The Quantum Ping

Origin of the Cosmos The purpose of this page is to disseminate ideas. I am a science writer. My ideas are presented in conceptual and metaphorical ways.

This is an educational page devoted to a Theory of Everything that explains what existed before the Big Bang and how and why everything is connected. The Theory of the Quantum Ping developed over a fifteen year period, starting about 1996. I propose that a structureless entity -- a Symmetricos -- existed before the Big Bang. The Quantum Ping is my term for the trigger or tipping point that produce

d the first unit of structure, which I call the Primal-Simultaneity or Primal-Simul. The key features of the Primal-Simul are symmetry, antisymmetry, a link called an onto-copula, and a "temporal state" of simultaneity. These features produced boundary, dimension, motion, and Time. The Primal-Simul replicated to form a generative Sea of Structure that I call the Ontolimpidum ("Clear Being"), abbreviated OLD. Space-time is the existential veneer of the OLD. Quantum Gravity is a structural state of the basic unit of structure of our universe. That basic unit might also be regarded, in philosophical terms, as a Unit of Existence or a Unit of Being. The Sea of Structure has inspired religious metaphors, the Spirit of God one example. It appears that science, philosophy, and religion (our three realms of Knowing) are shaped by the same enduring metaphysical themes. Examples are noted in the book. One must journey beneath the metaphors of the mind (to the extent possible) to glimpse the deeper metaphysics. I am a science-minded person at heart but appreciate the role of philosophy and religion in making sense of Being and Knowing. There is no such thing as "Nothing" or "Nothingness" in our universe. Every nook and cranny is filled with the Ontolimpidum (structure). The universe and the Laws of Nature do not come from "Nothing" as suggested by theologians and some scientists. I agree with the Roman Poet Lucretius, "Nil posse creare nilo." ("Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.")

My theory provides the mechanism for consilience (the linking of all knowledge, from the Big Bang to the human mind), so thoughtfully advocated by E.O. Wilson in his book titled Consilience. I can't prove any of this. However, my theory of evolutionary structure offers an explanation of the many symmetries and opposites (a form of symmetry) in the mind and the universe. Simultaneity is the basic circumstance of Time. Linked inverse symmetries and simultaneity set the stage for motion. I believe that a mathematical description of the Primal-Simul or an onto-node is the Theory of Everything. It's impossible to illustrate the Primal-Simul, of course. However, with the help of my wife, I attempted an illustration in my book. It resembles Yin & Yang, but there are critical differences. The Quantum Ping draws upon many philosophers, theologians, and scientists, including Heraclitus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Confucius, Nicholas of Cusa, Sir Isaac Newton, Kant, Descartes, Hegel, Leibniz, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Stephen Hawking, Paul Ricoeur, Edward O. Wilson, Heinz Heimsoeth, Brian Greene, Steven Pinker, and Paul Tillich. The "springboard idea" that led to my book occurred to me in Washington, DC, during a walk down Massachusetts Avenue from the National Cathedral to Dupont Circle. In some ways, Part I is more of a “Poem of Creation” than a theory. I offer it in the spirit of the Timaeus – a theory of the cosmos written by Plato nearly 2,500 years ago – that was guided by the philosophy, science, and mathematics of the day. I am not a physicist or a mathematician but do my best to write about our leading cosmological theories, Calabi-Yau Shapes, and the mathematics of symmetry. There are chapters devoted to evolutionary biology, Ludwig Wittgenstein, metaphor, and phenomenology. Chapter IV is a critique of Stephen Hawking and Leonard Molodinow’s The Grand Design (2010). With regard to E8, my theory suggests that it would be linked to its geometric inverse. The book is in two parts. Part I is "A Journey of the Mind" that presents the Theory of the Quantum Ping. Part II is "The Journey of the Heart" that describes the life of the author, with special reference to experiences that shaped the development of the Theory of the Quantum Ping over a fifty-year period.

03/07/2023

Sunrise, Folks. We have been granted another day. The Eye of the Sun God is sending life-giving rays ... pardon the over-stretching of Metaphors and Meaning. Anyway, have a great day! ✌️♥️😁

Loyal Cat Refuses To Leave Bedside Of Dying Woman Who Raised Her

02/28/2023

From my Quantum Ping page ...

Loyal Cat Refuses To Leave Bedside Of Dying Woman Who Raised Her Trooper the cat has loved one woman unconditionally for many years — 96-year-old Sarah Whaley. Way back in 2014, Alexis Hackney and her family found Trooper while they were flipping a house. They could hear her meowing from the basement and went to investigate. “She was inside the wall, and my m...

08/04/2022

Hello, my much-missed Friends. I am still here. Bit of a rough go at times. Treatment, a sea of tonics. So much to possibly say I am not sure where to begin. Blood will be drawn next Tuesday to see how I am doing in that department. Had to cancel the London trip, but might go in October if I feel up to it. That's all for the moment. Missed you all. Hope you are well.

06/29/2022

Cat runs through flames in burning garage five times and carries out all five of her kittens

06/29/2022

Quite a Cat ....

Cat runs through flames in burning garage five times and carries out all five of her kittens />Back on March 30, 1996, Scarlett and her five kittens were in an abandoned garage which was allegedly being used as a crack house in Brook...

Why String Theory Is Still Not Even Wrong

02/15/2022

Relevant to my Theory of the Quantum Ping. Not that I agree with everything he says. Received from FB Friend Steve C ...

Why String Theory Is Still Not Even Wrong Physicist, mathematician and blogger Peter Woit whacks strings, multiverses, simulated universes and “fake physics”

09/21/2021

This isn't about The Quantum Ping. It's about me. I had a heart attack and a quadruple bypass last May. Lung complications required three thoracentesis to drain sizable amounts of fluid from the pleural space next to right lung. My cancer came back. Fortunately, platinum-based chemo capsules seemed to effectively subdue the malignancy (for now, anyway). I am not bouncing about with great energy. Legs are weak. Lost 20 lbs (which is good). Anyway, I hope to post a bit more often.

06/21/2021

From a Wikipedia article about Basil Hiley ... re: algebraic approach to Bohm's notion of implicate and explicit orders, in 1984 Hiley and Frescura discussed ... "the implicate order is carried by an algebra, the explicate order is contained in the various representations of this algebra, and the geometry of space and time appear at a higher level of abstraction of the algebra.[65] Bohm and Hiley expanded on the concept that "relativistic quantum mechanics can be expressed completely through the interweaving of three basic algebras, the bosonic, the fermionic and the Clifford" and that in this manner "the whole of relativistic quantum mechanics can also be put into an implicate order" as suggested in earlier publications of David Bohm from 1973 and 1980.[66] On this basis, they expressed the twistor theory of Penrose as a Clifford algebra, thereby describing structure and forms of ordinary space as an explicit order that unfolds from an implicate order, the latter constituting a pre-space." [I found myself wondering about pre-space and pre-time early this morning. Wondering about the mathematics and topology required to describe these founding structural forms of existence ... that come out of the Symmetricos and are a Pre-Space Form before Space has been created as we know it].

05/19/2021

Beautiful image ...

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03/11/2021

Consistent with my writings in The Quantum Ping ... via friend Steve C ...

Ultra-weak gravitational field detected Newton’s law of gravity holds for masses less than 100 milligrams.

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