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physicist at Indiana University. The first sentence of the the energy typically associated with the strong force. university's communiqué asks: "Could our universe be — Furthermore, although these calculations were very located within the interior of a wormhole which itself is | rough at the time, as we were scribbling on pieces of part of a black hole that lies within a much larger paper and napkins, it seemed that the Schwarzschild universe?"!*? proton, as | came to call it, nicely predicted certain But could an atom, or the nucleus of an atom, be _ measured values of the proton entity. This was, and still considered a black hole? | didn't know, and it was not _ is, a radical idea—although more and more physicists until the year 2003 that I finally got to working out the —_ are coming to these conclusions now. Imagine all of the calculations to make such a prediction. atoms that make up your physical body and the entire At the time, | was living on the Big Island of Hawai'i material world around you, made out of mini—black and my daily routine started at sunrise with an holes the size of a proton. encounter with the creatures of the ocean, usually wild Although these initial calculations were somewhat dolphins, spinner dolphins in particular. The sensation conclusive, it took until 2008 before a first version of the of gliding in the ocean and the vorticular spinning calculation was published in one of our papers entitled hydrodynamics of the water around my body often "Scale Unification: A Universal Scaling Law for reminded me of our daily "swim" through the vacuum _—_ Organized Matter’. A more complete version entitled structure and the Coriolis dynamic that was part of my "The Schwarzschild Proton" was eventually presented at views of the physics of creation. a scientific conference in Belgium in 2009, where it won It occurred to me that a certain percentage of the a “Best Paper Award", and is to be published this year. mass-energy of the vacuum must be contributing to the energetic event that we call the nucleus of an atom. | Reflections on a Revolution in Physics called Dr Rauscher right away We live at a remarkable time. and discussed the simple It is a time of great changes, calculations that would tell us including fundamental changes how much of the vacuum energy So the vacuum energy was in our understanding of the was necessary for a proton (the there at all scales, physics of our world and its particle at the nucleus of an Q Q relationship to consciousness. atom) to be in the Schwarzschild although In various There is a quiet revolution condition, the condition of a densities— occurring in physics that will black hole. It took a remarkably 9 g modify our understanding of the small amount of the energy of a gradient In the structure atomic structure, as many other the vacuum to do the job, but of space itself. researchers are now starting to what was notable was that the realise that atoms may be energy it took was equivalent to considered as mini—black the energy necessary to produce holes* and that the vacuum the force typically described as the strong nuclear force, or structure may be a crucial player in the existence of our the strong force. world. The strong force has always bothered me because, as Why is this exciting? Because if we understand the in many other instances in modern physics (such as with — source of energy that generates our Universe, its forces dark energy and dark matter), the force had been simply and the mechanics under which the creation process invented, plucked out of thin air. When it was found that occurs, then we can reproduce these dynamics with the protons were highly charged but confined to a very advanced technological means and completely small radius in the nucleus of an atom, physicists went ransform our relationship to nature. Such discoveries on to invent a force that would overcome the repulsion __ will change our world from a society which believes that of the electrostatic fields of these particles, and they here are only limited amounts of resources and made it exactly what it was needed to be to do the job. —_ available land—and then wars fought over them—to a Eventually it was found that the proton seemed to have __ society which realises that there is an infinite amount of smaller constituents within it called quarks, which were — energy all around and within us, and a whole Universe confined in an even smaller space, and so the colour force ‘o explore with the means literally to reach for the stars. ad to be invented and was thought to be infinitely However, we don't need to wait for these advances to strong. Now the original strong force was seen as only a start to transform ourselves and our environment. We remnant of this colour force. need only take a few moments every day to connect with From my point of view, the infinitely strong nuclear he infinite potential present at the centre of our entire orce was the result of the gravitational attraction of | material world, which makes up our existence, and mini-black holes and it was extremely confirming to experience its infinite nature and beyond. oo ind that, when one considered the proton as a black ole, the energy necessary to make it such an entity was Continued on page 81 the energy typically associated with the strong force. Furthermore, although these calculations were very rough at the time, as we were scribbling on pieces of paper and napkins, it seemed that the Schwarzschild proton, as | came to call it, nicely predicted certain measured values of the proton entity. This was, and still is, a radical idea—although more and more physicists are coming to these conclusions now. Imagine all of the atoms that make up your physical body and the entire material world around you, made out of mini—black holes the size of a proton. Although these initial calculations were somewhat conclusive, it took until 2008 before a first version of the calculation was published in one of our papers entitled "Scale Unification: A Universal Scaling Law for Organized Matter". A more complete version entitled “The Schwarzschild Proton" was eventually presented at a scientific conference in Belgium in 2009, where it won a "Best Paper Award", and is to be published this year. So the vacuum energy was there at all scales, although in various densities— 46 * NEXUS JUNE - JULY 2010 a gradient in the structure of space itself. Continued on page 81 www.nexusmagazine.com