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3 Spacetime 4 Unitarity Patent Application Publication Mar US 2012.0075682A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2012/0075682 A1 Amoros0 (43) Pub. Date: Mar. 29, 2012 (54) SPACETIME ENERGY RESONATOR: A Publication Classification TRANSISTOR OF COMPLEX DRAC (51) Int. Cl. POLARIZED VACUUM TOPOLOGY GO3H 5/00 (2006.01) B82Y IO/OO (2011.01) (76) Inventor: Richard Louis Amoroso, Oakland, (52) U.S. Cl. ............................................. 359/1977/933 CA (US) (57) ABSTRACT Method and apparatus is described for a general purpose (21) Appl. No.: 12/928,592 transistor of the higher dimensional (HD) spacetime back cloth consistent with symmetry parameters of a new cosmo logical paradigm with a unique M-Theoretic background (22) Filed: Dec. 15, 2010 making correspondence to a complex scale-invariant covari ant Dirac polarized aether where energy pathways follow Related U.S. Application Data spacetime geodesics; and Switching is achieved by manipu lating resonant modes of a Calabi-Yau mirror symmetry hier (60) Provisional application No. 61/284,384, filed on Dec. archy inherent in continuous-State brane topology of the 17, 2009, provisional application No. 61/284,896, structural-phenomenology of least cosmological units tiling filed on Dec. 28, 2009, provisional application No. the raster of spacetime as it emerges from the infinite potential 61/336,522, filed on Jan. 22, 2010. of the unified field. CONCEPTUALIZED NOETIC INTERFEROMETRY Sagnac effect quadrupole modulated RF pulse R2 1 electrons 2 nucleons 3 spacetime 4 unitarity Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 1 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 Ring Laser Array Spacetime(S-T)Vacuum Symmetry Hierarchy FIGURE 1 Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 2 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 Sagnac Effect Multimodel T-1 RF Pulse Modulation of Ring Laser Array :- - Dirac Covariant Polarized T-2Vacuum S-T Cavity-QED Spin-Spin Coupling FIGURE 2 Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 3 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 FIGURE 3 Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 4 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 R. i. Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 5 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 FIGURE 5 Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 6 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 FIGURE 6 Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 7 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 5. FIGURE 7 Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 8 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 Resonance Stabilization in Class Il ru Mesoionic Xanthines co FIGURE 8 Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 9 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 1. C past L D K u S. FIGURE 9 Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 10 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 Plane of Equilibrium Bifurcation Set FIGURE 10 Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 11 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 CONCEPTUALIZED NOETIC INTERFEROMETRY Sagnac quadrupoleeffect modulated RF pulse R2 1 electrons 2 nucleons 3 spacetime 4 unitarity FIGURE 11 Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 12 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 Hierarchical Harmonic Oscillator Parameters Y = 4cos(at) FIGURE 12 Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 14 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 FIGURE 14 Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 15 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 Spacetime-Exciplex R excited State ^ Cosmological V \/ Least-units /s N 1. N ans(Nn -1W 4 / R1 N M 1 R2 VaC zero point FIGURE 15 Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 16 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 PrPC PrPC v PrPC PrPSC FIGURE 16 Patent Application Publication Mar. 29, 2012 Sheet 17 of 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 FIGURE 17 US 2012/0075682 A1 Mar. 29, 2012 SPACETME ENERGY RESONATOR: A Dirac polarized vacuum cast in a continuous-state M-Theo TRANSISTOR OF COMPLEX DRAC retic Calabi-Yau 3-fold mirror symmetry spacetime back POLARIZED VACUUM TOPOLOGY ground. 0009. The elegance of Feynman's synchronization back CLAIM OF PRIORITY bone is revealed by the continuous-state spin-exchange 0001. This application claims benefit, under 35 U.S.C. dimensional reduction compactification process inherent in S119 (e), of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/284, the topology of the spacetime dynamics of the cosmological 384 filed 17 Dec. 2009 titled: Laser Oscillated Vacuum paradigm itself. Past attempts to utilize Feynman's Sugges tion relied in trying to create a synchronization backbone in Energy Resonator: A Transistor of the Complex Dirac Polar bilocal quantum systems. This remained intractable because ized Spacetime Vacuum; U.S. Provisional Patent Application for all practical purposes the quantum system was still caught No. 61/284,896 filed 22 Dec. 2009 titled: Coherent Control of in the regime described by the Copenhagen interpretation of Biological Systems by Programmable Cellular Automata quantum theory. But by utilizing the new cosmology where Vacuum Energy Resonance; U.S. Provisional Patent Appli the synchronization backbone is an inherent property of the cation No. 61/336,522 filed 22 Jan. 2010 titled: Cerebro cosmology itself, it is like getting the important half of the QC scopic Systems: Device and Method for Transducing Qualia. for free. STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT RIGHTS 0010 Requisite additional degrees of freedom are intro duced by defining a relativistic basis for the qubit (r-qubit) 0002. Not Applicable and utilizing an anticipatory oscillator to manipulate the inherent parameters in the new cosmological paradigm (cos BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION mology itself is a hierarchical form of complex self-organized 0003. The present invention in basic form relates to sys system). The causal structure of these conditions reveal an tems and methods for manipulating or programming the inherent new “action principle driving self-organization and topology and fields of higher dimensional (HD) spacetime providing a simple basis for ontologically (energyless topo through a complex coherently controlled resonance hierarchy logical Switching) surmounting the phenomenology (energy Surmounting the quantum uncertainty principle, leading to exchange) of the quantum uncertainty principle, AXAp2/2 spacetime engineering and several new classes oftechnology. or AEAt 21/2 which has been the remaining hurdle blocking 0004. A salient embodiment is Quantum Computing (QC) bulk UQC by producing decoherence during both initializa which has until now remained elusive beyond a few qubits. tion and measurement. A protocol for causal violation (abso We believe bulk universal quantum computing (UQC) cannot lute surmounting) of the quantum Uncertainty Principle with beachieved within the framework of the current Copenhagen probability, p=1 is utilized as a form of spacetime engineering interpretation of quantum theory because of the theories creating a new kind of so-called spacetime transistor. imposed limitation of the uncertainty principle by empirical definition. Pertinent Definitions 0005. The remaining problem thwarting UQC is decoher 0011. By “Calabi-Yau' as used herein is meant, the extra ence with the environment. Currently a dozen or more dimensions (XD) of spacetime in M-Theory may take the avenues of quantum computing research exist. Considered form of a dual 3-torus or 6D Calabi-Yau complex manifold, most promising is quantum dot arrays cooled to near absolute which leads to the idea of mirror symmetry. Zero by room-sized cryogenic refrigeration systems to slow 0012. By “Mirror symmetry” as used herein is meant, a atomic motion in the hopes of maintaining Sufficient time for relation existing between two Calabi-Yau manifolds, where a operations before decoherence occurs. string theory compactified on these two manifolds leads to 0006 Our method is superior in that it is tabletop in size, identical effective field theories by holomorphic isometries. operates at room temperature in any scalable quantum system 0013 By “Least cosmological unit as used herein is and readily overcomes the uncertainty principle by utilizing meant, the structural-phenomenology tiling the backcloth of parameters inherent in the energy dependent higher dimen 12D Superspace; in contrast to crystallographic unit cells sional Calabi-Yau mirror symmetry spacetime metric of a where the smallest representative of crystal structure in crys new cosmology. This is performed by application of a coher tal space is comprised as an indefinitely extended lattice of ently controlled multilevel RF pulsed incursive oscillator periodically repeating cells. resonance hierarchy. 0014. By "Cellular automata” as used herein is meant, a discrete regular array of identical finite states whose next state BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION is determined solely by their current state and the state of their 0007. In this context the current invention is based on a neighbors. new holographic multiverse cosmological paradigm utilizing 0015. By “Coherent control as used herein is meant, a operationally completed forms of quantum and gravitational quantum mechanical method for controlling dynamical pro theory making correspondence to the unified field of infinite cesses with light or modulated RF pulses employing con potentia as it arises from a unique HD String theoretic structive or destructive quantum interference. vacuum. See Amoroso, 2009, 2010. 0016. By “Dirac polarized vacuum' as used herein is 0008 Feynman recommended use of a synchronization meant, the covariant polarized sea of infinite positive and backbone for implementing UQC. This has been abandoned negative energy states filling all space in relativistic quantum as intractable by the physics community; a conundrum that field theory (RQFT), the top of which is comprised of the arises from limitations imposed by the standard models of stochastic foam of the vacuum Zero point field. Quantum Theory (QT) and Cosmology. Feynman's model 0017. By “Conformal” as used herein is meant, a mapping makes UQC simple to implement if used with extensions of ofa Surface or region or object upon another domain so that all QT and cosmology utilizing an HD conformal scale-invariant properties remain unchanged. US 2012/0075682 A1 Mar. 29, 2012 0018. By “Scale-invariant as used herein is meant, fea 0029.
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