Category: Nature
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Dr. Brian Keating : Geraint Lewis & Luke Barnes
This was not a great episode. Major audio problems for Brian. Geraint and Luke didn’t say much with any depth. I have a few comments which are below the video. Dear Brian, I’m about 45 minutes in to the episode and so far I haven’t heard anything too offensive directed at the independent ideators. Maybe…
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PBS Space Time : “How The Penrose Singularity Theorem Predicts The End of Space Time”
This post was inspired by the following PBS Space Time episode. This episode mostly focuses on geodesic curves and the advancements Penrose made with geodesics in proofs about singularities. Hawking then used the same technique applied to the Big Bang. I’m onboard with geodesics in their scales of applicability where spacetime æther is well behaved…
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Positive Infinity Meets Negative Infinity
Can we map NPQG to LCDM cosmology and find a new explanation for what has been characterized as the Big Bang, inflation, and expansion? Yes! There is a topological transformation we can apply to GR-QM-LCDM era physics to reveal NPQG and the true natural configuration. The galaxy center supermassive black holes are essential in these…
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The False Narratives of Physics and Cosmology
Physics and cosmology are in crisis due to a large number of paradoxes and unsolved problems from the eras of general relativity (GR), quantum mechanics (QM), and the lambda cold dark matter (LCDM) cosmology model. However, the greatest problem facing scientists is the set of false narratives which permeate their thinking. The narrative of Neoclassical…
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Big Bang vs. Steady State
RIDDLE ME THIS : How can a universe expand without increasing in size? This turns out to be a key issue in the steady state vs. big bang debate. Unfortunately, during the decades the the debate raged, the science of black holes was immature and there was no knowledge that supermassive black holes were at…
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What Would Nature Do?
This post is about developing an intuition about how nature behaves given the fundamental ingredients of the universe as informed by NPQG. The chart below shows the elements of the NPQG universe. This is it. There are no other physical elements. This set of ingredients follows the physical laws of classical mechanics and electromagnetism and…
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Mapping Wolfram Physics
In 2020 Stephen Wolfram’s computational approach to identifying the fundamental basis of physics has been announced and is garnering attention. I am starting to arrive at some thoughts and impressions about Wolfram’s approach, so I thought I would start a post for collecting insights on this topic. I will update this post as I learn…
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A Pleasant Conversation with a Physicist
Today started like every other day during the pandemic and more recently the Southern California heat wave. I woke up and made coffee and browsed social media. Oh, Sabine Hossenfelder has a new song! Cool. Her songs are usually top notch. But this one was about a sore subject, dissing people who are out of…
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The Trials and Tribulations of an Independent Ideator
There are a very few forums where an independent physics and cosmology ideator can contribute. Publication is unlikely as journals look askance on people who are not in the field as well as on grand new ideas. On scientist’s blogs you will often get banned. On Reddit you will get banned. Likewise they will go…
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Hostility and Bullying are Endemic in Physics and Cosmology
This book review appeared in the periodical Physics Today in 1957. It is fascinating that even back in 1957 physicists had developed such intense disdain for the public. I am highly bemused by this Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin’s quotation. “… modern cosmology … is a subject that the general reader has been led to believe that he…
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Limits of Memory and Computation
Seed a Euclidean garden with duos of energetic, charged, immutable point charges and a Universe will emerge. J Mark Morris Can you imagine that this minimal and simple set of ingredients produces the observable universe given the right densities of Planck scale point chargesand energy? Can you imagine that this set of ingredients might produce…
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Revisiting Nobel Prize Research
I have been considering writing this post for over a year. I have mixed feelings about revisiting the Nobel prizes in physics with the knowledge of NPQG in hand. Let’s go through the set of conflicting thoughts that run through my mind. Under the fair use doctrine, I have copied the text of the All…
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Tensions in Cosmology
I thought I would make a list of major tensions in cosmology. I’ll include the NPQG solution in bold red font. I’ll also group issues that are related to the same NPQG solutions. This list of cosmological tensions is from Wikipedia: J Mark Morris : San Diego : California
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Insights on Injustice via Gell-Mann
This post starts with an exchange with my friend Kirsten Hacker regarding Murray Gell-Mann. It ends with a jumble of thoughts related to injustice and remedies. Dear Kirsten,I thought you might be interested in this historical paper that was recently published: Gell-Mann in His Own Words (https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12615). Most of it is Greek to me, but…
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Triton Station : Anyone Home?
This post is an appeal to astronomers and astrophysicists to consider the conversion of ΛCDM to incorporate galaxy local cosmological processes for the big bang, inflation, and expansion. On Twitter, I follow astrophysicist @DudeDarkMatter who is Dr. Stacy McGaugh of Case-Western University. I enjoy reading his tweets about many subjects and in particular astrophysics. Stacy…
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Lawrence Krauss : 5 Minute Physics : Episodes 19 thru 21
Dr. Lawrence Krauss posted a fascinating series of “5 Minute Physics” videos circa April/May 2020. They are filmed in and around his Oregon home, which is in a lovely woods with a creek running through it, and this yields a very pleasing viewing experience. In this post I’ll review Dr. Krauss’s videos and compare and…
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