Earhquakes and volcanic eruptions as macroscopic quantum jumps in zero energy ontology

The understanding of Zero Energy Ontology (ZEO) has developed rapidly after I learned about direct experimental evidence for the prediction that the big state function involves a change of arrow of time. This led to the understanding of Libet’s strange findings about active aspects of consciousness challenging free will in standard ontology and to the realization that remote metabolism provides a universal purely thermodynamics mechanism of metabolism (see this).

Also the understanding of the differences between TGD based and Maxwellian views about magnetic fields has increased. In TGD the magnetic field are of two types. Flux tubes carrying monopole flux are not possible in Maxwell theory and no current is needed to create them. The flux quanta which do not carry monopole flux are also possible and require currents. Monopole flux tubes solves several magnetic mysteries such as the existence of magnetic fields in cosmological scales not allowed by standard model, the maintenance of the Earth’s magnetic field, this), and the mysterious magnetic field of Mars which does not seem to exists except via Auroras and seems to have roughly the same dipole strength as the Earth’s magnetic field (see this).

The signature of “big” (ordinary) state function reduction is change of the arrow of time at some level of the hierarchy of space-time sheets (selves) and one could start to search evidence for this effect. I did not however have this in mind when I encountered a highly interesting article (see this) telling about the findings related to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions challenging the rational mind making its deductions in standard ontology.

1. The occurrence of earthquakes in deep interior of Earth has strong correlation between the sunspot minima (solar activity) and cosmic ray flux. One could think that the system consisting of tectonic plates or magma is critical and sensitive to small perturbations. But how do the cosmic rays get so deep in Earth interior without losing their energy?

TGD answer is simple. During sunspot minimum the dark monopole part of the magnetic field of Sun is strong and and the charged particles of solar wind arrive along the flux tubes and by reconnection end up to the flux tubes of the Earth’s dark magnetic field and along them to the interior of Earth where they end up to quantum critical system formed by magma or tectonic plates and induces the eruption of earthquake.

This however requires that the number of dark monopole flux tubes is large during sunspot minima. Sunspots would be formed in reconnections of very long U-shaped monopole flux tubes coming from Sun and carrying solar wind as dark particles. This would reduce the number of monopole flux tubes but generate ordinary magnetic field by creating currents creating them: note that monopole flux tubes do not need a current exist. Therefore the number of monopole flux tubes would be maximal during sunspot minima.

Quite generally, cosmic rays would arrive to Sun along monopole flux tubes of flux tube network (see this) and continue from Sun to Earth. The highly energetic dark cosmic rays preserving their energy as dark particles would thus induce eruptions and earthquakes. In the model of NASA researchers cosmic muons are assumed to do this in the case of volcanic eruptions. Volcano would act as a volcanic bubble chamber in which the cosmic rays induce a phase transition (see this). The model did not however consider the earthquakes in the deep interior of Earth although most earthquakes are such. The objection is obvious: the cosmic muons as ordinary particles cannot get deep into the interior.

Here ZEO comes in rescue: The time order was indeed opposite. Macroscopic quantum jump of a quantum critical system took place changing the direction of time. There is precise analogy with the findings of Minev et al in atomic systems showing that a deterministic and smooth time evolution seems to lead to the final state of quantum jump (see this). The time evolution however has opposite arrow of time and starts from the final state. Libet’s findings have the same explanation in terms of act of free will realized as state function reduction. Now the state function reduction would cause earthquake or volcanic eruption and would be induced by cosmic rays serving as stimulus.

These findings inspires the proposal of the article (see this) that the magnetic pressure of solar wind could induce the earthquake/volcanic eruption somehow but leaves the detailed mechanism open. In TGD this assumption is not needed.

For a summary of earlier postings see Latest progress in TGD.

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