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History of PCRG — Jack Sarfatti, Tue Nov 27 13:58
On Nov 27, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote: OK See the Sharon Weinberger articles sharonweinberger@gmail.com mentioning me noted on Wikipedia. On Nov 27, 2007, at 9:34 AM, David Kaiser wrote: Dear Jack, Thanks for your quick and helpful reply. I'm glad to continue via email rather than phone; that's easy... more


From Density Matrix to Destiny Matrix — Jack Sarfatti, Tue Nov 27 13:53
Note - topological defects are nodes in the single-valued macro-quantum ODLRO parameter where the relative Goldstone phases are undefined like longitude at the North and South Poles. They are energetically stable when the corresponding homotopy group is larger than the identity, e.g. winding integers for first... more


MIT Project History of Physics — Jack Sarfatti, Mon Nov 26 15:29
Begin forwarded message: From: Jack Sarfatti Date: November 26, 2007 1:50:11 PM PST To: David K Subject: Re: Physics/Consciousness Research Group in the 1970s Dear David Phone is not my preferred mode of communication because the channel capacity for scientific communication is too low. Also I only use a cell... more


Hunt for Skinwalker - update — Jack Sarfatti, Fri Nov 23 00:31
F Subject: Re: Skinwalkers, Blue Book and All: TP Black Lodge It has apparently already opened at the Skinwalker Ranch. See the book by Kelleher and Knapp http://www.huntfortheskinwalker.com/ - creature coming out of the wormhole. I also discuss it in my book Super Cosmos ... more


Why the world is a hologram — Jack Sarfatti, Sat Nov 17 23:57
Note the EM vector potential A(em) is compared to the tetrad e^I, i.e. (2.101) & (2.105). Really A(em) should be compared with A^I(gravity) where the torsion field vanishes. e^I(gravity) = I^a(1905SR) + @A^I(gravity) where from P.W. Anderson's "More is different" emergent complexity I posit A^I(gravity) = M^I^I =... more


Reactions to Lisi's E8 TOE — Jack Sarfatti, Sat Nov 17 18:03
It's not a cranky review nor is Lisi a crank. The only "crank" here is allegedly the one-and-only Lubos Motl http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/11/exceptionally-simple-theory-of.html http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~motl/ IMHO. Lisi paper has serious defects but it is still interesting and better than most papers on ... more


Lisi's E8 Theory of Everything? — Jack Sarfatti, Fri Nov 16 15:46
Lisi getting major media coverage despite Lubos Motl calling him a "crackpot". I have my doubts about the claims of E8 with regard to gravity, but I do not know having not yet studied the paper - only Lubos Motl's remarks on it. It's clear E8 is real physics, i.e. testable out on the limb even if it turns out to be... more


Lubos Motl, The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly — Jack Sarfatti, Thu Nov 15 15:58
On Nov 15, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Gary S. Bekkum wrote: Didn't Tony Smith have something like this? Yes, you are right now that I recall. I still have not read the Lisa paper. I see Lubos Motl is compulsively attacking people personally with vague smears again rather than correcting what he thinks may be wrong or not... more


Current messages post Nov 2007 — Jack Sarfatti, Sun Nov 11 11:17
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Emergent GMD Fields & UFOs — Jack Sarfatti, Wed Nov 7 10:20
Dear Carlos What is new about my proposal is that curved spacetime is a macro-quantum "supersolid" effect in which the 4D world crystal lattice (or "simplex") distortion field, i.e. tetrad is precisely akin to the superflow field of He4 below Lambda. The nodes of the 4D world crystal lattice generally covariant... more


Emergent GMD Fields — Jack Sarfatti, Thu Nov 1 16:57
Z: "How would you hide the additional spatial dimensions? By folding them up, like the string theorists?" J: Yes. Z: "Do you really want to go there?" J: Allah Akbar! Do we have a choice? ;-) "Mach" does make some sense only in a Wheeler-Feynman retro-causal theory without the total future absorber boundary... more


Emergent GMD Fields — Jack Sarfatti, Tue Oct 30 12:07
On Oct 30, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Paul Zielinski wrote: "I'm trying to understand tetrads. I'm particularly interested in Rovelli's and others' explanations of the relationship between the Einstein-Cartan tetrad model and the 1916 metric field model for GR." Good! Remember my basic idea here that seems to be... more


GeoMetroDynamic (GMD) Emergent Fields — Jack Sarfatti, Sun Oct 28 11:56
What is the general rule to couple all massless matter source fields to the emergent GeoMetroDynamic field in the unstable pre-inflation "false vacuum" whose percolating bubbles populates the cosmic landscape in eternal chaotic inflation? The moment of inflation to a bubble is a vacuum ODLRO phase transition from... more


Dirac equation in curved spacetime — Jack Sarfatti, Sat Oct 27 23:30
On Oct 27, 2007, at 10:28 PM, Kay zum Felde wrote: This a paper by G.E. Volovik. I think it is meant as an overview or summary of some basic aspects of Volovik’s work. Its title is “Fermi point scenario for emergent gravity.” It is only 10 pages which makes it suitable as a compact on hand collection of the... more


Creation of the Multiverse — Jack Sarfatti, Sat Oct 27 13:23
On Oct 27, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Paul Zielinski wrote: "OK, fine. But then how does your BEC model explain the relationship between the material sources and the the Higgs-Goldstone fields? Are not material sources sources of your Higgs-Goldstone fields?" Jack replies: Very simple. I have written the equations a... more


Cosmic Textures in World Hologram — Jack Sarfatti, Thu Oct 25 14:46
On Oct 25, 2007, at 2:04 PM, Jack Sarfatti wrote: http://www.physorg.com/news112541069.html Texture defects in 3D space are non-trivial mappings of the 3 sphere S3 with three independent Goldstone phases and four real Higgs scalar fields (Rocky Kolb's "WD40") of third homotopy group. ... more


Accelerating Universe — Jack Sarfatti, Tue Oct 23 14:15
"First we polish off some batches of political dispatches ..." Gondoliers G&S 12:45 PM and I am still in pajamas answering e-mails - looks like Nick Herbert has come up with a practical non-local signaling device? Is the "quantum compound" beyond orthodox QM? On Oct 23, 2007, at 12:35 PM, Paul Zielinski wrote: ... more


quarks and the accelerating universe — Jack Sarfatti, Mon Oct 22 21:03
"equivalence principle" has several meanings. Formally it is the tetrad idea as in the Rovelli quotes you sent to Kiehn. zero g-force LIF non-zero g-forceLNIF at same P local coincidence a lot of confusion sets in about "gravity force" = "weight" in non-inertial frames that should not be confused with curvature.... more


Quark force asymptotic freedom — Jack Sarfatti, Mon Oct 22 14:17
The dark matter (negative zero point energy density in a vortex filament) induced IR long-wave quark-quark force per unit mass is f(IR) = c^2/Lp* = constant Lp* ~ 1 fermi ~ (Lp^2Hubble radius of future dark energy retro-causal de Sitter horizon)^1/3 Lp ~ 10^-33 cm Hubble "radius" ~ 10^28 cm This means that the... more


Dark energy, Pioneer Anomaly, Hadronic Strings — Jack Sarfatti, Sun Oct 21 23:59
What do they have in common? "the force between two quarks approaches a constant strength as we pull the quarks apart ..." p. 104 "The Trouble With Physics" Lee Smolin In the simple weak curvature slow speed Galilean limit of Einstein's 1916 General Relativity (GR) with additional torsion, the quantum exotic vacuum... more


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