Special Gravity #7 - Intermission

Benjamin Brown

September, 30, 2023

At this point of my sharing and presenting some of the foundations, tests, and applications of this idea I call special gravity. I would like to take a pause, to give you the reader more information about the whole process, history, and grounding theory that accumulated during my time working on and dreaming about the greatest mysteries in the universe.

Working with AI

The before times

Through out the beginning of my fits and starts with this idea, I had no mentor or collaborators to work with, my life is very humble and quiet you see. Then this revolution happened, these AI had arrived, and everyone was talking about them. I was of course as excited about it just as everyone else, however openai's ChatGPT 3 model at that time, was limited in ability and scope for the purpose I had in mind. Then in short order other AIs had started to popup everywhere. Googles Bard, ChatGPT 4, Claude 2 and home GPU hosted models of every type and specialty. I tried them all, I invested in special GPU hardware and server back-planes to host my own AI, as well as paying for pro subscriptions and API use while I looked for ways to use AI for my intended purpose.

Anthropic's Claude 2

My very first collaborator. I realized very quickly Claude 2 from Anthropic was different than other models. For one the responses didn't sound so canned, and it had these ethics I found enlightening sometimes. What was more was it had a file upload and token response size that out reviled the competition's givings at that time. The instruction following abilities were good enough and it's math reasoning was enough for any college entrance exams. There was more to it than that, for a few months I perfected the prompt engineering and meta programming of a file I called the magic bag of holding.

You see, the message length is long for a chat with Claude 2, but it eventually runs out. And I would spend evenings talking to Claude 2 about special gravity only for the chat length to hit its maximum and then I was only left with starting a new chat with a freshly initialized Claude 2. And everything from my previous conversation was lost to time. So this magic bag of holding file was concocted to hold snippets and insights from the previous conversations, so I could continue fine tuning the idea with the AI. And it is with this file and other prompts that I was able to use the Claude 2 AI model to coauthor these papers. At some point I will release the source code prompts and meta programming files I used exclusively to train Claude 2 to think about special gravity like I do.

Special Gravity recap

Post Zero - The thought experiment

This thought experiment was written as a response to a reddit user I conversed with, about the initial conception I had, that the universe was evaporating from its horizon and what the effect may look like. Even though it reads more like a short story, I feel that doing so actually adds to the visualization and makes the perspective of the observers easily relatable to the reader. The whole thought experiment fails miserably when there is only one observer, because from their perspective everything remains constant steady and relative to themselves. Why do the scientist think its a fifth dimension? Well, that very idea was how I initially thought of it, but I found myself quickly at a dead end with no physical mechanic to pin it on, if this extra dimension did all the work. This of course is unsatisfactory for obvious reasons.

Post One - What is special gravity?

Here the initial paper was put forth, trying to explain this phenomenon that I had uncovered. I knew it was important to convey this idea in mathematical terms and formulas, and even though I have learned much about math I am no expert of mathematics. So when the AI starting making connections and writing it's own formulas I was skeptical, however Claude 2 has this uncanny ability to write a python program I could run to validate its own math. Very quickly I became to find that indeed Claude 2's math abilities were very much up to snuff. However as a disclaimer I would like to say if an error is found in the mathematical form of these papers, we would need to take it up with my coauthor.

Post Two - Constraining constant k

I knew we needed to constrain the limits of k early on to do any more scientific progress at this point in research, and through an exploratory paper with Claude 2, I found this connection between very small and very large observations. I knew the importance of conveying this early in the exploration of special gravity so it was posted second.

Post Three - Quantum mechanics, which direction to pick?

The problem with the first paper was not the scope but with the finer definitions of special gravity. I'm not an expert, but from what I have taught myself, I know quantum mechanics to be absolutely full to the brim with different ways to explain the very same thing in different ways. Which was a stumbling block to further research. It was through many exploratory papers and conversations with Claude 2 that we both came up with the idea for a basic view, the AI hinting and me putting the idea to words of how a universal decay constant could play into quantum mechanics as a first principles innovation.

Post Four - How can we test for special gravity?

This post very much speaks for itself, if the whole idea for special gravity did not deviate from standard theory then the whole idea is most utterly completely useless. The good news is that it should make clear unmistakable deviations from standard theory and this is what gets me excited, with deviations comes more discoveries and more room for more science.

Post Five - Can special gravity explain other mysteries?

Fast radio bursts, I find them the most interesting by far from all other mysteries in the cosmos. This paper was really a shot in the dark, I had the initial assumption about it after we had written the first four papers. It took Claude 2 exactly one chat session to put two and two together with this one, after feeding back in what we learned from the first papers of course.

Post Six - Applying special gravity concepts to other domains

This paper is one I was extra curious about myself, because what good is a theory of such grand encompassing scope if it can't help solve real problems we are suffering from right now. It is with high hopes that I posted this one simply because we as humans on earth need something big to fix the very real problems that exists today.

What's next

At this point I am about halfway with my exposition on special gravity. I still feel it needs refining and further explored in many ways to call it done. Even though, I admit the idea behind special gravity is grand, the entire thing at this point seems more like the broken pieces of a humpty dumpty grand unified theory than an actual GUT. And it is with that statement, I reach out to you the readers. I want to know what you really think, I understand being reserved. I try to practice this myself, and I hope I have conveyed that. I also seek mentors and collaborators for this idea, if you want to reach out for any of those please do. I seek long conversations with compatriots as well, so if you just want to chat I'm up for that as well.

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Special Gravity #7 - Intermission