I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered…I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies… The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” –Thomas Jefferson

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. –Benjamin Franklin

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. –Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. –Benjaimn Franklin

Men will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants. –Benjamin Franklin

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature. –Benjamin Franklin

This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. –Benjamin Franklin

“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” –Thomas Jefferson

“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” –Samuel Adams

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Literature is not conformism, but dissent. Those authors who merely repeat what everybody approves and wants to hear are of no importance. What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones. He is by necessity anti-authoritarian and anti-governmental, irreconcilably opposed to the immense majority of his contemporaries. He is precisely the author whose books the greater part of the public does not buy.

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–The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality p. 51 Literature , Ludwig von Mises

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not. Joseph Schumpeter: — Part I, Chapter III, pg.21

As a matter of fact, capitalist economy is not and cannot be stationary. Nor is it merely expanding in a steady manner. It is incessantly being revolutionized from within by new enterprise, i.e., by the intrusion of new commodities or new methods of production or new commercial opportunities into the industrial structure as it exists at any moment.

–Jospeh Schumpeter * Part I, Chapter III, pg.31

The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U. S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation-if I may use that biological term-that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

–Joseph Schumpeter * Part II, Chapter VII, pg.83

* Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious. –Joseph Schumpeter
o Part IV, Chapter XX, Section I, pg.235

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. –Joseph A. Schumpeter

Ludwig von Mises In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrants feet. Then the oppressed many will rise in rebellion and overthrow their masters. –Ludwig von Mises, Theory and History p. 372 Ideas

Ludwig von Mises: Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things. Theory and History p. 96 Ideas

Ludwig von Mises: Everything that is thought, done and accomplished is a performance of individuals. New ideas and innovations are always an achievement of uncommon men. Human Action pp. 859-60; p. 863 Genius

Ludwig von Mises: Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. . . . The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned or, at least, adds something new to it. Bureaucracy p. 71 Education

Ludwig von Mises: Action is purposive conduct. It is not simply behavior, but behavior begot by judgments of value, aiming at a definite end and guided by ideas concerning the suitability or unsuitability of definite means. . . . It is conscious behavior. It is choosing. It is volition; it is a display of the will. The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science p. 34 Action

Ludwig von Mises: Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage. Planned Chaos p. 90 Socialism

Ludwig von Mises: Most men are accessible to new ideas only in their youth. With the progress of age the ability to welcome them diminishes, and the knowledge acquired earlier turns into dogma. Epistemological Problems of Economics p. 184 Youth

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Austrian Economics Entrepreneurship: Mises, Hayek, & Schumpter Devoted
to exalting heroic Austrian Economists such as Ludwig von Mises,
Joseph Schumpeter, and F.A. Hayek and entrepreneurship.

Austrian Economics Entrepreneurship
The Greatest Investment Autumn, 2008
by Dr. Elliot McGucken

Entrepreneurship cannot be taught. But in no way does this mean there
is nothing to teach in a class devoted to entrepreneurship. We must
teach of liberty’s ideals and the precepts underlying our precious,
exalted freedom. We must battle for the soul of capitalism; and this
has ever been done best by those brave men who acquainted themselves
with the classics’ immortal ideals in books written pages, and then
took rugged action in rendeirng those ideals real in living ventures,
as did our Founding Fathers.

Thus a class devoted to Entreprneurship–to the supposed bottom line–
is actually a class devoted to the higher ideals. And so it is that I
flipped the script on the modern university, by sneaking the Great
Books back onto the debt-based campus in a Trojan Horse called The
Hero’s Journey in Arts Entreprenuership & Technology.

“The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail” –Joseph
Schumpeter

“What warrants success in a fight for freedom and civilization is not
merely material equipment but first of all the spirit that animates
those handling the weapons. This heroic spirit cannot be bought by
inflation.” –Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit, p. 469

“The essential characteristic of Western civilization that
distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the
East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of
the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day
resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for
liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.” –Ludwig von
Mises

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the
law. –Hayek

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual
adventure, a deed of courage. What we lack is a liberal Utopia, a
programme which seems neither a mere defence of things as they are nor
a diluted kind of socialism, but a truly liberal radicalism which does
not spare the susceptibilities of the mighty (including the trade
unions), which is not too severely practical and which does not
confine itself to what appears today as politically possible.Those who
have concerned themselves exclusively with what seemed practicable in
the existing state of opinion have constantly found that even this has
rapidly become politically impossible as the result of changes in a
public opinion which they have done nothing to guide. Unless we can
make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living
intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the
ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of
freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in power of
ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not
lost. –F.A. Hayek, Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
(1967)

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of
his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the
dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom. –F.A. Hayek

Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle . . . of turning a
stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating
the seed corn. –Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom, p. 71 Keynes

A work of art is an attempt to experience the universe as a whole. One
cannot analyze or dissect it into parts and comment on it without
destroying its intrinsic character. –Ludwig von Mises

Economic affairs cannot be kept going by magistrates and policemen. –
Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit, p. 282 Coercion

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are
precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them. –Ludwig
von Mises, Human Action, p. 311 p. 314

Ludwig von Mises –”An entrepreneur cannot be trained.” Human Action
p. 311 p. 314

Ludwig von Mises The creative spirit innovates necessarily. It must
press forward. It must destroy the old and set the new in its place..
Progress cannot be organized. –Ludwig von Mises, Socialism p. 167
Genius

One cannot organize or institutionalize the emergence of new ideas.
The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science Ludwig von Mises p. 129
Ideas

A nation cannot prosper if its members are not fully aware of the fact
that what alone can improve their conditions is more and better
production. And this can only be brought about by increased saving and
capital accumulation. Planning for Freedom pp. 92-93 Material Well-
Being –Ludwig von Mises

The general intellectual climate which this produces, the spirit of
complete cynicism as regards truth which it engenders, the loss of the
sense of even the meaning of truth, the disappearance of the spirit of
independent inquiry…. Perhaps the most alarming fact is that
contempt for intellectual liberty is not a thing which arises only
once the totalitarian system is established but one which can be found
everywhere among intellectuals who have embraced a collectivist faith
and who are acclaimed as intellectual leaders even in countries still
under a liberal regime. –F.A. Hayek

In the etatist state entrepreneurs are at the mercy of officialdom.
Officials enjoy discretion to decide questions on which the existence
of every firm depends. They are practically free to ruin any
entrepreneur they want to. They had the power not only to silence
these objectors but even to force them to contribute to the party
funds of nationalism. –Mises

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue
of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks
and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks),
will deprive the people of their property until their children will
wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. –Thomas
Jefferson in 1802 in a letter to then Secretary of the Treasury,
Albert Gallatin

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is
individualism. –Mises

Individualism resulted in the fall of autocratic government, the
establishment of democracy, the evolution of capitalism, technical
improvements, and an unprecedented rise in standards of living. It
substituted enlightenment for old superstitions, scientific methods of
research for inveterate prejudices. –Mises

It was in the climate created by this capitalistic system of
individualism that all the modern intellectual achievements thrived. –
Mises

“The system of private property is the most important guarantee of
freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for
those who do not.” –F.A. Hayek

“Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend
the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to
unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.” –Ludwig Von
Mises

“[Socialists] promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they
plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office.” –Ludwig Von
Mises

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property
is inextricably linked with civilization. –Ludwig von Mises,
Government and Civil Society

“Economics deals with society’s fundamental problems; it concerns
everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every
citizen.” –Ludwig von Mises

“Even more significant of the inherent weakness of the collectivist
theories is the extraordinary paradox that from the assertion that
society is in some sense more than merely the aggregate of all
individuals their adherents regularly pass by a sort of intellectual
somersault to the thesis that in order that the coherence of this
larger entity be safeguarded it must be subjected to conscious
control, that is, to the control of what in the last resort must be an
individual mind. It thus comes about that in practice it is regularly
the theoretical collectivist who extols individual reason and demands
that all forces of society be made subject to the direction of a
single mastermind, while it is the individualist who recognizes the
limitations of the powers of individual reason and consequently
advocates freedom as a means for the fullest development of the powers
of the interindividual process.” –F.A. Hayek

“I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to
discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is
due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from
purely scientific questions into value questions. This is a belief
deliberately maintained by the other side because if they admitted
that the issue is not a scientific question, they would have to admit
that their science is antiquated and that, in academic circles, it
occupies the position of astrology and not one that has any
justification for serious consideration in scientific discussion. It
seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in
academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are
entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
Conversation at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research, Washington, D.C. (9 February 1978); published in A
Conversation with Friedrich A. Von Hayek: Science and Socialism
(1979)” –F.A. Hayek

“If man is not to do more harm than good in his efforts to improve the
social order, he will have to learn that in this, as in all other
fields where essential complexity of an organized kind prevails, he
cannot acquire the full knowledge which would make mastery of the
events possible. He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can
achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his
handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the
appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this
for his plants.” –F.A. Hayek, Nobel Lecture of December 11, 1974, The
Pretence of Knowledge

Austrian Economics Entrepreneurship: Mises, Hayek, & Schumpter

Austrian Economics Entrepreneurship: Mises, Hayek, & Schumpter

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http://artsentrepreneurship.com

Aritsotle–”story is not about men, but about actions.”

Literature is not conformism, but dissent. Those authors who merely repeat what everybody approves and wants to hear are of no importance. What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones. He is by necessity anti-authoritarian and anti-governmental, irreconcilably opposed to the immense majority of his contemporaries. He is precisely the author whose books the greater part of the public does not buy.

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–The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality p. 51 Literature , Ludwig von Mises

Ludwig von Mises In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrants feet. Then the oppressed many will rise in rebellion and overthrow their masters. –Ludwig von Mises, Theory and History p. 372 Ideas

Ludwig von Mises: Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things. Theory and History p. 96 Ideas

Ludwig von Mises: Everything that is thought, done and accomplished is a performance of individuals. New ideas and innovations are always an achievement of uncommon men. Human Action pp. 859-60; p. 863 Genius

Ludwig von Mises: Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. . . . The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned or, at least, adds something new to it. Bureaucracy p. 71 Education

Ludwig von Mises: Action is purposive conduct. It is not simply behavior, but behavior begot by judgments of value, aiming at a definite end and guided by ideas concerning the suitability or unsuitability of definite means. . . . It is conscious behavior. It is choosing. It is volition; it is a display of the will. The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science p. 34 Action

Ludwig von Mises: Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage. Planned Chaos p. 90 Socialism

Ludwig von Mises: Most men are accessible to new ideas only in their youth. With the progress of age the ability to welcome them diminishes, and the knowledge acquired earlier turns into dogma. Epistemological Problems of Economics p. 184 Youth

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Austrian Economics Entrepreneurship: Mises, Hayek, & Schumpter Devoted
to exalting heroic Austrian Economists such as Ludwig von Mises,
Joseph Schumpeter, and F.A. Hayek and entrepreneurship.

Austrian Economics Entrepreneurship
The Greatest Investment Autumn, 2008
by Dr. Elliot McGucken

Entrepreneurship cannot be taught. But in no way does this mean there
is nothing to teach in a class devoted to entrepreneurship. We must
teach of liberty’s ideals and the precepts underlying our precious,
exalted freedom. We must battle for the soul of capitalism; and this
has ever been done best by those brave men who acquainted themselves
with the classics’ immortal ideals in books written pages, and then
took rugged action in rendeirng those ideals real in living ventures,
as did our Founding Fathers.

Thus a class devoted to Entreprneurship–to the supposed bottom line–
is actually a class devoted to the higher ideals. And so it is that I
flipped the script on the modern university, by sneaking the Great
Books back onto the debt-based campus in a Trojan Horse called The
Hero’s Journey in Arts Entreprenuership & Technology.

“The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail” –Joseph
Schumpeter

“What warrants success in a fight for freedom and civilization is not
merely material equipment but first of all the spirit that animates
those handling the weapons. This heroic spirit cannot be bought by
inflation.” –Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit, p. 469

“The essential characteristic of Western civilization that
distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the
East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of
the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day
resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for
liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.” –Ludwig von
Mises

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the
law. –Hayek

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual
adventure, a deed of courage. What we lack is a liberal Utopia, a
programme which seems neither a mere defence of things as they are nor
a diluted kind of socialism, but a truly liberal radicalism which does
not spare the susceptibilities of the mighty (including the trade
unions), which is not too severely practical and which does not
confine itself to what appears today as politically possible.Those who
have concerned themselves exclusively with what seemed practicable in
the existing state of opinion have constantly found that even this has
rapidly become politically impossible as the result of changes in a
public opinion which they have done nothing to guide. Unless we can
make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living
intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the
ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of
freedom are indeed dark. But if we can regain that belief in power of
ideas which was the mark of liberalism at its best, the battle is not
lost. –F.A. Hayek, Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics
(1967)

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of
his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the
dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom. –F.A. Hayek

Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle . . . of turning a
stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating
the seed corn. –Ludwig von Mises, Planning for Freedom, p. 71 Keynes

A work of art is an attempt to experience the universe as a whole. One
cannot analyze or dissect it into parts and comment on it without
destroying its intrinsic character. –Ludwig von Mises

Economic affairs cannot be kept going by magistrates and policemen. –
Ludwig von Mises, The Theory of Money and Credit, p. 282 Coercion

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are
precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them. –Ludwig
von Mises, Human Action, p. 311 p. 314

Ludwig von Mises –”An entrepreneur cannot be trained.” Human Action
p. 311 p. 314

Ludwig von Mises The creative spirit innovates necessarily. It must
press forward. It must destroy the old and set the new in its place..
Progress cannot be organized. –Ludwig von Mises, Socialism p. 167
Genius

One cannot organize or institutionalize the emergence of new ideas.
The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science Ludwig von Mises p. 129
Ideas

A nation cannot prosper if its members are not fully aware of the fact
that what alone can improve their conditions is more and better
production. And this can only be brought about by increased saving and
capital accumulation. Planning for Freedom pp. 92-93 Material Well-
Being –Ludwig von Mises

The general intellectual climate which this produces, the spirit of
complete cynicism as regards truth which it engenders, the loss of the
sense of even the meaning of truth, the disappearance of the spirit of
independent inquiry…. Perhaps the most alarming fact is that
contempt for intellectual liberty is not a thing which arises only
once the totalitarian system is established but one which can be found
everywhere among intellectuals who have embraced a collectivist faith
and who are acclaimed as intellectual leaders even in countries still
under a liberal regime. –F.A. Hayek

In the etatist state entrepreneurs are at the mercy of officialdom.
Officials enjoy discretion to decide questions on which the existence
of every firm depends. They are practically free to ruin any
entrepreneur they want to. They had the power not only to silence
these objectors but even to force them to contribute to the party
funds of nationalism. –Mises

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue
of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks
and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks),
will deprive the people of their property until their children will
wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. –Thomas
Jefferson in 1802 in a letter to then Secretary of the Treasury,
Albert Gallatin

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is
individualism. –Mises

Individualism resulted in the fall of autocratic government, the
establishment of democracy, the evolution of capitalism, technical
improvements, and an unprecedented rise in standards of living. It
substituted enlightenment for old superstitions, scientific methods of
research for inveterate prejudices. –Mises

It was in the climate created by this capitalistic system of
individualism that all the modern intellectual achievements thrived. –
Mises

“The system of private property is the most important guarantee of
freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for
those who do not.” –F.A. Hayek

“Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend
the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to
unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.” –Ludwig Von
Mises

“[Socialists] promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they
plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office.” –Ludwig Von
Mises

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property
is inextricably linked with civilization. –Ludwig von Mises,
Government and Civil Society

“Economics deals with society’s fundamental problems; it concerns
everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every
citizen.” –Ludwig von Mises

“Even more significant of the inherent weakness of the collectivist
theories is the extraordinary paradox that from the assertion that
society is in some sense more than merely the aggregate of all
individuals their adherents regularly pass by a sort of intellectual
somersault to the thesis that in order that the coherence of this
larger entity be safeguarded it must be subjected to conscious
control, that is, to the control of what in the last resort must be an
individual mind. It thus comes about that in practice it is regularly
the theoretical collectivist who extols individual reason and demands
that all forces of society be made subject to the direction of a
single mastermind, while it is the individualist who recognizes the
limitations of the powers of individual reason and consequently
advocates freedom as a means for the fullest development of the powers
of the interindividual process.” –F.A. Hayek

“I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to
discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is
due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from
purely scientific questions into value questions. This is a belief
deliberately maintained by the other side because if they admitted
that the issue is not a scientific question, they would have to admit
that their science is antiquated and that, in academic circles, it
occupies the position of astrology and not one that has any
justification for serious consideration in scientific discussion. It
seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in
academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are
entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
Conversation at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research, Washington, D.C. (9 February 1978); published in A
Conversation with Friedrich A. Von Hayek: Science and Socialism
(1979)” –F.A. Hayek

“If man is not to do more harm than good in his efforts to improve the
social order, he will have to learn that in this, as in all other
fields where essential complexity of an organized kind prevails, he
cannot acquire the full knowledge which would make mastery of the
events possible. He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can
achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his
handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the
appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this
for his plants.” –F.A. Hayek, Nobel Lecture of December 11, 1974, The
Pretence of Knowledge

Austrian Economics Entrepreneurship: Mises, Hayek, & Schumpter

Austrian Economics Entrepreneurship: Mises, Hayek, & Schumpter

http://herosjourneyentrepreneurship.org

http://artsentrepreneurship.com

http://tinyurl.com/yfjf865

perhaps you missed “Dr. Ranger McCoy’s” (an alias) bio and recomendation from John A. Wheeler–Einstein’s colleague and Feynman’s mentor/advisor/collaborator?

http://fqxi.org/data/forum-attachments/1_ja_wheeler_recommendation_mcgucken_medium2.jpg

Author Bio

“Dr. E” received a B.A. in physics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in physics from UNC Chapel Hill, where his research on an artificial retina, which is now helping the blind see, appeared in Business Week and Popular Science and was awarded a Merrill Lynch Innovations Grant. While at Princeton, McGucken worked on projects concerning quantum mechanics and general relativity with the late John Wheeler, and the projects combined to form an appendix treating time as an emergent phenomenon in his dissertation. McGucken is writing a book for the Artistic Entrepreneurship & Technology (artsentrepreneurship.com) curriculum he created.

“More intellectual curiosity, versatility and yen for physics than Elliot McGucken’s I have never seen in any senior or graduate student. . . Originality, powerful motivation, and a can-do spirit make me think that McGucken is a top bet for graduate school in physics. . . I say this on the basis of close contacts with him over the past year and a half. . . I gave him as an independent task to figure out the time factor in the standard Schwarzchild expression around a spherically symmetric center of attraction. I gave him the proofs of my new general-audience, calculus-free book on general relativity, A Journey Into Gravity and Space Time. There the space part of the Schwarzchild geometric is worked out by purely geometric methods. “Can you, by poor-man’s reasoning, derive what I never have, the time part?” He could and did, and wrote it all up in a beautifully clear account. . . .his second junior paper . . .entitled Within a Context, was done with another advisor, and dealt with an entirely different part of physics, the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky experiment and delayed choice experiments in general. . . this paper was so outstanding. . . I am absolutely delighted that this semester McGucken is doing a project with the cyclotron group on time reversal asymmetry. Electronics, machine-shop work and making equipment function are things in which he now revels. But he revels in Shakespeare, too. Acting the part of Prospero in the Tempest. . . ” –John Archibald Wheeler, Princeton University, Recommendation for Elliot McGucken for Admission to Graduate School of Physics

“(Wheeler) had been the last notable figure from the heroic age of physics lingering among us — a man who could claim to be the student of Bohr, teacher of Feynman, and close colleague of Einstein.” –Colby Cosh, network.nationalpost.com

The above ad hominem attack from Yokanise, who seems to be part of the Sean Carroll “wormhole/baby universe/multiverse/scrambled-egg = big bang” bookselling camp constitute gross libel and defamation, which seems to be par for the Carrollian course.

At any rate, here are two excellent papers I have come across regarding MDT:

http://www.fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/238

http://www.fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/511

I look forward to discussing them here and here:

TOPIC: Time as an Emergent Phenomenon: Traveling Back to the Heroic Age of Physics by Elliot McGucken [refresh]

Elliot McGucken wrote on Aug. 25, 2008 @ 18:38 GMT Essay Abstract

In his 1912 Manuscript on Relativity, Einstein never stated that time is the fourth dimension, but rather he wrote x4 = ict. The fourth dimension is not time, but ict. Despite this, prominent physicists have oft equated time and the fourth dimension, leading to un-resolvable paradoxes and confusion regarding time’s physical nature, as physicists mistakenly projected properties of the three spatial dimensions onto a time dimension, resulting in curious concepts including frozen time and block universes in which the past and future are omni-present, thusly denying free will, while implying the possibility of time travel into the past, which visitors from the future have yet to verify. Beginning with the postulate that time is an emergent phenomenon resulting from a fourth dimension expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c, diverse phenomena from relativity, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics are accounted for. Time dilation, the equivalence of mass and energy, nonlocality, wave-particle duality, and entropy are shown to arise from a common, deeper physical reality expressed with dx4/dt=ic. This postulate and equation, from which Einstein’s relativity is derived, presents a fundamental model accounting for the emergence of time, the constant velocity of light, the fact that the maximum velocity is c, and the fact that c is independent of the velocity of the source, as photons are but matter surfing a fourth expanding dimension. In general relativity, Einstein showed that the dimensions themselves could bend, curve, and move. The present theory extends this principle, postulating that the fourth dimension is moving independently of the three spatial dimensions, distributing locality and fathering time. This physical model underlies and accounts for time in quantum mechanics, relativity, and statistical mechanics, as well as entropy, the universe’s expansion, and time’s arrows.

Author Bio

“Dr. E” received a B.A. in physics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in physics from UNC Chapel Hill, where his research on an artificial retina, which is now helping the blind see, appeared in Business Week and Popular Science and was awarded a Merrill Lynch Innovations Grant. While at Princeton, McGucken worked on projects concerning quantum mechanics and general relativity with the late John Wheeler, and the projects combined to form an appendix treating time as an emergent phenomenon in his dissertation. McGucken is writing a book for the Artistic Entrepreneurship & Technology (artsentrepreneurship.com) curriculum he created.

CATEGORY: What’s Ultimately Possible in Physics? Essay Contest [back]
TOPIC: What is Ultimately Possible in Physics? Physics! A Hero’s Journey with Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Planck, Einstein, Schrodinger, Bohr, and the Greats towards Moving Dimensions Theory. E pur si muove! by Dr. Elliot McGucken [refresh]

Author Dr. Elliot McGucken wrote on Sep. 16, 2009 @ 14:14 GMT Essay Abstract

Over the past few decades prominent physicists have noted that physics has diverged away from its heroic journey defined by boldly describing, fathoming, and characterizing foundational truths of physical reality via simple, elegant, logically-consistent postulates and equations humbling themselves before empirical reality. Herein the spirit of physics is again exalted by the heroic words of the Greats—by Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Schrodinger—the Founding Fathers upon whose shoulders physics stands. And from that pinnacle, a novel physical theory is proposed, complete with a novel physical model celebrating a hitherto unsung universal invariant and an equation reflecting the foundational physical reality of a fourth dimension expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c, or dx4/dt=ic, providing both the “elementary foundations” for relativity and QM’s “characteristic trait”—entanglement, and its nonlocal, probabilistic nature. From MDT’s experimentally-verified equation relativity is derived while time is unfrozen and free will exalted, while a physical model accounting for quantum nonlocality is presented. Entropy, Huygens’ Principle; the wave/particle, energy/mass, space/time, and E/B dualities; and time and all its arrows and asymmetries emerge from a common, foundational physical model. MDT exalts Einstein’s “empirical facts,” “naturalness,” and “logical simplicity.” For the first time in the history of relativity, change is woven into the fabric of space-time, and the timeless, ageless, nonlocal photon of Galileo’s/Einstein’s “empirical world” is explained via a foundational physical model, alongside the fact that c is both constant and the maximum velocity in the universe. The empirical GPS clocks’ time dilation/twins paradox is resolved by proposing a frame of absolute rest—the three spatial dimensions, and a frame of absolute motion—the fourth expanding dimension upon which ageless photons of zero rest mass surf; which underlie and give rise to Einstein’s Principle of Relativity.

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If,

by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;

If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run -

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!

The Road not Taken,

by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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The 45SURF philosophy is that the most exalted beauty is the free, fun, and natural beauty, which is what we shoot for out there.  High tide or low tide, cloudy or sunny, or morning, noon, or night—the beach is the world’s greatest studio.

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Elliot McGucken decided to straddle the two worlds. After he earned a doctoral degree in physics/electrical engineering, Dr. McGucken considered himself “fortunate” to get a teaching job at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C., and to continue his engineering research.

But then, last year, he won the Innovation Grants Competition sponsored by Merrill Lynch Forum (for an artificial retina chipset for the blind), the virtual think tank of the financial-services company. The contest, now in its second year, gives out $150,000 in prizes for Ph.D.s, and their institutions, who find commercial applications for their research.

After winning the contest, he got to tour the New York Stock Exchange. Dr. McGucken caught the entrepreneurial bug. Eventually, he launched jollyroger.com, an Internet company devoted to his longtime passions: writing and classical literature. —The Wall Street Journal

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.  –Carl Jung

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values—that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.  –Martin Luther King Jr.

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A people great and strong;

Men who for truth and honor’s sake

Stand fast and suffer long.

Brave men who work while others sleep

Who dare while others fly—

They build a nation’s pillars deep,

And lift them to the sky. — Ralph Waldo Emmerson

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

—Henry David Thoreau

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest riches.

— Euripides

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. . . Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” –June 12th 2005, Steve Jobs commencement address at Stanford University

In 2008, I had the great honor of meeting Russell Simmons while serving as a mentor in his Race to Be program promoting entrepreneurship.  My class enjoys his book Do You!  12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success.

Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty. –Russell Simmons

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle. –Russell Simmons

The thing about hip-hop is that it’s from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.  –Russell Simmons

The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool’). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought.” And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice. –from Do You! –Russell Simmons

Money doesn’t make u happy, but happy makes u money!!!  (Echoing the common ethic to hold the higher ideals and bliss over the bottom line, as well as Socrates’ maxim that virtue does not come fomr money, but that money and every lasting good of man derive from virtue.) –Russell Simmons

I became an entrepreneur by mistake. Ever since then I’ve gone into business, not to make money, but because I think I can do it better than it’s been done elsewhere. And, quite often, just out of personal frustration about the way it’s been done by other people. –Sir Richard Branson, As stated in an interview with Martyn Lewis , Reflections on Success (1997)

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around. –Sir Richard Branson, From his interview in The Sunday Mirror, 16th January 2000

Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies. –Sir Richard Branson, From his interview in The Sunday Mirror, 16th January 2000.

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