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[4] viXra:2308.0181 [pdf] replaced on 2025-05-16 22:46:21
Authors: Tariq Khan
Comments: 4 Pages.
A short and informal essay considering the significance of music or musical melodies. Music is considered as being equivalent to a fundamental encoding of change in a digital universe. Consciousness is also proposed as being what it feels like to have dopamine levels change in an organic brain. Consciousness is considered as emergent from an agent with sufficient memory and context or a threshold of a vast number of associations in memory. Memory is, thus, noted as existentially primordial and required for any change or consciousness. Music is proposed as possibly being the boot code for any experience.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[3] viXra:2308.0111 [pdf] submitted on 2023-08-17 22:44:09
Authors: Alan M. Kadin
Comments: 9 Pages. Submitted to Foundational Questions Institute (FQXI) Essay Context, March 2023
Everyone knows that the Naz[i]s hated Einstein and relativity. I argue that this hostility had aprofound influence on the development of quantum mechanics in the 1930s, and how it wastaught. Specifically, de Broglie showed that quantum waves derived from special relativity, butpolitical pressures forced German physicists to hide this close connection in the first textbooks.Furthermore, Einstein’s objections to aspects of quantum theory (such as entanglement) wereignored. This led to a split in the foundations of physics that has continued to the present,between relativity on the one hand, and quantum theory on the other. It is past time to reunifyphysics, by reimagining how "quantum relativity" would have developed without the influenceof the Nazis. This may have important implications for the future of physics, particularlyregarding quantum computing.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[2] viXra:2308.0094 [pdf] submitted on 2023-08-14 20:43:10
Authors: Robert T. Longo
Comments: 23 Pages.
The story I wish to tell in this work starts with Newton's mathematical time, which is not a true definition of time but only its measure. It leaves out a deeper understanding of the true nature of time. When applying physics to the broader universe, numerous anomalies appear. One change in the definition of time, and these anomalies, galaxy rotation, dark matter, electric and magnetic properties, the speed of light, Hubble's law, dark energy, the Big Bang, the CMB, and the Pioneer anomaly all disappear, while physical theories are left unchanged.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[1] viXra:2308.0093 [pdf] submitted on 2023-08-14 20:36:47
Authors: Georgina Woodward
Comments: 11 Pages.
Consideration of the problem of ambiguous meaning of the word ‘reality’. Clarifying what is being modeled by currently mainstream physics and highlighting what is missing. The way in which sensory awareness is driven by receipt of sensory stimuli is discussed. As well as showing that sensory stimuli exist in the environment, and can be detected (as objective evidence). A reason for the constant speed of ‘light‘ in a vacuum is given. It is proposed that disturbance of the medium filling ‘empty’ space can account for magnetism, effects of electric fields, electrostatic forces, electromagnetism and effect of gravity on matter. Discussion relevant to General Relativity follow. Observer independent passage of time and non simultaneity are considered. Problems in Quantum physics are identified; the relativity (‘seen this way’) nature of measurement, measurement changing the condition of the measured, missing object permanence, vulnerability to illusion, the model of ‘light’ currently used functions to account for result but is probably not correct i.e. does not correspond to observer independent reality The alternative, singular divisible environmental wave and ‘solid-like’ particle, is given as an explanation of curious quantum behaviour. Finally hydrodynamic analogs are mentioned.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
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