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In reply to the discussion: Radical Theory Explains the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life, Challenges Conventional Wisdom [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(101,316 posts)9. No, it's nothing like that
It's a word salad that claims to unify pretty much everything in physics, chemistry, biology and astronomy. It's like a string theory except he doesn't bother trying to use mathematics in any form to back up anything. Look at the PDF available at the doi.org link. To me, it seems most likely to be a 'Sokal'-like hoax.
For instance:
The central idea of this theory is that all physical
reality, stretching from the so-called inanimate into the animate realm and from micro- to meso- to
macrocosmic scales, can be interpreted and modeled as manifestations of a single geometric entity, the
gyre. This entity is attractive because it has life-like characteristics, undergoes morphogenesis, and is
responsive to environmental conditions. The gyromodel depicts the spatiotemporal behavior and
properties of elementary particles, celestial bodies, atoms, chemicals, molecules, and systems as
quantized packets of information, energy, and/or matter that oscillate between excited and ground
states around a singularity. The singularity, in turn, modulates these states by alternating attractive and
repulsive forces. The singularity itself is modeled as a gyre, thus evincing a thermodynamic, fractal,
and nested organization of the gyromodel. In fitting the scientific evidence from quantum gravity to
cell division, this theory arrives at an understanding of life that questions traditional beliefs
and definitions.
reality, stretching from the so-called inanimate into the animate realm and from micro- to meso- to
macrocosmic scales, can be interpreted and modeled as manifestations of a single geometric entity, the
gyre. This entity is attractive because it has life-like characteristics, undergoes morphogenesis, and is
responsive to environmental conditions. The gyromodel depicts the spatiotemporal behavior and
properties of elementary particles, celestial bodies, atoms, chemicals, molecules, and systems as
quantized packets of information, energy, and/or matter that oscillate between excited and ground
states around a singularity. The singularity, in turn, modulates these states by alternating attractive and
repulsive forces. The singularity itself is modeled as a gyre, thus evincing a thermodynamic, fractal,
and nested organization of the gyromodel. In fitting the scientific evidence from quantum gravity to
cell division, this theory arrives at an understanding of life that questions traditional beliefs
and definitions.
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Radical Theory Explains the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life, Challenges Conventional Wisdom [View all]
OKIsItJustMe
Jan 2012
OP
Yeah, anyone bringing up thermodynamics when questioning evolution has forgotten the sun exists. nt
Posteritatis
Jan 2012
#13
Let's take a bunch of known phenomena and label them with new terms we've made up ...
eppur_se_muova
Jan 2012
#5
The headline and excerpt alone put the crackpot index into the triple digits...
Posteritatis
Jan 2012
#12
Twas bryllyg: "The vicissitudinous gyre, though non-mathematical, epitomizes nature."
xocet
Jan 2012
#15
The paper contains no empirical evidence of anything and offers nothing with any predictive power.
xocet
Jan 2012
#26
At the end of metafilter, someone has noticed the press release (OP link) has been pulled
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2012
#18