The Grand Unified Theory! C and C Please!
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jonathan - 25 Aug 2005 01:42 GMT Uniting the quantum, classical and living realms.
A phase transition is when a system resides at the critical point between it's static and chaotic attractors. Such as a cloud residing at the critical point between water and air.
To create a Grand Unified Theory we must find a way to unite all the realms of the universe into one model of understanding. Uniting the four forces is not the answer if for no other reason that life, emotions or ideas would not be explained.
We must unite the realms of quantum motion, classical motion and Darwinian evolution into one seamless view explainable within one frame of reference and mathematics.
We must unite Heisenberg, Darwin.and Einstein!
This can be done by replacing a model that examines the specific details of objects such as matter, light and life, with a model that uses the ...behavior of these realms at their phase transitions. As matter, light and life all experience this behavior. Which is when they stand poised at the boundary between it's static and chaotic tendencies or forms.
For example. In a system comprising matter, light and energy; matter would reside in the static attractor basin, while energy defines the opposite extreme in possibility, the chaotic attractor. When those two are at the boundary or critical point between each other, when one can't tell if it's matter or energy....particle or wave...then light is generated. Light would fill the dynamic attractor that results from the critical interaction between static and chaotic states. Much as a cloud is the dynamic attractor that results from the critical interaction of water and air.
Another example. In a system comprising gravity, classical motion and cosmic expansion; gravity would reside in the static attractor basin, while cosmic expansion would defines the chaotic attractor. When those two are at the boundary between each other, when one can't tell if it's contracting or expanding...matter or energy....then the dynamic attractor of classical motion or inertia is generated.
These two examples provide the smallest and largest scale phase transition states in the universe.
They dynamic attractors formed from these two endpoints are light and motion.
If light and motion form the basis of a new system, where they respectively fill static and chaotic attractors, what dynamic attractor would form out of a phase transition between them?
The dynamic attractor of self-organization or evolution occurs at the phase transition between light and motion.
Darwinian evolution!
One model can explain the quantum and classical endpoints in possible motion, while also defining the cause of Darwinian evolution. Nothing in the universe is left out.
Heisenberg, Darwin and Einstein merged!
Does observation support this theory? Does the earth stand poised at the transition point, or the ideal balance, between light and motion? This balance is confirmed by the conditions on Venus and Mars, each testing the limits of this balance.
Does earth define an ideal living potential, and provide the best examples of Darwinian evolution?
Of course it does.
A direct mathematical relationship between quantum mechanics, biological evolution and classical motion now exists.
Jonathan
"An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere; An axe shrill singing in the woods; Fern-odors on untravelled roads, All this, and more I cannot tell, A furtive look you know as well, And Nicodemus' mystery Receives its annual reply."
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don findlay - 25 Aug 2005 04:41 GMT (Gee, two 's's this time...) (What's going on?)
Look Jonathon, ..that's all very well, waxing lyrical and quoting that dead doxy of yours (again). Mind you, she's got a far better handle on what it's all about than this mob of 'real scientists' who, whilst they recognise the first-order deformation of the planet's shape from the spherical, can't even begin to see the connection with its geological history, even when it's pointed out to them.
So you've got no chance mate. They're as dumb as the proverbial. They've got their collective heads buried that deep in the mantle, they can't even see what they're standing on. And don't wanbt to either.
Veszpertin - 25 Aug 2005 20:20 GMT Here you go! what are the exact contents of einstein oil?
Can anybody answer that question correctly?
After your finished contemplating the answers to those two questions this ponder on this for a while and reply.
Electromagnetic flux is what the extraterrestrial UFOs use for navigation, armor, propagation and stealth. The strength of electromagnetic field used is so high that scientists wondered what was the technology behind such endless and high intensity electromagnetic force fields in these space modules.
Now scientists are getting early indication of what is behind these advanced alien ships in obtaining the electromagnetic force fields. The Physical Universe is connected with the underlying Hyperspace by some sparsely distributed particle size small windows called Fermions. These Fermions literally connect our universe with the 5-D Hyperspace.
The suction from the Hyperspace through the Fermions create the gravity and the electromagnetic force fields. The Fermions exist in 5-D and hence are virtual in 3-D space of our physical Universe. These Fermions are the opening to the Hyperspace from the 3-D space of our Physical Universe. The extraterrestrial UFOs can easily detect these Fermions since the alien space ships are also real in 5-D Hyperspace and virtual in 3-D space. They use the Fermions to tap the suction from the Hyperspace and divert the electromagnetic force fields towards its propagation, navigation, stealth and armor engines.
This really provides the extraterrestrial UFOs the endless source of electromagnetic force fields of immense intensity. Some space agencies have tried using super-cooled superconductors to create the electromagnetic force fields but got baffled at the result. Now it is clear to the scientists that the main source of electromagnetic energy is not the superconductor but the Fermions that overlap the Physical Universe and Hyperspace and connect the two through billions and billions of microscopic openings.
The extraterrestrial flight patterns show that the UFOs maintain steady flight navigation and propagation. They can accelerate and decelerate in a manner as if an endless electric motor with source energy supply is connected to them. What really happens is that the Fermions are distributed all over the Universe in trillions and the UFOs can connect to them all the time.
The mechanism works like cell phone or mobile phone technologies. One set of Fermions hand over the control to next set of Fermions as the UFO propagate and navigate forward in a 3-D space of the physical universe. In remote areas, cell phone companies install something called micro cells that act as relay mechanism. The extraterrestrial UFOs install artificial Fermions in areas where natural Fermions are not available. This provides the UFOs the propagation and navigation in remote areas like under earths crust and so on.
I'm falling in love with Fermions.
Joe Strout - 25 Aug 2005 20:29 GMT > Electromagnetic flux is what the extraterrestrial UFOs use for > navigation, armor, propagation and stealth. A darn ham-fisted technology, if you ask me. What you really want to zip around the universe in is an Infinite Improbability drive, powered by a good source of brownian motion -- say, a nice hot cup of tea.
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George William Herbert - 27 Aug 2005 09:45 GMT >> Electromagnetic flux is what the extraterrestrial UFOs use for >> navigation, armor, propagation and stealth. > >A darn ham-fisted technology, if you ask me. What you really want to >zip around the universe in is an Infinite Improbability drive, powered >by a good source of brownian motion -- say, a nice hot cup of tea. Oh, darn it, I left my slice of Lemon at work. It'll take weeks to get to Sirius without it...
-george william herbert gherbert@retro.com
don findlay - 25 Aug 2005 23:30 GMT > Here you go! what are the exact contents of einstein oil? > > Can anybody answer that question correctly? > > After your finished contemplating the answers to those two > questions this ponder on this for a while and reply. It's perfecly plain to me. 'Science' is when you use it to do something clever. 'Technology' is when it uses you to do something stupid. There are many examples of this. My favourite of the second one is the red traffic lights at 3am on a Sunday morning. And my favourite first is the policeman lurking behind the dunny to catch me when I scoot through them because according to all norms of rationale they shouldn't be there. It's like laws in general are for idiots, namely themascant do the right thing at the right time, for whom we all must wallow in the sh.t of that Consensus GEEZER - the Common Denominator. But if we're clever about it we have to have them, in case somebody does something stupid like uses their initiative to do something clever.
See? There's good oil (and bad oil) ...and Einstein oil. And the answer to the second was yes. I just did.
Sylvia Else - 26 Aug 2005 08:07 GMT > Electromagnetic flux is what the extraterrestrial UFOs use for > navigation, armor, propagation and stealth. The strength of > electromagnetic field used is so high that scientists wondered what was > the technology behind such endless and high intensity electromagnetic > force fields in these space modules. Using it for both propagation and stealth seems problematic. To be stealthy, the flux would have to be confined, which prevents it from generating any net force.
Sylvia.
jonathan - 26 Aug 2005 11:31 GMT > Here you go! what are the exact contents of einstein oil?
> Can anybody answer that question correctly? Simplicity sadly 'seems' superior.
> After your finished contemplating the answers to those two > questions this ponder on this for a while and reply.
> Electromagnetic flux is what the extraterrestrial UFOs use for > navigation, armor, propagation and stealth. Why would aliens want to travel here, or any distant place?
Such technology requires a deep understanding of reality. That understanding would provide all the answers such travel would be designed to discover. It's a catch-22~
They would watch from afar instead. And I'm certain they are!
Dreams of traveling to distant stars are for those that have yet to discover the true simplicity of the universe. Like us for instance. Someday our understanding of the natural world will rise to the level where collecting proof and evidence are no longer needed.
The universe, the answers to the big questions, are discovered by looking within.
Jonathan
"The Soul that has a Guest, Doth seldom go abroad, Diviner Crowd at home Obliterate the need, And courtesy forbid A Host's departure, when Upon Himself be visiting The Emperor of Men!"
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The strength of electromagnetic field used is so high that scientists wondered what was the technology behind such endless and high intensity electromagnetic force fields in these space modules.
Now scientists are getting early indication of what is behind these advanced alien ships in obtaining the electromagnetic force fields. The Physical Universe is connected with the underlying Hyperspace by some sparsely distributed particle size small windows called Fermions. These Fermions literally connect our universe with the 5-D Hyperspace.
The suction from the Hyperspace through the Fermions create the gravity and the electromagnetic force fields. The Fermions exist in 5-D and hence are virtual in 3-D space of our physical Universe. These Fermions are the opening to the Hyperspace from the 3-D space of our Physical Universe. The extraterrestrial UFOs can easily detect these Fermions since the alien space ships are also real in 5-D Hyperspace and virtual in 3-D space. They use the Fermions to tap the suction from the Hyperspace and divert the electromagnetic force fields towards its propagation, navigation, stealth and armor engines.
This really provides the extraterrestrial UFOs the endless source of electromagnetic force fields of immense intensity. Some space agencies have tried using super-cooled superconductors to create the electromagnetic force fields but got baffled at the result. Now it is clear to the scientists that the main source of electromagnetic energy is not the superconductor but the Fermions that overlap the Physical Universe and Hyperspace and connect the two through billions and billions of microscopic openings.
The extraterrestrial flight patterns show that the UFOs maintain steady flight navigation and propagation. They can accelerate and decelerate in a manner as if an endless electric motor with source energy supply is connected to them. What really happens is that the Fermions are distributed all over the Universe in trillions and the UFOs can connect to them all the time.
The mechanism works like cell phone or mobile phone technologies. One set of Fermions hand over the control to next set of Fermions as the UFO propagate and navigate forward in a 3-D space of the physical universe. In remote areas, cell phone companies install something called micro cells that act as relay mechanism. The extraterrestrial UFOs install artificial Fermions in areas where natural Fermions are not available. This provides the UFOs the propagation and navigation in remote areas like under earths crust and so on.
I'm falling in love with Fermions.
Pat Flannery - 27 Aug 2005 09:09 GMT >Here you go! what are the exact contents of einstein oil? > > Relative to what?
Pat
jonathan - 25 Aug 2005 22:56 GMT > (Gee, two 's's this time...) (What's going on?) And two typos in there too. I'm getting sloppy.
> Look Jonathon, ..that's all very well, waxing lyrical and quoting that > dead doxy of yours (again). Mind you, she's got a far better handle on > what it's all about than this mob of 'real scientists' who, whilst they > recognise the first-order deformation of the planet's shape from the > spherical, can't even begin to see the connection with its geological > history, even when it's pointed out to them. Ya know, most won't even consider an idea unless it has attached to it a well-titled name, and lots of charts, graphs and incomprehensible strings of equations.
Then it's 'science'. Their faith in scientific authority is so deep that the notion of thinking for yourself is considered kookish.
I've 'ciphered this out. The only way to convince others is through demonstrations. I've decided the real world system I'll use as a demonstration will be the stock market. Why? Because it's the very easiest discipline for this as all the data is already collected nice and neat on 2d charts. Plus, the internet has created very natural behavior in the markets, and it's easy to post predictions in advance that anyone can easily verify. Even play along with once they learn to trust the predictions.
And because I'll make lots of dough in the process~
A couple of months or so I'll be ready to quit my job and give full time trading a go. I expect to be able to do 20% a week, every week, like clockwork.
The trading system already has tested out that well. Even And while trading when busy at work with only an internet cell phone and tiny little bitty charts to work with.
I know I can do it, and I'll brag no end. Then, and only then, well anyone take a serious look.
Jonathan
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> So you've got no chance mate. They're as dumb as the proverbial. > They've got their collective heads buried that deep in the mantle, they > can't even see what they're standing on. And don't wanbt to either. don findlay - 26 Aug 2005 00:09 GMT > Ya know, most won't even consider an idea unless it has > attached to it a well-titled name, and lots of charts, graphs [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > I've 'ciphered this out. The only way to convince others > is through demonstrations. Nope. That's even worse. That's when they really begin to get stroppy. You have to let them 'think' it for themselves. Give them permission. Allow them. They're like children, who have lost the essential child-like faculty of hope and wonder. They're **BLOODY DALEKS**. That's what they're evolved into. ...what 'science' does to them. This is why they want to go to MARS.
George - 26 Aug 2005 00:59 GMT >> (Gee, two 's's this time...) (What's going on?) > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > attached to it a well-titled name, and lots of charts, graphs > and incomprehensible strings of equations. Umm, Johnny. I thought Math was your forte?
jonathan - 26 Aug 2005 01:55 GMT > >> (Gee, two 's's this time...) (What's going on?) > > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Umm, Johnny. I thought Math was your forte? And if I posted the chapters would anyone read it? All you have to do is ask for the math on any given point I make, And I'll point you to appropriate links. But again, you wouldn't, few would, do the homework. So I spend quite a bit of effort to put it in essay form so it has a chance of being read. And it's good practice for me to try in any event.
For chrissakes I posted a claim on the theory of everything. If it's nonsense it should be simple, easy and trivial for you or others to point out the flaws in some detail.
You'd think~
I can defend every word in that post, and most others for that matter. I mean if you can't poke a gaping hole in a claim of that magnitude, you'd think that would raise some curiosity.
George - 26 Aug 2005 03:23 GMT >> >> (Gee, two 's's this time...) (What's going on?) >> > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > it has a chance of being read. And it's good practice for > me to try in any event. Umm, I don't want your links to other peoples' math. You say that the math is incomprehensible. Show us why the math is incomprehensible to you, the mathematician, and then show us the 'correct' way it should be done.
> For chrissakes I posted a claim on the theory of everything. > If it's nonsense it should be simple, easy and trivial for [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > in a claim of that magnitude, you'd think that would raise > some curiosity. Umm, we're waiting.
Veszpertin - 26 Aug 2005 06:09 GMT So nobody really knows what is actually the contents of Einstein oil. How sad.
jonathan - 26 Aug 2005 12:02 GMT > > And if I posted the chapters would anyone read it? > > All you have to do is ask for the math on any given [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > You say that the math > is incomprehensible. To layman, to others reading the posts is would be. Why would I want to force people to speak a different language when I can covert it to theirs?
> Show us why the math is incomprehensible to you, the > mathematician, and then show us the 'correct' way it should be done. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Umm, we're waiting. You should know that the detailed math comes into play when /applying/ it. You've been taught all your scientific life that the test of scientific truth will be in it's simplicity and elegance. If the underlying concepts cannot be spoken plainly, they FAIL:L that ultimate test. In 'fact' if the concepts are not spoken in poetic terms, then the author is simply too ...lazy... to match substance with form.
So you want me to post hundreds of pages of mathematics? When instead you could say, 'splain this one point please' instead. Incredible!
OK, I'll post some of it. I've read all this and understand a fair portion of it, when you've done the same let me know.
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DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS Textbook for seminar/course on complex systems: Full online text. http://www.necsi.org/publications/dcs/
INVESTIGATIONS THE NATURE OF AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND THE WORLDS THEY MUTUALLY CREATE STUART A. KAUFFMAN http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/People/kauffman/Investigations.html
Nonlinear Science FAQ http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sci/nonlinear-faq/
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Complex Systems: some Internet pointers http://www.iaa.csic.es/~eperez/research/complexity-locations.html
George - 26 Aug 2005 17:15 GMT >> > And if I posted the chapters would anyone read it? >> > All you have to do is ask for the math on any given [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Why would I want to force people to speak a different > language when I can covert it to theirs? This is a science newsgroup, Johnny. Humour us.
>> Show us why the math is incomprehensible to you, the >> mathematician, and then show us the 'correct' way it should be done. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > OK, I'll post some of it. I've read all this and understand a fair > portion of it, when you've done the same let me know. Apparently, you are illiterate as well, since you can't read directions. I don't want links to other people's work. You claim to be a mathematician. If so, you know that math instructors in college require that you show your work. professional publications also require you to show your work. Most of us here are scientists, Johnny. Show us your work, right here and now, not in links to the work of others. If you cannot do this, I have no choice but to decide that you are lying, and don't actually know how to do the "incomprehensible" math.
jonathan - 26 Aug 2005 20:06 GMT > Apparently, you are illiterate as well, since you can't read directions. I > don't want links to other people's work. You claim to be a mathematician. > If so, you know that math instructors in college require that you show your > work. professional publications also require you to show your work. What 'work' would you be referring to?
All my 'work' is posted, every bit of it. That's all there is.
All I've been doing from day one is relating established concepts in my own way, then running with them as far as I can. Virtually all of it is established science. It's just new to you, so you expect me to claim I've discovered all these concepts. I've never once said that. However, I regularly attach added significance to these well-known scientific relationships. I'm juggling established concepts.
If you can't dispute any of the assumptions or arguments I put forth, then those conclusions hold.
WHERE do you think I'm wrong? If you can't answer that, then claiming it's nonsense is an act of ignorance.
You just don't get this new kind of non-linear sciences. They operate from an inverse frame of reference from classical. Which means the 'work' you wish to see comes at the end, when applied, not at the beginning. I've only applied these concepts once, which is the stock trading strategy I posted. There you'll find precise equations that are completely unique and all mine. With precise hypothesis presented and some experimental evidence in the form of stock price prediction. But if you like, I'll start up predicting stock behavior in advance so you can check the data yourself. But only if you become rational.
George, I just kill you in every one of these exchanges. Are you a masochist~
Jonathan
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George - 27 Aug 2005 07:54 GMT >> Apparently, you are illiterate as well, since you can't read directions. >> I [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > All my 'work' is posted, every bit of it. That's all there is. Really? Where? All I've see are rants about doesn't do this, NASA this and NASA should do that, and looney claims of Martian spoonges. No math in any of those posts, that's for sure. You've been asked by others as well to post the math that proves your point, and to date, you've not done so. Either show your work, or shut up, Johnny.
don findlay - 26 Aug 2005 16:30 GMT > Uniting the quantum, classical and living realms. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > is not the answer if for no other reason that life, emotions > or ideas would not be explained. It's what I recognise as "the interface pheonomenon", or it could be called a scale problem - the scale at which certain laws of cause-and-effect cease to operate and another set of rules takes over. For example (getting geological in a simple sort of way) does the crust *sit on* the mantle, or *float in* it? And then what do we do, really, with the ideas of isostacy when uplift creates erosion, but erosion creates uplift?
In trying to understand this business of 'floatation' of the crust I think along simple lines like, "How big does an iron meteorite (say) have to be before it sinks through the crust instead of just sitting on top of it?" We're talking density after all, are we not? Under such circumstances the fall-back position, that "it's just a working hypothesis" is worse than no position, because it obstructs investigation and promotes fear in those with the intellectual capacity to address the question(s). Why should they go out on a risky limb when there are no credits for doing so, and there are benefits in being a clever sheep in a dumb flock?
(And the biggie - mass and electricity.)
Questions of hierarchy of scale of cause and effect. They never seem to be properly addressed. In trying to understand geological history for example, and recognising first-order deformation of the Earth is the deviation from the spherical (thus implicating rotation - which is with us every day) how is it there is no attempt from geologists or geophysicists to recognise this for the second and third-order scale structures? And even when the supporting evidence for it is crudely suggested, ...well, we'd get more response from a lump of wet putty (over geological time).
Even this simple question of mountains and what makes them, and how so many people (particularly those in charge of the physics and the numbers) can go along with the nonsense that they are caused by orogenesis, when the simplest of observations of landforms militates against it. How is it those with their fingers on the numbers buttons can have such a deficit in the department of sense of proportion and scale? And how is it there is such a reluctance to hold consensus to account, when it promotes obvious nonsense?
That's what I find weird. But I would like to think that we're at "the critical point between the static and the chaotic" in addressing it. There seems to be a very definite dearth of voice here in support of plate tectonics, compared, say, to a year or so ago. Stuart's dropped his moniker and George is just "excuse me" cutting-and-pasting.
jonathan - 27 Aug 2005 18:33 GMT > > Uniting the quantum, classical and living realms. > > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > really, with the ideas of isostacy when uplift creates erosion, but > erosion creates uplift? Your question seems to be "what causes a mountain" and "what methods or sciences should be applied to finding the answer". Since this is part of a thread where I claim any question can be answered by one theory let's see if I can answer these questions using this unified theory. While barely knowing a thing about geology aside from how it's spelled.
You seem to want to answer that question in classical reductionist terms, which would be what variables are involved in mountain creation.
Complexity science does the opposite. It looks at the output first in order to understand the components.
The first thing I would do is ask the following question. What are the two opposite extremes in possibility for a typical mountain? What are the static and chaotic realms? Which takes the form of convergent and divergent paths in mountain building. Analogous to a cloud returning to either its liquid or gaseous forms. In this case I suppose the two opposite extremes are respectively motion/plate movement, and light/heat.
If a mountain has the tendency to quickly /converge/ to a static or simple state, to simple motion, then the science one would apply would be that suitable for static realms. Particle physics, or the methods of geology that deal in simple large scale mechanics.
If a mountain tends to quickly /diverge/ to a chaotic form, to randomly fill the available space, then the science needed would be that which is appropriate to the chaotic realm. Quantum or statistical mechanics, or appropriate geological methods for random diffusive systems.
However, even a complete novice like me, knows that many mountains have a strong tendency to be /persistent/. Persistently between it's own extremes in possibility. Armed with only that very limited observation, I can deduce that neither of the above types of geological methods will be able to provide a complete or satisfactory answer to every type of mountain, only the simplest types.
Because a system that is persistently poised at the threshold between subcritcal and supercritical behavior, diverging or converging paths, is modeled by a power law distribution of events. Like an earthquake, a few very large ones followed by countless little ones. See here please. http://www.calresco.org/sos/sosfaq.htm#3.6
Which also, and this is no small point, is the behavior that extinction and speciation follow....life!
So you're not going to find the answer through standard geological methods if the object of study follows a power law distribution of events. The reason is simple, such a self organized system is comprised of components that are at the edge. That are intractably entangled with each other. In short, the /components/ of a system displaying power law behavior act chaotically. So looking at them in detail does not help much! It's like trying to decipher exactly when a water molecule transitions to air and back again when part of a cloud. You'll go nuts~
Since some mountain building follows a power law, you cannot understand that type by moving /down/ in scale to its parts. You have to move ....up....in scale to understand self organized systems. You have to scale up to the next emergent level When dealing with edge systems.
To decide which methods to use, the question becomes what is the next emergent level of organization above geology?
It is life.
So the science needed to understand complex mountains would be derived from biology not geology. Sounds crazy eh?
In brief here is the mathematics, in abstract form, for living systems. http://www.calresco.org/sos/sosfaq.htm
Let's see if this approach helps define the way mountains are formed. Since I've concluded that life explains the most complex mountains, then my claim in the unified theory that......
"The dynamic attractor of self-organization or evolution occurs at the phase transition between light and motion."
...holds for such complex mountains.
Let's see if I can reconstruct the basics, in a very abstract form, of mountain building from this universal law of organization.
"As a phase transition between light and motion."
So, converting the abstract forms of light and motion to this specific problem would.take the form of light/energy and motion/momentum. Or between heat and plate movement.
You tell me if this works.
There should be three broad categories of mountains.
The first two should reflect when either heat or motion dominates. When the system is not at the transition between the two.
The third type should be when at the edge.
When the static attractor of motion dominates and heat is not a primary factor, the results should reflect convergent or static, simple behavior. Slow to form, predictable, long lived, and uniform.. Each component of such a mountain would be strongly connected to adjacent components. It should behave as a solid as the component connectivity is very high. The correspondence of its form to that of the earth would be related to its level of motion. Low enough it would take the form of the earth.
When the chaotic attractor of heat dominates, and motion is not a primary variable, the results should reflect divergent or chaotic behavior. Sudden formation, unpredictable and short lived. It should behave as a gas, where the components have very low connectivity to each other. The correspondence of its form to that of the atmosphere would be related to its level of heat. High enough it would take the form of a gas.
An edge state is when both heat and motion are at simultaneous maximums without either dominating. This would be the most dynamic, volatile and locally unpredictable. But would have the unique property of being predictable at large scales and follow power law or earthquake like dynamics. So such mountains should be the most common, the youngest, largest and most rugged. With intermediate connectivity, where each creation is unique and highly complex, yet self similar across scale. Its correspondence in form would not be relative to either extreme of earth or atmosphere. But to other power law systems. It's shape would resemble, for instance, a lightning bolt. Jagged and energetic.
Let me know if these three broad and abstract categories corresponds somewhat to your knowledge of mountain building. If not /you/ should adjust accordingly until it does <g>
> In trying to understand this business of 'floatation' of the crust I > think along simple lines like, "How big does an iron meteorite (say) > have to be before it sinks through the crust instead of just sitting on > top of it?" We're talking density after all, are we not? Nope, we're talking connectivity. To quote the above page on self-organizing or evolving systems.....
5.7 How does connectivity affect landscape shape?
"In general the higher the connectivity the more rugged the landscape becomes. Simply connected landscapes have a single peak, a change to one parameter has little effect on the others." http://www.calresco.org/sos/sosfaq.htm#5.7
They're talking about fitness landscapes, but it's much the same thing, only at a higher level of complexity. Which only means easier to see and understand.
Or in other words.... Low connectivity landscapes would be like resting your meteor on a fluid, doesn't matter much how dense it is. So the importance of the density of the meteor decreases as the density of the landscape goes towards very small or very large.
Right?
So you would have to brush up on thermodynamics to derive a useful mathematical relationship to answer your question. Not geology.
You now have the proper first step in answering that question. And it is life/nature that shows the way. As with all things.
In summary, the first question to ask for any given question is whether that system displays convergent divergent or persistent behavior./relative/ its own opposite extremes in possibilities. This tells you whether your asking about chaotic or static part behavior, or emergent system behavior. Then apply the appropriate methods. And /re-ask/ and /re-apply/ each time the scale or perspective changes. Each time you move up, down or across the causation ladder.
Static, dynamic or chaotic Physics, thermodynamics or statistics
Einstein, Darwin or Heisenberg
For any given object, you may be applying any one, or all of the three, of those realms of science depending on the context. Whether you're treating that given object as a part or a whole.
Depending on the observer.
If the question were, how do planets form, then the very same mountain would be a part, not an emergent feature. So now the mountain is dealt with as chaotic or static, and the planet as emergent. Which science is applied for any given object depends on .....the observer....on the question. NOT the object.
In any event, you continue scaling /up/ to understand for an emergent feature, which are the most interesting kinds. Finally to life and intelligence. Where these universal properties are most abundant and easiest to see. For this paradigm holds for your own thoughts, so mountain building can be deduced from the way in which an idea forms.
As a phase transition between knowledge and dreams.
The static and chaotic. When in an unstable equilibrium with each other, when both are at simultaneous maximums without either dominating, the best ideas are formed.
And finally you'll conclude that the entire universe is understood from searching within. Not 'counting' the world outside.
By emergent creations formed by a persistent and unstable equilibrium between static and chaotic forms.
Nothing in the universe is left out by expanding to understand, resulting in simplicity and the universal. Reducing to understand leaves out all that is truly meaningful, emergent creation, and results in confusion and countless local explanations.
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> circumstances the fall-back position, that "it's just a working > hypothesis" is worse than no position, because it obstructs [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > of plate tectonics, compared, say, to a year or so ago. Stuart's > dropped his moniker and George is just "excuse me" cutting-and-pasting. Alan Anderson - 28 Aug 2005 00:25 GMT > You seem to want to answer that question in classical > reductionist terms, which would be what variables [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > at the output first in order to understand the > components. That's not science as I know it. That's the kind of "reasoning" that leads to religion and dogma. Your "complexity science" hasn't made any testable predictions that I can see. Instead, you categorize things into two opposingly degenerate cases and something you explicitly claim to be unpredictable.
However highly you prize your hammer of chaos, the entire universe is still not a nail.
jonathan - 28 Aug 2005 23:06 GMT > > You seem to want to answer that question in classical > > reductionist terms, which would be what variables [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > That's not science as I know it. That's the whole point. The science you know uses a frame of reference that entirely misses the most important phenomena of all. Which are the self-tuning system properties that emerge from complex adaptive systems. These system properties cannot be deduced from a detailed examination of part properties, as is the habit of science.
These system properties exist in far from equilibrium conditions which your science goes out of the way to avoid. After all only near equilibrium states are repeatable.
These self-tuning system properties have no tangible form, only an effect on the whole. They cannot be tested or predicted in a quantifiable way.
Yet these emergent system properties define our existence and the real world. Whether with natural selection, market forces or public opinion. And all these realms are considered soft science by your methods. Where results are found more by art than science.
The truth of our reality is that it's dominated by critical points. Where linear or repeatable methods fail.
> That's the kind of "reasoning" that > leads to religion and dogma. It's the kind of reasoning that combines science and religion into one method of understanding that is consistent with both. This allows scientific reasoning to be applied to philosophical questions...for the very first time.
Science has depended on upward causation to form our fundamental laws. It looks at small scale part details to derive them. That is an error of enormous proportions as the definitive emergent system properties cannot be seen in this way.
Religion has depended on methods, revealed and scripture, that are equally misguided. But the frame of reference is correct. Where fundamental laws are derived from downward causation.
Science has used the wrong frame of reference from day one but the methods are sound.
Religion has used the wrong methods from day one but the frame of reference is correct.
Complexity science discards the trash and combines what's left over. It's about producing processes that find the best answer all by themselves. And trusting that the future results will be the best possible. Instead of trying to force the future into existence through flawed preconceptions.
> Your "complexity science" hasn't made any > testable predictions that I can see. And why is that a test of 'science'? In reality, does the process of natural selection allow the future to be precisely predicted? No, of course not, a process is established that converges on the best possible future through evolutionary means.
The entire point of the butterfly effect, of non-linear events, is that the future cannot be predicted in a precise way.
Your science insists on precision, predictability and repeatability if it's to be called 'science'. Yet NONE of those properties exists anywhere in the universe.
I consider your methods to be Dark Age, as a result of this glaring incongruity between method and reality.
> Instead, you categorize things > into two opposingly degenerate cases and something you explicitly claim > to be unpredictable. Unpredictable only in the components. Predictability and repeatability only truly lie in the system output or properties. Which is why it starts there.
If the system behavior, the output, generates self-tuning as with a market or selection, then the parts are known to be chaotic in character. In that a precise mapping from input to output is not possible.
If the components are static or precisely definable, then the system output will be chaotic.
That is a tenet of the new non-linear sciences.
What this means is that your methods work only in aspects of reality that matter the least in terms of deriving fundamental laws concerning order and life. As the source of order, life and intelligence resides where component structure is NOT definable. Does not map to the future.
The Great Mistake of modern science is in the notion that our basic laws of the universe are to be derived from the smallest scale part properties. From the simplest or most predicable behavior found in the universe. That notion is exactly and completely wrong.
Our laws should be derived from the most complex the universe has to offer, from life and intelligence. That is what the chaos and complexity sciences are in the midst of doing. Completely rewriting all of our fundamental laws.
All of them!
> However highly you prize your hammer of chaos, the entire universe is > still not a nail. Not a nail, the entire universe can be seen in an emotion.
As a phase transition, or balance, between 'degenerate forms' as you call them. When the two system-specific opposite extremes are intractably entangled. That is where the self-tuning properties emerge that are the source of all order, evolution and life. The one place where precision and repeatability fails.
The one place your science cannot see.
Your method looks for certainty in all things.
But until you accept the fact that the universe and life forms when system component structure /uncertainty/ is at a maximum, your certain methods will never see the true simplicity of the universe, or find universal law.
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Alan Anderson - 29 Aug 2005 00:29 GMT > > > You seem to want to answer that question in classical > > > reductionist terms, which would be what variables [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > system properties that emerge from complex adaptive > systems. Emergent systems are definitely part of the science I know. The problem with the way you're trying to apply the concept is that they invariably involve components ("individuals") which interact with their environment in specific ways.
Mountains don't do that; they are basically the *result* of interactions, not actors in and of themselves.
> These system properties cannot be deduced from > a detailed examination of part properties, as is the > habit of science. That's not a description of science as I know it either.
Science doesn't 'deduce' system properties. It measures things, models things, and predicts things...and then measures again to test the predictions. It uses *inductive* reasoning far more than it uses deductive reasoning. Deduction is a way to try to explain the workings of a system based on underlying rules, not a way to predict outcomes.
Deduction without testability is religion, not science.
And that's all I have to say about that.
don findlay - 29 Aug 2005 02:06 GMT > Science doesn't 'deduce' system properties. It measures things, models > things, and predicts things...and then measures again to test the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Deduction without testability is religion, not science. With their popes and their churches, the two are very close. You paint the popular idea of science as it's taught in schools, but in reality it's a definition that doesn't work very well. It smacks of the measuring heads, noses and the Holocaust, and omits the conceptual leaps, the breakthroughs, the cognitive enlightenments, which invariably happen in the mind of the individual, not in the laboratories of teams of 'scientists' (technicians), that take 'science' forward. It's the underlying reason for monolithic consensus, the fear of exploring new ideas, the rubishing that any deviation from consensus must suffer, and the upholding of nonsense in the face of commonsense. Plate Tectonics for example, in the Earth sciences - it's so called "crowning achievement". When it is such obvious bullshit, how can so many 'scientists' go along with it?
> And that's all I have to say about that. Well, you haven't thought much about it. Nor engaged. What you're talking about is more technology than science (if there is considered to be a difference)- getting the 'tools' that we know will work, to work better. It's reductive. 'Science', as people normally like to regard it, is different. It is, as Jonathon says, more to do with working out the hierarchy of cause and effect of reality and 'truth', that allows the 'tools' to work in the first place. Which is holistic. Once that is worked out, then test it by all means, but it's the holistic aspect that provides the tools that we know will work. 'Science' as you call it, is just using them. The creation and discarding of hypotheses ("anyone can have one") through the use of tools is a tawdry affair, and cheapens the real deal, which occurs at a deeper level in the mind than the 'ten-a-penny' we get in Nature, Science, Scientific American and the like.
don findlay - 28 Aug 2005 06:17 GMT > > > Uniting the quantum, classical and living realms.
> The first thing I would do is ask the following question. > What are the two opposite extremes in possibility > for a typical mountain? No, the first questionto ask is, what is a mountain:- http://users.indigo.net.au/don/au/to/whatis.html
> What are the static and chaotic > realms? Which takes the form of convergent and divergent > paths in mountain building. Analogous to a cloud returning to > either its liquid or gaseous forms. Ah, ..based on good observation.
> In this case I suppose the two > opposite extremes are respectively motion/plate movement, > and light/heat. And good observation says :- "there are no plates". "And no motion." And what does light and heat have to do with things, if there are no plates and no motion?
> If a mountain has the tendency to quickly /converge/ > to a static or simple state, to simple motion, then the science [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > needed would be that which is appropriate to > the chaotic realm. Making mountains is a destructive, not a constructive event. They are an artifact of weather (erosion/ break-up) and gravity (removal/ transport). Correction:- they are *what's left* when those two have worked their random woe. They are an expression of RESISTANCE to RANDOM WOE. Does that make it static or chaotic?
> Quantum or statistical mechanics, or > appropriate geological methods for random diffusive systems. > > However, even a complete novice like me, knows that > many mountains have a strong tendency to be /persistent/. Yes and no. Not in a geological framework. Geological speaking they are reduced to rubble and peneplain faster than than a geological blink. But the time scale for mountain-building probably needs revised.
> Persistently between it's own extremes in possibility. > Armed with only that very limited observation, I can > deduce that neither of the above types of geological methods > will be able to provide a complete or satisfactory answer > to every type of mountain, only the simplest types. There is only one type, the one that's way up there whilst we are way down here. You're talking from a 'genetic' perspective, when that is what we're trying to work out.
> Because a system that is persistently poised at the > threshold between subcritcal and supercritical [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > geological methods if the object of study follows a power > law distribution of events. Uniformitarianism versus catastrophism?
> The reason is simple, such > a self organized system is comprised of components [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > becomes what is the next emergent level of > organization above geology? That's right - ( Gravity + hydrosphere + rotation + Sun + weather + ? + ? +
> It is life. Ohoohh, I don't know about that, .. It's a pretty big leap - and what do you mean by 'life'? But it's a good question - where in the hierarchy of cause and effect does life (growth by cell division, e.g., the mid-oceanic ridges <smile here> fit in? Does it have a singular place?, ..or is it a pervasive phenomenon of self-organisation generally, ...just that some things are more 'living' than others, ..more recognisable life forms than others (there are some pretty thick planks around here).
> So the science needed to understand complex mountains would > be derived from biology not geology. Sounds crazy eh? A mountain is not 'caused'. It's what's left after erosion has had a go at it. I don't know how that figures with life. Well I kind of do, ..but only in a sort of a way.
> In brief here is the mathematics, in abstract > form, for living systems. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > "The dynamic attractor of self-organization or evolution occurs > at the phase transition between light and motion." Don't forget you're not constructing anything. Mountains are residual. They are a byproduct of something else (weathering/ climate/) - They are an untidy residue
> ...holds for such complex mountains. > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > The third type should be when at the edge. I'm having difficulty here, in view of the above (that mountains are an untidy residue). Mountains are not really mountains - they are a hole in the efficiency of erosion, due to an interaction with what's being eroded
> When the static attractor of motion dominates and heat is not a primary > factor, the results should reflect convergent or static, simple behavior. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > corresponds somewhat to your knowledge of mountain building. > If not /you/ should adjust accordingly until it does <g> I'm at a bit of a loss how your idea of mountain building (?) relates to mine of erosional destruction.
> > In trying to understand this business of 'floatation' of the crust I > > think along simple lines like, "How big does an iron meteorite (say) [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > the same thing, only at a higher level of complexity. > Which only means easier to see and understand. I have to think about that. I would have thought that the higher the connectivity, the smoother the 'landscape' would be (more things relating to each other evens things out - it should end up like a plane) - but I guess you're talking about those cauliflower Mandelbrot pictures..
> Or in other words.... > Low connectivity landscapes would be like resting [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Right? It's resistance. The crust is resistant, therefore lava flows that splurge out don't sink. This is critical to the existence of ocean floors, and why the exposed mantle under the water is not a bog of sinking lava fields (as isostacy says it should be - particularly when gravitationally gripped by the Moon) <g>
> So you would have to brush up on thermodynamics > to derive a useful mathematical relationship to > answer your question. Not geology. Yes, I know. Geology has recognised Earth expansion as the top of the pyramid of cause-and-effect as it affects the closed system of the body of the Earth and its geological history (time). And that has lifted enquiry on the astro-scale. Now it's over to physicists to explain how it happens. Their insistence on heat loss and convection is an insult to the intelligence of schoolchildren. And more people need to say so. In fact, I'd almost substitute 'growth' for 'expansion', and wonder why I don't.
> You now have the proper first step in answering > that question. And it is life/nature that shows the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > /re-apply/ each time the scale or perspective changes. > Each time you move up, down or across the causation ladder. ..The appropriate scale of cause and effect... Yes, but it's linear, isn't it, ..moving up and down that ladder, and intuitively I don't like that, because between each 'rung'/ edge/ scale change/ there is self organisation and feedback, ..and intuitively it doesn't seem right that there should be an end to the ladder, a top to the pyramid. I know it's an easy way to conceive of cause and effect, but I'm not sure it's a good one (Him up there - giving us the big rungaround). It's more in-and-out than that, surely ? Less 'linear', ..more 'connected'.
> Static, dynamic or chaotic > Physics, thermodynamics or statistics [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > object depends on .....the observer....on the question. > NOT the object. "Scale of approach". But of course, if you take us out of the picture, the phenomenon(a) still exists and must be accounted for, ..just that it won't be the same account as the various 'we's' give it.
> In any event, you continue scaling /up/ to understand > for an emergent feature, which are the most interesting kinds. > Finally to life and intelligence. Why "finally"? (UP) There are some pretty low forms of life around. I mean you can look at life on the quantum level being like an atomic bomb, the effect it has on its environment - emergent at the atomic/ molecular/ genetic level - but we could destroy the planet with our feedback.
> Where these universal > properties are most abundant and easiest to see. > For this paradigm holds for your own thoughts, so > mountain building can be deduced from the way in > which an idea forms. The MOUNTAIN... is what's left when we think we have the problem solved.
> As a phase transition between knowledge and dreams. Ah, ok, ..I like that.
> The static and chaotic. When in an unstable equilibrium > with each other, when both are at simultaneous maximums > without either dominating, the best ideas are formed. Yes, ..and I like that too.
> And finally you'll conclude that the entire universe is understood > from searching within. Not 'counting' the world outside. ?? Within?? But your hierarchy of cause and effect??
> By emergent creations formed by a persistent and unstable > equilibrium between static and chaotic forms. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > meaningful, emergent creation, and results in confusion > and countless local explanations. 'Wholism' - yes, ..but the scale of approach? Wholism implies true enquiry needs to be conducted at ever larger scales as each 'rung is inserted in the ladder', but our concept of 'scale' is perhaps distorted so that it seems linear to us. How do we get around that one?
> Jonathan Interesting site that you link to there. Thanks.
don findlay - 30 Aug 2005 10:22 GMT So you see, Jonathon, ...we don't really get past first base on this one (your interrogation of the problem), because the whole notion of uplift of the crust - "Mountain building" - is in the sense of plate tectonics and the "upheaval of mountains" and with the slightest bit of observation and commonsense, a complete nonsense - another furfy beloved of 'real scientists' (with half a brain). The real deal is erosion of plateaus, and what causes the changing base-levels that make them. Ask the right question and we have half a chance of coming up with some sort of an answer, but scientists' seem to want answers (preferably somebody else's) without even bothering to ask a question.
Lazy sods. The whole notion of 'science' should go under the sociological microscope. There couldn't be a more graphic illustration of 'SCIENTISTS AS SHEEP' than the way people regard plate tectonics as a mechanism of "mountain building" in the face of all evidence to the contrary. 'Mountains' are not 'built' - plateaus are eroded.
The same can be said for uplift by isostatic rebound due to the melting of ice. Isostatic rebound? ..uplift due to the melting of ice?:- http://users.indigo.net.au/don/to/kkm1.html Well, it's certainly not crumplecrust tectonics, ...and isostatic rebound is the only other thing that geologists offer for uplift. For a start the crust is not crumpled, and where it is (in parts) the plateau (which is eroded to make mountains) postdates the crumpling. The two are due to different phenomena; again it's not the crumpling that makes mountains.
A little bit of thought shows where this is headed. This is why none of the 'geologists' here want to talk about it. They're happier shooting from the hip trying to identify poor little lost stones in hyperspace. "What kind of stone is this?" **REAL GOOD** questions, aren't they?
What's the mathematical equivalent? And how would what you were saying apply to 'holes-in-erosion' - i.e. mountains?
Joe Strout - 30 Aug 2005 16:03 GMT > So you see, Jonathon, ...we don't really get past first base on this > one (your interrogation of the problem), because the whole notion of > uplift of the crust - "Mountain building" - is in the sense of plate > tectonics and the "upheaval of mountains" and with the slightest bit of > observation and commonsense, a complete nonsense - another furfy > beloved of 'real scientists' (with half a brain). Oh, good, now we have two nutcases talking to each other. If we can just get them to take it to private email, the signal/noise ratio of these newsgroups will be much improved.
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Herb Schaltegger - 30 Aug 2005 16:13 GMT > Oh, good, now we have two nutcases talking to each other. If we can > just get them to take it to private email, the signal/noise ratio of > these newsgroups will be much improved. Just add them to your killfiles or killfile the thread.
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Pat Flannery - 27 Aug 2005 08:16 GMT >We must unite Heisenberg, Darwin.and Einstein! > And we must call the creature Darbergstein! :-)
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Herb Schaltegger - 27 Aug 2005 13:02 GMT >> We must unite Heisenberg, Darwin.and Einstein! > > And we must call the creature Darbergstein! :-) > > Pat I like Heiswinstein better . . . or Heisensteinwin . . . of Einwinberg . . . or . . . never mind.
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jonathan - 27 Aug 2005 18:55 GMT > >We must unite Heisenberg, Darwin.and Einstein! > > And we must call the creature Darbergstein! :-) Or we could assign to the unified theory a single value. Such as; more than two, but just less than three.
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