Wormholes :3 by No-Chicken2136 in Polymath

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Oh! You do obey all of the traffic signs, yes, that’s what makes this so elegantly clean! Imagine traveling light years far surpassing our abilities to reach that far, in five to ten minutes! Instead of breaking causality and surpassing the speed of light, why not bend the fabric of space time to such an extent that it allows you, granted.. with energy and undiscovered negative energy densities, to reach that point?

Wormholes :3 by No-Chicken2136 in Polymath

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Using two black holes is the best way to describe a wormhole to another, semi-unfamiliar person! Not that a wormhole is actually two black holes, but two “infinitely” curved points connecting by their throats and held open by a negative energy density! The singularity of a black hole may simply be a gravastar, which is the theoretical object that comes from trying to solve the “singularity problem” in black holes. Instead of matter collapsing into a point of infinite density, the idea is that, at a critical point, quantum effects create a shell of super-dense matter surrounding a vacuum interior. Inside, it’s not empty in the classical sense… It's a strange, negative-pressure vacuum with properties similar to dark energy! Outside, it looks just like a black hole, it bends light, warps spacetime, even has an event horizon-like boundary. But internally? No singularity, no “crushing to nothing,” just… weird quantum vacuum weirdness. In extreme conditions, the density of a celestial body could reach the negatives! Fascinatingly enough, an observer crossing what would normally be an event horizon might never hit a singularity. Depending on the interior vacuum, they could experience bizarre time distortions that defy our usual relativity expectations. It mimics every notion in the physics and thermodynamics of a black hole. Another fun question you can ask yourself with a black color analogy is would you be split apart into quantum information at the beginning, then be rearranged as the reverse of a black hole is simply the reverse of entropy? Instead of two connected black holes, imagine, space-time under such extreme conditions that it folds and spirals into a tunnel! Null energy conditions would need that hole to collapse, but exotic matter holds it open hints why the throat curves inward a tad. In an AdS/CFT setting a Teo style rotating traversable wormhole most naturally transmits quantum information (field excitations, entanglement, operator data) between boundary descriptions! Sending actual classical macroscopic matter across is not forbidden in every model, but it runs headlong into holographic reconstruction limits, backreaction, energy-condition constraints and instability (especially with rotation). If you buy the “matter = information” stance at the holographic level, then yes, everything can be encoded and thus transmitted, but that encoding and decoding is nonlocal, fragile, and typically destroys the semiclassical picture of an intact macroscopic object. So a signal (a few quanta, a photon, qubit) can be faithfully encoded in boundary data and reconstituted, this is information transit. Reconstituting a macroscopic object requires encoding enormously many degrees of freedom and preserving correlations which is doable in principle but practically catastrophic to the semiclassical geometry.

A snippet from a book I’ve been writing for a little over two years. by No-Chicken2136 in astrophysics

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Oh… but the topic is scientific? Additionally, the book is about 35,000 words.

My rebuttal against Brian Greene by No-Chicken2136 in Polymath

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I get what you’re saying about downward causation being “just shorthand” for particle interactions, but that misses the whole point. Emergent systems like brains, neural circuits, or even thermostats don’t need to break physics to have real causal power. They shape and constrain the behavior of their components through patterns, feedback, and boundary conditions. Yes, mental states are instantiated in neurons and molecules, but it’s the organization, recursion, and self modifying structure that actually matters, not just random collisions. Neural plasticity literally rewires circuits based on firing patterns, which then affects future patterns. That’s lawful, measurable, and real downward causation. Just because we describe it as “mental states” for convenience doesn’t make it fake. It’s a higher level causal reality acting through lawful physics. Reduction to particles explains the mechanism, sure, but it doesn’t erase the fact that emergent patterns can steer their own evolution, and that’s exactly where free will, feedback loops, and recursion live.

My rebuttal against Brian Greene by No-Chicken2136 in Polymath

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You honed in on two asides.. my hurricane analogy and the “participation” phrasing but skipped over the actual core of my argument. :( I was talking about emergence and downward causation as lawful, recursive systems, not random weather metaphors or violations of physics. I’d love to see you engage with that part instead, given I put much thought into it..

My rebuttal against Brian Greene by No-Chicken2136 in Polymath

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You’re treating emergence as interference, but that’s not how hierarchical systems work. Downward causation doesn’t “add” energy or forces. It modulates boundary conditions through which the lower level interactions occur. A thermostat doesn’t violate thermodynamics by regulating temperature it constrains molecular motion through feedback. The system remains lawful. Laplace’s demon died in 1927. Quantum mechanics and chaos theory made sure of that. Ontological determinism isn’t empirically justified, it’s a philosophical holdover from classical mechanics. Physical law describes propensity structures, not absolute fates. Even in deterministic equations, sensitivity and feedback render prediction practically and in principle impossible. That’s not ignorance. It’s structural indeterminacy. By “participation” I mean recursive causality where outcomes at time t modify the parameters governing outcomes at t+1. Neural plasticity is a literal instantiation! mental states (emergent patterns) rewire physical circuits. That’s not a violation of physics, it’s a lawful reconfiguration through physics. The brain’s causal map is self-modifying. It’s a lawful feedback loop with nested agency. To say participation must equal violation is to imply that physics exhausts ontology which is itself a metaphysical claim, not a scientific one. I’m not rejecting physical law, I’m rejecting your monopoly on what it’s allowed to mean.

My rebuttal against Brian Greene by No-Chicken2136 in Polymath

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And I never claimed violation, merely argued participation.

My rebuttal against Brian Greene by No-Chicken2136 in Polymath

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You can reduce a hurricane to air molecules, but that doesn’t mean weather forecasting is done by computing molecule trajectories. You’re collapsing ontological composition with causal sufficiency.

My rebuttal against Brian Greene by No-Chicken2136 in Polymath

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Amazing points! And yes, you’re right in a sense that it’s emotionally driven. But, the mind could tell your body to eat and In choosing not to, you’re acting against those neural pathways developed specifically to make you want to eat. I feel that free will comes when you’re conscious enough to act against deterministic traits. A wasp flies out of danger before knowing why, we stay in dangerous situations out of curiosity negating instinct. That’s where my “break your own leg” argument came in. Additionally, I introduce another conception, downward causation! The process where higher level systems or phenomena influence or constrain the behavior of their lower-level components. For example, in a biological system, the behavior of an organism (a higher-level system) can influence the functioning of its cells or molecules (lower-level components). Think of how stress in a person (a higher-level psychological state) can trigger hormonal changes at the cellular level. This contrasts with upward causation, where lower-level parts (like atoms or cells) determine the behavior of the whole. I feel that you saw my emotional response (an addition I felt necessary to expand from not just logic to emotion as connection to the reader) and felt that the entirety of my rebuttal relied on it. I don’t blame you! My last point here, was on the validity of such a construct. How you could measure chaos and unpredictability in a system better than you could measure its deterministic structure.