A Cosmic Ruse - Atomic Drift | Independent Theories on Physics and Consciousness

Welcome all to my blended site of Consciousness & Physics.  This site is undergoing a very slow rebuild.  It's more a repository of shared hypothesis', devoid of any fun beyond mathematics and individual wonder.  My most recent is The Green M&M Paradox.  It’s playful and fun .  I’ve  recently published a book that encompasses many of the topics here into one, fluid read, titled The Odds Equation, and can be found on Kindle and Amazon.  The Kindle version is horrible.  It doesn't support latex mathematics, so the equations don't show up and spacing throughout are a mess.  I have the book posted here, however, without cost on the page titled "The Odds Equation Book".  Cut me some slack, it's my first one.  What is this book really about? There has never been a single book, lecture, podcast, or peer-reviewed paper (in philosophy, neuroscience, or physics) that seriously confronts the one question we all quietly carry: When the biology expires, what actually happens to the “you” that is experiencing this sentence right now? The Odds Equation does not dodge the question with hope, dogma, or dismissiveness. It attacks it with mathematics. Using only peer-reviewed physics (quantum information theory, statistical mechanics, computational complexity, and the hardest probability bounds we can derive), the book demonstrates that the emergence of a single, continuous, self-aware observer inside this universe is so fantastically improbable that it constitutes a formal anomaly in our current models of reality.  Not a small anomaly; an anomaly measured in hundreds of orders of magnitude beyond the Planck scale, beyond a googol standard deviations, beyond anything else physics has ever encountered and simply shrugged off. This is not metaphysical. It is measurement.  And measurement at this level demands exploration and explanation.  The Odds Equation is therefore not a fairy tale offered to just simply comfort you. It is the moment the fairy tale looks back and realizes it is alive, and that the story was never about the universe. The story was always about all of us. Welcome to the anomaly. We are it. And
*that*should comfort you.  

​But if you don't feel like reading an entire book, I'm hopeful that if any of these fields interest you, you'll likely find something here that resonates. Eye popping facts and wonder?  Stop reading this and just tap/click menus, then Musings and Prose - at the top, Of All the Gin Joints; There's You....a metaphorical journey of the odds of your existence and why it really really should mean something to you.  Which then will lead to a falsifiable model for consciousness found in the post Conscious Emergence Improbability Argument.

No existence after death?  I beg to differ, sort of:  The Resonance Trail - a 6 Sectored investigation outlining the known science that shows awareness does not end with our last breath.  It’s not Heaven, but it might be a Stairway.  Not a quick read either - but thorough and condensed as I could be.  If you're interested in life after death studies - either for yourself or for those we grieve - this is the one if you read anything at all on here.  

Physics and Consciousness: You'll notice "resonance" is a common theme in my theoretical work.  Since I have published hypothesis' in here, I must state that I am an "independent researcher/construct" - if one needs to apply a label to me.  I have no ties to any brand of thought. I am not funded, nor am I tenured. What this means is I am open to anything.  Some are museum pieces, but many have potential - and danger - as noted in my idea of Emotional Mapping, and found in the menu.  Interested in mental health?  That's the one to check out.  

If up to it, I invite anyone to peruse my physics papers listed in this terrible web host (Weebly). The most important of them, so far, is an embedded PDF under My Own Theory of "Everything".  The Theory of Everything has several names in the field of physics - in short, it is a theoretical framework of physics that should explain and link together all aspects of the universe.  I always include a 'Plain English' summation after each one if you're interested in physics but don't necessarily need to understand what the eloquent equations mean.  Mine is merely a contribution to the Theory of Everything.  

Basically, you've stumbled onto a page that is a repository of hypothesis', created by an amateur physicist with intuitive ideas, fueled by the fact I am living an existence that some people say extinguishes when my biological body fizzles out.  I'm not totally convinced that is true - hence, I follow the science where the reductionists don't bother with.  
​Feel free to critique anything I have on here.  


*NOTE* Update of Theory of Everything Version 2 - Plain English:

By Michael J. Ruse
 
For most of my life, without knowing the language for it, I’ve been chasing a single question:
Why does anything remember anything?  Which then would lead me to – ‘Why does a photon know where it’s going’?  Or then…..why does a wave collapse at one moment and not another?  Why does spacetime “keep” the fact that a black hole merged, or that two masses accelerated apart?  Okay, so that is more than a single question, but it all falls under one umbrella.   

This question followed me through childhood, a long steady career, loss, grief, physics books, YouTube rabbit holes, and conversations with my own memories. Over the years it grew into a suspicion:  Maybe the universe keeps traces of everything that happens - not in the form of symbols, but physically.

At first I didn’t know what to do with that intuition.  But I started writing.  When I really buckled down with it, it was during a time of great personal loss for me, but that was the fuel I needed to press ahead.  Little ideas became papers:

• The Topological Resonance Hypothesis:  spacetime might hold long-lived imprints.
• The Fractal Vacuum Resonance Hypothesis: the vacuum might be structured, not empty.
• The Threshold Information Loss Hypothesis: collapse might have a real physical trigger.
• The Resonant Time Field Hypothesis: time might have a field structure.
 
One paper became four.  Four became six.  Eventually I realized these weren’t separate ideas - they were mere chapters of the same story, and that I should unify them.  So I combined the ones that mattered most, into a unified model:  Threshold Collapse, Inertial Modulation, and Spacetime Memory (TOE V1).

It worked - but I knew in my heart something was missing.  I wasn’t sure if I would ever find the missing piece that would make my humble contribution to a TOE more solid, because I didn’t know what to look for that could be missing.  I doubted myself many many times, because physics - it seems to me - can at times be a voraciously hungry beast with an army of soldiers just salivating to rip your ideas to shreds.  My TOE V1 was innovative, at least to me, but I wasn’t fooling myself either, despite the feeling I had that it was decent, even though it teetered on the meta end of things. 

Then I stumbled upon the work of mathematician D.L. Bernstein on existence and PDE behavior.  I purchased an old book of hers on eBay for $20 on Theorems for Existence and became immersed.  This solved a problem I didn’t know I had:  My equations needed hard mathematical guarantees.  They needed to be well-posed.  They needed to have unique solutions.  They needed to collapse cleanly under certain conditions and remain stable under others.  Bernstein’s work - along with Kenig–Merle threshold theory - gave me the missing formal structure.  The collapse line could now be mathematically proven in the way physicists demand and Version 2 was born.  Took a lot of time and heart for a guy like me to square the edges. 
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But I know that when people who aren’t mathematically inclined do actually read a hypothesis, it usually gives a reader more questions than answers, and ending with clicking X to close it out.  Maybe you’re asking yourself, just what is it, I’m trying to do?

What the Theory Is Really Saying:

​At its heart, TOE Version 2 claims five things:
1. Collapse isn’t random.  It’s triggered when a quantum system loses too much information into its environment - an entropy threshold.
2. The vacuum isn’t empty.  It has layers of resonant structure that shape inertia and particle identity.
3. Spacetime itself can ‘remember’.  Major events leave persistent topological “dents” - like gravitational memory, but more general.
4. When something big happens, the whole vacuum reacts.  Super-threshold events create global information cascades.
5. All of this can be tested.  With:
• atomic interferometers
• Casimir measurements
• GPS timing anomalies
• lunar seismology
• vacuum noise statistics
• gravitational memory signatures
 
A theory is only valuable if it can be wrong.  This one can be.  Version 1 was already “falsifiable.”  But Version 2 has mathematics that serve like the I-beams on a bridge. 
 
Why Version 2 Matters
Version 1 was intuitive.  Version 2 is mathematically defensible.  It uses:
• linear & nonlinear Klein–Gordon dynamics
• stable/unstable threshold bifurcations
• Kenig–Merle critical energy theory
• deviation fields for spacetime strain
• existence and uniqueness results
• explicit predictions
 
It’s not “Mike’s cool idea.”  It’s: my attempt to create a well-posed, PDE-grounded, physics-anchored attempt at a unifying mechanism behind collapse, inertia, resonance, and spacetime memory.  This theory isn’t trying to “win physics.”  It’s trying to answer a deeper question:  How does something as fragile and temporary as a human life leave an imprint on a universe made of cold equations?  And the hypothesis I’ve been building - piece by piece, across years of writing, grief, curiosity, and intuition - is this:  Because the universe is made of memory.  Because collapse is a memory decision.  Because spacetime is a memory field.  Because the vacuum resonates with the echoes of everything that ever happened.
If that’s true, then consciousness isn’t an accident, it’s a resonance pattern in a field that already knows how to hold history.  Version 2 is the most complete attempt I’ve ever made to explain that.  It's something, not nothing.