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Quote of the Day
“The Universe is loopy” – Greg Volk
Into the swing
In spite of valiant attempts long into the night, we all went to bed without having solved the enigmas of light, time, and motion to everyone's satisfaction. Today's first problem, however, concerned the more practical question of where to find breakfast. Some postulated the non-existence of the rumored dining hall, while others proved its existence experimentally by actually eating there... Yet even so, doubts lingered until lunch.
Thanks to modern technology, as opposed to modern theoretical physics, the morning began with a presentation by Rati Sharma all the way from India. Prof. Sharma's Unified Theory offers explanations for Arp's intrinsic redshift, cosmic background radiation, and the nature of matter from a non-expanding universe. Thus far this week, it's been gratifying to welcome over 25 people to the conference via the internet. Those who miss parts will also have the opportunity to view or review the recorded sessions online later.
After a short break, Neil Munch preached assumption controls, sorely lacking in special relativity. Munch demonstrated how time dilation as length contraction have no basis in physical reality. With her two-step light propagation in Maxwell's tradition, Cynthia Whitney asserted the importance of finite energy, the wave-like character of matter, and the constant "c" in understanding light. Jaroslav Klyushin rounded out the morning with his derivation of thermodynamic fields from electrodynamics.
Already 30 minutes behind schedule, the afternoon ordeal began with Greg Volk's definition of entropy as the ratio of "interaction energy" to "self energy". He proposed that entropy is fundamentally quantum in nature, and that quanta can be derived from the interaction of continua. Piggybacking on Volk's closed loop concept, Ari Lehto derived some key numbers based on a doubling principle from the geometry of closed space. His derivation predicts a value of the fine structure constant within 70 parts per million of NIST data. Roger Rydin completed the first afternoon session with new insights for the toroidal ring model. His experience as a nuclear physicist has led him to study wave mechanics applied to physical models.
Bedlam reigned during the second afternoon session, as the tech guru David de Hilster thankfully retained his sanity with a series of technical difficulties. During an unfortunately shortened presentation, Vladimir Ginsburg summarized his helicola theory, extending mere loops to slinky-like spirals in three dimensions. From Illinois, Charles Swen shared his views on universe origins and some speculations on the nature of the atom. The final presenter for the long day, Bob de Hilster delivered two papers based on his quantum calculations of gravity. Inspired by the 1920s experimental work of Quirino Majorana, de Hilster's calculations predict a non-constant value of G and variations in gravity due to geometric shape and eclipses.
A long day came to a close with a view of a scene from the feature-length documentary film "Einstein Wrong - The Miracle Year" by film maker David de Hilster.
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