Seecube Theory: Eadon's Theory of Everything

Seecube Theory

What is Seecube Theory? Seecube Theory is a theory of Everything, a theory that explains all of reality. What is space? What is time? What is energy? What are the subatomic particles? It's a bit deep, so skip over the parts you don't understand, to get a feel for the whole thing!

First let me briefly give some background. Newton created a physics theory of everything we can sense. Then Einstein provided a modified version of Newton's laws to make his Relativity theories, that explain much extreme physics. Another theory, quantum mechanics, was invented to explain even more extreme physics. But Relativity and Quantum Mechanics show only parts of the real, whole, unified story (albeit very, very accurately).

We wish for a marvellous theory of nature, a theory that can explain and unify all the particles of nature, and its forces, and also explain and unify quantum mechanics and general relativity. We need a physics "theory of everything". One such attempt to forge one, "String Theory", has failed outright, with no hope of salvaging it. Other approaches are struggling. I'll present my idea for such a theory in the hope that they may inspire others to think differently about the problem. I might even be right!

Below I present a rough draft version of my new theory, Seecube Theory. Aspects of SeeCube Theory may be original, other aspects similar to ideas invented by others that I was inspired by, or am unaware of. I'm not taking myself or my theory too seriously in presenting these ideas, and as such, I'm hope I'm not labelled a "crank". But from playfulness can come true insights. I hope you enjoy reading! If some of the points I make sound inpenetrable, just skip past them and keep going, to get a feel for the whole theory. Buckle your seatbelts!

What is Space?

Seecube Theory says space is composed of fundamental building blocks, space "atoms" if you will. (This is a common idea in physics). Such an atom in Seecube theory a "seecube". (From the pronounciation of c-cube, short for cellcube).

Even though seecubes are the "atoms" of space, the seecubes don't have "size" as they are comprised only of pure information.

The seecubes can be imagined as having physical size, however. As such, they are (ironically) unimaginably tiny, far smaller than atomic nuclei: their size is analogous to the "Planck length" of Quantum Physics (which is conjectured to be the smallest meaningful length).

SeeCubes don't have a shape/geometry either, but the perception and physics of 3D space emerges from them. SeeCubes may be visualised as miniscule cubes.

An analogy is that a 3D graphics computer game is made of software that has no "size" or "shape", or at least not in relation to the virtual "space" of the 3D game. The "size" of software is in "bytes", which doesn't directly translate into physical space.

A seecube is made of information: information stored as state and information that encodes rules that acts on the information and communicates it.

Physical space emerges from what can be modelled as a 3D array (or 3D matrix) of seecubes. That is pretty much a cellular automata-like setup.

The seecube communicates information in 3 degrees of freedom, related to the 3D matrix structure. These 3 degrees of freedom of communication between seecubes gives rise to 3D space. In other words space is an emergent property of the propagation of information exchange between seecubes.

What is Light?

A particle (or packet) of light, a "photon". A photon is information state that is shared between a bunch of seecubes. The state is shared in a way that resembles a wave-shape. i.e. in one region of "seecube-space", more seecubes may hold state information about the photon, and this is related to the perceived "position" of the photon.

The state is passed on, communicated, between seecubes. In this way the photon propagates. When a photon interacts with another subatomic particle, that interaction is transacted by a two single seecubes, one for each particle.

That seecube then "communicates" the state it holds, e.g. the numeric value it stores, equivalent to amplitude, and state such as polarisation/spin.

Rules govern which of the seecubes that share the photon state. The rules are probabilistic and act across all seecubes that encode a photon simultaneously.

Quantum Mechanics Paradoxes

Because only one seecube per particle "interacts" - the usually wave-like particle (say, a photon) can seem "point"-like (or "particle"-like). Skip this next bit if you're not into quantum mechanics: In this way, Seecube Theory solves the wave-particle duality paradox. Also, with Seecube Theory, there is no mysterious "collapse" of the quantum wavefunction. This also solves the famous paradox of Schrodinger's cat. The cat is not simultaneously both alive or dead. The interaction between cat and poison already happened (or didn't happen). No observer is required. The resolution of the paradox boils down to the fact that the "wave function" of the particle corresponds to the set of seecubes that have information about the particle, that encode the particle. In this way, the particle is not fundamental, but composite, it is made of information held in seecubes. The seecube level of reality is real, quantum mechanics is just an approximation, a way of obtaining information about the seecubes.

Keep skipping if this makes no sense: On an even more technical note - the Seecube Theory resolution to Bell's Inequality is that the speed of light limit of special relativity is "violated" by the seecubes. Seecubes are connected as they have no meaningful separation (being made of information). So Seecubes communicate at faster than light speed. Light speed refers to how fast certain state information that encodes particles propagates through the seecube matrix, not to how fast the seecubes can communicate information.

Quantum mechanical entanglement is explained too, because the photon state can be shared by many seecubes spread over arbitrarily large physical space. But because seecubes themselves are made only of information, they are effectively right next to each other. So you get "spooky action at a distance".

What is Time?

Time emerges from the frequency in which the seecubes exchange information in terms of ticks. Analogous to clock speeds of a synchronous computer chip. Note that seecube "time" is not the same as time that emerges from it. This is the seecube "clock cycle".

What are You?

You are information encoded in seecubes.

Einsteinian relativity

Special Relativity may be explained in that if you are going faster, the information encoded in you is processed at a different rate than information in the rest of the cosmos. This is because some of the "clock" ticks are spent moving you, instead of "evolving" you.

General Relativity may be explained in that if you are accelerating or in a gravitational field, the information encoded in you is processed at a different rate than information in the rest of the cosmos. This is because some of the "clock" ticks are spent accelerating you, instead of "evolving" you.

What is Energy?

Energy is inversely proportional to how many seecubes encode the particle. If the state is concentrated in fewer seecubes, then that state has a larger value (amplitude) per seecube. Therefore that larger value has a larger effect on the interaction. That is higher energy.

Expansion of the Universe

The expansion of the universe is either an illusion (the seecubes change how they share particles state to give them a lower energy - longer redshift) or... Or the explansion of the universe is "real" - new, additional, "rows" of seecubes get inserted into the 3D seecube matrix.

Mass

At high energies, seecubes qualitatively transform photon state in such a way that quantum numbers change, and they "become" other particles, such as electrons.

Electrons have mass, so where does this mass come from? When seecubes transmit a module of information, that information manifests itself as a subatomic particle. When that particle is transmitted at a maxium rate, relative to the fundamental unit of "time" is the seecube clock cycle, that particle is observed to move at the speed of light in straight lines (by observers made of normal particles). Some kinds of information modules take longer to transmit. The way they move is more flexible, and transmission takes more clock cycles - there is a lag. This lag translates into mass. If energy is given to the module, then fewer seecubes encode that module of information, (each seecube holds larger value shares of the particle state, the particle state gets more "concentrated"). Consequently, then the "lag" reduces because fewer seecubes are needed to transmit the information. As a result, the particle moves faster.

If a module of information requires more seecubes to encode it at very low energy (here energy denotes the energy of movement, kinetic energy), then it moves more slowly and it is more difficult for that module of information to have it's trajectory altered. That relative increase in the number of seecubes necessary to encode a module of information corresponds to a respective increase in mass in the module's manifestation as a subatomic particle. In this model, more massive particles really are, as naive everyday intuition would want it, "larger". As explained above, in reality seecubes are information-based and therefore have no size, but they can be modelled as having size, and in this sense, more massive particles are larger than lighter ones. This type of mass is called "rest" mass, i.e. the mass a particle intrinsically has.

The other kind of mass is the increase in mass a particle achieves when it is moving. That type of mass is a consequence of the idea that stronger interactions are necessary to change the trajectory of a particle that has high energy, because that particle has larger values of state. To change a large number by a significant amount by addition or subtraction you need another large number. That means you need to interact with it more, either by using other particles of high energy, or by using more intrinsically massive particles, i.e. particles that have more seecubes that comprise them.

What are Subatomic Particles?

At certain specific energies, seecubes like to restructure the state of certain modules of information (subatomic particles). This restructuring can alter a subatomic particle from one type into another. For example, a photon, at about 0.5MeV of energy (subatomic particle energy is often measured in units of MeV, rather than in joules) will change its structure, so that more seecubes encode it in a different configuration. That configuration is seen as an electron, and as a positron, the anti-matter particle of the electron. This process can happen in reverse when an electron and positron meet and annihilate.

The electron/positron pair and the photon are actually the same thing, only they are encoded differently. This is loosely analogous to a splat of water being equivalent to an ice cube - they both comprise molecules of water, but in different configurations.

Certain configurations of seecubes can be cancelled out by mirror configurations, and that explains the difference between matter and anti-matter.

Certain patterns of information shared across configurations of seecubes can correspond to different subatomic particles. Some configurations are unstable, the seecubes share the information in such a way that it becomes shared differently as the system evolves. This is the mechanism underlying the decay of certain subatomic particles into others.

Different subatomic particles may share certain patterns and configurations of seecubes, and these commonalities mean that the particles are similar, they have similar charges, or interactions for example. Such commonalities give rise to generations of similar particles such as the electron and her unstable more massive sisters, the muon and tau.

The muon subatomic particle, mentioned above, decays into lighter particles, including an electron. Why? The muon is encoded by more seecubes than the electron is. The matrix of seecubes has to perform more operations to move the muon. The matrix behaves such that these large configurations are unstable and break up into smaller configurations that require fewer operations to maintain. Below a certain size the configurations have no way to further decompose and so are stable. As an analogy, think of breaking an egg. A large egg will shatter, and, using your fingers, you can break the pieces of egg shell into smaller pieces. Once the pieces are small enough, it gets harder to break them, they are more "stable". The analogy is not perfect, as the smaller pices don't resemble a smaller version of a whole egg, but you get the idea.

What are Forces?

Electromagnetism

Some configurations of subatomic particles emit modules of instruction information. Photons are an example. (Photons can be seen as light, or detected as radio waves, x-rays etc, they're the same thing, photons, but with different wavelengths). This communication of instructions is what underlies a "force" of nature. Photons, propagate perpetually through the seecube matrix and the instructions they carry are "move closer", or "move further apart", depending on the charge of the particle they end up interacting with. These instructions underly the electromagnetic force. Note that the instructions are conveyed at the seecube level. Seecubes respond to information conveyed by other seecubes, including instructions carried by instruction modules.

The Weak Nuclear Force

Some configurations of subatomic particles emit heavy (massive) modules of instruction information. The massive modules rapidly disintegrate, so rapidly that their influence can only be conveyed at subatomic distances. Nature has an example of this mechanism: the weak nuclear force. These massive modules (called the W and Z "bosons") cause some particles, such as muons, break up into lighter particles.

Gravity

Another force of nature is Gravity. Gravity may be a pseudo force, a manifestation of how photons propagate through the seecube matrix that comprises space. Or it might be carried by its own massless instruction information module called a graviton - which says "come to me".

The Strong Force

A force that rules the atomic nucleus - the "strong nuclear" force may not be a fundamental force either. The proton and other "hadron" particles are considered to contain three "quarks". But they may instead be made of seecubes arranged in a trefoil-like configuration (in the case of protons and neutrons for example). If so, then quarks may not exist at all, and neither does the strong force. On the other hand maybe quark-like entities do exist as point-like particles, albeit they are really configurations of an ensemble of seecubes. In which case they exhange instruction information modules, which physicists call "gluons", that say, "come closer". Seecube configurations that encode protons and neutrons, are such that they are only stable in that configuration. Therefore it makes little sense to think of quarks and gluons as particles in their own right. Quarks and gluons are defined as an intrinsic part of a larger structure, a "hadron", they are about as real as standalone entities as the green band of a rainbow. Only the seecubes are fundamental.

Space Is Not Empty

In the Victorian ages physicists were seeking an aether, to explain the propagaton of light waves (photons). In the end the idea was dropped when Einstein invented the theory of special relativity. However, the idea of aether may not have been wrong, when you consider that seecubes comprise a kind of aether, which encodes and propagaes photons. This aether of seecubes has an intrinsic energy, a candidate source of what physicists call the vacuum energy, the strength of which corresponds to a number called the cosmological constant.

Quantum physics predicts an absolutely huge vacuum energy, yet in reality it is miniscule. Quantum Physics breaks down at the scale of seecubes, which underlies the discrepency between quantum theory and observation. A maturation of seecube theory could produce calculations of the vacuum energy, or that is my hope.

There it is. The above is the starter for ten draft of my Theory Of Everything.

Achievements of Seecube Theory?

Advantages of the theory - Seecube Theory has the potential to unify the particles, and forces, but of course I have not fully addressed that here. Seecube Theory explains the meaning of quantum theory, solves entanglement, solves the reality underlying quantum physics, and unifies it with relativity. Seecube Theory does not need extra dimensions, and Seecube Theory doesn't require space to be "curved". (Nor does relativity: Einstein himself didn't believe space was curved, he wrote that the speed of light actually varies at every point in space". The speed of light must be "observed" to be constant, which is not quite the same thing as the speed of light itself being constant). Seecube Theory explains space itself as a phenomenum that arises from something more fundamental - information. Seecube theory explains bizarre paradoxes that arise in quantum mechanics in terms of information processing.

Downsides of Seecube Theory - I haven't a mathematical formulation that makes predictions, and don't have sufficiently advanced mathematical training (or, more importantly, the time) to do so. Seecube Theory requires assumptions to be made about seecubes - e.g. why are they arrayed in a matrix that is 3D? Is there more than one kind of seecube? Why do probabilistic rules govern which seecube carries out an interaction (if they do)? At this stage, Seecube theory is perhaps more of a "model" of the Universe than a fully fledged theory. It would be fun to make computer simulations based on Seecube theory.

Let's return to the point about mathematics. Seecube theory is, at present, a set of principles about how Nature might operate. It is my hope that these principles might show the way to the formulation of equations that elegantly capture these principles. Physics is about both principles and expressing those principles in the beautiful language of mathematics. In modern physics research there has been plenty of mathematical activity, (String Theory) but the real problem has been the lack of new principles to work with. Seecube theory is the other way around. The principles are defined, but the mathematics needs to be derived.

In conclusion

- Seecube theory has just been born, incomplete, but it may be showing the way to what a final "final theory" of physics may look like. Is Seecube pseudo-science? Yes, but then again, so is String Theory and the latter is worse, it depends on an older theory called supersymmetry (which has not shown up yet in experiments, which rules out the less contrived versions) and String Theory depends on magical hidden dimensions. Pure pseudo-science.

Epilogue

My invention, the Culica, inspired some of Seecube theory: I was inventing some Culica games based on ideas of physics, chemistry and mathematics. Then, I thought, why not go the other way, and invent physics inspired by ideas from Culica? This may sound bizarre, but only by thinking in completely new ways are we doing to get physics out of its existing crisis of group-think and stagnation. Seecube Theory destroys some sacred assumptions of physicists, and replaces them with new ideas. Only by that creative destruction can physics progress.

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