I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking and analysis on what the precursor field would have to be. I’ve had some discussions and conclusions about the precursor field that I’ll get into shortly here–but I wanted to digress a little because one of the discussions homed in on why I’m doing this work. The discussion was extensive but revealed a crucial point about humanity’s search for meaning. Let’s see if I can summarize the extensiveness of this conversation down to the bare essentials in a clear way:
The main driver for the approach I am taking is that this universe emerged from nothing. To put it another way by using a popular physics aphorism, it’s not turtles all the way down, the first turtle emerged from nothing. As I detailed in several previous posts, I see how this could happen–essentially a massive generalization of the principle that infinity times zero can give a finite number. This drives many of the requirements of the precursor field that I am developing which causes emergence of quantized particles and emergence of particle motion and the EM field, the strong force, and related properties.
This question–did the universe emerge from nothing–is *the* most fundamental question a human being can ask, and is beautiful and elegant in its own right. It encompasses many issues, especially the question “Is there a God”. It’s rare that a question can be formed with such simplicity in our language. The whole study of philosophy of all forms spends a lot of time clarifying what is a “real” question versus what is semantics, i.e, an artifact of the language we choose to work in.
For example, the common philosophical study of “I seek the Truth” raises semantic questions like “what do you mean by truth?” “What does the concept of seeking mean?” Or, the question “What is the meaning/purpose of life?” Well, what does “meaning” mean to you? How do you define life? Does it involve consciousness? Memory? A tree is alive, and on a very long timescale likely has the same stimulus/response capability as faster moving animals or humans. It’s really tough to extract the various philosophical issues out of the semantics of most questions.
But the question “did the universe emerge from nothing”, while not immune from semantics, cuts to the core issue easily and elegantly. It asks whether the observed rules of our existence are intrinsic or not. If there is even just one rule that has to be there in addition to nothing (and yes, there are semantic issues with “nothing”, so we do have to tread carefully even here)–then the universe didn’t emerge from absolutely nothing. Then you are forced to ask what caused that rule to emerge, and with a lot of thought I think you have to declare that there is a God–an intellect, a being, or other organized structure that formed the universe. Then you have to ask what formed those. It is a recursion of thought that leads some to say “it’s turtles all the way down”, that there is no beginning. But if you do that, you still are saying there is a God, I think. This question is so elegant because the dividing line is so precise. Either the universe emerged from nothing, or else there is no point in continuing because a God or Being or Computer or *something* takes a turtle, puts it there, and voila, we as humans emerge.
The assumption of a God is so problematic in my mind–you simply cannot answer the question of how did this universe get created, you also *cannot ask the question why are we here*!!! By defining a God, we have taken that question out of our hands and put it in the hands of an unknowable entity. By saying it’s turtles all the way down (similar to saying there is no beginning, the universe has always existed), we throw up our hands and say these questions cannot be answered.
On the other hand, if we study the approach that we came from nothing, there is a path that can truly be followed, and that is exactly what I am trying to do. I assume this precursor field had to emerge from nothing and that constrains the characteristics of the field in many ways. For example, the particle zoo has to emerge from it, so a geometrical basis should exist. Or, getting on the subject I’ve been focusing on, the precursor field has to emerge from nothing, so it cannot have extra degrees of freedom, which implies rules preceded the field–a no-no in forming the field description. If there are rules, there has to be a God of some form.
The astonishing thing to me is how clear the path for humanity has to be. There really is only one study worth doing–how could we emerge from nothing. Any other explanation for our existence appears to have no fundamental value in investigating!
I hope you find this digression fascinating and helpful why I am doing this study. It has so far led to the following conclusions, some of which I’ve described in previous posts:
The precursor field cannot require continuity (differentiability) otherwise quantized twists are not possible, and such twists are required for the formation of stable particles in the particle zoo
The field has no vector magnitude, it is a unitary directional field with an R3 + I dimension plus time. This means that the field elements are orientable (that is, there is a property of the field element that distinguishes from other field elements both by physical location and by direction)
The elements of the field do not move. They can only rotate. Movement is an emergent concept that results from the formation of rotation structures that can propagate through the field
Rotation of a field element induces rotation of neighborhood field elements. This induction is infinity elastic otherwise the field would be forced to be continuous and differentiable, which is contradictory to enabling field twists
Field elements are quantized by creating a preferred orientation to the imaginary dimension direction. This, combined with the ability to form field twists, is what allows the formation of stable particles
There are other properties I am uncovering, but this list is a good starting point for setting up a computer simulation and for analytic derivations. My goal is to uncover the specific quantized states available and see if they match with what we see in the particle zoo.
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