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VALENTIN KOULIKOV
Valentin Victorovich Koulikov, scientist and philosopher, is one of the most radical and controversial thinkers of 21st century.

He was born October 31, 1952 in Moscow, Russia into a middle-class family.

Father: Victor Nickolaevich Koulikov

Mother: Larisa Paulovna Koulikova

In 1975 he receives his Masters degree at MIEM (Moscow Institute of Electronic Machine-building).

In 1979 he receives his Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics in IZMIRAN (Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism and Radio wave propagation, Academy of Sciences, USSR).

EARLY YEARS

His real passion was invention. He did crazy things, some supposedly impossible. During his undergraduate student years he discovers a wonderful fact: any problem, no matter how ridiculously difficult or crazy it might seem, can be resolved. Anything is possible with two conditions; your belief in yourself must be stronger than steel, and you must have a real, practicable knowledge in the field. Then you simply re-program yourself with an everyday auto-suggestion. Order yourself to solve and to invent and voila! - In a day or two, the brilliant solution presents itself seemingly from out of nowhere!

The inventions poured fourth! They are abundant and radical, resembling the well-known book, “The Inventions of Daedalus”. Among them are, for example: artificial lungs in the form of a home-made fiber that extracts oxygen from water, a new flying machine on the principle of artificially produced clouds, a technology to use water pressure against itself to create super-durable underwater ships, hydrogen free radicals as a super-effective rocket fuel, an active optical method to heal eye myopia, a method to create air lift without moving parts, a superfast method of cooling objects for long term hibernation using strong magnetic fields, a method of neutralizing acceleration overload (extra Gs) for astronauts by using an electric field in conjunction with strong magnetism etc, etc. There are also mathematical inventions like the generalization of real numbers to infinite ones, etc. These inventions are scientifically proven and technologically sound; some of them were later patented by others, but Valentin himself never made any attempt to patent any of them, considering invention merely a tool to sharpen the mind.

Inspired by the strength of these possibilities and already deeply immersed in modern fundamental physics, he decides to devote his life to developing radically new scientific, theoretical and technological methods for reaching the distant stars. In 1975-1977 he works in the experimental physics field (quantum electronics, nonlinear quantum optics) while becoming more and more interested in the fundamental theories of nature.

His early years of experimental research bring him some remarkable achievements among which is his astounding discovery that the human eye could easily see in the near infrared band of coherent electromagnetic radiation, up to 1500 nm. (We should mention that the well-established visible spectrum is 380-750 nm). Incredibly, he finds that the human eye interprets infrared light as if it is regular light of different parts of the spectrum. Invisible (according to all the official manuals in physics and physiology) light is interpreted by the eye in all the colors of the rainbow! Uniquely designed experiments allow Valentin not only to explain the observable phenomenae by nonlinear frequency doubling in the eye, but also to determine in which part of the eye the effect occurs the strongest. The groundbreaking results were published also in the prestigious scientific journal Priroda, the Russian analog of the British “Nature.”

UNIFICATION OF RELATIVITY AND QUANTUM PRINCIPLES

Since 1977 he continues his research in theoretical physics (Gravity waves, General Relativity and Quantum field theory, the Unification of quantum and relativity principles).

In 1978 he becomes the leader of an informal group of young physicists whose goal is discovering a method of travel to distant stars without resorting to rocket propulsion. It is obvious that traditional, modern methods of space travel are not suitable for interstellar distances. It seems ridiculous to spend enormous amounts of fuel and energy first to accelerate, to transform the potential energy of fuel to the spaceship’s kinetic energy – all just to spend even more energy and fuel to slow the ship down, thus wasting the accumulated kinetic energy. It looked like the General Relativity theory and the Quantum Field theory promised to solve the puzzle: quanta easily “borrowed” energy from the physical vacuum to later pay back the “debt.” Unfortunately, these two fundamental theories of modern physics were not united, and it was impossible to work out how to perform this trick with a macroscopic object, such as a starship.

Organizing an informal group under Soviet rule, however scientific, was no safe task. There was no risk of imprisonment or death, but if discovered, the loss of your career and reputation was guaranteed. There were certainly no places for the group to gather in public or in an educational facility, so a one-bedroom apartment had to double as an theoretical physics lab for a couple of years.

Results soon followed. In 1980, Valentin formulates the foundation of a new theory unifying quantum and relativity principles. The new theory was based on the hierarchy of physical opposition symmetries, where symmetries are allowed to disrupt themselves by acting on themselves. Objects, like abstract quanta are represented in the theory not only as objects, but also as subjects, physically detecting, registering and “observing” other quanta and even themselves by interacting with them. Observation here is considered a type of physical fundamental interaction for the first time in history. The principle was later coined the “Observation Relativity Principle”.

Opposition symmetry transformations or symmetry operators therefore described the “observation” of one fundamental quantum (the object) by another one (the subject). The first operator of such an observation of the original quantum (the abstract Universe, or Nothing, the Vacuum, or the Zero Point of reference) by itself is “interpreted” by another quantum as a “creation” operator. Its opposite, turns into a destruction (annihilation) operator. Acting naturally together, one after the other, they form an operator of quantum “life” or the fundamental operator of time (representing universal, abstract change). An opposite operator, acting by destroying first and creating second, was interpreted as the operator of “recreation,” “dynamic conservation.” As the operator pointing back in time, it is also the “anti-time,” “anti-change” operator or, in other words, the dynamic “memory” operator.

In a brilliant insight, Valentin realized that the anti-time operator was actually an operator of physical space. Space here is considered a “memory” of “past” elementary physical events, quanta. “Events in time,” quanta in the “present time” are observed directly, but past events are observed indirectly instead, in a form that we used to call physical space, or “distance.” To comprehend this interpretation, one has to understand that all that we see in physical space is actually in our past, and it has already happened (because light takes time to travel to your eyes). The past itself as anti-time is actually unobservable, because all that we observe while “seeing” distant objects are just events: photons and quanta passing through our eyes right at the moment of observation. All was becoming clear now, the details all falling into place. Three mysterious dimensions of space correspond (are symmetrical) to the three states of time: the past, the present and the future. Physical space and time scales were relative like space and time themselves. The Universe is all around us in the form of the first quantum and inside all of us in the form of elementary identical quanta. The experimental fact that all quanta of the same type (like electrons) that we have observed are exactly identical (well-known quantum identity principle) shows us that all quanta are actually a single quantum – our Universe, “reflected” in itself and observed by itself billion and billions of times. The very reason that quantum spontaneity exists is because there is no physical way to directly observe anti-time, being the “empty” space intervals between observable quanta. Another way to put it is to say that no change (anti-change, conservation of state) is, really no information at all. The subject detector quantum in this case is not only totally identical to the object, but also changes exactly as the object does. The detector quantum hence remains indistinguishable from the object and will not observe any change in the object. Observations, therefore, are naturally and fundamentally relative (Observational Relativity).

The new theory states that the well-known uncertainties in the quantum world are one and the same phenomenon as event horizons in relativity, effectively blocking detailed observations for particular reference frames. Travel back in time and speeds exceeding the fundamental speed (speed of light) are not directly observable in standard frames of reference, but it does not mean that these phenomena do not exist in nature. Quite the opposite, in fact! According to the URQT all elementary particles that we consist of easily travel both with superluminal speeds and back in time. Amazingly, this type of unobservable movement is also essential for the natural interpretation of physical energy and energy statistical distribution: both of those being common observable phenomena that are, as yet, unexplained.

Energy as an observable phenomenon happens because of the natural coexistence of quanta, all identical to our single “Universe quantum” but belonging to different times of its existence (loops in time). Each quantum (elementary particle) is able to produce an exponential increase in observational effects, so older quanta are able to produce a stronger effect than younger ones. This observation is interpreted in physics as physical energy of corresponding quanta. Natural (sequential, causal) time order results in exponential energy (geometric progression) statistic distribution of quanta. Such well known statistical distribution differences as the Fermi and Bose statistics are easily explained by the two types of quanta: ordered in time fermions (timelike particles of matter) and unordered bosons (directly unobservable spacelike “holes” between particles)

Simply explained, this new theory is derived from a fundamental theory of physical information. Therefore these fundamental quanta were named “informons”. In comparison with these fundamental insights, deriving quantum and relativity equations from the new theory was a piece of cake. The Unified Relativity Quantum Theory (URQT) was born.

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE AS A THEORY OF NATURE

The new theory was promising but it had one obvious defect, which it shared with its predecessors, the General Relativity and Quantum Field theories. It was very hard to obtain solutions from the equations, especially solutions complex enough to design new star-travel technologies. Radical new theoretical tools were required. The theory must also be more effective and presumably easier to use than traditional mathematics.

In 1980 Valentin and his group turn their efforts in the direction of fundamental linguistics. The idea was to construct an artificial mathematical language that might become not only an effective theoretical tool, but would be also an effective spoken language. The language could then be used as a universal communication tool, as a natural language that people could learn from birth.

The new language was very different from the loglan and lojban logical languages. It was based not on traditional Aristotelian logic but on the more fundamental dialectical logic of oppositions. Oppositions in “wording” were treated as representing fundamental symmetries, in a firm step towards the most effective methods and ideas of modern science. Dialectic logic includes natural methods of creating and breaking oppositions symmetries by self-interaction, and they are very similar to those used in the URQT, so the progress took very little time. In less than a year, a radical new language was born.

“Dial” was named after “Dialectical” language, and appeared to be very simple to learn and use. Surprisingly, despite its theoretical foundation it is very close to natural human languages, but much simpler in structure. The symmetry of oppositions in nature was built into Dial’s structural oppositions, intonation, phonemes, syllables, words and grammar, rising from bottom up. The meanings of Dialian words and phrases (interpretations, representations) were therefore put together with the words and phrases themselves. Due to its mathematical basis, Dial could be easily used not only in fundamental physics, but in any possible field of human knowledge or activity. The theorist group now proudly christened itself “GIRD” – the Group for the Investigation of and Research on Dial.

The only question asked in those days was whether members of the general public, especially children, could easily learn Dial. Could it serve as an effective communication tool? GIRD answered this question conclusively, by successfully teaching Dial to over three hundred volunteers aged anywhere from 7 to 50.

In the space of a couple of years, Valentin realized that Dialian grammatical rules closely resemble the “rules for invention” discovered some years ago by the famous inventor Genrikh Altshuller. Dial appeared to be an ideal theoretical tool for the inventor, regardless of his field. It didn’t matter whether it was technology, science or everyday life.

Since the eighties, Dial has been growing and developing steadily. There are hundreds of texts, poems and abstract mathematical pieces written in Dial. Dialian songs were performed on radio and TV shows. Manuals were published. The language succeeded in what it was made to be, a mathematical theory and a communication tool in one. It helps those who are using it to invent things, to create bright new ideas, and to discover absolutely anything. Still, as an extremely radical theoretical tool, it seems to be ahead of its time. It is much easier to utilize Dial in everyday speech than to explain how it works in plain English.

STAR SHIPS AND TIME MACHINES

In 1990 the results of many years of research were reported at the Annual Tsiolkovsky conference in Kaluga. Scientists were proud to announce that with the help of the new theory and several new research tools, they found a somewhat realistic way to reach the stars! It was theoretically shown that a neutron quantum crystal, which is the matter that exists inside neutron stars, could, under certain conditions, penetrate and tunnel “through itself”, turning itself “inside out” with the speed of light. The new physical phenomenon was named “overdrive,” in homage to science fiction.

Scientists also demonstrated that the well-known Fermi paradox of Great Cosmic Silence is easily resolved when we consider the fact that all advanced interstellar civilizations make common use of light speed. Fermi had stated in his paradox that there should be a great number of alien civilizations “out there,” but human kind has utterly failed to spot any. The common use of light-speed overdrive leads to the overall dilation of time, and to the creation of a “civilization horizon,” effectively hiding such civilizations from our sight and making communication with them impossible. For the first time in history scientists concluded that we are not alone in our Universe, not by a long shot. There are millions and millions of advanced civilizations in our Galaxy alone, all waiting for us to reach overdrive technologies and to join their community for good or ill.

During the “perestroika” years and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Empire, science was annihilated in Russia as an entity, so Valentin moved first to Canada in 1995 and to the States in 2000. He continues his research into Dial, into space travel and has started investigating the possibilities of time travel.

Understanding the use of the overdrive physical effect in practice was a real challenge. The quantum neutron crystal (“neutridium”) might go with the speed of light on its own, but how would one control the process and how does one make the crystal “carry” a driver? The solution came when he realized that in the famous quantum collective phenomenae of Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) most of the small disturbances (vacancies, quaziparticles, etc.) of the quantum condensate are actually “made up” by the condensate itself. Condensate performs like a unique quantum “carrier” wave, carrying disturbances with it like the “modulation signal” of a radio wave. For a neutron crystal even nuclei and atoms could be considered small disturbances. It means that under certain conditions, coherent quantum crystals such as neutridium, while overdriving, might carry any macroscopic objects without any changes of their structure, content or functionality. It might, even carry biological objects, living beings, without negatively affecting their lives.

There still remained one serious question: overdrive is essentially a quantum tunneling effect, which obviously has an extremely low probability. Actually, it involves the zeroing of the neutron rest mass, making the neutron a virtual particle, which means that neutrons are tunneling through the energy barrier of their own rest mass E = mc2. This makes the probability of overdrive close to 10-70 What practical use, you ask, can be made of such an improbable effect?

The answer came with understanding that quantum tunneling according to URQT was essentially an effect of extreme relativity, similar to the time dilation phenomenae we observe with black holes on the event horizon. In both cases the time of the traveler was extremely dilated from a distant point of view, just as in the case of a black hole. It is interpreted simply as time dilation, but in the case of tunneling, the observer (or the distant experimenter) has to use Minkowski metric of flat space-time, which leads to observable dilation in probability instead of the time dilation.

The gateway to the stars is now open to humanity. By its nature, it is a gateway to time travel too. It is well known that travel with the speed of light is also travel forward in time. However, it is not that difficult for the virtual particle to attain an insignificantly slight imaginary mass that is not zero. It makes the particle a tachyon, moving faster than light. It is of no use for space travel, but it is easy to show that tachyons actually travel in time.

Actual experiments in space and time travel can be performed today, according to URQT,. All of the effects are within the reach of modern technology. Creating an exotic material as neutridium is a little more difficult. However, the excellent progress in BEC atomic research allows us to say that the time of fermionic dineutrons condensate neutridium is not far away. Neutridium, in turn, will open the Galaxy to Human exploration and settlement.

SUBJECTIVE UNIVERSE

While developing the theory of Dial, Valentin recently discovered natural ways to define subjects (reference frames/observers) by the use of grammatical pronouns and to effectively describe the subjective world of egos, emotions, impressions and perceptions. Subjective space-time can now be treated with the use of the same theoretical tools as objective space-time in URQT. This discovery opened a whole new world of research. It paves the road to clear understanding of the fundamental symmetry between information and trust (or knowledge and faith). It allows for the creation of an abstract quantum informational theory of consciousness and subconsciousness.

OTHER

There are many other sides in the life of this quite extraordinary gentleman. He has a good family with his beloved wife Tanya and two great sons Anthony and Eli. He loves classical music, but has nothing against pop. He likes scuba diving, just as he used to be fond of mountaineering during his undergraduate university years. Valentin is the devoted supporter of genetically enhanced humanity and space colonization. He feels that humanity should be strong and united in the face of the challenges that await in the overpopulated and likely not-so-friendly Universe.

He supports the colonization of the Mars as soon as possible. He insists that humans are well suited to live even in the vacuum. The human body is much stronger than people often think. All that we need is some pure oxygen with extremely low pressure, ten to fifteen times lower than regular atmospheric. It means that a small facemask and a nylon body suit are quite enough to walk freely on the Red Planet or even in open space for hours.

Personally Valentin is a modest man not without a good sense of humor. When he was asked about the Singularity, he replied thusly: “They say, the Singularity is near. And they are right. I am the Singularity. And I am already here”

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