Integral Science

I have often stated that the current definition of "a string" is somewhat meaningless from any coherent physical perspective. A string is viewed essentially as like a thin elastic band - extremely short in length - that is 1-dimensional (with no other spatial characteristic). However this very definition requires the background existence of space. However it is then also admitted that the dimensions of space and time must in some way arise from strings (as the basic constituent ingredients of everything in the universe). So we clearly have an obvious problem. Indeed there is a strong parallel here with a similar issue in mathematics relating to the prime numbers. The prime numbers are conventionally viewed as the basic (independent) building blocks of the natural number system; however equally the general distribution of the primes intimately depends on the natural numbers. Now I have explained that this issues of the primes in Mathematics ultimately relates to the fact that ...

When doing some research for my articles on the Riemann Hypothesis, I made the interesting discovery that both Darwin's Origin of Species and Riemann's famous article on prime numbers were both published in 1859 (just over 150 years ago). Indeed the historic connection can be shown to be even closer with the publication date of Darwin's book in November of that year while the full text of Riemann's article also appeared in November (in the monthly reports of the Berlin Academy) though Riemann actually had delivered his address on the contents of that article to the Academy in August, 1859. However recently I have come to see an even greater significance to this interesting coincidence of publication dates (of what constituted truly ground breaking initiatives in two different fields). In earlier blogs I addressed the issue that any attempted reconciliation of science and religion would require two key developments. 1) the recognition of an alternative qualitative aspect...