Outline of aastoicism, natural philosophy to live by - nature

Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic emperor, my hero and only superior

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Answers most doubts in my mind in life - universe, distinctions, aging etc,makes me a complete human and God concept was never needed. Not even "who lit the big bang match!"

A natural philosophy implies a complete philosophy of nature outlined here; and of universe birth (cosmogony) and science (cosmology) life-origins (evolution), birth, living (individualism), cooperation (politics), aging and disease (health)  – discussed elsewhere.

The name celebrate me and modern stoicism. Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished throughout the Roman and Greek world until the 3rd century AD. Stoicism is predominantly a philosophy of personal ethics which is informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world. According to its teachings, as social beings, the path to happiness for humans is found in accepting this moment as it presents itself, by not allowing ourselves to be controlled by our desire for future pleasure or our fear of future pain, by using our minds to understand the world around us and to do our part in nature's plan, and by working together and treating others in a fair and just manner. Stoicism was founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC. The Stoics taught that emotions resulted in errors of judgment which were destructive, due to the active relationship between cosmic determinism and human freedom, and the belief that it is virtuous to maintain a will (called prohairesis) that is in accord with nature. Because of this, the Stoics presented their philosophy as a religion (lex divina), and they thought that the best indication of an individual's philosophy was not what a person said but how a person behaved.^[1] To live a good life, one had to understand the rules of the natural order since they taught that everything was rooted in nature

As has been repeatedly said by me since 2001 and by many top physicists for 50 years, the central problem in physics is the mating of Einstein’s relativistic gravity and Bohr’s quantum mechanics. Both are rare ubertheories, i.e. without known exception. There might be one in RG – Black matter may not exist, says Verlinde, just an improvement. In any case, RG defines the denizens of the cosmos, it is basic to cosmology of the Universe. QM is about the very small – atom and below. What does Quantum Gravity look like? Even as philosophically is in my interest.

That they even meet, is the presence of spectral lines in CMB. Anyone can measure CMB – it is simply the plot of radiation in the sky in all directions. At wave-lengths corresponding to radio waves, it has an isotropic equal nois-like in all directions with no fluctuations to 1 part in 100,000. This is the CMB. That experimentally proves that entire universe was once atom sized!

Very complex satellite measurements over decades has collected a 3D map of locations and sizes of galaxies. One can play the small CMB perturbations under 1 in 100,000 to the known measured 3D map! Known universe is the evolution of these quantum fluctuations.

In fact, one can proceed to pregnant science of Cosmogonies – why is something there, why do natural laws exist (come from symmetries), where do constants come from (geometric ratios), and do we know some laws are time invariant (Star formation in multi-billion year old galaxies). Moment concepts like God are to be ignored, all these questions arise. Can they even be answered!

This is where my philosophy takes a revolutionary turn by affirming they can be answered and postulating a credible distinct mechanism, generalized and understandable from mechanisms in regular science.

The key idea is emergence, basic to philosophy of life - evolution, which I consider an ubertheorie like QM and RG! Emergence is evolution of parts of a system with increasing complexity even while rest of the system serves as waste field with increasing entropy – its own and addition from the waste entropy of decreasing entropy! Life is increasing complexity that develops methods of reproduction. (Bolds are my definitions).

 Space and time are emergent concepts. They behave like normal for ordinary phenomenon, but may have differences in the extreme. Space and time are both quantized. Space has a maximum density it can support without exploding. So is gravity from entanglement! That is how Verlinde demolishes dark matter!

There are some falsifiable answers. We can test the constancy of laws by comparing certain processes like star formation in galaxies known to be several billion years old! If they are like now, constants are same and some laws are time-invariant! There are some pregnant science answers. For example there are six cosmogony theories. The one loved by me in structure, but not in detail, is the CCC theory of Penrose, with eternally cyclic universes, and information leaking at crunch-bounce necks across universes to make circles in latest CMB.

My own pregnantscience says that - quantum magic as macro-visible in double slit experimentscan be resolved in unmagical ways by Everett’s many world interpretation,partly improved by quantum chemistry and FULLY by my two dimension time. Furtherimprovements require another spatial dimension to a six dimensional universe.

Returning to unification of RG and QM to the desired QG. Can one unify gravity with triple union electro-weak? Thru QG. But we need falsifiable way for that. But that needs a pregnant science for that! Or perhaps outline of experiments doable in future! Here is recent -

One proposal (published dec 2017) is -All existing quantum-gravity proposals are extremely hard to test in practice. Quantum effects in the gravitational field are exceptionally small, unlike those in the electromagnetic field. The fundamental reason is that the gravitational coupling constant is about 43 orders of magnitude smaller than the fine structure constant, which governs light-matter interactions. For example, detecting gravitons—the hypothetical quanta of the gravitational field predicted by certain quantum-gravity proposals—is deemed to be practically impossible. Here we adopt a radically different, quantum-information-theoretic approach to testing quantum gravity. We propose witnessing quantumlike features in the gravitational field, by probing it with two masses each in a superposition of two locations. First, we prove that any system (e.g., a field) mediating entanglement between two quantum systems must be quantum. This argument is general and does not rely on any specific dynamics. Then, we propose an experiment to detect the entanglement generated between two masses via gravitational interaction. By our argument, the degree of entanglement between the masses is a witness of the field quantization. This experiment does not require any quantum control over gravity. It is also closer to realization than detecting gravitons or detecting quantum gravitational vacuum fluctuations.

Another (also published dec 2017) is - 

Understanding gravity in the framework of quantum mechanics is one of the great challenges in modern physics. However, the lack of empirical evidence has lead to a debate on whether gravity is a quantum entity. Despite varied proposed probes for quantum gravity, it is fair to say that there are no feasible ideas yet to test its quantum coherent behavior directly in a laboratory experiment. Here, we introduce an idea for such a test based on the principle that two objects cannot be entangled without a quantum mediator. We show that despite the weakness of gravity, the phase evolution induced by the gravitational interaction of two micron size test masses in adjacent matter-wave interferometers can detectably entangle them even when they are placed far apart enough to keep Casimir-Polder forces at bay. We provide a prescription for witnessing this entanglement, which certifies gravity as a quantum coherent mediator, through simple spin correlation measurements