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The Other Side Of infinity

An infinite dark container,

A cube in time and space,

Contains perpetual motion.

Summary

Sparks of God

  • Heat entropy is the opposite of information entropy

  • Energy and information are conserved

  • Heat is becoming information

  • When all heat is information it will somehow convert to heat

  • And the cycle continues

  • Then it changes as it always does

  • Life lives on entropy

Introduction

During one semester of college I took three special classes: Nuclear Physics, Thermodynamics, and Communications Theory. Even if you knew the subject matter of each you would have a hard time understanding what they have in common. For me they did have something.

In both Thermodynamics and Communications Theory there is something called “Entropy”. Yet nobody really knows what it is. I saw something very strange: each kind of Entropy was mathematically the mirror image of the other!

That thought filled my head so much during that semester (as it does even today) that I couldn’t do the work necessary to complete the classes. I told my Nuclear Physics professor some of what I was thinking, and he gave me an option. If I would write a 5000 word essay on “The Philosophical Implications of Entropy”, then he would accept it as fulfillment of the class requirements and give me a grade based on it alone.

I couldn’t finish it and I have been working on it ever since.

In Nuclear Physics I was told about the biggest unsolved problem in Physics (both then and still today): how to combine Einstein’s General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics. No one has ever figured it out. If you try, then things become unbounded, energy becomes infinite. To fix this, physicists use re-normalization: adding a new infinity term to balance an infinity. Could it be that we are missing something, that the new infinity represents something we don’t yet know?

I saw something. I am just deluded enough to think I know how it can be done. And it has to do with Entropy and what it really is. All during this century and the last, physicists have been trying to find the TOE: the Theory Of Everything, and the GUT: the Grand Unified (Field) Theory – the theory that explains all four fundamental forces in terms of particles and fields.

They have been looking in the WRONG place the WRONG way! There is a FUNDAMENTAL duality to the universe, to existence. They have been looking for a UNITY – and existence is a DUALITY. They have made some fundamental mistakes. I will list them here and expand them later:

  • Believing that there is no absolute simultaneity.

  • Ignoring the fact that there are two kinds of variables.

  • Confusing Phenomena for Noumena

There is a FUNDAMENTAL duality to the universe, to existence. There is probable, there is determined. Is probable the Universe providing a place and we choose? From the chosen, chose.

Once, while thinking about Special Relativity, I realized there was another way of looking: instead of seeing simultaneous as being on the same horizontal level in a space time diagram, lets assume it means occurring at the same now point in time. Then I saw that on the time axis we are moving at the speed of light in time (and speed of zero in space). For me, there is a point called Now on that axis that is the Universal Now. Events at the same horizontal level in that or any time frame are not simultaneous. The fact that the speed of light is constant means there is a single Now and that all movement is relative to the center of the Universe.

I was taught electrical laws when I was young, and now believe they contain the answer. Ohm’s law relates an Across variable with a Through variable.

In my mind I have held a picture with three sections: Quantum Mechanics on top, Relativity on the bottom, and three through/across relationships in the form of Ohm’s law in the middle.

Assumptions

For any Ontological theory there must be assumptions. Here are mine:

  1. There is only one Reality

  2. There is only one Now

  3. There is only one Me

What is Entropy?

We don’t know. We have at least two mathematical equations. One says the change in Entropy equals the change in heat divided by the temperature. The second says an increase of disorder equals an increase of Entropy.

Cycle

Did the Universe come into existence or has it always existed. For now, that is unknown. So I will simply make a choice: it has always existed.

The Reality I know appears to be a becoming: an evolution. If the Universe has always existed, then for there to be a becoming the Universe must be cyclic.

The Big Bang Theory says that the Universe came into existence 13 billion years ago in a super hot explosion. Would that be a state of very low Entropy?

In today’s part of the cycle, heat is becoming information. When all heat has become information, will that information convert to heat? Suddenly or gradually? How? I don’t know.

Attractors and patterns

Life lives on entropy, only life can make a choice, only life can say no. How is that choice made?

I see at least three possibilities: attractors, patterns, and affordances.

Chaos theory has an attractor. For non-living processes, they must follow the attractor. For living systems, they may follow the attractor. Choice based on attractor

Patterns and affordances are a way to chose.

There must be a pattern that statistically favors survival, there must be attractor the favors survival.

Fields and waves

Ontology

Life feeds on entropy, life converts heat into information. In this essay I am describing how that happens. My mathematical skills are not strong enough to give mathematical equations to show how that happens, so I will use metaphorical equations instead.

I call the equation Intentional Operator Processing (IOP) and part of it has the form 2 {2}.

IOP is a quantum field theory. It is a theory of waves in the Intentional Field.

IOP is the way life converts heat into entropy. It does that using the Accept Intend Act (AIA) cycle.

There is a metaphorical (not mathematical) equation where 2, {2} is operated on by the Intentional Operator to produce Reality.

Action

Action is the key. Just do it. But what? Before the action there is intention. Intention is the core of my belief, intention is the middle, and the end begins in the middle. The intention came out of what is there, from inside, from outside. From either, it is what Reality and I want. And it all starts with acceptance: accept what is there. Accept (past), intend (now), act (future).