The Strand Model of fundamental interactions

[JustinLevy]

For those interested in this, since cschiller will no longer answer questions here, you can find some responses to questions here:
http://www.motionmountain.net/wiki/index.php/Research_Discussion_Page
(Warning: Use the history tab to see what was actually said, as he heavily redacts things and deletes questions and even answers he changes his mind on.)

In trying to make the definitions of his theory more precise, he has declared that of the two original examples of "crossing switches" only one is now a crossing switch. It is unclear how the remaining one is considered a crossing switch either, and when asked for clarification he refers to something not in the definition and says he will get back to this later. Further, this definition change makes all the "Reidemeister moves" in fig 40, chap 10, no longer switches either. He stated he needs to think about this further. When asked for details of how the strands move, beyond just that they don't interpenetrate, he admits now that it "is not clearly defined yet".

So hopefully he is starting to understand why it is so important to be precise with the fundementals of your theory. The problem is that as he makes things more precise, he will learn that as a consequence, many of his hand-wavy "derivations" will not work anymore and therefore he resists a lot.

For instance, this question (which he just deletes instead of answering)
If:
1. the move that removes a photon does not cause strands to interpenetrate
and
2. all moves that do not interpenetrate strands are allowed
then
3. a photon disappearing is an allowed move

He has stated #1, and #2, but won't agree to #3 saying instead "No, energy and angular momentum are conserved." He claims there is no contradiction.

So he can't even agree on simple If A and B then C prepositional logic. If you can't use logic on this theory, then nothing will dissuade him of his theory. This is not science.

 

[Berlin]

Hi Justin,

A agree that you should pursue to be precise. But also quantum mechanics started without the right interpretation of the wavefunction... The recent article of Eric Verlinde could have a connection to the work of Schiller. I have the feeling (if you allow me so..) that switching is somehow a step out of equilibrium at the horizon, measured in mass. Pure speculation right now, I will play with it.

berlin

 

[arivero]

Just a note, for randomly interested people. Looking in the arxiv,

http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9905020

also plays the Raidemaster thing, for spin networks. So there is actually a mainstream use of the moves, which can explain why the motionmountain approach is not received (if it contradicts some known theorem on group representation via the moves, then something is, ad absurdum, wrong)

 

[Psychosmurf]

You are right, LQG allows for gauge interaction of matter fields (to be put on top of LQG), but neither explains nor demands them. There is little hope that braids (a similar idea to strands, as far as I can see) can emerge from "framed" spin-network states of quantum-deformed SU(2).

It is interesting that strands seem to work only in three dimension. There are not so many concepts for which the number of spatial dimensions is constrained mathematically (exceptional groups / octonions, twistors, knots, strings, exceptional smooth structures). So the next question is "why strands"?

Why strands? Why knot? LOL!

 

[Psychosmurf]

Kane

I have a different view. GR and QM are partial theories, just as Newtons gravity was shown to be. I share in the concerns of Einstein, Shroedinger, Bohm and Bell that Bohr was a brilliant physicist but a poor interpreter of nature. Essentially he fooled three generations into accepting that having an ontalogical and epistemological basis to rational enquiry was no longer required.

If we can unify the forces, that will be an amazing achievement. But it will not be an answer to anything important. It will not solve the question of determinism being contrary to consciousness. It will not solve the political issue where power corrupts but democracy leads to short term plans based on how well they can be sold to stupid people.

Physics needs to rise above the false gods of the age. How about we ignore supposedly liberal ideologies such as feminism and islam, which contradict each other, and instead focus on the reality of our existence?

Can anyone here prove that heizenberg's uncertainty is fundamental?

I agree with you that epistemological and ontological concerns are extremely important in understanding nature. While I was reading Chirstoph's Strand Model in Motion Mountain, the idea that the strands had no properties reminded me of the conception of negative transcendence in the Kant-Friesian school of philosophy, where every property of objects is removed from the world so that all that remains is a curious void of pure existence. That the theory of negative transcendence and the idea of strands in the Strand Model should be so similar, and that negative transcendence serves as a basis for the Friesian theory of science, are observations that I think can not be just mere coincidences.