University Readers

Constructive Approach to Fundamental Science: Selective Writings presents the idea of a holographic construction of the Universe. This work elaborates on a cellular automaton mechanism that produces a spectrum of stable elementary particles solutions and an informational infrastructure of the physical world, a mechanism providing a working foundation for the physics trend that regards information as a basic constituent of the physical Universe. In contrast, the so-called "principle-theories" rely on "universally experienced facts," thus purportedly acquiring the advantages of "logical perfection and security of the foundations." But what if a "universally experienced fact" turns out to be wrong? Nowadays, numerous experiments consistently show an incongruous and unintelligible fact of the Universe non-locality: distant objects can instantaneously influence each other through "quantum entanglement." This implies that the existing picture of the Universe is just an approximation—in essence, it is incorrect.

Selections included:

The "Digital Life" of the Physical Universe shows how the continuous holographic recording leads to the ultimate irreversibility of the Universe.
Biomolecules and Epigenetics emphasizes the significance of "Cloud Computing" for the organization of Life.
Workings of Non-Locality provide the only known explanation of quantum entanglement as an effect of interactive holography.
Large-Scale Kinematics considers the connection of the surmised mechanism with the formation of global structures of the Universe.

Professor Simon Y. Berkovich received an MS in Applied Physics from Moscow Physico-Technological Institute and a PhD in Computer Science from the USSR Academy of Sciences. He holds 30 patents and has authored five books and several hundred professional publications in physics, electronics, computer science, and biological cybernetics. In 2002, Dr. Berkovich was elected to the European Academy of Sciences "for an outstanding contribution to computer science and the development of fundamental computational algorithms."

Hanan M. Al Shargi earned her MS and PhD degrees in computer science at George Washington University. Her research included data mining, web searching, and investigation of informational contents of biological sequences; her doctoral dissertation analyzed the epigenetic mechanism. Dr. Al Shargi is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Physical Society, and has won numerous academic and achievement awards.