Thursday, September 10, 2015

Contradiction of information in the universe

It it's a fact that information that can be stored in a chip can increase exponentially with time. Now a micro SD-card can store about 500 GB. With time this will increase. To our current understanding it will saturate when atomic scales are reached. But will it stop? It may not. The way technology improves, the increase may never stop.

This may lead to the scenario that all information of universe being stored in a point.

This cannot happen because universe consists of multiple points.

Our understanding of the universe may be completely wrong.

Even if you ignores the fact information of the whole universe, is in one point, the following scenario, information of one  cubic cm can be recorded in one cubic mm may be possible now. Even this leads to a contradiction. If we can store information of one cubic cm in one cubic mm, then we don't need the balance 999 cubic mm. If this 999 is doing nothing we don't need it. Then in practical terms it don't exist.

Something is seriously wrong with our perception of space and time, at least space should be something more than the information of spacetime. Spacetime is information we can perceive. Then spacetime should have something that we cannot perceive - may be, dark matter and energy.

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Free Education in Sri Lanka

Free Education in Sri Lanka has made the country poorer. Not because money is spent on educating the public, is a waste in many forms that can be seen, for instance the lethargic teachers are paid for not doing any work i.e. teaching, but because of brain drain.

With free education poorer masses who cannot spend big money to educate their children are benefited. Problem is that the extra smart children, being poor will always try to go searching for greener pastures. They migrate seeking lucrative jobs.

Suppose there is no free education then these extra smart children will remain in the country. They may not do jobs that suit their special skills but being smart they will become useful citizens of the country.

With free education all smart people - mostly, leave the country. And only not so smart people remain in the country. After several generations the Sri Lankan public will become dumb even genetically.

The education system needs changes. Those who receive free education should sign contracts with the government to serve the country. At least this should be done superficially at first for children to understand what they are getting.

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Critique of simultaneity and spatiality

Temporality and spatiality
If we can't get at least if we cannot get a foothold we cannot understand anything is not a good argument to assume something. We need to find a foothold, if we can't do not assume slippery arguments

How to solve the riddle of time?
Some suggestions. I will grow old no-one or anything can stop it. Some day I will die no-one or anything can stop it. It seems these are phenomena connected to human brain. Is time inside our brain?

Einstein's special relativity shows that time is not universal and it is relative to the observer. It means that it is a creation of the observer and does not exist outside the observer.

From biology perspective time have a direct link to cell division and cell death.

 Event counter is an absolute necessary attribute to have any kind of knowledge of spaceio-temporal events.

The counter is the link between reality and maths.

What are the attributes of the counter? The counter needs containers. Symmetry may give this. However, symmetry cannot be seen from within it can only be seen from outside.

Each elementary particle will decay after certain number of interactions. This is the only way for a counter to be present inside each particle. This is the only way that is possible to give meaning to the concept of time, before and after, or spatio-temporal universe, etc. But still there is a problem. Electrons protons and neutrons which consists of visible universe do not decay in time scales that are compatible with our perceptual capabilities. Therefore doubt whether it is possible.

Suppose radio active decay explains actual existence of time (i.e. outside human brain). Still there is a problem, because we experience time without radioactivity. Particle decay is actually strong evidence of existence of time. Even if so something is missing. We might not have understood it fully. In particle decay existence of a counter condition is satisfied.The statistical results of radioactive decay shows evidence of some underlying structure we still don't fully understand.

Simultaneously

The flaws of this concept in real life.
Lot of real life phenomena assumes the concept of Simultaneity.
It is easily shown that this concept is a myth. 
We cannot prove that any two events in the universe occurs simultaneously. 
We makes lot of assumptions in showing that two events occurring at spatially different locations occurs at same time. We use light signals as a medium of communication to show this. Though we use the principal of constancy of speed of light to do this, we trends to ignore that light signals consists of photons and single light signal is not a single photon but a bunch of photons that was emitted within a window of time and not in a single instant. And again we forget the uncertainty principal, and that it is impossible measure that, theoretically, two events happen the same instant using a moving messenger, because the uncertainty of the arrival time of the messenger due to uncertainty principal.

Well if simultaneity doesn't exist all the events of the universe should be able to be sequenced in a particular order. Strangely this is also not correct! The same problems when we tried to achieve simultaneity of events will crop up. It will be difficult to sequence certain events that happens within a short window of time. Principals of quantum theory will go against it.

The conclusion is that there is no simultaneity and it is even not possible to sequence all events that happens in the universe.

However, we know that when the window of time is sufficiently separated we can safely state that certain set of events happened before a certain another set. Practically we call this time. It seems that time is an entity related to entropy. Entropy is a statistical entity therefore the time as we experience should also be a pseudo entity that has no relation to the real world.

Monday, August 31, 2015

Before after and spatiality

When we say event A happened after event B, we usually forget spatiality of the occurrence of  A and B. To have meaning in before and after both events should happen at same location. If it occurs in two locations we need to rely on an agent that moves from one location to other. In special relativity this agent is a light signal or set of photons.Even in special relativity it is vague, it don't use a single photon but Einstein used a set of photons and called the agent a light signal. There are lots of problems with this association for example quantum theory and uncertainty principal.

Simultaneous actions practically do not exist. Both actions should take place in the same location. Two actions cannot take place in the same point in space.If it happens, then it is one action.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Time and Casualty

Time and Casualty are inseparable. They goes hand in hand. One cannot exist without the other. Take the example of a child growing to a man. Man exists live in. because child existed. Man was caused by the child. Child came first then came man. Child was before and man was after. Before and after signifies time. Time and Casualty are not attributes of the universe but they are pseudo attributes created by man to interpret the environment they live in. They are not attributes of environment.
Man is unable to interpret his environment without time and space. And also casualty. Space is more near to environment than time. But without rigid bodies man is unable to comprehend space. Space may be there but you need rigid bodies to measure it. However, with the sense organs of man, he is able to comprehend it. With the help of Reid bodies he even measure it. Time measuring is more complex. It need multiple type of data to measure it. It needs two things. It needs an oscillator and a counter. The oscillator can be earth moving around sun or an vibrating atom. But the counter is complex, it is an observer. Can it be performed other than a human being? A man made machine like a Computer can do it. It is very difficult to answer whether the counting process can exist without a man.
A mountain eroding with whether can be a time measure!
Language is the culprit. The principal of causation is built into language. Most sentences of language depicts causation. The base of our thinking and knowledge is language.
The logical conclusion that can be arrived is, time and causation is part of the language created by us to communicate our knowledge.

Consider these sentences. I kicked the dog. Then it howled.
The howling was caused by the kicking. The kicking was before and howling was after. Time consists of two attributes Before and After is one measuring time is the other. Time and measuring of time are two things. The confusion created by thinking both are same makes us imagine things like time reversal, time machines and what happens few seconds after big bang. Language created time, then used physical phenomena to measure it.

Measuring time needs a cyclic event, a counter and before & after concept. Without before & after the cyclic event is not possible. cyclic event needs at least two specific events that occurs alternatively. Then casualty is needed to link this to the counter - the counter increments at the occurrence of the same event.

Measuring time is a higher concept than the basic concept of before and after. Small children first do not understand the concept of before & after. You need to teach it. This alone is evidence that it is a concept created by humans. This can be contrasted with space, without any teaching, inputs by our sense organs is sufficient for us to understand space. Concept of time is not related to our senses. So is the concept of before & after. Time cannot be comprehended by our senses. We need an external tool like a watch to do it.

Monday, August 24, 2015

Bribes and tips

Tip is a form of bribe, giving something expecting a better service. What is given, being, after the service, will not change its form. In case of tips it is the general understanding that it should be given in the end of the service. There is a general understanding even how much should be given. But this is a pressure for most people who are unfamiliar of the process. They will always start to think whether they overpaid or underpaid. It is really comfortable to live in a country like Japan. There no-one gives tips nor expects a tip.
I feel all countries that promotes foreigners in their countries should aim to phase out giving tips.Because they will be the ones who are unfamiliar in giving tips. Not bold enough to offend locals, usually they over pay, living in unfamiliar circumstances.
This is a pressure on foreigners, so if you want to promote tourism tips are not a good attribute. It will be difficult to do away of it immediately because it will affect directly livelihood of some people.
So take action to discourage it and have alternative forms like adding it to the cost and give a commission to the servers.