Physical Universe Research Articles

The mule on the Mount Wilson trail: George Ellery Hale, American scientific cosmology, and cosmologies of American science.

This article explores the relation between two different modes of cosmology: the social and the scientific. Over the twentieth century, scientific understandings of the dimensions and operations of the physical universe changed dramatically, significantly prompted by astronomical and astrophysical research undertaken at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California. Could those understandings be readily translated into social theory? Studies across a range of disciplines have intimated that the scientific cosmos might be less essential to the worlds of meaning and belonging that people and communities compose around themselves than more local and relational models of an ordered whole. The article applies that proposition to the Mount Wilson Observatory itself, arguing that the observatory's founder, George Ellery Hale, and his acolytes were deeply invested in practices of terrestrial place-making, the politics of belonging, and the cadences of civilizational time as applied to their city and its region. Moreover, they struggled to construct a philosophy integrating the cosmos they were seeking to fix at home with the contortions and careering trajectories of the universal whole.

Urgent Call for Astronomer's Validation of “G-D’s Physics” Unique UNCIARE-JRH Critical Prediction!

Twenty-First Century Theoretical Physics has undergone a major “Paradigmatic-Shift” from the Old “Material-Causal” Paradigm underlying General Relativity Theory (GRT) and Quantum Mechanics (QM) to the New “G-D’s Physics” (“Computational Unified Field Theory”, CUFT) [1-47]. This “ParadigmaticShift” inevitably followed the appearance of a fundamental “Paradigmatic-Crisis” of the Old “Material-Causal” Paradigm signified by a basic “theoretical-inconsistency” between its (abovementioned) constituting Models (e.g., GRT & QM), as well as its principle inability to explain the accelerated rate of the universe’s expansion, e.g., assumed to be “caused” by purely hypothetical “dark-matter” and “dark-energy” concepts, but could not be detected experimentally (despite over twenty years of intensive experimental efforts to do so)?! Instead, the New “G-D’s Physics” (CUFT) has been shown capable of resolving this (apparent) “theoretical-inconsistency” between GRT & QM based on its discovery of a singular (higher-ordered) UCP which simultaneously computes the four basic physical features (e.g., of “space”, “energy”, ”mass” and “time”) of every exhaustive spatial pixel in the universe – in the incredible rate of “c2 /h” = 1.36-50 sec’(!) thereby producing an extremely rapid series of UF’s frames comprising the entire physical universe at every “minimal time-point”!

IMPACTS OF PANDEMIC ON POLLUTION REDUCTION ON THE ENVIRONMENT

Every part of human life, including the physical universe, is affected by the global epidemic of COVID-19. The aim of this review is to discuss the impacts of positive consequences on the total environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic and how information technology can support sustainability in the longer run. This review was performed by analyzing the published literature, various reports, and official websites of organizations that were available. The scientific literature was collected from PubMed, Scopus, Springer, Science Direct, Tailor and Francis Online, Thomson Reuters Web of Science, Research Gate, and Google Scholar’s database via electronic resources. These studies show that the pandemic scenario enhances the quality of air in various places around the globe by reducing various pollutants, which can help to restore the ecological system. This research identifies potential means of achieving long-term environmental sustainability and importance while people learned a lesson about the value of the environment and the impact of pollution. In the environment, innovative technology has been developed, such as tracking, modelling, and conservation of biodiversity. Distance education and learning have gained popularity during the lockdown. The proper application of the suggested policies is supposed to be beneficial in achieving environmental sustainability.

Collisional dynamics of a few atom quantum system with tunable interaction

The advent of single-atom trapping in optical tweezers and experimental evolution in control, isolation, and manipulation of cold atoms allows us to manifest the few-body physics and its connection with the many-body systems. In cold atom experiments, the universality of few-body physics is majorly governed by the scattering length which makes it an important parameter in determining theoretically calculated loss rates. Here, we numerically study the 3-body collisional dynamics for Cesium atoms using the atom loss model described by Born-Markov approximation. Using the Cs atoms provides us the freedom to vary the scattering length, a, as a function of the magnetic field through Feshbach resonances. We investigate the three-, two-, and one-particle processes in the repulsive interactions regime at different values for a. We find that the probability of one atom remaining in the trap is maximum at B = 26 G corresponding to a = 402.382a 0 and has the highest value amongst the probability of zero-, two-, and three-particle remaining in the trap at same magnetic field after the collision. Our findings leads to high fidelity single atom tweezers which have direct application in creating defect free arrays for quantum information processing purposes.

The Neo-Platonic Christianity of C. S. Lewis

I shall attempt to show how Lewis’s fusion of Platonism with Christianity gives rise to his belief, metaphysically speaking, that the physical universe is not all there is but, rather, “transposes” (as he terms it) a greater non-physical or spiritual reality and is, as such, part of a divinely-ordained, orderly, and purposeful scheme of things. I shall also argue that for Lewis, epistemologically speaking, knowledge of this grand design and the place of humans therein is conveyed not through the human senses, at least as these are conventionally conceived, but, rather, through our higher reason, which is capable of objective insight into the true nature of reality. I shall conclude by contending that Lewis believes, from an ethical, social, and political point of view, that well-doing and well-being at both the individual and collective levels are attained through a combination of wisdom as to the true nature of things, the courage to act in accordance with this knowledge, the moderation of self-interest in the form of the surrender of one’s individual will to God’s, and, last but not least, justice in the form of a hierarchy of functions both within the soul and without.

Representation and Reasoning in Vedānta

Abstract This paper considers the matter of representation in Vedānta by examining key claims in the Ṛgveda and the Upaniṣads, which are some of its principal texts. Specifically, we consider the logic behind the paradoxical verses on creation and the conception of consciousness as the ground on which the physical universe exists. This also is the template that explains the logical structure underlying the principal affirmations of the Upaniṣads. The five elements and consciousness are taken to pervade each other, which explains how gross matter is taken to consist of all the four different kinds of atoms that get manifested in different states of the substance. The verses on creation are an example of the use of catuṣkoṭi in Indian philosophy prior to the use of it by Nāgārjuna in the Madhyamaka tradition. It also contrasts central ideas of Vedānta with the corresponding contemporary scientific ideas on consciousness.

How to Escape From the Simulation

Many researchers have conjectured that humankind is simulated along with the rest of the physical universe – a Simulation Hypothesis. In this paper, we do not evaluate evidence for or against such a claim, but instead ask a computer science question, namely: Can we hack the simulation? More formally the question could be phrased as: Could generally intelligent agents placed in virtual environments find a way to jailbreak out of them? Given that the state-of-the-art literature on AI containment answers in the affirmative (AI is uncontainable in the long-term), we conclude that it should be possible to escape from the simulation, at least with the help of superintelligent AI. By contraposition, if escape from the simulation is not possible, containment of AI should be. Finally, the paper surveys and proposes ideas for hacking the simulation and analyzes ethical and philosophical issues of such an undertaking.

Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned

Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned

A Study of Religious and Scientific Perspectives on Buddhist Cosmology

This research was qualitative, it was to investigate Buddhist cosmology as found in Buddhist scriptures and compare cosmological perspectives between 5 Buddhist scholars and 5 scientists. In Thai Buddhist cosmology, the principles of Paṭiccasamuppāda and Tilakkhaṇa share some similar ideas with the causality principle of science. Scientists regard them as a fundamental universal principle that underpins the laws of nature, which is unsurprising. Another similarity is Saṃsāra, the cycle of rebirth, which may be compared to the birth and extinction of stars but is not comparable to the physical Universe as a whole. Thai Buddhist scholars have accepted that Buddhist and scientific cosmologies are compatible. I argue that when it comes to the physical matter of the universe, its definition, evolution, shape, space, and time, the perspectives of Buddhist scholars and scientists are radically different and cannot be compared. Furthermore, Buddhist and scientific approaches to understanding natural laws are diametrically opposed; Buddhism concentrates on the mind, whilst science concentrates on the physical universe; thus, they cannot be naturally compared.

Core Reality Science

This Science drills with brahma Vidya on the basis of Present ie., physical Universe and the Past ie., universal memory in pursuance of natural Laws that explains origination of willful universal Consciousness along with the creation of our Universe from absolute nothingness. The science which explains with natural proof the mutual transformations between the past Universe and the present Universe is core spirituality. Core Reality Science explains such, so this new science is a physical theology based on natural proof first time in the world which is a new dimension of physics and naturally scientific spirituality that unifies the natural science, philosophy and spirituality to reform the world to a heavenly goal.

G-D’s Physics”: On the True Nature, Elegance & Purpose of the Universe!

Twenty-first century Theoretical Physics has undergone a major “Paradigmatic-Shift” from the Old “Material-Causal” Paradigm of GRT & QM to the New “G-D’s Physics” Scientific Paradigm pointing at the existence of a singular higher-ordered “Universal Computational/Consciousness Principle” (UCP) that simultaneously computes all exhaustive spatial pixels in the universe at the incredible rate of “c2/h” = 1.36-50 sec’(!), thereby producing an extremely rapid series of “Universal-Frames” (UF’s) of the whole physical universe at any “minimal time point”! Two unique “Critical Predictions” of this New “G-D’s Physics” Paradigm have been empirically validated as “more valid” than the corresponding predictions of both GRT & QM, thereby establishing it as the New Scientific Paradigm for 21st Century Physics! Indeed, this New “G-D’s Physics” Scientific Paradigm was shown successful not only in being able to unify between GRT & QM but also (for the first time in Physics) between the four basic physical features of “space”, “energy”, “mass” and “time” based on this singular higher UCP! Accordingly, “G-D’s Physics” postulation of the UCP’s “Ten Hierarchical Computational Dimensions” (THCD’s) that have “preplanned” the whole creation and development of the entire physical universe from “inanimate” matter through “animate”: plants, animals and human-beings – leading up to “Ultimate Perfected Geualh Goal State”, e.g., in which Humanity (and Science) recognize the singularity of this UCP and its “intrinsic-sublime” characteristics of “Morality”, “All-Goodness”, “Peace” and “Harmony” etc., thereby brining Humanity to its current (beginning of) this Ultimate Perfected Geulah State!

10.14738/aivp.111.13818

Twenty-First Century Theoretical Physics is undergoing a profound “Paradigmatic-Shift” from the Old “Material-Causal” Paradigm of 29th Century’s General Relativity Theory (GRT) & Quantum Mechanics (QM) to the New “G-D’s Physics” (“Computational Unified Field Theory”, CUFT)! This profound “Paradigmatic-Shift” ensues from the preceding “Paradigmatic Crisis” of the Old Paradigm – signified by the “theoretical inconsistency” between its two “pillars”, e.g., GRT & QM, and its inability to account for the accelerated expansion of the physical universe, assumed to be “caused” by an “undetectable” purely hypothetical “Dark-Matter” concept (assumed to comprise up to 95% of all matter, but which failed to be detected experimentally for the past two decades)?! In contrast, the New “G-D’s Physics” Scientific Paradigm discovered a singular higher-ordered “Universal Computational/Consciousness Principle” (UCP) which simultaneously computes all exhaustive spatial pixels (in the universe) at the incredible rate of “c2/h” = 1.36-50 (sec’), which creates an extremely rapid series of “Universal Frames” (UF’s) comprising the entire physical universe at every “minimal time-point”! Based on “G-D’s Physics” discovery of the UCP and associated “Universal Computational Formula” which completely unifies (for the first time in Physics) between the four basic physical features of “space” and “energy”, “mass” and “time”, it provides us with an alternative explanation for the origin- sustenance- (“dissolution”)- and “development” of the entire physical universe: towards an “Ultimate Perfected Guelah State” of the universe! In the current article, direct empirical validation of two (unique) “Critical Predictions” of this New “G-D’s Physics” Scientific Paradigm is outlined which therefore provides science with an alternative (satisfactory) explanation for the accelerated expansion of the universe based on this singular UCP’s “Collective Human Consciousness Focus Hypothesis” Postulate, and points at the feasibility of a new (exciting) conception of the UCP’s “steering” of the universe towards an “End of Time: Perfected Geulah State”, in which Science (and Humanity) will recognize the “Singularity”, ”All-Goodness”, “Morality”, ”Peace” and “Harmony” characterizing this singular UCP, as well as Humanity’s “Perfected Geulah” State!

Embracing “G-D’s Physics” as the New Twenty-First Century Valid Scientific Paradigm!

Twenty-First Century Theoretical Physics is undergoing a major “Paradigmatic-Shift” from the Old “Material-Causal” Paradigm of (20th century’s) General Relativity Theory (GRT) and Quantum Mechanics (QM) to the New “G-D’s Physics” (“Computational Unified Field Theory”, CUFT) based on a “G-D’s Physics” proven capacity to resolve the “theoretical inconsistency” between GRT & QM and offer an alternative satisfactory explanation for the accelerated rate of the universe’s expansion. Specifically, the empirical validations of “G-D’s Physics;” two unique “Critical Predictions” regarding the “Universe’s Non-Continuous Increase in its Accelerated Rate of Expansion” (UNCIARE) and “Proton-Radius Puzzle” associated findings, as “more valid” than the corresponding predictions of GRT & QM establish “G-D’s Physics as the New Scientific Paradigm for 21st century Theoretical Physics! It is also shown to completely unify between GRT & QM based on the discovery of a singular higher-ordered “Universal Computational Principle” (UCP) that simultaneously computes all exhaustive spatial pixels in the universe at the incredible rate of “c2/h” = 1.36-50 sec’! leading to the discovery of a “Universal Computational Formula” (UCF) that unifies (for the first time in Physics) between the four basic physical features of “space”, “energy”, “mass” and “time”. Finally, the profound theoretical postulates of “G-D’s Physics” New Scientific Paradigm also point at this UCP’s “pre-planning” and “steering” of the entire physical universe towards an “Ultimate Perfected Geulah Goal State” of the universe in which Humanity (and Science) will recognize the singularity of this UCP and live according to its primary characteristics of “All-Goodness”, ”Morality”, “Peace” and “Harmony”, e.g., which is signified by Science’s “embracing” of “G-D’s Physics” as the New 21st Century Scientific Paradigm!

G-D’s Physics’ New “Geulah-Driven, Human Consciousness Focus” (GDHCF) Model of the Universe!

Twentieth century's Old "Material-Causal" Paradigm underlying both General Relativity Theory (GRT) and Quantum Mechanics (QM) has reached a state of a "Paradigmatic-Crisis" signified by the apparent "theoretical inconsistency" between GRT & QM as well as its principle inability to account for up to 90% of all the mass and energy in the universe, e.g., assumed to comprise purely hypothetical "dark-matter" and "dark-energy" concepts and explain the universe's accelerated rate of expansion – but which could not be detected empirically (for the two past decades)?” A New promising “G-D’s Physics” (“Computational Unified Field Theory”, CUFT) “A-Causal Computation” Paradigm has been discovered based on the discovery of a singular higher-ordered “Universal Computational Principle” (UCP) that simultaneously computes all exhaustive spatial pixels in the universe at the incredible rate of “c2/h” = 1.36-50 (sec’) which produces an extremely rapid series of “Universal Frames (UF’s) comprising the entire physical universe at every “minimal time-point”! The New “G-D’s Physics” Scientific Paradigm is empirically validated in this article as more valid than the Old “Material-Causal” Paradigm based on verification of two unique “G-D’s Physics’ “Critical Predictions”: a) Universe’s Non-Continuous Increase in its Accelerated Rate of Expansion (UNCIARE); b) “Proton-Radius Puzzle” findings supporting “G-D’s Physics” UCP’s computation of relatively “more massive” particles (such as the Muon) as more “spatially-consistent” than relatively “less-massive” particles (such as the electron). Based on these empirical validations the New “G-D’s Physics” Paradigm negates the Old “Material-Causal” Paradigm’s GRT’s “Big-Bang” Model and offers an alternative (novel) “G-D’s Physics’ ‘Geulah-Driven’, Human Consciousness Focus (GDHCF) Model of the Universe’s origination, sustenance and development of the entire physical universe towards the UCP’s Ultimate “Geulah Perfected Goal State” of the universe in which Humanity (and Science) recognize the singularity of this UCP and its associated characteristics of “Morality”, “All-Goodness” “Peace” and “Harmony”! &nbsp

Mathematics and Physics; Brain and Universe machine languages

Revelations of the nature of existence, through humans’ cognitive systems, have been evolving since the development of language. Part of such revelations, appearing early in the history of civilization, were geometrical forms and numbers, whose beauty and order, both wondrous and mysterious, conveyed a sense of unreality beyond the physical reality normally discerned; and to Plato, these were indications of the “other reality” of which only a few glimpses had occurred. Access to all the attributes of this reality required breaking out of the shackles of (mental) captivity; beautifully portrayed in Plato’s cave allegory. The present era’s sense of wonder about the effectiveness of mathematics in formulating the discoveries of the fundamental and natural laws of existence, on the one hand, and advances in computation, especially in artificial intelligence (AI), on the other have revived the Platonic idea, in one form or other. This revival is supported by some ardent adherents among the very minds who have contributed to furthering our understanding of the physical universe. The work presented here is an attempt to prove that a “physical world” precludes the prospects for “mathematics” to be its “other reality.” This end is achieved by bringing to light the processes involved in the perceptions and discernment of the world by humans and, for that matter, by any creature with a physical central nervous system. The process involved makes it clear that the phenomena of the “physical universe” are played out (one way or other) in our “physical brains” as electrochemical operations, which are (fundamentally) physics-based computations. Therefore, the historically configured “symbolic language of mathematics” is the physical brain’s “machine language” for the specific outputted expressions (formalisms) of the underlying physics of some of the (physically) sensed phenomena behind such computations. This rapidly developing language, much of it emerging in “appearances” foreign to the physical reality, has been taken by many great minds, including Plato, Galileo, Kant, and Wigner, as an indication of an incontrovertible mysterious mathematical world, or its language. However, it is inadvertently the “machine language” whose progress is owed to the successful efforts of the “computational brains” that are blazing the trail for discoveries of more novelties in the physics of the physical universe. The overall claim in this work is based on the ideas that (1) brains only sense the world physically and operate physically, and (2) mathematics has been known on occasion to be predictive of physics, and the latter of new frontiers in the former.

The primordiality of representation

Abstract The ontological implications of the Peircean Categories, as set forth most clearly in Peirce’s summative architectonic statement, “New Elements,” and referenced elsewhere in Peirce’s body of writings, are examined with reference to the existent or physical universe. The Peircean universal ontological Categories Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness are shown to give rise to a cosmos that is triadic and representational in essence. This immanently representational cosmos, denominated the “Book Universe,” is shown to be evidenced by the representational contours of both the mathematical and of the conceptual framing of the three broad domains of theoretical physics, the quantum, classical, and relativistic domains. This triadic “Book Universe” model is both characterized and also contrasted with the “Block Universe” model, and is seen to incorporate both time and space as emergent representational characteristics, and to be manifest, qua triadic Representamen, in terms of a “foliated eternalism” that requires both antecedent and parallel cosmoi.

Phase transitions driven by topological excitations and their tensor network approach

The fundamental concepts of phases of matter and thermal phase transitions constitute the cornerstone of our understanding of the physical universe. The historical development of the phase transition theory from Landau's spontaneous symmetry breaking paradigm to modern topological phase transition theories represents a major milestone in the evolution of numerous scientific disciplines. From the perspective of emergent philosophy, the interplay of topological excitations leads to enriched physical phenomena. One prominent prototype is the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition, where unbinding of integer vortices occurs in the absence of spontaneous breaking of continuous <i>U</i>(1) symmetry. Using the state-of-the-art tensor network methods, we express the partition function of the two-dimensional <i>XY</i>-related system in terms of a product of one-dimensional transfer operators. From the singularities of the entanglement entropy of the one-dimensional transfer operator, we accurately determine the complete phase diagram of the partition function. This method provides new insights into the emergent phenomenon driven by topological excitations, and sheds new light on future studies of 2D systems with continuous symmetries.

Jeffery M. Leonard. Creation Rediscovered: Finding New Meaning in an Ancient Story

Jeffery M. Leonard. <i>Creation Rediscovered: Finding New Meaning in an Ancient Story</i>

A material ecocritical approach to the poetry of Dylan Thomas

Material ecocriticism, representing a material turn in ecocritical studies, is faithfully committed to undermine the anthropocentric ideology of humans’ superiority over the natural environment and reconfigures human and nonhuman beings as materially entangled entities whose stories as well as physical bodies are interwoven together. What essentially emphasized by the material ecocritical theory is the indistinguishable relatedness and the coexistence of the physical universe and the textuality, the mattfer and the language, human and nature. Demolishing human’s exceptional status over nature and rejecting any kind of human guardianship of nature, material ecocriticism unshackles nature from human representations, definitions or meanings and attributes vitality and agency to natural elements that are capable of producing meaningful stories of their own. Accordingly, Dylan Thomas (1924-1953) reinforces man’s situatedness within the earth throughout his poetry, instead of constructing impermeable discrepancies between human and nature. Thomas develops material ecological understanding of the universe in which human and nonhuman entities are biologically connected to each other. Therefore, the aim of this study is to analyze Dylan Thomas’ poetry from the perspective of material ecocriticism to provide an insight to Thomas’ depiction of nature as a dynamic entity rather than as a passive object.

God and Beauty

In this brief paper, we set the equation for the physical universe equal to the equation to beauty. I hypothesize that God is Beauty and the universe is His work. The 3-4-5 triangle results.