Gravity, Topology, and Complex Mathematics in the Universal Optimized Simulation
Rodney Bartlett · Preprints.org · 2025
This article appears to have started when a MicroSoftNetwork article called "Optimizing Mechanism": Physicist Claims Gravity Is Evidence We May Be In A Simulation was read. Appearances really are deceptive, however. Thoughts it contains can be traced back a few decades to musings about the Mobius strip. These thoughts took a more serious turn in 2005 when my book on Amazon (“ROD’S ROOM - A New Earth and A New Universe”) combined ideas about science with a few poems and some short stories. Ideas gradually advanced over the next decade, becoming more frequent and detailed in 2018 when something I called vector-tensor-scalar geometry popped into my head. Hypotheses regarding science and mathematics have been accelerating ever since. I’ve never felt that the source of these ideas was the reasoning in my brain. It always felt like I was a student learning things that were already common knowledge, even though the thoughts were obviously strangers to anyone living. I often find that ideas which found their way into my head in the past were made clearer by ideas that came later. For example, the geometry mentioned a few sentences ago found application years later to consciousness, topological insulators, and cosmology’s holographic principle. This latest article seeks to combine many ideas - and to explain them better than in the past. So much for personal history and self-indulgence … what are some of the scientific topics in this article? Computational or simulated universe, holographic principle, gravity, topology, real and imaginary numbers, quantum mechanics, quantum spin, mass, Higgs boson and field, gluon, Wick rotation, Riemann hypothesis, retarded and advanced waves, time, vector-tensor-scalar (VTS) geometry, elliptical VTS geometry, consciousness, single-particle universe, bosons + fermions.