Will these concepts be proven by a theory of everything?
Last June, astronomers were toasting each other with champagne glasses in laboratories around the world, savoring their latest discovery. The repaired $2 billion Hubble Space Telescope, once the laughing stock of the scientific community, had snared its most elusive prize: a black hole. But the discovery of the Holy Grail of astrophysics may also rekindle a long simmering debate within the physics community. What lies on the other side of a black hole? If someone foolishly fell into a black hole, will they be crushed by its immense gravity, as most physicists believe, or will they be propelled into a parallel universe or emerge in another time era? To solve this complex question, physicists are opening up one of the most bizarre and tantalizing chapters in modern physics. They have to navigate a minefield of potentially explosive theories, such as the possibility of “wormholes,” “white holes,” time machines, and even the 10th dimension! This controversy may well validate J.B.S. Haldane’s wry observation that the universe is “not only queerer than we sup- pose, it is queerer than we can suppose.” This delicious controversy, which delights theoretical physicists but boggles the mind of mere mortals, is the subject of my recent book, Hyperspace.

Black Holes: Collapsed Stars
A black hole, simply put, is a massive, dead star whose gravity is so intense than even light cannot escape, hence its name. By definition, it can’t be seen, so NASA scientists focused instead on the tiny core of the galaxy M87, a super massive “cosmic engine” 50 million light years from earth. Astronomers then showed that the core of M87 consisted of a ferocious, swirling maelstrom of superhot hydrogen gas spinning at l.2 million miles per hour. To keep this spinning disk of gas from violently flying apart in all directions, there had to be a colossal mass concentrated at its center, weighing as much as 2 to 3 billion suns! An object with that staggering mass would be massive enough to prevent light from escaping. Ergo, a black hole.

The Einstein-Rosen Bridge
But this also revives an ongoing controversy surrounding black holes. The best description of a spinning black hole was given in 1963 by the New Zealand mathematician Roy Kerr, using Einstein’s equations of gravity. But there is a quirky feature to his solution. It predicts that if one fell into a black hole, one might be sucked down a tunnel (called the “Einstein-Rosen bridge”) and shot out a “white hole” in a parallel universe! Kerr showed that a spinning black hole would collapse not into a point, but to a “ring of fire.” Because the ring was spinning rapidly, centrifugal forces would keep it from collapsing. Remarkably, a space probe fired directly through the ring would not be crushed into oblivion, but might actually emerge unscratched on the other side of the Einstein-Rosen bridge, in a parallel universe. This “wormhole” may connect two parallel universes, or even distant parts of the same universe.

Through the Looking Glass
The simplest way to visualize a Kerr wormhole is to think of Alice’s Looking Glass. Anyone walking through the Looking Glass would be transported instantly into Wonderland, a world where animals talked in riddles and common sense wasn’t so common.

The rim of the Looking Glass corresponds to the Kerr ring. Anyone walking through the Kerr ring might be transported to the other side of the universe or even the past. Like two Siamese twins joined at the hip, we now have two universes joined via the Looking Glass. Some physicists have wondered whether black holes or worm- holes might someday be used as shortcuts to another sector of our universe, or even as a time machine to the distant past (making possible the swashbuckling exploits in Star Wars). However, we caution that there are skeptics. The critics concede that hundreds of wormhole solutions have now been found to Einstein’s equations, and hence they cannot be lightly dismissed as the ravings of crack pots. But they point out that wormholes might be unstable, or that intense radiation and sub-atomic forces surrounding the entrance to the wormhole would kill anyone who dared to enter. Spirited debates have erupted between physicists concerning these wormholes. Unfortunately, this controversy cannot be re- solved, because Einstein’s equations break down at the center of black holes or wormholes, where radiation and sub-atomic forces might be ferocious enough to collapse the entrance. The problem is Einstein’s theory only works for gravity, not the quantum forces which govern radiation and sub-atomic particles. What is needed is a theory which embraces both the quantum theory of radiation and gravity simultaneously. In a word, to solve the problem of quantum black holes, we need a “theory of everything!”

A Theory of Everything?
One of the crowning achievements of 20th century science is that all the laws of physics, at a fundamental level, can be summarized by just two formalisms: (1) Einstein’s theory of gravity, which gives us a cosmic description of the very large, i.e. galaxies, black holes and the Big Bang, and (2) the quantum theory, which gives us a microscopic description of the very small, i.e. the microcosm of sub-atomic particles and radiation. But the supreme irony, and surely one of Nature’s cosmic jokes, is that they look bewilderingly different; even the world’s greatest physicists, including Einstein and Heisenberg, have failed to unify these into one. The two theories use different mathematics and different physical principles to describe the universe in their respective domains, the cosmic and the microscopic. Fortunately, we now have a candidate for this theory. (In fact, it is the only candidate. Scores of rival proposals have all been shown to be inconsistent.) It’s called “superstring theory,” and almost effortlessly unites gravity with a theory of radiation, which is required to solve the problem of quantum wormholes. The superstring theory can explain the mysterious quantum laws of sub-atomic physics by postulating that sub-atomic particles are really just resonances or vibrations of a tiny string. The vibrations of a violin string correspond to musical notes; likewise the vibrations of a superstring correspond to the particles found in nature. The universe is then a symphony of vibrating strings. An added bonus is that, as a string moves in time, it warps the fabric of space around it, producing black holes, wormholes, and other exotic solutions of Einstein’s equations. Thus, in one stroke, the superstring theory unites both the theory of Einstein and quantum physics into one coherent, compelling picture.

A 10 Dimensional Universe
The curious feature of superstrings, however, is that they can only vibrate in 10 dimensions. This is, in fact, one of the reasons why it can unify the known forces of the universe: in 10 dimensions there is “more room” to accommodate both Einstein’s theory of gravity as well as sub-atomic physics. In some sense, previous attempts at unifying the forces of nature failed because a standard four dimensional theory is “too small” to jam all the forces into one mathematical framework. To visualize higher dimensions, consider a Japanese tea garden, where carp spend their entire lives swimming on the bottom of a shallow pond. The carp are only vaguely aware of a world beyond the surface. To a carp “scientist,” the universe only consists of two dimensions, length and width. There is no such thing as “height.” In fact, they are incapable of imagining a third dimension beyond the pond. The word “up” has no meaning for them. (Imagine their distress if we were to suddenly lift them out of their two dimensional universe into “hyperspace,” i.e. our world!) However, if it rains, then the surface of their pond becomes rippled. Although the third dimension is beyond their comprehension, they can clearly see the waves traveling on the pond’s surface. Likewise, although we earthlings cannot “see” these higher dimensions, we can see their ripples when they vibrate. According to this theory, “light” is nothing but vibrations rippling along the 5th dimension. By adding higher dimensions, we can easily accommodate more and more forces, including the nuclear forces. In a nutshell: the more dimensions we have, the more forces we can accommodate. One persistent criticism of this theory, however, is that we do not see these higher dimensions in the laboratory. At present, every event in the universe, from the tiniest sub-atomic decay to exploding galaxies, can be described by 4 numbers (length, width, depth, and time), not 10 numbers. To answer this criticism, many physicists believe (but cannot yet prove) that the universe at the instant of the Big Bang was in fact fully 10 dimensional. Only after the instant of creation did 6 of the 10 dimensions “curled up” into a ball too tiny to observe. In a real sense, this theory is really a theory of creation, when the full power of 10 dimensional space-time was manifest.

21st Century Physics
Not surprisingly, the mathematics of the 10th dimensional superstring is breathtakingly beautiful as well as brutally complex, and has sent shock waves through the mathematics community. Entirely new areas of mathematics have been opened up by this theory. Unfortunately, at present no one is smart enough to solve the problem of a quantum black hole. As Edward Witten of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton has claimed, “String theory is 21st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.” However, 21st century mathematics necessary to solve quantum black holes has not yet been discovered! However, since the stakes are so high, that hasn’t stopped teams of enterprising physicists from trying to solve superstring theory. Already, over 5,000 papers have been written on the subject. As Nobel laureate Steve Weinberg said, “how can anyone expect that many of the brightest young theorists would not work on it?” Progress has been slow but steady. Last year, a significant breakthrough was announced. Several groups of physicists independently announced that string theory can completely solve the problem of a quantum black hole. (However, the calculation was so fiendishly difficult it could only be performed in two, not 10, dimensions.) So that’s where we stand today. Many physicists now feel that it’s only a matter of time before some enterprising physicist completely cracks this ticklish problem. The equations, although difficult, are well-defined. So until then, it’s still a bit premature to buy tickets to the nearest wormhole to visit the next galaxy or hunt dinosaurs!

I have to say I have learned an awful lot just reading what others are posting. I have contributed in areas where I have a sprinkling of knowledge, but I have read far more than I have written. Recently, I got an interesting E-Mail from one of the members of Theoretical Physics. I have included it below:

“David, my name is Robert Roudebush and I have enjoyed your posts on the Yahoo theoretical physics group and I thought you may find my attached short paper on spacial dynamics of great interest. This work was a 10yr study of gravity and GR from a classical and mechanical point of view and I did not start out looking at the paranormal but in the end it was staring right at me. After you read my paper you will see a connection between every bit of mass within you to all the mass of our entire gravitationally bound Virgo super cluster of galaxies. Also your personally bound space energy will continue to return to your center of mass long after you are dead! I do not know how to interpret this and am looking to you and your expertise in the paranormal. I hope you can understand my proposal for if my writing is clear enough you will see the far reaching implications of it.

With greatest respect,

Robert” 

At first, I thought Robert had made a typo, using “spacial” instead of “spatial”. But then I read his paper, and realized that perhaps “spacial” was a far better word to coin! While the paper may seem deep, it is easy to understand conceptually. Please read it and come back to the rest of the blog.

http://spinvestigations.org/A_PROPOSAL_ON_SPACIAL_DYNAMICS.pdf

 After reading it, I wrote back to Robert.

Robert,

I just read your paper. I am extraordinarily interested in the Space Sink Emitter concept. This fits in very nicely with my own thoughts on the possible source of certain paranormally classified phenomena. The fields I suspect resonate at different frequencies. Our normal perception has a limited frequency response. Heightened perception, such as a shamanic induced state, will slightly expand that frequency response. But it will only allow for a "ghost" of the real matter or energy to be perceived. I suspect this is also due to the spatial relationships of two parallel universes that are in phase, but at differing resonances. I also believe that portals between these existences occur, and that energy can travel back and forth through the portals, via a stabilization caused by exotic matter, crossing as well. In the case of my thoughts, our matter would be exotic to the parallel universe, and vice versa. Hence, for a brief period, and opening occurs. While it will not allow a physical body to pass back and forth, (not yet anyway) it does seem to allow EMF to pass. The consequences of this Electromagnetic Force transference is significant, but it's true meaning remains elusive to me at this point.

This ties in rather nicely to your ideas on Space. The interface is the key. Where the spaces touch is where hell breaks loose. We are now measuring the effects, not the source, so the interface IS the vital point of observation. You have hit upon this notion precisely. Time of course is a variable landscape. The interface may touch multiple spatial points on this landscape, hence another possible source of certain paranormal effects.

I certainly need to think about this a lot more, but these are my initial thoughts based on my own research. I have measured the spontaneous appearance of energy from a nonlocal-source. Nothing physical could have produced or propagated it. This leads me to the portal theory. The question is what triggers the interface?

 Your thoughts are appreciated.

I hope you don't mind but I am sharing this with my research partner, John Keegan.

I didn’t have to wait long for his reply.

“David, thank you for the rapid reply. Feel free to share this with others. I thought you would understand my paper and you got it right away. "But it will only allow for a "ghost" of the real matter or energy to be perceived. I suspect this is also due to the spatial relationships of two parallel universes that are in phase, but at differing resonances." The ghost is a manifestation of the spacial energy of the associated mass. The key here is space. If space is not the background but a principal player in physics then it is easy to comprehend other spacial dimensions as coexistent with ours. Mass then becomes a property of space; energy, form and resonance of space. There is no true meaning to distance or size with the SSE so parallel universes can coexist without occupying the same space. Remember; space is emergent but not fundamental. Further study of the SSE as it merges to form BHs may momentarily create a link with parallel SSEs and allow bridging between universes Also did you see the reason the spirit energy remains long after death and the oneness we have with huge and tiny volumes of space. If most of the universe is composed of space we are really well connected. Wow this gets involved and I am not up to speed in this field of metaphysics so I hope you and your associates can make sense of it. Like I said before, I am just trying to unravel the mystery of gravity. 

Thanks again for you time,

Robert”

Yes, Robert, I do get it. We are all Quantum Surfers, riding the standing wave to the finite! Space flowing into mass and out again is revolutionary! Essentially, our energy propagates through time, mass and space. Even after we die, our energy continues on, traveling the conduits of the Space Sink Emitter grid, allowing us to be here long after we left.

While Robert was working on a solution for the issues with General Relativity, he has in fact stumbled on a possible solution for the existence of paranormal phenomena.

We would both be interested in any feedback from his paper.

The DaNichi Code Part II

Did you know Leonardo Da Vinci wasn't the only painter in our past intentionally hiding codes and secret messages in artwork? Renaissance painter Hans Holbein was renowned for his portrait of Henry VII, but I am interested in his mysterious painting titled The Ambassadors, a Tudor age portrait of two noblemen surrounded by: a crucifix, a distorted image of a human skull, a lute with a broken string, swastikas patterns in the table cloth fabric, several alchemist symbols, a Cosmati floor pattern, an open book displaying the words "Divide", a cylindrical sundial, an astronomical globe, a polyhedral sundial, a damask curtain, a compass and set squares, an empty flute case, a Lutheran hymnbook, a hymnbook showing The Ten Commandments, and a gold medallion depicting St Michael.

There is more, much more, but most fascinating to me are the musical clues I found throughout Hans Holbein the Younger' esoteric painting The Ambassadors, in the future, I might even incorporate a Holbein code into a song. As for Holbein himself, he was an enigmatic persona of the Renaissance era; he left the world with almost nothing to describe his life in great detail. Besides the intricately precise works of art, Holbein left no diary, journal, autobiography, or notebook, to help anyone understand him completely. It's like he existed on this planet for a singular purpose: to create art immortal.

Transposing art into science/occult symbology: Holbein codec - The Ambassadors

Keywords: conspiracies, occult, Tudor era, Polisy, Cabala, Catherine of Aragon, Order of St Michael, Henry VIII, St George, magic squares, Steinmetzen, masons, Anne Boleyn, Good Friday, trinity of threes, Shield of David, Magen David, Church of Rome, momento mori, Templars, Humanism, Martin Luther, Copernicus, Westminster Abbey, Fide Defensor, ancient Astrology, Hermetic orders, Jacques Lefevre, Alchemy, secret societies, metaphysics, Nicholas Kratzer, esoterica, speculative masonry, World Soul, Astrological squares, Cornelius Agrippa, Evangelical, freemason symbology, Cainites, De Occulta Philosophia, Renaissance sorcery, Magi, Anne of Cleves, Revelation 12:7, spatial paradoxes, Holly Grail, allegory, Collectanea Satis Copiosa

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Resources:

The Role of Scientific Concepts in Art

Jesus R. Soto

Leonardo, Vol. 27, No. 3, Art and Science Similarities, Differences and Interactions: Special Issue (1994), pp. 227-230

Doi: 10.2307/1576057

Abstract

The author examines how the new concepts of space, time and matter, put forth in science at the beginning of the century, can transform the imaginary world of artists. In this opinion, artists should not try to study the details of scientific theories or concepts, but should instead grasp the fundamental principles and general philosophy underlying these ideas and use them in artistic research. The author illustrates his discussion with examples of his artwork.

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Categories On the Beauty of Physics: Essential Physics Concepts and Their Companions in Art and Literature

Science writer & editor, Emiliano Sefusatti; collage artist, John Morse; fine art & literature reviewer, Hilary Thayer Hamann.

Published: New York, NY: Vernacular Press, c2005.

Edition: 1st Ed.

ISBN: 0974026638

Abstract

Categories On the Beauty of Physics is a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary educational book that uses art, and information from a variety of disciplines to facilitate the reader's encounter with challenging material. It promotes scientific literacy, fosters an appreciation of the humanities, and encourages informed and imaginative connections...

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The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance

By Judith Veronica Field

Published 1997 Oxford University Press

Mathematics in art

250 pages

ISBN: 0198523947

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Mathematics in hieroglyphic art: http://letsplaymath.wordpress.com/2007/07/28/egyptian-math-in-hieroglyphs/

Clipeology, paleo-astronautic: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ufoart/esp_ovnis_arte_9.htm

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I leave you with a quote from Leonardo Da Vinci: "If the painter wishes to see beauties that would enrapture him, he is a master of their production, and if he wishes to see monstrous things which might terrify or which would be buffoonish and laughable or truly pitiable, he is their lord and god. In fact, therefore, whatever there is in the universe through essence, presence or imagination, he has it first in his mind and then in his hands…"

In another life I wrote: "Anything in existence, even it's most complex structure or form; anything can be analyzed down to its most basic elements to obtain a greater understanding of its universal meaning, and purpose."

Danichi Vam-Phyere

tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis - The times are changing, and we are changing with them

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If you do anything in life, try to learn something new each day…

Traditionally, physicists have mathematically explained all that happens in the world by using a "standard model." This system is comprised of matter made of lightweight "leptons" (such as electrons and neutrinos) and theoretically quarks. Three of the four forces in the universe manipulate these particles: electromagnetism, and strong and weak nuclear reactions. However, this traditional approach fails to explain gravity, the fourth force. The conventional rules of quantum mechanics have been successfully married with Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity, which explains the behavior of very fast objects, but not with his Theory of General Relativity, the guidebook to gravitational force. Mathematical mush usually results from trying to combine quantum mechanics and general relativity. Consequently, we are still uncertain, for example, as to what happens to particles sucked into a black hole.

In an effort to uniformly explain all events, physicists introduced the concept of an extra dimension, and eventually proposed that it may be curled up like an unimaginably small ball, they said, on the order of the Planck scale, the smallest unit of length in the universe (10 to the minus 33 centimeters). This of course had its moment of popularity and fell silently by the wayside.

The idea of an extra dimension was resurrected yet again in the late 1990s, as scientists began to ask whether Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation reliably predicts gravity's behavior below the centimeter scale, according to Maria Spiropulu, a 32-year-old scientist with the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago. Since then, Spiropulu reported to AAAS attendees, experiments have shown that Newton's Law is valid down to the 200-micron level. That is, gravity "follows the rules" at that scale. But, the physical reality below this level remains a mystery. Somewhere within the Planck scale, or at extreme energy levels, an incredibly small extra dimension may finally combine gravity and electromagnetism, Spiropulu suggested. Awesome! The Gravoelectromagnetic Dimension!

"We're very close into the energies where we can see effects of a very low-energy Planck scale," she said. "If an extra dimension is mirroring the Planck Scale, that means that gravity and the electromagnetic theory is going to be unified tomorrow." Gravity, Spiropulu said, may soon be unified in an "unexplainable hierarchy of scale."

This is huge!

Alice in Wonderland World

Various scenarios or "frameworks" are emerging to describe a mysterious sister world where, as Alice in Wonderland once remarked, "nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't." Our three-dimensional world includes the coordinates X, Y, and Z, extending infinitely throughout the universe. But, some researchers have proposed that extra dimensions may be finite, and compacted around a sphere, pole, or other geometrical shape. Others have said that quarks, the standard-model particles, may have "technicolor" cousins in another realm. Or, quarks and neutrinos may exist in a mirror-world, as "squarks" and "sneutrinos."

To learn more about what's happening at the very small scale, Maria Spiropulu, and her colleagues are staging high-energy particle collisions. Extra dimensions, she explained, would leave behind a "signature," and she hopes to detect it.

The classic signature might be a graviton, the carrier of gravity-capable, perhaps, of trickling to another dimension. In her experiments, protons (the hydrogen nucleus is a proton) going at almost the speed of light smash head-on into anti-protons. "What comes out," she said, "is a graviton, escaping into an extra dimension, and leaving a viable signature in your detector."

In particle collisions, the conservation of energy and momentum can be measured, so that what goes into the initial experiment must jive with what's left over, post crash-test. "If it doesn't add up and you have significant imbalance," she explained, "that is a viable signal that there is an extra dimension where, if these theories are valid, gravity may become very strong, and other weird properties might kick in. The idea is that there may be a form of super-gravity in the extra dimension."

Spiropulu shared the latest experimental findings at the AAAS meeting, including a completely new, and what she described as "totally innovative strategy" worked out by Harvard's Nima Arkani-Hamed and others for "dynamically generating an extra dimension and then testing it," rather than the opposite, more conventional strategy: Searching for proof of an assumed extra dimension.

Can this be a possible realm for the paranormal? You Bet it can!

"We're looking at some really neat, new ideas," she concluded.

A team of theoretical and experimental physicists, with participants from Case Western Reserve University, have designed a new black hole simulator called BlackMax to search for evidence that extra dimensions might exist in the universe.

Black holes are theorized to be regions in space where the gravitational field is so strong that nothing can escape its pull after crossing what is called the event horizon. BlackMax simulates these regions.

Approximately two years in the making, the computer program enables physicists to test theories about the production and decay of black holes and takes into account new types of effects on both the creation and evaporation of black holes at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) currently being commissioned at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.

For example, black holes created at the LHC would be expected to start off spinning.

The spinning of the black hole increases the fraction of the black hole's mass that is dissipated as gravitons, elementary quanta of gravity, which could be used to provide a clue to the existence and structure of extra dimensions. Black holes are being studied with BlackMax by members of the ATLAS Experiment at LHC, one of the two principal large particle detectors at the new collider. Case Western Reserve physicists working with Glenn Starkman on the project are his former doctoral student Dejan Stojkovic, now a visiting professor on the faculty of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, and De-Chang Dai, who recently graduated with his doctoral degree in physics, and is now a postdoctoral fellow working with Stojkovic. Other collaborators are experimental physicists Cigdem Issever and Jeff Tseng of Oxford University and Eram Rizvi from Queen Mary College at the University of London.

ATLAS works much like investigators who search the site of plane crash, and then piece together the debris to find the cause of the plane's disintegration.

BlackMax, by predicting how those pieces will fall, should allow physicists looking at data from the ATLAS experiment to see whether the pattern of particles released into the detector matches what one would expect when a black hole is produced and then falls apart.

The ordinary non-gravitational collisions predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics tend to produce fragments of the proton clumped into a small number of jets.

Decays of black holes should produce more particles than usual. These particles should also come out unusually isotropically—in every direction—and the mix of particles should be more democratic - including for example electrons and similar particles that are not found within the proton.

Under certain circumstances, black hole decay should also produce many gravitons that would themselves pass unnoticed out of the ATLAS, but which would make the remaining emitted particles looking asymmetric and carrying less than the full event energy.

Starkman said that if black holes are found at the LHC it will enable scientists to understand the connection between gravity and quantum mechanics, resolving the inconsistency between two of the great intellectual triumphs of the 20th century - quantum mechanics and Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

It would also mean the existence of other dimensions to space, and explain why gravity is such a weak force compared to the other three fundamental forces of nature–electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces.

Or possibly where EVPs orginate from...

According to Starkman, the black holes under study at LHC will be very small, extremely hot at more than billion times the temperature of the sun, and their lifespan will consequently be so short that they will decay within tiny fractions of a second of their creation.

He added that there is not enough time for the black hole to cross a human hair, "never mind leaving the detector," he said.

"What's more important is that the universe has been doing this experiment for billions of years by bombarding the earth's atmosphere (not to mention all the myriad stars) with cosmic rays. So we know if black holes are made at the LHC, they are entirely safe," said Starkman.

Very interesting!