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Laurent
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posted 19. February 2004 09:11
If you look at physical reality as just a little more than apparitions, the product of magnetic and electric field oscillations and interactions, a process to which the aether serves as the origin, then what we call reality isn't that which is, the substrate is. Physical reality is constantly changing, what it was a moment ago, isn't anymore. That's why Hiley says - physical reality's basic ingredient must therefore be process, the product of activity or active information - as he and Bohm, his tutor, often called it. And that's why I called the aether 'the physicalists God', because it is not subject to change and is therefore eternal.
The aether can't be trying to accomplish anything, to me it is just some peculiar immaterial substance from where the behaviour of fields (matter) is determined by a few laws. The aether couldn't care less about Mankind's fate or destiny.
As the first fields appeared, information also appeared. Physical reality is the product of this field interactions, therefore the product of active information. Information is always material.
All information is transferred through waves. It could be sound waves, light waves (colors) or a ground vibration, but it has to be in waves. Waves have nearly infinite capacity for information storage. Thanks to EM waves, information can be quantized and made into particles or wave packets (photons) and transferred, unaltered, through vast distances at the speed of light.
Inherent to wave mechanics are the mechanisms of wave superposition and parallel and non-linear information processing, and this mechanisms, which are also affected and regulated by the laws of thermodynamics, are responsible for information growth and the evolution of biological matter. Information gets or creates information.
All matter, including living matter, is shaped by fields (waves). And it stands in solid grounds, scientifically speaking, as it is compatible with de Broglie/Bohm's matter-waves concepts. It is like saying that all matter is organized by fields in a similar way a VCR would record a TV program into a magnetic tape. As the tape rolls inside the machine, electromagnetic information containing signals (waves) re-arrange and organize the tape's magnetic particles, which can later be used to reproduce well ordered images. Morphogenetic fields re-arrange and order, what are otherwise space particles in a chaotic and disordered state, into organized matter.
*Using a Leaf Wing butterfly to explain God's intervention in the creation of its camouflage is a mistake I used to make. Now I understand that creating a camouflaged appearance to survive is just another function integrated into their state wave function, an algorithm, a program in charge of acquiring information about the environment in order to copy the shape of surrounding leaves. This information is gathered by the insect's matter waves, as well as it is supplied by all the matter waves and EMR flowing from the environment, as they are superimposed and integrated into the insects own wave function.*
Even though I see physical reality as a completely mechanistic process, where there is no room for mysticism, I believe in reality's indeterministic nature. Because of the oscillating nature of quanta (elementary particles), there will always be a measure of freedom.
Active Information does [have a purpose], but not the aether itself.
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Laurent
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" Being is a relative invariant in the overall process of becoming. The basic ingredient must therefore be activity or process... " -- Basil Hiley
" Reality is not about things, it is about process. " -- Lee Smolin
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Laurent
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posted 19. February 2004 09:43
Reality is process and process is time dependent. No process means no time and no reality.
There is no such thing as a solid, perfectly elastic, 3D, time independent body. Atoms are made from hollow empty space. If you were to reduce your size to the size of an atom, all you would be able to see is empty space.
A particle maintains its shape and internal structure, as it moves through space, by keeping intact the geometrical relationships that exist between its parts and the environment. As process moves forward, particles in spacetime must continuously reset their geometrical structure, therefore they have to continuously process all kinds of data/information in order to continue their existence. They are, in fact, information... active information. Therefore, there is no ordered information contained in hyperspace, just randomly fluctuating quanta, which is ordered as particle/wave systems move through it.
As a particle moves through space it doesn't displace space, it ordinates it. This means that what is really moving through space is an organizing process, matter as active information trying to maintain the relation of its structural parts.
Objective reality is a continuous self-maintained thermodynamically open process developing in a sea of discontinuities (CBR, ZPF...). Atoms are open thermodynamical systems, there is always energy/information/space being exchanged between matter and the environment.
While a particle is moving at a constant speed and all the geometrical parameters are set, it won't experience any inertial forces, but as it accelerates and the relationships change, it needs to keep adjusting to its new energy/space consumption settings. That's why relativistic effects are so real. When accelerated in relation to other particles, space shrinks, time slows down and mass (process) grows within the particle to balance energy usage in momentum space and maintain its dependence and relation to spacetime in accordance to energy conservation laws.
Gravity is caused by the continuos internal process occurring within matter as space/information radially flows towards the center of all matter as it precipitates from hyperspace into spacetime. Gravity and inertia are by-products of a semi-classical, quantum mechanical process where a drag force is created by the continuos inwardly flow of space/information into matter. Mass is equivalent to process. This is why we only have mass in spacetime... after particles are fully formed.
Mass is the result of matter interactions with space. Matter is a continuos - time dependent - self-organizing process. Particles, as they move through the CBR/ZPE, need to continuously re-ordinate the space that constitutes them. Particles are in constant motion, continuously processing space/information. Matter is process and all process depends on continuity, this is where time and causality come from. This continuity can only be supported by the aether from where the CBR and ZPF emerge. Matter arises from this process, and mass increases directly proportional to the amount of process. This is why the denser a particle is, the more massive it becomes.
Mass refers to the amount of information processing of all the energetic relationships that exist between matter and space. When a particle is moving at a constant rate there is no informational lag created by space/information flow within the particle, its spatial energetic relationships remain constant, but as the particle is accelerated the energetic relations between the particle and space will be in a constant state of change causing this space/information flow tension we call inertia.
Reality is process. Reality is not the objective universe. As matter and mind evolve, that which was a second ago is no longer, it's gone forever. Process exists because of the motion caused by thermodynamics and the electromagnetic properties of the aether. It was from this motion that order arose as random events started to repeat themselves giving rise to cause, time and meaning to their movement. Process is spacetime.
Reality (like thought), is about becoming, it is process, and this process is totally dependent on the uncertainty in the movement of quanta. Uncertainty is what causes activity. It is due to the natural indeterminism of quanta that the Universe exists, you take the uncertainty away and it will stop moving. Uncertainty is inherent to evolutive process. If you don't allow for indeterminism in Nature then you must also reject Darwin and the evolution of species.
The medium in which any given self-organized system is developing must be full of information which the system needs and will use in order to maintain itself. Matter is not different, it can be defined as a self-organized system, and the medium in which it develops is full of information in the form of EMR. A proton will only process the type of information it needs to continue to be a proton as time goes by.
Reality is a never-ending, continuos, self-organizing information exchange mediated by light which arose from chaos in a random event governed by the laws of thermodynamics. Reality is process. The ontological features of our universe come from the constant processing of geometrical information which is continuously created by matter interacting with matter through space. Zeno de Elea was right.
There is a difference between time and the rate of existence, existence does not happen in a spacetime metric, it is the metric. Process (existence) always moves forward, in one direction, whereas time can appear to flow backwards within process. Existence (process) occurs at the speed of light. The speed of light is the rate at which an observer's present moves through time. Light is the universal measuring rod.
The reason that, in spacetime, frames must be related is because it all comes from a single entity, reality is one single process, the Universe is one, and all frames within the observable Universe are related by the aether, through the aether. All frames depend on the same aether.
Relativity can only refer to relative time or length because it is the description of a whole where every object is physically (energetically) related to each other. In other words, if an object could be conceived to be accelerating in a prefectly empty void or independently from any object or frame of reference it could not and would not experience any changes in time or length, but because it is embedded in a metric which represents the whole, objects do experience relativistic effects in relation to others. It is a property of the whole which arises from its physical need to abide by the laws of thermodynamics and the equivalency principle.
Einstein's Gravitational Aether is more akin to Newton's absolute space than most people think, but it is imbued with Mach's reciprocity between matter and space, and relativation.
Einstein, as the master of process and continuity that he was, proved that there can't be this bunch of separated rigid bodies (Newton's billiard ball model) without incurring into FTL signal propagation, and invented - spacetime continuum - a continuos field from which all of reality emerges as objects interact with each other. This continuos field is the basis for his GTR.
He also realized that there can't be an absolute frame of reference, it would invalidate Relativity. Relativity is possible because the medium is infinitely divisible. Time and length contractions are real. They need to be in order for the Equivalency Principle and the laws of Thermodynamics to hold. There is no need for an absolute frame of reference when you have an infinitely divisible substrate from which everything is made.
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Laurent
[ 20. February 2004, 18:37: Message edited by: Laurent ]
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