The Universe in a Bombshell

[kushith]

The Slightly Newer Face of the Universe

Some people say everything in this world is made up of earth, fire, wind and water. At a time when we didn’t understand much about matter and energy and didn’t even think much about space or time, this seemed like a good way of categorizing the things we observed in day to day life. Just because an analogy or theory is so primitive or baseless, we shouldn’t look down at it. The truth is this simple classification of things helped most people at the time to understand the elements that make the environment they experience and in some countries and cultures still continue to serve as a basis for many schools of thought.

In fact, Stephen Hawking once described the whole concept of why we should make our understanding of a subject simple enough to be understood by the majority of people if it is to be of any use to us at all. Such as the example of how an image of the world being held up by a group of giant tortoises helped an old woman understand how the world existed.

I have talked about my own version of the tortoise model in terms of understanding the universe by simplifying things around us into “existences” and introducing concepts such as “time rate”. Not surprisingly I did get feedback from people saying things in the line of “what have you been smoking?” or “this is a whole bunch of nonsense”. All I have to say in defense for such comments is the same I have said at the time, that is, all that was just a continuously evolving series of ideas and I do refine and even change my mind on key aspects of these models when ever I think is necessary or when ever I think of a better way of looking at it.

My idea of the illusive “theory of everything” hasn’t changed that much since that last entry, but I thought perhaps a little more explanation or a simple refinement of the terminology could clear things up a little more.


The Frog in the Well Mentality

At the heart of my line of thought is the belief that it is wrong to assume the entire universe as a whole has the same conditions and variables like those we experience either right on earth or around the observable universe around us. Sure, this seems pretty obvious to most people since we all know that conditions ranging from temperature to gravity to material composition of other stellar objects are rare even close to our immediate surroundings here on earth. Yet what most people fail to realize is that there could be other factors that are different. Things that we take for granted or so uniform and consistent to the point we don’t even consider them as variables in our practical experiments and calculations.

Starting from the Newtonian era of scientific development (of perhaps even earlier) we were drawn to the idea that everything in the universe obeys a common set of rules, and everything magically seems to all fit together as a wonderful mechanical system of ideas and concepts to the point we could predict and calculate phenomena that we could only observe and document before. I believe it is wrong to assume that the entire universe has this nature of uniformity and order. In fact, to my knowledge, the fact two of the most significant developments of human understanding, namely Relativity and Quantum mechanics failing to agree with each other seem to be the biggest roadblock to our quest in forming the so called Theory of Everything.

Most of the early basic principles of science (which we still use) were based on real world experiments and observations. I find it is no big surprise that these principles seem to work marvelously for practical purposes down here on earth while failing to explain most of that is out there, even from a purely logical point of view.


Once Upon a Time

One such key discrepancy that I think we fail to realize is the very concept of time. We think time is something that ticks away at a constant rate to everybody in this universe. For me, the argument whether time suddenly started out of the bloom (for example in a so called big bang or due to a mystical act of creation by a supreme being) or if it simply was there all the time and will always be there is simply irrelevant because I believe it is not a uniform and constant entity. This is the reason why I introduced the idea of “Time rate”. The thinking behind this idea is just like there is distance, then speed, and acceleration (where speed is a function of distance and time, and acceleration is a function of speed and time) there should be something beyond time itself.

Perhaps my choice of words to describe was flawed or confusing to say the lease because in order to measure a change in the “rate” time you need the very thing you are measuring against – which is time. Plus this wording failed to put enough emphasis on the idea that this measurement is not only variable over the time dimension but also over the space dimension (and perhaps other dimensions).

Therefore, I decided to come up with a different word and a bit more logic friendly approach to this concept. I now call it “Altri Esistensi Relative Time Density” or simply “Time density” for short. That is the measurement of time as a function of other fundamental elements or entities in the universe, let it be relative to space, or energy or matter.


Elements of Surprise

Before I elaborate on this models, this leads us to my updated version of “earth, fire, wind, water” to Space, Time, Matter, Energy. (I didn’t deliberately limit these elements to only four, for the same reason I’m not sure why the ancients limited theirs to just four, and there is always space for more later if needed.) Yet, unlike the concept of the famous four basic elements where the notion is everything else derives from them while the separate elements are distinct, I do realize that entities such as matter and energy could be made out of the other. We can also create energy out of matter and vice versa and perhaps even time out of space and vice versa, maybe there is no reason why we should be able to create - let’s say -time out of energy.

Therefore, a simple definition (for which I’m yet to find a specific formula) of Time Density is that it is how much time a certain point in the universe has at a certain time as a relative function of space, matter and energy.

Similarly, there are other Altri Esistensi Relative Density concepts such as Space Density, Matter Density, and Energy Density.


Clouding the Mind

This brings us back to the idea that time is not a uniform medium that stretches across the universe like a blank canvas. In fact, the very idea of talking about the so called Fabric of the Universe is misleading. I would rather think of it as a cloud with no particular order or pattern. So, in the universe, we should find a Time Density cloud. We already know that matter and energy exists in the universe in certain densities in relation to space alone. But what perhaps what we also fail to realize is that just like time, even space itself is not a uniform and constant medium such as the old fashion concept of an entity called the Aether or simply a vast uniform void. Space probably is more of a Space Density cloud. In it, the distances or space between certain matter entities in one space-time region is irrelevant to a similar situation elsewhere and else time.

This could raise serious questions about the interpretation of astronomical data and observations. Intern this might also change the understanding we have of not only the entire universe beyond the observable universe as we know it but also the far out observable universe that could be under the influence of the inconsistencies of Time Density and Space Density.


The Time Wave

Unrelated to the concept of the chaotic cloud like nature of the time at a macro scale, on a micro perspective, time could also be thought as a waveform. The wavelength of which of course is related to the Time Density, is perhaps the deciding factor determining the boundary that dictates what (large objects) obey relativity and what (small) entities obey quantum mechanics. This value is localized what it is here on earth is not at all necessarily the same in other regions of the space time density cloud in the universe.


Quicker than the Speed of Light

We nominated a (finite) numerical value to the speed of light based on what we experience at our space-time region. I see no reason why it should be the case anywhere any time. I believe that at zero Time Density and zero Space Density, the speed of light is infinite. Perhaps in such primal conditions, even matter could travel across vast expanses at infinite speed. This could explain why “Big bang” like occurrences could happen (not just once but as many times as they would) while the resulting creation of non zero finite Time Density makes the “Big Crunch” or the implosion of (not just in special and material aspects of the universe but of all existence elements) the universe takes a finite (and hopefully a long) time.


Unlucky Numbers

Another important mindset in my model is to limit our obsession with quantitative focus on the universe and pay more attention to the logic and overall relative relations. It is a fact that mathematics is a man made subject and perhaps the only values as we know it that are relevant to the universe as a whole is the concept of zero and infinity. Everything in between those values is only useful for practical purposes in life but not for the understanding of the universe. I think our fascination with numerical coincidences is as irrelevant to the universe as the idea of measuring distance using the length of the foot of a king (or a body of an MIT student).


Naughty by Nature

Does that mean the universe is much more chaotic and random in nature than the predictable and “universal” impression we have of the universe? Perhaps it is uniform when mapped against a particular element, but it so happens that the very medium we look at it in these days is also entangled and muddled up with other existences. This leads to another key point in my hypothesis; the intertwined and entangled nature of the universe. This not only prevents how things normally would fall into place in the universe. I firmly believe this entanglement is the very reason the existence of the universe.

Because the most natural state for the universe to be in, is not to exist at all - The oblivion.

[mkirkpatrick]

Great stuff Kushith,let;s hope it does not go off!



regards michael.

[theunify]

I admire the effort, may I ask what it is your profession is?

[MJA]

Hi Mr. Kushith,

Surely you have heard of Plato's caveman story, it's about the limits of our reality.
And Einstein said something like: What does a fish know about water, when it has never seen anything else.
Their are limits to our understanding, but no limits on the truth.

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MJA

[kushith]

I admire the effort, may I ask what it is your profession is?

I'm a full time digital artist and part time thinker