Friday, August 29, 2003 :::
 
LIGHT GRAVITY TIME GENTLEMAN PLEASE

How often have you heard it said that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light . Therefore such things as tachyons impossible . Except that what the physics actually says is to do with what can travel at the speed of light - as long as what is thought up never drops to that speed no laws are broken ( by the bye , a few theorists have in the past held that information can travel at what speed it likes , but the fact that the same people also held information to have a seperate existence as physical quanta renders that idea a bit iffy ) . And the reason why only electromagnetic radiation can travel at lightspeed is that if anything else were to go that fast it would only do so by becoming light particles . This is an argument much favoured by rationalists when push comes to shove - only item 'a' can perform function 'x' so if you have to admit that item 'b' can also perform this function then it is revealed to have either been item 'a' all along or have magically become it . Alternatively they will say that it is only performing function 'xb' rather than the examplar 'xa' ; the tool-users apologium .
The search is on again for gravitons , the proposed carriers of the force that is gravity , so it can match the way the other forces work and lend itself to having been at one with these in the beginning . The force gravity does not exist . It is simply how the everyday world imagines for simplicity's sake the interaction between particles and spacetime , a measure of the deformation that has no more a physical reality in itself than dimensionless constants have . Gravity is purely a representation , and should eventually be consigned to the same bin as absolute frames of reference . ... On the other hand if it can be shown that the universe around you really is a foam of spacetime quanta then I can see them connected by a genuine quantum gravity , there where geometry itself breaks down .
At least no-one is now looking for time quanta , for measurable time is now assigned to geometry . As such time is simply another direction along which things travel , wrapped up in spacetime , bound but infinite . As Hawkwind sing "it has no beginning and it has no end" . What was there before the universe began ? Time was not , for time is a measure of this universe itself , so from that perspective the question is meaningless . Ah , let me take you back to the beginning , is not the singularity of that the ultimate source of entanglement . How could it be any other in that place where all particles were virtual , uncreated because there was no place to be virtual in .

::: posted by Martin at 7:40 PM

 
Attended a talk by Mitja Perus at the Orkney International Science Festival today and was inspired . Perhaps his hesitant use of English led me to disassociate , perhaps it was invoked when a passing cloud gave him a dark luminosity within the St.Magnus Centre that concentrated the mind on the speaker more exclusively than hitherto .Suddenly phrases came tumbling to mind in a heated rush that bore only a passing resemblance to his speech , not merely a predictive riff upon it as practically a mini-fugue .Enough with excuses already : I present my spurts of creative juice as the isolated incidents that they were .

He's talking about the Kohonon net , that similar data are stored in nearby neurons , and I think of fragmentation on a computer as a form of entropy . / With age entropy increases its grip . And yet when you are older you can call up far gone memories but the more recent past presents difficulties . It might be that the more easily accessible neural nets are all taken up and so closer memories are no longer stored in nearby neutrons quite so often but banished to disparate portions of the brain's empire . And do mystical awakenings work by defragmenting the mind , opening you up to fresh associations .
Chaos becomes order through a statistical process . / Free will leads to fate , opposite ends of a process . To some extent all have free will , but ,like ball bearings on a tin lid , when shaken about those free wills tend to come up against each other and so assume the aspect of a general train of movement which we call fate . And in each sentient unit the free will is a result of the collision of other wills . Fleas ad infinitum .Only all is one , the tin lids are mostly semi-permeable to lesser or greater degree .
Information gravity , mapping unknown on known . / Ideas have their own momentum , whether or no you believe in memes . It is how the your surroundings come to be as percieved . "panta rei" , but from the ordinary viewpoint it appears "plus ce change, plus c'est la meme chose" .Maya culpa. You create yourselves and others create you . Consensus reality is only a consensus - but when did you last knowingly vote upon it ? The universe is only your analogy for what is , a filmset on a real location wherein you should never feel confident from moment to moment which are the bricks and which a facade . "Build high the roofbeam carpenter" only be sure someone will be along later to knock it down and use the elements afresh .
The IDH complex , as I call it . / Illusions and delusions and hallucinations .All three can be extrogenous or intragenous . Illusions are where apparent reality is error or the relationship of elements is misperceived . Delusions are why you do things in error , wrong views of the world . Hallucinations are how perceptions overlay reality or create it . Of these three things your surroundings are , on some level , composed .
Information entanglement = brain holography . / That is what I thought before Mitja said it .
Reality is censored by and for us .

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Spacetime arises from virtual particles entering history . Order from chaos again .

::: posted by Martin at 4:12 PM