[dleviwing]

Hello again Steven;
Your concerns with the photon analogy is well founded. Too often light is portrayed as traveling units or entities from one place to another. The photon is a unit of measurement and only applies to the concepts of energy absorption and emission. In reality, light and most EM phenomena are waves and only waves. When a wave encounters a structure such as an electron, it can produce an interactions such to change the standing wavelength of the electron. This is currently interpreted as energy absorption. In reality nothing is exchanged; The electron only converts one form of its motion (wave function) into another form (angular momenta) and thus reduces the wavelength of its standing waves (higher energy state). In the case of the wave that encountered the electron, it will convert some of its linear uniform motion to a difference wave phase and thus reducing the force or amplitude of the wave. Of course, emission is simply the opposite process.

The universe is indeed a physical one of pure physical phenomena and thus classical physics. Relativity and Quantum physics is good if you want to know what we will subjectively experience; not what is actually taking place.

There is a problem in understanding things in this classical aspect only due to the denial of the existence of matter in an ethereal state in which it is primarily chaotic wave motions (space, spacetime, ether, aether, quantum foam, and so on). Unfortunately our current mathematical gauge theories incorporate the influence of this state of matter within the equations and thus it is deemed as being unnecessary or even to "not exist". Science still uses this concept but only give the rose another name to avoid ethereal critics. Since I only wish to understand, I could care less about the taboos that may influence one's scientific career.
I might mention we are only addressing the GUT aspect of the TOE and thus I don't feel this mode of thinking will render a total TOE theory. Life and consciousness are still very complex to define or know. I find the physics part of the TOE to be the easy part.

To answer the full gamut of questions will require a book or a rather large website. I was hoping this site would allow me to avoid such a task.

[baudrunner]

You can't say that strings have resonance and don't interact, that's just a false understanding. Look up resonance in the dictionary. I'm saying that strings as such don't resemble snips of thread that interact, as you seem to think they do, they are confined quanta of isolated event potential that resonate with all that comprise reality.

All the talk about multiple dimensions is B.S.! I won't go there becuase it is just mathematical abstraction, as Dave likes to put it. I don't care for what other scientist say about multi-universes and the like, most of them have never even sat down in front of an oscilloscope. Physics to them is just a mathematical playground and impractical, to say the least.

Philosophy and Science only meet when the truth is realized, and until then philosophy is just metaphysics.

[baudrunner]

To answer the full gamut of questions will require a book or a rather large website. I was hoping this site would allow me to avoid such a task.

Sorry, Dave, no can do. We thirst for more.

I think that chaos only represents impetus of entropy change, but ultimately there is tendency toward harmony via resonance. One could argue that overall entropy is constantly changing, but I would sit with the idea that it is constantly moving toward resonant harmony. Six of one half dozen of the other.

In a still room there is a predominance of wave resonance inducing harmony over chaotic influence.

By the way, can you explain this phenomenon...?

[dleviwing]

Originally Posted by baudrunner By the way, can you explain this phenomenon...?

Steve;
What you are asking is equivalent to me asking you to explain the phenomena of capacitance.
It is called a radiometer (Photometer if it is to detect or measure radiation primarily in the visible spectrum). I used to have one on my desk in my spectrometry lab. The principle is quite simple in that the dark side is the absorber side and the other side of the patches is the reflector. Light striking the silvered side causes the rotation as it is reflected. There is a fundamental rule of thumb though that states energy must be absorbed to produce an effect. The underlying physical interaction though, is the same as for the electron in the previous post or in the photoelectric phenomena; which BTW is used for the more modern radiometer instruments and is called a "photomultiplier tube" cheaper ones use semiconductor photoelectric detectors.
A wind speed instrument with the 4 cups is about the same principle except it functions on wind resistance differential.

I see we both believe entropy is just the opposite to that currently preached by the academic mainstream temples.
Regards;