Much has been learned about what laws exist and what possibilities occur in actions. Very little is known about where the laws reside or which mechanisms describe how they govern physical actions.
I suggest to the readers that the natural laws reside in the vacuum of space, because they seem to be about the same almost everywhere. Then the vacuum energy or ZPE can be proposed as the power that enforces physical laws.
QFT seems to require an infinity of vacuum energy, while GR requires a very small curvature. In other writing I proposed a remedy of partitioning the energy into different types related to the four fundamental forces. It leads to a large but finite vacuum energy, satisfying QFT, but with almost equal amounts of positive and negative curvature satisfying GR. If this is true then there is a limit to the power that enforces physical laws. At some enormous energy density the laws or constants change and symmetry is broken, suggesting curvature balance of positive and negative becomes far from equal.
The example is space near a black hole; net curvature is strongly positive. The opposite may occur at high speed when the kinetic energy exceeds the vacuum energy in a small region of space. It’s a new idea that seems to agree with conventional equations of energy and momentum from accelerator research.
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Good, very good. However I have passed this stage of knowledge a while ago.
DM: thanks for reply and comments. I wonder how much further you have gone and if any proposals are out standing of the type I have made privately to a number of researchers. I give the summary in over simplified terms.
If physical laws exist in the vacuum, then there should be many copies of the encoding, possibly as microstates filled or not filled with energy. For any scenario of physical distributions, a set of laws should require a finite volume. If researchers divide a standard liter of volume in two parts, results of physical testing suggest a complete set of classical physical laws is found in both volumes. Continual subdividing the volumes eventually should produce a volume fragment that is too small to contain a complete set of laws, maybe just a few of the most demanding laws.
Any physical action that occurs in such a small volume fragment would not encounter a complete set of laws, but would be indeterminate and depend on statistical chances that one law or another would be expressed in that action. We should call it quantum mechanics, and the average of about 30 physical actions of the same resources should average to the classical effect of a complete set of laws.
This is not intended to be a new system for specialist, but a method of reconciling classical and quantum actions for the non-specialist. It also leads to predictions that can be tested and eventually to new understanding of vacuum space potential structure and composition, sometimes described as dynamic foam by specialists.
With a classical average from 30 quantum events, some fairly good guesses can be made about how many types of volume fragments there are and which laws reside in the different type of fragments. An average of fragment properties should approximate the Planck units. Something like 12 to 16 types of fragments should exist with different but complimentary geometries, and different microstate configurations to fill the volume fragments.
In fact such a construction might not exist at all, or only part of the time, and the structure I described could be just another type of averaging and systemizing the potentials that were previously described as chaos.
Research on quantum events has generated an enormous amount of data that fills libraries and is mostly valued for historical content. I suggest the data banks could be revisited again to discover additional properties of space, especially the number of different type volume fragments, what physical laws reside in them, and how the unlike fragments cluster, fit together, persist, and propagate over long distance.
Much has been done on symmetry models resulting in a standard model, but with 26 arbitrary constants that have not been derived from fundamental principles. My suggestion is that the job is not finished, and the arbitrary constants might emerge from a systematic study of vacuum energy microstates as they relate to data bases of quantum actions results.
Jerry,
The example you describe of splitting one liter of water by 2 then more splitting makes me think on what could happen with homeopathy then at higher dilution called monoatomic compounds (alchemical homeopathy).
So it is like that say a machine or precise splitter could do the process on sharp and precise step by step, at some point other mechanism would manifest or this would trigger new type of stress or radiation. With many atoms or matter, the collective or entangled makes one law but once diluting at extreme, it is similar to oblige hidden laws near vacuum to take over and eventually provide anomalous effect visible in a laboratory or the observer.
There are of course "physical laws", but I don't think they always are what we think. For example, I think Newton's first law of motion is incorrect as well as the laws of thermodynamics. And, special relativity with its Lorentz Transformation is also wrong as evidenced by the Twin Paradox. Nowadays it is heresy to point this out, but the truth must prevail. I think it is counterproductive for us to trust all the so called laws, because they might lead us down the wrong path. We should have temporary halted our explorations, when we realized that we still have not explained the fact that time progresses. Overlooking this fundamental issue has caused us to wander astray in physics.
Thanks for comments. I'm suggesting that a large part of physical science is still unknown and opportunities exist for new discoveries beyond the standard horizons.
It helps to identify assumptions and examine them from time to time and decide if they are still true for our new work.
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