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Simon Y. BERKOVICH
According to the presented model the whole richness of the physical world condenses in one plain
sentence: "All physical phenomena are d i f f e r e n t aspects of the high-level description of the
d i s t r i b u t e d processes of mutual synchronization in a network of d i g i t a l clocks". Properties of
the synchro formations e x h i b i t i n g quantum mechanics behavior of elementary p a r t i c l e s in r e l a t i -
v i s t i c spacetime continuum are o u t l i n e d .
Here DI, and D2, are the phase diffusion co- matter and anti-matter. The state of uniform
e f f i c i e n t s reflecting influences of neighbors motion of the kernels is a necessary condition
of the f i r s t layer, second layer, etc; b is a for their existence and is obtained free from
small coefficient reflecting strong self- the underlying mechanism. Thus, the material
influence; A is the Laplace operator, A2 is a world appears in the i n e r t i a l frame of refer-
fourth order symmetric d i f f e r e n t i a l operator. ence with r e l a t i v i s t i c properties and mirror
The equation (1) looks l i k e a conventional asymmetry.
parabolic-type equation and i t is d i f f i c u l t to The diffusional solutions describes spread-
imagine that i t can provide all the features ing of phase from a source as an instantaneous
of the physical world. However, this may process: at any moment t > 0 for any distance
happen because of periodicity and discretiza- there w i l l be 0 > O. Such a paradoxical s i t -
tion of the phase variable which make possible uation occurs because diffusion equations give
non-dissipating circulations, an aggregate representation neglecting speed
considerations at the level of discrete compo-
3. THE ORIGIN OF SPACETIMEAND MATTER nents, like molecules or oscillators. Note
In addition to the conventional diffusion- that in contrast with the material world of
l i k e spreading of phase equation ( I ) has propelling kernels the diffusional spreading
"traveling wave" solutions in the form of pro- of phase is not affected by the r e l a t i v i s t i c
pelling helicoidal kernels. The physical restriction (2).
world is composed of both types of solutions:
the l a t t e r represent the material world, the 4. STRUCTUREOF ELEMENTARYPARTICLESAND
former constitute i t s operational background. MULTIFACET PROPERTIESOF MASS
The propelling kernels establish metric The characteristic equation for steady-state
standards of length, I s, and duration, t s, for kernels provide three basic patterns of phase
the discrete topological structure of the net- dependence: exponentially decreasing, ex-
work which are the extension and duration cor- ponentially increasing, and sinusoidal. Clus-
responding to the f u l l reverse of phase, 2~. ters of generated synchro excitations re-
This determines the radius and the rotational present mass. This explains the parton
speed of the kernels. An additional r e s t r i c - structure of elementary particles and the re-
tion on the propelling kernels is the congruity lationship of the apparently different facets
of phase changes in the course of propagation of mass: i n e r t i a , gravitation, wave charac-
and rotation which imposes an upper bound on t e r i s t i c s , equivalence to energy, as well as
the speed of kernels, v, treated as the speed spin and electrical charge.
of l i g h t , c: The generated synchro excitations create
of the forces are d i r e c t l y related to the mat- 3. P.C.W. Davies, The accidental universe,
te r generating a c t i v i t i e s of the p r o p e l l i n g (Cambridge University Press, 1982).
kernels: ( i ) f ro n t al and edge r o t a t i o n a l 4. E.P. Wigner, Comm. in Pure and Appl. Math,
actions of monotonic kernels moving at v = c - 13(1960), 1.
e l e c t r i c and magnetic forces, (2) mutual in- 5. E.P. Wigner, The p r o b a b i l i t y of the exis-
fluence of overlapping synchro clusters - strong tence of self-reproducing u n i t , in The Logic
of Personal Knowledge: Essays presented to
i n t e r a c t i o n s , (3) withstanding the d i s i n t e g r a - Michael Polanyi, (The Free Press, Glencoe,
t i o n of propelling kernels - weak i n t e r a c t i o n s . I i i , 1961) pp. 231-238.