@Zetetic11235,
Zetetic11235 wrote:this paper caught my eye a while back while browsing Physicsforums.com. The piece is a supposed theory of everything and reads more like a philosophy text than a science text, so I thought it might be more appropriate to discuss on a forum such as this.
The piece is quite long and dense, so it may be quite a bit before anyone who has not heard of it prior to this post has much to say about it.
If you have read the CTMU before now, it would surely be of benefit to those who have not read it if you would give your thoughts/ summaries of the piece.
I feel Langan's work is quite genius.
I have tried to email him several times and even tried to join his web forum without success.
The CTMU needs a few fundamental corrections though... including on the speed of light which he assumes is a constant and which he uses as a bases for conspansion.
If there only existed bradyons and luxons then I guess assuming a constant speed on light would be fairly safe.
But actually there are other forms of energy that travel faster than the speed of light... they are called scalar fermions or tachyons or scalar waves.
Further, one can get bradyonic systems (material systems) like a space craft to travel faster than the speed of light because the speed of light is not a constant;
c = mu x ni
In other words, the speed of light equals the permitivity times the permeability of the spatial vacuum. And we can modify the permitivity and permeability of the spatial vacuum to significantly reduce the inertial drag on a space craft and thus surpass the speed of light without much difficulty; this is because inertia is caused by fluctuations in the spatial vacuum; wherein accelerating or decelerating in any direction causes an increased fluctuation gradient on one side of the craft and a lower gradient on the other. In fact the equation of the inertial drag on a space craft is the same as that of the aerodynamic drag of an airplane.
This topic is covered in Valone's Phd thesis;
http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=44
Another issue Langan seems to have missed is that if Mind=Reality then surely there must be a mind matter mechanism for human psychic functioning read/write access on information across space and time.