GSJ Physics Forum: Sunil Thakur

Apparently, I am not the only one who is starting to believe in instant light. Sunil Thakur recently published a series of papers on GSJ. One of his papers in particular entitled, "Human Eye can Instantaneously Detect Action at a Distance." This paper was also published on the website, MyTechnologyReview.com, along with two comments. The first comment from AlexanderVo... is an interesting read and goes as follows:

Comment 1: Frame of Reference
The effect of entanglement has been proven in almost countless experiments over the past 13 years.
However, the interpretation of the effect is well disputed.
The fact that even the extraordinarily efficient photosynthesis process in plants is based on the entanglement principle is just one example. Another is lightening that strikes landmarks. How does the electrical charge know which the lowest potential path to a discharge is? We know, because we know the principle of lightening and that it discharges according to very specific physical rules. But if Nature does not KNOW these laws and rules and APPLY them consciously then how does the bolt know which way it must take through the air and into a tree, lamp post or whatever makes it easiest for the charge to discharge itself. How can it evaluate all infinite possible paths and still find the most efficient path every time and with the speed of light?
Nature doesn't know, it evaluates, but much faster and more efficient than ever thought possible. Entangled particles search all potential paths at superluminal speed or sense all paths instantaneously. Just like searching the ideal paths of photons throughout a leaves many electrical pathways. Once found, and this algorithm would be well worth researching, the wave function(s) collapse and one single path is defined. The photons of the bolt will invariably follow this path.
So there is a frame of reference beyond what we have been able to detect. Something that is absolute, and yet relative. A communication-connect layer in which the universe is embedded. This reference-layer gives our visible natural laws a vantage position.
For what we know today we can assume that this layer is made of strings. Elements which oscillate with certain frequencies and along certain dimensions (probably an infinite number of dimensions as it is easiest for nature not to work discretely but with infinity).
This would very nicely explain why even rest mass doesn't exist. Rest mass is nothing but oscillations of strings which we haven't been able to measure yet.
Our bosonic and fermionic world is similar to what a shadow resembles: a lower-dimensional copy of reality.
Thus E=mc2 needs to be resolved with m=function of (mode frequencies and an extended Planck-constant). Our universe is the reflection of a certain combination of string-modes. Like a filter other modes and combinations of modes cannot exist, or at least not for longer periods of time in this universe.
Thus short lived particles are irregular mode combinations that are straightened out by our spatial characteristics.
Thus there is an infinite number of particles possible composed of an infinite number of oscillating string modes. So the same string oscillates in infinite universes in infinite combinations of modes only ever visible in a specific way defined by the local spatial structure. A string is ever-present, everywhere yet is a chameleon: it cannot be seen everywhere or in the same way.
This instantaneous presence is very practical for Nature. And we must remember that Nature is very, very efficient. It is much easier for Nature to work with infinity and all possibilities at once than with just a discrete and very selective number. Why should it, and how should nature know which selective combinations will spawn the most promising Universes?
Promising by what criteria? As much as we know, everything indicates that there is a balancing act at a universal level going on: Balance between ENTROPY and it's counterpart: KNOWLEDGE.
Nature doesnt know, but it is geared towards gain knowledge. So it works with a structure that connects all particles in a random and instantaneous way with each other. At a very high Entropic level.
The more structure evolves the less random and fleeting this string-grid is, reflecting its growing knowledge.
Nature doesnt want to miss even one possibility that makes it more efficient to grow its knowledge. So it constantly allows a maximum number of possibilities to happen, basically countering existing knowledge to a certain degree.

So the lightnings path is reevaluated constantly. The knowledge of the topography of a certain area with a tree on the hill is not stored as knowledge. And the bolt every time searches its most efficient path towards the tree or the hill.

Nature can only do this with the string-frame which is omnipresent and communicates instantaneously.

Thus the ideal path for the bolt is defined by the momentary structure of all present particles in the area (but actually universally).

How can Nature get away with breaking Einsteins law and without us noticing it?

Well Einsteins law is an approximation, like every law we discover. As every natural fact we study is only a faint shadow of the true whole. Einsteins law explains what we see, sense measure.
Once we take rest-mass out of the equation we are left with frequencies. But frequencies of higher orders. Thus frequency and spins are the same elemental types. They are variant string modes. And rest-mass is a combination of string- modes too.

So there really is no mass as we like to define it. It also explains why we cant see distinct particles such as Electrons or Quarks. Because they are the reflections of a combination of string-modes manifesting themselves in a particle-like way in this part of space-time.

Exotic particles need a lot of energy to manifest in a way we can detect them. Thats what we do with particle accelerators.

However our space-time structure which defines the reflection of mode-combinations of strings in this area of the Universe consume these modes and the particles decay to sub-modes until they decompose to stable modes which can be various combinations of particles, bosons and photons.
Nature only can work, when it can make use of an instantaneous communication network such as its string-network, which we would describe as a Frame of Reference.
So Natures need for entanglement gives us a lucky shot at using this string-frame for our own objectives.

Can it be used for signaling? Well signaling is about information and Nature uses strings as a means of gathering the information on optimum paths at least. Probably for an infinite other informational needs.
Can we mis-appropriate it, by sending existing information. Well we do it all the time. Every move we make, everything we do changes the structure of the string-frame and this is signaled across all infinity at once.
But most probably it does not lead to fundamental changes in other universes. And quite right so, otherwise we would feel like puppets on strings too.
So there exists a natural filter and we can communicate and measure effects across vast distances using string-modes that appear in our universe without disturbing someone elses radio program.
Again, no mass is involved, just mode-frequencies. Of course there are no causality problems. As long as something happens as a consequence to a previous event, however small the time lapse between cause and effect we are absolutely safe from potential paradoxes.
Information has no mass, not even a rest-mass.

But why is there a specific speed-of-light in this universe? Well it is a purely accidental number. Nature did not plan on having this number as Nature did not plan to have this type of universe with its specific laws. It just is one possible and in our eyes fairly stable composition of space-time structure we can perceive.

This universe is and is as it is because it could be and could be as it is.
We are a consequence of infinity not its cause.

May be we should first try to get an answer to whether it should be possible to signal faster than light.
To put the principle and philosophical question first makes it much easier to understand whether we should invest time and energy into exploring such a possibility.

If Nature works with an infinite number of possibilities it is possible.
If we are a consequence and that is why this universe makes sense to us, then everything in it makes sense for us.
That means the vast distances and the speed of light make sense too!
Nature pursues experiments which endure as long as possible. So why should Nature limit our abilities so suddenly after a phenomenal explosion of capabilities within only 250 thousand years?
Nature does not. Lets agree, that of course we could populate the Galaxy within 3-5 Million years according to some estimates at sub-light speed expansion.
However looking at our current speed of evolution, would it be likely that we are what we are in only 1000 years from now or 10000 years from now.
What if we lost interest? If we lost curiosity? What if we just stopped evolving and called it quits? Because we would find it too difficult and definitely not rewarding to send ancestors somewhere, we would never know they could even reach?

So Nature would abandon a highly successful concept: Mingle, Compete and Mix. Just because it got the speed of light limit wrong or miscalculated the expansion rate of the universe.
Probably not. Probably Nature has optimal paths of development. It will not prematurely risk too great a number of knowledge-experiments if it can optimize its knowledge return.
In simpler words: We first had to learn how to ship and navigate oceans, before we could venture into the air and space. And we first have to master our own planets biological challenges before we are fit to master other biological spheres of other planets.

Would it be Mars then where we can head? Probably not. Because that is not how Nature operates. Nature operates with endless numbers of Earth Type planets, so why trying to revive a dead horse when there are endless herds of stallions out in the prairies?

So the natural and philosophical answer is: Yes this universe allows us to signal faster than light- but we do not yet know how.
May be if we spent less money on wars and more money on research we would already be able to.
But as long as we waste our energies on conflicts we should certainly not be seen as fit to survive out there.
A minimum level of knowledge is required and we havent reached it yet.

As complexity of solutions increases we need to work in a different way to increase our solution potential.
Only by connecting our mind and integrating our knowledge will we be bale to tackle higher level questions.
The internet was the key for this evolutionary stage and the question is, what is it we lack to gain more insight.
In all likelihood it will be the next big space telescopes which will give us the mental vision- as there are no JFKs around yet.
Once we will see evidence of other life harbouring planets we will probably find the energy to focus on the challenge to learn more about other worlds and eventually to get there.
Nature has provided infinite ways to evolve and allows for every possibility. We are the only limit there is. Our own anxieties, our own fear of going beyond our little comfort zones combined with a very egocentric view of the universe.
Just because we have not been able to do things yet doesnt mean they cant be done. To the contrary: everything we imagine can probably be done and much more still.

This would be a much better attitude for our scientific and engineering community. As we know, it took a visionary politician not a scientist, or an engineer to free our energies and to focus them on to a clearly visible objective: the Moon!

So what about those Earths out there who wants to sit on dusty radiation exposed Mars or submerge in the icy ocean of Europa when we can have other biologically developed worlds?