[General] new particle -- the univon

Thu Jan 9 20:52:13 PST 2020

Grahame:
Keep up the good work!

     No human knowledge is the final knowledge.

Our Enquiry about the rules, the meanings and the purposes behind the perpetually evolving universe, must keep evolving. That is the only “assurance” in our thinking should be accepted.
Chandra.

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On Jan 10, 2020, at 7:57 AM, Dr Grahame Blackwell <grahame at starweave.com> wrote:

Dear All,

Thanks, Richard, for highlighting a fundamental truism that's central to our work: either our universe is a product of focused intention, or it's random.  If the latter is true then we may as well all stop bothering with our research - or anything else, for that matter: any illusion that we may have that our work, or any of our activities, are leading in some postive direction, or that we are in any way masters of our own destiny, is just that - illusion; our own beings, along with every other aspect of the cosmos, are just random assemblages of matter/energy following train-tracks determined by randomly-generated 'rules', supplemented by further randomness at a quantum level.  Anyone who thinks that we have even the slightest hint of self-determination in such circumstances is just kidding themselves: the idea that self-determination could ever be an emergent property of pure randomness is a pipe-dream, one that collapses at the first hint of objective analysis.

The notion of pure randomness generating a cosmos with constants finely-tuned to support all the phenomena that we see around (and within) us also of course necessitates the notion of an infinity of cosmoi, with an infinity of different combinations of fundamental constants.  I never cease to be baffled by the view that this is a scientific perspective whilst the concept of an intentional universe is somehow woo-woo or fanciful.

Let's be clear, the idea of an intentional universe is not in any way less credible than that of an infinite number of universes - as I'm sure William of Ockham would agree.  It's definitely not in any way a 'religious' concept - rather, the 'infinity of random universes' is surely a prime contender for the title of 'religious belief'.

Planck, Schrödinger and other pioneers of Quantum Mechanics had no doubts that consciousness is a founding principle and an active agency underlying the material world.  As my own speculative contribution to this narrative, I have written a trilogy of science fiction novels based on a scientific perspective on Relativity that I know various others in this group subscribe to, extended into the field of what I refer to as 'Consciousness Science'.  This trilogy posits the idea that the fallacy of c as an absolute speed limit might be challenged by adding 'applied consciousness' into the mix - and points to various well-established phenomena as support for that idea.

Colleagues may be interested to see how my trilogy first finds a means to implement FTL travel and then goes on to use that means to explore and colonise stars tens of light years away (in time scales measured in months - reduced to hours for the travellers by well-explained time dilation effects).  A major purpose of this series of books is to provoke discussion, and deeper thought, about this whole issue - including the potential for, and possible nature of, life on exoplanets (stretching the boundaries on the basis of documented scientific facts).

Details of my books can be seen at:
www.vaikandor.com<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vaikandor.com&data=02%7C01%7Cchandra.roychoudhuri%40uconn.edu%7C3a8d28a651d34c5aa9e608d7954edc0d%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637142038248697778&sdata=XoYBffiKTsH6UY%2B7eSkijSPG5Hz7RZ9rkPHyB7Hp71U%3D&reserved=0>

I hope some of you at least find the topic thought-provoking.

Grahame
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----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Gauthier<mailto:richgauthier at gmail.com>
To: Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion<mailto:general at lists.natureoflightandparticles.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2020 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [General] new particle -- the univon

Hello all,

 Here's the title and abstract that I just submitted for a talk at the American Physical Society's next annual April meeting.

 Title: Superluminal Primordial Information Quanta (Sprinqs) Created and Compose a Multiverse of Equally Fine-Tuned Universes Evolving Life and Highly-Developed Minds

 Abstract: A proposed univon particle or cosmic quantum, composed of a circulating superluminal primordial information quantum (sprinq), created our universe and many others as a multiverse of equally “fine-tuned” universes. Their fundamental particle masses, forces, and other fundamental parameters are “just right” to evolve stable galaxies, stars, advanced life-forms and developed minds. Based on previous electron and photon models, sprinqs also compose the fundamental particles in our universe and other universes by moving superluminally in different ways to express different particle attributes. The univon is the quantum particle of a proposed univon quantum field. If other universes are detected having “un-tuned” values of their constants and thus without stable stars and higher life forms, this would suggest that all universes emerge by following purely physical laws. Our fine-tuned inhabitable universe would then just be an extremely improbable universe. However, observational evidence for a fine-tuned multiverse would support the hypothesis of a cosmic intelligence creating and maintaining our multiverse in a natural way.

 Questions or comments?
    Richard

On Nov 26, 2019, at 12:47 PM, Richard Gauthier <richgauthier at gmail.com<mailto:richgauthier at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi all,
   Here's an article about a proposed new particle -- the univon -- that produced our universe and other similarly "fine-tuned" universes in a multiverse.

Univon Particle Created Our Universe and Many Others<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2Fattachments%2F61344179%2Fdownload_file%3Fs%3Dportfolio&data=02%7C01%7Cchandra.roychoudhuri%40uconn.edu%7C3a8d28a651d34c5aa9e608d7954edc0d%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637142038248707772&sdata=0p4oauP0XmMjsts2ltG1yyvPb6nT8IOfZjK1bBDaKmk%3D&reserved=0>

best wishes,
           Richard

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