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Exploring Quantum, Classical and Semi-classical Chaos in the Stadium Billiard (by Chris King): This paper explores quantum and classical chaos in the stadium billiard using Matlab simulations to investigate the behavior of wave functions in the stadium and the corresponding classical orbits believed to underlie wave function scarring. The simulations use three complementary methods. The quantum wave functions are modeled using a cellular automaton (CA) simulating a Hamiltonian wave function with discrete (square pixel) boundary conditions approaching the stadium in the classical limit. The classical orbits are computed by solving the reflection equations at the classical boundary thus giving direct insights into the wave functions and eigenstates of the quantum stadium. Finally a simplified semi-classical algorithm is developed to show the comparison between this and the quantum wave function method.
The Weak Force as Manifestation of Anima Mundi: An Exploration (by Iona Miller): In quantum physics, there is no unambiguous description of consciousness and its role in the continuous creation and sustaining of matter. If it plays a fundamental role in existence we must look for it at the very root of all evolutionary processes in the fundamental forces of our universe which lead to the conditions that facilitate life as a potentially universal process. One such candidate for nature's fine-tuning system is the weak force, whose descriptors echo the traits of the pre-scientific and alchemical notion of the Anima Mundi, or World Soul, an embodiment of intrinsic vital connections among all life. The Jungian and archetypal worldview still recognizes such a living force within, attributing its life-sustaining energies to soul and the depth-dimension of our imaginal and perceptual experience. An enriching non-literal interpretation of such phenomenology may still be more than metaphorical. The weak force, only needs to be a tiny fraction of one of the myriad feedback loops to be the deciding difference due to the delicately balanced state that potentiates and fosters universal life, potentially originating in space (Hoyle, Wickramasinghe). In this sense, Anima mundi as manifested in weak force makes the Sun shine, creates water, and the "Goldilocks" zone of human habitation. Further, is the observed strength of the weak force vital for the emergence of observers? Emergence is a possible order arising from chaos. Weak emergence describes new properties arising in systems as a result of the interactions at an elemental level. In weak emergence, the emergent property is reducible to its individual constituents. This is opposed to strong emergence, in which the emergent property is irreducible to its individual constituents. Causing systems to differentiate, weak emergence is the root of higher-order complexity, coalescing novel, coherent structures. Agents residing on one scale start producing behavior nested one scale above them, potentially including self-reflection. Humans become self-conscious and track their own evolution. Heeding the "inner voice" of the Anima mundi, can applied emergence help us work with the dynamics of emergent complexity to realize our intentions as life-serving outcomes?
Ancient Wisdom in Modern Age: An Archaic Renaissance (by Iona Miller, Paul Wildman): Today we do our best to live in a world going mad as if we need to give ourselves some sort of psychic vaccination, so we can inoculate ourselves from this madness. This vaccination may be an archetypal journey through our contemplation which will necessitate a shamanic tincture and a delving into the darkness and light of our own depths. It is only by going through and making the darkness conscious and conscious darkness that we arrive at the light. In this article we seek to expand on techniques I and V in Table 1 in Miller and Wildman (2012:493) published in this journal. Technique I is "Doing Immersion (exoteric thesis) – practical involvement in mundane life"; and Technique V is "Re-entry of life ‘creactive' synthesis." In the end, we suggest a ‘bridge of boats’ approach that will allow anyone to position themselves where they are comfortable and such that they can make a practical contribution. http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/202
Is It Really Higgs? (by Matti Pitkanen): The discovery of a new spinless particle at LHC has dominated the discussions in physics blogs during last weeks. Quite many bloggers identify without hesitation the new particle as the long sought for Higgs although some aspects of data do not encourage the interpretation as standard model Higgs or possibly its SUSY variant. Maybe the reason is that it is rather imagine any other interpretation. In this article the TGD based interpretation as a pion-like state of scaled up variant of hadron physics is discussed explaining also why Higgs is not needed and why it cannot even perform the tasks posed for it in TGD framework. Essentially one assumption, the separate conservation of quark and lepton numbers realized in terms of 8-D chiral invariance, excludes Higgs like states as also standard N 1 SUSY. This identification could explain the failure to find the decays to $\tau$ pairs and also the excess of two-gamma decays. The decays gauge boson pairs would be caused by the coupling of pion-like state to instanton density for electro-weak gauge fields. Also a connection with the dark matter researches reporting signal at 130 GeV and possibly also at 110 GeV suggests itself: maybe also these signals also correspond to pion-like states.
Vita Principalis: Road to Single Mathematical Particle (by Dainis Zeps): Three weeks after announcement of discovery of Higgs particle at LHC we discuss this discovery from the point of view presented previously in (1) in the form of predictions, and from what we had argued before in (2-5). We argue that behind Standard Model there might be another level of discernible reality which we call reference of life (4). We show how we can connect it with the vision in the general sense and vita principalis and how it could be connected with what we discover as mathematics (3). We argue that mathematics is a form of creatio ex nihilo but only in its weak form where the proper agent is the vision or vita principalis.
Live Higgs Report on July 4, 2012 & Congratulations - It's a Boson (by Philip E. Gibbs): This is a live Higgs report from the webcast of CERN Announcement on July 4, 2012 plus viXra unofficial Higgs combinations and my analysis after the announcement. As expected, CERN has happily announced the arrival of a new Boson. The facts are that the boson discovered with a mass of about 125 GeV or 126 GeV interacts with a wide range of particles in exactly the way the Higgs boson should. Its decay modes to Z, W, b and tau have just the right ratios and its production has also been tested in different ways confirming indirectly that its coupling to the top quark is also about right. Its spin could be 0 or 2 but 0 is much more likely. All these features point to the standard model Higgs boson. The only fly in the ointment is its decay rate to two photons. This is nearly twice as large as expected. The significance of the discrepancy with the standard model is about 2.5 sigma.
Part 1 of this article contains Introduction; Make Me Want to Psi; Open Sesame; From Trance to Creativity; Psi Deeply; Hypnosis & SP; Dream of Telepathy and Beyond; and Cyber Psi Training.
Part 2 of this article contains Biophysics of Psi; Shaving with Occam's Razor; Editor's Note in JNLRMI 2(1) by Lian Sidorov; Editor's Note in JNLRMI 2(2) by Lian Sidorov; The Mind in Time: A Round Table Discussion on Causality, Physics and Parapsychology moderated by Lian Sidorov; and Memes, Societies and the Functional Architecture of the Collective Unconscious by Lian Sidorov.
Part 3 of this article contains a round-table discussion on memory, information and the limits of identity entitled “Who and where is the Self?” moderated by JNLRMI Editor, Lian Sidorov, and participated by Roger Nelson, Stanley Krippner, Jim Tucker, Mark Germine, Chris King, Matti Pitkanen and Gerry Zeitlin. Such discussions help researchers re-contextualize what has come before, determine where we “are” in deciphering the minscape, and where we are going by suggesting pertinent open-ended questions.
Part 4 of this article contains the continuation of the round-table discussion on memory, information and the limits of identity entitled “Who and where is the Self?” started in Part 3. This overview is an attempt to create a Big Picture view on the state of the art from which further experimental routes can be deduced. The round-table was moderated by JNLRMI Editor, Lian Sidorov, with respondents Roger Nelson, Stanley Krippner, Jim Tucker, Mark Germine, Chris King, Matti Pitkanen and Gerry Zeitlin.
Part 1 contains the following sections: 1. Cultural and Historical Introduction; 2. The enigma of Subjective Consciousness; and 3. Fathoming the Mind-Brain Relationship and Experiential Modalities.
Part 2 contains the following sections: 4. Doors of Perception: Classic Psychedelics and Serotonin Receptor Agonists; 5. Doors of Dissociation: Ketamine and the NMDA Receptor Antagonists; 6. Salvinorin-A and κ-Opioid Dissociatives; and 7. Cannabinoids.
Part 3 contains the following sections: 8.Entactogens; 9.Doors of Delirium: Scopolamine and Muscarinic Acetyl-choline Antagonists; 10. Safety Considerations of Psychedelic Use; and 11. An Across-the-Spectrum Case Study.
Part 4 contains the following sections: 12.Why the Neurotransmitters: Cosmology and Evolution; 13.Conclusion; and 14.References.
Dynamics of Bianchi Type-III Universe with Magnetized Anisotropic Dark Energy (by Shivdas D Katore, A. Y. Shaikh, N. K. Sarkate, G. B. Tayade): Bianchi type -III cosmological model in the presence of magnetized anisotropic dark energy is investigated. The energy-momentum tensor consists of anisotropic fluid with anisotropic EoS p = ωρ and a uniform magnetic field of energy density ρB.We obtain exact solutions to the field equations using the condition that expansion is proportional to the shear scalar . The physical behavior of the model is discussed with and without magnetic field. We conclude that universe model as well as anisotropic fluid does not approach isotropy through the evolution of the universe.
Higgs [Status in Feb.] 2012 (by Philip E. Gibbs): 2011 lived up to all expectations and hopes for news about the Higgs Boson, but 2012 promises to be it’s crunch year and the excitement is about to begin.
Superluminal Particle Sequences (by Paul A. Kannapell): Some particles may appear to accelerate to faster than light speeds according to the particle sequence alternative to discontinuous motion.
In this paper we present in, a simple way, two different constructions of the compactified Minkowski space, both stemming from the original idea of Roger Penrose, but putting stress on the mathematically subtle points and relating the constructions to the Clifford algebra tools. In particular the little-known antilinear Hodge star operator is introduced in order to connect real and complex structures of the algebra. A possible relation to Waldyr Rodrigues' idea of gravity as a plastic deformation of Minkowski's vacuum is also indicated.
Considerations: Classical and Quantum (by B. G. Sidharth): In this paper we consider certain Classical, Semi Classical and Quantum situations with interesting consequences. Starting with Entanglement we go on to deviations from Special Relativity, leading to the possibility of super luminal neutrinos, if they exist escaping from Black Holes. We also consider extra energy that is generated due to Quantum effects, the decay of fast moving Bosons, as for example in the case of Kaons, and finally the magnetism generated by non commutative effects.
The Quaternionic Particle Mass (by Lukasz A. Glinka, Andrew W. Beckwith): In this article we derive the formula for a particle mass arising from the quaternionic particle physics model recently offered by Hans van Leunen.
Zero Sum Game: Pre-Physical-Existence & Psychophysical Reality (by Iona Miller): The whole of physics is predicated on the primacy of Nothing, multidimensional opposites space. The premise is metasymmetry, a self-consistent and unassuming notion which yields only zero-sum statements. Therefore, a theory of everything (TOE) also defines a theory of nothing (TON). What does pre-physical-existence mean in a largely material physics tuned to the meta-physics of the intangible? To be an accurate description of reality, a theory of everything must necessarily include consciousness. The turn-over of matter in the body means there is no single, stable structure over time -- just a duration of consciousness, pure disembodied information.
Consciousness is mediated by the entire cortex, so no single gestalt contains the entire envelope of experience. The turn-over of matter in the body means there is no single, stable structure over time--just a duration of consciousness, virtually disembodied information or vacuum energy. Physical matter is actually is nothing but energy and equivalent to light, which resides outside of space and time, therefore, matter = energy = stabilized light. Light and consciousness are virtually interchangeable. Universe is comprised consciousness which manifests itself in infinite physical and nonphysical forms and fields. Experience, as well as its interpretations, may be encoded in a field, but a computed model of the natural world and the natural world are not the same thing.
