Morphogenesis by Resonance

                                                       Patterns formed by resonance?

The book Morphic Resonance by Rupert Sheldrake addresses the fundamental problem of how organised structures are formed in physics, chemistry, biology from elementary building blocks seemingly without information about the overall structure. How does a flower, bird or human being develop from a genetic code, which contains recipes for protein building blocks but no information about the whole structure? Sheldrake seeks an answer in the form of morphogenetic fields carrying this information as collective resonance phenomena. 

We are familiar with resonance in physics as the wave harmonics of a vibrating string. We understand that wave patterns develop from instabilities with tendency to increase crests and troughs of certain wave lengths. Watch dropping a stone in a pond.

Thus we expect to see form develop from resonance serving as morphogenesis and find this in particular in the case of fluid flow with turbulent vortices developing from convective instabilities as shown in Computational Turbulent Incompressible Flow. 

The non-radiating stable ground state of an atom is represented by the lowest harmonic of a Schrödinger wave equation, while higher harmonics are triggered for a radiating atom. Real Quantum Mechanics gives a new explanation of the lack of radiation from the ground state, as the mystery Bohr struggled with. 

Computational Black Body Radiation presents a new analysis of the transfer of energy from a source of light to a receiver as an atomic resonance phenomenon carried by standing electromagnetic waves without need to introduce photons as particles of light. A similar transfer is seen between two tuning forks carried by standing acoustic waves. 

Sheldrake's concept of morphic resonance thus comes to expression in physics and may serve also in chemistry and biology in more general forms. Maybe memory is carried by resonance... Maybe the fertilised egg carries the blueprint as a resonance bringing the genetic code to life.

Musical harmony is based on tonal resonance, while musical rhythm represent patterns over time. Singing in a choir unites single souls into one. 

Resonance can have the material form of vibrating strings, or immaterial as a common gravitational potential (recall Neo-Newtonian Cosmology) or more generally beliefs forming a society. An immense subject…

Resonance appears as an expression of instability of a system in the sense that a small periodic forcing causes large oscillations in the system. This happens if the periodicity of the forcing agrees with an eigenvalue of the system and the corresponding eigenfunction represents the shape of the system response.  This allows patterns to develop from small forcing in creation of form as morphogenesis "by itself".

Gravitational Potential: Primordial Omnipresent Immaterial

This is a further reflection on Neo-Newtonian Cosmology expanding on the PS in the previous post on the work by Rupert Sheldrake on morphogenesis geared by immaterial presence.

The basic idea is that primordial omnipresent immaterial gravitational potential $\phi$ has been created from an infinitesimal fluctuation of a zero potential from which mass density $\rho$ emerges by the action of the Laplace differential operator $\Delta$:

• $\rho =\Delta\phi$    (*)   

inflating fluctuations into substantial mass density of variable sign. The gravitational potential assigns mass to material matter consisting of positive and negative electric charge densities emerging from an electric potential as in (*). 

The action of gravitational force separates matter into larger regions of substantial positive and negative mass, which repel each other as if subject to dark energy, with some part of $\Delta\phi$ appearing as immaterial dark mass. Further, gravitational collapse of regions of positive mass generates massive kinetic energy as vacuum energy. 

Altogether, structures as planetary systems and galaxies emerge from an omnipresent gravitational potential acting as immaterial organiser by assigning mass to matter in a form of cosmological morphogenesis. Here informations is directed from potential to mass density, which is the opposite of the current paradigm: 

• Each atom attracts all other atoms in the Universe with short time delay.   (**)     

With (*) as primary process, (**) appears as a secondary slow process. 

The main trouble with (**) is that the physics of the connection/attraction between atoms has no answer. The current idea of some form of particles carrying attractive force between all atoms in the Universe has not been fruitful. It remains to see if (*) is more fruitful. In particular (*) is local and as such can be instant without assistance of force carrying particles.

Connecting to the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on protein folding, it may be that the total electric potential of a protein, like the total gravitational potential, acts as an organiser of the morphogenesis of the folding. See this post with connection to Real Quantum Mechanics.