CORPOREAL FIELD ORGANON

An "organon" is a means of communicating knowledge. Francis Bacon's 17th century treatise on the inductive method in science was titled Nouveau Organon (Novum organum), i.e. the new or novel method. The word is used here to mask a half developed theory of space-time-and-matter which the author was never precocious enough and is now too old to be audacious enough to propose under ordinary scholarly venues. Even on the shelves of university libraries one can find monographs of ignored and un- or under-developed theories such as the present one. Be that as it may, the present one has been under study since 1983 when an inspirational "flash of insight" occurred to its author - or so it seemed. The name is a bit of a pun (not unknown to happen in science) by playing on cor-po' re-al (of the nature of matter) and cor' po-ral (second lowest army rank) to be distinguished from (Einstein's 1915) General Field theory of Relativity, though still addressing the same physical reality. It is "Field" theory in name (and rank actually back in the 1950s GI draft era) as well as a "field" theory in the mathematical sense in that it proposes that "space" is an attenuated "matter" field. The only precedent found to date is a brief analysis proposed around 1870 by the brilliant mathematician William Kingdon Clifford who unfortunately died in 1879 at age 34 - prior to the quantum or relativity revolutions of the early 1900's. This organon is in a sense a phenomenlogical theory (not unlike thermodynamics) in that it does not address the ultimate nature of matter or space beyond the lepton-nucleon level (particle wave functions) such as string theory or folded multidimensional space.

THE ORGANON CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING PROPOSITIONS (EIGHT-FOLD LEMMA).

• 1. Space flows just as inexorably as Time.
• 2. Space is compressed rather than curved.
• 3. Mass is the compression of Space.
• 4. Matter consists of standing waves of Space.
• 5. Energy results as Space decompresses.
• 6. Entropy measures Space decompression.
• 7. There is Action only with interaction.
• 8. Time and Space flow results from Action.

SOME "TESTABLE" HYPOTHESES CONSISTENT WITH THE CORPOREAL FIELD:

• Unlike Eddington's balloon model for the expanding Universe, the model of choice is a bowl of exploding popcorn. The rate of expansion of the Universe (Hubble's constant) should be variable and a function of the rate of production of energy locally as stellar energy creates space from the stellar matter being consumed.
• Particles are created in accelerators only as the consequence of sufficiently energetic compressions of space. The virtual swarm about a real particle is just the space itself.
• Quantum mechanics needs a rebirth or at least a re-Born-ing. Max Born's statistical interpretation winning over Schroedinger's physical interpretation of wave functions needs review. Space is the ether. Black holes compress and drag space.
• Bell's Paradox or the interference of particle-waves is a consequence of time reversibility prior to interaction allowing negative flow of time and seemingly faster-than-light communication and spin correlation.
• Normalization of atomic wavefunctions ought to be set to their mass rather than unit probablity over all space.
• The assertion that light in a vacuum travels at a speed c = d/t really only asserts that the ratio of d/t is a constant.
• The gravitational 'curvature' of space is the superposition of the asymptotic space wavefunctions of the matter 'particles' occupying (forming the compression of) the space.

A FEW PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS

The treatment of space as substantive is not new - but it is extremely rare to find it referenced, especially by the popularizers of scientific theory (who pretty much beat the same old dead horse.) I have read many of these books over the past fifteen years specifically in search of citations consistent with my notion. The only explicit written statement I have found (belatedly in 1998) was made in a superb book by David Layzer, a Harvard astrophysicist (now emeritus) titled "Constucting the Universe" (Scientific American Library, Freeman Co., 1984) where he writes: "The cosmic expansion is an expansion of space itself, not a systematic recession of galaxies in a static space." (p.244). The only other statement I came across was verbal - by an astronomer and student of Hubble: Allan Sandage made the following remark in the 1985 PBS television program 'The Creation of the Universe': "It is not as if these galaxies are expanding into a space that's already there. The view is that space itself is expanding carrying the galaxies with it. The expansion creates the space."

Athena, the goddess of wisdom, sprang full grown from the head of Zeus. Dionysus, the god of wine, was taken from his dead mother's womb and saved in the leg of Zeus until birth. Venus, the goddess of love, was born full grown from the froth of the sea. Apollo, god of the arts, was born full term but only after an intense nine day labor. Scientific theories are never Athenian, sometimes Apollinarian but more often Dionysian; of course, sometimes they spring Venus-like only to return to the froth from which they arose. Einstein's theory was significantly enhanced by the mathematics of Minkowski. Quantum theory grew by fits and starts over a generation. How much of the Corporeal Field is froth and how much substance only time can tell. And so it goes.

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