The Resolution of the Great 20th Century Debate in the Foundations of Mathematics

The paper resolves the great debate of the 20th century between the three philosophies of mathematics-logicism, intuitionism and formalism—founded by Bertrand Russell and A. N. Whitehead, L. E. J. Brouwer and David Hilbert, respectively. The issue: which one provides firm foundations for mathematics? None of them won the debate. We make a critique of each, consolidate their contributions, rectify their weakness and add our own to resolve the debate. The resolution forms the new foundations of mathematics. Then we apply the new foundations to assess the status of Hilbert’s 23 problems most of which in foundations and find out which ones have been solved, which ones have flawed solutions that we rectify and which ones are open problems. Problem 6 of Hilbert’s problems—Can physics be axiomatized?—is answered yes in E. E. Escultura, Nonlinear Analysis, A-Series: 69(2008), which provides the solution, namely, the grand unified theory (GUT). We also point to the resolution of the 379-year-old Fermat’s conjecture (popularly known as Fermat’s last theorem) in E. E. Escultura, Exact Solutions of Fermat’s Equations (Definitive Resolution of Fermat’s Last Theorem), Nonlinear Studies, 5(2), (1998). Likewise, the proof of the 274-year-old Goldbach’s conjecture is in E. E. Escultura, The New Mathematics and Physics, Applied Mathematics and Computation, 138(1), 2003.

Electromagnetic Treatment of Genetic Diseases

The paper offers an overview of quantum and macro gravity, two of the three pillars of the Grand Unified Theory (GUT), the other thermodynamics, developed in a series of papers since the solution of the gravitational n-body problem in 1997 (J. Nonlinear Analysis, A-Series: Theory, Methods and Applications, Vol. 30, No. 8, 1997, pp. 5021 - 5032) and consolidated in the paper, The Grand Unified Theory (J. Nonlinear Analysis, A-Series: Theory: Method and Applications, Vol. 69, No. 3, 2008, pp. 823 - 831). GUT is further advanced by the paper, The Mathematics of GUT (J. Nonlinear Analysis, A-Series: Theory: Method and Applications, Vol. 71, 2009, pp. e420 - e431) and the discovery of more natural laws in the course of analyzing and explaining the disastrous final flight of the Columbia Space Shuttle in 2004 (J. Nonlinear Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2007, pp. 241 - 260). Qualitative modeling was the key to the development of GUT and its theoretical and practical applications. The relevant natural laws of GUT that provide the foundations of the Unified Theory of Evolution are stated. GUT provides the basis for the development of the electromagnetic engine and the Unified Theory of Evolution, its theoretical application, for the development of appropriate technology for electromagnetic treatment of genetic diseases such as cancer, systemic lupos erythematosus, diabetes, muscular dystrophy and mental disorder, the central focus of this paper.

Extending Electromagnetic Treatment to Infectious Diseases including the Ebola Virus

A blueprint for research and development for design and development of suitable electromagnetic treatment of genetic diseases (Escultura, Journal of Biomaterials and Nanobiotechnology, 3(2), 2012) known as genetic sterilization is applied to infectious diseases including viruses. It is based on the Grand Unified Theory (Escultura, Nonlinear Analysis, A-Series, 69(3), 2008) and the Unified Theory of Evolution (Escultura, The Journal of the Science of Healing Outcomes, 2015). Since every physical characteristic of living thing is determined by a gene, so is the undesirable symptom of a disease. For virus, its undesirable symptom is determined principally by the wavelength of the natural vibration of its gene as sequence of base materials which is equal to its measure as a segment of a double helix. Radiation with wavelength equal to this measure will resonate with it. Raising its intensity suitably will sterilize the gene, stop its spread and render it harmless to the host;then the disease is treated without harm to normal cells. Another treatment is establishing resonance with radiation of wavelength equal to the measure of the virus (protein strand with the gene) across;raising its intensity suitably will burn the virus without side effect (since it is much smaller than normal cells).

The Logic and Fundamental Concepts of the Grand Unified Theory

The grand unified theory (GUT) originated in mathematics with this question: why are there long standing unsolved problems in mathematics, e.g., Fermat’s conjecture (also known as Fermat’s last theorem (FLT))? The answer came quickly: its underlying fields—foundations and the real number system—are defective. In particular, formal logic is inapplicable to mathematics (language of science) and the real number system is inconsistent. Critique-rectification of these fields was undertaken leading to a new mathematical methodology and the consistent new real number system that provides the main mathematics of GUT. Similar question was posed in physics: why are there long standing problems, e.g., the gravitational n-body and turbulence problems? The answer: the present methodology, quantitative modeling is inadequate and the remedy is a new methodology—qualitative mathematics and modeling that solved these problems and provided the initial formulation of GUT. This paper presents the basic logic of GUT and its fundamental concepts, particularly, the superstring or fundamental building block of matter.

Chaos, Turbulence and Fractal: Theory and Applications

The paper identifies chaos, turbulence and fractal of quantum and macro gravity and studies their behavior, properties and applications based on the grand unified theory (GUT) and qualitative mathematics and modeling. Applications include devising electromagnetic engines, tornado aborter and terminator and technologies for electromagnetic treatment of genetic diseases such as cancer, systemic lupos erythematosus, diabetes and mental disorder without harm to normal cell and side effect. Typhoon in the Western Pacific which is turbulence is impossible to terminate and impractical to deflect but prediction can be improved because it follows the Northern Pacific Wind Cycle (Southern Pacific Wind Cycle in the Southern Hemisphere) and is affected by the temperature variation over the Philippine Deep and around Mayon Volcano. The electromagnetic engine uses the clean, inexhaustible, free dark matter, specifically, the energy of magnetic flux, in place of conventional fuel, e.g., fossil, nuclear and geothermal. The tornado aborter and terminator utilize the gravitational flux of the Earth, its vortex flux of superstrings as a cosmological vortex which is turbulence. The technologies for electromagnetic treatment of genetic diseases utilize electromagnetic waves based on resonance. All of them are GUT technologies because they are applications of GUT. Except for the magnetic train which is in operation the rest is still at the conceptual and research and development (R&D) phase but the theory is complete and the strategy for R&D are laid down in detail in the cited original papers.

Is Human Activity Linked to Climate Change?

This paper establishes the link between human activity and climate change, e.g., more frequent and devastating typhoons, tornadoes, bushfires, droughts, floods and snowstorms and melting of the norther polar ice cap and recent occurrences of super typhoons and tornadoes. Qualitative mathematics and modeling(QMAM) explains this link and its remarkable verification based on the grand unified theory(GUT).

The Constructivist Real Number System

The paper summarizes the contributions of the three philosophies of mathematics—logicism, intuitionism-constructivism (constructivism for short) and formalism and their rectification—which constitute the new foundations of mathematics. The critique of the traditional foundations of mathematics reveals a number of errors including inconsistency (contradiction or paradox) and undefined and vacuous concepts which fall under ambiguity. Critique of the real and complex number systems reveals similar defects all of which are responsible not only for the unsolved long standing problems of foundations but also of traditional mathematics such as the 379-year-old Fermat’s last theorem (FLT) and 274-year-old Goldbach’s conjecture. These two problems require rectification of these defects before they can be resolved. One of the major defects is the inconsistency of the field axioms of the real number system with the construction of a counterexample to the trichotomy axiom that proved it and the real number system false and at the same time not linearly ordered. Indeed, the rectification yields the new foundations of mathematics, constructivist real number system and complex vector plane the last mathematical space being the rectification of the complex real number system. FLT is resolved by a counterexample that proves it false and the Goldbach’s conjecture has been proved both in the constructivist real number system and the new real number system. The latter gives to two mathematical structures or tools—generalized integral and generalized physical fractal. The rectification of foundations yields the resolution of problem 1 and the solution of problem 6 of Hilbert’s 23 problems.