Re: The Observer & The Existence of Reality

2020-05-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 1 May 2020, at 17:15, Philip Benjamin wrote: > > [Philip Benjamin] > The WAMP (defined elsewhere below) has done it again with respect to the > pandemic COVID-19. Here the observer (National Geographic) about New > Zealand’s elimination of COVID-19 is completely devoid of reality and

Re: The Wolfram Model

2020-05-02 Thread Philip Thrift
Here is my bottom-line assessment of the Wolfram Model: Suppose one were to take a canonical (whatever that is) formulations of GR (Einstein field equations) and QM (quantum field theory / path integral formulation) and (re)present then in the *Python *language (or your favorite cool

Re: The Wolfram Model

2020-05-02 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 3:43 PM Philip Thrift wrote: > *You will be introduced to the true formulation of the foundations of > physics - which will lead to its unification - leaving behind the deluding > morass of the old mathematical-physics foundations you were brainwashed > with as a

RE: The Observer & The Existence of Reality

2020-05-02 Thread Philip Benjamin
everything-list@googlegroups.com Saturday, May 2, 2020 8:26 AM Subject: Re: The Observer & The Existence of Reality [Bruno Marchal] That [in red italics at the bottom] is a bit unclear to me. At least Einstein knew that Materialism, or the belief in a physical universe is a religious, mystical

Re: The orbit of two black holes timed by the passage thru accretion disk

2020-05-02 Thread John Clark
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 8:08 PM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is quite interesting. > > https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2020-080 > Yes, that is interesting. I was surprised the orbit of the smaller Black Hole was so oblong, I would have thought

Re: The Wolfram Model

2020-05-02 Thread Philip Thrift
*Some Quantum Mechanical Properties of the Wolfram Model* Jonathan Gorard One intuitive interpretation of the evolution of a multiway system for a non-causal invariant system, and therefore one in which distinct evolution branches can yield non-isomorphic causal graphs, is that the system is

Re: A preferred direction to the universe?

2020-05-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 28 Apr 2020, at 15:58, John Clark wrote: > > The universe may have a preferred direction. A new study has found a spatial > variation in the Fine Structure Constant (a pure number approximately equal > to 1/137) with a 3.9 sigma level of confidence, that means there is a 0.8% > chance

Re: The Wolfram Model

2020-05-02 Thread Philip Thrift
I roughly see how this part (gravitation in the Wolfram Model) works out: from *Some Relativistic and Gravitational Properties of the Wolfram Model* Jonathan Gorard 1University of Cambridge 2Wolfram Research, Inc The Wolfram Model can be thought of as being an abstract generalization of

Re: How math is ruining physics

2020-05-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 1 May 2020, at 12:52, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/04/book-review-dream-universe-by-david.html > > Sabine Hossenfelder writes: > > > In the end, Lindley [The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its > Way, by David Lindley] puts the blame

Re: The Wolfram Model

2020-05-02 Thread ronaldheld
Has this works of Wolfram been peer reviewed? Trying to justify allocating the time to read a large paper with unfamiliar concepts. Ronald On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 4:40:56 AM UTC-4, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > The "hypergraph" stuff from Stephen Wolfram in recent news on his "new

Re: The Wolfram Model

2020-05-02 Thread Philip Thrift
On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 9:35:28 AM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 3:43 PM Philip Thrift > wrote: > > > *You will be introduced to the true formulation of the foundations of >> physics - which will lead to its unification - leaving behind the deluding >> morass of

Universe as a simulated strange loop

2020-05-02 Thread Russell Standish
Not sure if this paper has been mentioned here, but it seems quite apt to our discussions. It appears concordant with my ideas in "Theory of Nothing", also Bruno's AUDA and Brent's virtuous circles. https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/22/2/247/htm I haven't yet read the article in full - just the

Re: Vacuum energy

2020-05-02 Thread Alan Grayson
On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 6:57:24 AM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Friday, May 1, 2020 at 6:37:16 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: >> >> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 8:00 AM Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> > *Firstly, concerning the postulates of QM and the UP,* >>> >> >> Mathematics has postulates.

Re: The Wolfram Model

2020-05-02 Thread Philip Thrift
50 years from now maybe the Wolfram Model will be canonical. Likely not. @philipthrift -- 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

Re: Vacuum energy

2020-05-02 Thread Alan Grayson
On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 7:38:12 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: > > > > On 4/28/2020 5:59 PM, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 6:47:39 PM UTC-6, Alan Grayson wrote: >> >> >> >> On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 4:45:02 PM UTC-6, Brent wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 4/26/2020 6:37

Re: The Wolfram Model

2020-05-02 Thread Alan Grayson
On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 4:27:11 AM UTC-6, Philip Thrift wrote: > > > I roughly see how this part (gravitation in the Wolfram Model) works out: > > > from > > *Some Relativistic and Gravitational Properties of the Wolfram Model* > Jonathan Gorard > 1University of Cambridge > 2Wolfram