Given our approach to Digital Philosophy we have a definite methodology for proceeding with its development. The result so far is that we can now demonstrate particular DM models that simultaneously represent many known facts of physics in a consistent way. However the reader must understand that what we will explain in this paper represents progress, it’s far from a finished theory. In physics, we have the problem that Quantum Mechanics, General Relativity (microscopic physics and gravity) are not consistent aspects of one model. The DM model given in this paper is grossly less comprehensive while far more inconsistent than conventional physics, but it is a newborn baby while conventional physics is mature. On the other hand, this DM model represents great progress compared with other DM models produced over the last 40 years.
The DM representations as to what constitutes energy, linear and angular momentum, electrical and color charge… are as simple as possible and, we hope, not too simple. There are 2 major models of space-time and interactions: the first involves fields, waves and other complex properties of the vacuum, and the other involves nothing but particles. Both views are useful in physics but getting DM to be consistent with both simultaneously complicates the models. The principle of simplicity has driven us to reluctantly make a decision – in this paper DM is a particle model and all processes in DP are consequences of the motions and interactions of particles. The properties of the empty vacuum are consequently the properties of particles inhabiting the so-called empty vacuum. We know that interesting physics can come from simple, easy to understand assumptions. The kind of physics one gets from DP is not directly mathematical in a conventional sense (meaning partial differential equations); rather it is a microscopic working model that can be programmed up on a computer.
(Last revised 15-Oct-01)
