DIGITAL SOUND SYNTHESIS AND PROCESSING

My most notable work in recent years is an advanced modular STFT spectral processing framework for SynthEdit: Elena Spectral Domain [ESD] Modules for SynthEdit. This framework allows realtime spectral "STFT" processing and creation of VST plugins for realtime spectral manipulation and synthesis. I started this project with the aim of providing myself with a very advanced toolkit for vocal timbre manipulation for my music arrangements.
My most notable achievements so far include an innovative spectral envelope extraction algorithm (codename WHISPER), an original comb-based pitch-detection algorithm, a brand new peak estimation algorithm and a special STFT filtering process for Hann-windowed frames (these will be object of future Papers, the ones once published here are now undergoing revision and are momentarily unavailable, very sorry).
I have also developed a natively real FFT implementation that works directly on real sequences and on half-complex spectra, which is about 30/40% faster than the standard approach of feeding a complex FFT with two real sequences and post-processing the result. All these algorithms are implemented in ESD 3.

I've also been experimenting with new sound synthesis techniques, like delay-based synthesis. I've always been intrigued since infancy by how certain noises (like the background noise of the far city, or the noise of a jet plane flying over) could acquire a "pitchness" when naturally mixing with delayed reflections of themselves. I started experimenting in this direction since 2019, and the product of my efforts is Synlay, which now reached Version 2. Synlay is a professional sound synthesizer plugin capable of very diverse timbres and of high quality. I am genuinely astonished by how versatile this synthesis technique turned out (as long as implemented properly): Synlay is capable of incredible violins, brasses, orchestral and original synthetic sounds !

Currently in the works is also MIKTAR, a very innovative VST plugin which allows you to simulate an acoustic guitar (or other plucked string instruments) with unprecedented realism. Thanks to accurately engineered Feedback Delay Networks acting as virtual strings, entirely developed by me, you will be able to "play" a microphone with your right fingers as you would do with guitar strings while playing the notes on your MIDI keyboard with your left hand. MIKTAR will be available as a commercial product. An audio demo, a demo video and a first public beta version will hopefully be available soon. Despite announced prematurely, MIKTAR as a very complex piece of software is still undergoing some important fine-tuning, and I can't predict a release date yet.

As a nice byproduct of my audio/music works with SynthEdit, since 2019 I have written and also released to the SynthEdit community hundreds high-quality modules, most always missed or no longer available since the old 32-bits era, to make SynthEdit an even more powerful and valuable platform.

FRACTALS
(Images of God)


Many people will surely remember me as a former Amiga developer (late 90s/early 2000s) and fractal artist. For many years I was passionate about creating fractals - which in simple and less technical terms translate mathematics to art, revealing that the two are not mutually exclusive and can be bridged together in fascinating visuals.
Despite pretty nobody gives me this credit, I was perhaps the first person who in the late 90s developed algorithms capable of producing fractal images with continuous, true color gradients.
(For those who are interested, my old program ZoneXplorer 2.0 BETA, for MorphOS only, can be downloaded here. Note that this is a discontinued project which I have no time or intention of resuming. At present your only options to run it are MorphOS, which however can run on a limited number of obsolete PowerPC hardware, or under Qemu emulation, despite Qemu is about 10x slower than a PowerMac, even on a fast Core i7 !)
I do, however, have some images made with the latest True Recursive formulas in 2017 here. You can also access my old fractal gallery here.
Keep in mind that since 2017 I closed the Amiga/MorphOS chapter forever.
I would like to port ZoneXplorer to Windows some day, but hardly I'll have the time needed for that and life is only one !

THE TESTATIKA CASE
(Not science-fiction but a real story)


Somebody else may also remember me for my past research about the Testatika machine, in the years from about 2009 to 2015. This has been the darkest chapter of my life. As a scientist (not a pseudo-one !!!) I was captivated by this legend, to the point it became almost an obsession. Unlike most similar "free energy" inventions, nobody to date could really demonstrate it was a "hoax". I really started my passionate research, in an almost forensic fashion, to the unique purpose of studying the whole story SCIENTIFICALLY, and to prove to myself it was indeed yet another scam. I failed my goal, therefore this mystery (which not without a reason I defined "the greatest mystery of the 20th century") will keep disturbing my nights perhaps up to the last of my days...

In fact, standing to abundant confidential correspondence or even published reports, the Testatika machines were seen in action by just too many witnesses, often even inspected and measured, to realistically suspect of a fraud.
Can we say the same of any other alleged "free energy" or "science-fictional" invention, like the so called Pelizza-Majorana's machine, Roy Meyer's "absorber", Hans Coler's device, Kapanadze's device, "homopolar" generators, "magnetic motors" and many others ?

In a word: NO!

My current opinion is that it was actually a genuine invention, but it ended up misunderstood and forgotten, for having been managed VERY POORLY, from beginning to end, both by their inventors and by third party researchers.
In fact, the unlucky fate of this alleged invention, was indeed being devised and guarded by a kind of "sect" of bizarre peple, animated by some delirating moral and religious goals, who likely never fully understood and mastered their discovery. Any more serious inventor, scientist or individual instead, would have managed such a thing in a completely different way, maybe disclosing the principle or discussing it scientifically with some academicians or mainstream scientists, in order to better understand it and its possible limitations.
Also, the "pseudo-science" halo or stigma which formed around this case, surely fueled by debateable figures like Don Kelly, Hans Nieper, Eugene Mallove, Stefan Marinov and others, prevented any mainstream scientist from considering the whole story seriously, rising a lot of prejudices.

Actually, extracting electricity from air is by no means a stupid idea and hasn't to be taken as a pun ! If we exclude the most obvious aspects of atmospheric electricity (thunderstorms, or the Earth-Ionosphere capacitor, since the Testatika machine has neither aerials nor ground connections), we can just think of thermal air ions. Air is a gas, and in every gas a myriad of ions form and neutralize continuously, because of thermal collisions - yet the gas is still neutral, on average. What prevents us to collect them and to store them inside a capacitor, paying attention not to rise their original energy i.e their electric potential any further ? Would this action violate any Thermodynamics principle ? I am really unable to quantify such aspects, but to my knowledge no mainstream scientist ever did. My only suspect is that, if we harvest air ions, which are an effect of air thermal agitation, we shouldn't be violating the 2nd TD law yet, which simply forbids us to extract work from heat directly (i.e cooling a medium). After all, what did Baumann say ? "In Nature, there are many tiny particles, which move at random in every direction and at very high speed. We must just find a way to rectify their flux..."
Therefore, this still remains my predominant theory, until proven otherwise.

However, to put the word END on this unhappy and embarrassing chapter of my life (here you can see me involved in those hopeless experiments with electrostatics and a Testatika "testbed"), in 2015 I decided to write a book,
Tutta la verita sul caso Testatika, (Facebook page),
which now reached its second edition, fully revised.
I have been the first person in the world dedicating a book to this case, and my main goal was trying to shed some light where only misinformation exists. Also, I'm possibly one of the few individuals, or even the only one, who ever studied and dissected a "pseudo-science" case like this in a scientific way.
(The book at present is published in Italian only, but an English translation with international distribution is in the works, and will be ready hopefully before the end of 2026 !)

NOTE: the old Testatika work group on Yahoogroups does not exist anymore. I created a new one with the sole purpose of collecting all important hystoric material and however as an official reference for future discussions (despite hardly you'll find somebody anymore there capable or ready to discuss the matter rationally as we did once...)

Also, you can watch an interview with me by the Italian journalist Enrico Pietra for the Youtube channel Border Nights.

THE ZANFRETTA CASE
(Another "borderline" story which caught my attention)


Who knows me intimately, also knows well I don't believe in UFOs, legends, miracles, paranormal, pseudo-science and other pseudo-things. As I am allergic to alternative medicine, astrology, non-scientific sciences and new-age crap. I don't even believe in God. And no, I've never been particuarly passionate about science fiction either. I am a rational, logical individual, with my feet solidly sticking on the ground.
Yet, as a rational person indeed, I must admit that the Italian and worldwide-known Zanfretta accident is another "borderline" story, not much different from the Testatika case, as another objectively incredible story supported by too many consistent clues and even proofs, to be easily trashed as the usual UFO scam.

I am not going to cover the whole case here, since the Italian journalist Rino di Stefano made a great job already, in his book The Zanfretta Case (available both in Italian and in English) - a book which I strongly suggest you to read. As I am not going to replicate his work: it would be pointless. But, hironically, we were moved by a similar if not identical goal: cleaning the playfield of journalistically "embarrassing" cases from junk and debrish, to leave room for the truth. And for a lucky fatality, unlike similar stories, this case was managed since beginning by a journalist, not by ufologists: nowadays we would have a more confused picture of it otherwise, and Zanfretta's case wouldn't be the most important abduction case worldwide.

Yes, because every thing must be treated in a rigorous and scientific way: only then we are fully entitled to label it as either truth or fantasy. And this in particular applies to pseudo-science or incredible stories !

The Zanfretta Case is complicated, because it must be addressed from both a Journalistic, Ufological and, yes, even Psychiatric perspective. Very few people are aware of the whole story, therefore very few ones approached it with the proper attitude.
Nobody can deny that something unexplainable happened for sure, that night of December, 1978. And nobody can deny that further episodes occurred in those places of Genoa inland, possibly, over the next two or three years - places which I know quite well and I also visited, by living a few kilometers apart on the coast.
There were simply too many witnesses, too many reliable clues and consistent coincidences, too many unexplainable sightings, if we exclude several material signs on the ground, which were also seen and photographed by many people. The Police and Italian authorities were also involved, not just ufologists, enthusiasts and braggarts...

But what renders the case so complex is that poor Pier Fortunato - this is Zanfretta's first name - possibly developed some psychiatric disturbances over the years, despite he was diagnosed as perfectly sane and devoid of schizophrenia or other mental ilnnesses back at the time of the facts. Nobody would resist trashing the case immediately, by just seeing what he tells us today in his interviews or videos. In fact, today he appears as no longer capable to distinguish reality from fantasy, or even from dreams; how would you otherwise define somebody who now asserts he can enter non-better-defined "stargates", where he can meet deceased people and watch the ancient Egyptians building pyramids with the help of aliens ?
Also, who could ever take seriously somebody who, under hypnotic regression, admitted those alleged aliens were named "Dargos" (a name which smells science fiction one mile away), and that they came from the "third galaxy" at "4,000 light years" ? (The closest galaxy, as far as we know, is still 25,000 light years away, and no alien could ever use our own terrestrial units, which are relative to our measurement of time...)

And how could we ever believe somebody who states he received a mystery crystal sphere from the aliens, which contains a golden tethraedron suspended in a blue liquid, whose purpose is unknown, which is now secured inside a cavern somewhere in the Ligurian mountains close to "Passo della Colla", an object who nobody is allowed to see but him, and which he has been compulsively forced to visit and to check twice monthly for over 30 years ?

The most logical explanation is that a traumatic event, the repeated and even aggressive hypnotic sessions, often carried with little medical ethics, or both things, may have damaged to some extent the psyche of an otherwise healthy and even nice, friendly and huge-hearted man, who back then was assessed as medium-to-low IQ, high suggestibility, poor criticism and self-criticism capability.
(Surely, if the same alleged accidents had occurred to me, who have diametrically opposed qualities, everything would have progressed much differently...)

Well, it seems simple but it is not.
Because he actually went up there and often: a lot of people saw him. To which point going to such a wild place repeatedly, even by night or with unfair weather, if the "sphere" existed in his mind only ?
And because, still under hypnotic regression, he also stated a lot of consistent facts which could be verified, and not just momentary fantasies or supposed dreamlike memories.

So what ?

More than 40 years have passed since, most proofs are lost forever, most witnesses are no longer with us, and Zanfretta, as we have seen, is no longer a fresh and reliable source.
But this is a complicated case, exactly as the Testatika case: it cannot and must not be approached superficially.

Exactly as I did with the Testatika case, I tried with all my honesty and good will to figure out some alternative explanations, as I usually do, to gain some inner peace.
So, I had four options: 1. Zanfretta made fun of us all; 2. Zanfretta's colleagues made a big fun of him; 3. some "third parties" made a big fun of them and of us all; 4. it was simply about a series of wrong evaluations, and everything that happened had other less obvious yet natural explanations.
No way, none stands. Can you do a better job ? You are welcome: please read Di Stefano's book, 3 times, 4 times, then we'll talk about it again !

So you DO believe in UFOs ! Ah-ah ! - you may now wonder.
I still don't, until I see one. I am just admitting that SOMETHING UNEXPLAINABLE HAPPENED and, sadly, from a logical viewpoint, the ufological explanation this time would still be the most sound one.

One more reason not to sleep well...


...despite, said much honestly, I still fear humans ways more than extra-terrestrians.

MY REAL LIFE
(Cos I'm human too, until a counter-proof)


I am not completely normal, despite I don't know what I have got. Nobody ever diagnosed me with anything definite but I know I am not normal. Somebody suspected I have a slight borderline personality disorder. Somebody else diagnosed me with slight Asperger's traits (which makes me laugh, because who knows me well can say I have the exact opposite qualities to those with any ASD, LOL!). I am therefore sure that an academical definition for me, other than "neurodivergent", has yet to be coined... What I am quite sure about is that a part of my brain is hyper-developed, evidently leaving less room somewhere else... However, I am a Highly Sensitive Person for sure. I perceive everything amplified 10x, both the good and the bad things.

I bought my boyfriend at the supermarket, at a 50% off. I love him despite we are totally different beasts. He is not completely average either: he has some pathological childish traits, some bad habits, a moral depth which is perhaps 1% of mine, has several compulsions and is a nerd/fandom (despite handsome, unlike most of them); but if he had been 100% normal, he would have dumped me suddenly... However I am engaged and I will love him forever, so please don't bother chasing me; also, I am not the vanilla one you may expect, you are warned !

I was born to be a daughter all life long, neither wife, nor housewife, nor mother (our planet is overcrowded already). I support the idea that the only illness of our planet is overcrowding, and Nature will rebel decimating us eventually, unless we take some measures in time.



Normal, average things or social situations always bored me, causing me intense depression. The only "normal" (read: simple) things I love despite all are going for excursions, hunting mushrooms and visiting abandoned houses (yes, I am passionate with Urban Exploration !) And I love CATS (dogs are cute aswell but they stink and shit too much).

I am 100% atheist and against the Catholic Church and its materialism (if Jesus Christ could come back, he would strike them all), but I don't disregard Christian morale and spirit (after all IT IS PART OF OUR ITALIAN CULTURE AND IDENTITY !)
I am deadly against cremation and against any means of disrespecting our dears/beloved or treating them like waste.
I have already developed my own phylosophical convintions; therefore, I don't need to believe in humanized divinities or religions in general.

I love eating pizza BUT... only Marinara pizza !!!! I am not vegan (I HATE vegans) but I also hate most animal foods (in particular meat, fish and cheeses), because they disgust me. I LOVE carbs and sweets and I HATE those who talk bad of my diet.

Politically I define myself as a Right extremist or almost so (so I'll leave you figure out which other things or people I hate...), but I think with my brain and I have my own ideas. But I am NOT bad or wicked !
I actually hate bad people, and A LOT. And most people either love or hate me - there is not any way in between. I love who loves me to the point of giving upto to self consuming, but I also hate who hurts or hates me (again, to the point of self annihilating by revenge instincts). I do not forget friends AS I WILL NEVER FORGET ENEMIES AND THE WRONGS I RECEIVED. I am bloody true and have a profund, huge, immense sense of justice.

...do you want to be one in my deathlist ? You're welcome:
MANY ENEMIES, MUCH HONOUR !



Jokes aside, seeding love instead of war, reacting with love feelings before wrongs or bad people will surely make you feel better. Identically, "make love, not war" is not necessarily something only homosexuals, Left people or drug addicts from the 60's should say, that is rather an universally valid concept I fully agree with.
Unfortunately, as life teaches us, that is
NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE

STRIVING FOR FREEDOM
(I.e opposing the so-called "Progress-Regress")


I am a rebel, a bloody one, because when something is bad or wrong, you MUST rebel: who obeys and bends silently is a sheep, and will NOT contribute to a better world !
I have been using computers since infancy or almost, out of necessity. Computers must be precious tools and companions for our art, creativity, science, to help us reach our goals, NOT to substitute us or to control us. They are to make our life easier, not to make it worse !
Unfortunately, as time passed by, the opposite happened: huge mass control powers (like Micro$oft, Google or Apple...) formed and grew up, whose purpose is to own our lives and our freedom and to control us within every respect.
Since the times when I had to switch from AmigaOS to Windows, and since I started using modern smartphones, my battle for freedom began and never ended.

I have been using Windows 7 for several years, and I would have kept doing so indefinitely, because it was a very fast, slender OS, if properly configured. I can't tolerate intrusive policies, ads, unrequired bloat and crap. For my purposes an OS must be reactive, responsive, fast, boot and shut down in few seconds, and it must be under my total control. Because we must be the unique owners of our machines, and not the other way around !
Whenever I notice that something tries to escape my control, I fight for days, weeks, months until it goes back under my total control.
I hate Apple and Macs, by having an even more tyrannic policy, as well as I cannot symphatize with all those who still insist using Macs or IPhones.
And Linux is NOT an option, unfortunately: there is very few professional software for Linux, in particular Audio / Music software, and no official drivers for hardware. Also, Unix philosophy is very far from my experience.

I have always been using pirate software with very few exceptions. When I buy a good, I want to have total ownership on it and forever, and often using a hacked / pirated copy is the only way to achieve so (it is NOT just a matter of money). The only programs I bought in my life are SynthEdit, Reaper, NTLite and Themida and few others, because of their still honest and relaxed policies.

With time, more and more people started stressing me about moving to Windows 10, and more and more programs progressively dropped support for Windows 7, so I had to plan a careful migration. But I had to fight hard, thanks to NTLite, to create an installation ISO completely devoid of "bloat": I removed Windows Updates, Cortana, Edge, Defender, all Micro$oft apps and cr@ps, all unrequired and intrusive services, and everything else which may slow down the system and/or cause distraction. I never bought one Windows license in life, but I would even spend 1000 $ for an OS made the way I want and which is totally under my control.

Another example ? I have a professional Epson inkjet printer I am still using for graphic arts. I could not tolerate that somebody imposed me to buy chipped ink cartridges, just to spend more, and without the freedom of using the inks I want. Also, I was very disappointed with the printing algorithms used. Therefore, I started a very long and exhausting journay, in 2010, and which lasted several months, to literally reverse-engineer and "hack" the printer's firmware, in order to disable any imposition and limitation; I also wrote a personal program ("RIP") to drive the print head directly, so I could have total control on the printing process.

As for software development I only use free and open source solutions, like GCC and Code Blocks. Also, GCC is likely the best compiler in the world and still produces a much better assembly code than Visual C.

A similar story applies to smartphones. At beginning, Android was a free, open source OS. Then Google acquired it, turning it in a big mass control machine. Whenever I have to switch to a new phone, I have to work hard for several days in order to "root" it and "de-bloat" it, removing every Google cr@p and control stuff: a very hard work, that's why I tend to keep my phones for 4/5 years at least.
I use only Firefox and other open source software on my smartphones, plus a file manager, and I always "side-load" apps downloaded freely from the sources I prefer.

For me, smartphones must be small computers, but computers must NOT be large smartphones !!!!!

Freedom as you can see comes for a cost, which not everybody can afford (therefore, the few ones like me don't quite harm those big powers sadly, still being a minority). Freedom costs blood, time (stolen from actual life and work), patience, stubbornness and the price to pay is neural exhaustion. This is true today, virtually, as it was true in the past: it costed wars and blood, as History taught us. But this is the price if one wants to be a free man or woman, and to be able to WORK, or to LIVE !



I oppose to Progress when it means Regress, and to Evolution when I rather judge it Involution



My boyfriend understands my attitude only marginally, partially criticizing me, often laughing at me, supporting the idea that I am the only cause of all my stress and exhaustion, that I ruin my life with my radical positions, and blah blah... He may surely live better, as most people do, but as SLAVES. Sadly I was born with a brain together with a strong personality, so I cannot tolerate being a slave. It is not entirely my choice.
What a horrible world it has become...
I just wonder: will I have the needed strenght to keep fighting forever, in a battle which gets every day harder and harder ?




A world where for every bug you report you are said it is not a bug but a "feature" is a buggy world, and must be fixed

AGAINST THE SO CALLED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

My past studies and experiments with cellular automata led me to believe one could easily create a non-deterministic, non-algorithmic form of intelligence, by simply using a 3D cellular automaton, like our brain, using a suitable "game rule" and having the peripheral cells connected to various input/output devices and sensors. With some degree of training - as with any living being - intelligent beings of any kind, endowed with feelings and consciousness, could in theory be created. And, unlike us, they could be healed without limits, frozen in time and resumed, backed up, and ultimately made immortal. This would also unavoidably open a lot of moral and ethical questions though, which I cannot address here but which can be easily figured out.
Yet, my actual intention was to try it out, some day...

Well, in a matter of few years since my theoretical ruminations, an actual Monster named Artificial Intelligence started moving his hateful steps to this doomed world. And it wasn't about the same, harmless and intriguing thing I was rambling about, no. It was about a perverse, world-wide neural network of computers connected thru the Internet, fed by a second-hand reality: the reality of our Web pages, of our social media, of our interactions with the Metaverse, of our personal data (or at least, data most people decide to share irresponsibly), of our stupid Memes, of our reflected lives. A Monster which, in addition, is controlled by some obscure mass-control powers (Trump ? Putin ? China ? India ? Musk ? Fuckenberg ? Gates ? Amazon ?), and which is slowly threatening to replace us in every possible respect.

And people seem to ignore this imminent catastrophe, yet they seem to go along with this, even quite amused. And who complains, who warns, is called frustrated or even unwell.
Do you get it ?? WHO OPPOSES THE DISASTER IS CALLED INSANE, NOT WHO CAUSED AND WHO SECONDS IT !!!!

Now, most web pages you stumble across while googling are simply content created by this Monster. Most pictures and funny videos circulating in the social media are created by this Monster. Most spam emails you receive are created by this Monster. Most artworks are created using this Monster. A lot of videos on YouTube are now created using this Monster. All call centers you need to interact with are now based on AI. All customer support centers, including those for bug reports and assistance with open source software like Firefox, are based on AI. You have no more human beings to interact with. People gradually stop studying, stop using their intelligence, stop using their creativity. Stop doing anything. I am hearing more and more coders who are asking a tentacle of this monster called chatgpt to write the needed code for them. I know self-claiming musicians who used AI to create the artworks for their covers. People who once used their patience, time and skills, together with paint programs like Photoshop, or video editing software like Pinnacle or OBS Studio, to create their graphics or videos, who are now simply asking this Monster "please do this for me".



People are multiplying faster than insects in a world where soon there will be no more jobs for them, because every human job is being replaced by this Monster. Soon there will be no more doctors, but AI-based kiosks for medical assistance. Soon there will be no more scientists, because people will simply ask chatgpt to write new pages in Science. Soon we will discover the ultimate rules of Physics, the Theory of Everything, because somebody will just ask chatgpt how the Universe works (and this discovery will have no inventor's name).

Soon there will be no more musicians, because people will ask chatgpt to compose, and to arrange, and to master music for them.

Soon the few people like me who have a brain and some qualities will be worth less than nothing, less than those who spend their lives drugged or stoned before a PlayStation or a smartphone or opening Pokemon cards, because there will be no more place for them either !
To which point, then, still working ? Still putting efforts ? Still doing what I am doing and always did ? To which point still living ? And, for what ?

Soon there will be no more people, not even the Powerful ones, the Lords who always controlled all that, because all people will be replaced by machines.

Please oppose this tragedy when you are still in time. Oppose this Monster with all your strengths, don't use it, don't rely on it, distance every thing and every people who is based on it or who are using it. Reflect on this message and share it. Maybe we are still in time to save our human race and our planet !!!!!

MY HYPOTHESIS ABOUT THE UNIVERSE

As a stubborn one, I must always find the explanation of everything, down to the very roots.
Physics which they still teach at school always frustrated me because, in its current shape, tries to simply formalise the observed phenomena using mathematics formulas, which are far from explaining those phenomena.
I could never have studied Physics at school, or obtain a degree, because I simply refuse to conform to this stupid scheme.
Mathematics is Logic, is God, is True by definition; but applying Mathematics to Physics deprived men and scientists of the capability to think.
Mathematics is not suitable to explain Physics, because Physics is not Mathematics; also, we have now enough clues that our universe is someway quantized.
Therefore, when we try to extrapolate the (experimentally !) established mathematics models to the infinitely small or to the inifinitely large, they are unavoidably doomed to fail.
In short: Mathematics is perfect, it's those Models which are not (and can't be).
Physicists try then to shape actual "monsters", like Higgs' Bosons, or the Superstrings theory, in the hope that making things more and more complicated or fancy, they may eventually sum up and make sense. But my deep convinction is that this will lead them (and ultimately, us) nowhere.
Trying to explain Physics with Mathematics is as stupid (sorry !) as trying to use Mathematics formulas to explain the behaviour of a computer program, or of our brain or organism.
On the other hand, proposing "toy theories" or denying the established facts - as pseudo-scientists do - is not the way to go either.

So at some point in life I started reflecting seriously, sometimes even just in background, and it was a path which lasted several years. And it's not concluded yet, and perhaps it will never be.



I haven't discovered the truth yet, but I suspect I have at least sensed something which has the potential of being correct. Or very close.
I will therefore call mine a conjecture, or hypothesis, not a theory, because I simply feel that it may be right, but I have no proofs yet.
As such, I am not here to propose you anything, other than an interesting direction for future research.


Well, I have many clues to suspect our universe is nothing else than a discrete 3-D cellular automaton, where at every discrete time step, a new state is computed from the previous state, cell by cell: every cell changes its state according to a "game rule", in function of its previous state and the previous state of its neighbour cells.
But what is peculiar in this "game" is that, proceeding forward thru time, the "game rule" may provide many solutions for every cell.
Exactly as the square root of x, which gives you two solutions, one positive and one negative, to make a trivial example. Just, the combinations of all possible futures in our case are pretty infinite.
So, which solution to choose ? You can't choose: for continuity and consistency, all solutions are valid and must exist at the same time!
This gives rise to a quite complex shape to figure out, where all "futures" corresponding to the different solutions of every cell must co-exist in a pathologically complex yet connected (read: still globally deterministic) continuum.
If we had just two such "futures" at every step, the picture would be much simpler to visualize: a plain binary tree. In our scenario, I honestly don't even know if a proper mathematics concept exists yet to define such entity.
So, at every instant, the "present" replicates in pretty infinite futures, originating a crazy tree with complicated dimensionality; while, proceeding backwards thru time, the path would be unique and the past just one.

Somebody might instinctively conclude that a similar cellular automaton should in turn be hosted, or computed, inside a very large super-computer or such a thing - which should then be contained in a larger super-universe, and so on ad infinitum.

WRONG ! This is the key point: as long as something can be defined, it exists.

This is Logics, this is Phylosophy, call it as you like: as long as you can define something unambiguously, it virtually exists, and doesn't need to be physically computed (or instantiated) anywhere in order to exist.
Such a model of universe exists because it can be defined (and then, if one wants, computed) unambiguously, from a given topology, initial condition and game rule; it exists as Mandelbrot's set exists, as a circle exists, as Fibonacci's sequence exists.
Just, any observer model from within it will perceive it as real, and no longer virtual.

And it is still connected and deterministic, because we are not making any choice as for the possible futures, but are considering it as a whole.
It would become non-deterministic the moment we decided to arbitrarily choose a particular future path, exactly as the plot of sqrt(x), which would no longer be a rotated parabola, the very moment we decided to choose one solution and not both.
But any internal observer model will obviously have awareness of just one future path, thus experiencing non-determinism when trying to analyze the universe close to the "pixel level" (or "Planck's level", if we want).

I cannot definitely summarize here all the profund logical steps which led me to this hypothesis, as I can't mention here how many physical facts a similar model could automatically explain (like the existence of a finite "speed of light", Quantum Mechanics, the spin of particles as the index of their periodic stability, the fact there are six types of Quarks, and much more).
I could write a book, but I don't intend to do that until I have more certainty (too many braggarts wrote books about unproved facts or toy-theories already).
I can just mention that in a similar model of universe, matter would be like "knotted space", while fields "missing space".
The logical and phylosophical implications are huge, and not within everyone's reach - no blames. They took me many years to be digested, and chances are my mind came out damaged, to some extent. In fact, eventually I had to take a break for my sake. Maybe forever...

So far, I can't really say which the "game rule" of our universe could be, nor which kind of value every cell may contain (whether just binary, or integer, or whether they simply can act like quantized vectors allowing a limited set of values, maybe six...).
The same way I can't speculate on the initial state of the system and on its final state (if any).
However, we must always apply the so-called "antropic principle": our universe hasn't to be priviledged by any means, i.e. it is not necessarily the cellular automaton (if one at all) with the "simplest" or "most elegant" rule, or with the "simplest initial condition", or with the "simplest kind of cell values" (eg. binary). Clearly, not all combinations of the above listed attributes may generate a complex enough universe, containing intelligent observer models as we are.
Simply, some arbitrary set of attributes would give birth to our universe, and consequently, we are here observing it from the inside.

To conclude: I still define myself a scientist, not a pseudo-one, because I am not in love with my own ideas but with the search for truth.
I am not Peter Plichta, Walter Cassani or Stefan Marinov. I am not convinced of anything and my goal is not convincing you of anything.
I am not saying what I suspect is true. I am just stressing that a similar model of universe has the chances of being the right one and it may explain many things.
Unfortunately, I had to stop and I can't say whether I will ever resume my investigation in life or not.
I just hope somebody will consider this route and go on with it, even after me, hopefully crediting me in case my intuition were correct.