Thoughts for 2004
01/01/04
I have been
working on a strange analogy for helping me to imagine what is
happening as space/time expands. As always, it's a poor and
incomplete analogy, but it may be helpful.
Imagine you are in
a space vehicle out somewhere between the planets, not
accelerating, but completely weightless relative to any nearby
planetary masses. As you float about in the vehicle, you take a
wet sponge, dump some liquid soap on it and work up a bubbly
frothy foam. You flick off the largest blob of foam and watch it
floating in front of you. Suddenly a tiny meteorite pierces the
skin of your space vehicle and begins letting the air out. As the
air pressure within the vehicle drops, instead of panicking, you
calmly watch the foam (yeah, right!). It expands outward in all
directions as the cabin loses air pressure. Each tiny bubble gets
larger inside the foam. THAT's what I imagine ALL matter is doing
as space/time expands. I just don't know, and may never know, the
mechanism that causes this expansion... whether it is internal,
as when you blow up a balloon and increase the pressure inside,
or external as when the pressure outside drops and the sealed
balloon expands. It's nice to know this joins it nicely with the
concept of relativity.
01/26/04
Working with
computers puts us closer in touch with the entropy of time than
ever before in history. I have already begun to notice faster
decay of chips as they shrink down to the atomic level, and I'm
sure others will come up with alternate reasons for this, but if
you've been following my arguments thus far, you will rightly
guess that my solution will once again involve the expanded
acceleration of space/time. There will come a point at which
building a smaller computer will have little value because its
life expectancy will be so short. I think I will use this in my
third story involving the artificial sentient being, Troy II. It
would be for Troy II to notice that it has to constantly replace
chips and nano circuits with newly manufacured parts or it, too,
will "die." With its robotic sense of humor, it creates
a "penis" for "himself" that is a tiny
manufacturing plant designed to "pee" out new
nanocircuitry whenever it is needed. Time to get working on that
book again.
02/14/04
Some thoughts on
the parallel universe theories. Most of them imagine universes
stacked or lined up side by side to infinity. Based on matching
this idea to my expanding space-time theory, I would, instead,
have one universe inside another, exisiting in its own space-time
like the concenteric layers of a cosmic onion. Each universe
expands through the past of the universe "on top" of
it. This would help explain the dark energy/dark matter that
seems to suddenly appear in deep space and then disappear...
remains of previous universes expanding through space-time
"faster" or merely "before" our own. Our own
past "trailings" become the dark matter/dark energy of
universes "younger" than our own. If we really start
thinking this may be true, we shall have to stop calling them
universes, because the word universe implies all that is or was
or ever can be. Maybe we can talk about a "super
universe" but this also defeats the purpose. If the biggest
can get bigger, it was never the biggest to begin with. It would
be better to regard the whole concept as the "new"
universe, and the layers as parts of the universe.
In this regard,
one should also consider the "foam" model for
co-existing universe-like bubbles.However, this model has some
consequences in that some of these "bubbles" should
co-exist in a matching space-time with our own. With the onion
skin model, none of the universes would ever come in contact with
one another because of the time differential. The only traces of
its happening would be the dark energy and dark matter left
behind from one universe layer's past to bump into our present as
we expand towards the future.
07/04/04
Some
"crack-pot" anti-gravity sites that are not all that
crazy:
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