In 1984, at my public high school in Winchester, Massachusetts, there was a terrific biology teacher named Jerome Burdulis. Mr. Burdulis not only taught me to wonder at phagocytosis, he imprinted upon my 14-year-old consciousness a jingle that has stayed with me through the years. Don’t assume. When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.
Have we made assumptions in our foundational calculations about the universe that could be incorrect?
This is not a vacuum. So why do we use a vacuum as the baseline state in our models?
As of April 7th, 2022, some people have been asking whether the standard model of physics may be broken. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-standard-model-of-physics-now-broken/
I have three peer-review papers that look at the universe in a new way. They suggest that the background against which we make our calculations should not be a vacuum. We should treat the universe as holographic, i.e., as emerging from light.
Medical Hypotheses, Time and the body: A new approach to disease. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2025.111610
Science & Philosophy, Holographic universe: Implications for cancer, parkinson’s, ALS, autism, ME/CFS. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23756/sp.v9i2.694
Science & Philosophy, Am I too pixelated?
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23756/sp.v11i1.1138
What if time is the membrane between light that has speed (and can rise above the membrane), and light that has reverse speed (and can dip below the membrane)?
I don’t have the answers and I’m not trying to provide answers. But, after many years of sub-optimal health, it finally feels as if I am beginning to ask the right questions.
Mr. Burdulis—Jerome Burdulis, biology teacher extraordinaire—across the chasm of time, I thank you.