Physics, Fractals and Flowers: A Unifying Tale

By Peter Anthony Cook

At the core of scientific thought lies a fundamental misconception, one that has kept humanity ensnared in what future generations will dub the ‘Aeons of Ignorance.’

This book unveils this profound oversight, introducing a ‘foundational grand narrative’ that harmonizes the realms of science. Dive into the exploration of a long-anticipated unifying theory, rooted in a singular, recurring pattern.

“Surely underneath it all is something so beautiful, so simple, that when we find it in a decade, a century, or a millennium, we will all turn to each other and say, how can it have been otherwise, how can we have been so stupid?”

– John Wheeler, physicist

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Jan 5, 2024
• ISBN: 9781035814435

Peter Anthony Cook

Peter Cook is an engineer, educator, writer, inventor and problem solver, whose exploits have been well documented in the press. Between 1996 and 2000, he co-founded and ran PJT Dynamics, an engineering company that specialised in finding solutions to well-known motorcycle flaws. Whilst working on race engines, he started to tackle the problem of turbulence within systems. Turbulence is one of the great unsolved problems in science, because by definition turbulence is unpredictable, and the laws of classical physics are by definition predictable. The question then is, how to reconcile turbulence with classical physics?

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About the Author

Peter Cook is an engineer, educator, writer, inventor and problem solver, whose exploits have been well documented in the press.

Between 1996 and 2000, he co-founded and ran PJT Dynamics, an engineering company that specialised in finding solutions to well-known motorcycle flaws.

Whilst working on race engines, he started to tackle the problem of turbulence within systems.

Turbulence is one of the great unsolved problems in science, because by definition turbulence is unpredictable, and the laws of classical physics are by definition predictable. The question then is, how to reconcile turbulence with classical physics?

Dedication

Dedications to Gideon Lowy who was responsible for turning loose ideas into a scientific theory.

Michael Wood who edited the book and helped to keep ideas on the right set of rails.

Zach Bishop who helped to organise a mountain of information into a library that is easy to use.

To Lou whose generation now has the correct foundations to rebuild science from the base up.

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Acknowledgement

I would like to thank Professor Gideon Lowy for forging the new ideas out of scientific information which lay in isolated university departments. It is fair to say that humanity has produced so much information people were drowning in it whilst searching for wisdom. The forging process included Mike Woods who started as a non-science specialist but ended able to hold his own with the best of them.

Zach Bishop became my working partner after he helped to organise the vast amount of information we produced over the years.

Nick Lin, and ex-student in Taiwan produced all the illustrations in the book and has helped out endlessly over the years.

The book was written in the St Johns Institute of universal truths and a special thanks goes to Kerry and Chris for providing a shoulder to cry on when we were struggling too much. Also, Peter whose breadth of knowledge is so great he is simply known as The Carpet.

Tim Hopper for continuing to produce mathematical links which act as foundations.

Darren for walks which help to shape ideas into language all can understand, and Emma for just sitting and talking elegantly.

Gerald Midgley for helping to kick start the project.

Thanks to Aide at the Palace of Reason for serving quite the best ale in the city of Hull.

Preface

This book is aimed at the non-specialist but well-informed reader. There are endless books and videos which get bogged down in confusing language, and that is not what we are going to do here. I would suggest getting hold of a copy of Chaos and Non-linear Dynamics, an Introduction for Scientists and Engineers, by Robert C Hilborn.

Hilborn’s book should have changed the course of science, but it is very hard to understand. I have spent the last 26 years learning what it means, and putting it into ordinary language. Some of the sentences are dynamite, but the explosive nature of the science has been defused because people did not know how to make it fit with tradition. The same thing happened with the discovery of quantum mechanics, and that problem is still with us. At present, it looks like physics has fallen into parts which cannot be reconciled, but if we observe that all the parts of nature work in unison, then logically it must have a common set of rules. Nature is all made from the same physical components, the elements, and we forget this because we don’t state in biology lessons that ‘we are only made of elements’.

If you are going to understand this book, you must have a good sense of logic and you must be prepared to stick to the logic that repeatable experiments are something we can all trust. This is the bedrock of science no matter who does the experiments, or how many times it is repeated, we always get the same answer, and it cannot be influenced by our expectations. We are not allowed to do science based upon social status or tradition. But for the last 30 years, we have chosen to ignore the experiments which show that chaos is as fundamental a behaviour of matter as classical physics or quantum physics. And we have also chosen to shy away from the fact that quantum physics is matter behaving to rules which have no forces to explain the cause of action.

Anybody can understand this book and it leads to a logical conclusion which gives us a sensible understanding of reality. There is a lot of new information, and you cannot understand anything until you have committed to memory all the individual parts, so take your time and listen to the radio programs more than once. To simplify science, I have learned to define things in a single sentence, and then put the sentences together.

The reason I suggest you buy hard copies of books is you are going to need every sociological trick in the book to overcome your compulsions to follow tradition. If you can read about actual experiments and see the results in your hands, it has more effect on you. The truth comes from stating that what we all observe must be something we can agree on as a truth. All human beings have a compulsion to copy whatever happens around them most often, and this helps societies form. It does not matter what you are copying, even if it has no meaning; the rule is copy, don’t question. This means if we are making a mistake, we all blindly copy the mistake, because we get a feeling of comfort when we copy tradition.

We have got to a point in science when people have realised that we are making a mistake caused by the way we are forced to behave, and this might be leading us down the wrong path. To show you that the writing is on the wall, I would ask you to listen to the Radio 4, In Our Time, Science Archive, Quantum Gravity, with three highly regarded scientists being brave enough to admit there may be a very simple problem which has become embedded in tradition. The main problem in physics is the fact that it comes in two contradictory theories, and whatever is stopping us putting them together is the same thing that is stopping us putting physics and biology together.

The comments from Professor Lee Smolin, Dr John Gribben and Dr Janna Levin are deeply profound and accurate.

Lee Smolin

There must be some part of the phenomenon we are not analysing properly, and I am very sure that in 100 years from now many of these different interactions of quantum mechanics will be understandable only to historians of science, and not to the scientists of 100 years who will have something sensible to talk about.

Janna Levin

There must be a limit at which common sense does hold.

Definitely something is going to happen, something big is going to happen, I do think something has to give, we cannot continue with quantum mechanics—gravity—all the forces not speaking to each other.

Melvyn Bragg

How big an impact would a unified theory make?

Lee Smolin

Of course we don’t know, but if history is any guide—huge, the transition to a view of the universe in which everything is dynamic and is a system of relations which continually evolves in time, and we are a part of it.

Janna Levin

If history is any guide there are going to be huge ramifications, ones that we simply cannot foresee.

If we are in the mopping up phase, maybe we are all too close to see it. We like to see ourselves as visionary very flexible and very adaptable to new ideas, but I think there is a good chance that we are less so than we hope. And that things are right in front of us.

This is a very powerful statement from such a high level astrophysicist.

If there is a simple mistake then you, the reader, will be able to understand the logic if that mistake is pointed out to you, but you will then get a sociological compulsion which tells you to copy all those who cannot see the mistake, and your thoughts end up in paradox. Stick to the logic of the evidence in front of you, the book is full of hard experimental data which tells the truth, so don’t be persuaded to think otherwise.

As Dr Janna Levin states, it must come down to common sense, and common sense is based upon our innate sense of logic which demands that every action we observe must have a logical cause. I would like to point out the first bit of evidence to show that the present picture of science has no logical causes for the actions we see. When Janna Levin says ‘we cannot continue with quantum mechanics—gravity—all the forces not speaking to each other’, it should be pointed out that quantum mechanics is not based upon any forces at all, it is just a set of mathematical rules to which matter is ‘forced’ to behave.

Unless somebody states this out, it goes unnoticed, but the logic is clear, we expect matter to be pushed and pulled around by known forces, but the experiments exposed in this book will show that this is not the case. That is the main problem for physics; classical physics seems to have a logical explanation for the behaviour of matter, while quantum mechanics does not. There is a simple answer to unify the two, and we either have to search for more forces, or do away with them altogether. The evidence in this book will help you decide which it has to be.

Introduction

The Illusions of Reality

No matter how intelligent we think we are, we live inside a cave of ignorance, which hides reality from our perception; we are a race of highly intelligent fools, held in a state of delusion by the fact that we are forced to observe the outside world through spectacles which let us see what we are doing without letting us see the reasons for our actions.

This book will expose the greatest scientific mistake in history; a mistake which has kept reality behind a curtain of ignorance since the time of Newton. Science must be based upon empirical evidence, and all the evidence in this book is scientifically referenced, so you can go away and check it. Once you have been exposed to the problem, you will learn to recognise it in all its forms. Just like being exposed to the workings of a magic trick, reality collapses from many unreal possibilities, to a single logical truth that will lead you from the cave of ignorance.

It has been the goal of humankind to find an explanation of how our bodies and minds emerged from nothing more than rocks and water. The early Earth has nothing more than elements to offer as a complete kit for the self-assembly of a human being. This question can now be answered, and the answer is logical enough for people to make up their own minds, as to whether it is true or not.

Brains have a rational part which is innate, you do not need a physics professor to tell you whether something is logical or not, your own brain will take care of that for you.

You are made of the same material as stars, snowflakes and snails, so we must share a common set of rules which govern the self-assembly of material systems. The rules need to account for any system of matter which is complex enough to become aware of itself, intelligent enough to work out how it came into being, and stupid enough to be tricked into believing complete nonsense.

There are many animals that are aware of themselves, and if that is all you are aware of, you live at the mercy of the innate animal rules which push and pull us around. There must be a reason why we respond to these rules, and if we understand that reason, we can rise above emotions and choose our future based upon the knowledge of how all systems hold themselves in a stable state of being. Love, hate, jealousy, and ambition are all just more complex rules of matter than magnetism, and we feel repulsion and attraction the same as all other matter.

The reality that we are ordinary matter following universal rules is a statement of truth, but that has been hidden from us because we have refused to accept hard experimental data which keeps telling us our scientific perspective is incorrect. Once this has been corrected, we can start to make decisions based upon an understanding of the natural world and our place within it.

We now have the equipment to expose the hidden rules of reality, and they have turned out to be far more complex and strange than we could have ever imagined. It is only in the last century that the quantum rules, the chaotic rules, the genetic rules, the biological rules and all the other rules of complexity have been brought to light. Ordinary matter behaves equally to all of these rules and we now need to show that they are all part of the same universal set of rules. The reason we have not been able to unify all these rules is because we have been trying to force them into an incorrect theory of unification. The first hint that we were