The Background Problem

I still feel that there is a fundamental misalignment with your understanding of my theories Lloyd, which is to be expected at this level of conversation considering all of the aspects and dynamics involved with viewing the universal interactions as an entire functioning system. Keep in mind that my discrete ideas are very dynamic with reference frames moving within frames and the motion transferences thereof rather than a mere collection of "pool balls" converging to a centralized background region to construct a structured system. Within my most complex theorizing, the discrete properties of the background dependent model which go towards structuralization of a system at any given moment are in constant change whereby further defining the mass to velocity relationship of RM. For a structured system to remain near motionless within a region of the absolute background, then its mass would have to be great enough to warp all system transference aspects from any degree of linear to near perfect angular as with a black hole, which further goes into escape velocity aspects and such. I see RM and QM as explaining the same universal model, just at the scales at which they are appropriate within. Among other inconsistencies, RM requires spacetime to be smooth and continuous to establish the warpages which govern orbital aspects while QM requires it to be a lumpy dynamic field of virtual interactions and such as with 'quantum foam' models. The mathematics of both methodologies are merely an analog model of how the system is functioning with the smooth continuous motions of the massive bodies along with the deterministic mechanics thereof and faded uncertainty having somehow arisen from the seemingly indeterminate and uncertain interactions of a more fundamental resolution working at the shortest of distances. The concept of other dimensions of motion goes a long way here in considering a possible aspect of the rift between the two mathematical methods employed to analogously describe the interactions of nature at their appropriate distances and scales. I don't see the seemingly smooth continuous spacetime warping of RM as described by Einstein, but rather I see many quantum interactions going into the propagation and trajectory of massive bodies which aren't smooth and continuous but rather potentially discrete whereby many dimensions of motion at the shortest of distances dissolve into the very smooth fabric of spacetime to allow for its quantization along with such micro motions also going into the very structuring of the massive macro body itself. Thus, every smooth and well defined deterministic path of macro bodies along with the bodies themselves are built upon a background of various quantum motion dynamics which result in the macro interactions per the quantum micro interactions.

Though Einstein went far in giving a mechanism to Newton's gravity which was till that point just known by its effects, RM still lacks the further mechanization of the relationship of unstructured and structured systems which would further define just mechanically how spacetime is warped in the presence of a massive system. What are the quantum interactions taking place whereby such processes are so deterministically resolved? Though the absolute background upon which reality is fashioned may seemingly be hidden once the system reaches its deterministic resolution which allows for system to system or reference frame to reference frame exploration and observation, which led to Einstein's conclusion of the invariant speed of light thus variant aspects of space and time, I feel that Newton's approach goes further to understanding the universe at a more intimate level by allowing the absolute space and time invariance which will possibly unify the seemingly conflicting aspects of the Standard Model, more specifically RM and QM, by supplying the preferred frame of reference which allows the understanding of exactly what aspects of nature these two seemingly conflicting methodologies are analogously modeling. Do I know how to resolve the mathematical inconsistencies? No, but this is the conclusion I'm drawn to when considering my apparent limited understanding of the vast complexities of nature itself. I guess to me, any mathematical description at the macro resolution would ultimately be a byproduct of the more fundamental mathematical aspects taking place at the much shorter micro distances as such constituent interactions went towards building the composite greater distance scales at which the rise of determinacy imposed a reciprocal fall of uncertainty as many unresolved interactions went towards a resolved fluid path of a structured system propagating within an unstructured medium. I'm not certain that a unification of such varying mathematical methodologies and the systems they are analogous to is the key to understanding, but I rather prefer to entertain the thought of how one composite mathematical methodology/system might arise from a vast region operating within a more fundamental set of interactions represented by a constituent mathematical methodology/system. Perhaps the unification of RM to QM will come by way of not understanding how such are related, but rather how macro measurements and observations are merely an approximation of interactions taking place at the more fundamental micro realm as not all quantitative aspects of such micro interactions go into the measurable values of the macro realm, as it is more representative of the dominant interactions which see to the preservation of structured systems and their trajectory through the unstructured quantum medium. I'll try to explain better later.

In an attempt to refresh my memory of all of the various aspects to consider for this debate, I came across Lee Smolin's work 'The Case for Background Independence' which addresses many of the dynamics at play with the background issues of RM and QM whereby each actually contain aspects of both types of background dynamics. Here's a link to a PDF by chance you haven't already came across this work, which I figure you have. http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0507/0507235v1.pdf

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