Reginald T. Cahill
Process Physics
School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia
Reg.Cahill@flinders.edu.au
Abstract
This is a review of the
new information-theoretic Process Physics. This new modelling
of reality brings physics very much into accord with the general
concepts of Process Philosophy.
The fundamental assumption is that reality is to be modelled as
self-organising
semantic or relational information using a self-referentially
limited neural network model,
where the information-theoretic limitations are implemented via
self-referential noise.
This modelling was motivated by the discovery that such stochastic
neural networks are
foundational to known quantum field theories.
In Process Physics time
is a distinct nongeometric process while space and quantum physics
are emergent and unified. Quantum
phenomena are caused by fractal topological defects embedded in
and forming a growing
three-dimensional fractal process-space, which is essentially a
quantum foam. Other
features are the emergence of quantum field theory with favour
and confined colour,
limited causality and the Born quantum measurement metarule,
inertia, time-dilation effects, gravity and the equivalence principle,
a growing universe with a cosmological
constant, black holes and event horizons, and the emergence of
classicality. The unification
of the quantum foam structure of space with the quantum nature
of matter amounts
to the discovery of quantum gravity. Gravity is essentially an
in-flow effect associated
with the loss of information. A new theory of gravity for the
classical limit is proposed,
and shown to pass the key tests.
A detailed analysis of
various experiments demonstrates
that absolute motion with respect to this space of quantum foam
has
been observed in the
interferometer experiments of Michelson and Morley, Miller,
Illingworth, Joos, Jaseja et
al and in the coaxial cable experiments by Torr and Kolen, and
by DeWitte. The Miller
data also reveal the in-flow of space into matter which manifests
as gravity. The in-flow
also manifests turbulence and the experimental data of Miller,
DeWitte, and Torr and
Kolen confirms this, which amounts to the observation of a
gravitational wave phenomena.
Contrary to the usual
assumptions, absolute motion is consistent with relativistic
effects, which are caused by actual dynamical effects of absolute
motion through the
quantum foam, so that it is Lorentzian relativity that is seen
to be essentially correct.
Special relativity effects are the key to understanding and
analysing the interferometer
fringe shift data, together with the refractive index effect.
The success of this new physics
has profound implications for our comprehension of reality,
and supersedes the current
non-Process Physics modelling of reality.
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