Re: Cyclical Universe based on Big Rip Scenario The thing about a model is to try to figure out what it may contribute to overall knowledge both positive and negatively. I do see potential for this model but with obvious pitfalls too.
One thing about proving that time and space has an underlying density that is accessible is the use to which it might serve. As such one can only be impartial although cautious of human nature.
Purpose one for instance is that as a medium it could serve to transmit a vibration. If one looks at something like tubular bells or resonance in a tube that could be used at the microscopic level to shake a virus. Ebola has a tubular structure and the thing about micro structure is that it tends towards incredible strength.
Take the recent discovery of 50 atoms width of the soft metal gold being used to patch a hole also in a micro structure. It was far more rigid than expected. Rigidity in a metal is a factor in resonance. If that rigidity comes at a price of say being brittle like glass then we have a medical tool provided the treatment is not also life destroying to the patient.
On a larger scale the nemesis of man is the mosquito, also a tube relying vector. A larger macro field would need to be generated. This is a larger and thus more dangerous application that would be hopefully contained in an area effect. It means dipping into the 'negative' as Tesla did when he created a differential to charge his beam technology using a vacuum and dessicated compressed air.
The downside of both of these is that same technology could be weaponized which is unfortunately so often the way of new innovations. Like the MAD model of mutually assured destruction by posting equally in a public forum it can be discussed for its merit or not.
Why take such a risk, do I really trust humans wont just find the allure of new weapons to attractive, no. I can not be the arbiter just a proponent hoping that good sense will prevail, failing that for every measure there is a counter measure and for that a counter counter measure and so on.
History has not recorded advances in human thinking in a nice way. Perhaps once, just this once if there is merit it can be embraced peacefully. Or we can wait and see if it comes along and if its use by one side only is of greater or lesser cost.
One way or another if an application is in the wings the logic is that it will find its way into use eventually. That saying "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health" technology is a marriage and over the years there have been some fantastic marriages. If not then what is the point.
I am hoping for medical advances, for propulsion technology, better understanding of the universe we live in, a way of defining good living in a clean and healthy environment and most importantly a legacy worthy of future generations, that is what I am hoping for.
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