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Quantum Gravity Via Expansion-Contraction 58.0: The Big Rip |
From Osher Doctorow
Closely related to the topics of the last few Sections of this thread
are arXiv papers on "big rip" or "Big Rip", of which there are 20
papers from 2003 through 2006. The Big Rip is even more explicitly
topology-changing than the Big Bang is usually considered to be.
It is difficult to generalize from one sample of 20 papers, which
although not technically a random sample is arguably partly randomized
by being located in scattered parts of the world.
We've already seen from previous Sections of this thread that Japan,
India, and Israel and to a lesser extent the USA and U.K. are heavily
involved in topology-change papers. Of the three main nations
mentioned, none has a very long history of "independent nationhood" in
the last 1000 years or so. India was arguably the most invaded nation
in Asia. Japan for most of the last 1000 years was a sort of backwater
remote relative of China. Israel didn't even exist as an independent
nation for most of the last 1000 years (though it did considerably
before).
The most prominent features of Japan's Civilization in the last 100
years have been: (a) Military control and/or almost-control for the
first 45 years or so by Japanese Fascists, (b) Change to Civilian
control under USA tutelage for the last 55 years or so.
I suspect that this history of enormous change resulted in an
orientation of Japanese Academia to topology change in the Universe,
and that this also happened in India and in Israel.
In the case of the Big Rip research papers in arXiv, some new players
with similarly enormous change during the last 100 years enter the
picture, while a relatively small role continues to be played by the
relatively stable nations of the USA and U.K. China is the biggest
contributor to Big Rip papers in arXiv, with 5 out of 20 papers, tied
with Spain (although one of the Spain papers may be a revision of an
earlier one). Other nations are far behind, with 2 each for Argentina,
USA, U.K., Russia, Italy, and 1 each for Portugal, Canada, Brazil,
Cuba, Switzerland, New Zealand, Japan. Notice that both China and
Spain had similar violent upheavals in the last 100 years that changed
their political systems, as did Russia and Italy and India and Japan
and Portugal.
Osher Doctorow
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27 Dec 2006 01:47:54 AM |
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From Osher Doctorow
Qualitatively, I think that Big Rip papers are a bigger risk than other
topology change papers on the average for their authors, so arguably
for scientific Nonconformity at a risk level, it helps to have a major
upheaval in political systems within the last 100 years at least.
Is there any advice that I'd give to the USA and U.K. in this respect,
since both nations have had the last several hundred years (and the
U.K. over 1000 years actually except for the Norman Invasion) of
similar political systems? I'm referring to advice that would
facilitate scientific Nonconformity. Well, just based on the Big Rip
sample, and reserving the option of changing my mind based on other
"extreme" samples, I'd advise the USA to change its political system to
Military control during Wartime but not during Peacetime. The only
other plausible option, having complete public control as by
Referendums, would probably fail because of public stupidity outside
Academia and because of Bureaucracy inside Academia. China and Russia
have Military control (in Russia there is a KGB-Army alliance
regardless of the "voting" illusion), though they're unlikely to give
it up even in Peacetime. But the USA did have Military Control during
the only Wars that we won (and in which we used our best Strategies),
namely the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and WWII.
Military Control could be used not only to take control of oilfields
from pro-Terrorist nations or at least render those oilfields
inoperable for everybody else (in which case our own oil reserves would
be among the highest in the world), but to kick out Bureaucrats from
Academia and simultaneously attack Iran and Syria which are now the
leading nations supporting Terrorism. If Saudi Arabia tries to take
their place, the Saudis would go too. Instead of Founding
Fathers/Mothers prizes in Academia, we'd have Nonconformist and
Discovery/Creativity/Invention prizes galore. We could also deport
political Bureaucrats and a big part of lawyers to the Amazon or
similar remote region.
Osher Doctorow
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