Dear FISers, Thanks for your interest!I'm honoured.
I'm sorry, but I almost finished my magic FIS weekly bullets, therefore I have
to answer to more than a question in this mail.
This is my comment to the issues raised by Otto, Francesco, Dave, Gyuri,
Why there were so many symmetries at the beginning, and why our Universe
displays symmetry breaks, and therefore a loss of symmetries?We need to start
from a fully accepted tenet of cosmology: the Universe took place with the big
bang, an highly energetic state. The more the energy, the more the
information, the more the symmetries. Therefore, at the cosmic start, we
require a highly symmetrical structure. What is the known structure equipped
with the highest number of symmetries? It is the mathematical Monster sporadic
group, where 10^54 symmetries occur in about 200.000 dimensions.
Astonishingly, this pure mathematical structure displays numbers that seem to
correlate it with a physical counterpart, i.e., some string theories.
Therefore, it is possible to hypothesize that the Monster (title for the press:
the manifold of God), loosing some symmetries, gave rise to the big bang.
But... what is this Monster? Is it a Spinozian, timeless structure, or is it
equipped with movements? How is it correlated with spacetime? How much is the
energy of the Monster? How did the Monster give rise to our Universe? We
elucidate the whole stuff (and make testable previsions) in our recently
published
http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/7/4/73
I hope to provide further comments in the next days, in particular to Robert
and Pedro's comments
Ciao a tutti!And thanks again!
Arturo TozziAA Professor Physics, University North TexasPediatrician ASL
Na2Nord, ItalyComput Intell Lab, University
Manitobahttp://arturotozzi.webnode.it/
----Messaggio originale----
Da: "Gyorgy Darvas" <darv...@iif.hu>
Data: 01/03/2017 13.32
A: <fis@listas.unizar.es>
Ogg: Re: [Fis] WHY WE ARE HERE? ...AN UNPLEASANT ANSWER?!
David:
The nature of evolution is
such that symmetries emerge and disappear (change).
Gyuri
http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Scie/ScieDarv.htm
http://epistemologia.zoomblog.com/archivo/2007/11/28/symmetry-breaking-in-a-philosophical-c.html
Darvas, G. (1998) Laws of
symmetry breaking, Symmetry: Culture and Science,
9, 2-4, 119-127
http://journal-scs.symmetry.hu/content-pages/volume-9-numbers-2-4-pages-113-464-1998/
;
Darvas, G, (2015)
The unreasonable effectiveness of symmetry in the sciences, Symmetry:
Culture and Science, 26, 1, 39-82.
http://journal-scs.symmetry.hu/content-pages/volume-26-number-1-pages-001-128-2015/
; http://journal-scs.symmetry.hu/purchase/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284341950_THE_UNREASONABLE_EFFECTIVENESS_OF_SYMMETRY_IN_THE_SCIENCES
On 2017.02.28. 19:01, Dave Kirkland
wrote:
Dear Arturo Tozzi and FISers
Thank you for your very interesting ideas. For
me they raise more questions:
Why did the number of cosmic symmetries ever start diminishing?
Could the whole process be eternally cyclical?
I like your respectful use of capital letters.
My mind boggles.
Best rgds
David
On 24 Feb 2017, at 15:24, tozziart...@libero.it
wrote:
Dear FISers,
hi!
A possible novel discussion (if you like it, of
course!):
A SYMMETRY-BASED ACCOUNT OF LIFE AND
EVOLUTION
After the Big Bang, a gradual increase in
thermodynamic entropy is occurring in our Universe
(Ellwanger, 2012). Because of the relationships between
entropy
and symmetries (Roldán et al., 2014), the
number of cosmic symmetries, the highest possible at the
very start, is declining
as time passes. Here the evolution of
living beings comes into play. Life is a
space-limited increase of energy and complexity, and
therefore of
symmetries. The evolution proceeds
towards more complex systems (Chaisson, 2010), until
more advanced forms of
life able to artificially increase the symmetries of the
world. Indeed, the human brains’ cognitive abilities
not just think objects and events more complex than the
physical ones existing
in Nature, but build highly symmetric crafts too. For
example, human beings can watch a rough
stone, imagine an amygdala and build it from the same
stone. Humankind is able, through its ability to
manipulate
tools and technology, to produce objects (and ideas,
i.e., equations) with complexity
levels higher than the objects and systems encompassed
in the pre-existing
physical world. Therefore, human beings
are naturally built by evolution in order to increase
the number of environmental
symmetries. This is in touch with recent
claims, suggesting that the brain is equipped with a
number of functional and anatomical
dimensions higher than the 3D environment (Peters et
al., 2017). Intentionality, typical of the living
beings
and in particular of the human mind, may be seen as a
mechanism able to
increase symmetries. As Dante Alighieri
stated (Hell, XXVI, 118-120), “you
were not
made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and
knowledge”.
In touch with Spencer’s (1860) and Tyler’s
(1881)
claims, it looks like evolutionary mechanisms tend to
achieve increases in environmental
complexity, and therefore symmetries (Tozzi and Peters,
2017). Life is produced in our Universe in order to
restore the initial lost symmetries. At
the beginning of life, increases in symmetries are just
local, e.g., they are
related to the environmental niches where the living
beings are placed. However, in long timescales, they
might be
extended to the whole Universe. For
example, Homo sapiens, in just 250.000 years, has been
able to build the Large Hadron
Collider, where artificial physical processes make an
effort to approximate the
initial symmetric state of the Universe.
Therefore, life is a sort of gauge field (Sengupta et
al., 2016), e.g.,
a combination of forces and fields that try to
counterbalance and restore, in
very long timescales, the original cosmic symmetries,
lost after the Big Bang. Due to physical issues, the
“homeostatic” cosmic
gauge field must be continuous, e.g., life must stand,
proliferate and increase
in complexity over very long timescales.
This is the reason why every living being has an innate
tendency towards
self-preservation and proliferation.
With the death, continuity is broken. This talks in
favor of intelligent
life scattered everywhere in the Universe: if a few
species get extinct, others
might continue to proliferate and evolve in remote
planets, in order to pursue
the goal of the final symmetric restoration. In touch
with long timescales’ requirements,
it must be kept into account that life has been set up
after a long gestation:
a childbearing which encompasses the cosmic birth of
fermions, then atoms, then
stars able to produce the more sophisticated matter
(metals) required for
molecular life.
A symmetry-based framework gives rise to two
opposite
feelings, by our standpoint of human beings.
On one side, we achieve the final answer to
long-standing questions: “why are we here?”, “Why
does the evolution act in such a way?”, an answer
that reliefs
our most important concerns and gives us a sense;
on the other side, however, this framework does not give
us any hope: we are
just micro-systems programmed in order to contribute to
restore a partially
“broken” macro-system. And, in case we
succeed in restoring, through our mathematical abstract
thoughts and
craftsmanship, the initial symmetries, we are
nevertheless doomed to die:
indeed, the environment equipped with the starting
symmetries does not allow
the presence of life.
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Energy Rate Density as a Complexity Metric and
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Ellwanger U.
2012. From the Universe to the
Elementary Particles. A First
Introduction to Cosmology and the Fundamental
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Peters JF, Ramanna S, Tozzi A,
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Arturo
Tozzi
AA Professor Physics, University North
Texas
Pediatrician
ASL Na2Nord, Italy
Comput
Intell Lab, University Manitoba
http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/
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