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Did you hear about the two cannibals that went to Prague for supper?

They asked for separate Czechs.

naivefellow, on 24 January 2011 - 01:37 AM, said:

The Periodic Table orders the known elements by the number of protons in the nucleus, N. From N = 1 (Hydrogen) to N = 92 (Uranium). All the numbers in between are accounted for. There are no integers between, say, 42 and 43, waiting to be discovered.

It is remotely possible that stable elements of N > 116 might exist.

Kharakov, on 09 November 2010 - 12:46 PM, said:

I'm totally impressed. Nice images.
However, I was unable to follow the code you provided. there were undeclared variables, and I saw no loop structure over the domain of the images.

Moontanman, on 08 October 2010 - 08:56 AM, said:

Fascinating. Good catch, MooMan!!

Qfwfq, on 15 September 2010 - 11:19 PM, said:

I did it to create dramatic effect.

I did it because it appeared so obvious to me that gravity is the manifestation of a temporal gradient that I assumed that some Einstein out there would certainly have come to the same conclusion if there was any logic at all behind it. Since there is NO consensus that gravity is "caused" by the local temporal gradient, then I had to conclude that the possibility of such was merely BARELY possible.



But the more I think about it, the more obvious it appears to me.

What causes the temporal gradient? The trivial answer is mass. The real answer is (I assert) that the speed of light © is the default velocity of everything. But when photon-like particles interact with each other in some way that we would speak of as a "bound system", some component of their "natural velocity" © appears to disappear. The bound system doesn't actually "slow down", but rather causes the local substrate of the temporal mechanism to behave as if its "viscosity" were increased enormously. Bound systems of photon-like particles interact with this temporal viscosity, and behave as if they had "mass" and cannot travel at c. Solitary photons do not interact with the temporal viscosity and always travel at c.

The presence of a bound system of photon-like particles (think of quarks), causes the temporal substrate to be "sluggish" or to behave as if it had an increased "temporal viscosity". This viscosity can be "felt" by neighboring regions of space as a temporal gradient, with time flowing slower next door where the 2 or 3 quarks are bound together. Therefore, a potential energy difference exists. Any other bound system of photon-like particles will feel a PE "force" toward other neighboring bound systems and vice versa. This property is additive in the temporal substrate, so that a huge amount of mass, say a planet, will generate a correspondingly huge temporal gradient over vast regions of space. We call this a "gravity well".

Finally, we must address the concept of the "temporal substrate". I mean by this, whatever [waves hands spastically for dramatic effect] quantum Plank-scale mechanisms out of which Space and Time appear as emergent phenomenons. I posit a "mechanism", a field, a Plank Fluid of virtual entities that do not qualify as "particles" in any meaningful sense. I will call them plankons, for lack of a better word.

If you are familiar with Conway's Game of Life, this will make better sense. Plankons can only interact with the most primitive quantum rules imaginable; they have no internal structure. At a start, we can say that they are ON or OFF, and their current state is determined to some extent by the states of neighboring plankons.

Stable, repeating, "cellular automaton"-like entities occur. Evanescent entities which self-emerge out of the chaotic Plank Fluid, and which have the emergent properties of velocity and permanence. The analog in Conway's GOL would be the "glider".

The very manifestation of velocity generates the local emergent (quantum) properties of space and time. These "cellular automaton"-like entities we call photons. They have only one velocity, c, whose value is determined by inherent properties of the Plank Fluid. Since velocity, space and time are all manifest as emergent properties simultaneously, we have a space-time structure that manifests c as the maximum possible velocity -- and vice-versa.

This is the temporal substrate. The "rules" (if you will) of the "cellular atomaton"-like photons that manifest (to us) as space, time and c.

When photons themselves become bound in tight systems, they alter the temporal substrate. Space, time and c all become simultaneously redefined. The quantum nature of the Plank Fluid enables these differences to be "felt" at a distance.

I've run out of ideas....