Toy-Physics: Recent Episodes
B.C. (Bruce) Moore
The Toy-Physics podcast gives a gentle overview of the book Toy-Physics: A Foundation for Faith, Hope and Renewal. It leads to a rigorous and common-sense accessible alternative to the spacetime story of modern physics. The Toy-Physics story pulls physicality, spirituality, and reality into a strong triangular bond of unity.
Primal Energy is developed in stages. The first stage is to quantify substance taken in by one cycle of expansion in which the radius increases by C, corresponding to one unit of time by the master clock. Pythagorean Allocation is first introduced in this section to partition the bundle into separate bundles of the same length but with individual cross-sectional areas.
Episode 4 explores major Deepland implications of the first two concepts described in previous episodes - primal expansion and angular location. The transformation from Flatlanders on the surface of Sphereland to Poppers immersed in Deepland was enabled by a paradigm shift to the view that spirituality is rooted in a transcendent realm of physicality. With just these two concepts it is possible to understand what went wrong in the initial Flatlander response to their equivalent of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity.
This episode describes four vital alignments that occur by calibrating radial expansion in Bickham’s setup to the speed of light measured in our universe. Also described is the essential departure from vector-space thought that opens the path to Popper understanding of light propagation in Deepland. In these discussions we can sense and appreciate the beginning of a vector-space thought-path that parallels our spacetime viewpoint.
In this episode, our crew of characters - Burr, Bickham, Old Billy, Paleg, and GreaPaw - work through a description of Bickham’s setup for exploring Deepland behavior. It begins with imagining a Flatlander atom on the surface of Sphereland - the balloon-like membrane of an expanding sphere.
This second episode of season 2 begins this fantasy story with its cast of inner characters: Bickham, Old Billy (the dog), Paleg (the mountain lion), Burr (the narrator and host’s avatar) and GreaPaw (pronounced ‘gray-paw’) who brought the story into existence. The crew tells us about Bickham’s surprising dream-travel to Deepland, a parallel universe with inhabitants called Poppers. Here the story begins of the five concepts of physicality and mathematics that are known by Poppers but missing in the stories of People. This episode ends with a simple demonstration that hints of almost every one of those five concepts. Old Billy calls it the string-thing which, by the way, bears no relation to string theory in physics.
Deepland is a sequel (with a twist) to the Flatland -> Sphereland sequel of Edwin Abbott (Flatland, 1884) and Dionys Burger (Sphereland, 1965). Old Billy especially enjoys the twist, which is revealed in this episode.
For PDF downloads of Season 2 episodes see:
https://www.toy-physics.net/deepland/episode-02
Introduction to the second season of the Toy-Physics podcast. The story in this second season - Deepland, a Rescue Story - can be thought of as a sequel to the historical fantasy stories Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions (Edwin Abbott, 1884) andSphereland, a Fantasy About Curve Spaces & and Expanding Universe (Dionys Burger, 1965). The full story - with additional materials - is told in a website blog -- (See https://www.toy-physics.net/deepland)
Episode 8 is the concluding episode of Season 1, intended to give a non-technical overview of the book Toy-Physics: a Foundation for Faith, Hope and Renewal. This episode gives a summary that leads to a single focused idea - that human spirituality is rooted in transcendent physicality - a cosmic web beneath the sensory surface of the directions we can point with our senses or sensing instruments.
Episode 7 describes the five key elements that lead to a geometric alternative to the contemporary spacetime story of relativistic behavior. This is a link to a YouTube demo of simple primal expansion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G27aId8ppOI&list=PLj5AIvTr6v5eeFoHZcl08-gz0FED5xmKN&index=7
Also, here is a link to a demo of simple Pythagorean Allocation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4C7jdz2nGg&list=PLj5AIvTr6v5eeFoHZcl08-gz0FED5xmKN&index=6
This episode describes primal expansion, the first of the five concepts missing from the teachings of physics and applied mathematics. Also described is the path of inner animation that led to this concept.
The five elements missing from the teachings of physics and applied mathematics are enabled by first imagining an expanding sphere - following the fantasy stories Flatland (Edwin Abbott, 1884) and its 1965 sequel Sphereland by Dionys Burger
This drawing by Byron McKeeby was given to me by my brother long ago when I was a professor at the University of Toronto. This episode tells of two historical lines of thought from which this story of self, other, and belonging emerged.
Our children need new supplies of story about us and this universe we are born into. We need new growth by which physicality and spirituality are shown to both be rooted in the reality of transcendent behavior - behavior that transcends our tangible three-dimensional sensory experience. This episode introduces three seeds of new growth: (In-here/Out-there) , (Parts/Participants), (Relational Joining).
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Wisdom begins in Wonder: I became excited about the mystery of electromagnetic behavior when I was introduced to amateur radio (Ham Radio) at age 15. I was thrilled to talk to people all over the world first in Morse code, and then in voice, and I was mystified that it all happened with a kit-built transmitter, a purchased receiver, and a home-built antenna on a 50-foot tower outside my bedroom. There were no smartphones, no internet, no home computers back then. That is what led me into mathematics, to a PhD in Electrical Engineering, and to a career in academics and industrial practice.
The path of discovery in physics and applied mathematics has brought fabulous success, but with potentially tragic social consequences.