Complexity

I believe that complexity is an emergent property. I mean by this that, to us, the beginning may appear simple, but after enough evolution time, to us, the result looks complex.

Entropy is a mathematical way for us to characterize complexity. The good thing about this concept is that it is used in Physics and Communication Theory, at least. My hope with this series of notes on Entropic Dynamics, is that without ten years of computer work, like Stephen Wolfram, I can convince myself, that the program is feasible. If I could at least get one prediction I will feel satisfied.

Verlinde presented one prediction in his Newton equation paper. Given my proposal that strings can be one dimensional cellular automata (1D-CA), I have to get something. There are similar proposals, like Fredkin's. I'll be encouraged, if I could just connect elementary string theory, and cellular automata work, with something in his approach.

I am thinking in something simple, like Nambu, Susskind, or Virasoro. Something from the prehistory of strings, to some Fradkin result, through 1D-CA,

I unsuccessfully tried several years ago, to determine lepton mass ratios with a percolation-like model. The input was that fractal paths contribute to Feynman path integrals a lot. Then some simple rules could give me the simplest persitent geometric patterns that could exist. If the ratio of their diffusion coefficients gave me the electron, electron neutrino, mass ratio. I would be in business. Since you haven't seen a paper reporting that success, you can figure out, why you haven't heard from me so far.

Maybe this time.

La Esperanza es lo Último que Muere

Hope is the Last to Die.