I have no idea what ontology the final model will have once the mathematical model is complete, but I'd wager that if it's understandable mathematically, it will be equally understandable as a physical ontology. Physicists might someday find that a physical correspondence allows logic to close the remaining gaps in the mathematics.
It's a really fucking good oracle, then.
Look, it's nice to have an understandable ontology behind a physical theory, it's just not mandatory. Nature does not owe us anything like that. It's allowed to be weird an counterintuitive.
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"The FS framework proposes that the universe is one continuous physical substrate whose organization becomes everything we call space, matter, fields, clocks, and observers.
Its unfolding can be pictured as a four-dimensional onion: successive three-dimensional states ordered along a preferred time axis, T. Each shell inherits and transforms the relationships of the preceding state. Localized circulation and persistent phase relationships form closures within that unfolding—the proposed origin of particles and the structures built from them.
Geometry is the substrate’s actual arrangement: what is adjacent, what curves, what circulates, and how one region relates to another. Mathematics describes the relationships that survive changes in that arrangement: conserved quantities, symmetries, proportions, and winding numbers. Computation is the physical evolution of the arrangement under those constraints.
In this sense, the universe performs its computation by becoming its next state. Its structure carries the information, its interactions perform the transformations, and its persistent patterns carry identity through change. Nothing requires an external processor, an outside clock, or a separate place to store the result. The four-dimensional history is the record of the unfolding itself.
FS proposes that c constrains local propagation, with the same underlying dynamics sustaining a structure and transporting it. Clocks and rods are themselves organized processes within the substrate. Their responses to motion and environment must therefore emerge from the same mechanics as everything they measure. Lorentz symmetry would be the operational consequence of that shared construction.
The intended connection is that the geometry described by GR, the amplitudes and phases represented in QM, and the fields and particles classified by the Standard Model are different effective descriptions of one physical organization. An equation succeeds when it preserves the relationships relevant to its regime while leaving out details that do not affect the result.
Every observer, instrument, written equation, and act of calculation also occupies a physical configuration within that organization. We are persistent structures constructing compressed descriptions of the larger process that sustains us.
That is the central FS proposal: geometry is the physical state, computation is its lawful unfolding, and mathematics describes what remains consistent through the transformation. The task is to find one dynamics from which these correspondences—and the measured constants—follow."
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"In FS, clocks and rods are phase-organized structures persisting through a common causal unfolding. A clock measures the phase accumulated along its history; a rod measures the equilibrium separation sustained between interacting histories. Transport relative to the local substrate changes their relationship to the background ordering: clocks accumulate less proper time per background interval, while rods occupy less longitudinal distance on a background simultaneity slice. Their local standards remain consistent because both are sustained by the same underlying dynamics.
Lorentz symmetry is the operational invariance of structures made from one substrate. Clocks, rods, particles, and signals transform together because the same mechanics sustains them all. Relativity describes the relationships those structures measure from within the substrate; FS seeks the dynamics that makes those relationships inevitable."
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"Bosonic fields describe the connections and collective modes of each shell. Fermions are persistent, spinorial structures whose identities are transported between shells. Their interaction determines how local organization survives and changes during the unfolding."
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My mind wishes the 4D universe is simple enough to allow a few properties and geometry to drive the rules and constants by which the system deterministically evolves, but my soul wishes for a complexity that such a geometric reduction can't hold, that we might remain undefinable.
I call myself an atheist. Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.
- Richard Feynman's response when asked whether he called himself an atheist or an agnostic.
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Despite great grandpa being a bootlegger and dangerous man, my great grandmother was a saint and one of the few female gospel preachers circa 1940. She began her ministry beneath an oak tree and when no one showed, she'd preach to the surrounding trees. Her church is still there.
Perhaps, Lorentz’s theorem of corresponding states and outdated ether needs a monistic substrate upgrade where the particles are the geometry and a clock and rod conserving budget between structure and transport are the same local mechanics of the global budget conservation of all internal clocks and rods as the entire substrate unfolds along a single axis to create all the internal relational geometry of GR, SR, QM and the SM.
If you could travel faster than light, you wouldn’t just arrive early — you’d arrive before you left. From current @OriginsProject podcast (youtube.com/watch?v=z4lq18ZR…)
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No. What the equations actually show is that clocks and rods are persisted by the same substrate their measures are coupled to and Lorentz symmetry is intrinsic to the global and local operations of that substrate whereby boosting instruments causes them to trade their c-capped budget between structure and transport thus dilating/contracting their readout.
All clocks and rods undergo the same dilation/contraction mechanics thus allowing absolute time to exist along the primary preferred foliation axis of the unfolding universe rather than being a mere phase counting mechanism of a clock. It's the co-transformation of the instruments which allows us to always attain the same MEASURE for c.
Einstein provided the relative view from within the substrate which still has a corresponding absolute view once the substrate/'new Aether" is reintroduced.
The substrate is a causal geometry scaffolded in one direction and sending messages to the past is the equivalent of sending a geometry from some position along T to become its own scaffolding at a prior position along T. We may someday however figure out how to exploit the relationship between quantum closures and the field state of the substrate which persists them, to seemingly allow travel faster than c without radiating away all their structure.
Einstein proved that time is relative.
The shared passage of time is an illusion due to us all being on the surface of the same massive planet.
Instantaneous communication over long distances is inevitable.
The question is, "can we send messages to the past?" Did we already?
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So the question becomes: ‘How to engineer the relational geometry to expose the substrate by which it is relational?’
You do not need to stand outside the substrate. You need a way for one of its structures to register information that its effective spacetime description discards.
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It must be a great feeling to have a father whom so many people admire. He was one of my favorite personalities in science and I often watch his old lectures to learn more about this place.
The most famous person I've ever spoken to? I sat next to Richard Feynman on a plane once, and we chatted. In fact, more than once. And I had dinner with him several thousand times. And I spent a few months inside his wife's womb.
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The universe is a substrate geometry that is scaffolded in one direction along the preferred time axis as the substrate can be visualized as unfolding relative to it. That’s the cosmological connection to the big bang, inflation, microwave background radiation, etc.
At a small enough radius where ‘spatial’ density was decaying away from a state of absolute spherical geometry/symmetry and the entire volume of substrate was that of standing waves and such which constructively and destructively interfered, localized geometry called particles formed within these field states which is the QFT/Standard Model connection.
These particles are fossilized field states which resonantly couple within the decaying surrounding field state which creates the atomic geometry made famous by Bohr, QM, etc as any change which happens within the constraints of producing light is a redistribution of substrate to the global geometric whole as the universal volume continues to unfold.
The BS about clocks and rods being accelerated to c and going backwards in time is nonsense from the perspective that physics is always explaining GEOMETRY no matter what measures of space or time we use. Clocks and rods (and every internal structure) always have a 4D extension in the direction of the primary T axis. We can accelerate them and they redistribute budget from structure to transport in such a way that the they conceal the underlying substrate as their relation to absolute space and time varies per their dilated readout, but they aren’t flowing backwards along T and at some speed, the very resonance which allows them to stay coupled WILL radiate away if it were possible to near the geometric cap of the substrate. That’s the SR connection.
As particles group and the base curvature of the substrate changes in response to all the resonant coupling, we find the GR spacetime connection, but every force coupling has a relationship that can be normalized to the Planck units to show this G is a composite and Planck units are more fundamental.
C is a budget more so than a speed and the relationship of the substrate density to the structured geometry within it is where the new physics will be found as we’ll learn to engineer the global clock and ruler we’re within rather than pushing around clocks and rulers which we are external to and thinking a change in their readout disproves absolute simultaneity.
There’s a thread that runs through each regime I’ve discussed and that’s where unification will be found IMO.
Brookhaven National Laboratory just found an anomalous dip in energy fluctuations at neutron star densities.
Salvatore Pais says the arrow of time can run backwards at such extreme densities.
Negentropy.
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