCG-Z3g3FMVI/s1600/Heart.PNG" /></a> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">Modifier: </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">+</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">0 Critical</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">Healthy human</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTFz0La-aOevYdtcdq1Z6WIU5JVG8qzNyWAvp2qlYSGB4L5TD1AKvht4P6MMRMube7Ohjlx2Vl4wBui4eyHGi-5XX9OV6ajqcAtkluRczWkdEJAKaL0uA7WJqS2MVcGMYwCG-Z3g3FMVI/s1600/Heart.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTFz0La-aOevYdtcdq1Z6WIU5JVG8qzNyWAvp2qlYSGB4L5TD1AKvht4P6MMRMube7Ohjlx2Vl4wBui4eyHGi-5XX9OV6ajqcAtkluRczWkdEJAKaL0uA7WJqS2MVcGMYwCG-Z3g3FMVI/s1600/Heart.PNG" /></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;"> </span></span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">Modifier: </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">+2 Mundane</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">Son / Brother </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglMrIr7M8iDCvCaz2nWJ4kEfbEnHIaEg89_63W2tvnClaGvX5QmdZ5_ENwirdNu0a3nYHn4trEK-1Fq0H20yicTmpqvf6uz4kjXIKDUYC5ubSGEGAIeDZ2SKbJwvzXhrZknYV3sFQIF3A/s1600/Face.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglMrIr7M8iDCvCaz2nWJ4kEfbEnHIaEg89_63W2tvnClaGvX5QmdZ5_ENwirdNu0a3nYHn4trEK-1Fq0H20yicTmpqvf6uz4kjXIKDUYC5ubSGEGAIeDZ2SKbJwvzXhrZknYV3sFQIF3A/s1600/Face.PNG" /></a> M<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">odifier: </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">+1 Important</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">After building skillsets, I can set up Metrics for performance. ....UGH this is beginning to sound so cold and vile... I suppose that's Yin talking.<br /><br />However, I must keep true to my motto: "Produce or Perish". Even if what I'm producing defies the concept of metrics, e.g. friendship? art? dreaming?, it does NOT CHANGE THE FACT that all of these are WORTHLESS without production.<br /><br />What is the meaning of friendship if you never talk to the friend, never see the friend, never have any communication with the friend whatsoever? The answer is: none. Such a friendship is meaningless.<br /><br />Fine, Yang, you convinced me. We push forward with this project.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino Linotype, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 16.796875px;">Alright, as I was saying; next task: Compiling skill requirements in expectation of being able to set up metrics.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192522405699056766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826592788087329722.post-1632168575951543162014-01-02T01:46:00.002-08:002014-01-02T01:46:57.826-08:002014: Produce or PerishI'm not going to say much here as I really ought to be in bed.<br /><br /><br />Now marks the transformation of my project into strictly an educational venture; to teach and learn Quantum Mechanics. I've changed the artwork and the title of the page already, but that's just piddly stuff. However, despite my motto ("Produce or Perish" based on David Wong's writings from here - <a href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/">http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/</a>), I didn't want to jump into anything heavy yet.<br />
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A corollary of "Produce or Perish" is the need to figure out how to be the people (person) who are capable of achieving each of my goals and fulfilling each of the roles I need to fill. I can build a list of the tasks I need to perform, rather like building a list of needed skills in a new hire for a job. Furthermore, I can maximize my effectiveness by finding overlaps in the qualities of each "person" I need to "hire", and trying to shed qualities I have (or things that I do, people I interact with) that do not help me.<br />
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So, who do I need to hire? What goals do I want to achieve and what roles do I want to fill? I think it serves me best to separate and explicitly list these.<br />
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<li>Goal: Produce a "time / gravity" document to submit for peer-review</li>
<li>Goal: Produce educational videos for YouTube re: Quantum Mechanics</li>
<li>Goal: Maintain current weight or lose some weight (of a specific amount to be determined shortly)</li>
<li>Goal: Clean out the gamesroom closet</li>
<li>Goal: Reorganize the apartment for better space usage (assign specific, achievable goals later)</li>
<li>Goal: Expand my fucking wardrobe before I go naked</li>
<li>Goal: Eventual old man; I really need to start setting up long-term financial retirement plans</li>
<li>Role: Functioning human (hygiene, dishes/laundry, apartment upkeep)</li>
<li>Role: Healthy human (entertainment, energy, introversion time off, therapy)</li>
<li>Role: Society member (finances, bills)</li>
<li>Role: Practicing guitar player (no specific goals; I just want to assign time to practice so it is a role)</li>
<li>Role: Employee of Absolute Software</li>
<li>Role: Son / Brother (family)</li>
<li>Role: Friend (Simon, Bryan, Colin, etc.)<br /></li>
<li>Role: Efficient, effective Content Producer</li>
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The last one implies the rest (for me at least; it would imply different goals and roles for different people). The opposite of all goals and all roles is to be a consumer, purely consuming content and giving nothing back to anyone, not even myself in the long run. I'm already beginning to fulfill my duties as a good Producer by writing this blog but that's just the very beginning.<br /><br /><br />
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Interestingly, I haven't explicitly listed time management or budgeting as goals or roles, the closest thing being my role as a society member. It occurs to me that this is a very good point. In the past I've always thought of these as other roles, namely the proper management of my time and my money, to be scheduled into the calendar with everything else.<br /><br /><br />Yet, time management and budgeting are <b>never</b> goals or roles. Instead they are tools, means to specific ends. It makes as little sense to explicitly list time- and money-management as it does to list "blogging" as a goal. Blogging about what? To what end? You can't do it without a purpose. Granted, time and money affect everything across the board, unlike blogging, but the principle is the same.<br /><br /><br />Looking at time- and money-management in this light, not everything necessarily requires scheduling or budgeting all the time, always. It only makes sense if the tool supports the goal. This is the point of "mad money", for example. Money that is expressly not allocated towards a specific purpose. That said, just about everything useful or fun requires time and money, so few things should escape being scheduled and budgeted.<br /><br />
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This is a bit of a tangent, but I had originally slated this blog for my project and I was going to leave my personal life out of it. I can't avoid that now, not with this approach. So be it.<br /><br /><br />
Note that the above list is superficially similar to the approach I fiddled with in early 2013, with my different personas and masks. That approach dropped away because it wasn't particularly useful, and I was left with only 2-3 personas which I'm now calling Yin and Yang (or more familiarly, Capn and RPG). I have an Alpha personality built to drive us towards my Prime Directive, the production of a theory of time / gravity, but he's more of a mask of Yang.<br /><br /><br />The difference here is that the list I produced above is not a list of personalities or masks. Instead, they are roles that my existing personalities must cooperate to fulfill. I need to train Yin and Yang to work together to perform these jobs, like they're stranded on a lonely island together and need to perform these duties to survive.<br /><br />
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<br /><br />Next task; to figure out what skills are required for each of my goals and roles. I should also start thinking about the constraints I'm working under. Constraints aren't goals I'm trying to achieve, nor are they roles I'm trying to fulfill. Instead they are obstacles that make it more challenging to meet my goals or fulfill my roles in certain ways.<br /><br /><br />Goals and Roles. Maybe I'll start calling them GNR? Nah, that just gives me an Appetite for Destruction. Don't Cry, Sweet Child O' Mine. Welcome to the Jungle. R&G - Roles and Goals. I like that better. I suppose this blog is going to become bigger. The steps I'm taking to fulfill my R&G list.<br /><br /><br />Til next time, folks.<br /><br /><br />OH! Yang had a thought. Instead of just signing off and leaving it, I should schedule a time to next look at this and continue. If I'm going to fulfill my role of Content Producer, I can't just let it sit and forget about it. I need to start actually DOING these things. Fine. I'll schedule it for the weekend. (I don't want to schedule during the work week because everything is so bloody overwhelmed with the holidays.)<br /><br />Saturday, 11am. Cheers @ Yang/Yin.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192522405699056766noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826592788087329722.post-88907199537475520572013-10-26T17:03:00.001-07:002013-10-26T17:03:08.257-07:00The Future History of this Channel<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />I'm blanking on ideas so I'm just going to blather.<br /><br />Following is a general map of the subjects I learned that I want to turn into videos to produce for YouTube. The subjects were originally taught to me in the course of about 28 one and a half hour sessions, totalling about 42 hours (I swear that's just a coincidence).<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Getting 42 hours' worth of material into several videos on the web will be a challenge, so I'm going to present them in the fashion of knowlettes. Each knowlette won't be the presentation of an entire suite of ideas, but solitary bubbles of knowledge, a single idea that is important to absorb to add to the audience's tool-set. I could add other knowlettes that don't present single ideas in themselves, but tie together a bunch of separate knowlettes.<br /><br />And BAM this is the perfect thing to talk about for the next video. I can describe this knowlette-style production method and tie it into the whole metamyth structure, where the knowlettes are each like small tools that the "hero" needs to pick up to complete his quest. My next video will be a sort of; "Your mission, should you choose to accept it" style.<br /><br />I could turn the above map into a funky adventurer's map, like you'd see on pirate treasure-hunting game. That would break it down into smaller subjects, and then I could break it down one more level into the individual knowlettes. I'll make those up as I go along however, to make it easier for me to figure out.<br /><br />As much as I like this, I still need to know the NEXT STEP. This is all vague right now.<br /><br />Okay fine. So, I think the next step should be the motivation for the journey. Why learn quantum mechanics? What has it got to do with my life?<br /><br />I think I'll start with a strictly philosophical video discussing my own point of view: why it's fun to be correct. How to choose what to believe in? I'll have to apologize to the religious folks out there but it'll make it easier for me to speak engagingly on camera. I could mention my talks with Wenhao, and how I explicitly advised him that I wanted to be taught Quantum Mechanics without diluting it with my own ideas of gravity.<br /><br />This is a good segue into talking about personal bias. Personal bias dilutes truth, usually to such a degree that one can no longer separate the truth from the bias.<br /><br />I'm running out of time but I LOVE this, because it leads me directly into talking about Normal Science (as defined by Thomas Kuhn) and scientific regimes, and from there I can dive into revolutions. First I'll discuss the revolution of Quantum Mechanics, which overthrew the Classical regime, and then I can discuss how modern science is attempting to push through with Normal Science to meld gravity and quantum mechanics (i.e. by inventing string theory, quantum gravity, gravitons, etc.)<br /><br />Finally, this first (what is shaping up to be a) chapter can end with my ideas on a new idea for how gravity works, based on an idea that must overthrow much of the current cosmological regime to be accepted, though it leaves much of quantum mechanics untouched.<br /><br />Okay, I think I can start construction of the knowlettes (and YouTube videos!) here. It will be like writing a regular presentation, for this one "chapter".<br /><br />Heck with it, I don't need the map yet for this chapter, and I want to save it for later anyway, to take play in the metamyth's "Meeting with the Goddess".<br /><br />Til next time .....Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192522405699056766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826592788087329722.post-55140051419937521172013-10-21T22:13:00.002-07:002013-10-26T16:12:57.387-07:00Bubbling about the direction of the YouTube ChannelWell, I'm sleepy but I want to get a jump on the second video. As of this very post, this blog is now fulfilling the niche I'd intended it for. I want to stream-of-consciousness but for a large number of thoughts, far more than could <i>ever</i> reasonably be tweeted, and which would be inappropriate on the YouTube channel (which is more of a public contact forum).<br />
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So, on with it.<br />
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I'm quite proud of myself for finishing the Introductory video! It is found at -<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLMixxhy8yY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLMixxhy8yY</a><br />
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It turned out relatively well; a bit campy but I think about as good as was possible on my budget and it is quite attractive.<br />
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I feel like, for the first time in my life, I want to take a proactive approach to this. Since it's a project I'm doing entirely of my own volition, I feel motivated to try and stack up resources and build videos as quickly as possible, and let them stream out to the YouTube channel at a slower rate. This is as opposed to my usual approach of focusing on one single video each biweekly period, usually ending up slapping things together at the last minute.<br />
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Getting certain resources together ahead of time (e.g. the crazy-Brit-chick intros) is not important and can be done per period, as needed. However, script writing and reciting can be done as quickly as I can produce them, because I can simply keep them on reserve as a buffer against harder videos that might take me long to produce.<br />
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This approach will mean I'm going to have to start thinking early about the order and content of the videos I want to produce. For the first several videos, I want to build an interface between the Khan Academy and my own videos. Hopefully, the transition from the Khan Academy and my own videos should be as smooth as possible. Of course this means I'll actually have to <i>study</i> at the Khan Academy.<br />
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In a very weird way, I'm looking forward to that.. rapacious. I feel Alpha in my head licking his lips whispering for more, like: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-qBUWOYfE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj-qBUWOYfE</a> (Incidentally, for those who don't know, Alpha is the title I've given to that facet of my personality who is driven towards producing this theory of gravity. The one with the motivation.)<br />
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Here's a list of everything I've been taught in no particular order, or at least as good a list as I can reconstruct from my hideous, hideous notes. (I should have recorded my sessions with Wenhao, damn it.)<br />
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<li><a href="http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/kuhn.html">Thomas Kuhn (Anomalies, Normal Science, Paradigms, Revolutions)</a></li>
<li>Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (surface level)</li>
<li>DeBroglie Wavelength (condition under which quantum behaviour becomes pronounced)</li>
<li>Rough radius of a Hydrogen atom (using HUP, kinetic and potential energies)</li>
<li>Fraunhofer, single slit (small angle approximation, far field approximation)</li>
<li>Units (Force, Energy, Pressure)</li>
<li>Boltzmann's Equation (Evaporating Water) - Check out Annaracus Plot for kicks</li>
<li>Boltzmann's Constant</li>
<li>Equipartition Theorem (1/2*KT of energy per degree of freedom)</li>
<li>Why is the sky blue? Electrical Oscillators</li>
<li>e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0 ; The most gorgeous equation in the universe</li>
<li>Blackbody Radiation</li>
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<li>Number of Modes (Classical, Raleigh-Jean's)</li>
<li>Equipartition</li>
<li>Ultraviolet Catastrophe</li>
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<li>Photoelectric Effect</li>
<li>Bohr's Atom</li>
<li>Einstein's 1905 paper</li>
<li>Linear Algebra (large subject - Vector spaces, polynomial spaces, other spaces)</li>
<li>Fourier Series -- WARNING: Notes got mixed, this stuff appears on the back of the "Applications" notes, listed below</li>
<li>Partial Differential Equations (large subject)</li>
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<li>Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors</li>
<li>Boundary Conditions, Initial Conditions, Steady States</li>
<li>Heat Evolution Equation</li>
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<li>Quantum Mechanics!! Schroedinger's Wave Equation</li>
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<li>Separable PDE;</li>
<li>Time Dependent Schroedinger Equ'n</li>
<li>Time Independent Schroedinger Equ'n</li>
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<li>All of Quantum Mechanics: the four steps</li>
<li>Applications:</li>
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<li>Particle in a box</li>
<li> Harmonic</li>
<li>Zero Potential</li>
<li>Bound State</li>
<li>Scattering State</li>
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<li>Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, in depth</li>
<li>Hilbert Spaces (closed under inf, at infinity-> 0, probability -> 1, E is conserved)</li>
<li>More complicated V's (potentials) using regular old calculus</li>
<li>Spin</li>
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<li>Stern-Gerlach Experiment</li>
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... WOW, we learned a lot and yet, I remember all this! At least, I remember covering it. My ability to replicate it on paper is an entirely different matter. Still ... incredible boost of confidence! I just may be able to pull this shit off!<br />
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Alright, it's getting late so I'll have to get back to this. I should go over to Khan Academy anyway and start going back over my bases. I can construct a pathway from their material to my own, when I do it.<br />
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For my next maybe two videos, I want to cover fluffy (i.e. mathless) but foundational stuff that are not only important for learning Quantum Mechanics, but will play a huge role in my development and presentation on my theories of gravity.<br />
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Those videos will cover:<br />
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<li>Thomas Kuhn - Normal Science, Paradigms, Anomalies, and Revolutions in science</li>
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<li>This is especially important for Quantum Physics, which utterly overturned the classical picture (almost; excluding General Relativity)</li>
<li>I want to make it very clear why normal science and these paradigms are so important and why science must suppress new theories in most cases (especially in the absence of anomalies)</li>
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<li>Feynmann's Lecture on the double-slit experiment - specifically HIS lecture and not other peoples'. Why I dislike the cat-in-a-box example.</li>
<li>Newton's First Law and its survival to modern times</li>
<li>Units: Force, Energy, and Pressure - What they are, how they are related, and how to use units as a weapon to solve your math problems</li>
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That should cover me for the first little while! They're really basic topics I could lecture on with very little research, and it'll give me time to study and catch up on Khan's website and start preparing the heavy-duty lectures with genuine math in them.</div>
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Ready, set, go!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192522405699056766noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826592788087329722.post-80569655248124297882013-10-07T21:19:00.001-07:002013-10-07T21:19:47.417-07:00(untitled post)I've figured out the problem with blogging versus twitting. Blog entries require TITLES. It's not stream of consciousness if you have to give it a title.<br />
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ANYway, whatever. If anyone ever reads this, I will NOT be blogging this frequently in the future. More likely once a week.<br />
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So, I'm trying to decide what content I should start putting on the channel. I'd like to put something up soon, to get started. I'm dragging my heels waiting for Fiverr.com stuff, so that I may properly brand my videos. I'm torn between pushing ahead per "PRODUCE OR PERISH" and the need to brand the videos properly. I think I'll probably wait. "Produce or Perish" is blind and doesn't care what you do as long as you do, but Yang is cleverer and knows that it may pay to wait sometimes. The trick is to know when your 'waiting' is merely an excuse for Yin to drag you down.<br />
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So that's it then, I'll wait for proper branding. Currently I'm waiting for an "outro" song from one guy who seems pretty talented. It occurs to me that I can use the interim to actually build the content for the first video.<br />
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The next question is: what shall that content be?<br />
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Oooh, dinner..Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192522405699056766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826592788087329722.post-8077349877464597482013-10-06T23:08:00.001-07:002013-10-06T23:08:24.662-07:00Now what?SO .. this blog is supposed to be an extension of my twit, but I seem to be freezing up. I've gotten comfortable with the twit slowly but surely. It became a stream of consciousness; my brain just producing output out "loud" as opposed to being locked in my head. I imagine it will happen here too; I just need practice.<br />
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What better place to get started practicing than to talk about my immediate plans for the future. Fortunately, unlike that damned twit, I have no character limit here and so I can talk as much as I need. I've decided to put this whole gravity theory-generation thing into high gear; grab the proverbial football and charge towards the end zone.<br />
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First I'll draw together the foundational material I'm using to guide and motivate my own self-development:<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/">Produce or Perish</a>: I got the idea from a brilliant article on Cracked.com by a fellow named David Wong. The address is - <a href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/">http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/</a></li>
<li>The Art of War by SunTzu: A set of ancient Chinese military documents. Although the focus is war, the concepts can be applied to conflict in general.</li>
<li>A chat I had with a 17 year old Brazilian kid while wandering depression chatrooms one night a few years ago, that flipped my point of view 180 degrees.</li>
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I'll talk about these foundations in more detail later, whenever the mood strikes me, unless I decide not to or if I forget. I don't like to talk about the last one too much, but I'm beginning to think I have no choice but to make my private life a bit more public if I'm going to release this theory of gravity of mine.<br /></div>
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Upcoming stages include the following:</div>
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<li>Learning the basics: I've using the YouTube channel to go back over everything Wenhao (my Quantum Mechanics tutor) has taught me</li>
<li>Learning the basics Part II: I want to really drill into my head the basic stuff, so I'll be going over materials the Wenhao maybe didn't cover because they're not relevant to QM, but which are important for my theory. (For example, I want to study General Relativity for the math, even though I believe the model is wrong.)</li>
<li>Physical Experiments: I want to produce real experiments showing the stuff I'm learning, where possible.</li>
<li>Production of a brand; I've decided to call it "Everything you know about gravity is wrong". A bit obvious, sure, but I hired this UK girl on fiverr.com to do an attention-grabbing intro and she really sells it.</li>
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All of this is primarily within the YouTube channel. I'll continue to use my twit for self-improvement and this blog as the "subsoil" underneath the YouTube channel (though it will be a blog in its own right as a "bigger" version of my twit).</div>
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Some things I want to mention in particular that I'd like to cover on the YouTube channel but don't fit into the above categories:</div>
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<li>A video discussing <a href="http://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/kuhnsyn.html">Thomas S. Kuhn's article on scientific revolutions</a>. This will be important to motivate my complete overhaul of physics. I may have to present it first, so that I can persuade the scientifically savvy members of the audience to stay.</li>
<li>A video on the nature of time based on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Time-A-Graphic-Guide/dp/1848311206">that book I read</a>, introducing theories and concepts of time.</li>
<li>Maybe some coverage of Feynmann's lectures, or maybe not. That would be interesting but it doesn't directly play into the goal of the channel.</li>
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Signing out! I need to go to bed at some reasonable time..</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192522405699056766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8826592788087329722.post-25794951201057477912013-10-06T19:40:00.003-07:002013-10-06T19:42:29.740-07:00RebootI'm not going to go into a big huzzah to present this reboot of a reboot of this blog.<br />
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I've repurposed this blog to combine with my other two public outlets, as follows -<br />
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/rpgZenMaster">Twitter</a> - Stream of consciousness, primarily for the purpose of self-improvement</li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwuUDsw0x7haK0Q8mpUAfMA">YouTube</a> - Built expressly for the purpose of eventually revealing my new theory of gravity, and in the meantime, presenting educational videos of background knowledge required to understand the theory</li>
<li>This blog - Stream of consciousness, like the twitter feed, but primarily for the purpose of constructing the YouTube channel and to help study the background knowledge required for the theory of gravity</li>
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That's all I'm going to say for this first post.<br />
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I hope to post once a week on this blog, basically to keep tabs on the YouTube channel.<br />
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