"The representation of matter by a tensor was only a fill-in to make it possible to do something temporarily, a wooden nose in a snowman."

Albert Einstein's Last Lecture, Relativity Seminar, Room 307, Palmer Physical Laboratory, Princeton University, April 14, 1954


"In the first place, we entirely shun the vague word "space," of which, we must honestly acknowledge, we cannot form the slightest conception."

Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory, 1920
 

"According to the general theory of relativity space is endowed with physical qualities; in this sense, therefore, there exists an ether. But this ether may not be thought of as endowed with the quality characteristic of ponderable media, as consisting of parts which may be tracked through time."

A. Einstein, Äther und Relativitätstheorie, May 5, 1920

(Lisa M. Dolling et al., The Tests of Time: Readings in the Development of Physical Theory, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2003, p. 346)

 

 

Panta rei conditio sine qua non est

Your Global Time is ZERO

It is suggested that the spacetime manifold is a dynamical entity re-created at every step of a hypothetical spacetime arrow; the latter is due to the "expansion" of space by the dynamic dark energy (DDE). Two modes of spacetime are postulated in this Phoenix Universe: local mode, in which we have point-like events cast on a perfect continuum, with a "carpe diem" unit probability (cf. the measurement problem in QM here), and a global atemporal mode, in which a Machian-type negotiation of every next step is being processed. The effects from the global mode of spacetime, which literally build up '3-D space', begin from the macro-scale of classical physics in two "horizontal directions": quantum effects toward the Small, and dark matter & dark energy effects toward the Large. Briefly, we model the universe as a huge brain which 'thinks' with its global-mode state by following the rule 'think globally, act locally'. The implications for quantum gravity are explained by revealing the two modes of spacetime in Quantum Theory and General Relativity, and by suggesting conceptual solutions to the problems and paradoxes hindering the quantum gravity of He Who Does Not Play Dice.

 

Regarding Quantum Mechanics (QM), the aim is to avoid the incomprehensible paradoxes and artifacts in it (watch the double slit experiment here), which originate from its textbook interpretation (Niels Borh's belief that quantum world can only be "seen" through classical "glasses"). We can indeed understand the quantum world (but not the current QM textbooks; cf. Richard Feynman), by changing the "glasses" through which we "see" and construe the quantum world: the universe modeled as a brain.

Regarding the artifacts in QM, we may be in a situation similar to an Eskimo trying very hard to comprehend the notion of "trunk". In our case, we encounter an incomprehensible wave-particle complementarity, which could be just an artifact from our wrong thinking, like the "nose-arm complementarity" in the case of the Eskimo observing elephant's trunk. Surely 'the quantum system' doesn't live in any relativistic space, so one should expect all sorts of headaches and artifacts (e.g., "diese verdammte Quantenspringerei", Erwin Schrödinger) from imposing wrong "glasses" onto the quantum world 'out there'. (A typical example is Franco Selleri's quest for detecting de Broglie waves.)

The prerequisites for the interpretation of QM suggested here originate from Schrödinger. Back in 1935, Erwin Schrödinger stressed the following:

"The rejection of realism has logical consequences. In general, a variable has no definite value before I measure it; then measuring it does not mean ascertaining the value that it has."

And in a letter to Einstein dated 18 November 1950 (quoted after J. Bub, p. 115), he wrote (emphasis added):

“It seems to me that the concept of probability is terribly mishandled these days. Probability surely has as its substance a statement as to whether something is or is not the case — an uncertain statement, to be sure. But nevertheless it has meaning only if one is indeed convinced that the something in question quite definitely is or is not the case. A probabilistic assertion presupposes the full reality of its subject.”

We are obviously dealing with a new form of reality: a probabilistic assertion, and the Hilbert space itself, cannot accommodate the Kochen-Specker case in which "the something in question" is beyond an unequivocal "is or is not" state (cf. "an unequivocal true-false value" in Isham and Butterfield, p. 3; emphasis added):

Check out the implications of KS Theorem to the Precise Value Principle (PVP) and the statistical interpretation of QM from R.I.G. Hughes, p. 164.

Going back to Ernst Specker's tripod, if there are states of the tripod in which one of its legs has UNdecidable color, then not just this particular leg, but the whole tripod will be UNdecidable. It's a package.

The phrase "an incomplete Kochen-Specker colouring" (Helena Granström, p. 2) has no meaning whatsoever; it is the result from imposing wrong "glasses" onto the quantum world. And if you subscribe to the modern quantum mysticism -- "the quantum state is not a physical object, it is a representation of our state of knowledge, or belief" (Itamar Pitowsky, p. 28) -- your brain will wind up in a schizophrenic state of, say, 68% "knowledge" of the quantum state, and 32% of "[what da heck is that uncolored KS sphere?]".

No mental concepts, such as 'knowledge' or 'imagination', are admissible in the ontology of quantum reality. We must never mix apples with oranges (Res Extensa and Res Cogitans).

Karl Svozil refers to this UNdecidable faculty of the quantum world as "ambiguity" (p. 4), and stressed: "This ambiguity gets worse as the number of particles increases." If you think about the quantum world with classical concepts, it will get from bad to worse, until you end up with the (old) cosmological "constant" problem (more on that from Alan Guth).

As Erwin Schrödinger might have said in 1935, the same "variable" that has had no definite value before you measured it will continue to keep its UNdecidable nature after you "measure" it as well. And you can't fit it in any Hilbert space, of course (what is the dim(H) for 32% "uncolored" and 68% colored KS sphere?).

Let's give it a name: potential reality. In the quantum realm, it (i) offers its context-dependent explications (a.k.a. "observables"), (ii) keeps the sameness (Genidentität, Kurt Lewin) of particles of the same type, which MTW regard as "a central mystery of physics" (p. 1215), and (iii) facilitates the ultimate quantum phenomenon: entanglement. It may be difficult to grasp, but is much simpler to the juggling with the possible implications from Bell's inequality and their loopholes (e.g., Ghim and Zhang).

As to quantum gravity (notice the opinion of an expert here), the 'potential reality' is introduced to revive the physical objectivity of spacetime "points", by making the spacetime manifold itself an emergent phenomenon: "The requirement of general covariance takes away from space and time the last remnant of physical objectivity" (Albert Einstein, Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, Annalen der Physik 49 (1916) 769-822). The current formulation of GR can only determine "the mutual relations that exist between the gravitational field and the matter fields (i.e. the value the gravitational field takes where the matter field takes such and such value)", but not "the proper time between spacetime points" (Wiki; more from Butterfield and Isham), and the field equations "cannot even uniquely determine the topology of a manifold" (Alan Macdonald, Einstein's Hole Argument, p. 4).

How can we fix these problems? By introducing two connections, geometric (local mode) and torsion (global mode of spacetime). The torsion connection is completely vanished (Hehl and Obukhov) in the local mode, hence its effect are considered "dark" (see Alex Murphy).

Notice also that a hierarchy of 'potential reality' (never in plural), resembling the structure of cognitive concepts, is postulated (application here). In metaphysical terms, it supports the views of Aristotle and Spinoza: no "parts" of the infinite can exist, as the infinite Substance is indivisible. It's not like Russian dolls.

In the case of a human brain (not mind or consciousness), the UNspeakable potential reality can be explicated with, for example, three (and many more) sayings, which produce "measurements" (if you prefer QM jargon) on it:

1. All are not hunters that blow the horn.
2. La robe ne fait pas le médecin.
3. Es ist nicht jeder ein Koch, der ein lang Messer trägt.

None of these "measurements" can "collapse" the potential reality (Platonic idea) explicated with these sayings. And if our brain can work with 'potential reality', so can the universe modeled as a brain.

Regarding the brain above your neck: its 'potential reality' is to its human self what EM radiation is to your subjective experience of 'color' -- no direct action of the human self on its brain is allowed in science. Hence it may be conceivable that the potential reality entwined with the human brain could be bridged to that of the quantum vacuum (BCCP). All you may need is an arrow of spacetime. (Notice, however, the 'two rules of success' here.)

Notice also that 'potential reality' is an intrinsically holistic phenomenon, so it will be very misleading to call it "dark", just because it is not possible to be traced back from any of its physical explications in the r.h.s. of Einstein field equation.

Forget about "energy conservation in GR". It's an oxymoron. We need quantum gravity, to uncover "the proper time [tau] along spacetime trajectories" (Carlo Rovelli; drawings here) and the genuine 'time variable' associated with the expansion of space due to DDE. Once we achieve this formidable task, we will (hopefully) find out what -- if anything -- might remain unchanged/conserved in this particular (global mode of) time. In the current 'GR without DDE', the dynamics is "entirely generated by constraints. The dynamical data do not explicitly include a time variable" (Karel Kuchar), and one can only hope that "the energy momentum tensor which is the source of gravity" might be conserved "due to the Bianchi identities" (E. Guendelman, p. 9). Such hopes are (i) utterly murky even in the textbook GR, because any observable of the gravitational field is "necessarily quasi-local" (Laszlo Szabados) and (ii) not applicable to the new dynamics of GR due to DDE. For example, Noether's Theorem holds only for flat spacetime, and the Bianchi identities are applicable only for 'GR without DDE'.

At this point, I got an emotional response from Eduardo Guendelman, saying that the Bianchi identity is a mathematical theorem, so there is no ambiguity involved here. Well, I'm just a psychologist, so let me quote Matt Visser, p. 3:

"... the Einstein equations of general relativity are local equations, relating some aspects (notice the poetry -- D.C.) of the spacetime curvature at a point to the presence of stress-energy at that point. Additionally, one also has local chronology protection, inherited from the fact (Sic! -- D.C.) that the spacetime is locally Minkowski (the Einstein Equivalence Principle), and so “in the small”  (that's the sole application of those 'twice-contracted Bianchi identities', cf. George F R Ellis and Henk van Elst, Eq. 2 -- D.C.)  general relativity respects all of the causality constraints of special relativity.

"What general relativity does not do is to provide any natural way of imposing global constraints on the spacetime — certainly the Einstein equations provide no such nonlocal constraint."

Which is precisely the missing element needed to address the 'global properties of spacetime' in the presence of DDE. As R. Rakhi and K. Indulekha acknowledged (p. 5): "Because this energy is a property of space itself, it would not be diluted as space expands. As more space comes into existence (the same phrase was used by Sean Carroll -- D.C.), more of this energy-of-space would appear. (...) So the mystery continues."

And so does the confusion about it -- click here.

The intrinsic dynamics of the phenomenon of 'more space comes into existence' could only be detected in a reference frame from which this phenomenon is excluded, like 'not acting there'. But because DDE acts on the whole 3-D space en bloc, without any irregularities, there is no place in the universe in which we could install a clock and say -- look, this clock does read the (global mode of) time pertaining to the omnipresent phenomenon of 'more space comes into existence'. It is the theory of relativity itself, which cannot "detect" it. Which is why some people call it "dark".

Although the mathematical meaning of the phrase "more space comes into existence" is not clear, I don't think Kurt Gödel would have called the ultimate source of spacetime points "dark". Once we move from physics to geometry, it's a whole new world there. Pity Mike Turner called it "dark"; that's so wrong!

One cannot insert the "dark" energy of  X  into its consequence -- accelerated expansion of space. The source  X  does not belong, and cannot be fitted into the same 3-D space (Cauchy hypersurface) which is being created by  X . You can do this only in GR textbooks that deal with 'GR without DDE'. Capiche?

Notice also that Matt Visser (see above) considers the metaphysical assumption that the spacetime were "locally Minkowski (the Einstein Equivalence Principle)" to represent a fact. But we only have a mathematical fact that  locally , "over" a point, one can indeed eliminate the gravitational "field" by hand (Hermann Weyl). But because nobody has so far explained the resulting quasi-local nature of the gravitational field's observables (see Laszlo Szabados above), nor the origin and the mechanism of inertial reaction "forces", I think we should be very cautious and open-minded in interpreting such mathematical facts and theorems, like the above-mentioned Bianchi identity.

If you are looking for a genuine quantum-gravitational measuring device, your wristwatch (as well as the one of Kip Thorne) fits the bill, because it reads an already-linearized (see the explanation of 'already' below) time variable obtained from the "the proper time [tau] along spacetime trajectories" (Carlo Rovelli) and the (global mode of) time associated with the expansion of space due to DDE.

This is to me the ultimate puzzle in present-day GR. The sole "explanation" of Chris Isham was that, "after all, general relativity does seem to work well as a theory, and yet I can certainly read the time on my wrist watch!"

I will desist to comment on C. Isham's observation, and will instead take the liberty of being (again) deadly boring, by explaining the difference between 'GR without DDE' vs 'GR with DDE'.

First, a simple example from STR, with a trajectory of a Frisbee, on the fixed background of Minkowski spacetime: we can calculate the instantaneous state of the Frisbee at each point from the trajectory, and attach to this dimensionless point a well-defined vector. My teenage daughter couldn't understanding how it is possible to attach a vector to a "point", and I explained the puzzle by saying that the information from a finite interval from the history of this infinitesimal "point" is encapsulated in it -- we instruct this interval to shrink asymptotically toward zero -- so the vector is indeed well-defined. All this is possible under the premise of the fixed "grid" in STR. But once we move to 'GR without DDE', the "grid" is gone (Emilio Elizalde): at each and every "point" from the trajectory, the non-linear mutual determination of matter and space (John Wheeler) takes place. But in what time (see Chris Isham's wrist watch above)? There is no background grid or "ether" w.r.t.w. one can define the dynamics of 'GR without DDE'. Yet people don't ask such questions and prefer to just do calculations with the linearized approximation of 'GR without DDE'. As another expert explained to his undergraduates, "one begins by introducing the notion of a tangent vector to describe an infinitesimal displacement about a point  p " (Bob Wald, p. 4). But again, in order to recover the true dynamics of 'GR without DDE', you need some "ether" or rather 'reference fluid' w.r.t.w. one can describe the fundamental phenomenon of transience (Abner Shimony): see the so-called Aristotelian Connection here.

At this point, the 'GR with DDE' comes to rescue the Hamiltonian formulation of 'GR without DDE': we have a brand new, global degree of freedom of spacetime en bloc, hence can recover the transience of spacetime, as driven by the source of DDE, along the arrow of spacetime -- see above.

To identify this same source in the quantum realm (called 'potential reality'), let's go back to the interpretation of QM here.

In a nutshell, the so-called PR² interpretation of QM offers a solution to the non-unitary "collapse" by replacing the alleged "U" and "R" processes with a new (at least to people like Ed Witten, Steven Weinberg and Gerardus 't Hooft) form of reality, known since Plato, called here 'potential reality'. Its quantum presentation is ubiquitous and has zero entropy; hence the familiar notion of time, which pertains to monotonic increase of entropy "in time", is not applicable to 'potential reality'. It may produce "shadows" in terms of 'quantum observables', yet these "shadows" cannot be traced back, to reveal any evidence of such events (or "quantum information") ever having emerged from 'potential reality'. It may act, yet not experience any backaction from its "shadows". Hence it is the ultimate "background" for QM and GR. It evolves along the arrow of spacetime (resembling the "memory" of the universe), by unfolding from 'the ideal monad without windows'. In the local mode of spacetime, every "point" is filled with an already explicated value of its 'potential reality', and as the latter evolves and becomes enriched, the "number" of its localized explications increases accordingly: more and more things come into existence in the universe. As John Wheeler put it, "Time is Nature's way to keep everything from happening all at once". Only with 'potential reality' there is no need nor place for any 'unitary dynamics' in the local mode of spacetime. This is the metaphysics of 'the universe modeled as a brain', viz. the interpretation of 'expansion of space' along the arrow of spacetime.

From this perspective, if we follow the deflation time arrow in the local mode of spacetime, things will gradually fade away in a strictly non-unitary fashion, but will only approach asymptotically The Beginning, because it is logically impossible to reach It from/within the local mode of spacetime (cf. the paradox here). The solution is 'dual age cosmology'.

As M. Gell-Mann and J. B. Hartle have noticed, "quantum mechanics is best and most fundamentally understood in the framework of quantum cosmology" (quoted after Claus Kiefer, p. 1). And vice versa.

The current situation with inflationary cosmology was presented by Alan H. Guth, the winner of the 2009 Isaac Newton medal, on 13 October 2009. He speculated that our galaxy could be an amplified "quantum fluctuation" (Part 2, 3:30 - 6:16),

 

... and then confessed his "Nightmare of Dark Energy" (Part 2, 11:36), on which the "eureka" of inflationary cosmology is grounded.

Perhaps Alan Guth should have entitled his talk 'The Dark Energy Nightmares of Inflationary Cosmology', as encapsulated in the [?] area in V. Mukhanov's paper:

With the so-called dual age cosmology, the "first" Plankian time "after" The Beginning is stretched toward infinity in the local mode of time. This is otherwise being explained as 'the universe started asymptotically from time zero'. In this local mode of time (read by your wristwatch), the universe is effectively eternal and its age is indecisive, while in the global mode of time it has a finite age. Another nice feature of dual age cosmology is that The Beginning is an atemporal phenomenon, and is always present (global mode of time) in the instant 'now'.

Let's go back to QM. Think of a trajectory of a Frisbee: at each "point" from the trajectory (the latter could be a perfect continuum of such "points"), the state of the Frisbee is a perfectly well defined fact, with a 'carpe diem' unit probability. I use this simple idea to introduce a new kind of cancellation mechanism, pertinent to 'potential reality', for removing the non-unitary "R" process (historical account from October 2002 here); hence the motto of this web site, since July 1997: Dead matter makes quantum jumps; the living-and-quantum matter is smarter.

Notice that not only the "R" process is being removed (as did Hugh Everett III in his relative state interpretation of QM), but the alleged "U" process and Hilbert space as well.

The established theoretical physics community, particularly Niels Bohr, ridiculed Everett's interpretation to the extent to which Hugh Everett left physics (and became millionaire).

NB: Notice that if the PR² interpretation of QM is correct, then all tentative solutions proposed for the measurement problem and the classical limit of QM, based on either probabilistic or "toposification" (Chris Isham), ‘neo-realist’ interpretation of QM (Cecilia Flori, p. 211), will necessarily be wrong.

The next step is to elaborate on the continuum of such explicated quantum states (local mode of spacetime), which emerges from the back bone of the whole physical world (global mode). Here we enter quantum gravity, particularly the emergence of time and space from "something else" (Isham and Butterfield): check out the arrow of spacetime here, and think of 'the whole universe' as a huge brain which self-determines its consecutive quantum-gravitational states in line with the Bootstrap Principle of Geoffrey Chew. Also, the alleged quantum "fluctuations" are interpreted as flexibility of 'the quantum state' to offer potential states, one of which to be chosen (one by one) by 'everything else in the universe'. Hence the speculation about some "spacetime foam" and the insoluble problems from it (how do you tell apart spacelike from timelike at Planck scale?) are avoided from the outset. Possible practical implications are outlined here.

As in the case of Hugh Everett, many theoretical physicists jumped to play the role of Niels Bohr, chief among them was Britain's leading expert in quantum gravity, who declared seven years ago (Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:24:15 +0100):

"You do not know enough theoretical physics to help with any research in that area."

To the best of my knowledge, nobody has so far offered some new cancellation mechanism as a joint solution to the measurement problem of QM and the cosmological "constant" problems. Such cancellation mechanism is built in the UNdecidable quantum state (quantum presentation of Platonic ideas) from the outset: instead of dealing with some |alive cat> & |dead cat> from the "U" process, we encounter an UNdecidable 'cat per se', so if we happen to observe an 'alive cat' as a fact, with unit probability, the 'dead cat' will happily live undisturbed in 'the UNdecidable quantum state'. No "collapse" nor dead cat doppelgänger à la Everett are needed.

The animated cat above is very deceptive, because its "evolution" prior to the "collapse" seems fully deterministic. If you think about the quantum "evolution" of such superposed states in terms of 'energy eigenstates', notice the imaginary unit in S. Carroll's essay, Eq. 4: "all of the time evolution is encoded in the phases [XXX]" (ibid., p. 6). But how do you encode 'time evolution' in complex phases (Chen Ning Yang)? Recall that, after you "collapse" the cat, the alleged "time parameter" in the Schrödinger equation turns into some non-relativistic [you-name-it], but the equation itself doesn't say anything whatsoever about the nature of this "time parameter" prior to the "collapse", as introduced by hand (along with the Born rule) in QM textbooks.

To understand the origin of this whole mess, read the second sentence from the excerpt below (R.I.G. Hughes, The structure and interpretation of quantum mechanics, p. 77):

This "general principle", however, does not cover the case of UNdecidable, hence not-yet-physical, KS quantum state, as explained by R.I.G. Hughes here. One can hardly overestimate the enormous confusion from this huge blank spot in current QM textbooks -- just recall the ongoing quest for "quantum computing" and the alleged "decoherent histories" (J. Halliwell; cf. Franck Laloë, Sec. 6.4 and footnote 47 on p. 81).

All these problems are resolved in the PR² interpretation of QM from the outset. Moreover, the new cancellation mechanism is introduced to explain the ongoing, as-we-speak mechanism of 'the flatness problem' (asymptotically flat spacetime conjecture), producing an extremely precise balance between the two tug-of-war effects, CDM & DDE, of the geometry of spacetime at cosmological scales.

Otherwise we have to inject up to 96% "dark stuff" (with all sorts of "ghosts") into the current theoretical physics, as calculated under the assumption that 'potential reality' doesn't exist. As Evalyn Gates put it (p. 196), the detection of DDE was "like finding an elephant on top of a table impeccably set with the finest china and silver (...). We stare in shock at the uninvited guest and demand to know where the elephant came from -- and how it got into (the) room."

Regarding the arrow of spacetime: notice that the Frisbee-like sequence of explicated facts (local mode of spacetime) is inherently background-free, because the background (the reference fluid of GR and the UNdecidable quantum state) is 'not there', being placed  ]between[  the "points" of the continuum of the local mode of spacetime. In other words, the "dark gaps" of the global mode are not like the real gaps between the tiles in R. Penrose's bathroom: regardless of how small tiles you choose, if you decrease the size of the tiles in a Fibonacci sequence, you will never ever reach the "gaps" from/within the local mode of spacetime (more on Fibonacci here).

This proposal makes the local mode of spacetime a perfect 3-D continuum with dynamical topology of 'asymptotically flat spacetime'. The "dark" gaps of the postulated global mode of spacetime are completely sealed off  by the arrow of spacetime -- the mechanism by which the "dark" gaps of the global mode are made nonexistent in the local mode is the same that makes the "speed" of light a fundamental constant (and also hides the mirror tachyonic world). This renders the Schlaefli conjecture (L. Schlaefli, Ann. di Mat. 5 (1873) 170), as well as all "branes" and other multidimensional superstitions in GR and string hypotheses (Lisa Randall; see also A. Vilenkin below) redundant, to say the least.

In the context of GR, the global mode of spacetime is located "within" each and every point from spacelike hypersurfaces, as it "lives" exclusively on null hypersurfaces. (Unlike the geometry of spacelike hypersurfaces, the geometry of null hypersurfaces is not metric (D. C. Robinson), which leaves a challenging opportunity to introduce an additional, to the Christoffel connection, global torsion connection.) To be precise, the "duration" of the global mode, recorded with a physical clock (local mode), matches the "duration" of the atemporal "handshaking" transaction in Cramer's interpretation of QM: it has been already completed at each and every instant we "look" at it (see below).

Hence in the local mode of spacetime, the dimensionless GW amplitude is zero, nonexistent, zilch. (Another case of reining a dimensionless amplitude, the mythical "quantum computing", is examined here.)

Notice also that the hypothetical global mode of spacetime cannot be read by a physical clock (it will "stand still"). It is introduced to replace the "external time parameter" in H.-D. Zeh (p. 13) and the “auxiliary internal time” (cf. Macias and Quevedo, p. 8) by 'the reference fluid of GR'. The latter can "act" upon matter without being affected in turn by matter. In this unphysical "absolute" reference frame, an electromagnetic radiation field can indeed "stand still" (recall that EM radiation field cannot stand still with respect to any physical observer, Bahram Mashhoon, p. 14).

The next metaphysical idea is straightforward: 'time' does not originate from 'change in space' but from 'change of space'. Only if you have the latter (global mode), you may introduce the former, as 'time read by a clock' (local mode). Why? Because one cannot insert the "dark" energy of  X  into its consequence: accelerated expansion of space. The dynamics of 'the change of space' is defined relative to the "omnipresent ether  X " (global mode of spacetime). The latter is located "within" each and every point from the local mode of spacetime, and is wrapping the local mode by two (in fact, one) 'numerically finite but physically unattainable Aristotelian boundaries'.

All we can physically observe is that the local mode of spacetime is being 'acting upon itself'. Such self-action will of course look "dark" to all local sub-systems (see Alex Murphy).

Hence we can bridge QM and GR, and understand the origin of quantum and gravitational "waves": EPR-like correlations (global mode) will inevitably induce wave-like holomovement of physical stuff along the arrow of spacetime. Such wave-generation effects can be found in our brains and in many living organisms. Perhaps it determines the inertial reaction "forces" as well (don't bother to ask Criss Angel, he knows nothing about it).

Recall what William Kingdon Clifford claimed in his paper ‘On the Space-Theory of Matter’, presented to the Cambridge Philosophical Society on February 21, 1870 (quoted after Domenico Giulini, p. 2):

I believe Clifford's idea in (2), about "the manner of a wave", is amended here with the proposed origin of quantum-and-gravitational "waves": the continuous passage of "curved or distorted" from one point (not "portion", as in (1) above) to the next one is what the arrow of spacetime does on the perfect continuum of the local mode of spacetime (the "dark" gaps of the passage are being completely sealed off  by the arrow of spacetime).

But why 'arrow of spacetime'? Because our good old 3-D space is not like a huge static warehouse, in which we would notice some redshifted light from moving objects, receding from us in line with the Hubble Law (some balloon metaphors may be highly misleading). It is the other way around: distant galaxies are not "speeding up" with respect to us in some absolute static space, but the very metric of space is "expanding" (I firmly disapprove of this notion of "expansion", and have suggested the so-called 'scale relativity principle').

Hence the space itself is endowed with dynamics, but then we need some ether w.r.t.w. such 'global dynamics of 3-D space' can be formulated. Then the only possibility -- trust me, there is no other option -- is to place the omnipresent ether, as 'the source of the "dark" energy', in the global mode of spacetime. Otherwise you will have to define the dynamics of space w.r.t. itself, and will look like Baron Munchausen. That's why we need an arrow of spacetime, in my opinion (but notice the opinion of Chris Isham above).

NB: If this is the case chosen by Nature, then any approach to quantum gravity, based on the "splitting" of spacetime (Brett Bolen), will necessarily be wrong.

The speculations of Roger Penrose will necessarily be wrong as well: "The fuzzy idea of where and what is infinity was clarified and made more specific by the work of Penrose [45, 46] with the introduction of the conformal compactification (via the rescaling of the metric) of spacetime, whereby infinity was added as a boundary and brought into a finite spacetime region." (Ted Newman et al.)

Perhaps we may have to develop new mathematical theory of 'potential reality', such that the "state space" of Margenau's Onta (quantum presentation of Platonic ideas) would match the structure of cognitive concepts; notice that in the "cheating on 20 questions" the answer 'cloud' was explicated by a Baeysian learning rule (not the Born rule). For comparison, the categorification of Feynman diagrams requires "black boxes with many wires going in and many wires going out" (Baez and Lauda, p. 16), while in our case all wires are "instantaneously" (global mode of spacetime; see the Escher drawing below) keeping track of all virtual 'black boxes' as well (relational ontology), in order to dynamically adjust to the changing context of the game, until they jointly select the final, explicated 'black box': 'cloud' (see also the four dice here).

NB: In the local mode of spacetime, the "duration" of the total negotiation with 'everything else in the universe' (relational ontology) is zero. Hence a wave pattern is being created, without any source of these "waves" being present in the local mode, and a new form of retarded causality (biocausality; see below) can be postulated -- a revitalization of Leibnitz' harmonia praestabilita, Jung's Synchronicity, and Einstein's Überkausalität.

We definitely need mathematical theory of 'potential reality'. The task is highly non-trivial, but once we unravel the correct mathematical theory, the astonishing effectiveness of mathematics (Eugene Wigner) may drive us closer to the true quantum gravity of He Who Does Not Play Dice -- the world is not deterministic but flexible, and the 'chooser' of one possibility (one at a time) amongst infinitely many is 'the whole universe' in its state of ONE.

All I've been getting so far is either dark silence or insults (some of them really harsh).

Perhaps the situation will improve in 2010, after the sixth consecutive failure of LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) to detect GWs with the so-called "enhanced LIGO". GW energy transfer is fundamentally non-linear phenomenon (Hermann Bondi), but is wiped out with the "linearized approximation" adopted by LSC. Also, GW energy is intrinsically quasi-local, in the sense that GWs do not propagate exclusively "in one direction only" (“when the waves are all moving in the same direction”, cf. P.A.M. Dirac, Ch. 33, p. 64), as they also have a holistic global component (atemporal "handshake"), which covers the whole 3-D space en bloc.

LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that there are no bans whatsoever on the dipole radiation, simply because conservation of gravitational mass-energy and momentum, in a world dominated by an evolving cosmological "constant", is a wishful thinking. They fear to even mention the implications of DDE to their project, and have never tried to address the (old) cosmological "constant" problem, which inevitably occurs if you trust the unwarranted assumption that the "dark energy" from the quantum vacuum can only spring from Lorentz-invariant stuff with positive energy density.

Is it possible to detect some 'elementary shift' of the expanding metric -- the "intrinsic time interval associated to any timelike displacement", T. Jacobson, pp. 18-19 -- due to the omnipresent and perfectly smooth DDE? In what reference frame? Notice that you're dealing with some "fluid" that "has zero inertial mass! It can be accelerated with no cost, no effort" (B. Schutz, p. 255) and "provides an all-pervading energy density and negative pressure that are the same to all observers, at all places, and at all times in the history of any universe model, even the expanding ones." (p. 257)

Similar rhetoric questions apply to the dynamics of the metric, producing inflationary gravitational waves on the 3-D "balloon" hypersurface. It's a bundle.
 

Yet the same kind of waves, only much "weaker", are expected to be detected by LIGO (see below).

Forget it. There is no need for "precise calibration" of a dead turkey.

The insane efforts of LSC remind me of the old joke about a drunken man, who has lost his key somewhere in the dark, but is searching for it under the street lamp, simply because it is brighter there. Only LSC's "key" costs billions. Which is why I accused LSC members of aggressive professional negligence, and offered them to review my White Paper. They responded with dark silence, as usual.

Check out the communist censorship of Paul Ginsparg's "moderators" here.

Since all this points to the unknown dynamics of GR, consider this: similar to the case of particle-wave duality, the splitting the spacetime into two "components" is allowed for educational purposes only. In fact, we are dealing with one object, as stressed by Hermann Minkowski (recall again the elephant's trunk). Hence if you split the spacetime into two "components", and let one of them ('time read by a clock') to "evolve" with respect to the other one (3-D space) -- as Paul Dirac and ADM did in the misfortunate Hamiltonian formulation of GR -- you will end up with a dead frozen snapshot of the arrow of spacetime, in which all GW effects (the positivity of mass and its inertial reaction "force") have already been completed by the "instantaneous" non-linear Machian-type negotiation (global mode of spacetime; see the Escher drawing below) with 'everything else in the universe' (the so-called biocausality).

To explain "already", let me quote from Thomas E. Phipps, Should Mach's Principle be taken seriously? Speculations in Science and Technology, 1(5) 499-508 (1978), p. 504:

"Gravity is a different beast from radiation of any kind. Being mediated by virtual
particles, which may be considered to be kept permanently virtual by the physical
non-existence of gravity shields or absorbers, gravity can act (nonlocally) with infinite speed -- in effect, with precognition. That is exactly what it does, if Mach's principle has any substance. The fixed stars "know" the subway is going to jerk, because they have sent their virtual spies forward in time to find out about it."

The crux of the idea of biocausality is well-known. Back in 1953, Wolfgang Pauli suggested that the concept of finality ("the end (telos), that for which a thing is done", Aristotle, Physics 194b33) should be considered as a complement to causality in deterministic and statistical laws. The stipulation here is that Aristotle's effective cause & final cause determinate jointly the next state of all material constituents of the universe relationally, in line with the bootstrap principle 'think globally, act locally' (global mode of spacetime; see the Escher drawing below), but in the local mode the resulting biocausality is retarded, along the arrow of spacetime.

 

 

From this perspective, detecting GW effects requires "online" access to the global mode of spacetime, in which the dynamical determination of spacelike and timelike directions (hence Lorentzian metric) is being produced -- one-at-a-time, along the arrow of spacetime. In simple words, this means that the proper GW detectors must be endowed with the self-acting faculty of the human brain, to match the "interaction of spacetime with itself" (C. Kiefer, p. 2; cf. also J. G. Pereira et al., arXiv:0909.4408v1 [gr-qc], p. 10, Eq. 7.2).

As of today, nobody cares. Nobody.

I can take it. I'm psychologist, and don't need quantum gravity to practice PHI.

Why would a fish need a bicycle?

D. Chakalov
Thursday, 26 November 2009

 

 

[click the image to enter the web site]

 

 

Some history of the project outlined above. In January 1972, shortly after my demobilization from BG army (age 19, with the lowest possible rank), I decided to study psychology and "sort out" the physics of the human brain, to explain and eventually explore its amazing latent abilities. It took me sixteen years to realize that the task is unfeasible with the established Weltbild, and on 22 May 1988, at 23:45 local time, I decided to try the project 'the other way around', namely, to develop a model of the universe as a 'brain', such that there will be a natural explanation of the physics of the (small) brain from the outset. After many trials and errors, the first (relatively) encouraging evidence appeared in July 1998, but the project is still far from being completed. I am trying to find any weak points or inconsistencies in it, just as I would do with a brand new parachute, which I would have to put on ultimate test by jumping from a helicopter. I do like the unfolding of the whole project, since it seems to me that all pieces of 'the bridge' snap to their places effortlessly. Yet there is no room for contention, and I never go into the mood of 'chi si contenta gode' (a contented mind is a perpetual feast; he who contents himself, enjoys).

Hopefully, if we join our efforts and knowledge (included at the level of our collective unconsciousness, cf. Jungian Kollektives Unbewusstes), some day we may succeed.

Meanwhile, please keep in mind the prediction of Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics (1923): "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."

This web site is my feedback to all people, who are helping me, one way or another, with improving the theory. Feel free to download it (app. 11.8MB) from

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/PHI_info.zip

By unzipping PHI_info.zip, a new folder, !Einstein_PHI , will be created on your hard drive. Find there START.html.lnk and open it (it is linked to this front page (index.html) in the website folder).

If, for some reason, you believe we don't need new approach to quantum gravity, try to understand Sean Carroll's speculations (448 pages, January 2010):

"... wavefunctions appear to collapse in one direction of time but not the other is not an explanation for the arrow of time, but in fact a consequence of it. The low-entropy early universe was in something close to a pure state, which enabled countless "branchings" as it evolved into the future." Yet he acknowledged: "we can't, once again, define a conserved total energy in any reasonable way." Consequently, the main speculation of S. Carroll about some "low-entropy early universe" is just as unclear as is its gravitational energy which would evolve "into the future". (Also, there may be a critical low geometric entropy state of the 'extremely early' universe, which may blur the timelike and spacelike directions themselves, and turn them into some primordial quantum dough from which nothing could possibly "decohere", ever.) As one of his senior colleagues summarized, "the magnitude of the entropy of the universe as a function of time is a very interesting problem for cosmology, but to suggest that a law of physics depends on it is sheer nonsense."

... Alex Vilenkin's arXiv:0908.0721v1 ($63,000 FQXi Grant):

... Laura Mersini-Houghton's arXiv:0909.2330v1 [gr-qc] ($50,000 FQXi Grant):

"... when treated in a multiverse framework, fundamental time is directionless and consequently physical laws inherit its time-reversal symmetry. Despite that reversal symmetry is broken for the local time by the bubble nucleation, the bubble still inherits laws of physics at birth from the multiverse, without modification. Thus the emergent time’s arrow in the bubble does not affect the time-reversal symmetry imprinted onto the physical laws that the bubble inherits from birth in the multiverse. (...) An emerging time in the multiverse does not appear plausible since the emergence adds information on the multiverse that wasn’t there prior (... but we face the same kind of emergent non-unitary phenomenon with DDE -- an evolving cosmological "constant" that springs from the quantum vacuum - D.C.)."
 

... and the obstinate belief of Andrei Linde ($164,179 FQXi Grant):

"During the last 25 years a new scientific paradigm gradually emerged. (...) My main goal is to learn how to make scientific predictions in this complicated framework."

Sure enough, Andrei Linde tried to answer the first off question of how many universes are in the "multiverse" (arXiv:0910.1589v2):

Coincidently or not, his calculation matches the number of angels (mostly blond) that can fit on the head of a pin, as suggested by A. Linde's medieval colleagues.

If these people were here in the 21st century, I suppose they would gladly join LIGO Scientific Collaboration (see above), and speculate that, shortly after the "big bang", the whole universe was still small enough to fit on the head of a pin, with strong ripples of the spacetime metric (see their picture above). They would love to feel again like an 'absolute observer' with an absolute clock paired with an absolute measuring rod, to tell the dimensions of the universe and its current cosmological age, as read by their absolute wristwatch. But instead of arguing about angels (either blond or not), they would certainly prefer to measure the "ripples of the metric" (albeit very weak), which again can only be seen from the same standpoint of 'absolute observer'. Needless to say, they will easily publish tons of articles on "GW astronomy", and will ignore any alternative viewpoint on what can be "seen" by such absolute observer: nothing but "gauge-dependent" stuff.

That's how 'potential reality' is being camouflaged in present-day GR, simply because if it were possible to detect the source of DDE as 'gauge invariant observable', the omnipresent and perfectly smooth ether (the source of DDE) will be exposed to direct physical observations, as 'spacetime acting upon itself'.

Back in April 1986, Yakov Zel'dovich wrote in a letter the following (private communication): "Long time ago, there was a period of time during which there was still no time at all." Of course he was joking.

Yet the 'global mode of time', pertaining to potential reality, cannot be read by any physical clock, because the poor inanimate clock will read it as 'stand still' or "no time at all", as Yakov Zel'dovich put it. Maybe The Beginning, which lives in "no time at all", is always with us (dual age cosmology).

Anyway. Perhaps in the next twenty-five years a new paradigm will emerge: the universe modeled as a brain. The driving force of its arrow of spacetime cannot spring entirely and exclusively from the "brain" itself, which brings us to Virgil's statement: Mens agitat molem (The Aeneid, Ch. 6, 727).

In German, it reads: Der Geist bewegt die Materie. Physically, Der Geist may look like 'the ideal monad without windows'. However, no scientific predictions can be made about it, or else we will conflate religion with science. Thank God, this is impossible.

D. Chakalov
October 31, 2009

Subject: Pornography at the NSF and GW parapsychology
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:34:37 +0300
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Carlos <carlos@hotmail.com>
Cc: Beverly Berger <bberger@nsf.gov>,
Tom Carruthers <tcarruth@nsf.gov>,
Denise S Henry <dshenry@nsf.gov>,
Ramona Winkelbauer <rwinkelb@nsf.gov>,
Peggy Fischer <pfischer@nsf.gov>,
OIG <oig@nsf.gov>,
LSC Spokesperson <reitze@phys.ufl.edu>,
contact.lrr@livingreviews.org
[snip]

Dear Carlos,

> I forgot about these funny news : 75% of the people who work at the National
> Science Foundation (NSF) have been found to be surfing at Porno in the web

Here's the link:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/29/workers-porn-surfing-rampant-at-federal-agency/

I've been trying to contact NSF since July last year, but the only response I got so far was from Mr Berger (email printed below).

The forthcoming scandal about LIGO will be enormous:

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/Szabados.html#SBG

Nobody cares. NOBODY.

All the best,

Dimi
http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NB


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Re: LSC: Aggressive professional negligence
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:51:16 -0400
Message-ID:
<A74B5B2C42009044AD35C5490049DAE7011BA3A6@NSF-BE-01.ad.nsf.gov>
From: Berger, Beverly K. <bberger@nsf.gov>
To: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>

I will be on vacation until Sept. 8 and will have no email contact for
most of that time. If you cannot wait until I return, please contact
Denise Henry (dshenry@nsf.gov) .

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Note: At the age of 57, my hair is getting lily-white, and I may claim that it is sufficiently white to enjoy surfing at porno in the web, yet still sufficiently black to attract real blond girls. Likewise, LSC members deeply believe that GW strain, which might hit LIGO some day, would be sufficiently weak to be modeled with the linearized approximation of GR, yet sufficiently strong to be detected with the so-called Advanced LIGO (cf. J. G. Pereira et al., arXiv:0909.4408v1).

But LSC can't have their cake and eat it. As Hermann Weyl demonstrated in 1944 (Hermann Weyl, How Far Can One Get With a Linear Field Theory of Gravitation in Flat Space-Time? American Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Oct., 1944), pp. 591-604), the linearized approximation of GR is "a shadow without power".

Notice that LSC cannot describe smooth bi-directional transitions from strong GWs to very weak GWs, as they approach asymptotically their sudden death at the stage of "a shadow without power". Joshua Goldberg is manifestly silent on this crucial problem, and Kip Thorne didn't even mention Hermann Weyl's article in his lecture "Gravitational waves in flat spacetime". Instead, he tried to defend the so-called "invariance angle" of LIGO's arms with an article by Eugene Winger, which he has read as a student "around 1960". Just look at the L-shaped tunnels of LIGO: isn't this 'graviton parapsychology'?

The persistent "evolution" of the beliefs of LSC members is really amazing. Back in 1981 (cf. Daniel Kennefick, p. 1), Kip Thorne had no difficulty in "finding a taker for a wager that gravitational waves would be detected by the end of the last century. The wager was made with the astronomer Jeremiah Ostriker, one of the better-known critics of the large detectors then being proposed. Thorne was one of the chief movers behind the largest of the new detector projects, the half-billion-dollar Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, or LIGO. He lost the bet, of course."

Now LSC members are effectively saying 'just gives us a couple of billion dollars more, and we gonna make it'. Exactly how much more? The Advanced LIGO Cost Estimating Plan (M990310-05.pdf, updated 05.27.2003) is here, but is hidden to 'mass society' taxpayers.

Notice that LSC have already prepared 'Plan B', in case they fail miserably again. In their latest "science white paper", submitted to the Astro2010 Decadal Survey (Bernard F. Schutz et al., arXiv:0903.0100v1 [gr-qc], p. 3), they wrote:

"It is worth reminding ourselves why and where GR might fail." (...) "Any such failure of GR should point the way to new physics."

Once the "Advanced LIGO" fails in 2015, they will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's GR with their "way to new physics", claiming that their total failure is actually of fundamental importance, like the negative result for the ether drift in the experiment of Michelson and Morley ... but with just a few billion dollars more for LISA and Einstein Telescope, everything will be just right.

Are NSF officials going to risk a devastating embarrassment from their blind support of GW parapsychology?
 

D. Chakalov
October 2, 2009
Last update: October 26, 2009

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Subject: STOP wasting taxpayers' money !
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:20:21 +0100
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Roger Blandford <rdb3@stanford.edu>
Cc: Lynne Hillenbrand <lah@astro.caltech.edu>,
Donald C Shapero <dshapero@nas.edu>,
Caryn Knutsen <astro2010@nas.edu>,
bpa@nas.edu,
Tom Prince <prince@srl.caltech.edu>

Roger:

I do hope my preceding email messages have been safely received.

I wonder if you have discussed my objections to LIGO funding at your latest meeting

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/BPA/BPA_049810#statement

Keep in mind that the forthcoming scandal about LIGO will be enormous:

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/Szabados.html#SBG

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NSF

Just don't keep quiet, and don't ever say you knew nothing about it.

Sincerely,

D. Chakalov
35 Sutherland St
London SW1V 4JU, U.K.

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Subject: Astro2010 Survey Committee Meeting, January 25-27, 2010
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:43:57 +0300
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Martha Haynes <haynes@astro.cornell.edu>,
Fiona Harrison <fiona@srl.caltech.edu>,
Marcia J Rieke <mrieke@as.arizona.edu>,
Lynne Hillenbrand <lah@astro.caltech.edu>,
Caryn Knutsen <astro2010@nas.edu>,
Lars Bildsten <bildsten@kitp.ucsb.edu>,
John Carlstrom <jc@ddjob.uchicago.edu>,
Timothy Heckman <heckman@pha.jhu.edu>,
Jonathan Lunine <lunine@physics.arizona.edu>,
Juri Toomre <jtoomre@jila.colorado.edu>,
Scott Tremaine <tremaine@ias.edu>,
John Huchra <huchra@cfa.harvard.edu>,
Donald C Shapero <dshapero@nas.edu>,
Roger Blandford <rdb3@stanford.edu>
Cc: Paulett C Liewer <Paulett.C.Liewer@jpl.nasa.gov>,
Bruce Goldstein <Bruce.Goldstein@jpl.nasa.gov>,
NASA Official Thomas A Prince <prince@srl.caltech.edu>,
8th International LISA Symposium <vdrew@stanford.edu>,
Curt Cutler <Curt.J.Cutler@jpl.nasa.gov>,
Michele Vallisneri <vallis@vallis.org>


Ladies and Gentlemen,

Please terminate the financial support for LIGO,

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/Szabados.html#SBG

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NSF

The sooner, the better.

Yours sincerely,

Dimi Chakalov
35 Sutherland St
London SW1V 4JU, U.K.



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Subject: [Copy] Email sent to Living Reviews in Relativity
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:08:26 +0200 (CEST)
From: contact.lrr@livingreviews.org
Message-Id: <20090922020826.C522424C0C3@escidoc2.escidoc.mpg.de>
To: dchakalov@gmail.com

Hello Dimi Chakalov,

This is a copy of the email you sent to Living Reviews in Relativity. If appropriate to your message, you should receive a response quickly. You successfully sent the following information:

   Email: dchakalov@gmail.com
   Phone:
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Message:
   Regarding GW parapsychology:

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/Szabados.html#SBG

Please confirm the receipt of this email.

Yours faithfully,

Dimi Chakalov


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Subject: Re: "yes, I do understand GR, but cannot discuss that now."
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:46:37 +0300
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Stanley Deser <deser@brandeis.edu>
Cc: Joel Franklin <jfrankli@reed.edu>,
Richard Woodard <woodard@phys.ufl.edu>,
Andrew Waldron <wally@math.ucdavis.edu>,
Steven Carlip <carlip@physics.ucdavis.edu>,
John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu>,
John W Barrett <john.barrett@nottingham.ac.uk>

Stanley:

On 31 March 2006, you claimed that you "do understand GR, but cannot discuss that now."

If this is indeed the case, then you should be able to find at least one error in my proposal at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NB

Please demonstrate that you understand GR.

I extend this request to your colleagues as well.

Regards,

Dimi

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Subject: "yes, I do understand GR, but cannot discuss that now."
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:54:26 +0300
From: Dimi Chakalov <dimi@chakalov.net>
To: Deser <deser@brandeis.edu>

No rush, take your time, I'm all yours.

D.C.

 

==============================

Subject: Re: "yes, I do understand GR, but cannot discuss that now."
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:32:35 +0300
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Stanley Deser <deser@brandeis.edu>
Cc: Joel Franklin <jfrankli@reed.edu>,
Richard Woodard <woodard@phys.ufl.edu>,
Andrew Waldron <wally@math.ucdavis.edu>,
Steven Carlip <carlip@physics.ucdavis.edu>,
John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu>,
John W Barrett <john.barrett@nottingham.ac.uk>

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Stanley Deser <deser@brandeis.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Sir,
> I cannot spare the time for your proposals; why not submit to a journal &
> see what happens? sd

Gladly.

Would you, or any of your colleagues, endorse the submission of my manuscript

http://arxiv.org/help/endorsement ?

The basic arguments are at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/Szabados.html#SBG

I will be happy to send you, or any of your colleagues, my manuscript, entitled: "A Taxpayer's Perspective On GW Astronomy".

Regards,

Dimi

============================


Subject: Re: "yes, I do understand GR, but cannot discuss that now."
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:20:01 +0300
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Stanley Deser <deser@brandeis.edu>
Cc: Joel Franklin <jfrankli@reed.edu>,
Richard Woodard <woodard@phys.ufl.edu>,
Andrew Waldron <wally@math.ucdavis.edu>,
Steven Carlip <carlip@physics.ucdavis.edu>,
John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu>,
John W Barrett <john.barrett@nottingham.ac.uk>

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Stanley Deser <deser@brandeis.edu> wrote:
>
> Not I!
>
> http://arxiv.org/help/endorsement ?

But didn't you say that you "do understand GR"? You're the right person.

Would you, or any of your colleagues, like to help U.S. National Science Foundation?

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NSF

Again, the simple arguments are at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/Szabados.html#SBG

I can write up a polite (not frank) paper and send it to you or any of your colleagues -- you all are experts in GR. I only need endorsement of my manuscript.

BILLIONS of U.S. dollars -- all taxpayers' money -- will be wasted by your LIGO "colleagues".

Looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience,

Yours faithfully,

Dimi Chakalov

=======================

Subject: Prince of darkness
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:41:14 +0300
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Alex Murphy <a.s.murphy@ed.ac.uk>
Cc: rminchin@naic.edu, Jonathan.Davies@astro.cf.ac.uk,
Mike.Disney@astro.cf.ac.uk, LangRH@cardifff.ac.uk, Sarah.Roberts@astro.cf.ac.uk, sabatini@mporzio.astro.it, BoyceP@cardiff.ac.uk, caj@jb.man.ac.uk, Wim.vanDriel@obspm.fr, benjamin.allanach@googlemail.com, s.sarkar@physics.ox.ac.uk, matthew.chalmers@iop.org, Plus@maths.cam.ac.uk, J.D.Barrow@damtp.cam.ac.uk, blanchet@iap.fr

Dear Dr Murphy,

I read with great interest your interview at

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/40654

I wonder if your WIMP hypothesis can tackle the discrepancy between the generic formation of cusps of CDM

http://spacetelescope.org/videos/html/mov/320px/heic0701f.html

and the rotation curves, which seem to favor a constant density profile in the core (Blanchet and Le Tiec, arXiv:0901.3114v2).

Also, may I ask ask you and your colleagues to comment on John Barrow's explanation of the apparent "repulsive force associated with the cosmological constant",

Gravitational Force = -GMm/r^2 + m[lambda]r

http://plus.maths.org/issue51/features/lambda/index.html

It seems to me that his idea is a bona fide case of Murphy's Law No. 15. I suspect that CDM and DDE are due to spacetime acting upon itself, hence the "acting agent" cannot _in principle_ be traced back to any concrete physical stuff,

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NB

BTW you said in your interview that have done a café scientifique in Moscow, "which was pretty scary". Did you meet

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/russian.html ?

Kindest regards,

Dimi Chakalov
----
Murphy's Law No. 15: Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand
wrong answers.

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Subject: The Arrow of Time
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 05:55:52 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Claus Kiefer <kiefer@thp.uni-koeln.de>
Cc: Laura Mersini-Houghton <mersini@physics.unc.edu>,
Ruediger Vaas <ruediger.vaas@konradin.de>,
Pankaj S Joshi <psj@tifr.res.in>,
H D Zeh <zeh@uni-heidelberg.de>,
Alan H Guth <guth@ctp.mit.edu>,
Jean-Pierre Luminet <jean-pierre.luminet@obspm.fr>,
Adam Helfer <adam@math.missouri.edu>,
Richard Lieu <lieur@cspar.uah.edu>

Dear Claus,

It seems to me that you are trying to explain one 'unknown' with another 'unknown'.

As you stated in [Ref. 1, p. 2], the topic of your essay -- the origin of the arrow of time -- is based on the singularity theorems of GR. Take Hawking-Penrose theorem, published in 1970. It presupposes some specific energy conditions [Refs. 2 and 3], which cannot hold in a world dominated by "dark energy"; see Rakhi and Indulekha at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#GR

On top of everything, the hypothetical gravitational "collapse" is highly controversial in the first place [Ref. 4].

Perhaps it will be a good idea if you first sort out the unsolved mysteries in the basis of your essay [Ref. 1], as neither S. Hawking nor R. Penrose were anticipating some "dark energy" in 1970s.

I will appreciate your professional reply, as well as the comments from your colleagues.

Kindest regards,

Dimi

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[Ref. 1] Claus Kiefer, Can the Arrow of Time be understood from Quantum Cosmology? arXiv:0910.5836v1 [gr-qc], to appear in "The Arrow of Time", ed. by L. Mersini-Houghton and R. Vaas, http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5836

From the abstract: "Remarks are also made concerning (...) scenarios motivated by dark energy."

p. 2: "The question raised by the presence of all these arrows is whether a common master arrow of time is behind all of them.
...
"As indicated by the singularity theorems of general relativity, a consistent description of the Big Bang may require a new framework such as quantum gravity. The question then arises whether the origin of the arrow of time can be understood there. This is the topic of my essay.
...
p. 11: "Since our present Universe is dominated by dark energy, which for our purpose here can be approximated by a cosmological constant [lambda], ...
...
p. 12: "In the case of a non-vanishing cosmological constant ... "


[Ref. 2] Pankaj S. Joshi, On the genericity of spacetime singularities,
arXiv:gr-qc/0702116v1, http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0702116

[Ref. 3] Carlos Barcelo, Matt Visser, Twilight for the energy conditions?
arXiv:gr-qc/0205066v1, http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0205066

p. 2: "If you believe the recent observational data regarding the accelerating universe, then the SEC is violated on cosmological scales right now!"


[Ref. 4] Stephen J. Crothers, Geometric and Physical Defects in the Theory of Black Holes
http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/MSAST-Crothers.pdf



----------
Note: Let's try to find out what we know that we don't know regarding 'The Arrow of Time'.

1. Claus Kiefer speculated extensively about 'entropy' [Ref. 1], but we "do not have a rigorous definition of entropy for systems coupled to gravity" [Ref. 5; see also the discussion of Eq. 1 on p. 7 therein].

2. We are also conditioned to believe that, since the Einstein field equations are "local", it would be impossible that "the global topology of the spatial section of an FLRW universe could have an effect on that universe's dynamics" [Ref. 6]. But Einstein field equations themselves are totally inadequate for addressing the main puzzle of non-unitary emergence of 'energy from empty space' -- see above. This opens an opportunity to seek 'the arrow of time' in global topology changes, to at least gather some hints as to how the Einstein field equations should be modified to tackle the source of "dynamic dark energy".

3. If we look at the "expanding" FRW universe above, the first puzzle we should notice is that the cosmological time, as read by our wristwatch, should not be observable: while FRW equations describe the physical time evolution, the "observed" quantities are "not gauge invariant and therefore should not be observable in obvious contradiction to reality", cf. T. Thiemann [Ref. 7].

3.1. Thomas Thiemann has argued that a tentative solution may be offered with some of those "scalar fields" introduced ad hoc [Ref. 7], to bypass the direct approach to the "dark energy" from the quantum vacuum. Unfortunately, all those "scalar fields" are red herring, firstly because there is no symmetry mechanism preventing their strong coupling -- see Sec. 2.2 in [Ref. 8].

3.2. Thomas Thiemann offered an 'either - or' dilemma [Ref. 7], but the answer to the puzzle may be 'both': the new physics that we're missing does affect QED, and of course the predictions for LHC.

4. Notice that the "dark" effects from 'potential reality' have to be camouflaged in GR as "gauge-dependent". This should be expected, as present-day GR cannot handle 'absolute structures' such as the source of 'energy from empty space'. Surely "absolute structures carry no observable content" [Ref. 9]. Perfect!

Pity Claus Kiefer ignored my posting from Dec. 26, 2008 @ 17:01 GMT: the Hilbert space problem (C. Kiefer, Quantum geometrodynamics: whence, whither?", arXiv:0812.0295v1 [gr-qc]) may be solved along with the 'problem of time' en bloc, as it should be done.

D. Chakalov
November 2, 2009

References

[Ref. 5] Sean M. Carroll, Is Our Universe Natural? arXiv:hep-th/0512148v1,
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0512148

[Ref. 6] Boudewijn F. Roukema, Some spaces are more equal than others, arXiv:0910.5837v1 [astro-ph.CO], http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5837

[Ref. 7] Thomas Thiemann, Solving the Problem of Time in General Relativity and Cosmology with Phantoms and k -- Essence, arXiv:astro-ph/0607380v1,
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607380

"Either the mathematical formalism, which has been tested experimentally so excellently in other gauge theories such as QED, is inappropriate or we are missing some new physics."

[Ref. 8] Sean M. Carroll, Dark Energy and the Preposterous Universe, arXiv:astro-ph/0107571v2, http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107571

[Ref. 9] Domenico Giulini, Some remarks on the notions of general covariance and background independence, arXiv:gr-qc/0603087v1,
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603087

p. 4: "Transition functions relabel the points that constitute M, which for the time being we think of as recognizable entities, as mathematicians do. (For physicists these points are mere ‘potential events’ and do not have an obvious individuality beyond an actual, yet unknown, event that realizes this potentiality.)
...
p. 11: "An absolute structure is a coordinate which takes the same range of values in each Diff(M) orbit and therefore cannot separate any two of them. If we regard Diff(M) as a gauge group, i.e. that Diff(M)-related configurations are physically indistinguishable, then absolute structures carry no observable content."

 

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Subject: How to quantize spacetime without affecting relativity
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:25:10 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Giovanni Amelino-Camelia <amelino@roma1.infn.it>
Cc: Richard Lieu <lieur@cspar.uah.edu>,
Jonathan Granot <j.granot@herts.ac.uk>

Hi Giovanni,

Regarding (i) you speculation from August 1998,

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v398/n6724/abs/398216a0.html

(ii) my email messages sent in the past three years (no reply from you), and (iii) the latest confirmation of Lieu & Hillman's direct evidence against Planck-scale fluctuations in spacetime by Jonathan Granot,

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091028/full/news.2009.1044.html

see
http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NB

Please don't ever say you knew nothing about it.

Dimi

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Subject: Re: How to quantize spacetime without affecting relativity
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:13:16 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Giovanni.Amelino-Camelia@roma1.infn.it
Cc: Richard Lieu <lieur@cspar.uah.edu>, Jonathan Granot <j.granot@herts.ac.uk>,

Hi Giovanni,

> the first point is that you describe the recent
> Fermi-telescope result as a test of "Planck-scale
> fluctuations in spacetime"

Nope. The common issue is the end result from two very different approaches, by Richard and Jonathan. That is what matters.

If you wish to say something, first read the story at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NB

> I repeat: I shall be happy to offer more help
> if the requests are respectful and reflect a serious
> investment in the relevant literature

Please go ahead. The refuter of your speculations is one click away.

Take care,

Dimi

============

Subject: Re: How to quantize spacetime without affecting relativity
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:59:10 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Richard Lieu <richardlieuuah@gmail.com>
Cc: Giovanni.Amelino-Camelia@roma1.infn.it, amelino@roma1.infn.it,
"Kouveliotou, Chryssa (MSFC-VP62)" <chryssa.kouveliotou@nasa.gov>,
"sylvain.guiriec@lpta.in2p3.fr" <sylvain.guiriec@lpta.in2p3.fr>,
"Veronique.Pelassa@lpta.in2p3.fr" <Veronique.Pelassa@lpta.in2p3.fr>,
"ohnomasa272@gmail.com" <ohnomasa272@gmail.com>, rdb3@stanford.edu,
James A Miller <millerja@uah.edu>, fixj@uah.edu, Rob Preece <Rob.Preece@nasa.gov>, Jonathan Granot <j.granot@herts.ac.uk>

Dear Richard,

> I am truly grateful to all of you who wish to vindicate our 2003 work,
> but note also that our paper was six years ago and times were
> different. The Fermi limit is indeed unique, as they tested
> systematic rather than random 1st order Planck scale effect. Giovanni
> is right - the Fermi test was not about fluctuations, but real
> dispersion.

Of course. What I did say in my preceding email was: "The common issue is the end result from two very different approaches, by Richard and Jonathan. That is what matters."

Maybe I should have added 'that is what matters to the question in the subject line'.

Regrettably, Giovanni can't see the forest for the trees. Details about 'the forest' at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NB

Kindest regards,

Dimi


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Subject: "Specifically, because of the Kocken-Specher theorem, ..." (arXiv:0911.2135v1 [gr-qc], p. 187)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:57:44 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Cecilia Flori <cecilia.flori@aei.mpg.de>
Cc: Jan Plefka <jan.plefka@physik.hu-berlin.de>,
Steven Vickers <S.J.Vickers@cs.bham.ac.uk>

Dear Dr. Flori,

I've been reading your Ph.D. Thesis in the past three hours, and am truly amazed by your professional approach and perfectionism. You are a treasure.

Regarding KS Theorem, I think one can argue that the truth value of the propositions should be YAIN (Chris Isham disagrees, for unknown to me reasons). In your spare time, please see an outline at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NB

I will appreciate your professional opinion, as well as the feedback from your distinguished colleagues.

With all good wishes,

Dimi Chakalov
------

Note: Watch Cecilia Flori's lecture "Topos formulation of Consistent Histories", 14.01.2009, http://pirsa.org/09010017. She handles the topos theory and the ice hockey stick with agility and unmatched precision.
 

 

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Subject: Re: When are you going to respond professionally?
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:47:42 +0300
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Christian Corda <cordac.galilei@gmail.com>
Cc: lsfinn@psu.edu, cornish@physics.montana.edu, vfaraoni@ubishops.ca

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:24:45 +0200, Christian Corda <cordac.galilei@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]

> YOU DO NOT NOT UNDERSTAND GRAVITATION.

Prove it. My SBG argument is at the link below.

Sincerely,

D. Chakalov

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:49:14 +0300, Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Gentlemen:
>>
>> I mentioned your names and recent papers at
>>
>> http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/Szabados.html#SBG
[snip]

 

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Subject: Taxpayer's perspective on GW astronomy
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:44:06 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Laszlo Szabados <lbszab@rmki.kfki.hu>,
Robert M Wald <rmwa@midway.uchicago.edu>,
Joel Franklin <jfrankli@reed.edu>,
Richard Woodard <woodard@phys.ufl.edu>,
Andrew Waldron <wally@math.ucdavis.edu>,
Steven Carlip <carlip@physics.ucdavis.edu>,
John Baez <baez@math.ucr.edu>,
John W Barrett <john.barrett@nottingham.ac.uk>,
Chris Isham <c.isham@imperial.ac.uk>

Dear colleagues,

I wonder if you would agree to endorse the submission of my manuscript to [gr-qc],

http://arxiv.org/help/endorsement

The basic arguments are at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/Szabados.html#SBG

I will be happy to send you my manuscript, entitled: "Taxpayer's perspective on GW astronomy". Will be brief and utterly polite (not frank, as at my web site).

Kindest regards,

Dimi Chakalov
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Note: Excerpts from http://arxiv.org/help/endorsement :

"The endorsement process is not peer review. You should know the person that you endorse or you should see the paper that the person intends to submit. We don't expect you to read the paper in detail, or verify that the work is correct, but you should check that the paper is appropriate for the subject area. You should not endorse the author if the author is unfamiliar with the basic facts of the field, or if the work is entirely disconnected with current work in the area."

Stanley Deser refused to even consider endorsing my manuscript. I do hope some of his colleagues will agree.

If you, my dear reader, have papers "that have been submitted between three months and five years ago" to [gr-qc] or [astro-ph] domains, and would agree to endorse the submission of my manuscript, please contact me by email as soon as possible, and I will send you my manuscript.

D. Chakalov
October 27, 2009

 

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Subject: Re: Taxpayer's perspective on GW astronomy
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:24:06 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn@astro.indiana.edu>
Cc: Jim Isenberg <isenberg@uoregon.edu>

Hi Jonathan,

Thanks for your reply. I regret that you refused to endorse the submission of my manuscript to [gr-qc]. As you put it in lrr-2007-3,

"The event horizon is a global property of an entire spacetime and is defined nonlocally in time: The event horizon in a slice is defined in terms of (and cannot be computed without knowing) the full future development of that slice."

... provided we know the source of DDE,

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#GR

Take care,

Dimi

>> I wonder if you would agree to endorse the submission of my manuscript
>> to [gr-qc] or [astro-ph],
>>
>> http://arxiv.org/help/endorsement
>>
>> The basic arguments are at
>>
>> http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/Szabados.html#SBG

---------

Note: Forty years have passed since Roger Penrose suggested the so-called Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (CCC), and people continue to ground their efforts on it (cf. Jonathan Thornburg and Michael I. Cohen et al., p. 2) and offer bets and drawings of "quantum horizon geometry".

Notice that the methods for finding an accurate history of the so-called event horizon (you need the "event horizon" (EH) in order to speculate about "black holes" viz. "binary black hole mergers" as "one of the most astrophysically common sources of gravitational radiation for detectors such as LIGO", cf. Mike Cohen et al.)  require complete knowledge of "the full future evolution of the spacetime before the EH can be determined exactly" (ibid.).

Which is why you need to address the global dynamics of spacetime: the increasing emergence of energy-of-empty-space due to DDE.

Just one "closed timelike curve" (CTC) or "time-like naked singularity" in the past 13.7B years would have destroyed everything, and since there are no strict bans on such catastrophic events (they simply have never happened, just like the ultraviolet catastrophe), "prohibited" only by people's belief in the current "dynamics" of GR and CCC in particular, recall that those "famous" singularity theorems are from 1970s, when nobody was aware of the flux of DDE.

Two examples: Geroch's theorem regarding CTCs (Robert Geroch, Topology in general relativity, J. Math. Phys. 8, 782-786 (1967)) and Tipler's theorem, which stipulates that, given the (obvious) possitiveness of the energy-momentum tensor, there can be no changes in the topology of spacetime, hence the causal structure of spacetime is secured (Frank J. Tipler, Singularities and causality violation, Ann. Phys. 108, 1-36 (1977)), are from the old days of GR without DDE.

As Alan Rendall stated (p. 14), "The study of these matters is still in a state of flux." Which is why I requested endorsement of my manuscript.

So far two physicists have replied (J. Thornburg and S. Deser), the rest (73) have not even confirmed the receipt of my email (sent between October 26th
and October 28th). Same story in August 2008. I'm talking to a brick wall.

D. Chakalov
November 4, 2009
Last update: November 9, 2009

 

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Subject: Re: GR17, Session D1
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:08:46 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Thiemann <tthiemann@perimeterinstitute.ca>,
thomas.thiemann@aei.mpg.de
Cc: lsmolin@perimeterinstitute.ca,
Curt.Cutler@aei.mpg.de,
brien.nolan@dcu.ie

Thomas,

I quoted from your astro-ph/0607380 at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#note

Five years ago, you decided to bury my report into an evening poster session, and granted Lee Smolin three oral presentations: on Monday, July 19th ("Background independent approach to M theory", D2), on Tuesday, July 20th ("The low energy behavior of loop quantum gravity", D1), and finally on Friday, July 23rd ("Inflation in loop quantum gravity", B2i).

What you did to me was bloody unfair. Typical for a DDR communist.

Dimi

----------
Subject: Re: GR17, Session D1
From: Dimi Chakalov <dimi@chakalov.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 22:59:15 +0300
To: tthiemann <tthiemann@perimeterinstitute.ca>
CC: Curt.Cutler@aei.mpg.de, brien.nolan@dcu.ie

Dear Thomas,

Please inform me about possible upgrade of my poster presentation to talk. I'm encountering tremendous difficulties in transforming my GR17 paper to poster. Feel like having my mouth shut with duck tape.

Best - Dimi

 

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Subject: A fourth road to quantum gravity
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 16:10:45 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Mark Buchanan <buchanan.mark@gmail.com>
Cc: Didier Sornette <dsornette@ethz.ch>,
Lee Smolin <lsmolin@perimeterinstitute.ca>,
Chris Isham <c.isham@imperial.ac.uk>


Dear Dr. Buchanan,

I would like to make two comments on your online article "In search of the black swans" [Ref. 1].

I'm interested in proactive management of emerging risks, type "black swans". With the benefit of hindsight, it seems to me that the event of 9/11 could not have been predicted, for reasons entire different than Max Planck's discovery; please see

http://tinyurl.com/steel-evaporation

The second comment pertains to the subject of this email: I believe Lee Smolin [Refs. 2 and 3], and all of his colleagues, have completely missed a fourth road to quantum gravity, from Erwin Schrödinger,

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NB

Please feel free to pass this email to 'whomever it may be concerned'. The direct link:

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#Buchanan

Kindest regards,

Dimi Chakalov
35 Sutherland St
London SW1V 4JU, U.K.

----

[Ref. 1] Mark Buchanan (April 1, 2009), In search of the black swans
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/38468

"In 1890 an electricity company enticed the German physicist Max Planck to help it in its efforts to make more efficient light bulbs. Planck, as a theorist, naturally started with the fundamentals and soon became enmeshed in the thorny problem of explaining the spectrum of black-body radiation, which he eventually did by introducing the idea — a “purely formal” assumption, as he then considered it — that electromagnetic energy can only be emitted or absorbed in discrete quanta. The rest is history. Electric light bulbs and mathematical necessity led Planck to discover quantum theory and to kick start the most significant scientific revolution of the 20th century.
....
"... it is not the normal events, the mundane and expected “white swans” that matter the most, but the outliers, the completely unexpected “black swans”. In the context of history, think 11 September 2001 or the invention of the Web."


[Ref. 2] Lee Smolin, (June 2, 2009), The unique universe
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/39306

"Time in the Newtonian schema is a parameter used to label points on a trajectory describing the system evolving in configuration space. When the system is small and isolated, this time parameter refers to the reading of a clock on the wall of the observer’s laboratory, which is not a property of the system. When we try to apply this notion to the universe as a whole, the time parameter must disappear (see John Baez - D.C.). Some have attempted to argue that this means that time itself does not exist at a cosmological scale, but that is the wrong conclusion. What disappears is not time, but the clock outside of the system -- which would be an absurd object since the system is the whole universe."


[Ref. 3] Lee Smolin, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Phoenix, 2000;
Ch. 14, What chooses the laws of nature?,

p. 205: "One of the biggest mysteries is that we live in a world in which it is possible to look around, and see as far as we like."

p. 206: "God is nothing but the power of the universe as a whole to organize itself."

----------

Note: Nothing from the text above is original. The legacy of Erwin Schrödinger and Henry Margenau is anything but some unpredictable "black swan". For comparison, if someone has been offering the guiding principles for HTTP protocol to the people at CERN, but they were refusing to develop it, the invention of the Web [Ref. 1] would have never happened.

One can only hope that the upcoming sixth consecutive failure of LSC to detect GWs with the "Enhanced LIGO" will shake up the established theoretical physics community. If not, we will have to wait for the seventh consecutive failure of LSC in 2015, with their "Advanced LIGO".

What a terrible waste of time. And money.

Does anyone care?

D. Chakalov
November 16, 2009

 

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Subject: Re: Tue 24 Nov 13:30pm - 14:30pm
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:06:09 +0000
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Halliwell <j.halliwell@ic.ac.uk>
Cc: Roland Omnes <roomnes@wanadoo.fr>,
Amihay Hanany <a.hanany@imperial.ac.uk>,
Helen Fay Dowker <f.dowker@imperial.ac.uk>,
Chris Isham <c.isham@imperial.ac.uk>

Dear Jonathan,

It was a pleasure to attend your talk.

I'm also glad you quoted Roland's monograph, "The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics", in which he demonstrated that by introducing the decoherence functional you're automatically confined to Boolean logic -- a clear indication for Murphy's Law No. 15, "Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand wrong answers."

Since you mentioned in your talk the case depicted on Fig 1 from your arXiv:0909.2597v1 [gr-qc], I wonder whether you would, in such kind of "space", be able to look around and see as far as you like (Lee Smolin, "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity", Phoenix, 2000, p. 205). The test of the pudding, you know.

Fay: I'm glad you chose (synchronicity?) to sit next to me. If some day you decide to talk about the topology of space (with or without its "dark energy"), please drop me a line. I'll be delighted to attend.

Lastly, may I use this opportunity to invite all of you to join the new research program outlined at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NB

I believe it strictly follows Chris Isham's program, Type IV (arXiv:gr-qc/9310031v1).

If you have questions, please do write me back.

Wishing you all the best,

Dimi
--------
Dimi Chakalov
35 Sutherland St
SW1V 4JU

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Subject: Re: Tue 24 Nov 13:30pm - 14:30pm
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:38:33 +0000
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: J M Yearsley <james.yearsley03@imperial.ac.uk>
Cc: Roland Omnes <roomnes@wanadoo.fr>,
Amihay Hanany <a.hanany@imperial.ac.uk>,
Helen Fay Dowker <f.dowker@imperial.ac.uk>,
Chris Isham <c.isham@imperial.ac.uk>,
Jonathan Halliwell <j.halliwell@ic.ac.uk>

Dear Dr. Yearsley,

I attended Jonathan's talk, and a few hours later emailed him a proposal to verify the Decoherent Histories (DH) hypothesis [Ref. 1]; please see 'the proof of the pudding' at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#Halliwell

Suppose you have a clear night sky, and fix your eyes, for 1 min, on a star that is/was 4M light years away. The star looks the same during the whole time of 1 min, and is always at the place you see it.

Now, if the spacetime were governed by DH hypothesis [Ref. 1], what kind of irregularities MUST have been imposed on photon's pathway? I suppose you can perform the calculations and find it out for yourself.

Please feel free to join the research project outlined at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NB

Kindest regards,

Dimi Chakalov
35 Sutherland St
SW1V 4JU
---

[Ref. 1] J.J. Halliwell, The Interpretation of Quantum Cosmology and the Problem of Time, http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0208018

"Central to both the classical and quantum problems is the notion of an entire trajectory. At the classical level it appears to be the appropriate reparametrization-invariant notion for the construction of interesting probabilities. At the quantum level, the decoherent histories approach appears to handle the problem in a natural way, perhaps because it readily incorporates the notion of trajectory."
-----------

D. Giulini and C. Kiefer, The Canonical Approach to Quantum Gravity,
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0611141

"What about the semiclassical approximation and the recovery of an appropriate external time parameter in some limit? (...) The discussion is also connected to the question: Where does the imaginary unit  i  in the (functional) Schrödinger equation come from? The full Wheeler-DeWitt equation is real, and one would thus also expect real solutions for [PSI]."
-----------

M. Bojowald, Canonical Relativity and the Dimensionality of the World,
http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4874

"If the theory does not allow us, even in principle, to extend solutions arbitrarily far in one direction, it may be difficult to view this direction as a dimension of the world."

 

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Subject: "Einstein gravity is an emergent phenomenon" (Harvey R. Brown, arXiv:0911.4440v1 [gr-qc], pp. 8-9)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:45:01 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Harvey R Brown <harvey.brown@philosophy.ox.ac.uk>
Cc: Norbert Straumann <norbert.straumann@gmail.com>,
Domenico Giulini <domenico.giulini@itp.uni-hannover.de>,
Oliver Pooley <oliver.pooley@philosophy.ox.ac.uk>,
J Brian Pitts <jpitts@nd.edu>,
Jose Natario <jnatar@math.ist.utl.pt>,
Timothy Adamo <tim.adamo@gmail.com>,
Stanley Deser <deser@brandeis.edu>,
Jacob D Bekenstein <bekenste@vms.huji.ac.il>,
Hans C Ohanian <hohanian@einsteinsmistakes.com>,
Igor Novikov <novikov@tac.dk>,
Dmitri Novikov <d.novikov@imperial.ac.uk>,
Tatyana Shestakova <shestakova@sfedu.ru>,
Natalia Kiriushcheva <nkiriush@uwo.ca>,
S V Kuzmin <skuzmin@uwo.ca>,
Kirill Krasnov <kirill.krasnov@nottingham.ac.uk>


Dear Dr. Brown,

I fully endorse your statement, for reasons explained at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#GR

Please notice that the source of DDE (see ‘GR with DDE’ at the link above) is assumed to play the role of ‘reference fluid’ and Anderson's ‘absolute structures’ (James L. Anderson, Principles of Relativity Physics, Academic Press, New York, 1967, p. 73). The latter (i) do not obey the ‘generalized principle of action and reaction’ (ibid., p. 339), and (ii) can be revealed in Quantum Theory as ‘potential reality’,

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NB

It seems to me that all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of quantum gravity snap to their places -- effortlessly.

Should you or any of your colleagues disagree, please bark back. The "curious incident" with my web site is that nobody is willing to comment on these very simple (and certainly not original) ideas.

Kindest regards,

Dimi Chakalov
--------
"Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the night-time."
"That was the curious incident."

Sherlock Holmes, "The Adventure of Silver Blazes"

 

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Subject: A New Scenario, by Sergio Doplicher
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:23:42 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Sergio Doplicher <dopliche@mat.uniroma1.it>
Cc: Luciano Maiani <luciano.maiani@roma1.infn.it>,
Ray Streater <raymond.streater@kcl.ac.uk>,
Owen Maroney <o.maroney.physics@gmail.com>,
Bogdan Damski <bogdan.damski@gmail.com>,
Haitao Quan <quan@lanl.gov>,
Wojciech Hubert Zurek <whzurek@gmail.com>


Dear Professor Doplicher,

I have deep respect and admiration for your perfectionism and scrupulous intellectual honesty.

Regarding your Scenario (arXiv:0911.5136v1 [math-ph], pp. 29-30; arXiv:hep-th/0608124v1, p. 7), and the puzzle identified by Lee Smolin,

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#Buchanan3

please notice my proposal at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#Brown

I will appreciate your critical opinion, as well as the feedback from your colleagues.

May I ask a question. I noticed that you'll teach QM,
http://www.mat.uniroma1.it/mat_cms/pres_corso.php?corso_da_presentare=1259

Would you discuss my interpretation of QM with your students?

I believe kids have the right to know everything we know. If you consider Nevill Mott's paper (arXiv:0911.5136v1 [math-ph], p. 18) and the alleged "time-dependent decoherence factor" (W.H. Zurek et al., arXiv:0911.5729v1 [quant-ph]), I believe your students will grasp the ultimate puzzle of our good old asymptotically flat spacetime, and will never waste their life with chasing ghosts.

Kindest regards,

Dimi Chakalov
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Note: Contrary to what you may hear from Jonathan Halliwell, it is impossible to explain the trace of a charged particle in a bubble chamber, after Nevill Mott (see S. Doplicher, p. 18), with the current QM and GR textbooks. The problems from QM (A. Teta, arXiv:0905.1467v1, "possible histories", pp. 12-14) are swept under the carpet. Moreover, the problems from 'GR without DDE' are overwhelming. One is that we can't explain 'the energy-momentum density of generic background quantum states' (see below): "points become fuzzy and locality looses any precise meaning" (S. Doplicher, p. 21). More puzzles from M. Consoli and E. Costanzo, arXiv:0709.4101, Sec. 3: Is the vacuum a preferred frame? Could be. But if we model the vacuum as 'potential reality', there is no way to observe motion with respect to it: the usual expression from 1930s -- "the only Lorentz-invariant tensor" (ibid., Eq 13); see also G. Marsh, arXiv:0711.0220v2, Eq 2 -- does not apply to 'potential reality'. The latter is needed to explain 'GR with DDE'.

In the textbook version of 'GR without DDE', the 'coordinate time' read by your wristwatch, and the very notion of 'energy conservation' during some interval from that 'coordinate time', cannot be rigorously defined. The tacit presumption is that 'space' itself does not "move" anywhere, simply because there is no "outer space" in which our 3-D space could "expand into". But only the second part from this tacit presumption is correct, since our 3-D space can indeed "move" or rather "emerge" (C. Isham, gr-qc/9310031, Option IV): the intrinsic dynamics of space -- here we enter 'GR with DDE' -- can only be defined with respect to a hypothetical global mode of spacetime, which is hidden  ]between[  the "points" of the local mode of spacetime. The latter stands as a genuine perfect continuum (the "dark gaps" from the global mode are hidden by the so-called 'speed of light'), and has been studied in STR and in 'GR without DDE'.

If we wish to think as proper relativists, this is the only choice we may have: see my email to Harvey R Brown above. Many people hate it and spit insults on me; other just keep quiet, but nobody has so far offered any viable alternative.

But is there any alternative to 'the arrow of spacetime'?

Back in 1772, on the occasion of the fall of meteorites, the French Academy of Sciences adopted a resolution categorically rejecting such ridiculous phenomena. The obvious reason had been that rocks cannot fall from the sky, simply because there are no rocks there. Likewise, when you look at the sky, you will never think that the space itself could possibly "move", in any way whatsoever. But once the "dark energy" from 'empty space' was confirmed, the intrinsic dynamics of 3-D space, hence 'GR with DDE', are unavoidable. Your good old wristwatch does read the dynamics of "dark energy" along the arrow of spacetime.

E sarà mia colpa se così è? (Niccolò Machiavelli)

D.C.
December 1, 2009
Last update: December 7, 2009

Sergio Doplicher, The Principle of Locality. Effectiveness, fate and challenges. arXiv:0911.5136v1 [math-ph]

p. 18: "The coherence between the different outcomes, in principle still accessible with the measurement of the nearly vanishing interference terms (vanishing exactly only in the limit N --> [inf]), will be totally unaccessible in practice as soon as N is sufficiently large, as the number of molecules in a bubble from the trace of a charged particle in a bubble chamber."
...
pp. 19-20: "The conventional picture of the measurement process in Quantum Mechanics, as an instantaneous jump from a pure state to a mixture, which affects the state all over space at a fixed time in a preferred Lorentz frame, appears, in the scenario we outlined, as the result of several limits:

"1. the time duration T of the interaction giving rise to the measurement (which, in an exact mathematical treatment, would involve the whole interval from minus infinity to plus infinity, as all scattering processes) is set equal to zero;

"2. the number of microconstituents of the amplifying part of the measurement apparatus is set equal to infinity, thus allowing exact decoherence;

"3. the volume involved by the measurement apparatus in its interaction with the system (thus occupied by the microscopic part of the apparatus) tends to the whole space, allowing the reduction of wave packets to take place everywhere;

"In the conventional picture, some form of nonlocality is unavoidable, albeit insufficient for transmission of perturbations (hence not contradicting local commutativity) or even of information [58]: for a given observer, a coherent superposition of two possibilities might be changed, instantaneously in some preferred Lorentz frame, to a state where only one possibility survives, by the measurement performed by another observer in a very far spacelike separated region.
...
p. 21: "Thus points become fuzzy and locality looses any precise meaning. We believe it should be replaced at the Planck scale by an equally sharp and compelling principle, yet unknown, which reduces to locality at larger distances.
...

p. 27: "But locality is lost. There is no meaning to "E1 and E2 are spacelike separated", unless we pick a point _o_ in E, and limit ourselves to a special wedge W associated to _o_ and its spacelike complement -W. In this special case locality survives for free fields, but is bound to be destroyed by interactions on QST.

"That remnant of locality has been exploited to construct deformations of local nets for which the two particle S matrix is notrivial [70, 71], at the price of loosing locality in terms of fields localised in bounded regions. The various formulation of interaction between fields, all equivalent on ordinary Minkowski space, provide inequivalent approaches on QST; but all of them, sooner or later, meet problems with Lorentz covariance, apparently due to the nontrivial action of the Lorentz group on the centre of the algebra of Quantum Spacetime.

"On this point in our opinion a deeper understanding is needed.
...

p. 29: "The common feature of all approaches is that, due to the quantum nature of spacetime at the Planck scale, locality is broken, even at the level of free fields, and more dramatically by interactions. Which, as far as our present knowledge go, lead to a breakdown of Lorentz invariance as well.
...

"One might expect that a complete theory ought to be covariant under general coordinate transformations as well. This principle, however, is grounded on the conceptual experiment of the falling lift, which, in the classical theory, can be thought of as occupying an infinitesimal neighborhood of a point. In a quantum theory the size of a "laboratory" must be large compared with the Planck length, and this might pose limitations on general covariance. One might argue that such limitations ought to be taken care of by the quantum nature of Spacetime at the Planck scale.
...

"But the energy distribution in a generic quantum state will affect the Spacetime Uncertainty Relations, suggesting that the commutator between the coordinates ought to depend in turn on the metric field. This scenario could be related to the large scale thermal equilibrium of the cosmic microwave background, and to the non vanishing of the Cosmological Constant [79, 80].

p. 30: "This might well be the clue to restore Lorentz covariance in the interactions between fields on Quantum Spacetime."
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ref. [80]: Sergio Doplicher, Quantum Field Theory on Quantum Spacetime, arXiv:hep-th/0608124v1.

p. 7: "A New Scenario. The Principle of Gravitational Stability ought to be fully used in the very derivation of Space Time Uncertainty Relations, which would then depend also on the energy-momentum density of generic background quantum states; this leads to commutation relations between Spacetime coordinates depending in principle on the metric tensor, and hence, through the gravitational coupling, on the interacting fields themselves. Thus the commutation relations between Spacetime coordinates would appear as part of the equations of motions along with Einstein and matter field Equations.

"In other words we may expect that, while Classical General Relativity taught us that Geometry is dynamics, Quantum Gravity might show that also Algebra is dynamics.

"This new scenario [12] appears extremely difficult to formalise and implement, but promises most interesting developments."
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Subject: The Hamiltonian formulation of GR is wrong.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:28:31 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Hanno Sahlmann <sahlmann@particle.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
Jacob D Bekenstein <bekenste@vms.huji.ac.il>,
Mordehai Milgrom <moti.milgrom@weizmann.ac.il>,
J M Pons <pons@ecm.ub.es>,
D C Salisbury <dsalisbury@austincollege.edu>,
K A Sundermeyer <ksun@gmx.de>,
George F R Ellis <George.Ellis@uct.ac.za>

Dear colleagues,

If we accept the challenge of "dark energy" and "dark matter", I believe it will be wrong to use the Hamiltonian formulation of GR. It is not possible to quantize Einstein gravity in four dimensions either (Hanno Sahlmann, arXiv:1001.4188v1 [gr-qc]).

The problem is that we need to unravel a new degree of freedom pertaining to the NEW dynamics of spacetime: see R. Rakhi & K. Indulekha and S. Carroll, "more space comes into existence",

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#GR

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#Brown

Only people like George F R Ellis would ignore these bold facts.

Should you have questions, please don't hesitate to write me back.

Yours sincerely,

Dimi Chakalov
----

Note 1: I really cannot understand why people believe that the source of "dark energy" should necessarily have positive energy density ("Treated as a fluid, this component has negative pressure (assuming positive energy density), ... "
T. Padmanabhan), and be "invariant under Lorentz transformations" (E. Santos).

In the model presented here, these two self-imposed presumptions are dropped, and the source of "dark energy" is non-existent in the local mode of spacetime. None. Zero. Zilch. You can safely set it to zero, just as you usually treat the vacuum energy density in QFT.

Yet the source of "dark energy" can take any value in the global mode, depending on the particular cosmological stage of the universe, because  T  (the energy momentum stress tensor of all matter and fields other than gravity, with positive energy density) can completely vanish/dissolve into the vacuum, and stay available there for any partial, full, or "over unity" recall, if needed.

How? Because it is potential reality. Only people like George Ellis cannot grasp it.

All we can physically observe is that 3-D space is acting upon itself. We cannot trace back this 'energy from empty space', which is why some people called it "dark". In the same vein, the human mind would be considered "dark", because all we can observe is that the brain is being acting 'upon itself', by thinking about the brain, with the brain.

Gerard 't Hooft had a brilliant guess about the negative energy states, but his Ph.D. student Stefan Nobbenhuis ruined it, upon his guidance, by assuming that "there is no coupling other than gravitational (emphasis added - D.C.) between the normal matter fields and their ghost counterparts, otherwise the Minkowski vacuum would not be stable" (arXiv:gr-qc/0411093v3, p. 10). But the quantum vacuum can be stable without any gravitational coupling whatsoever, because gravity applies only to the explicated/physical form of reality, while the absolute value of energy stored in the vacuum is potential reality.

The misleading adjective "dark" (Mike Turner) comes from treating the potential vacuum reality as 'physically real'. In the case of John Wheeler's 'cloud', only this last explicated physical reality will be subject to gravitational interactions, like the explicated Casimir energy. The 'cloud' has been explicated by an emerging context, while in the case of the "dark" energy from the quantum vacuum we encounter an emerging boundary: the energy here is not "boundary sensitive". It is 'the whole universe as ONE' (global mode of spacetime) that fixes the "boundary terms", so that we can only see a "cloud" with strictly positive mass. Surely the explicated "cloud" changes along the cosmological time arrow, but its "dark" driving force cannot be unraveled from the fleeting "cloud" (denoted with  a  in [Ref. 1]), just as we cannot unravel the UNdecidable Kochen-Specker quantum state from its colorizable projections. This is the legacy of Schrödinger and Margenau (see below), which I was hoping to explain on November 27, 2002.

Notice that in GR you inevitably need to introduce some additional structure [Ref. 2] compensating for the absence of the global mode of spacetime. To understand the origin of these of additional structures, recall the prerequisites that necessitate 'time' regarded as 'change': we need two different and distinguishable states of a physical system, and some background w.r.t.w. the difference between the two states can be identified. In STR, the task looks quite easy: take two consecutive, instantaneous, point-like states of a Frisbee along its continuous trajectory, defined w.r.t. the fixed background of Minkowski space, and you're done. In 'GR without DDE', the background is the 3-D space itself, which is allowed to change its "curvature" only, following the bi-directional "talk" between matter and space: "Space acts on matter, telling it how to move. In turn, matter reacts back on space, telling it how to curve" (John Wheeler). But because of the Equivalence Principle adopted in GR, gravity must be able to vanish completely "inside" an infinitesimal "point", hence there is no localizable point-like gravitational energy density in such "point" and across its infinitesimally small neighborhood, to compute derivatives (Bjoern Schmekel). Hence the notion of 'time', conceived as 'change' from point-like state A to point-like state B (defined w.r.t. a background of 3-D space), becomes terribly complicated because of its dual, non-linear duties: "the metric is treated as a field which not only affects, but also is (at the same time - D.C.) affected by, the other fields" (John Baez).

Under these circumstances, people need to introduce some additional structures to define some "boundaries" of the whole spacetime; for example, some "fall-off conditions of the curvature in appropriate coordinate systems at infinity" [Ref. 2], because, in the case of the Einstein equations alone, "there are no physically motivated boundary conditions" (Alan Rendall). But notice that the background of 3-D space is still always there, in the sense that in 'GR without DDE' the space itself doesn't "move" (Robert Geroch). But once we endow the space itself with an additional degree of freedom, as in 'GR with DDE', it acquires new dynamics (arrow of spacetime), and those 'additional structures' that were introduced by hand [Ref. 2] should be derived from the "dark" ("no observable content", Domenico Giulini) global mode of spacetime.

Don't try to bridge the two "mirror" worlds (introduced by symmetries or quasi-symmetries [Ref. 2]) with any physical stuff whatsoever. Don't try to explain the self-acting faculty of 3-D space with the physical, "colorizable projections" that can only show up with positive energy density. You will be baffled by the driving force of the cosmological time arrow [Ref. 1] and the cosmological "constant" problems forever (cf. Amedeo Balbi), or at least until you quietly retire.
 

D.C.
January 27, 2010
Last update: February 2, 2010

[Ref. 1] T. Padmanabhan, Why Does the Universe Expand? arXiv:1001.3380v1 [gr-qc]

 

[Ref. 2] J. L. Jaramillo, E. Gourgoulhon, Mass and Angular Momentum in General Relativity, arXiv:1001.5429v1 [gr-qc]. To appear as proceedings in the book "Mass and Motion in General Relativity", eds. L. Blanchet, A. Spallicci and B. Whiting

p. 6: "Once the non-local nature of the gravitational energy-momentum and angular momentum is realised, the conceptual challenge is translated into the manner of determining the appropriate physical parameters associated with the gravitational field in an extended region of spacetime. An unambiguous answer has been given in the case of the total mass of an isolated system. However, the situation is much less clear in the case of extended but finite spacetime domains.

"In a broad sense, existing attempts either enforce some additional structure that restricts the study to an appropriate subset of the solution space of General Relativity, or alternatively they look for a genuinely geometric characterisation aiming at fulfilling some expected physical requirements. In this article we present an overview of some of the relevant existing attempts and illustrate the kind of additional structures they involve.
...
pp. 9-10: "The characterisation of an isolated system in General Relativity aims at capturing the idea that spacetime becomes flat when we move sufficiently far from the system, so that spacetime approaches that of Minkowski. However, the very notion of far away becomes problematic due to the absence of an a priori background spacetime. In addition, we must consider different kinds of infinities, since we can move away from the system in space-like and also in null directions. Different strategies exist in the literature for the formalization of this asymptotic flatness idea, and not all of them are mathematically equivalent. Traditional approaches attempt to specify the adequate fall-off conditions of the curvature in appropriate coordinate systems at infinity. (...) The whole picture is inspired in the structure of the conformal compactification of Minkowski spacetime.
...
pp. 35-36: "But it must be acknowledged (...) that the status of the quasi-local mass studies is in a kind of post-modern situation in which the devoted intensive efforts have resulted in a plethora of proposals with no obvious definitive and entirely satisfying candidate.
...
"The moral of the whole discussion in this article is that the formulation of meaningful global or quasi-local mass and angular momentum notions in General Relativity always needs the introduction of some additional structure in the form of symmetries, quasi-symmetries or some other background structure."
----------
 

Note 2: Recently, J. M. Pons, D. Salisbury, and K. Sundermeyer (PSS) tried to solve the paradoxes of “frozen time” and “nothing happens” (arXiv:1001.2726v1 [gr-qc]), stressing the difference b/w the gauge generator and the Hamiltonian (p. 5):

"These gauge transformations define equivalence classes within S, which we call gauge orbits. A gauge orbit represents a unique physical state (footnote 5), and its different points correspond to different coordinatizations.
--
Footnote 5: "Note that this state is the whole spacetime."

"... in the space of on-shell field configurations the gauge generator moves from one point p to another p', whereas the Hamiltonian works within every point p, which already represents an entire spacetime (emphasis added - D.C.)."

In another paper (arXiv:0902.0401v1 [gr-qc], p. 4), PSS illustrated their ideas with a "spatially homogeneous isotropic cosmological model", and acknowledged that "this model possesses the curious property that the only physical variable that changes in time is time itself!" (emphasis added - D.C.).

Which makes this "time" unobservable, or rather 'observable only with respect to itself'. Pity PSS didn't ask Karel Kuchar to comment on their speculations, nor mentioned the new dynamics of 3-D space due to its "dark" energy acting on the whole spacetime en bloc.

When will the Hamiltonian formulation of GR address this task? When pigs fly.

D.C.
January 31, 2010
 

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Subject: The schizophrenic behavior of gravity (SBG)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:16:20 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Nikolai Mitskievich <nmitskie@gmail.com>
Cc: kip@tapir.caltech.edu, weinberg@physics.utexas.edu, LSC Spokesperson <reitze@phys.ufl.edu>, Beverly Berger <bberger@nsf.gov>, Tom Carruthers <tcarruth@nsf.gov>, Denise S Henry <dshenry@nsf.gov>, Ramona Winkelbauer <rwinkelb@nsf.gov>, GW_comp@olegacy.gsfc.nasa.gov


Dear Dr. Mitskievich,

I think you shouldn't regret that you missed the chance to educate Kip Thorne [Ref. 1] about the inevitable failure of his LIGO project and the whole "GW astronomy". Arguments similar to yours have been spelled out by Steven Weinberg six years ago (25 Feb 2003), after which he added: "I often find that people who say silly things actually do correct calculations, but are careless in what they say about them."

Not just Kip Thorne, but the whole LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) are saying silly things, but because they use the linearized approximation of GR, they do "correct calculations".

However, if you use the same linearized approximation of GR, you can prove "GW astronomy" wrong by reductio ad absurdum:

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/Szabados.html#SBG

Either way, with GR or with its linearized approximation, LIGO is for the birds.

Trouble is, some people from NSF continue to dump hundreds of million U.S. dollars -- all taxpayers' money -- into this GW nonsense.

Typical for a socialist country.

Yours sincerely,

Dimi Chakalov

--------

[Ref. 1] Nikolai V. Mitskievich, arXiv:1002.1421v1,
http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.1421

"The gravitational deformation in general relativity does in fact belong to the kinematic effects, when it is described without the use of geodesic deviation equation. Thus, for example, the interferometric detection of gravitational waves cannot give a non-zero result, since the scales of all types of equally oriented lengths do change in gravitational fields in the same proportion, and the numbers of light wavelengths fitting along the alternative arms of interferometer cannot suffer changes in a passing gravitational wave.

"I am regretful not to tell these considerations to Kip S. Thorne more than two decades ago, simply because of a kind of awkward modesty."


 

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Subject: Pre-quantum dynamics, ref. [7] in arXiv:0912.2211v1 [quant-ph]
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:15:30 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Steve Adler <adler@ias.edu>
Cc: bassi@ts.infn.it

Hi Steve:

Before wrestling with the CSL model, why don't you explore first the legacy of Schrödinger and Margenau?

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#NB

Notice that the latest reference at the link above, relevant to the modification of Quantum Theory, is from November 1950.

Latest update at
http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#Doplicher1

Regards,

Dimi

P.S. Notice also an update at
http://tinyurl.com/steel-evaporation

D.

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Subject: A Biased and Personal Description of GR at Syracuse University, 1951-61, by E.T. Newman
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 04:47:39 +0200
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Ted <newman@pitt.edu>
Cc: tim.adamo@gmail.com, goldberg@phy.syr.edu

Ted:

Perhaps that full-time base-scientist (Josh should know his name) who was trying to understand and develop anti-gravity devices at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base [Ref. 1] will be interested to check out

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#brick_wall

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/Szabados.html#H3

Perhaps a Machian-type theory of gravity can explain the origin and mechanism of (instantaneous?) inertial reaction "forces" and their reversible cancellation, so that you can levitate your "anti-gravity device".

As to the McCarthy witch-hunt period [Ref. 1]: would you turn up your collar to read the facts about 9/11?

http://tinyurl.com/steel-evaporation

People are scared to even talk about 9/11. What a sad sad country.

I wish you and your colleagues could at least elaborate on the origin and mechanism of inertial reaction "forces", but I'm afraid you won't do it either. You didn't even respond to my email regarding your lrr-2009-6 and the mythical "future conformal null infinity".

Take care,

Dimi
--

[Ref. 1] E.T. Newman (July 30, 2002 ), A Biased and Personal Description of GR at Syracuse University, 1951-61.
http://physics.syr.edu/faculty/Goldberg/GRHistory3Ted.dvi.pdf

"I point out that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base provided financial support for the Syracuse and King's College groups (among several other relativity groups) from the mid 1950s to the early 1970s - during a most productive period. A question often asked is why did they do so. Though I was not privy to any internal Air Force information, once, when I spent a three month period working at the base, a full-time base-scientist remarked to me that they hoped to be
able to understand and perhaps develop anti-gravity devices. It does seem likely that this idea played some role in their financial support.
.......

"... a few weeks after I arrived in Syracuse I saw that a well-known left-wing journalist, I.F. Stone was giving a public talk. I went to the talk but with considerable trepidation since I had come from a fairly left-wing family background and the time was at the peak of the Joe McCarthy witch-hunt period. In my mild state of paranoia I actually had my collar turned up so that I would not be recognized."

 

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Subject: "Robert P. Crease loves priority battles. Robert P. Kirshner does not."
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:59:59 +0200
Message-ID:
<bed37361001080259y29116a52y6aa1ddd3d83477fe@mail.gmail.com>
From: Dimi Chakalov <dchakalov@gmail.com>
To: Robert P Kirshner <kirshner@cfa.harvard.edu>
Cc: Robert P Crease <rcrease@notes.cc.sunysb.edu>,
Saul Perlmutter <saul@lbl.gov>,
Adam Riess <ariess@pha.jhu.edu>,
Mike Turner <mturner@uchicago.edu>,
Josh Frieman <frieman@fnal.gov>,
Norbert Straumann <norbert.straumann@gmail.com>,
Sean Carroll <seancarroll@gmail.com>,
Lawrence M Krauss <lmk9@cwru.edu>,
Paul Davies <deepthought@asu.edu>,
Laszlo Szabados <lbszab@rmki.kfki.hu>,
Luca Bombelli <luca@phy.olemiss.edu>,
Adam Helfer <adam@math.missouri.edu>,
Malcolm A H MacCallum <m.a.h.maccallum@qmul.ac.uk>,
Chris Isham <c.isham@imperial.ac.uk>


Dear Dr. Kirshner,

Regarding your note from Jan 6, 2010,
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/41321

I'm glad that you don't like 'priority battles'. In your words, "Dark Energy is bigger (much bigger!) than any of us, and we are all incredibly lucky to be astronomers at the time when humans first found out about it."

Let me assume that nobody likes priority battles. I would just like to ask Adam Riess for the *exact date* in the fall of 1997, on which he did these calculations:

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000557

After Adam Riess recorded his calculations, they existed as a 'fact'. It was not yet "official" nor "published", but that doesn't really matter, because nobody likes priority battles. Yet it is instructive to notice that Adam Riess made the discovery of Dark Energy, because he converted it into a *fact*.

In the same vein, may I draw your attention to two facts, recorded on my web site. They are not yet "official" nor "published", but that doesn't really matter, because nobody likes priority battles.

The crux of the puzzle of DDE is in its *source* (I firmly disagree with the adjective "dark", because I think it is highly misleading, but unfortunately Mike Turner had a different opinion).

Specifically, the puzzle is that "more space comes into existence": see R. Rakhi & K. Indulekha and S. Carroll at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/#GR

I claim that *the only possible* explanation of the source of DDE is with *two modes of spacetime*, for reasons explained at my front web page.

Fact #1: My claim was recorded on 26 November 2009.

I also claim the priority of another solution, regarding 9/11 at

http://www.god-does-not-play-dice.net/9_11.html

Fact #2: My claim, in its final version, was recorded on January 7, 2010.

Regrettably, I cannot publish anything on *paper*, but that doesn't really matter, because facts can be recorded on the Web as well.

Should you or any of your colleagues have questions regarding these two facts, please write me back.

If my email does not *automatically* bounce back, I will consider the delivery of my email message as a *fact*.

With all good wishes to you and your colleagues,

Dimi Chakalov
----
http://tinyurl.com/steel-evaporation
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Dante Alighieri

 

Why killing people? To get cheaper gas for our cars?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

 

Why should we deny their unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality."

Dante Alighieri

 

 

 

D. Hilbert