Russell's 'nothing/everything duality' reminds me of one mechanism in string theory by which a nearly Planck scale point reflects the entire outside universe within itself in a r->1/r transformation, that point being each Calabi_yau compact manifold. Richard
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:27:50PM -0800, Peter Sas wrote: > > Hi Russell, thanks for your answer... I will definitely give your book a > > closer reading in the near future, if I can get my poor philosopher's > head > > to understand the mathematics :) > > > > I hope you don't mind answering some questions in advance. You wrote: > > > > No - it's a good question. Hopefully my answer makes sense. > > > > Exactly. The source of the symmetry breaking is the action of an > > > > > observer. Symmetry is restored by considering all other observers out > > > there in the "Nothing"-verse (more commonly called the Plenitude). > > > > > > > This what I don't get: How can there already exist observers (or at least > > one observer) prior to the symmetry breaking, given that it is this > > breaking that turns zero-info into info? In other words: if you already > > presuppose an observer, your Nothing is not absolutely nothing... it is > an > > observed nothing, but in my view we can't even presuppose an observer if > we > > want to answer Leibniz' question by starting from nothing... I admit > there > > is some paradox involved in imagining a 'situation' in which nothing > > exists, not even an observer... we have to imagine a situation where we > > ourselves do not exist... to some extent that's impossible of course... > > after all, I have to exist in order to imagine my own non-existencee... > so > > some observer is always pressupposed (Kan would call this the > > transcendental subject)... but in my view we can't let that presupposed > > observer interact with the original nothing to cause symmetry > > breaking....How do you think about this? > > > > You are imagining things temporally, which is inappropriate here. > > Once we conflate Nothing and Everything - that is the point of the > discussion about the mathematical notion of duality - then it is clear > that the Everything contains observers, observing their own points of > view, since the Everything, well, contains everything (at least every > possible thing). > > Whilst Nothing (and Everything) is perfectly symmetric, the observers' > points of view are not. The act of observation has broken the > symmetry. The symmetry breaking is "spontaneous", for same reason as > Bruno's > FPI is random. > > Thus my mantra, which has become something of a quotable quote: > "Something is the inside view of Nothing". > > Now this might seem quite different to the physicists notion of > spontaneous symmetry breaking - eg the direction of the magnetic field > when a ferromagnetic material is cooled below it's Curie point - but if > you think in Multiverse terms it is the same thing. The act of > observing the magnetic material means the magnetic material is in some > direction. Somewhere else in the Multiverse, there is an observer > seeing the magnetic field in the opposite direction. > > Cheers > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret > (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
