From today onwards I will be progressively introducing a range of works that I have composed. This is up to around a decade ago. Most of them are science related. You will find some items that I have never introduced to this website before. As far as I know none are duplicated. They were originally posted on a website that I have since closed down. I have made no serious attempt to review the subjects that I am talking about at this time.
It is inevitable that the contents of some documents are different to what I believe and write about today. It is also likely that not all hyperlinks will be operational. My purpose in adding these new posts is not only for the benefit of my grandchildren but also to assist my readers to better understand from what platform many of my written efforts today are based. It is also possible that you might find information contained could help widen your horizons about everyday life and “reality” …In other words some of the mysteries of our existence such as consciousness.
It is also important that you note that I see myself as being an amateur student of reality. I have not had any formal physics training and am mostly self taught. For these reasons there are bound to be practical and historical errors in some of my post. Some of them might be inadequately referenced. Therefore please treat my words in such posts as being a guide to the facts of the matter as broadly outlined within them.
If it is of interest to you the most popular post that I have ever published is this link.
If relativity physics theory is of interest to you this link may give you something of potential importance to consider.
This is from a combined philosophical and physics perspective
Prologue
My message today is primarily centered upon understanding reality. This is through the intuition, skill and bravery of one man. The physicist’s name is David Bohm. Bohm is a British physicist that died in 1992.
I am a Bohm devotee. I refer to myself as being a Divergence Theorist. This means me thinking and writing about a given subject from a number of different approaches.
In these respects the three links that follow are provided for you to consider. They all incorporate themes of “combined” temporal and ontological lines of cosmological thinking. They all feed back to Bohm’s views about “cosmological reality” and the meaning of life. This is as they relate to his views about his Infinite Potential theory. My ideas are broadly similar to Bohm’s but with the emphasis on philosophy.
The contents of these might give you a reasonable idea as to what follows.
The manner in which the” Infinite-Potential” might be seen to “influence all things” in the universe.
I cite three examples. These are ones that I have conceptualized, worked with and previously posted.
These examples and the two supplements provide leads and ideas as to how I believe temporal and ontological things and systems might “work” within the wider world around us (our reality).
Illustratively demonstrating what might be the existence of the “Infinite Potential”
This is from a two dimensional perspective that follows. The illustration is demonstrated and supported by text further below.
A) The Planck line separates quantum (temporal) from sub-quantum (ontological) phenomena. It represents the smallest informational phenomena that physicists can observe, measure, anticipate and “adequately” describe. Mass-less fundamental particles exist in this area. One such example is an electron..
B) Below the Planck line is where Quantum Mechanics theory steps in (all the weird things that are known to happen in physics such as that all things and events are somehow connected to each other. Furthermore it acts as though the Universe has its own consciousness and can think). It is information immediately around the Planck Line that I conceptualize as being the two dimensional “zone” of the “Infinite Potential”. This is neither firmly ontological or temporal. This is represented by our whole of life experiences. This includes being alive.
C) The dotted lines below Quantum Mechanics (B as illustrated above) are representational of things and events that are more weird than other things happening in the universe (as represented by Quantum Mechanics). This lower level physics is the deepest level of physics and is sometimes referred to by Physicists as being informational physics. Human consciousness, intuition and the rules of nature might be seen as examples of phenomena at this level.
D) Above the Planck line (A) is the quantum levels of physics (temporal) where things and events can be observed and measured. These levels embrace materialist (meaning observable and testable) objects and movement. For example these include various effects of movement as described in Einstein’s relativity theories.
E) E in the illustration symbolizes all that “IS” in the universe. It also symbolizes how things might “fit” in relationship to it. I will explain this in the following paragraphs:
Connections in physics is known as entanglement theory. Entanglement theory is also linked to the concept of universal non-locality (something like a universal “without time” ether in the universe).
Quantum theory includes phenomena entitled non-locality (entanglement theory). Non-locality embraces and influences and effects all things and events in both the quantum (D level in the above diagram) as well as those at the B and C levels in the same diagram. (The C level might be considered to be the “home” of non-locality).
The “home” of non-locality might also be seen as the home of Bohm’s “Infinite-Potential”. This was broadly discussed in section B above.
From a temporal perspective non-locality can be demonstrated via the famous double slit experiment in physics. Conversely the laminar flow experiment demonstrates the temporal nature (“the wider practical”) world around us of reality. The following quotation relating to entropy further illustrates how this relationship might work in the manner that it does. It is complicated to understand. I do not fully understand it either.
Quote:
“The second law of thermodynamics which ultimately states that the entropy (lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder) of the universe is always increasing. That means that in any process that takes place the end result is that the entropy of the universe increases (like through the ontological laws of nature). In fact a better definition of what entropy is not just that it’s disorder but a better idea of what entropy is the amount of energy that cannot be converted back into work (like subtle influences such as consciousness). So basically as entropy increases the availability of energy to do (temporal) work decreases.”
In considering these points you might care to know what Einstein feels about religiosity. You might agree that they seem to concur with Bohm’s ideas. This is pertinent to his Infinite Potential theory.
Quote:
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man… I am satisfied with the mystery of life’s eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence — as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.”
(Albert Einstein)
Einstein seems to be saying that in order to “practically” introduce his sense of religiosity one should consider:
Within the contemporary international physics community there seems to becoming the realization that there are difficulties with the mostly accepted Standard Model of Physics. This is as demonstrated by links one and two (Nature Magazine and Oxford University respectively).
If this proves to be the case this might raise the question as to whether Bohm’s Infinite Potential theory might “fill” this type of “mysterious” gap. This includes its origins, intent and meaning.
I have ideas about this area of debate. This is my philosophical position:
The Awareness Model of Cosmological Reality1
1] At its deepest level, reality consists of awareness and everything that we can perceive and observe consists of patterns of information in that awareness.
2] In the beginning, the awareness may have contained no patterns of information, but if so, we can suppose it had a capacity to create random patterns.
3] As random patterns were created, a proportion would have had structures that would allow them to be linked into more complex patterns. We can suppose that the awareness allowed this to occur and that complex patterns could better persist than the simpler ones.
4] Then over time patterns could emerge and evolve of increasing complexity.
5] We suppose this eventually led to a set of patterns with the right features to produce the universe in which we find ourselves. Eg. replication of patterns responsible for creating 3 dimensional space could produce the phenomenon of a universe expanding from a big bang.
6] We cannot perceive or observe anything outside our universe, however if physical objects consist of patterns of information within a deeper level of awareness, then that awareness might constitute a kind concurrent fourth dimension.
7] After dying the patterns of information corresponding to our physical body must fade away. But how about the patterns of information corresponding to our mental activity? Could they continue to persist within the deeper level awareness even after our physical body no longer exists?
8] Is our personal awareness linked to or produced by the deeper awareness?
9] Is this deeper awareness akin to David Bohm’s Quantum “Infinite Potential” model?
An analogical representation of the “workings” of conceptual reality
I wrote the link below in early 2022. It has never been posted. At the time I considered that most of my readers would not know what on Earth I am talking about. With the benefit of hindsight I consider that at the time I misjudged the capabilities of my readers. This is for them to link my new words to existing science related posts. In this document you will see how I have created an analogy that seeks to bring together the most mysterious aspects of sub-quantum physics to more generally accepted quantum physics. By this I mean “cosmological reality”. It is at the end of this essay that I bring together my analogy to certain aspects of widely accepted quantum theory.
