Dr. Matti Pitkanen, Department of Physical Sciences,
One of
the more often referenced works on the internet is entitled
TGD UNIVERSE AS A CONSCIOUS HOLOGRAM
By Dr.
Matti Pitkanen
Department of Physical Sciences,
Book publication: 2006, Luniver
Press
http://vixra.org/pdf/0908.0024v1.pdf
A synopsys:
“Topological GeometroDynamics
is a modification of general relativity inspired by the conceptual problems
related to the definitions of inertial and gravitational energy in general
relativity. Topological geometrodynamics can be also
seen as a generalization of super string models…”
http://home.netcom.com/~mthorn/tgd.htm
DIY Quantum Gravity:
http://freelance-quantum-gravity.blogspot.com/2007/10/topological-geometroheadcache.html
The following was posted or physicsforums:
Forum member:
“I've been reading the Journal of
remote mental control and non-locality <Crackpot
Link Removed>, and Topological geometrodynamics seems to be a clue in the working physical
theory about biofield.
”I want to know if someone has heard about Pitkanen
and if his theories are serious or not.
Thanks!! “
There was one response, from “mentor”:
“’I've been reading the Journal of remote mental control
and non-locality...’
Realize that this is complete crackpottery and not suitable for discussion on PF.”
One might say the same thing about
string theory. The “mentor’s” response is a subjective emotional
reaction expressing strong authoritarian disapproval but no facts.
Still, the strongest advocate of
TGD in the professional physics community appears to be Dr. Matti
Pitkanen.
Wikipedia notes that Geometrodynamics
was a concept shared by Einstein and John Wheeler, and that more recently
Christopher Isham and Jeremy Butterfield and their
students have developed a Quantum GeometroDynamics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrodynamics.
The book New Physics and the Mind by Robert Paster
(BookSurge 2006) takes Pitkanen’s
TGD as the best of the alternative physics theories on reality and
consciousness.
See PSN notes on this book here: new physics and the mind
paster.doc
Pitkanen claims his theory is ultra- “antireductionistic”, or “emergent.”
A reductionist
perspective looks for the system to be built from the bottom up, from pieces,
while an emergent perspective looks for system to unfold from the top down.
Yet TGD examples
given in Paster’s book show pieces, such as for example “nerve pulses
based on the master/slave hierarchy of weakly coupled superconductors
controlling each other by a Josepheson junction”, without showing how those emerge from
many sheeted spacetime.
Pitkanen’s use of p-adic math
to develop his theory, and the concept of many sheeted spacetime
are intriguing, but TGD theory goes way beyond any mathematical model. The
references to biophotons, the liquid crystalline form
of the human body, microtubules, the holographic nature of the mind and the
universe etc, are well known concepts, independent of TGD, and had to be
interpreted into TGD.
pitkanen has been supportive of the new field
of quantum biology. He has proposed
that many principles of quantum physics can be applied to biological systems.
He suggests that information transfer in biology takes place via
superconductive pathways, and that electrons and photons are the carriers of
this information. Superconduction of biomolecules was confirmed by Herbert Frohlich, Fritz Popp, and Cyril Smith in the 1980s. Popp
also demonstrated that EM fields emanating from the body (and their particle
counterpart, biophotons) occur at the quantum level, and are
coherent.
Pitkanen is featured in several websites:
The science of life website: http://www.scienceoflife.nl/
“Here you can
participate in the creation of a new formulation of science.
This formulation is
needed because of limitations in classical scientific languaging.
For example: life,
love, consciousness and health cannot be described in terms of that language.”
O Von van Nieuwenhuijze, Cyril smith, Jan van der Greef,
William
Tiller, Vanessa Hill, Vadim Kvitash, Zachary Jones, Susie Vrobel, Hellmut Loeckenhoff, Nikola Tesla, Lawrence Edward, Michel Bounias, Bruce
Lipton, Phil Callahan,
And matti Pitkanen are listed as
participants.
Mae-Wan Ho and Lynn
Margulis are listed not as participants, but as
researchers
Emergent mind website: http://www.emergentmind.org
NOTE: Journal of remote mental control and non-locality:
http://www.emergentmind.org/journal.htm
An interesting on-line journal,
whose maverick contributors include Matti Pitkanen, Alex Kaivarainen, the
Russians Peter P. Gariaev, George G. Tertishny, Katherine A. Leonova;
Americans Richard Alan Miller, Iona
Miller and Burt Webb, Dean Radin, Dwane
Elgin