QO

QO is the short name for quantumoccamism,  the hypothesis is that the universe and everything in it arose from a single quantum, solely by means of established quantum mechanical processes.

The Core of QO

Submitted by jhwierenga on Thu, 07/26/2018 - 16:00
the QO symbol with arrows up, down left and right in the core

The core of QO consists of the QO concepts which apply to all domains, and are therefore discussed separately. The core is what makes QO such a productive theory.

The initial quantum

QO starts with a simple conviction: the conviction that the initial state of the universe must be very, very simple. After all, if the universe has not always existed, it must have an initial state, and that initial state must have occurred spontaneously, which can be credible only if the transition from absolute nothingness to that initial state is simple.

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Framing

Submitted by jhwierenga on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 07:35
Framing is when you leave out the miracles

Framing is the process of leaving out or obscuring, from the set of phenomena that need to be explained, those phenomena which would lead to the explanation incurring a disadvantage relative to other explanations.  The frame is the boundary of the set of phenomena. The frame is so chosen that phenomena which the explanation accounts for well are within the frame, and other phenomena  are outside of it.

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The Occam Method

Submitted by jhwierenga on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 07:30
cycle 1. Identify phenomena 2. Itemize explanations 3. Score explanations

Scoring

QO is founded on a heuristic, the Occam method, which is based on Occam’s razor: the contention that, given a set of otherwise equivalent explanations, the explanation requiring the fewest apparently arbitrarily contrived elements is to be preferred. It is a method for deriving and evaluating an explanation tree. In QO, we apply the Occam method to determine in which sequence in which hypotheses about the universe should be examined.

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The QO concept of natural law

Submitted by jhwierenga on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 07:11
stylized motion of pendulum

Natural law consists of the uniformity of behaviour which results from the universe containing the same information only once. 

Phenomenon explained : "There is natural law".

The most fundamental property of our universe is that it is subject to natural law. In other words, it behaves consistently, at least as far as we can tell. Any coherent theory of everything will need to account for the following:

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