Hi Iacob.
First, thanks for your kind posting. I will read your recomendation with interest.
Secondly I'm sorry I have lost my voting code so I haven't been able to use my restricted votes.(personally and I suspect to most of us, the actual 'results' of this contest are unimportant. The important thing is that we may, just one day, get a little closer to understanding how our universe really works, the whole point of FQXI as I understand it :)
To try to answer your question.
I wrote the following summary to Jean Ibar (who's eessay I also liked very much but couldn't vote for.)
'My essay is based upon the interaction of 'assumed' vibrating fields which fill all space. Matter being the result of harmonics in a number of fields being sustained by resonance in another or others.Matter being similar to 'standing waves' at a point. The energy transfer via resonance, being a continueous 'flow' toward each point, giving the effects of both inertia and gravity to those points.Any difference between perfect resonance and imperfect resonance being seen as a 'feedback' interference into the sustaining field. We seeing it as heat light etc depending on how far from perfect resonance the point is.'
Of course I don't really know the actual makeup of these fundamental fields(if they exist) all I have tried to do is visualise a system which could enable matter to exist as a point into which there is a constant flow of sustaining energy. Once this point( I presume to be a proton or neutron no smaller)exists in this manner the rest of the laws of physics or nature may follow.(I'm not sure if I know them all yet!)
I guess that I see these fields as having some of the following properties: In the essay I mentioned the lava lamp to perhaps imagine a finite time that the universe may have. Perhaps the lava lamp analogy could be applied to the vibrating field/matter existence visualisation.
Imagine Two 'globs'in a lava lamp but instead of staying the same size they are expanding. They each have a vibration frequency of their own, ie they could be different colours, they each expand until they reach the glass and just turn the oil in the lamp a different colour.
If they had met each other before they were too 'thin' they could have 'melded together' like 'normal' lava lamp bubbles and doubled in size and gained a new frequency.(Probably half their previous ones if their mass doubled?) But still have kept expanding until they reached the glass and merely coloured the oil just the same. Imagine now that the oil, in which they float, is vibrating, as it happens, at their 'new' combined frequency, but completely out of phase with it. Assuming that the rate of expansion is 'pulsing' at this 'new' frequency then it is hoped that the surrounding oil' pulsing 180 degrees out of phase with it, will actually halt the expansion, and keep the 'combined bubble' intact! This is, rightly or wrongly, what I'm trying to explain as 'in resonance' with the sustaining field.
I felt that stable atoms exist by being very much 'in resonance' with the 'sustaining field whereas unstable elements may be sustained by various 'odd cycles' of the sustaining field. I can imagine it a bit like trying to bounce a ball. You hit the ball correctly and it feels good and you can keep the bouncing going ad infinitum. ( = stable element)
You hit the ball slightly 'off beat'and it doesn't feel right and the bounce may be sustained for a minute or so, but gradually the ball bounces less and less until you are just patting it on the ground (unstable element,then stable element) At this point with an unstable element (and during its diminishing bounce)feedback energy would flow into the sustaining field, observed as heat, light, radio activity etc depending on which isotope/element we're dealing with (in the bouncing anology this to us would be the 'not feeling right bit')The unstable element would, after sufficient 'out of balance'energy been shed, assume a more stable relationship with the sustaining field.More than likely having dropped to a lower(stable) harmonic or 'lighter' element. (With real elements etc this stabilisation can take seconds to thousands of years)
I do go on a bit about this resonance thing but am basing many of these assumptions on explainations of resonance that I have read. It was stated that in order for a resonance to exist 'perfect resonance' does not have to. Sometimes quite a large bandwidth either side of the 'resonant frequency' can still allow an energy flow, to sustain a sympathetic resonant reponse. What I do know is that I sometimes get a really annoying buzzing sound coming from the dashboard of my van when the engine is running and I can vary the engine revs a lot, and the buzzing still continues,I am in the meantime punching and kicking the dash in order to stop it! This sometimes works. Other times the engine revs get to such a frequency that the noise just stops. Its interesting to note however that no part of the engine block actually travels up to the dash to keep this awefull buzzing going. Just energy flowing through the fabric of the vans body . This is why I don't suggest that the fields themselves flow, just the vibrations :) Of course the question of the fields existence and their properties, probably give rise to more questions than they might answer. Of course one asks oneself 'is the energy in the sustaining field finite?'
Or like my engine, does it ever run out of diesel? (The buzzing usually stops then.) Is there a limit to the amount of matter it can sustain? Yet again I don't know :)
Thanks again Iacob (Will look for that link now)