Finite connections
My mother wrote a book, "Infinite Connections", on spiritual reincarnation.
My article, "Finite Connections", is on physical incarnation.
It connects, Shannon's Theory of Communication, the deterministic quantum of Einstein, Bell, Schroedinger, Bohm, Cramer and Mead, general relativity, the natural nature of truth, and spirit or abstract, other than the physical, or infinite, reality.
We begin with a story of creation. It is a made up story but it is consistent with observation and represents a sufficient system for modeling what exists. It includes many of the necessary facts as far as they can be determined. The technical details are not explained in depth here. That is handled in other articles.
Once upon a time the universe was a very hot plasma and nothing like what we know today existed yet. It consisted of disturbances, wrinkles, or twists in nothingness exhibiting one dimensional equal and opposite potentials that add to nothingness. The primitive distinction is the minimal distinction of two adjacent quantum states, the Plank action or fluxoid,or binary distinction. We call ordered sets of these entities of one binary potential (property) neutrino pairs each with opposite handedness, which exhibit some number of fluxoid potentials aligned in one dimension with a precision in binary bits equal to the number of aligned fluxoids. Distinctions great enough to be noticed on the human scale have thousands of bits relatively aligned.
As the plasma expanded and cooled, exhibiting any possible quantum arrangement randomly, electron and positron pair arrangements dominated consisting of pairs of orthogonally (to a precision of one bit) related potentials or dimensions each with opposite handedness. Muons and their partners having three independent potentials or dimensions, and structures of four potentials proved unstable and do not persist independently for long.
While complex entities, protons and anti protons isolated electrons or positrons from their equal and opposite related partner potentials, thus preventing annihilation. Though rather improbable these persisted. The world of protons and the world of anti protons could not intermix, or they would annihilate each other. But they exhibited a self synergistic nature where like particles are more probable in their vicinity. Our world is the world of electrons and protons. Where ever or whether the anti-matter universe exists, it is sufficiently isolated that there is no evidence it poses any threat.
As cooling and expanding continued the proton plus its electron became the hydrogen atoms, exhibiting 2 dimensions externally and five internally, and H2 molecules, exhibiting 4 dimensions externally, whenever possible because an up hydrogen, and down hydrogen electron do not define independent state, and thus no independent relative space time coordinate.
As cooling and expanding continued, the emerging matrix of H2 molecules constructed a reality of only 3 dimensions externally. The forth dimension of each H2 is exhibited intermittently by quantum events and exhibits time not space externally.
But the matrix of H2 molecules apparently could not physically expand in the four external dimensions without breaking and leaving chunks of H2 matrices that condensed out to the cooling plasma differentiating for the first time matter, or atoms and collections of atoms, from the colder plasma between masses we call space. The chunks of hydrogen became quasars that then manufactured helium.
This paved the way for successive generations of stars that manufactured heavier and heavier elements as the cooling plasma condensed into matter. After 12 billion years sufficient chemical diversity was generated such that life necessarily emerged.
The story of creation continues today in the same manner as it always has and on emerging higher levels of organization. What exists is what interacts. What exists for us is what interacts with us. Interaction is a communication. Physically momentum is commuted exhibiting the kinetic reality. Logically occupation of independent state is commuted exhibiting existence.
Existence is a collaboration of communicating entities. Participants include atoms and people. Thus the nature of existence is determined by the nature of communications which in turn is determined by the nature of connections.
The complete story includes all of my articles and all notions of reality. The state of science is the know connections and communications and the metaphysical delusions we believe that justify the outcome to ourselves.
Newton explained inertia, but how does space resist acceleration? how does the cold plasma of space enforce equal action and reaction of masses? How is this connected to quantum creation and annihilation of only equal and opposite potentials?
If we ask the question, there is a relatively simple answer, but science has largely been content having islands of understand with oceans of metaphysical mumbo jumbo based on legacy physics known to be incomplete.
Objective information physics is the consideration of only that which may be commuted by quantum logical operation with respect to the physical. The no hidden variable theorems prove that there is no room for human metaphysical notions that contradict the perfection of quantum logical connections. Quantum logical entanglement trumps any human notion according to experiment.
Many thousands of entanglement between distinctions in nothingness are evidenced by any noticeable action. But the number of connection is a function of energy and is a finite number. There are a phenomenal number of connections in the quantum world, but not infinitely so. Everything is connected to everything else that we can say exists but not directly so. It is only by such connection that there may be communication. It is by these that the degrees of freedom of a quantum system are exhibited. All physical systems are constructions of quantum systems. All physical experience is by quantum interaction.
In this view physical systems are information systems where logical relations are relative, limited by connections, and unchangibly obeyed for all time when registered by an event.
Such is the nature of any consistent information system. We ought not be surprised nature would exhibit such a system rather than the classical human notions of Platonic truth, a continuum, local causality, covariance, or the modern human notion of inherent indeterminacy.
Similarly the world of memes and the evolution of ideas represent a finite set of connected logical entities where to the extent that there is consistency the relative nature of truth is enforced ultimately.
In finite time there is only finite truth, both physically and abstractly constructed. The classical notion of absolute truth is not complete and can not model the relative truth manifest by communication in information systems generally. Manifest truth is incomplete in the sense that it may be further constructed in the future. Someday unicorns may exist. But classical logic is incomplete in a much more serious manner, its postulate of the excluded middle is contradicted as there are unanswerable propositions, there are true statements which cannot be proven, quantum and evolutionary logic get better answers, and it cannot model all constructable logical systems consistently.
Just because wings enable flight, insects, fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals were all destined to develop them. The truth is simply what is logically constructible. Existence includes information representing organization which has been communicated. That which fails to communicate being, does not have physical existence. Existence is limited to manifest truth, but truth itself is independent of human thought and what has ever existed, it represents what can be constructed logically.
Constructive logical truth both perspectives on every truth that might be perceived. This includes the yin and the yang of truth as the Hegelian dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. It is the the antithesis of classical notion of absolute truth but is represents the actual nature of constructible truth which is not subject to artificial axiomatic restrictions devised by humans. Truth is relative, not arbitrary, it depends on perspective, and the widest perspective represents the greatest truth manifest.
This summarizes the universe of finite connections that spans from the quantum reality though human thought. to the spiritual ultimate truths while being beyond our understanding are inevitably, logically constructively true.
Jim