Cosmologic philosophy: physics current dead end (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, March 04, 2022, 20:19 (784 days ago) @ David Turell

Rob Sheldon's comment:

https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/deepening-crisis-in-particle-physics-rob...

"This is an excellent paper. Wolchover does a great job with distilling physics ideas. Permit me to comment on the article.

"This UV-IR mixing that destroys reductionism, “naturalness” (Sabine Hossenfelder’s nemesis) and Effective Field Theories (EFT) is another face to “fractals” that remain the same despite changes of scale. They are saying that big scales and little scales are connected. Like biology, chemistry and physics.

"Here’s few more examples: the Coulomb force of electricity decreases with 1/r^2 but never goes to zero. The sun emits charged particles called the solar wind and therefore generates a potential or Coulomb force stretching out to infinity. Changes in the heliopause–where the solar wind encounters the extra-solar or interplanetary medium and suddenly brakes out past the orbit of Pluto–sets up a change in the Coulomb force that regulates how the surface of the sun emits solar-wind. A potato, crammed into a car exhaust pipe, will keep the car from running. This feedback operates from 100 AU astronomical units down to 0.01 AU, or over four orders of magnitude in scale.

"Magnetic fields, constrain and direct charge particle flows, so that a NdFeB kitchen magnet placed in a Bell Jar and pumped down to 100mTorr can produce jets. A neutron star, with a field 10,000 stronger than my kitchen magnet produces astrophysical jets the size of the solar system. A galaxy with a field not even 100 times stronger than my kitchen magnet, produces jets that are Megaparsecs long. The same magnetic field scales plasma over 21 orders of magnitude from my bell jar to active galactic nuclei.

"The distribution of neurons in my brain is fractal, with density increasing as a power of D^2.decimal, much like Natalie’s description of Area^.75 power. It turns out that this is the optimal density to maintain connectivity between brain cells. Galaxies are spread out in the universe with a fractal density D^2.decimal. No one knows why. But over 30 orders of magnitude separate those observations of nearly identical density distributions. (my bold)

"As Natalie points out, these observations suggest that there is a law connecting UV-IR, connecting big and little scales; there is a fractal that describes the information content of the universe, proving that we do not live in a random universe. Rather than backing into this discovery like Garcia-Garcia, we need to embrace it. Because we know the Designer, and therefore we already have a leg up on the competition. ID is not handicapped in this race, it is the scent of the roses."

Comment: reproduced totally. Please note the bold about the design of our brain's neurons. Chance won't do that, only design will. Please remember my description of the specialized pyramidal neurons in five tiers dhw never dares comment about. It makes us very special