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My rejected Application to FQXi on Quantum 2016

  Tegmark FQXi BBC Quantum Fractal  I still haven't heard anyone ask any questions about my paper that I published in the International Journal of Quantum Foundations. I still think it's remarkable that someone like me got accepted to publish, not peer reviewed, not one paper, but two.  Two complementary papers, the first  on the quantum  and the fractal, and a second  on the fractal, the large-scale structure of the universe , and I'm not even a physicist.  And I haven't heard a word.  I wrote a comment on a YouTube clip recently that 'I feel unmeasured'. I understand that I could be seen as a crank, but the journal editor didn't think so. There's no way he would've let it go in if he thought that. He wrote to me that he thought my work was 'interesting'. Maybe they just needed my money. Joking. I'd like to share with you a little backstory of how I applied for a grant from the FQXI foundation on the topic of the observer. It was back in...

The Multiverse must be true.

 The Multiverse must be true.  Last night, while listening to an audiobook on physics and the topic of the Multiverse, I realized that the Multiverse may well be true. Up until this point, I had thought it was just absolute nonsense, a little bit woo-woo, something that is not useful, and, like they all say, out of the reach of the scientific method. But then it had me thinking, and very quickly, I came to the conclusion that why not? My thinking at the time went something like this: what if I were so isolated that all there was was me, what would I be thinking about my origins? I would have no information to know that my story is the story we know now, the human story, the life story, the story of life on Earth. So are we in that room when it comes to the universe, the Big Bang universe? Already, the universe is far older than I led to believe it is, and what if it is just a node, a branch on this? I pause to say it is an infinite tree. I'll stop there because it is a little...

The Drake equation should include the abundance of elements.

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 I just wrote this in a comment to the following clip. The Drake equation should include the abundance of elements. It is amazing to think we have them all, but do others?

Response to Paul Sutter: Is the universe a fractal? Yes it is!

 In response to Paul Sutter's,  Is the Universe a Fractal?  Yes, it is. His response is lazy and outdated. It is Clickbait. I am not saying this because I just wanted to; I am because I've tested it; I've modelled the growth of a fractal, and the fractal is the best fit. I wonder if any other person has done that, modelled a geometry to the movements of the universe?  Put another way, if you model the growth of a fractal, which I have, the universe's evolution is precisely what you would expect to see. The distribution of galaxies is exactly what you expect to see. The large, smooth structure of the observable universe — the space that the sceptics of fractal cosmology point to as evidence of a breakdown in the theory — is, by my modelling, the trunk of a fractal structure. All fractals have this hierarchical structure. Take a look at a tree, and I have modelled tree growth too; the trunk is the majority of the area of a tree, and that trunk is the smooth outer unive...

Age of Universe 8.8 Trillion Years Old CMB

New Age for Universe.  In an attempt to reconcile the problem of developed galaxies observed near the cosmic microwave background (CMB) limit of the observable universe, the author normalised the age of the universe by projecting local Hubble expansion redshift values out to correspond with the redshift value of the CMB. The new value places the universe's age at 8.8 trillion years old. The rationale for this recalculation was twofold: the large discrepancy between the redshift values at the CMB and near to it observed new galaxies, and that space expanding at the speed of light at this location and special relativity effects may distort observations. Normalisation of CMB Redshift with Local Hubble Redshift Values Increases the Age of the Universe to 8.8 Trillion Years

AI Spellng the End of Education

  It has been a week at the cutting edge of AI. There was no plan to it, but what I experienced in three days of this week at the cutting edge of humanity, I think. And it really has me thinking. On Tuesday, I spent the morning listening to our close family friend defend his PhD on the topic of machine learning and, basically, AI. It was right at the cutting edge and something I can tune into with my insights from fractal, and my family friend knows that. When we get together and start talking, it is quite a conversation. Part of his thesis addressed the question: Can your automated car safely pull out and pass a truck? So simple, yet so complex. And one of the biggest questions I think you would all agree on the planet. Of course, my brain is firing, thinking about economics: costs, biases, rationality, etc., and I know the fractal, from my work, has things to say about this. I thought that this is evolution; answer that question and replicate it; that's the beginning of a totall...

Universe 640 times older than we think

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Universe is 640 times older than we think Update: I have since writing this blog published this paper: Normalisation of CMB Redshift with Local Hubble Redshift Values Increases the Age of the Universe to 8.8 Trillion Years Not 13.8 billion years old, but 8.8 trillion years old. (Madness!) For a while now, I have had Sunday mornings as a special time to work on things that I haven't touched on in a while, as a break away from writing. This morning, within 20 minutes less, I cracked something that is of real interest, the real age of the universe. I don't care if I'm out or crude, but it makes a lot more sense, and it has me thinking even more. I have not been able to reconcile the current claimed age of the universe is some 13.8 billion years — say 14. I think it is older. This age is all derived from astronomical observations and cosmological models. Two other strange things: how can we have the CMB (that has cooled from around 3000 Kelvin to 2.7 Kelvin temperature), and...