The Universal Nilpotent Rewrite System

Taking part in congresses and symposia in Europe I have become acquainted with developments in scientific thought originating in physics which open for a more holistic understanding of reality. To me this has been a positive experience where my contributions (the holographic principle in biology and medicine, acupuncture with light etc.) have found a natural place in a greater scientific context. In this and hopefully later articles I will try to mediate information and links to this evolution.

            This has to do with fields of knowledge which it is very hard to concentrate in a language most people can easily understand, because it has to do highly abstract levels that are not familiar to the uninitiated. In apparent contradiction to this I shall here start with what may be a summit in this development: the Universal Nilpotent Rewrite System developed by Peter Rowlands at the Department of Physics at the University of Liverpool.

            This is a general scientific theory at the highest level of abstraction apparently possible, because the theory takes its starting point in the idea of a nothing. From this ‘nothing’ or ‘zero’ reality unfolds through two basic operators: ‘to create’ by adding a new symbol, and ‘to conserve’ by recreating ‘a nothing’. Through such a successive unfolding new ‘sub-alphabets’ arise without breaking the original condition of nothingness. It is this which is implied in the ‘nilpotent rewrite system’.

            Through this logical-mathematical process it is, according to Rowlands, possible to deduce all fundamental laws of reality through a universal dynamic. In his main work together with Diaz, B., “From Zero to Infinity”, he shows several examples of such deductions with the main emphasis on physics. From the basis of physics in the nilpotent vacuum he thus proves how the fundamental equation of quantum mechanics of Dirac follows as a consequence of a more abstract formulation of even broader validity. This way he argues that the validity of Dirac’s equation is based on a supra-physical deduction independent of empirical verification.

            Rowlands claims that his Nilpotent Rewrite System comprises all fields of human thought. He thus shows that it applies to all possible human languages.  This way he claims to have developed a universal semantics.

            In biology this is evidently relevant. Biological beings are individuals and behave like individuals. This is not possible to explain on the basis that is one-sidedly analytic and reductive. But it is a natural consequence of the nilpotent deduction of Rowlands. Each biological individual becomes a subset in this context. And each part of an individual further becomes a subset of this. The ECIWO theory thus is a logical consequence of the universal nilpotent system.

            Rowlands’ approach choosing the empty ‘nothing’ as his starting point thereby creating the all that is, brings him into a spiritual community of eminent philosophers, like Plato, Plotin, Kant, Bohm – and we may indeed also mention Buddha. In a modern context may appear even more ambitious when he claims to deduce the very basis for the highly developed modern sciences from a unitary wholeness unfounded from an empty nothing. What he actually does is systematically to expose the basic codes of the sciences in order to map the very informatics of reality.

            How fruitful this approach may be in basic physics is clearly demonstrated in a study ‘A Remarkable Quantum Mechanical Discovery’ which Marcer and Rowlands presented at the 5^th International Symposium of British Computer Society – Cybernetic Machine Specialist Group – and which is published in Vol 19 of the International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems. Here they show that the nilpotent Dirac equation brings a complementary establishment of a 3+1 dimensional, relativistic space-time, and a quantification of the strong, the weak, and the electromagnetic forces in elementary particle physics, from a ‘nothing’ in its empty state. And further they demonstrate that this quantification also includes spin and more massive particles. This turns out to be in excellent agreement with the experimental values that have been found in particle physics of the Standard Model.

            Rowlands and Marcer claim that this mathematical language gives a quantum theoretical explanation of the 3+1 dimensional relativistic space-time as a fundamental property of physical reality. This is something string theory for a long time has tried to do, without succeeding so far.

            This is just to indicate that Peter Rowlads in his Universal Nilpotent Rewrite System may have found a really fruitful way to solve remaining basic problems in modern physics, thereby possibly formulating ‘a theory of everything’. This is something we hope to be able to follow up at our web site. Since we have earlier written about the theory of Santilli and hadronic mechanics, I will mention that Rowlands during several years has cooperated with researchers in hadronic physics, including Santilli himself, and that he has published articles in the Hadronic Journal. Apparently there is no serious conflict between these two scientific theories. Both of them try from different starting points to solve basic problems of physic, and they may well complement each other.

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