Daily musings, mostly about physics and consciousness, heavily biased by Topological Geometrodynamics background.
In holography = holomorphy (H-H) principle the basic objects are not 3-D surfaces but their slightly non-deterministic Bohr orbits. This forces zero energy ontology (ZEO), which solves the basic problem of quantum measurement theory. Classical non-determinism is associated with the edges of the space-time surface and plays a fundamental role in both the TGD inspired theory of conscious experience…
I have just developed a model for the evolution of geology and biology of Earth and this leads to a criterion for whether life can evolve on the planet (or moon) (see this ). The criterion relies heavily on new physics predicted by TGD. The margin is very narrow. The criterion is rather tight and not satisfied for planets with too large Schwartschild radius to radius, for instance giant gas…
Sabine Hossenfelder (see this ) told about a possible solution of a problem plaguing the standard model of the solar system. The model cannot explain the formation of planets as a gravitational condensation of a proto disk. The narrative discussed by Sabine is that actually 2 additional planets would have formed but would have been lost later due to collisions of the planets. TGD suggests an…
Gyanprakash Raj asked about the TGD view of blackhole entropy. In particular, does TGD predict blackhole entropy excess predicted by various models of blackhole trying to understand blackhole information paradox? TGD forces us to give up the standard view of blackholes as systems having mass concentrated at a single point. The QFT limit of TGD replaces the topologically extremely complex…
One should also understand the energetics of compression and expansion. Under what conditions these transitions are possible? Gravitational and atomic binding energies are involved. Gravitational binding energies per atom are proportional to the ratio r s /R P for the planet. The binding energy liberated in the transition k=139→ 137 is independent of planetary parameters. In the case of…
Marko Manninen sent me a highly interesting link to the work of Prof. Anca Tureanu (see this ), who challenges the prevailing standard physics view of neutrinos (see this ). Why the neutrino physics goes wrong? Also in my opinion, the theoretical physics picture of neutrinos is wrong. Both neutrinos and quarks mix: we talk about CKM mixing. Neutrinos are no different from d-quarks in this respect.…
I have carried out a considerable work to fuse the existing TGD inspired ideas about the geological and biological evolution of life on Earth to a single coherent whole. The strategy is to identify weak points of the existing vision and here the language models provide an extremely powerful tool. The evolution of life on Earth encountered several bottlenecks. In the beginning, the generation of…
Lian Sidorov, Ben Goertzel, Michael Levin, Matti Pitk&aul;nen, and Vasileios Basios, published a collective article entitled "At Play in the Fields of the Lord: On Goal Evolutionary Dynamics in Complex Adaptive Systems" in in Journal of Nonlocality (see this ). I am grateful for the honour to be one of the authors. The article was in a form of a panel discussion about various aspects of AI, in…
Wikipedia informs that there are a number of battery voltages that are preferred and that chemistry forces them (see this ). 1.5 eV deducted for the Donut battery is one of them. Why? The answer to the question reduces to the notion of electronegativity characterized by chemical potential. For example, oxygen is willing to accept electrons from less electronegative atoms and hydrogen, alkali atoms…
The development of the notion of Pollack battery as a possible model explaining the claims of Donut Lab has been rather painful process. At least formally, the notion of a pure quantum Pollack battery makes sense for dark hydrogen atoms (see this ). Does it also make sense for dark protons? In the charging of the Pollack battery, the ordinary protons at monopole flux tube states are transferred to…
Gary Ehlenberger sent an interesting link related to the theories of color perception (see this ). It has been known for a long time that colors are not properties of the light or of any stimulus producing color sensation. The notion of color space tries to geometrize hue, lightness and saturation as attributes of color perception. Already Riemann suggested that the Riemannian geometry alone could…
I received from Taylor Reed Ramsey a set of 3 highly inspiring questions of how the TGD view of cognition might relate to the basic structures of language. Ramsey is an independent researcher working on a long-form project about how external symbolic systems writing, in particular restructure human cognition. The questions relate to adelic physics, the hierarchy of Planck constants, and the…
Sabine Hossenfelder's Youtube video (see this ) about the observation of a giant ring (GR) having a diameter of 3 billion ly with a statistical significance is 4.1 σ (1/20,000) in constellation Bo tes at a distance of 7 billion light years. The article "Giant Ring in the Sky" by Lopez and Clowes (see this ) reports the discovery. GR has clusters of galaxies behind it. The light arriving from…
This finding relates in an interesting way to the TGD inspired view that life and even genetic code are universal. Even quartz crystals (see this ) could be living in a primitive sense and the basic quantum mechanism would be the same as for ordinary life. Pollack effect (see this , this this , this , this , this ) in which protons are kicked to the magnetic body and generate in this way…
The proposal (see this is that the radiation pressure of the dark gravitational radiation from the Sun and perhaps also from the Earth can produce effects comparable to the gravitational force of the Sun. This radiation is extremely weak. Could quantum coherence in the length scale defined by gravitational-Compton wavelength enhance the intensity of the gravitational radiation? 1. General…
Science daily has a highly interesting article with the title "Friction without contact discovered as magnetic forces break a 300-year-old law" (see this "). I am grateful to Gary Ehlenberger for sending the link. There is an article by Hongri Gu, Anton L ders, Clemens Bechinger with title "Non-monotonic magnetic friction from collective rotor dynamics" published in Nature Materials, 2026; DOI:…
Just for fun, I had a session about rather hypeish "How gravity goes quantum" of NASA (see this ) with Google to revive what I remember of the model of Partanen and Tulkki from previous discussions with Tulkki and about the review of their model that I wrote (see blog post ). I also proposed the role of the octonions then and they are indeed introduced in their recent article. The core fields are…
The article Quantum Cheshire Cats of Aharonov, Popescu, Rohrlich, and Skrzypczyk published in New Journal of Physics (see this ) claims that the particle can be separated from its properties relies on the notion of weak measurement (see this ). The mathematical model of weak measurements is not taken seriously by the mainstream and there are good reasons for the skepticism. The claimed apparent…
Esa Ruoho has been studying Allais effect and has sent excellent and very inspiring questions related to the Allais effect. His questions have led to rather detailed and highly predictive TGD based model for the Allais effect based on the notion of warping distinguishing between GRT and TGD. One of the latest questions whether the predicted large reduction of the light velocity, which is due to…
Cold fusion is in fashion again as Sabine Hossenfelder informs (see this ) and makes it clear that the massive funding is waste of money. I added a slightly ironic comment. Although Sabine uses irony, she cannot tolerate ironic attitude to her views so that the post was removed. I tried twice. The removal might be also automatic. Sabine is a hardcore skeptic and cannot tolerate approaches claiming…
The model for the Pollack battery developed through many twists and turns and several breakthroughs in the understanding of the physical interpretation of TGD were required (see this ). The recent view of the charging of the Pollack battery would be as follows. So, let us take the claims of Donut Lab (see this ) seriously and look for what follows. I have considered 3 models for the Donut battery.…
The Allais effect (see this and this ) was first reported by Maurice Allais in 1954. It involves an abrupt change in the azimuth of a paraconical pendulum's oscillation plane during the solar eclipse, totaling up to 13.5 degrees. Empirical findings Consider first a brief summary of the findings of Allais and others. Paraconical pendulum consists of a rigid rod of \sim 1 meter and a metal ball. The…
In the sequel, some number theoretic aspects of the holography = holomorphy (H-H) principle are considered. Holography = holomorphy principle First some background is needed. The holography = holomorphy (H-H) (see this , this , and this ) principle implies that space-time surfaces are determined as roots of the pairs of holomorphic functions f=(f 1 ,f 2 ): H=M 4 × CP 2 → C 2 . The…
The flat warped space-time surfaces are characterized by the reduced light-velocity β 0 =c # /c≤ 1. There is a criticality with respect to the variations of c # (instability of metal plates illustrates this). Also the twisted Hamilton-Jacobi structures would be characterized by c # (see this ). The criticality of the warping could induce or accompany various kinds of quantum criticalities.…
In this article two developments in TGD are discussed. These developments emerged in a "wrong context". The first discovery was the realization that M 8 -H duality in zero energy ontology implies a fractal generalization of Hubble's law. It emerged in a work related to TGD inspired quantum biology, where gravitational Planck constant h gr = GMm/β 0 (M and m are masses and β 0 is velocity…