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Originally posted by Mary Rose
Another thing that struck me about the Rogue Valley lecture was the part about the process of "renormalization" in physics.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
This is just the tip of the non-intuitive iceberg of the quantum world. . . .
Originally posted by Mary Rose
I believe that you have missed my point.
My point is about mainstream physics and how ridiculous renormalization is in the scenario described.
No, I never agreed with Haramein's statement, I still ridicule it. I noticed you didn't answer my question about where we find 1.618 in the leafy sea dragon.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
First you ridicule the statement that a unified theory should incorporate more than physics.
Then you go on to agree with the statement.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Nassim said that in the late 1880s we figured out that atoms have electrons.
The crazy electron keeps on going around in circles around the nucleus of the atom.
If you take current natural laws that were written by Newton, the laws of entropy, the electron should radiate all its energy within seconds of the big bang, crash onto the nucleus, and all atoms should have been eliminated.
So, when the negatively charged electron was found spinning around a positively charged nucleus, at near the speed of light, there was a large conceptual problem.
Quantum physicists saw that protons were all bunched together in the middle of the atom, and the question of how positively charged particles would stick together when they should be repelling each other had to be resolved. They resolved it by creating a brand new force: the strong force. They didn't explain where it came from.
The largest error in current physics is that they can't deal with singularity so they make it like it's not there.
That's one way of dealing with things one doesn't know how to cope with or explain.
Originally posted by beebs
How very fitting that you should use this metaphor as an insult. And yet you shy away from addressing Zero Point Energy. Why is that?
Chapter 2: Information Theory and the Zero Point Field
"To the powerful theories of chemistry and physics must be added a late arrival: a theory of information. Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information."
- Jeremy Campbell, Grammatical Man
The first paradigm shift in the modern understanding of reality occurred when Newtonian physics was modified by Einstein's theory of relativity. Newton saw nature as consisting of many related physical objects in motion. Newtonian physics emphasized entities rather than organization, and local systems rather than their relation to the total field.
In the early 1900's, Nobel Prize~winners Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Louis de Broglie and others startled the scientific world with their discoveries regarding energy. In 1925, de Broglie postulated that the electron, which moves about a positively-charged nucleus in an atom, is not a "particle" but is a nonmaterial "wave." That meant that matter, when reduced to its smallest component, was only energy and that everything in the universe was a state of energy, including the human body.
Einstein showed that the behaviour of a particle is not independent of the field, but is conditioned and determined by it. Field physics recognizes the existence of many fields that contain particles that interact with each other. These range from the tiny gravitational fields within atoms to the vast ones of planetary systems. The Nobel Prize-winning English mathematician Paul Dirac pioneered the first known specimen of a quantum field theory. According to this theory, particles cannot be separated from the surrounding space, which constitutes a continuous field including all of material existence. Matter and light have both particle properties and wave or field properties. Particles are merely condensations in the field, rather like chunks of ice formed in an ocean of waves. Since the work of Dirac, the dual nature of light as wave and particle has been free of paradox for those that can follow the mathematics. Richard Feynman, another Nobel Prize winner, and others expanded on Dirac's work to create the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED). This describes the interaction of light and matter with remarkable accuracy, and it is these field effects that led Peter Fraser to his revolutionary understanding of the human body-field.
Another paradigm shift has now occurred, once again startling the scientific world --information theory and the concept of the "Zero Point Field." The Zero Point Field is an underlying sea of energy that pervades all of existence. These concepts have formed the basis for new discoveries that have rocked the U.S. Patent Office and major journals including Science, Scientific American and The New York Times. Modern information theory finds at the most basic level of reality neither particles nor waves, only "quantum probability fields" or "information fields," which materialize out of the vacuum whenever we interact with it.
Discovery of the Zero Point Field grew out of speculation concerning the vacuum. According to Dr. Timothy Boyer, writing in Scientific American, in the seventeenth century it was thought that a totally empty volume of space could be created by simply removing all matter, including all gases. Later, in the nineteenth century, it became apparent that this ''vacuum'' actually was not empty but contained thermal radiation, although researchers thought this radiation might be eliminated by cooling, taking the temperature to absolute zero. Since then, however, it has been shown both theoretically and experimentally that there is a non-thermal radiation in the vacuum that persists even if the temperature could be lowered to absolute zero. The ''vacuum'' underlying matter, it seems, is not a vacuum at all but contains particles and waves that spontaneously pop in and out of existence, forming an underlying field.
Do you also want to bring back the Phlogiston theory?
What's WPD stand for?
OK where exactly is the 1.618 in this creature, the leafy sea dragon?
So what gives the leafy sea dragon its shape? It's DNA. And how would a unified field theory affect that? The Unified field theory would conceivably encompass all forces involving the molecular and atomic bonds and interactions regarding DNA and all other organic and inorganic molecules. But it's the DNA of the organism that determines its shape, honed through the process of natural selection and mutations. The unified field theory might help explain things like why the DNA has the form of a double helix shape, but the actual shape of the creature that results from that DNA would not be the direct result of unified field theory, but a result of the sequence of the adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T) bases in the DNA.
No I think I got your point exactly. Why is that any more bizarre than other concepts in quantum mechanics like the wave/particle duality of an electron? Or how can a single electron be two different places at the same time (as in the double slit experiment)? Almost nothing about quantum mechanics satisfies our logical sensibilities as we are used to observing the macro world, but it makes great predictions. If renormalization works and makes good predictions, I'm not sure why it's more bizarre than other aspects of quantum theory which also make good predictions but don't make sense to our macro senses.
The only problem here is the perpetual lack of knowledge on you part. To illustrate this painful condition, the electron in a hydrogen atom travels at only 1/137 of the speed of light (roughly). It's one percent. It's one percent. It's one percent. It's one percent. Did I say it's one percent? Hmm.. Do you know what a percent is? Didn't think so.
The first paradigm shift in the modern understanding of reality occurred when Newtonian physics was modified by Einstein's theory of relativity. Newton saw nature as consisting of many related physical objects in motion. Newtonian physics emphasized entities rather than organization, and local systems rather than their relation to the total field.
In the early 1900's, Nobel Prize~winners Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Louis de Broglie and others startled the scientific world with their discoveries regarding energy. In 1925, de Broglie postulated that the electron, which moves about a positively-charged nucleus in an atom, is not a "particle" but is a nonmaterial "wave." That meant that matter, when reduced to its smallest component, was only energy and that everything in the universe was a state of energy, including the human body.
Einstein showed that the behaviour of a particle is not independent of the field, but is conditioned and determined by it. Field physics recognizes the existence of many fields that contain particles that interact with each other. These range from the tiny gravitational fields within atoms to the vast ones of planetary systems. The Nobel Prize-winning English mathematician Paul Dirac pioneered the first known specimen of a quantum field theory. According to this theory, particles cannot be separated from the surrounding space, which constitutes a continuous field including all of material existence. Matter and light have both particle properties and wave or field properties. Particles are merely condensations in the field, rather like chunks of ice formed in an ocean of waves. Since the work of Dirac, the dual nature of light as wave and particle has been free of paradox for those that can follow the mathematics. Richard Feynman, another Nobel Prize winner, and others expanded on Dirac's work to create the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED). This describes the interaction of light and matter with remarkable accuracy, and it is these field effects that led Peter Fraser to his revolutionary understanding of the human body-field.
Another paradigm shift has now occurred, once again startling the scientific world --information theory and the concept of the "Zero Point Field." The Zero Point Field is an underlying sea of energy that pervades all of existence. These concepts have formed the basis for new discoveries that have rocked the U.S. Patent Office and major journals including Science, Scientific American and The New York Times. Modern information theory finds at the most basic level of reality neither particles nor waves, only "quantum probability fields" or "information fields," which materialize out of the vacuum whenever we interact with it.
Discovery of the Zero Point Field grew out of speculation concerning the vacuum. According to Dr. Timothy Boyer, writing in Scientific American, in the seventeenth century it was thought that a totally empty volume of space could be created by simply removing all matter, including all gases. Later, in the nineteenth century, it became apparent that this ''vacuum'' actually was not empty but contained thermal radiation, although researchers thought this radiation might be eliminated by cooling, taking the temperature to absolute zero. Since then, however, it has been shown both theoretically and experimentally that there is a non-thermal radiation in the vacuum that persists even if the temperature could be lowered to absolute zero. The ''vacuum'' underlying matter, it seems, is not a vacuum at all but contains particles and waves that spontaneously pop in and out of existence, forming an underlying field.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
I am reading a .pdf online entitled The Unturned Stone By Harry Massey and Peter Fraser. This book is about the quantum electromagnetic body field and how it relates to healing.
I just came to a passage that made me think of Beebs' posts about Zero Point Energy:
It seems like society has failed you to make you think and say this. Why is it that you don't trust mainstream science?
Originally posted by Mary Rose
I personally do not trust mainstream scientific scrutiny.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
. . . it must stand up to scientific scrutiny.
I invite you to review the following list of my physical status while ill:
-......
-Brain function and memory pretty much non-existent"
He then goes on to describe the process by which a hologram is made. For a minute I think his brain is functioning until I read this:
Holographic phenomena are generated by physicists using a single frequency of coherent or polarized light.
This statement completely contradicts the previous statement he just made about how holograms are formed. He just makes this outrageous claim and then doesn't back it up with a single piece of supporting evidence.
The blood also contains holographic qualities
"The Nobel Prize-winning English mathematician Paul Dirac pioneered the first known specimen of quantum field theory."
"Consciousness, it seems, gives form to reality, rather than the reverse. And in that model, there is suddenly room for prayer, long distance healings, and psychic phenomena".
So being a rational thinker, I'm unfortunately swayed to abandon the hope I had that the power of prayer might be a real effect. I personally would have liked it if the results of this study had come out differently to show that prayer DOES have an effect.
The Harvard prayer experiment was a scientific study to qualify and quantity the effects (if any) of prayer to affect people.
With support from the Templeton Foundation, cardiologist Herbert Benson and his colleagues randomly assigned 1802 cardiac bypass patients...
Results
....
Not only did prayer not help the patients, those that were told they were being prayed for experienced more complications.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur (in another thread)
Confirmation bias
One study showed how selective memory can maintain belief in extrasensory perception (ESP).[29] Believers and disbelievers were each shown descriptions of ESP experiments. Half of each group were told that the experimental results supported the existence of ESP, while the others were told they did not. In a subsequent test, subjects recalled the material accurately, apart from believers who had read the non-supportive evidence. This group remembered significantly less information and some of them incorrectly remembered the results as supporting ESP.
-from Russell, Dan; Warren H. Jones (1980), "When superstition fails: Reactions to disconfirmation of paranormal beliefs", Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (Society for Personality and Social Psychology)
Thank goodness for that, that's actually the way mainstream science works. When we find new evidence to change our views, we change our views in light of the new evidence. That's why we abandoned phlogiston and aether theories.
Originally posted by beebs
@Arbitrageur -
Nope. But if new evidence turned up I would have to account for it in a new paradigm.
Do you also want to bring back the Phlogiston theory?
Show me where it isn't. That is all I can see. Nature is fractals.
OK where exactly is the 1.618 in this creature, the leafy sea dragon?
You know about the double helix shape of DNA right?
For a reductionist you are not very consistent in your reductionism... You say the UFT can explain the shape of the DNA, but the shape of the DNA can have no effect on the patterns of biology?
The patterns of the ACGT determined through the UFT doesn't correlate in any way to the actual shape of the creature? The cause has no effect on the result? What do you mean by 'the direct result' ... only an indirect result?
Regarding the raisin bread and inflation... what is inflating... what is the yeast?
Physicist Patricia Burchat sheds light on two basic ingredients of our universe: dark matter and dark energy. Comprising 96% of the universe between them, they can't be directly measured, but their influence is immense.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
I am reading a .pdf online entitled The Unturned Stone By Harry Massey and Peter Fraser. This book is about the quantum electromagnetic body field and how it relates to healing.
Nonlocal Information Transfer
For many of the phenomena we have discussed in Section A and in the above examples from the natural world to be possible, instantaneous communication at a distance must take place. A great deal of recent work in physics has shown that this "nonlocal" transfer of information is possible. Simply put, "nonlocal" means that information can somehow be transmitted across space, and time, without any known mechanism (because it must happen faster than the speed of light, which is supposed to the upper limit of motion).
The question of faster-than-light communication really began to be answered when Einstein questioned the fundamental principles of quantum theory in the 1930s. He believed that the quantum theory developed by Bohr and others, now the accepted way of viewing quantum theory, was incomplete and would be improved upon in the future. Along with Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, in 1935 Einstein proposed a thought experiment that became known as the EPR paradox (after the initials of the three scientists). This questioned quantum theory as it stood and suggested that it implied either action-at-a-distance or faster than light information transfer, both of which these scientists believed to be impossible.
This paradox was neglected for many years, until in 1982 a remarkable experiment was performed in Paris by a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect. This ingenious experiment was based on the EPR paradox and an inequality principle derived by John Bell. The results of this experiment clearly showed that subatomic particles that are far apart are able to "communicate" (in the sense that information about one immediately gave you information about the other, even when the particles were at opposite ends of the universe) in ways that cannot be explained by the transfer of physical signals traveling at, or slower than, the speed of light. Many physicists, including David Bohm, regarded these "nonlocal" connections as absolutely instantaneous.
Bohm and his research student, Yakir Aharonov, had performed an experiment previously in 1959 that supported this view. Now described as the Bohm-Aharonov (AB) effect, they found that in certain circumstances, electrons are able to "feel" the presence of a nearby magnetic field, even though they are travelling in regions of space where the field strength is zero. This is another example of quantum interconnectedness and led Bohm on to his theories regarding implicate order in the world and, by extension, the biological systems present in it.
Another supporter of the implicate order in nature is Benoit Mandelbrot, a professor in mathematics at Yale University. He is largely responsible for the rise in interest in fractal geometry and has shown that fractals are present almost universally in nature. These mathematical functions occur in physics in the description of the extraordinarily complex behaviour of some simple physical systems like the forced pendulum and at the foundations of what is now known as chaotic systems. They also occur in physiology in the growth of mammalian cells, and the differences in broccoli and cauliflower heads can be exactly characterised by fractal theory.
A more recent experiment into quantum entanglement, carried out in 2003, shows that this is still a popular research area. It was reported in June 2003 in New Scientist that researchers in Austria, led by Marcus Aspelmeyer, had successfully sent entangled photons across the river Danube without the use of optical fibres. Quantum entanglement is a property that allows two particles to behave as one, no matter how far apart they are. Measuring the state of one particle instantaneously determines the state of the other, just as proposed in the EPR paradox and validated in the Aspect experiment. Therefore, highly complex scientific evidence is mounting in support of the quantum interconnectedness of the universe.
Following Verdi's 1884 efforts to insitutitionalize A=432 in Italy, a British-dominated conference in Vienna in 1885 ruled that no such pitch could be standardized. The French, the New York Metropolitan Opera, and many theatres in Europe and the U.S., continued to maintain their A at 432-435, until World War II.
You got me curious. Have you got a source for that statement? or a source for the quote you quoted?
Originally posted by B.Morrison
Following Verdi's 1884 efforts to insitutitionalize A=432 in Italy, a British-dominated conference in Vienna in 1885 ruled that no such pitch could be standardized. The French, the New York Metropolitan Opera, and many theatres in Europe and the U.S., continued to maintain their A at 432-435, until World War II.
the 430 is mentioned as used by mozart & the ONLY pitch that old german instruments can be tuned to.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
You poor dear . . .
Originally posted by B.Morrison
Sorry maryrose I know its a little off topic, but earlier buddhasystem commented on the verdi scientific pitch being C=256 & A=430, also commenting that he (?) found the info from my own source link. I went on to then correct this apparent error of mine in my own research thread. until today when I rediscover that I was correct about 432 anyway.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
. . . the search for a grand unified field theory.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
You got me curious. Have you got a source for that statement? or a source for the quote you quoted?
Originally posted by B.Morrison
Following Verdi's 1884 efforts to insitutitionalize A=432 in Italy, a British-dominated conference in Vienna in 1885 ruled that no such pitch could be standardized. The French, the New York Metropolitan Opera, and many theatres in Europe and the U.S., continued to maintain their A at 432-435, until World War II.
the 430 is mentioned as used by mozart & the ONLY pitch that old german instruments can be tuned to.
I know of a few instruments that can't be easily tuned, but I thought most of them could be tuned to 430 just as easily as they could be tuned to 432 Hz? But if you have a source that says otherwise I'd like to read it, I may learn something. I'm no expert in old German instruments.
Originally posted by B.Morrison
here you go..
As Pitch in Opera rises, so does debate..
Originally posted by Mary Rose
The Unturned Stone By Harry Massey and Peter Fraser.
Nonlocal Information Transfer
. . . Einstein questioned the fundamental principles of quantum theory in the 1930s. He believed that the quantum theory developed by Bohr and others, now the accepted way of viewing quantum theory, was incomplete and would be improved upon in the future. . . . Therefore, highly complex scientific evidence is mounting in support of the quantum interconnectedness of the universe.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
Originally posted by Mary Rose
The Unturned Stone By Harry Massey and Peter Fraser.
Nonlocal Information Transfer
. . . Einstein questioned the fundamental principles of quantum theory in the 1930s. He believed that the quantum theory developed by Bohr and others, now the accepted way of viewing quantum theory, was incomplete and would be improved upon in the future. . . . Therefore, highly complex scientific evidence is mounting in support of the quantum interconnectedness of the universe.
Is there agreement that there is mounting scientific support for the quantum interconnectedness of the universe?
Is there agreement that there is mounting scientific support for the quantum interconnectedness of the universe?
The controversy surrounding this topic comes in once you consider the ramifications of this result. Normally under the Copenhagen interpretation, the state a particle occupies is determined the moment the state is measured. However, in an entangled pair when the first particle is measured, the state of the other is known at the same time without measurement, regardless of the separation of the two particles. This knowledge of the second particle's state is at the heart of the debate. If the distance between particles is large enough, information or influence might be traveling faster than the speed of light which violates the principle of special relativity. One experiment that is in agreement with the effect of entanglement "traveling faster than light" was performed in 2008. the experiment found the "speed" of quantum entanglement has a minimum lower bound of 10,000 times the speed of light.[5]