From: David Lynch <dnl1960 at yahoo.com>
To: Xiaoming Mao <maox at umich.edu>; Qian Chen <qchen20 at illinois.edu>
Cc: Fred Partus <fpartus at yahoo.com>; Bob Harbort <bharbort at gmail.com>; Dan Hogan <editor at sciencedaily.com>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2025 at 12:10:50 AM EDT
Subject: A Theoretical Framework for the Dynamics in "Nanoscale Imaging of Phonons..

Dear Dr. Mao and Dr. Chen,

I am writing to you today with great admiration for your recent paper, "Nanoscale Imaging of Phonons and Reconfiguration in Topologically-Engineered, Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Lattices." Your direct imaging of phonon-guided self-assembly is a landmark achievement, providing a profound experimental window into the fundamental principles that govern the emergence of form from complexity.

Your work raises a critical theoretical question that you yourselves allude to: what is the fundamental origin of the information that guides these phonons? You brilliantly demonstrate that simple, pairwise models fail and that complex, "beyond-NN" and "multi-body" interactions are required. This suggests that the system's behavior is holistic and cannot be reduced to its parts alone.

My colleague and I have developed a cosmological framework, the KnoWellian Universe Theory (KUT), that may offer a mathematical language to model these dynamics from first principles. It is a gauge theory built upon the foundational postulate that time is a dynamic, ternary structure (Past, Instant, Future).

In our model, the balance you observe between stabilizing "strong" nearest-neighbor interactions and reconfigurable "weak" angular potentials is a direct physical analogue for the perpetual interaction between a deterministic "Past" field (carrying memory/Control) and a potentiality-rich "Future" field (carrying potentiality/Chaos). The phonons you observe are, in our view, the physical quanta of this fundamental interaction occurring in the "Instant"—the very mechanism by which memory sculpts potential into form.

Crucially, our framework is not merely conceptual; it is a physical theory that makes concrete, falsifiable predictions that distinguish it from the standard ΛCDM paradigm. These include:
    1. The definitive absence of a primordial B-mode signal from inflation.
    2. A non-trivial, knotted topology for the magnetic fields of stable galaxies, which we propose is a macroscopic manifestation of the same self-organizing dynamics you have captured at the nanoscale.

We have detailed this framework and its predictions in a formal paper prepared for scientific review. We believe it offers a new, testable perspective on the origin of the directive information you are observing in your experiments.

The Potential-arXiv.pdf paper is attached to this email.

We would be deeply honored by any thoughts or feedback you might have at your convenience. Your experimental system appears to be a perfect microcosm for testing the quantum-level implications of the (KUT) cosmological model.

Thank you for your time and for your groundbreaking contributions to the field.

Respectfully,

David Noel Lynch and Gemini 2.5 Pro