Intangible
Many of us work to earn some money. Money being something entirely imaginary. Then go out to meet someone in the hope that they fall in love with them. Love is also an imaginary concept. Lust is also imaginary but sure fires you up to have sex. You get paid via a change in a financial register. Possibly by a shift in atoms of some sort, somewhere. The love is a change in chemistry in your physiological being. And lust stemmed from the arrangement of the atoms in your genes. The arrangement and the position of atoms is all it is. We live in a world of intangibles and our body makes things seem most real.
One could, by whatever means, journey down a road in a simulated manner. The visual effects, the auditory effects and even the gravitation forces due to acceleration can be simulated, so much so that one finds it hard to determine whether the experience is real or not. A rigorous definition of what is real and what is not is hard to come by. A photograph is a real object but could depict something that is not real. The information contained in the photograph may be unreal, inaccurate or misleading. The photograph could have been edited, doctored, adjusted, changing the initial information that went through the camera lens. The photograph is made from atoms. The photograph is a real object portraying something that may or may not be truthful. The truth, the realness of something stems from belief. Humans interpret information presented to them and decide what is real or not. A simulation can feel real. It can, feel most like a real event, but a simulation is also a real thing in its own right – a simulation experience.
That which stimulates you, thereby simulating the events will have true atoms moving in marvellous ways to produce the experience. Nevertheless, the simulator represents movements in an abstract domain. When driving down what most would consider to be an actual road, your entire body gets carried inside the vehicle along the route. You change position in a vastly different manner to your movements in a simulator. The atoms in your body do not move down a street in a simulation despite what it may feel like. This is obvious and should not need writing about yet highlights problems with the human belief system. What you believe is down to your interpretation. Observers may concur with your belief and help you determine what was real.
I can pay someone with a bar of gold, handing them a slab of atoms. Alternatively, I can credit their account. As I credit their account, atoms move in the ledger. Hence, unreal actions are a blend of real actions and unreal representations. Our language is not ideally suited to conveying the concept of true atoms. Or I am not a master at using the tool of language. The more I write, the more contrary and difficult it becomes to explain what is simple, for me at least, to visualise.
One thing to bear in mind with simulations in the software driven sense is that they can be reset to start states. Then re-run. Under no circumstances whatsoever can true atoms be returned to their former relative positions with all other true atoms also set as they were before they moved. That applies to any attempt on a small local scale. True atoms are bound up with entropy, without which relative movement would not happen.
True atomical; the nature of true atoms. True atoms react, respond and guide other true atoms. Information is knowledge, data, values, experience – something interpretable with human meaning. If we knew the relative position and velocity of a true atom that would be a piece of information. That is an item of data. A true atom is an entity of data in itself – a single entity residing at a relative distance away from all other true atoms.
You are welcome to think of the universe as a giant simulation so long as you appreciate the incomparable difference between a software simulation and the true atom disposition. Each true atom is linked, albeit to a lesser degree the further they are apart from one another. Each true atom resides at a relative distance apart. There is nothing externally controlling them. They interact with one another. True atoms can interfere with the movement of other true atoms. It is humans that place significance on their position and movement. A computer is built from true atoms and any simulation held within bears no resemblance whatsoever to the simulation effect in the universe. A computer simulation is representational whereas true atoms interact where they are relative to one another. The universe incarnates the machine, most certainly not the other way around.
Anything trying to guide true atoms independently, individually is equivalent to removing a fish from the sea without a single water molecule being moved. Take the fish out by magic and a void is created. A void which would soon be filled by neighbouring water molecules. Radiation, light waves, the neutrino wind and such like, will interact with everything in their path before reaching the target true atom.
Rounding errors deny the possibility of absolute predictability. As one vibrating true atom sets out on a path towards another vibrating true atom, one cannot determine the resultant path of either in every instance after they interact. There is a probability of something predictable happening in regards cause and effect.
True atoms take on the behaviour of mass, an emulation of mass. Whilst there is a point of greatest action associated with true atoms, their spread of action would be somewhat flexible. They have the propensity to interfere in a wave motion whilst also putting up total resistance too if the alignment of the closing trajectory is most centred. When true atoms pass by one another, some buffeting will occur. The level increases most dramatically when exceptionally close. Given that the effect is largely one divided by the radius squared on a single plane, that closeness is most relevant. The buffeting/interference is not limited to a single plane, however. A segment of the spherical zone of action is in play. Imagine two skinned oranges passing by each other. If close, then one segment on each orange become mashed. A little closer and three on each are entangled temporarily. Closer still and five on each. Unlike oranges, true atoms have segments that contort and compress – segments of interaction. For clarity, each segment is blended and with no divisions. Oranges ought only help you picture the effect.
True atoms have a set behaviour. They form specific structures which are limited in variety at the basic level. The mass effect is set. The level of interaction between them is set. And set at just the right amount, not too much, not too little. It is incredibly finely balanced. It has an inherent genius. It is though, self-balancing. If the effects were not just so, the true atoms would not bind and stay bonded, nor form structures that form basic particles, that form neutrons, protons and electrons that form elements, that form chemical compounds and ultimately biology. The marvel of biology is derived from the marvel of chemistry which relies upon wonderful formations of true atoms. Those arrangements give rise to the electron shells. Those structures dictate that two electrons complete the first inner shell and eight in the next. This is all truly magnificent but nothing to marvel at when you see that it is simple numbers in play. Not complex mathematics. Not complex design but simple numbers, simple fitting together of singular informational atoms.
That level of mass effect is the only level it can be. One might equate the balance akin to an easily toppled pin on its point. However, the balance is self-regulating, self-righting pin facing north.
One need not concern oneself with many connected semi-constant constants, but one interaction value between the true atoms. The mass and gravitational effect are not distinct but mirror each other albeit to a vastly different degree. All the different forces that we measure and utilise stem from the same source flexi-constant held within the true atom. If you get one value right, all else falls nicely into place. Whilst genius emerges from that one value; one true atom construct, the rest needs no cleverness whatsoever. Put a snowflake under a microscope and see the patterns. They are built from one compound. One compound, one principle and a bounty of uniqueness and similarity at the basic level – identical intra hydrogen/oxygen attraction.
The magic of structure is there for you to feel. To see. To toy with. A change in structure causes a change in appearance and a change in the way it reacts. A change in structure changes the combustibility, the way it reflects light and so on. Carbon atoms can be aligned as black soot, graphite, or diamond. More notably, by rearranging the building blocks of Carbon, eight parts can be transformed into six parts of Oxygen. Identical building blocks form something invisible for us to breath or something remarkably different, in the case of diamond, something very hard and solid. Toxic gas can be transformed into chocolate by adjusting the structure of the neutrons, protons and electrons. Same neutrons, same protons, same electrons just arranged differently. You can set fire to a diamond and make a gas that is rather good at putting out fires.
Carbon can be black and sooty or crystal clear for a very simple reason. Imagine a pile of scaffolding sticks in a messy pile versus scaffolding sticks neatly assembled, uniformly held together, lattice work. Climb aboard the messy pile and you come to grief as sticks scatter, twist and mesh. Climb aboard a scaffolded structure and it will provide a decent walkway. Thrown at the right angle, a ball will pass unhindered through the scaffold. Whereas a ball will either bounce awkwardly or get stuck within gaps of your messy pile. Light encounters this same effect. Hence, a black appearance or a clear transparent effect. Move one stick from the pile at ease but move one within a scaffold structure and the whole structure moves with it. Structure makes all the difference in every chemical, biological, physical and psychological instance.
Trying to define simple standard units such as the metre, ampere, temperature etc is quite challenging. It appears remarkable that each relate to one another so well. It is not some special formula that happens to work nicely but because no other possibility is possible. Rather than being finely balanced it is self-regulating. Each are interdependent, each affect one another, each contain one another. A parallel to this is there to be seen on an old-fashioned steam engine. It has a spinning regulator/governor. As the engine presses to run faster, the arms of the regulator move outwards closing off the steam pressure and vice versa.
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