THE NEW-OLD COSMOLOGY

The recently discovered physics discipline of cryodynamics, sister discipline to thermodynamics, enables a new picture of the cosmos. A stationary, infinite, eternal, fractal cosmos that can be called the Clifford-Zwicky-Mandelbrot (CZM) cosmos emerges. Many elements of the currently accepted cosmology are put up for replacement in a 12-point list

“SLIDE-FORWARD RECESSION” : EINSTEIN’S MAIN FINDING PROVES EVEN STRONGER

The oldest gravitational ideaof Einstein is by the use of a toy model shown to be still more powerful: It implies c-global. This new fact if true is decisive for the unification of physics. Remember how Einstein predicted gravitational redshift – the fact that our clocks tick slower than those in the satellites overhead – ? He invented the toy model of a constantly accelerating long rocketship in outer space, Jules-Verne style

ANTITHERMODYNAMICS

“Anti” means “instead” or “mirror version of”. The recently introduced new fundamental discipline of cryodynamics can synonymously be called antithermodynanics because it constitutes a mirror-version of thermodynamics. It refers to attractively rather than repulsively interacting many-particle systems. Its predictable influence on the future understanding of physics and the cosmos is outlined by summarizing about 30 references. Novel mathematical results are imminent and decisive technological applications are at the ready

ROLLING BALL IN BREATHING PLANE-TREE ALLEY PARADIGM

Sinai’s famous geometric explanation of equilibrium thermodynamics is extended towards non-equilibrium thermodynamics and cryodynamics. Specifically, “breathing smooth Sinai trees” are introduced. And so are “breathing Sinai funnels.” The example demonstrates that deterministic chaos lies at the root of two fundamental physical disciplines: statistical thermodynamics and statistical cryodynamics. Quantum mechanics, computer simulation, energy technology and cosmology profit from the new consistency

GRAVITATIONAL-REDSHIFT PROPORTIONAL SIZE INCREASE IN RINDLER METRIC

The recently described gravitational-redshift proportional size change implicit in the Schwarzschild metric of general relativity and in the equivalence principle, is demonstrated geometrically in the Rindler metric. The result automatically carries over to general relativity (global constancy of c). Implications regarding terrestrial collision experiments, metrology, cosmology and unified physics are pointed out

“SCHWINGER-THEOREM”: ASCENDING PHOTONS IN EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE IMPLY GLOBALLY CONSTANT c IN GENERAL RELATIVITY

Nobel laureate Julian Schwinger in his 1986 book “Einstein’s Legacy” cast a new light on the Einstein equivalence principle and, by implication, on general relativity. He demonstrated that the gravitationally redshifted photons arriving upstairs in gravity possess their lower frequency and energy on emission already, without this fact being locally manifest downstairs. Thus unlike a stone thrown, photons do not lose their kinetic energy on the way up. The consequences of this counterintuitive finding are far-reaching. In particular, the long-abandoned global constancy of the speed of light c gets resurrected. This fact rules out all globally expanding solutions to the Einstein equation. The same far-reaching cosmological finding is already implicit in the recently discovered fundamental field of cryodynamics, sister discipline to thermodynamics

A RECIPE FOR JUMP-LIKE PROGRESS IN SCIENCE – ILLUSTRATED BY 6 EXAMPLES

Does there exist a method to boost scientific and humanitarian progress? Six cases in point are offered. The featured protagonists are: Zwicky, Einstein, Conrad, Reichardt, Szilard and Everett. The six breakthroughs offered are: (1) stationary cosmology (combined with a promising terrestrial fusion technology); (2) global-cgeneral relativity; (3) well-stirred life; (4) Pandaka-pygmaea based brain science; (5) an interactively reared wiser biological intelligence; (6) an experiment proving personalized assignment of the physical world

Coupled Replicator Equations for the Dynamics of Learning in Multiagent Systems

Starting with a group of reinforcement-learning agents we derive coupled replicator equations that describe the dynamics of collective learning in multiagent systems. We show that, although agents model their environment in a self-interested way without sharing knowledge, a game dynamics emerges naturally through environment-mediated interactions. An application to rock-scissors-paper game interactions shows that the collective learning dynamics exhibits a diversity of competitive and cooperative behaviors. These include quasiperiodicity, stable limit cycles, intermittency, and deterministic chaos--behaviors that should be expected in heterogeneous multiagent systems described by the general replicator equations we derive.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, http://www.santafe.edu/projects/CompMech/papers/credlmas.html; updated references, corrected typos, changed conten