Steric Vibration in Quantum Gravity with Strings

Ten days ago, in my previous post, I presented an illustration of steric quantum gravity in 3D. In the illustration I was able to show an array of spheres bending and twisting around itself into a helical torus. To show its inner structure, I needed to make the neighboring array of spheres transparent.

In the post I said that next, I need to combine the helical segments into two entangled toroidal helices. That way I can animate two arrays of spheres moving along the curves.

It took a while, but this week I managed to solve half of the problem but faced a brick wall with the other half. That is, I was able to cut helical arcs into segments that at least theoretically could be united into continuous curve. However, in the process I realized that Blender doesn’t like joint curves. That is, I can rather easily animate an object moving along a helical curve. But when I join two helical arcs into a joined curve and try to animate an object moving along it, the object moves along the first curve, but not along the second curve.

I’ve tried to solve this problem for several days, but I’m constantly thwarted in my efforts. For a while I thought I could solve it by using geometry nodes. From my studying of Blender, it seems it is theoretically a solvable problem, but I’ve decided that it isn’t a hill on which I’m willing to die on.

So, I’ve decided to scrap the animation of molecular motion and have settled on showing the two orbitals as entangled strings. Here is the model that I managed to draw today:

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/ed0781_6bf5f5c8b3fa4e0c824390d6dbd195a6/1080p/mp4/file.mp4

There are still a couple of annoying bugs in Blender which means that the transition from one curve to the next is not yet seamless. I will fix these kinks for the Quantum Gravity manuscript, because they are exactly the sort of thing that will surely make the reviewer skeptical: i.e. if the equations are accurate, shouldn’t they produce seamless curves?

So, how should the string model be interpreted? It depicts two paths for two entangled strings of molecules, moving tangentially to the string, or in a way that the string appears to remain in place, even though it is moving in place. I’m not sure whether I’ve used the term before, but this is what I call steric vibration. Steric vibration means that a string is so confined that it can only vibrate (move) by staying in place. In string theory the alternative to steric vibration are vibrations in extra dimensions. In steric vibration, the vibration is in the direction of time, or the fourth dimension.

The Wikipedia page about string theory does not talk about entanglement. This is possibly because it’s hard to imagine a tangible way in which multi-dimensional quantum objects entangle. On the other hand, the Wikipedia page on quantum gravity does talk about entanglement. However, even then, the term entanglement often implies action at a distance. Or phenomena where quantum objects are entangled even when separated  in space. Obviously, the entanglement shown in the above model isn’t really at a distance. That is, unless the distance of a few micrometers, as is the case in water, also counts.

If you look closely at the model, you see that the entanglement isn’t really just taking two pieces of string and twisting them to create loops. Rather the entanglement creates neighboring loops both with the same string and the neighboring string. However, even in this mode of entanglement, the two strings also intertwined. But just in a more complex manner.

But how do I know that my model is correct, you might ask. Well, the reason is twofold. Firstly, I’ve been conducting practical experiments (albeit in chemistry, not physics) testing the hypotheses produced by the model and it seems to be holding up rather well. Secondly, and I think more importantly, is that steric vibration in the direction of time is the only way to explain quantum phenomena without resorting to extra dimensions (assuming that the fourth dimension of time is not an extra dimension).

In conclusion, I think I need to rewrite my manuscript, so that the theory of steric vibration is foremost, so that the reviewer can no longer ignore it. The content shouldn’t change too much, but I think I need to find references to string theory and quantum gravity for the manuscript, if only to counter the incorrect postulates presented in them. Also, I will include the 3D model and the video of the model into the manuscript. I think they should make the theory more concrete, as they illustrate the mechanisms of steric vibration better than pure equations, even when there is no animation of moving spherical molecules included.

I won’t make any promises on how fast the new version is ready, but I really hope it won’t take too long.