Collection of Papers by Ivars Vilums

"Please understand that these are works in progress and will change over time. Your patience and thoughts are appreciated!" You can write to me.
Touching Stars
"An essay on the Nature of Light, Connection, and Observation. A Contemplation Arising from the Transaction-Geometric Interpretation."
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Touching Stars

Of Historical Interest in Computing

Calculate CRC without loops.
"Change polynomial by changing a single constant. Includes full 8086 assembly code listing from 1984."

More detailed Documentation of the 1984 CRC algorithm
"Achieving real-time cyclic redundancy check computation without lookup tables or loops by exploiting the 8086 processor's parity flag, enabling 34 KB/s data rates on 4 MHz hardware for BiSync protocol communications."
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Physics, Cosmology, and Consciousness

An Upper Limit to the Electromagnetic Spectrum - Gravitational Collapse of Photons
"Crude but thought provoking idea; partial paper-in-progress from 1990. Presages the Kugelblitz and expands on it."

Updated and more detailed paper on the Gravitational Collapse of the Photon
"Demonstrates that electromagnetic radiation undergoes gravitational collapse at a critical wavelength of √2 times the Planck length, producing stable black holes called blitzons that serve as the substrate for spacetime geometry."
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The Photon as Spacetime Connection: A Transaction-Geometric Interpretation of Quantum Emission and Absorption
"Proposes that quantum phenomena arise from direct spacetime transactions rather than particle propagation, with photons representing observational perspectives on geometric connections and measurement outcomes determined by transaction network formation."
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Blitzon Cosmology
"Presents evidence that our universe is a "holographic" projection of the event horizon within a black hole, naturally explaining dark energy, quantum measurement, and force emergence while providing testable predictions in pulsar timing data and cosmic dipole anomalies."
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The Distinction Presencing Machine: A Universal Model of Consciousness from Thermostats to Cosmos
"Proposes a computational framework where consciousness—from thermostats to humans to potentially the universe itself—operates through sequential presencing of hierarchical distinctions, integrating Maturana's autopoietic principles with the transaction-geometric interpretation."
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The Complexity Bound: A Unified Mathematical Framework for Universe Formation and Consciousness Emergence
"Derives universal limits on physical complexity from Gödel's incompleteness theorems, showing that systems exist within a narrow 'complexity habitable zone' between resolution limits and computational undecidability, with our universe positioned optimally within this band."
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Some Very Speculative Musings

Many Worlds in Blitzon Cosmology: A Finite, Unified Framework
"The Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics has long been plagued by conceptual difficulties: infinite branching, unclear ontological status of branches, and the puzzle of where "other worlds" exist. We show that blitzon cosmology, which describes our universe as existing on the event horizon of a black hole embedded in a parent universe, provides a natural resolution to these difficulties."
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Shell Genesis: Frozen Emissions and the Origin of Physical Constant
"We propose a mechanism by which the fundamental constants of physics emerge from the structure of black hole event horizons. This is a very early but intriguing work in progress."
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The Dimensionality Constraint: Why Spacetime Must Be 3+1 Dimensional
"We argue that the 3+1 dimensionality of spacetime is not a contingent fact but a geometric necessity following from holographic encoding on event horizons."
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The Energy Dimension: A Fifth Dimension for Transaction Selection
"Why do two endpoints form a transaction while others do not? We propose that the selection mechanism operates in a fifth dimension—and that this dimension is what we experience as energy"
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