PROCESS PHYSICS

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PROCESS PHYSICS

• Self-Referential Information
• and Experiential Reality
• Reginald T. Cahill

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A Reality Check - the Questions?

• ? Time?
• ? Space?
• ? Quantum Matter?
• ? Experiential Reality?
• ? Fundamentals?
• ? Experiments?
• ? Consciousness?
• ? Process Philosophy?

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Reality - Self-Referential Information

• ? Fundamentals- whole/a-local self-awareness,
  before space/QM.
• ? Time- Not geometry - but characterising
  process in .. Experienced time is complex (time
  dilation effects). Irreversible and ordered.
• ? Space- Not geometry - but characterising
  emergent connectivity in..
• ? Quantum Matter- Not stuff - but preserved
  connectivity in ..
• ? New (Process) Physics and New Ontology
• ? Experiential Reality- Change is real -
  actual occasions
• ? Experiments- Experiments support new
  physics/new ontology
• ? Consciousness- Self-reference is intrinsic at
  all levels and scales
• ? 100 years of physics is fundamentally wrong
  Wrong theories/equations and wrong ontology.
• ? Process Philosophy- Whitehead got it right!
  Panexperientialism.

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Modelling the Phenomenon of Time

? Galileo and Newton modelled time by the ruler
model ? Order along the ruler models event order
before and after ? But no notion of change -
a non-process model ? In physics the distance
along the ruler is represented by the symbol t.
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Modelling the Phenomenon of Space

• ? Newton space modelled as geometric
  3-space a 3D-Ruler!
• ? No structure. But labelled by points . x,y,z
• ? Not detectable.
• ? Matter slips through space?
• ? Can be infinite in extent.
• ? Unchanging.
• ? BUT 1850s Maxwell theory of Electromagnetism
  appeared to require its reality. So how to detect
  3-space?
• ? The key experiment derailed physics for over
  100 years!

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Michelson-Morley 1887 To Detect 3-Space

• ? Assumption light travels at fixed speed
  relative to 3-space. 300,000km/s
• ? So measure speed in different directions
  relative to apparatus, which is on earth and
  surely moving through 3-space. Earth orbit speed
  about sun is 30km/s
• ? Expect differences in speed to be very small
  and very difficult to detect 1/100,000
  Michelson used an interferometer which exploits
  wave nature of light. Device effect is of order
  (1/100,000)(1/100,1000)
• ? The experiment workedthe effect was seen.
• ? BUT the effect was much smaller than
  expectedso they said they didnt see anything.
• It was a NULL EXPERIMENT
• ? OUTCOME 3-space doesnt exist. Einstein
  proposed spacetime,
• ? 100 years of near nonsense in physics.

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The Michelson Interferometer
(Graphics Katie Pilypas)
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Experiment
Displacement vs Azimuth Graph
Interference Fringes
Michelson Interferometer
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Michelson-Morley 1887 Experiment Data
? Discovered 3-space in 1887. ? Discussion of
this discovery is banned in physics journals. ?
Calibration was grossly invalid.
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Dayton Miller Interferometer Experiment

• ? Dayton Miller, Mt Wilson 1925/26 ? Discovered
  (i) 3-space (ii) motion of earth through space
  (iii) that therefore foundations of special
  relativity were invalid. No spacetime.

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Dayton Miller Interferometer Experiment
Showed that spacetime was an incorrect ontology.
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Typical Miller Interferometer Rotation Data

• ? Shows fringe shift as device is rotated
  (average of 20 rotations). Much better result
  than Michelson and Morley.
• ? This data gives speed of 351 km/s (in plane of
  interferometer). Full speed is 420 km/s in
  southerly direction.

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Dayton Miller Interferometer Experiment

• ? Millers model of direction of flow of space
  past the earth at 4 different months. Sun is at
  the centre. The earth has a speed of some
  420km/s in a southerly direction. Variation over
  one year is caused by (i) motion of earth about
  sun through space, and (ii) flow of space past
  earth towards the sun 42 km/s.

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Michelson-Morley 1887 Experiment Data

• ? It was NOT a null experiment.
• ? Michelson and Morley discovered that the earth
  moved through 3-space at speed 8km/s using
  Newtonian physics calibration.
• ? MM data gives actual speed gt 300km/s (Cahill
  and Kitto 2002)
• ? And that the speed of light was 300,000km/s
  relative to that 3-space.
• ? All physics books claim MM saw no fringe
  shifts.
• ? For over 100 years physics has been based on
  flawed foundations.
• ? Null effect led Einstein/Minkowski to invent
  spacetime

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3-Space Structure from DeWitte Data 1991

• ? In 1991 Roland DeWitte accidently discovered
  speed of earth through space. Same speed and
  direction as Miller etc. Belgium Telephone
  company technician.
• ? Observed changing travel time of RF signals
  along coaxial cable as earth rotated.
• Data shows fluctuations in flow of space. Space
  flow is turbulent and probably fractal.
• DeWitte was never permitted to report his
  discovery in a physics journal. He was dismissed
  from the company. Independently DeWitte and
  Miller did two of the most significant physics
  experiments of the 20th century. They showed that
  the Einstein spacetime theory was wrong.

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The Schrodinger Equation

• ? Describes motion of wave function, using
  geometrical time and 3-space models. No notion
  of matter as point-particles with trajectories.
• ? The wave function is non-local spread out
  through space.
• ? Explains much of structure of atoms and
  molecules as wave structures.
• All quantum measurements actually involve
  localisation in 3-space (wave function
  collpase).
• ? Does not explain the measurement phenomenon
  .i.e. the formation of spots in detectors.
• ? The Born measurement rule says probability of
  a spot is
• ? But no structure to space, and no flow.
• 3-space is denied. The quantum theory based on
  spacetime is the Dirac equation, and it works
  better? Must include 3-space in Dirac equation.
• Localisation is inconsistent with spacetime
• ? Spacetime has no now. It is a frozen object.

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The Issues

• ? Spacetime the foundation of 20th Century
  physics does not exist. It was a mathematical
  illusion from mistake.
• ? Physics failed to realise that a complex
  flowing 3-space existed, despite repeated
  experimental detection.
• ? The geometric theory of time is completely
  inadequate.
• ? We dont know why the quantum phenomena.
• ? We dont understand wave function
  collapse/localisation.
• ? Numerous failings of Newtonian and Einsteinian
  theories of gravity Spiral galaxies (Dark
  Matter), supermassive black holes, laboratory
  measurements of G, bore hole anomalies, eclipse
  effects, radioactive decay,.
• ? Curved spacetime (Einsteins theory of
  gravity) fails.
• ? After 100 years physics is in chaos.
• ? We need to start again from afresh!

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Reality Self-Referential Information Network

• ? Nodes and Links relationship strengths

? From Quantum Field Theory. Non-symbol parallel
processing.

• (Irreversible) Time is modelled by
  iterations/update - actual process.
• Two key parts (i) the inverse operation
  involves the whole system knowing all
  connection strengths, (ii) self-referential
  noise (SRN) limits self-knowledge.
• ? Implicit self-awareness.
• No notion of space, quantum,..
• Experienced reality is in the patterns .
  interacting information.
• ? Fractal Non-Deterministic Semantic/Active
  Information.

? Reality is an open system (SRN). So is not a
thermodynamic system.
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Space Fractal Quantum Foam

• ? Network self-organises structured transient
  patterns.
• ? Fractal 3-space . as networks within networks
  .gebits (bits of geometry).
• ? The network connectivity is described by a
  quantum formalism (QHFT) ..including residual
  SRN Space is a noisy Quantum System.
• Quantum Matter .. as preserved network
  defects.
• Residual SRN causes wave function collapse.
• ? Space has differential flow.

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Quantum Nonlocality

• Here a wave function is decomposed into the sum
  of two localised components, each having a
  different footprint in 3-space.

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A New Theory of Gravity Flowing Space

• ? Newtonian gravity from a velocity field
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• ? But then a space self-interaction term is
  missing
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• ? Discovery ? 1/137 the fine structure
  constant.
• ? Miller data revealed in-flow past earth into
  sun.

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Quantum Space

• ? ? 1/137 the fine structure constant
• ? Down mine shafts and
• bore holes Newtonian
• gravity and General
• Relativity fail.
• Objects are slightly heavier
• ? Data gives ? 1/137

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Fine Structure Constant ?1/137

• ? In Hydrogen atom ? determines magnitude of
  electron binding energy compared to the rest mass
  energy of the electron

• is probability of photon
  emission/absorption.
• So self-interaction of space is determined by
• quantum theory processes.

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Quantum Space

• ? Spherical Galaxy M87
• ? In-flow of space results in a black hole
  forming at the centre.
• ? Astronomers have detected black holes
• ? Theory
• Black hole Mass
• x Mass
• ? GR does not have
• black holes.

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Quantum Space

• ? Spiral galaxy NGC3198
• ? Newtonian gravity and General Relativity cannot
  explain rotation speeds (lower curve).
• ? This failure led to notion of Dark Matter.
• ? New theory of gravity explains observations
  (upper curve).
• Caused by (new) black hole at centre of galaxy.
• ? In-flow speed of space into black hole is
  determined by fine structure constant.

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The New Schrodinger Equation

• ? Has dynamics of space affecting the quantum
• dynamics. v is fractalstructure at all scales.
• ? Explains gravitywave packet propagation is
  not a straight line.
• ? Explains Equivalence Principle. all objects
  fall with same acceleration g
  (Galileo). a wave effect.
• ? Has vorticity effect rotating space. GP-B
  experiment.
• ? Also new Maxwell and Dirac equations.

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Space Vortices

• ? Space is complex flowing quantum system.
• ? Can have vortices.
• ? Detectable in Gravy Probe B.
• ? Seen by Allais in eclipse
• pendulum experiments?

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Intergalactic Vortices?
? Possible detection of intergalactic vortices -
via light bending?
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Conclusions

• ? Physics has totally misunderstood reality!
• ? Reality is processing of Mind.
  Panexperientialism.
• ? Self-awareness at all levels. Mind is
  fundamental.
• ? Time is not geometry, is label for process in
  Mind.
• ? Process/Time is fundamental aspect of Mind.
• ? 3-Space classicalising quantum subsystem(s)
  in Mind.
• ? 3-Space and Quantum Matter are the same stuff.
• ? Quantum Matter not in 3-space Quantum
  non-locality.
• ? Quantum behaviour is consequence of a
  self-referential self-limited network
  (Mind). Quantum collapse is a space/QM/detector
  effect. Explains measurement effect.
• ? Gravity is consequence of differential flow
  of space.
• ? Gravity is a quantum phenomenon - G and ?.
• ? Process Philosophy is the metaphysics of
  reality.
• ? Consciousness high-level sub-self-awareness
  of whole.