The Lindblom Gravity Project:
in The Arts and Sciences using General Systems Theory
Photo Credit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein (our inspiration)
The champion of the counter intuitive.
The Study of Mental Images:
This major project, The Lindblom Gravity Project, is divided into several sub projects of which the study of mental images using Arts-Informed Inquiry is one. Subsequently, a course at Harvard is being offered to test some ideas. Enjoy. Lindblom
Eric J. Lindblom PhD
New Course: Arts-Informed Inquiry
for
Mental Images
(Spiritual Systems Thinking)
The Vinci Project: Arts-informed Inquiry
Affiliation: Harvard
Starts: 2/1/06 Ends: 6/1/06
Leaders: balpha, lindblom
Keywords: Harvard,Arts-Informed,vinci,systems,inquiry,consciousness,ISSS
Harvard University
Click to see course:
http://h2o.law.harvard.edu/ViewProject.do?projectID=463
M-theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity#Overview
Define the question:
The Lindblom Gravity Project is a discovery process using The Scientific Method to solve a researchable question. That question shall be defined during the course of the construction of this website.
Steps are:
1.) Discovery
2.) Construction and
3.) Systems.
Idea credit: Bela A. Banathy PhD
Please note that this project is a very complex system where the potential value may not be apparent from a superficial look. Why? A lot of the material is COUNTER-INTUITIVE. (It isn't what you think!) There is no question in my mind this is a wild ride. Possibly some of it is true and most of it if not all is a bunch of enjoyable nd speculation! Enjoy. Lindblom
If you are patient and bear with the process, the value of the approach could be seen. Systems Theory is complex. Why the complexity in Systems Theory? It is because the foundation of the idea involved so many areas from ontology to economics. Lindblom
"Systems theory was founded by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, William Ross Ashby and others in the 1950s on principles from ontology, philosophy of science,physics, biology and engineering and later grew into numerous fields including sociology, organizational theory, management, psychotherapy (within family systems therapy) and economics among others."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory
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Hypotheses for the Project:
The problem of the quantum theory of gravity in The Arts and Sciences can be solved using General Systems Theory, Cybernetics and Arts-Informed Inquiry data gathering, methodology and theory.
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Define the question
Scientific_method#Elements_of_scientific_method
Some Definition of Terms:
What is General Systems Theory?
(General Systems in The Arts and Sciences )
Systems theory is an interdisciplinary field which studies relationships of systems as a whole.
Systems theory was founded by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, William Ross Ashby and others in the 1950s on principles from ontology, philosophy of science,physics, biology and engineering and later grew into numerous fields including sociology, organizational theory, management, psychotherapy (within family systems therapy) and economics among others.
Cybernetics is a closely related field.
In recent times systems science, systemics and complex systems have been used as synonyms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory
What is Cybernetics in The Arts and Sciences?
"Cybernetics is the study of communication and control, typically involving regulatory feedback, in living beings and machines, and in combinations of the two (eg. sociotechnical systems)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
What is Quantum gravity in The Arts and Sciences?
The Study of Mental Images:
1.) "Quantum gravity is the field of theoretical physics attempting to unify the theory of quantum mechanics, which describes three of the fundamental forces of nature, with general relativity, the theory of the fourth fundamental force: gravity." WIKI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity
Problem Areas: A theory of quantum gravity, intuitively, would not honor the following assumptions (for example, special relativity theory, E=mc2, does not rely on flat spacetime. It relies on a vacuum. This Special Theory is statistical theory. Once one realizes that, what is the problem?) Enjoy. Lindblom "The theory is called "special" because it applies the principle of relativity only to the "restricted" or "special" case of inertial reference frames in flat spacetime, where the effects of gravity can be ignored." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_theory_of_relativity That point about flat spacetime ignores the subsequent General Theory of Relativity in which case a General Theory of Quantum Gravity would not, by definition, ignore gravity! Lindblom I would list the following as problematic areas. Lindblom
2.) " Quantum field theory depends on particle fields embedded in the flat space-time of special relativity.
General relativity is gravity as a curvature within space-time that changes as mass moves."
WIKI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity#Overview The Study of Mental Images: I would list the following as more problematic areas. There is no such thing, for example, as a non-dynamical structure. There is no such thing as non-dynamical and no such thing as structure. In The General Theory of Relativity, it has been shown that light will bend in a gravitational field. Doesn't the gravitational field bend also? Gravity is not a fixed background but, rather, is dynamic. Lindblom
3.) "...quantum mechanics has depended since its inception on a fixed background (non-dynamical) structure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity#Overview
Time is not a given. Newton, perhaps, was non-dynamical (though a more complelling basis would need to be given than exists now). Time is not given. Time is dynamic. Time is not a fixed background. Lindblom
"In the case of quantum mechanics, it is time that is given and not dynamic, just as in Newtonian classical mechanics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity#Overview
????????? Here is a question that needs an answer. Lindblom ???????????
In relativistic quantum field theory, just as in classical field theory, Minkowski spacetime is the fixed background of the theory."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity#Overview
"Time, an interval or period between events, or the moment indicated by a time-measuring device." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_%28disambiguation%29
The idea of cause without hidden and emergent features is ludicrous. Cause is B.S. We've misunderstood even the first mention of Aristotelian cause as a mis-translation of the word!
Lindblom
What is Minkowski spacetime?
- "1 Structure
- 2 Alternative definition
- 3 Lorentz transformations
- 4 Causal structure
- 5 Locally flat spacetime
- 6 History
- 7 See also
- 8 References"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_spacetime
What are the theories?
There are a number of proposed quantum gravity theories:
- String theory/
- superstring theory/
- M-theory
- Supergravity
- AdS/CFT
- Wheeler-deWitt equation
- Loop quantum gravity
- Euclidean quantum gravity
- Noncommutative geometry
- Twistor theory
- Discrete Lorentzian quantum gravity
- Sakharov induced gravity
- Regge calculus
- acoustic metric
- and other analog s of gravity
- Process physics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity#Overview
Weinberg-Witten theorem
"There is a theorem in QFT called the Weinberg-Witten theorem which places some constraints on theories of composite gravity/emergent gravity."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity#Overview
Who are the theorists?
This is a list of researchers in quantum gravity.
- Jan Ambjørn -- Expert on dynamical triangulations who helped develop the causal dynamical triangulations approach to quantum gravity.
- Abhay Ashtekar -- Inventor of the Ashtekar variables, one of the founders of loop quantum gravity.
- John Baez -- Mathematical physicist who introduced the notion of spin foam.
- John Barrett -- Mathematical physicist who helped develop the Barrett-Crane of quantum gravity.
- Julian Barbour -- Philosopher and author of The End of Time, Absolute or Relative Motion? and The Discovery of Dynamics.
- Martin Bojowald -- Physicist who developed the application of loop quantum gravity to cosmology.
- Steve Carlip -- Expert on 3-dimensional quantum gravity.
- Louis Crane -- Mathematician who helped develop the Barrett-Crane of quantum gravity.
- David Finkelstein -- Physicist who has contributed much quantum relativity and the logical foundations of QR.
- Rodolfo Gambini -- Physicist who helped introduce loop quantum gravity; coauthor of Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity.
Gary Gibbons -- Physicist who has done important work on black holes.
- Brian Greene -- Physicist who is considered one of the world's foremost string theorists.
- James Hartle -- Physicist who helped develop the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction for the universe.
- Stephen Hawking -- Leading physicist, expert on black holes and discoverer of Hawking radiation who helped develop the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction for the universe.
- Christopher Isham -- Physicist who focuses on conceptual problems in quantum gravity.
- Ted Jacobson -- Physicist who helped develop loop quantum gravity.
- Renate Loll -- Physicist who worked on loop quantum gravity and more recently helped develop the causal dynamical triangulations approach to quantum gravity.
- Fotini Markopoulou-Kalamara -- Physicist who works on loop quantum gravity and spin network s that take causality into account.
- Roger Penrose -- Mathematical physicist who invented spin networks and twistor theory.
- Jorge Pullin -- Physicist who helped develop loop quantum gravity, coauthor of Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity.
- Carlo Rovelli -- One of the founders and major contributors to loop quantum gravity.
- Lee Smolin -- One of the founders and major contributors to loop quantum gravity.
- Rafael Sorkin -- Physicist, primary proponent of the causal set approach to quantum gravity.
- Andrew Strominger -- Physicist who works on string theory.
- Thomas Thiemann -- Physicist who works on loop quantum gravity.
- Edward Witten -- Leading mathematical physicist, does research in string theory and M-theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_quantum_gravity_researchers
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http://megaphysics.bravehost.com
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