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Does anyone think that the initial conditions of big were were a net zero energy event, \Delta U(gravitational potential) + Energy (big bang) = 0.

If the neuro"science" community cared about humanity, they would make a public announcement saying they don't know what the Hell a soul is, don't know how to make humanity happy, and turn that job back over to religious leaders, psychics, and those who understand human nature and the nature of consciousness.

Is that it? So what can I do with this "valuable" knowledge from the highly esteemed scientific community whom we are supposed to emulate and look to for a vision of the future?

So what do you think is the nature of consciousness?

We're still not talking about consciousness or what it is. This thread is about consciousness. Experience and intuition are major parts of it. So your argument about "valid claims" is silly.

I'm starting to understand what it's like to live in a dictatorship. Can't really say what I want to say without offending the administrators, breaking the rules or referring to a topic that is closed by the administrators. I can't use certain words unless I have mastery of the topic. It's like walking on egg shells in this forum. The truly wondrous things that other people express to me, they warm my heart about what reality is really like. I'm starting to understand what our forefathers were probably dealing with. Yes, I support freedom of speech.

The topic is about: life and consciousness (what is consciousness). What are we allowed to say about consciousness that is within the rules of this forum?

Your communication is a little fuzzy. I can't quite make it out. It sounds like you're claiming the right to disparage someone's profound experience to satisfy.... Can you please clarify. Why would you want to?

What do you mean?

The r vector is a radius vector of the pre photon that is described with the wave function above as [latex] r = ct [/latex].

Did I mention that when pre-photons are emitted from points A and B, their momentum states will eventually mix. It's the quantum momentum states that are key to the acceleration of gravity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum_operator The plane wave solution to the Schrodinger equation is, [latex] \psi = e^{\frac {i}{\hbar}(\vec {p} . \vec{r} - Et)} [/latex] The momentum operator is [latex]\vec {p} = -i \hbar \vec{ \nabla} [/latex]

Where? Look at the picture of the photon. I call them pre-photons instead of virtual photons. Do you see where it says "wavelength"? That's a ruler. In 3D, It creates the geometry of space-time. Do you see where it says frequency? Well that's a clock. Since they're built into the same object, a pre-photon, then together, they are a mechanism of spacetime. They are literally tied to [latex] c = \lambda \nu [/latex]. If it was part of a quantum system, lets say an infinite potential well of length L, it would be quantized as shown in the figure below. The pre-photon is a place to put energy, a particle, momentum. So if there is a charge near by, the pre-photon has a place to put electromagnetic energy, and consequently could interact with the charge like a virtual photon. Just looking at the pictures makes one think that a quantum system could contain n pre-photons. They are not a conserved quantity, so it's not a problem. Spacetime is made out of clocks and rulers. Those clocks and rulers are the phase of the pre-photon(s) that fill all space will wavelength states (in 3 dimensions), which is 3D geometry, and frequency states. A pre-photon doesn't have a particular frequency or energy. It obeys [latex] E = h\nu [/latex]. It has all of the available frequency states, and lays down those states at the speed of light in all directions of 3D. Only standard model particles can carry charge. Only particle creation/annihilation processes can create standard model particles. Particle + anti-particle --> hv. In quantum field theory, there is a field for every kind of particle. There is an electron field, quark field, gluon field, every kind of particle. I don't know how a pre-photon becomes an electron field, etc.

Certainly the purpose of life is to experience how profound the world is. It would be a better life if we could have a profound thought without someone disparaging it for fun.

Do people piss in the wind? met·a·phys·ics /ˌmedəˈfiziks/ plural 1. the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space: "they would regard the question of the initial conditions for the universe as belonging to the realm of metaphysics or religion" You think physics will refute first principles of things including substance, cause, time and space? I think in 500 years, people like Eise will have to grudgingly live with metaphysics as being highly integrated into technology.

The connection between spacetime geometry and quantum states is there. The minimum requirement for spacetime geometry to exist is that a clock and a ruler must exist for every inertial frame; but those clocks have to the be tied to the invariant speed of light. A photon (both virtual and real) has wavelength and frequency in the relationship [latex] c = \lambda \nu [/latex]. It looks like this. What do you notice exists within the photon? Electromagnetism. [\latex] c^2 \mu \epsilont = 1 [latex]. If there was a potential energy made of electron charge, it would cause photons (both real and virtual) to interact with it because photons have electromagnetic fields. In many cases, the solution to the Schrodinger equation has a potential energy term that is often made of charges. The solution is the wave function which I have often stated (without a mathematical derivation) is describing a virtual photon. I had to start with an "event" in spacetime and talk about the spacetime interval (many inertial frames whose rulers and clocks are invariant to the speed of light); then I had to make a logical argument that any event would have to update the rest of the universe at the speed of light. I don't know what it is that has both properties of virtual photons and spacetime geometry, so I called it a pre-photon. Graviton?

In 500 years, physicists will probably be more comfortable with metaphysics. It has been argued that every event that occurs creates a spherical wavefront made of quantum states and space-time geometry, that transmits its causality at the speed of light to update the rest of the universe. Even something as small as an ant wiggling it butt would generate a causal wavefront. The little things are not expected to effect curvature of spacetime. But a distinctive signal could still persist as a field that hangs around for a while. A particularly distinctive thought is an event sufficient enough to emit a spherical wavefront. A thought could make a difference, existing as a field.

The purpose of life is to exploit nuances in the laws of physics

Well, a Bessel function is a solution to a differential in spherical coordinates. The only problem is, I don't know how to solve something like this that is expanding with time, and also has a time element. Incidentally, can you think of any quantum gravity theories that have the feature of point quantum gravity events expanding at the speed of light in all directions? Even gravitons aren't described this way. I get the feeling that point events might start out normalized, but would be impossible to normalize very quickly. But that doesn't mean nature wouldn't update spacetime this way.

There is also a logical consequence of what happens when things expand at the speed of light. They get big. In one second, they're already 6x108 meters wide. It shouldn't go unnoticed that spacetime is big, really big. The geometry of the line cone seems to suggest that something is getting bigger at the speed of light.

When we look at the derivation of special relativity, there is the path that light inside of the moving object, and then the path that light takes when an observer sees the light while looking in the window of the moving object. There is a right triangle calculation involving two paths of light, and then suddenly we're talking about time dilation and length contraction. You don't even need light for special relativity to happen, just something that has the speed of light, c. So why wouldn't someone wonder if there is something moving at the speed of light to facilitate the "invariance of c".

A friend of mine at work who is smarter than all of us listened to my idea and said I was describing a "ghost" particle. Since all of its quantum states are empty of energy and matter. I'm still not sure if I'm describing a graviton. I was hoping that "expand at the speed of light" would paint a picture. That would explain a transition from "quantum scale" to "gravitational scale". If you didn't understand and still want a model, I confess that I don't know how to explain it any better. I still welcome questions. Were you thinking of spherical geometry? How do you describe a 3d+1 set of quantum states expanding at the speed of light? Are you referring to the term "physics information "? I don't remember Leonard Suskind defining it. Do you have a definition?

Mordred If the stagnation in physics could be fixed by a mathematical model, we would have unified GR with QM, and know how to build a curvature generator, anti gravity by now using particles that exist. You need to look at physics from another point of view. You don't need a mathematical model to figure out that spacetime is updated by a spherical wavefront that is emitted by an event in spacetime. That should also tell you that quantum states are related to spacetime geometry in some way, that I wasn't able to articulate mathematically. Don't you think that causality also travels outward at the speed of light? If there is one mechanism that emits at the speed of light from an event, don't you think spacetime geometry will be one of its features? There is too much to explain how quantum mechanics has detected quantum states. You don't see the connection. But quantum states and geometry of spacetime both exist in a mechanism that expands at c, from an event. You can't get this picture from mathematics. It would explain how gr,qm are unified, c invariance is occurring, geometry is implemented, time is implemented. Look at physics from another point of view, like pieces to a puzzle. All those quantum states hidden away in spacetime have momentum and energy states. Spacetime achieves equilibrium with mass-energy by adjusting those energy-momentum states. The inevitable result is that the wavelength and frequency states, which control time and distance, are changed as well. Resulting in curvature and gravitational time dilation.

I want to thank you for taking the time to look at my model. My model is based on some common sense assumptions assumptions, that the spacetime continuum is updated constantly by events. Those updates are made of spacetime geometry and quantum states. The pre photon mechanism is the best choice to give common sense insight that could lead to productive directions for research. The current mathematical models lead the physics community away from a common sense understanding of nature. Examples include unmeasureable particles. It leads our attention away from things that do exist, like virtual photons, that could have deeper mechanisms. Ignoring that distinction will not result is an error. Pre photons are a mechanism to update space with spacetime geometry, quantum states and allows for physics information about events to be distributed. Prephotons can serve as wave functions, virtual photons, real photons. Or be used to contain standard model particles. Pre photons weigh nothing. They can spin, possibly subject to nh, integer times Planck constant.

An analogy is required to make the physics community understand what is happening. That's why the physics community thinks that quantum entanglements are made out of worm holes, and crazy stuff like that. You NEED analogies.

Spacetime is 3+1 geometry spread out over the whole universe. It is constantly updated by events that express their effect through the stress-energy tensor, which effects the geodesic. The analogy is, spacetime continuum:prephotons::ocean:water molecules. Pre-photons update the rest of spacetime at the speed of light, with changes to the spacetime continuum. The particles of an exploding fire cracker might travel slower than c, but pre-photons are constantly emitting from the slow moving debris. Pre-photons are like updates to the spacetime continuum. They are made out of spacetime geometry themselves and quantum states that carry information about events. ? The pre-photons of the big bang fill all space and time. All pre-photons after that are still catching up, expanding at the speed of light. At the time that I realized it, it was strange; it will no doubt be hard to convince you. The oscillations of a photon are electromagnetic oscillations with frequency [latex] \omega = \frac {\partial\phi}{\partial t} {/latex}. Over time, from t1 to t2, the phase that is laid down, in the form of an electromagnetic field, is [latex] \int \frac{\partial \phi}{\partial t} dt = \phi(t_2) - \phi(t_1) [/latex]