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[4] viXra:2501.0174 [pdf] submitted on 2025-01-31 10:59:19
Authors: Moninder Singh Modgil
Comments: 5 Pages.
We discuss "Quantum Gravity in the rotating Godel universe", It can be shown that notion of causality in Godel universe is actually consistent with implications of the EPR paradox, its implications of which has been experimentally verified. If time is cyclic with eternal existence of civilized humans, then provided a catastrophe, which breaks the continuity of evolution of human knowledge, does not occur, then the quantum gravity Godel universe must be the best description of our universe. So, the human knowledge changes cyclically in identical time Cycles.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[3] viXra:2501.0135 [pdf] submitted on 2025-01-26 01:11:29
Authors: Tariq Khan
Comments: 5 Pages.
A short speculative essay on possible optimal new strategies to search for evidence of present or past extraterrestrial civilizations i.e., a SETI redux. Black holes are considered the most likely location in the heavens as exotic space-time features may provide hypercomputation resources for advanced intelligence civilizations. DNA is considered as a possible area of research for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence on our planet.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[2] viXra:2501.0070 [pdf] submitted on 2025-01-11 22:46:54
Authors: Paul Caracristi
Comments: 3 Pages.
Modern fields of study often progress through detailed explorations of foundational conceptual models. However, as these fields delve into increasing levels of intricate detail, contradictions and difficulties in further advancement can emerge. This phenomenon suggests a need to periodically simplify and reconstruct foundational conceptual models to maintain a sense of coherence and relevance, to stimulate a sense of positive progression in the subject field. This paper argues that such reconstruction is crucial in all reductionist subjects such as physics. In an attempt to provide an example, the paper on the "Temporal Cavitation Model of Cosmology" is proposed as a case study. By examining the dynamic relationship between ‘content and context’ across various disciplines, we demonstrate that their interplay is essential for the evolution of knowledge and the resolution of fundamental challenges.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
[1] viXra:2501.0050 [pdf] submitted on 2025-01-09 20:12:38
Authors: Jasmine Elmrabti
Comments: 18 Pages. Accepted to and presented at the Journal of the Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at New York University, April 2024.
A fundamentally timeless world implied by quantum gravity threatens a recent model offered for mechanistically justified phenomenological laws described by Gabriel Siegel and C. Craver. The criteria for these laws appear to collapse when met with thermal time, a physical theory compatible with weak timelessness. I argue that this collapse hinges on the theory of emergence used to define mechanistic explanation under thermal time. Two cases of emergence are examined——one reductionist, one pluralist——revealing that both erase the distinction between etiological and relevant constitutive explanation. However, only the reductionist perspective diminishes the explanatory power of phenomenological laws as determined by Siegel and Craver. The other preserves this power. I examine the intersection between interventionist mechanism, timelessness, and emergence within the authors’ framework to support these conclusions by performing a thought experiment using propositional logic and set theory. This analysis discusses the implications of timelessness, principally its threat to mechanistically justified phenomenological laws and how its emergence shapes the sufficiency of mechanistic explanations.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics
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