Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic Paradigm
Essays by A.T. Williams
Part I: Sneaking Up On Einstein
All matter is immersed in it and it penetrates everywhere. No doors are closed to ether.
- Albert Einstein, The Evolution of Physics
Chapter 3
Section 4: The Source of Gravity:
From Old to New Physics, Part 3
Advancing 21st century new physics beyond the traditional limitations of thermodynamics and the closed or isolated (mechanically conservative) de facto absolute reference frame of contemporary classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, relativity, and cosmology, the universal principle of energy (TUPE) and The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP, pronounced "teep") model of physical reality just-as-it-is imply that our holonomic nonmaterial/material universe is a compound open (mechanically nonconservative) nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) system comprised of at least 6 extended dimensions + 2 time dimensions. 21
According to the Particle Data Group, most real and virtual particles created by the destructive testing characteristic of high-energy particle accelerators and colliders decay in less than one second using the traditional physics of the 1970s Standard Model in a closed or isolated (mechanically conservative) material system.
Nonetheless, the electron, the elementary carrier of negative electric charge (e0 q-) as well as a workhorse of the material domain, has an estimated lifetime of more than 4.6 x 1026 years. Even so, the proton is estimated to have a longer lifetime of more than 2.1 x 1029 years. The neutron takes third place with a lifetime of approximately 15 minutes before it decays.
Huge differences between the lifetime decay processes of the proton, the electron, and the rest of the elementary fermions seem to indicate that humankind has only scratched the surface of physical reality just-as-it-is and that there is unimaginably more to be learned.
The subnuclear milieu:
The protons (p = p0 + q+) and neutrons (n = n0 + q0) of the atomic nucleus are bound together by the strong nuclear force. The strong nuclear force that binds protons and neutrons together is described by the high energy particle physics of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) as a residual or secondary effect of the subnuclear strong-interaction color force.
Curiously, the primary effect of the strong-interaction color force coupled to the mysterious quarks and the indispensable gluons seems to function as a dual purpose fundamental force. Thus a certain subnuclear ambiguity enters the comparison of the strong nuclear force binding energy and the strong-interaction color force hadron confinement of quarks.
The strong binding force between nucleons diminishes as expected with increasing distance. Counterintuitively, the strong-interaction color force is not only responsible for the confinement that limits the separation of quarks in hadrons, the color force also enables the asymptotic freedom of the constituent quarks as the paired or triplet quarks in mesons and baryons, respectively, microscopically move in accordance with the available kinetic energy or momentum (Q) within the apparently inescapable material domain limit of hadron confinement.
The theory of quark asymptotic freedom was proposed in 1973 by David Gross, David Politzer, and Frank Wilczek, who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for making the discovery. In 2006 Siegfried Bethke of the Max Planck Institute for Physics summarized the 30 years of high-energy particle physics experiments that provided definitive proof of the running strong-interaction coupling parameter αs(Q2) in a single paragraph:
The most significant experimental proof of asymptotic freedom today is provided by the summary and combination of all measurements of αs, over an energy range of 1.6 GeV to more than 200 GeV, from all available processes and experiments, involving perturbative and lattice QCD calculations. The results are in excellent agreement with QCD and precisely reproduce the inverse logarithmic dependence of αs from the energy or momentum transfer scale Q. 22
Bethke further emphasized the unique quality of the inverted running strong-interaction coupling parameter αs(Q2) by noting:
In fact, there exists no theory which predicts a constant coupling. 23
Thus, compared to the familiar continuous spectrum of radioactive Beta decay electrons (β-) and positrons (β+ ) – i.e., from zero to relativistic kinetic energy or large momentum, the inverse logarithmic dependence of αs(Q2) can be seen as a unique inverted quark parameter running from strong-interaction confinement to asymptotic freedom within hadrons – i.e., from relativistic to effectively zero kinetic energy or momentum.
Nonlinear color state mixing:
Quarks are the most complex elementary particle yet discovered. Each quark is coupled to electric charge and to the strong-interaction color charge. Quarks are also the only particles that interact with all four fundamental forces currently acknowledged by the physics community including the weak force, and gravity. Gravity is the weakest of the four known fundamental forces.
QCD characterizes the subnuclear strong-interaction color charge carried by quarks and gluons as being substantially analogous to electric charge. Extensive experimentation since the mid-1960s has confirmed that six types or flavors of quarks and an SU(3) c color octet of eight gluons act as QCD color charge carriers.
In contemporary quantum field theory (QFT) the four known fundamental forces are carried by exchange particles. Hence, electrically charged particles in the material domain emit and absorb, or exchange, massless photons which are the Standard Model gauge boson carriers of the electromagnetic force. In QCD the two subnuclear color charge carriers contained within hadrons – quarks and gluons – can be seen as emitting and absorbing, or exchanging, the color 8 gluons which are the gauge boson carriers of the strong-interaction color force.
Each massless photon of electromagnetic radiation has a fixed value throughout its lifetime. In contrast, each color charged gluon carries a dynamic combination of color and anti-color that produces a unique color state. Each gluon has a certain probability of interacting with the color charged quarks and the other color 8 constituents of the gluon cloud within each hadron.
Each quark and each constituent of the gluon cloud carries a dynamic (oscillating) color state. Gluons also have a certain probability of self-coupling 24 to other color charged gluons.
Consequently, the combined gluon-quark, gluon-gluon, and gluon self-coupling color state mixing can be seen as a nonlinear process.
One major implication of color charged gluons and nonlinear color state mixing is that gluon color charge carriers spontaneously break the massless 25 gauge boson invariance of the Standard Model. Indeed, relativistic gluons comprise the largest percentage of mass within hadrons:
Hadrons like protons and neutrons are responsible for more than 99% of the mass of all visible matter in our universe, and those masses are mainly generated by the strong binding of quarks inside hadrons, rather than by the (generally small) masses of the quarks themselves. 26
The unique strong-interactions of quark and gluon SU(3) c color charge carriers, gluon self-coupling, and dynamic nonlinear color state mixing cannot be overemphasized.
Moreover, the novel physics of the universal principle of energy (TUPE) and The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP) model of physical reality just-as-it-is mentioned in the first paragraph of this essay imply that the 3 + 1 color fields generated by gluons are indispensable links to the omnipresent, pervasive, 6 + 2 nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) scalar field of the fundamental, irreducible, nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED).
Beyond quantum mechanics to nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) :
In his definitive overview of contemporary high energy particle physics, Unanswered Questions in the Electroweak Theory, published 7 July 2009, Chris Quigg of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory addressed a new way of thinking. In his detailed analysis and critique of the electroweak theory, he writes:
[I]t is worth pausing for a moment to ask how different the world would have been, without a Higgs mechanism or a substitute on the real-world electroweak scale. Eliminating the Higgs mechanism does not alter the strong interaction, so QCD would still confine colored objects into hadrons.
In seeking the agent of electroweak symmetry breaking, we hope to learn why the everyday world is as we find it: why atoms and chemistry and stable structures can exist.
New ways of thinking about electroweak symmetry breaking arise when we contemplate the possibility that spacetime has more than the canonical four dimensions. Among the possibilities are models without a physical Higgs scalar, in which electroweak symmetry is hidden ... .
Suppose instead that the electroweak gauge theory is itself formulated in more than four dimensions. From our four-dimensional perspective, components of the gauge fields along the supplemental directions will be seen as scalar fields with respect to the conventional four-dimensional coordinates. 27
One of the reasons to consider advancing beyond the canonical four-dimensional coordinates of classical and quantum mechanics is succinctly stated in the first sentence of the Introduction to the article, Screening Effects in Superfluid Nuclear and Neutron Matter within Brueckner Theory, by L. G. Cao, U. Lombardo, and P. Schuck:
A satisfactory description of superfluidity in nuclear matter has not yet been achieved despite almost fifty years of research have elapsed since the first application of the BCS theory to nuclear systems. Somewhat at variance with the electron pairing in superconductors the pairing in nuclear systems results from the interplay between the direct action of the bare nuclear force and the action induced by the medium polarization.
Clearly, while the separate goals may be reached by different means, there is a shared common medium in which the search for new high-energy particle physics as well as new nuclear physics takes place. Another common aspect is the historical example of advancing beyond 19th century classical physics provided by the development of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory which demonstrates that there are two ways to accomplish the search for new physics; namely, by either extending or subsuming the old while advancing the new.
Furthermore, the new physics in each field of investigation will be embraced and further developed by some, but rejected by others. The way beyond 20th century high-energy particle physics and nuclear physics in the 21st century, however, will necessarily follow the established pattern.
The quiet creation holographic paradigm:
In my view the common path to new physics beyond 20th century high-energy particle physics and nuclear physics in the material domain begins with the novel discovery of the universal principle of energy (TUPE) at the turn of the 21st century in the year 2000. TUPE states:
Fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy exists in the absence of matter, but matter is entirely dependent upon primordial energy and cannot exist in the absence of nonmaterial primordial energy.
It is axiomatic in the physical sciences that nothing comes from nothing (ex nihilo nihil fit, in Latin). Moreover, in the material universe human beings see, hear, touch, taste, and smell, time is seen as a unidirectional sequence of events in which the preceding event is instantly followed by a subsequent event. Hence, it is difficult for humankind to comprehend a time in which the material universe did not exist.
Interestingly, the contemporary 20th century physics concept of microscopic time symmetry in a closed or isolated (mechanically conservative) material system considers a unidirectional macroscopic arrow of time to be time asymmetric. This view seems to be a consequence of the traditional understanding of thermodynamics which implies that all natural laws, including the four-dimensional initial conditions of 3 + 1 spacetime, are self-contained within the bound of the material universe.
Even so, the asymmetry attributed to the unidirectional macroscopic arrow of time by contemporary physics can be seen as a simple lack of knowledge concerning the unknown new physics that exist beyond the bound of the material domain described by classical and quantum mechanics.
Thus, following TUPE, the first step toward investigating and understanding the new physics beyond the bound of the material domain is to acknowledge that the unseen omnipresent, pervasive, nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED) is no longer hidden.
On this view, the new physics of the combined TUPE and TEHP quiet creation model of holographic physical reality just-as-it-is imply that time t = 0 and the source of the four-dimensional parent hologram that produces the initial conditions (t = t1) of our compound open (mechanically nonconservative), reciprocally reconstructed nonmaterial/material holonomic universe are created on a currently undetermined extradimensional transcendent level of nonmaterial physical reality just-as-it-is.
Therefore, TEHP implies that each all-inclusive present moment in the nonmaterial, conditionally relative extradimensional parent (stored) hologram that acts as the transcendent source of our nonmaterial/material holonomic universe contains at least three transcendent extended dimensions and one transcendent time dimension (3 + t1).
In strong, slightly modified agreement with well established classical and quantum mechanical material domain physics, TEHP also implies that each all-inclusive present moment within our reciprocally reconstructed nonmaterial/material holonomic universe contains at least three extended dimensions and one time dimension (3 + t2 , where t2 = 1 / t1).
Thus, TEHP implies that each conditionally relative, all-inclusive present moment in our compound open (mechanically nonconservative) nonmaterial/material holonomic system is comprised of a dimensional aggregate containing at least six extended dimensions and two inversely related time dimensions (6 + 2 , i.e., 6 + (t1 and t2)).
Q. How is the source hologram of our complex open (mechanically nonconservative) nonmaterial/material holonomic universe created on a transcendent plane of physical reality just-as-it-is?
A. The existence of the transcendent parent hologram reveals a certain level of conditionally relative activity produced by autonomous nonmaterial holonomic minds.
In summary, the atomic nucleus can be seen as an indispensable gateway that links our 3 + t2 nonmaterial/material holonomic domain to the TEHP 6 + 2 NPE scalar field of the phase change transition zone (TZ) in the fundamental, irreducible, nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED).
Electromagnetism and the weak force are ascribed to a common gauge symmetry in a comprehensive relativistic electroweak quantum field theory. Consequently, high energy particle physicists conclude that the electroweak gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken to the gauge symmetry of electromagnetism 28 in what can now be seen as 3 + t2 spacetime.
Similarly, the novel combined physics of TUPE and TEHP imply that the electromagnetic and QCD gluon gauge symmetries of 3 + t2 spacetime are spontaneously broken to the omnipresent, pervasive, TEHP 6 + 2 nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) scalar field of the fundamental, irreducible, nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED).
Gravity:
Interestingly, intensive searches for classical and quantum gravity over the past centuries and decades, respectively, have described only the effects of gravity rather than discovering the source of gravity.
Simply put, it turns out that while looking without success for the source of gravity in the material domain prior to the discovery of the universal principle of energy (TUPE), humankind has been unknowingly looking through the unseen nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) that constitutes the force of gravity. Thus the source of gravity inadvertently remained undetected.
This visual limitation of human perception is particularly analogous to the unexpected 1905 discovery of light quanta in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum a century ago as well as the more recent accidental discovery of the omnipresent cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) in 1965.
The visual limitation of human perception is also precisely the reason the fundamental, irreducible, nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED) has explicitly remained hidden throughout human history from ancient times to the present day.
As mentioned above, the new physics of TUPE and TEHP imply that the various forms of particulate matter/mass are diverse conditionally relative phase changes in the elementary TEHP 6 + 2 NPE scalar field within the massless NED. Thus the fundamental nature of discrete particulate matter/mass can be defined as being identical to, and indeed is, fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE).
The NPE change of phase that creates conditionally relative matter/mass can be seen as being analogous to the material domain phase change from liquid water to the solid state (ice). The reverse change of phase from matter/mass to NPE also occurs.
In other words, each discrete new particle of matter is created as a conditionally relative phase change within the NED. Each conditionally relative phase change is inseparably created, contained, and maintained within the NED during its lifetime regardless of whether the particle has mass or not, and whether the particle is located in the material domain or in the 6 + 2 nonmaterial/material NPE scalar field transition zone (TZ) that links the material domain and the massless NED.
Thus the force of gravity can be defined as the unambiguous NPE signature of the massless fundamental, irreducible NED within which each discrete particle that possesses or relativistically acquires matter/mass is created, contained, and maintained during its conditionally relative lifetime.
Therefore discrete individual fermions, including neutrinos and quarks, as well as atomic, molecular, and large scale bulk aggregations of fermions gravitate to a greater or lesser degree depending upon the intrinsic NPE mass. Hence, Newton's inverse square law can be seen as verified not only in the material domain, but also in the nonmaterial/material NPE scalar field phase change transition zone (TZ) of the NED.
Consequently, putting the limitations of contemporary closed or isolated (mechanically conservative) material system gravitation theories aside, the novel physics of the combined TUPE and TEHP holographic model of physical reality just-as-it-is tend to favor Einstein's general theory of relativity in our compound open (mechanically nonconservative) nonmaterial/material holonomic universe.
Reference Notes (Click on the Note number to return to the text) :
21 Cf. Chapter 1, Section 2 of these essays.
22 Bethke, Siegfried. Experimental Tests of Asymptotic Freedom, p. 32.
23 Ref. 22, p. 30, footnote 9.
24 Ref. 22, Sec. 4.2, pp. 19-20.
25 "Theoretical value. A mass as large as a few MeV may not be precluded." Particle Data Group, Gluons, etc., p. 6, endnote [a].
26 Ref. 22, p. 3.
27 Quigg, Chris. Unanswered Questions in the Electroweak Theory, 7 July 2009, pp. 18-19. This document anticipates the imminent startup of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
Quigg also wrote an earlier popular article, The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics, published in a Scientific American magazine Special Report, February 2008, pp. 46-53.
28 Ref. 27, p. 1.
Index: Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic Paradigm
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