Benji's T.O.E.
One of the Holy Grails of science is a grand unifying theory or theory of everything that unites conflicting theories or areas. One such GUT or TOE is the search for a Unified Field Theory to unite continuous spacetime relativity with the discrete aspects of quantum mechanics and quantum information.
Benji's TOE is a project seeking to find an overall picvture or sketch of a theory to unite ideas from sapcetime and quantum physics in a way that is compatible with our sujective experiences as observers with apparent intelligence, agency, identity, and free will.
This research covers a wide range of areas of expertise. Far more than one bear can handle himself. In order to help, Benji has recruited the help of experts and enthusiasts interested in various areas of science and philosophy.
One branch of our research is the study of time, which we explore via our Spacetime.University and Time.Univetrsity sites.
Another branch of our research is limitations of formal systems and exploration of inventing impossible or incomplete worlds logics, which are in part inspired by Roger Penrose's idea that we may need an impossible shape to complete the jigsaw puzzle of our existence. This work explores ideas from information physics, complexity & chaos, modal logic possible worlds and quantum's consistent histories. Another inspiration is from Matthew Raspanti's Virtualim and John A Wheeler's "it from bit".
From our investigation so far we believe that the existence we seem to live in seems to defy classical logic, and may even prove to be impossible. However what may be impossible in classical logioc may (if we are lucky) prove to be possible in logics or math that include seemingly impossile things such as square roots of negaitive numbers and related quantum logic operators that dwell outside the realm of real numbers.
Einstein's revolution in Spacetime relativity grew out of ideas involving geometries using imaginary numbers and may have included developing new ways of doing math. Our hope is to combine ideas from 21st century information sciences to explore new ways to expand non-real numbers and hyper-spatial realms to solve the hard questions of what makes our universe and us tick.