Innocents Abroad

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January 1988 - When in Como, innocents climb up private garden walls for fun.

Quantized Inertia (QI) Extended to a Grand Unified Theory (GUT) based on the conservation of information

 Quantised Inertia (QI) is a very powerful, yet incomplete Scientific theory by Mike McCulloch (@memcculloch). In this blog post, I will, in layman's terms, extend QI with a very small and reasonable set of axioms I believe are implied by QI, yet ignored by the founder of QI as ways forward to better quantify anomalies explained, and lock down scientific inputs to engineering.

1) There is no such thing as "Linear Momentum" What we perceive as linear momentum on Earth is actually angular momentum with very large radii. We are in a privileged acceleration situation on the surface of the Earth, where completely inelastic collisions in a linear sense can seem to happen because of the essentially infinite angular momentum of the Earth damping any residual angular momentum to its surface angular velocity, giving the impression of an "inertial frame" see 2.

<Since acceleration cannot be zero, masses cannot travel in a cosmic straight line, and thus have a minimum arc in all three dimensions - via QI's idea of minimum accelerations.>

2) There is no such thing as an "inertial frame of reference". Acceleration cannot be zero in any axis *nor at any physical point in the cosmos*. This leads to a conundrum, however. A large, but completely solid object, that is nominally in a low cosmic acceleration environment, rotates slowly. There are physical points within the solid that nominally would be in acceleration equilibrium cosmically, but the minimum acceleration laws apply. This is incompatible with a cold solid. There is no "near minimum acceleration" points anywhere we can place a solid into to test.

3) For minimum acceleration laws, it is the actual net cosmic acceleration on the mass in question having to be a minimum value. For instance, within the space station, although gravitational acceleration balances the centrifugal force, the whole of the space station is still in the privileged cosmic acceleration required to stay in orbit. Artificial satellites damp relative angular momentum by their 3 axis reaction wheels and similar. 

4) Thrust should not be considered a linear force. Since neither inertia nor momentum is linear in nature, "equal and opposite reaction" is completely an angular momentum exchange. Thus what can be interpreted as a linear thrust that violates the linear conservation of momentum, should instead be interpreted as a balanced exchange of angular momentum that conveniently obtains a relative acceleration in a desired direction without the direct expelling of mass to achieve.

5) Concepts such as "position", "velocity", "acceleration", "mass" and "energy" are not fundamental but derivatives (actually integrals or sums) of information, which of itself has the property being conserved, but also being summed and added to which derives time. Thus the uncertainty principle really is a combined principle of the conservation of information, and the additive nature of information in the forward direction of time.

6) Information integrates to other nominally conserved quantities by the following process. The unit of information is the qubit. Each qubit is represented by a point of the surface area of the Bloch sphere - In the Universe's case this is the CMB. Each qubit is holographically translated/mapped to the volume inside the sphere, which is the visible universe. The qubit is the mirror particle to what we perceive as the smallest unit of mass at the neutrino scale. The neutrino and the CMB mirror are quantum entangled - everything in between is the observable universe that thus has laws that stay uniform through every part of that. (HT to @marnisheppeard, physicist missing in New Zealand)

7) In the mapping of the qubit to the volume of the universe, it is the spin of the neutrino which derives the mass/energy from the qubit of information. The minimal acceleration derives both the direction of time, our expanding universe, the uncertainty principle. The forward direction of time is the direction of new information due to minimum acceleration. New information means an expanding Bloch sphere and thus expanding visible universe. The uncertainty principle is the randomness of which axis the acceleration is going to add on to any component neutrino.

8) Component spinning neutrinos "fuse" additively to make up all known fundamental particles. The associahedra in general and the permutohedron specifically are important shapes to consider that build hadrons from fused subatomic particles, which themselves are fusions of neutrinos. 

9) The most fundamental conserved quantity in the universe is angular momentum. It is the sum of all of the angular momenta of all component information, and can only get bigger over time, but by only one qubit at a time. It is essentially the centripetal acceleration of the spin, which integrates to velocity, and then position. Mass is the 3 axis stabilised sum of information in the accelerating frame of reference of the body representing the mass, and gravity is just the quantum entanglement of the masses as they add up over time and integrate to a different relative position to the masses it still is quantum entangled to. 

10) Mass/Energy/ is not conserved precisely over time. It increases at a steady quantised rate in a random axis (1 of 3)

11) With QI, a Universe of continuous creation is possible (rather than big bang theory) due to the re-interpretation of the CMB, and a viable mechanism for mass/energy/information to add up over time evenly over the universe, but mainly concentrated in the hearts of massy bodies that conserve the information within a locally integrated position.

Information and Secrecy are the keys to modern civilization

The first thing that got me on this quest to find how civilization persists and functions is the observation that past civilizations are quite vulnerable to chaotic influences. Without strict order in how the reins of power are handed down generationally, a rogue influence can take the whole thing down - Whether by intent to take down the power structure or by greed and moral hazard to obtain personal benefit taking away what was most important to retain what makes it a civilization.

In dynastic empires, the generational handing down of the critical secrets and keys to power is held within the family structure itself. In the Egyptian empire, this was wrapped up in the spirituality of the sacred rituals that guaranteed divine favour after death. It was critical to the integrity of the civilization that aspects were kept secret from the masses. What would have been taught to the next generation of leaders within the family about the religious rituals would differ in important ways to how the masses were taught. The vizier, and non-family spiritual leaders were the secret service of those days. Only they were privy to the weaknesses of the religion to evidence. It remained vitally important to the civilization that the masses explicitly believed what they needed to, to perform tasks they may not otherwise do as slaves or pleb workers.

Move to the present day when the generational integrity of the internet is somewhat vulnerable to the "keys" that allow its seamless evolution over generations. Who protects the secrecy of these keys in an age where leaks can get them to the masses? One may claim that it doesn't matter. The internet architecture is resilient to both attacks, natural disaster and unexpected deaths of key engineers. However it is vulnerable to targeted attacks on its very architecture. It doesn't take a detailed understanding of the architecture to naively think that you can twist it to your own ends, or nihilistically break it. In many ways, these vulnerabilities are protected by the secret services of the USA. The discovered truth (see the detail of research by Suzie Dawson) is that even the government of the US is subservient to its secret services. That is for instance, even the nuclear button cannot be accessed without the explicit permission of the secret services that control it. 

How is the secret information held by the US secret services used to (among other nefarious acivities) retain the critical information stabilising the internet and, in fact the post WWII order of civilisation? The most crucial aspect is that the guiding motive of those services and those others in the 5i's is to *keep the status quo*. So regardless of who is notionally in power as "leader of the free world" the status qup is dependent on balanced battles of ideology eg. Global warming vs denialism, abortion vs right to life, left vs right, and so forth. Therefore the direction of support from the 5i's etc. is not always one side or the other, but to keep the battle raging and enduring without closure as much as possible.

How are the secret services motivated? Primarily their seat of power and privilege is dependent on this status quo. Without the "rewards" essentially of impunity even based on the side dish of greed, rather than the main dish of perpetuity, there would be no internet based civilisation, pure and simple. The secrets and vulnerable architectural details of the internet have multilayered defences. Crucially, these defences have to last generations, and they have evolved gradually from after the end of WWII when the internet started as a function of the DoD of the USA. 

Julian Assange, by securely obtaining and expertly disseminating leaks from the "nefarious activities" of this grand structure, has opened a window on this system, without perceiving the plausible dangers in outing certain juicy details. In actual effect, no harm has been done... yet. What Suzie Dawson has uncovered with extra research using Assange's and others leaked information, is the bones of the structure, and in some ways it is both beautiful and dark.

In my view, what Julian Assange and others have done is necessary *but so is their persecution* in many ways. My dark argument is not that they have gone too far, but that any further pursuit in the direction that they were/are heading would increase the vulnerability of the internet based civilisation to unacceptable levels. Their persecution is vindictive, decisive, and harsh. Unfortunately, the necessity of being made an example is the most solid deterrent possible. The delicate line the secret services have to muster is to keep that deterrent without making a martyr.

The multi layered defence of the US secret services includes both the huge military *and the arming of the masses* by gun laws that are otherwise ridiculously stupid. Any invading army that may stupidly think it can become the new world order by conquest, would have another thing coming. Defense of land is easier than conquest, and the US defences are both unparalleled and generationally persistent.

This is my first and last post on this subject. I wish all the brave players in pursuit of truth and justice all the best, but part of my newly found pursuit is to keep my own nose clean, and accept philosophically the fate of those that do not with all good intentions.

Internet based civilisation allows me to speak my mind openly but within reason. Knowing the structure allows me to not waste my emotional investment on things that I can neither change nor accept the unintended consequences of doing so.

My interest in the fate of Julian Assange and others being persecuted is more curiosity than tangible support. My pursuit of knowledge is now more about how the universe works, the origin of life, and what is going to be discovered and talked about within our lifetimes.

I single out Marni Sheppeard without supporting her persecution, because she both understands a lot of this information based conspiracy, but also the source of information in the universe. She is no threat to the world order, but the knowledge she holds can make modern civilisation a better place without necessarily changing the conspiratorial and secret underpinnings.

Intellectual Property, Quantum Gravity and Marni Sheppeard's work

I am not one to willingly learn from someone else's work, and use my position of privilege to twist things around to claim it as my own. However, that is a very regular occurrence in Theoretical Physics (among other sciences and all sorts of non-science endeavours).

I am very interested in the origins of ideas, but more importantly in emerging ideas that are a new revelation of truth (or at least an insight with great utility). When many people share ideas on Theoretical Physics, there are many ways to twist them around, and the people who benefit are the people in privilege - Well connected, well funded, authoritative and almost always male. I am not one of those males.

In fact, theoretical physics isn't really my thing (I'm more into comets and the origin of life), but in the last year or so, I have found many great things authored in theoretical physics, with great insights and they are, by and large, outside and contradicted by the mainstream.

These new insights, put together, are even greater in scope with that of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, and are likely to result in a new physics revolution.

Who should get the credit for these new discoveries in physics? Knowing his-story it will be the male with the most bluster and with the finger in the most pies that can wrest the credit away from the rightful author just when the final bit of proof is authored.

However, with ubiquitous technology that can store and date the text of online conversations, tracing back prior art is something even an amateur like me can take part in.

I first met Marni Dee Sheppeard on Twitter when she made a point of outing a male physicist protagonist with a clever insight outside of the mainstream. This male physicist would list followers that were brave to speak against the mainstream and in favour of his own brand of physics. They just happened to be all male, and without creative ideas of their own to offer on theoretical physics. Marni was definitely brave to speak out both against the mainstream, but also with her own brave creative ideas.

My conclusion is that Marni's ideas have more of the pieces of the puzzle correct that will lead to a new revelation of truth. Additionally, in tracing back the origin of these pieces, there is good evidence that they are attributable to her, and that she has more of the pieces enough to complete the work she has started - *If she is given the chance*.

So.. I don't really have any power in this situation, and my hope is that attribution will flow given the evidence of prior art, to the rightful author(s). Whether the historical papers that prove attribution are peer reviewed or not is immaterial. What is important is that they are recognised as reliable science, and confirmed to be legitimate original manuscripts.

That being the case, if the formulation of Quantum Gravity of Marni Sheppeard is found to have the most utility as a Grand Unified Theory, then Marni should get the credit for having thought of it, regardless of her lack of privilege.

Marni Sheppeard's Neutrino work

Marni's work on (motivic) quantum gravity is quite revolutionary in physics.

An interesting revelation for me was the realisation that the conservation of conservation laws across all of space and time can only be explained via Noether's theorem. Every conservation law has a symmetry. In this case the symmetry is between the Neutrino and the maximally non-local mirror on the CMB.

Whereas the braid terminology is used by Quantum Gravity, I like to have a visual geometric concatenation in forming other basic particles from a spinning neutrino.

A spinning Neutrino itself, is a natural explanation of a photon, as there is a 1:1 correspondence between the wavelength and the frequency of spin.

Non-Local Mirror Neutrino
http://vixra.org/abs/1711.0119

The Algebra of Non Local Neutrino Gravity
http://vixra.org/abs/1712.0076

Quantum Localization and the Sterile Neutrino
http://vixra.org/abs/1902.0471

Linking Mike McCulloch's Quantised Inertia and MU69 internal dynamics

A thread from Twitter made in October 2018 with solid predictions for New Horizon's MU69 New Year Day 2019's fly by.

https://twitter.com/MarcoParigi1/status/1050303233552314368?s=20

Mike McCulloch's #QI and Ultima Thule. The idea with testing new theories is to make bold predictions about the near future that contrast expectations. The power in the best theories is in predicting new facts. space missions give these opportunities. 1/

On New Year's Day 2019, New Horizons will be sending back the first glimpses of a never before seen object, being a "cold" classical KBO. By mainstream science, these should have been orbiting at these distances for billions of years. 2/

The orbit of Ultima Thule is of low eccentricity - that is it is almost circular, and has no gravitational influence from Neptune or any other large body. At the distance it is at it gets so little sunlight that temperatures and time should have reduced everything to solid. 3/

Even supervolatiles should be frozen as it is a relatively small body with no recent source of thermal energy. Except possibly from the minimum acceleration possible dictated by #QI. 4/

My assertion with #QI is that the minimum acceleration requirement will entertain a thermal generation cycle in the minimally accelerated heart of MU69 Ultima Thule. Evidence will be quite clear and will have limited other alternative explanations. 5/

The main evidence of internal energy will be that MU69 will be "impossibly" active for an object of this type and history. Activity may include cometary activities such as an exosphere and jets of gas and/or dust. 6/

Already, the fact that MU69 is a binary, contact or otherwise indicates that it has interacted violently, whether internally or from a related body. Space in the Kuiper Belt and beyond appears to be far too sparsely populated to entertain these kinds of interactions. 7/

My bold prediction for MU69 is thus - Activity in the form of outgassing, jets and exosphere. Somewhat "processed" surface similar to comet surfaces - dark, boulders, spires, limited impact craters. Equatorial features as seen on various moons of Saturn and asteroids. 8/

My thoughts on liquids in outer system objects and incoming long period comets have been bolstered in the theoretical realm by the indirect consequences of #QI. Data from the limits of absurdity in the Ultra cold realm of deep space will bolster these ideas with data! 9/9

mentions

Explaining the Axis of Evil Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies

Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies are an artefact the accelerating frame of reference observing them.

The most recent and accurate maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) have been made from spacecraft that orbit at the Earth-Sun L2 region (WMAP and Planck). This should be a moot point because they are observing the most distant phenomenon possible, in both space and time, which should be independent of our reference frame. However, it appears that the CMB is anisotropic in precisely the plane of the solar system ecliptic.  This axis is dubbed the cosmological "Axis of Evil" That is also the plane around the sun that the observing spacecraft orbit (as well as the Earth around the Sun). The centripetal acceleration due to the orbit of the craft is in a vector direction on average in the opposite direction to observations as they are made over the course of an orbit of the sun which is a calendar year. The accelerating frame of reference is thus precisely in the same plane as the anisotropy of the CMB for both of the two independent craft studying the CMB.

The only way that the acceleration and CMB can be connected in this way is if the CMB constitutes a Hubble horizon - that is, a cosmic scale fundamental limit to information. Thus, the anisotropies that we see in the CMB, far from being information about the early universe, is a reflection of observer's own acceleration frame of reference, and is therefore information-less Unruh radiation differentials. That is, what we see in the background radiation instantaneously reflects our frame of reference at the information boundary in that precise direction in which we see that radiation.


This would seem to imply a non-local communication between a local object and the Hubble horizon which violates known limits. However, the answer to this is that the phase speed of a monochromatic Unruh wave is not limited by the speed of light since it carries no information. So a local Unruh wave may well be aware of distant horizons without paradox.

An easy way to test this dependence is to repeat observations from the same craft, but always in arcs that are 90 degrees to the centripetal acceleration. The whole sky can still be scanned within a year of observations, the sun (earth) angle will always be 90 degrees to observed CMB rather than a friendlier 135 degrees plus in previous observations.

Foolproof way to Objectively judge reliability of scientific theories

A.(not foolproof way) The way that I have been taught is via "the literature" in short, but essentially, if the theory is backed up by the conclusion of a paper, and the theory (or a paper concluding that the theory is correct) is widely cited, then the theory is judged to be reliable. These theories will still have hedged language in papers (could, should,probably and so forth) but in science outreach and general discourse there will not ( proven science, established, reliable, correct etc.). If one asks another for evidence, the expectation is a reply with a pointer to "the literature" rather than a particular repeatable experiment or observation that they have done. This is also judged to be an objective way (It is only as objective as the group of authors and peer reviewers of the papers are) and it is judged to be soundly based on only repeatable experiment or on new facts that the theories may predict correctly (most peer reviewed papers have little to no direct reference to either factor)

B.(foolproof way) I have used this way since I have discovered its power back in 2012. First of all forget any pre-conceived pet theories. Then when looking at an established theory, avoid until a much later stage the idea of needing to *replace* an established theory. This way is to find where the established theory is probably wrong, and why it is wrong, not to suggest that the established theory should be overturned. We are looking at negative results - experiments that are repeatable that do not match the established theory and failed predictions thereof. Then we look at the *chain* of evidence for the established theory. To speed this process, we have to work back on the trail of citations to an early part of the theory and then to whatever process of formulation was used initially to produce the theory, and then to the fewest assumptions used (parsimony). Check that the assumptions were not and still are not, amenable to direct experimentation or observation. Check whether the negative results were available when the theory was formulated. Then cycle through the assumptions starting from the most arbitrary to the least and check the *sensitivity* of the negative result to each assumption. Do this for any negative result that you can think of. Choose the assumption that the negative results are most sensitive to. Consider this assumption wrong and start a search for a suitable spectrum of possible replacements *for the assumption*.

 Invariably there are *No* papers to help you in this process B so don't look for them even though the arguments of A demand them. In terms of looking for the "spectrum of alternatives to the assumption", anything that refers to any options online to the assumption or the conclusion of an alternative theory is worth looking at. When looking at an alternate assumption, try to use all the arguments, methodology and mathematics of the established theory apart from that linked to the assumption. When looking at alternative theories, first make sure the argument is *coherent* such that there is flow from the assumptions to the conclusions of the alternative. If there is not, disregard the incoherent aspects of the alternative theory concerned. If there are coherent aspects of an alternative theory, track back to the simplest assumptions and compare notes to the established theory. Take note of the *alternate assumption*, not any other aspects of the alternate theory. As an example, I have successfully extracted some useful alternative assumption from "creation science" without needing to take other assumption unrelated to the wrong assumption of an established scientific theory.

There you have it. Challenge me with an example of an established scientific theory.

Axioms or premises to have a conversation with me about the origin of life as we know it

1. No magic or omnipotence
I am not going to discuss a point if a god (or anything omnipotent or magical or capable of breaking the laws of physics/nature) is going to be invoked either as a conclusion or a starting possibility in any discussion on the origin of life.

2. No argument of "always having existed". I will only have reasonable discussions on this topic if we can agree that there was a time in our universe where life as we know it, did not exist.

3. Abiogenesis as is currently formulated is impossible.
That is, no non-living mixture of any chemical ingredients in any environment, at any complexity can generate anything like life as we know it in terms of metabolism and reproduction.


If anyone reading this can accept all three of these premises (even if just for argument's sake) then I will happily engage in conversation. I can defend these axioms/premises to the hilt. If, when reading this, you believe these axioms to be contradictory, you are obviously not trying hard enough.

PHILAE versus 67P don't forget the AM

Most analysis on why Philae "bounced" on the surface of 67P focus on the various failures of the legs, jet, screws and hooks which, if even one worked well, should have stuck the landing. My hypothesis that I am placing here, is that the landing was indeed stuck, but that the failure to consider the effect of de-spinning the fly-wheel inside Philae when considering the conservation of Angular Momentum (AM) was completely the reason it *jumped and spun*.

Philae would have managed to, with well designed legs and a stable rotation, screw at least one of the legs and be stationary enough, and signal such back to ROSETTA that the landing stuck. One of the first things that Philae then does, is to de-spin the fly wheel. However, with its long legs giving such leverage, the de-spin could have almost been designed to send it flying again.

My ideas for Haumea (Plutoid, TNO)

Haumea has been found to be elongated, with two moons, a ring, and not in hydrostatic equilibrium but rotating fast enough that centrifugal forces match mutual gravity near its extremities.

Knowledge about similar objects out at this distance (Pluto, Charon, Enceladus) have been used together with laws of angular momentum to work out what is physically possible. It ignores formation mechanisms at this point so as to concentrate on what is physically and mechanically possible given observations of Haumea and several other well observed analogues.

Pluto, Charon and Enceladus have been found to have ice shells and liquid water oceans beneath. Geysers on Enceladus go to form a ring at Saturn, so this probably explains the formation of Haumea's ring. Out-jetting of water at speed is what is happening at Enceladus, and this would be enough to torque even such a large body as Haumea. A thick ice shell would be enough to hold up to compression at the neck as the centrifugal force, friction, and conservation of Angular Momentum does the rest.

There will be gradual and even stretching of the neck as angular momentum is increased - in the same way as couples ice-skaters do the "spiral of death"

Tidal friction from the moons and ring keeps the motion circularised in the same way as the skating spin.

Conditions for Contact Binary via collision

This post is to demonstrate that the conditions for CB via collision require highly balanced rotational and translational components in two similarly sized objects for them to retain their individuality as lobes in an otherwise combined object. This to demonstrate both that binary asteroids can not be a source for contact binary asteroids, and that random primordial collisions cannot be either.

1: Formerly connected bodies "reconfiguring"
As shown in a previous blog post, with the real case of couples skaters to demonstrate, bodies twist away from each other to retain angular momentum using their previous independent rotation as a dynamo (at the point of collision in the case of asteroidal bodies)

2: Independently rotating objects colliding from outside each other's hill spheres at "baby crawling" speed.

Inelastic collisions are of course possible for non-rotating (or trivially rotating bodies that collide in the perfect offset to cancel independent rotation). This is because the required collisional/deformation damping is obtained passively and gives a reaction force in the correct direction opposite to motion, and proportionally to motion so that the force stops when the relative velocity between bodies comes to zero.

A head on collision with a random (in observed ranges of possibilities) rotation or offset collision even with no initial rotation makes an inelastic collision impossibly rare given:

Coherent bodies - Mainly solid that can deform but not to the point of liquidity.
The two bodies are of similar size - smaller body is no less than about a third the radius, or no less than a tenth of the moment of inertia in rough figures.


Due to the laws of physics, forces that perform torque on each other must balance.
Overall angular momentum must be conserved.
If work is required to perform torque to change rotation that must be in the amount and direction made possible by friction, reaction force or gravity.

The following is a way to create model to test generated samples to verify this blog's order of magnitude analysis:

http://www.euclideanspace.com/physics/dynamics/collision/threed/index.htm

For a perfectly inelastic collision to ensue, not only relative speeds must be damped to zero, but relative rotation rates must also be damped to zero and still be touching. At the point of touching, the combined bodies' moment of inertia is at the minimum - Therefore, the rotational velocity required to maintain angular momentum is at its maximum. The kinetic energy associated with the required rotation is also at a maximum. There is work required to achieve this synchronised higher rotation unless the initial conditions are perfectly selected. The same fluidity that allows damping of the impact force allows shear perpendicular with the relative spin velocities which would throw the bodies apart further than reactive forces alone could do. In other words, a notionally inelastic collision would convert rotational velocity to inertial frame velocity in all except perfectly tuned cases which are extremely rare given the assumption of random initial spin state.

Friction under tensile stress or associated with outward movement (Stretch) is the only option to passively glue the bodies together keeping coherent orientation. With stretch (or expanding orbit) there is natural damping as the moment of inertia increases for the duo in proportion to its reduced velocity. Whether loosely connected at the neck or two bodies orbiting the barycentre, outward movement from previously connected bodies is the only passive way to stabilise mutual spin.

Pairs skaters use this particular rule of thumb to spectacular effect with the "spiral of death" spin. The technique spirals the (female) skater outwards with her head balanced inches above the ice. The gradual outward release damped with the action of muscles gives exceptional control that appears paradoxical and adds to the appearance of magic levitation of the head off the ice.

Rotational kinematics - possible and impossible spin-ups

In this first case as pictured below, an ice skater takes advantage of the conservation of angular momentum to increase rotational velocity by bringing their arms in. However, forces and torque need to be applied for this to work. The forces must also be balanced with respect to the axis of rotation, otherwise the axis would precess.

A naïve understanding of the forces and torques at play would lead one to believe that pairs skaters (or two co-rotating comet lobes) could come together and corotate quicker due to the conservation of angular momentum. That understanding would be wrong. The main issue is that in the single skater case, the force and torque is made from the outside of the centre of mass. When two co-rotating skaters pull in to each other, there is no way to exert the right forces on each other or the ensemble to torque to the higher speed required for continued co-rotation at a reduced moment of inertia.

This is the same with two co-rotating lobes of a comet or asteroid - neither gravity nor friction (at their points of contact) gives forces in the right direction to provide spin up torque.

Resultant endpoints vary depending on the reaction forces and friction, but none of them end up with the same co-rotating lobes at a faster speed and smaller net moment of inertia (or co-rotating couple at faster speed) 

Why couples figureskaters (and bi-lobe comets) don't do that spin up trick that individual iceskaters do!

It is well known that a figure skater takes advantage of the conservation of angular momentum to achieve incredible speeds of rotation by having their arms outstretched and bringing them in.

Ever wonder why they bring both arms simultaneously?
Or why couples skaters don't/can't pull each other in to achieve spectacular combined rotations?
or why bi-lobe comets don't collapse on the neck and reconfigure to a much faster combined rotation?

In short, the problem is the Coriolis force!
If an ice skater has just one arm outstretched and pulls it in at a rotating reference, the force required to counter the centrifugal force would topple the skater with the skates as the fulcrum and they would precess violently. The equal and opposite arm acting in unison balances the forces required to bring the arms in and all the work exerted on doing this gets converted to torque, spinning up the skilful skater.

With the couples skating this becomes a two body problem. As they pull each other in from outstretched arms, each person's individual moment of inertia is far more than the nominal amount of a single outstretched arm. Therefore, the radial pulling that they can exert on eachother  topples them both over quite effectively. The only way they can exert the torques required to hold them in a configuration is to wrap their arms around each other. Countering the centrifugal force and friction at their contact points is not enough to effect the principle, as it CANNOT prevent the two persons from spinning independently from each other, conserving angular momentum both individually and as a non rigid unit.

This principle, when applied to a bi-lobed comet like 67-P Churyumov-Geramisenko means that a partial collapse of the neck which allows mutual gravity to pull them closer together could not result in a faster rotation keeping the same configuration in the rotating reference frame.

 However, if the lobes rocked at the neck with a slight precession, the same configuration could be kept and the rotation restabilised with less precession if the neck lengthened and the friction caused a slower mutual rotation in the same configuration in the rotating reference frame.

This is exactly the same principle that couple skaters use to stabilise the rotation when doing death defying spins with the female skater's head just inches above the ice. A gradual lengthening of the arm under tension dampens any wobble in the spin allowing complete and graceful control of the spin.

Anuket Boulder move timing and Cause identified

The 67P C-P change concerned is documented by the ESA here http://sci.esa.int/rosetta/58915-comet-changes-new-fracture-and-boulder-movement-in-anuket/

Published in March 2017 Copyright ESA website.

The Boulder movement concerned was, however, first documented in this blog here http://marcoparigi.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/anuket-near-crack-changes.html?m=1

This resulted in a lively discussion on the Rosetta Blog regarding the veracity of the observed change, and a detailed photographic demonstration of the move in another blog here

https://scute1133site.wordpress.com/2016/08/18/part-55-marco-parigis-moving-boulder-close-analysis-proves-hes-right/

With newly released OSIRIS images released for July and August 2015, detailed analysis shows that an Imhotep style slump occurred centred near the Anuket crack, expanding in a roughly circular direction, and was roughly 5 m deep. Through July, the expanding slump is shown to have reached the Western most boulder, but not as far as the other two boulders of the visible triad. Images get blurrier as Rosetta needed to move further away as perihelion progressed into August 2015. However, the moving ridge front of the circular arc makes a distinct shadow, and the late July 2015 images show the slump to have moved past the boulder, toppling it down the 5m slump and causing it to slide or roll a further 15m or so in a Westerly direction relative to nearby fiduciary points.

The resultant slump is visible in the post perihelion pictures here, http://sci.esa.int/science-e-media/img/23/ESA_Rosetta_CometChanges_FractureBoulder.jpg

Liquid water on comets assertion

With regards to liquid water on comets, my thoughts conclude that although evidence is circumstantial in the terms of supposed solar system origins, liquid water as mud in comets interior will eventually be proven - most likely in the next couple of decades. The corollaries to this is that the only possible way to reconcile this to measured data is to include life in comets, stretch as a way that bilobate shapes are formed, and tectonic style surface movements to explain surface features.

Objections to liquids on comets addressed:

1. There is no evidence for liquid water: 

This is not strictly correct at all, as there is indirect evidence from many comet missions. Panspermia advocates are a group of scientists who note that the evidence is entirely consistent with there being liquid water in comets. There are no contradictions from Rosetta, and many otherwise unexplained surface features that have easy explanations if internal liquid water mud is hypothesised.

2. The connection between O2 and water rules out liquid water because liquid water cannot dissolve a level of O2 that high: 

O2 was in fact considered impossibly unlikely until the Rosetta mission discovered it. Liquid water, molecular oxygen and life are all considered impossibly unlikely on small bodies, but all three are abundant on Earth and are connected to each other - ie. Life needs O2 and water - forms of life generate O2 and require water etc. An alternate explanation for both O2 and Water abundances is a pressurised interior, with abundant life which generates O2 among other respiration byproducts.

3. The temperatures and pressures both within and outside small body categorically rule out liquid water:

Clearly the surface is exposed to vacuum, which rules out surface liquid water. At hydrostatic equilibrium, the interior also cannot hold liquid water. However, if the interior was somehow sealed and able to hold at least .006 Atm pressure, and was, for whatever reason, warmer than the surface average temperature over its orbital cycle, then liquid water would be certain, given outgassing patterns.

4. Incredible claims require incredibly convincing evidence.

This is a common theme when alien life is posited as part of a narrative of what is happening. There are two possibilities - alien life is either 100% true or 100% false (in a comet in this case) If it is 100% true, then it isn't an incredible claim. Since we surmise the probability of life on a body based on the surmised possibility of liquid water, the argument that O2 is inconsistent its liquid water is a circular argument based on the assumption that alien life on a comet is impossible.

Ie. There is no liquid water because the O2 rules it out, there can be no life because there is no liquid water, therefore life cannot explain the O2.

So liquid water should not be ruled out until an actual internal measurement is made.

5. Comets are unchanged remnants from the early solar system. This rules out narratives where comets could evolve into what they are now.

All the factors that lean towards comets being pristine remnants (until the recent epoch of entering the inner solar system) can have other explanations, especially if life is part of the explanation. For instance, low density leans towards these not having been part of larger bodies. The activities of life within these bodies could have reduced the density (increased porosity) over time, meaning they could have been fragments of larger bodies (perhaps that had life as larger bodies)

Recombinant Fission in 67P comet nucleus

As suggested in a recent peer reviewed paper:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v534/n7607/full/nature17670.html

Hirabayashi et al

Stresses due to "rocking" of the lobes of 67P are likely to cause "fission" - that is a complete separation of the two lobes, but then "reconfiguration" of the two lobes due to their relative velocity being less than escape velocity.

What hasn't yet been considered is that at an instantaneous level, this process is happening repeatedly already! The fractures are causing the two lobes to instantaneously act as separate bodies. Internal frictional forces only then come into play and have a rebalancing effect. The rebalancing is effected by an exchange of angular momentum as the lobes rock relative to each other. Instantaneously fluidised material near the core of the nucleus is attracted outwards by the gravity of the closest lobe rather than the centre of gravity of the entire nucleus. The net effect of this stepwise recombinant fission is that the centres of gravity of the individual lobes move slightly further apart. While the outgassing of the comet is speeding the rotation considerably, the recombinant fission  is effecting a slight braking manoeuvre due to the conservation of angular momentum. 

Friction has the dual effect of damping the precession, and rebalancing the lobes on the neck, a little like a spinning top keeps upright if it can keep spinning. A spinning top has the disadvantage of not having jet "propulsion" and the friction eventually slows a top down to a speed that topples it, while the comet nucleus has a net propulsive torque that keeps the neck balanced even as it gets skinnier due to repeated recombinant fission.

The changes I have found on Anuket are the surface evidence that this recombinant fission is ongoing. The other points of evidence are that there is no torque free precession - implying the damping necessary is evident.

Timing for Anuket (Sah) collapse. - NOT perihelion

This is an extension of the changes noted in this post:

http://marcoparigi.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/more-on-rockfall-area.html

And

http://marcoparigi.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/rockfall-in-anuket-sah-region.html

These changes were thought more likely to have occurred during the time of greatest activity, in mid to late 2015, but the evidence points to a far later collapse.

Image of region in January 2015 

Image in December 2014 for verification of ridge shape:

Image in February (18th) 2016 below: Main rockfall not happened.

Following image shows the Sah area on the February 21st 2016 but angle is not ideal:

Image on March 1st 2016 clearly shows rockfall. 

The conclusion from these images is that the rockfall happened no earlier than 18th of February 2016, and no later than the 1st of March 2016.  OSIRIS WAC and NAC images could narrow this down considerably.

Image Credits

FOR NAVCAM
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FOR OSIRIS
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DyASP/IDA/
All lines and dotted annotations by Marco Parigi