Faustina

The Tragedy of Faustus Mortal

Most of our lives follow along the trivial solution to that complex partial differential equation governing our place in the general scheme of things. One can only deviate from the steady-state at a particular branch point, known as an eigenvalue. Once bifurcated from the trivial solution either one must return again or experience the singularity and bifurcate to infinity. For sure each will eventually reach a terminus. That is, unless one can live forever as a mortal being. That hasn't happened yet, to the best of my knowledge.

Faustina Mortal: May the Love of God, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with you.

Faustus Mortal: I am not much into religion.

Faustus Mortal: Why don't you tell me why you are disturbing me today?

Faustina Mortal: It's the energy dilemma and global warming.

Faustus Mortal: Go tell it on the mountain!

Faustus Mortal: Let the eggheads and tenured teachers answer you.

Faustus Mortal: They are well-paid and pampered.

Faustus Mortal: Surely they have the one true solution!

Faustina Mortal: Unfortunately they have no answer.

Faustus Mortal: Give them more money and special privileges.

Faustus Mortal: After all, they booted me from academia.

Faustina Mortal: Bitter, bitter!

Faustina Mortal: What if the great minds had all taken that position?

Faustus Mortal: I am no longer a "great mind."

Faustus Mortal: My time has come and gone.

Faustus Mortal: Like an athlete, the creative ability is short-lived.

Faustus Mortal: After age thirty almost nothing new can be done.

Faustus Mortal: Few are willing to admit this truth, however.

Faustina Mortal: You have claimed to have a formula, a solution.

Faustus Mortal: I do, but no one believes me.

Faustina Mortal: From whence did it come?

Faustus Mortal: If I tell, you will laugh at me.

Faustina Mortal: Probably so, but do tell anyway.

Faustus Mortal frowns.

Faustina Mortal: There are just you and I here.

Faustus Mortal: I used to drive from work to graduate classes.

Faustus Mortal: Down a California freeway, and think.

Faustus Mortal: One day I spoke out loud inside the truck.

Faustus Mortal: And asked Yahweh to tell me the secret of the universe.

Faustus Mortal: That evening an equation came into my headbrain [sic].

Faustus Mortal: It was the ratio of the mass of the proton to the electron.

Faustus Mortal: At that time the published CODATA/NIST value was 1836.15152

Faustus Mortal: And mine was 1836.15172, within one standard deviation!

Faustus Mortal: The formula was 64pi^3-48pi+8/pi.

Faustus Mortal: It would be months before I factored it.

Faustus Mortal: 4pi(4pi-1/pi)(4pi-2/pi), and longer still

Faustus Mortal: Until I derived it from two mathematical niceties.

Faustina Mortal: "Niceties"?

Faustus Mortal: The Inversion of the Spheres and the volume of the spherical cone. The two give an explanation of the construction of the proton from the positive electron---the positron. At the precise moment of the big bang there was pair production---like the electron/positron---but lopsided. It was the proton (which is massive) and the electron. Only the geometry of the proton was hidden from the mind of man and clouded with complicated, convolved, complex conundrums. Not easily unraveled. But there was a second vision. And I did not know as I know now: "Tell a vision to no one." I told her that she would have secular immortality. Me and my big mouth! If only I had kept silent.

Faustus Mortal pouts.

Faustina Mortal: "Secular immortality" sounds like an oxymoron!

Faustus Mortal: Whose name will be remembered longer? Pythagoras or some potentate? Names attached to mathematical of scientific concepts endure. They are academic and achieve what organized religion only promises, a form of immortality, perhaps even transcending the span of human life as well!

Faustina Mortal: But only the Love of Gor promises true immortality.

Faustus Mortal coughs.

Faustina Mortal: So describe the geometry you spoke of. I am curious.

Faustus Mortal: The proton starts as a positron, a positive electron, unwrapped as a standing wave tangent to the solid ball at a single point. This singular point becomes the center and the new geometry is a sphere of radius 4pi containing a ball of radius two. See, I will draw a picture.

Faustus Mortal sketches two concentric spheres of radii 4pi and 2.

Faustina Mortal: Interesting.

Faustus Mortal: Now see how the inversion of the spheres works. Inside the sphere of radius two we have a ball with no surface, a ball of radius 1/pi, which maps to the entire universe beyond the sphere of radius 4pi, with the exception of its center point.

Faustus Mortal: The ball of radius 1/pi is a "punctured ball" with no center.

Faustina Mortal: No center?

Faustus Mortal: The "center point" would have to map to infinity, complex infinity, and that won't happen. The ball maps to the region > 4pi and < Infinity. An open set---a topology of three space, 3D.

Faustina Mortal: What of the surface, the skin of the grape. You leave the seed and the skin?

Faustus Mortal: Precisely and exactly. And therein lies the secret of the volume of the spherical cone!

Faustina Mortal: ah.

Faustina Mortal: I can't relate to all this abstract geometry.

Faustina Mortal: Can you make it real.

Faustus Mortal: It is above real---it is complex, with real and imaginary parts.

Faustus Mortal: You religious claim that each instant in time is equidistant from eternity, as if time were a straight line (or railroad tracks) stretching backwards and forward. Two parallel lines meeting only at infinity. Scientists consider time as more of a logarithmic function. Or, perhaps, as the Chi-Square distribution---with a "bob-tail," two tails but one tapering to zero at the origin and the other asymptotically approaching zero at infinity. Yet there are real and complex infinities and they are so different.

Faustina Mortal: I am like so confused!

Faustus Mortal: It is like this: inside each sphere of radius 4pi is a solid ball of radius 2. Then the inversion of the spheres maps the open ball of radius 1/pi to the entire universe outside of the sphere of radius 4pi. It maps circles to circles, spheres to spheres, but it doesn't touch the origin, so there are no straight lines. And---imagine---each proton, each electron, each point in space is equally distant from the edge of the expanding universe. The center of the proton maps the punctured open ball to all outside the sphere of radius 4pi. But the surface is another matter.

Faustina Mortal: You are saying that this open ball is like a grape without skin. A grape whose skin, whose peel is removed and the seed somehow plucked out without passing through the flesh of the fruit?

Faustus Mortal: Precisely and exactly. The proton contained a mapping of the universe, then it collapsed to a ball of radius (4pi-1/pi). Still the surface of the ball of radius 1/pi remained invariant. It became a spherical cone, or many spherical cones, of surface area 4pi(1/pi^2). The final formula then became 4pi(4pi-1/pi)(4pi-2/pi). And that is the ratio of the mass of the proton to the mass of the electron. It can also be written, showing the removal of the spherical cone, as (4pi-1/pi)^3 -- (1/pi^2)(4pi-1/pi). Check it out.

Faustina Mortal: This is all too much. But, what of the energy problem? How does this relate? The scholars talk the talk but they can't walk the walk.

Faustus Mortal: My mind has grown old and weak. I cannot again scale the wall of intransigent, obdurate, obtuse mathematics. Suffice it to say that the proton is like a padlock. The right combination opens the energy. Today the powers-that-be are trying to bust it open with a sledge hammer. That might open it, but it would destroy the very thing that is useful in the first place. =(

Faustina Mortal: Do you believe in God?

Faustus Mortal: It is a possibility, whatever her name might be.

Faustina Mortal: Her?

Faustus Mortal: Yes, hehe, "Her."

Faustina Mortal: Oh!

Faustus Mortal: Some ancients believed that female Wisdom was God.

Faustina Mortal: Oh, indeed?

Faustina Mortal: You speak of the Big Bang. Can you explain it?

Faustus Mortal: I have my consistent, concise, comprehensive theory.

Faustina Mortal: Do tell.

Faustus Mortal: It might contradict some Christian theology!

Faustina Mortal: I still want to hear.

Faustina Mortal: "You shall know the Truth and the Truth will set you free."

Faustus Mortal: A true statement and worthy of all men to be received.

Faustus Mortal: But...

Faustina Mortal: "But"?

Faustus Mortal: It may not make you happy!

Faustus Mortal: And it may even kill you dead.

Faustina Mortal: I still want to hear.

Faustina Mortal: Tell me how you think the universe came into being.

Faustina Mortal: Without the hand of God Almighty!

Faustus Mortal: There are some mathematical concepts!

Faustus Mortal: You would not understand.

Faustina Mortal: Like an open ball being a grape with no skin?

Faustus Mortal: Yes, that, and more. Much more even.

Faustina Mortal: Continue. Do tell.

Faustus Mortal: A very energetic photon, or gamma ray, can enable pair-production. That is, in the presence of matter, a gamma ray may induce the creation of an electron-positron pair. But they soon annihilate each other and produce other gamma rays, usually at lower energy. I claim that in the very beginning there was a lopsided, skewed pair production. The pair was an electron (of radius r) and a huge proto-proton (of radius R = 4*pi*r). And not just one but trillions and trillions. So many in fact that one must use scientific notation to describe them. And they were densely packed into one point and there was no time.

Faustina Mortal: No time?

Faustus Mortal: Time did not exist.

Faustina Mortal: Oh!

Faustina Mortal: So there's the grapefruit and the grape. What then?

Faustus Mortal: The electron---grapelike as you put it---is a hard, solid ball. The proto-proton has internal structure. The proto-proton is like a ball of radius 2*r inside a sphere of radius R = 4*pi*r. And they are all packed into one point of space. Now the proto-proton can map its interior in various ways. The sphere (from 2*r to 4*pi*r) is like a vacuum and maps to the solid ball. The interior of the ball maps to the sphere but also to everything outside. One uses the Inversion of the Spheres to see this. The interior ball of radius (1/pi)*r maps to the entire universe outside of the sphere of radius 4*pi*r. But there is a singular point. The absolute center cannot map to the boundary of the universe. That is, assuming even that the universe *does* have a boundary. Hehe.

Faustina Mortal: And then what happens?

Faustus Mortal: The Sphere collapses mapping away the open punctured ball of radius (1/pi)*r and leaving behind the center and the surface. The center point isn't a problem as it attaches itself to the collapsing open set. But the surface of the sphere of radius (1/pi)*r is a problem. It is oriented differently than the surface of the proto-proton. Open solid balls are one thing. Surfaces are another. A surface has orientation. The Moebius strip has one side, one orientation---the Klein bottle only has one surface. Let me draw some pictures.

Faustus Mortal draws some diagrams and pictures.

Faustina Mortal: Ah!

Faustus Mortal: Now the proto-proton is almost the proton that we know. The mapping of the innermost open punctured ball of radius (1/pi)*r expands (as the universe expands) and time is created therefrom. And this is the case for each proto-proton at once. Hence each point in space is equidistant from the expanding boundary of the finite universe.

Faustina Mortal: Each moment in time is equidistant from eternity!

Faustus Mortal coughs.

Faustus Mortal: Shall I continue?

Faustina Mortal: Please do.

Faustus Mortal: So the spherical cone, whose surface area is (4*pi)*(1/pi)^*r^2 is removed from the collapsing proto-proton. The result is a solid of volume (4*pi/3)*(4*pi-1/pi)^3*r^3 -- (4*pi/3)*(1/pi^2)*(4*pi-1/pi)*r^3. The volume of the electron is (4*pi/3)*r^3. Dividing and simplifying---you do the algebra---gives the mass ratio of the proton to the electron to be 4*pi*(4*pi-1/pi)*(4*pi-2/pi), the r^3 term vanishing completely. It cancels out. And the derivation is done. (And also the foundations of the Ur-atom.)

Faustina Mortal: How could it be reversed?

Faustus Mortal: Pack all the particles together again. Then the mapping of the inversion sphere of radius (1/pi)*r would push the proton back into a proto-proton and the final object would again be part of a pair, a reversible process.

Faustina Mortal: Where would this happen?

Faustus Mortal: Only in a huge black hole---the whole universe must be sucked into the hugest black hole. But pounding on the proton will not help. It is a problem of topology---open balls, punctured balls, spheres, surfaces, and all that jazz.

Faustina Mortal: Scientists, physicists, and mathematicians say that you are deluded, misguided, and crazy.

Faustus Mortal: Perhaps so. But numbers don't lie!

Faustina Mortal: Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

Faustus Mortal: True and very true.

Faustus Mortal: At the initial discovery the number was within one standard deviation of the accepted value. But then they accepted a new value, many, many standard deviations from their original accepted value. (How? Why? And, oh-so secret did they erase the old value.)

Faustina Mortal: I think that your theory is full of holes, punctured or otherwise. God created the heavens and the earth. If there were a big bang then it was of his creation. And the physicists say that your maths are just coincidence.

Faustus Mortal: Believe them! They are tenured.

Faustus Mortal: They once claimed that the earth was flat and that the earth was the absolute center of the universe. They are infallible. Trust them.

Faustus Mortal: And pay them well, for it is from the tenured eggheads that our energy quagmire will be settled. I am old and slow. One grows old. =(

The Faustus Mortal Versus Octanus Diesel

Faustus Mortal: What brings you to this corner of cyberspace Octanus?

Faustus Mortal: Run out of Chinese graduate student girls to molest?

Octanus Diesel: Ha ha, you never were the one to respect a PhD.

Faustus Mortal: Oh, that's not completely true, it's more personal.

Octanus Diesel: You are causing me trouble with Congressman Buster.

Faustus Mortal: Do you mean "Phil Buster"?

Octanus Diesel: You know who. Why ask such an empty question?

Faustus Mortal: It's that religious Faustina Mortal.

Faustus Mortal: You know that I've parked my pen.

Faustus Mortal: There's no profit in saving humankind or...

Faustus Mortal: solving the energy conundrum for that matter...

Octanus Diesel: But you have no solution.

Faustus Mortal: That is because you tossed my ass out of graduate school.

Faustus Mortal: You and the Fossil Fuel Fellowship, headed by Ole King Coal.

Faustus Mortal: Say that it is not so.

Octanus Diesel: If only you had accepted the hegemony of fossil fuels!

Octanus Diesel: But no, you wanted something different, non-polluting.

Octanus Diesel: Global warming is a myth, a fairy-tale even!

Faustus Mortal: Many don't think so any more. It's hard to buy everyone.

Faustus Mortal: Some few scientists and scholars accept hard evidence.

Faustus Mortal: Even if it doesn't mean a lucrative sinecure or scholarship.

Octanus Diesel: There you go again, painting me black.

Faustus Mortal: Only the sooty color of coal dust!

Octanus Diesel: Enough palaver!

Octanus Diesel: If you do have something more than a coincidental number, say!

Octanus Diesel: I want more than just some silly number and some rag-tag

Octanus Diesel: obtuse, arcane, Byzantine theory.

Faustus Mortal coughs.

Faustus Mortal: What authority do you have anyway? I don't owe you a thing!

Octanus Diesel: Phil Buster isn't pushing for my funding anymore.

Octanus Diesel: I need money to research.

Faustus Mortal: You mean discover more oil, coal, and natural gas?

Octanus Diesel: Precisely and exactly. That's where the future is!

Faustus Mortal: I refuse to believe that intelligence life evolved...

Faustus Mortal: ... nothing against organized religion...

Faustus Mortal: Just to die in its own excrement.

Octanus Diesel: Who said anything about dying? The environment will recover.

Octanus Diesel: After World War Two we had an environmental holocaust!

Octanus Diesel: ---Oil spill, toxic wastes, munitions, etc.---

Octanus Diesel: But things worked out. Fossil Fuel forever!

Octanus Diesel: And your theory is predicated on the big bang?

Faustus Mortal: Yes, and mappings of open balls to open balls

Faustus Mortal: f: o --> O; f maps little-o onto Big-O.

Faustus Mortal: "little-o" is in the inversion of the sphere

Faustus Mortal: "Big-O{ is the exterior of the sphere.

Octanus Diesel: Suppose we even accept your absurd theory.

Octanus Diesel: Tell me precisely and exactly how you intend too get energy?

Octanus Diesel: So, at moment zero the big sphere formed from some odd

Octanus Diesel: lopsided pair production, as you claim. How to reverse it?

Octanus Diesel: I grant that there could be nearly limitless clean energy.

Octanus Diesel: But how would you harness it? Tell me that!

Faustus Mortal: I am not 100% certain---I have some ideas however.

Octanus Diesel: So all you have is an equation and some vague, random thoughts.

Faustus Mortal: Perhaps had you not booted me from graduate school in physics...

Octanus Diesel: So now it's all my fault?

Faustus Mortal: Not exactly. But I would think that varying the spin

Faustus Mortal: From plus to minus and back, again and again,

Faustus Mortal: might make the proton look like a Boson instead of a Fermion

Faustus Mortal: With spin zero

Octanus Diesel: Resonance?

Faustus Mortal: No, not at all. Resonance is linear, this is non-linear!

Faustus Mortal: It is more like a non-linear driver to bifurcation

Octanus Diesel: You have no idea how to do this or if it would even work!

Faustus Mortal: True, you and the Fossil Fuel Fellowship control everything.

Faustus Mortal: With all the resources under your control

Octanus Diesel interrupts.

Octanus Diesel: There is but one energy solution: fossil fuels!

Octanus Diesel: And there is much oil, gas, and coal.

Octanus Diesel: We just need to drill, pump, and refine!

Octanus Diesel: Those tree-huggers and eco-terrorists are destroying us.

Octanus Diesel: Back to your absurd theory.

Octanus Diesel: Suppose, for sake of argument, that at the big bang it did happen as you say. The original pair was created: electron and proto-proton. And suppose that the proto-proton mapped creating all space by the inversion of the spheres and all that jazz about spherical ice cream cones.

Faustus Mortal coughs.

Octanus Diesel: For sake of argument, wouldn't you need at least the pressure of a black hole in space to reverse the process? That is to "map back" the inverted open ball you talk about of radius (1/pi)? No way anyone could do that in a laboratory. Maybe you do have the ultimate equation for the Big Bang. OK, fine. But then, what good is it if all you have is a number? Like some warlock you claim to undo creation by murmuring God's name backwards? Whatever her name might be? NORAHS. Hehe

Faustus Mortal: When I was enrolled in graduate school in physics, I maxed out every course. None was better than I in the laboratory. I had stellar GRE scores and amazed even veteran professors with my insight and maths. But age has taken a severe toll. I can only say that given an opportunity that there is a possibility, perhaps not much. But for sure, what are you offering? Old King Coal? Carbon Dioxide entrapped in stone? Won't that just remove Oxygen? That is a solution? I can't see it. And you are pedaling Coal and oil.