Speaking of communications, even level three state-of-the-art experts can use Technidigm-2000 to their advantage. Level three research experts have a narrow range of interest. We can find very isolated and narrow perspectives in level three state-of-the-art research. It is these narrow perspectives that seem to result in new and contradictory "discoveries" every year, especially in doctoral programs at colleges and universities. Sometimes a narrow focus is good, but multidiscipline synergy at level four can help to overcome the limits of level three perspectives. For example, nuclear power plants are assessed by inspection teams that cover multiple functional areas.
The following example indicates the possible value of level four deliberations for level three thinkers:
Physicists and astronomers are contemplating their level three knowledge regarding the origins of the universe. They are focused on the "Big Bang Theory," which proposes that all matter originated from one point, perhaps 14 billion years ago (give or take a few billion years). In conjunction with this proposal, it is theorized that time itself originated due to the same originating event. General and special theories of relativity seem to be supportive of this time-creation possibility, which seems to be dependent on the very high speed of mass formation and expansion at the first instant of creation. Time may be an effect (similar to temperature and pressure) rather than a component part of the universe. Time may have different values. Newtonian physics depends upon time as we normally perceive it, but quantum mechanics does not. Issues such as quantum gravity are a bit difficult to resolve, so there is no unified law of nature that ties everything from different contexts together.
Since the unified law problem involves context, it is possible that level four processing of the problem would help. That is, as a supplement to intensive study of the problem as a physics or quantum mechanics problem, it might be useful to step back and look at the problem from a broader perspective. At level four, we might have physicists, astronomers, mathematicians, and several types of engineers participating jointly to come up with an all-inclusive theory of the origin and nature of the universe. Also, since it is the human brain that perceives the parameter of time most easily and naturally, we might want to involve the medical profession.
Astronomers and mathematicians are more involved with unified law research than are engineers. The engineering disciplines might offer useful insights or comments on observed phenomena from their practical experience. For example, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, materials, and heat transfer engineers might bring up the issue of entropy since every physical process results in an increase in entropy. Electrical engineers might bring up certain observed phenomena involving electrical or magnetic fields in terms of different materials. Nevertheless, it is easier to describe what happens than it is to explain why it happens, and engineers can function effectively without knowing all the answers.
Man has come to the point of being able to guess more authoritatively regarding the nature of the universe and how it was created. If time is indeed a parameter with different values, the next question is "How can the parameter of time be changed?" We get some notion of the answer in the mathematics of relativity, but are there not more practical and observable ways of modifying time's value? The answer to this must be yes if we are ever going to understand time.
If you have ever been in a life threatening event, you might have noticed that time seems to slow down so that each second seems more like a minute. This is a natural reaction of the brain, a reaction that may be linked to phenomena not yet fully understood. In other situations "time seems to fly." What if the human brain has acquired an ability to slow down or speed up time as a local change to the parameter of time? How would we even know? What happens in the brain when the parameter time goes toward zero or toward infinity? Can time have negative values? What is the average value of time since the universe was created? How is this related to the long-sought unified law? Is it common sense or nonsense to even ask such questions?
A unified law solution system that includes all the appropriate interfaces and phenomena might be the result of the level four effort, even if some parts of the system were not well understood. If the potential quantum mechanics explanations for the relevant observed phenomena were pursued systematically, there might be enough additional information generated to move us closer to a unified law of nature. This one time-based example is offered only to illustrate that Technidigm-2000 has something to offer even the most sophisticated technocrats as well as those of us who are not very technically inclined at all.
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