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Description: The Doctor from “Star Trek – Voyager" and 4 other doctors were having a TeleHealth video conference. The other attendees, in alphabetical order by surname, were Julian Bashir from “Star Trek – Deep Space Nine”, Beverly Crusher from “Star Trek – The Next Generation”, “Bones” McCoy from the Original “Star Trek”, and Dr. Who in the TARDIS. Prior to the conference, Bones and Dr. Who had concluded that the world was overreacting and hitting the panic button needlessly. They pointed out that this strain of the coronavirus, with a death rate of about 2% or 3%, was a greater problem than influenza – but it was nothing compared to the Plague or viruses like Ebola. Voyager’s Doctor knew their opinion but complimented them on being wise enough to organize the video meeting. After all, he said, it was their duty as physicians to alleviate suffering, whether the distress be of an emotional or physical nature. With the added insights of Doctors Crusher and Bashir, plus those of an online essay titled NON-COMPUTABILITY AND UNPREDICTABILITY ARE SO YESTERDAY: WITH COMPUTABLE AND PREDICTABLE COSMIC STRUCTURE, PLUS IMPLICATIONS FOR MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE (https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3382), the Doctor was convinced the five of them could find a cure for the coronavirus COVID-19 … today. STEP 1 – THE VIRUS IS MADE OF GRAVITY AND LIGHT - inspired by the title of Albert Einstein’s 1919 paper "Do gravitational fields play an essential role in the structure of elementary particles?" (0) FIGURE 1: The Basics of Vector-Tensor-Scalar Geometry Two adjoining sides of a parallelogram represent the vectors of the photon’s spin 1 and the graviton’s spin 2. The resultant diagonal represents the interaction of the sides/vectors (1÷2 = the spin ½ of every matter particle). Tensor calculus changes the coordinates of the sides into the coordinates of a position on a line (a single point on the diagonal). This scalar point is associated with particles of spin 0. If the mass produced during the 1÷2 interaction - the energy and momentum of the photons and presently hypothetical gravitons exert a pressure we call mass - happens to be 125 GeV/c2, its union with spin 0 produces the Higgs boson. 125 GeV/c2 united with spin 0 means the central scalar point of the Higgs boson is related to the vector of the graviton’s spin 2, and the Higgs field is therefore united with the supposedly unrelated gravitational field (together with the latter’s constant interaction with the electromagnetic field – the many types of electromagnetism include visible light, radio waves, UV or ultraviolet light, and X-rays). STEP 2 – GRAVITY AND LIGHT CAN TRAVEL BACK IN TIME This begins with 19th-century scientist Michael Faraday's experiments with electricity and magnetism (which, later that century, James Clerk Maxwell mathematically unified into a theory of electromagnetism that includes light). (1) The existence of both advanced waves (which travel backwards in time) and retarded waves (which travel forwards in time) as admissible solutions to Maxwell's equations was explored in the Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (TIQM). (2) The waves are seen as physically real, rather than a mere mathematical device. And Michio Kaku writes, "When we solve Maxwell's equations for light, we find not one but two solutions: a 'retarded' wave, which represents the standard motion of light from one point to another; but also an 'advanced' wave, where the light beam goes backward in time. Engineers have simply dismissed the advanced wave as a mathematical curiosity since the retarded waves so accurately predicted the behavior of radio, microwaves, TV, radar, and X-rays. But for physicists, the advanced wave has been a nagging problem for the past century." (3) FIG. 2 – WICK ROTATION, OR CIRCLE OF i There are vastly increased numbers of gravitational energy's gravitons near the intense gravity of black holes, and there is increased effect on electromagnetic energy's photons when speed-of-light travel includes vast numbers of photons in the traveller's sphere of influence. “Advanced” waves travel back in time (to the left of Wick rotation’s origin or centre). “Retarded” waves go forwards in time (to the right of Wick rotation’s centre). Imagine a gravitational or electromagnetic wave as a retarded wave proceeding to the right and also rotating around the origin in an anticlockwise direction. As it occupies coordinates proceeding to the left of the origin, its crests become troughs and troughs become crests. In this way, the crests and troughs cancel each other and cancellation produces quantum mechanics’ entanglement. In other words, a wave interferes with itself (and a particle - whether boson or fermion - formed from gravitational and electromagnetic waves interacts with itself). FIG. 3 – TROUGHS AND CRESTS IN TIME PRODUCE ENTANGLEMENT As well, an effect of gravitational and electromagnetic waves following Wick rotation is to cause more and more cancelling crests and troughs (in the increased numbers of gravitons and photons) to interfere with themselves and produce Special Relativity's time dilation (slowing - with eventual stoppage at the speed of light) near the intense gravity of black holes, and near light speed. They also move the idea of waves travelling back in time into accepted science. Albert Einstein's equations in the theory of General Relativity say gravitational fields carry enough information about electromagnetism to allow Maxwell's equations to be restated in terms of these gravitational fields. This was discovered by the mathematical physicist George Yuri Rainich. (4) So gravitational waves, like electromagnetic waves, also have retarded and advanced phases or components. When a dinosaur died, the advanced gravitational and electromagnetic waves composing its particles would continue traveling back in time. By the time its bones or fossilized remains, or the surrounding rocks, were subjected to modern science's dating methods; those advanced waves might have gone so far back in time that the dating method says the dinosaur died 100 million years ago or more. Radioactive dating is thus a form of (advanced) gravitational-wave detection, just as LIGO - the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (5) - picks up (retarded) gravitational waves. Technology based on the way noise-cancelling headphones work (6) might provide a more accurate reading of when the dinosaur lived. The headphones increase the signal-to-noise ratio by incorporating a microphone that measures ambient sound (noise), generating a waveform that is the exact opposite of the ambient sound, and mixing it with any audio signal the listener desires. Generating a waveform that's the exact opposite of the advanced waves emitted by the deceased dinosaur should, at least partially, neutralize the advanced waves and restrict measurement to the retarded waves associated with the animal’s decay. STEP 3 – QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT KILLS EVERY VIRUS Suppose the coronavirus is treated differently from a dinosaur. Suppose the retarded gravitational and electromagnetic waves it emits are neutralized. Then the virus continuously travels farther and farther into the past, never stopping to infect any ancestor and eventually arriving at a time when Earth's environment is so hostile to it that the lifeform is obliterated. This kills one virus but what about the countless trillions of others invading our bodies and our atmosphere? The previous step’s quantum entanglement means that single virus is permanently joined to every virus … and they all suffer the same deadly fate. The doctors threw a private party in Doctor Who's blue police box, the Time And Relative Dimensions In Space. They were grinning and shouting "Congratulations, doctor!" and "Well done, doctor!" They appreciated that this first draft would need ironing out before they could publish it, and that nothing ever works quite as well in practice as it does on paper. But they knew they were on to something here. Somewhere in the background, an unknown doctor wondered aloud, "Maybe this means every type of virus and bacteria that exists will soon stop existing. What other problems can we send to their doom in the remote past?" REFERENCES OUTSIDE INTRODUCTION (0) Albert Einstein (1919) “Do gravitational fields play an essential role in the structure of elementary particles?” (“Spielen Gravitationsfelder im Aufbau der materiellen Elementarteilchen eine wesentliche Rolle?”) Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, [Math. Phys.], 349-356. Berlin (1) Maxwell, James Clerk (1865). "A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 155: 459–512 (2) Cramer, John G. (July 1986). "The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics". Reviews of Modern Physics. 58 (3): 647–688. doi: 10.1103/RevModPhys.58.647 (3) Michio Kaku, "Physics of the Impossible" (Penguin Books, 2009) - p. 276 (4) George Yuri Rainich - "Transactions of the American Mathematical Society" 27, 106 - Rainich, G. Y. (1925) (5) Barry C. Barish, Rainer Weiss, (October 1999). "LIGO and the Detection of Gravitational Waves". Physics Today. 52 (10): 44. doi:10.1063/1.882861 (6) William Harris, “How Noise-canceling Headphones Work” - https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/audio-music/noise-cancelingheadphone3.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------