Quantum Wave Cosmology is my TOE :)

[Bogie]

The topic today is the idea of abandoning the universal medium in favor of the existence of a universe cosmic microwave energy background that fills all space with electromagnetic radiation (EMR). Don’t reject the concept until I describe the nature of the EMR background from a new perspective.

The UM has been an integral part of QWC from its beginning because it enabled action at a distance without the geometry of spacetime. I reject spacetime because it fails to work if space and time existed before the Big Bang and my pea brain refuses to accept the cosmology that says there was a beginning, whether in the form of a big bang or a supernatural creation. Both of those concepts of a beginning have fatal logic flaws and logic is the only tool we have to address the “beginning” because science just can’t go across the event horizon.

The flaw of “God did it” is the problem of infinite regress meaning if God created the universe then who created God. Often the answer is that God was not created, God as always existed. On that basis could not the universe have just as easily always existed?

The flaw of the Big Bang being the beginning is the problem of “something from nothing”. Again it is a personal preference but really, something from nothing? Impossible!

So being a layman and not a professional in the scientific community, and knowing that what I think will have and should have no impact on the curious minds of children or adults, I can freely reject spacetime and the beginning in any fashion and I hereby proclaim that to be my position.

Why after all of the contemplation that I have put into QWC based on the existence of aether, aka the universal medium, am I contemplating abandoning it? Because it isn’t necessary in a universe that is composed of an arena landscape and where there is an infinite history of light across the whole electromagnetic spectrum being emitted from various events and circumstances that are common throughout the lives of all arenas and that have achieved a perfect background of light energy across infinite space. I have already named it and referred to it often in QWC to date but recent contemplations bring me to a point where I am beginning to see it as a self sustaining energy background that faithfully fills the role of an aether without requiring anything but the universal cosmic microwave background energy (UCMBE), I think .

Off to see a play, Billy Elliot, with the wife but I am already thinking about a follow up post to describe the UCMBE and how it could fill the role of the universal medium. Maybe after more thought I will have to abort the abandonment of the UM, but I have an inkling that the UM isn’t necessary if the nature of the UCMBE is speculated properly.

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Yes, the CMBR comes and goes, getting used and refreshed, but was ever there…

There was no Big Bang, as it would not have conserved energy, for no supposed photinos have ever been found to balance the photons, which are, in fact, their own antiparticle, which is why there are no photinos.

Space doesn’t expand, but photons do, stretching and then emitting quantized decay photons in the microwave range, the end of the energy spectrum, once every great while (2 million years), which is what forms the CMBR. Photons are asymmetrical, as we know, since they don’t all fit through the crystal lattice of a polarizing substance, and so they don’t respond equally to gravity, there thus being a differential velocity action on the photon which stretches it.

The one and only universe (cosmos) is steady-state, which is why it is still here now, at any old time. Electrical currents from the CMBR are picked up by galactic microwave ‘antenna’ that then head into the black hole (observed as galactic banding) at the center of the galactic vortex, where compound nuclei are pulled apart and disassociated, in relative cold (since formed by fire), by gravity, hydrogen or quarks then flowing out of the galactic fountain to form new stars, emitting new compound nuclei, during a 16-18 billion year recycling time, which is why the universe only appears to be about that old. Matter-light annihilation and its reverse plays but a minor role compared to the cosmic fusion cycle. There, that should shake up the standard model of cosmology.

All this we know, because a mathematical equation must underlie Totality, for cause and effect cannot go on forever. The Zero-Balance equation is the reason for the conservation laws, the reason for charge, and much more; however, it is not God (everything), but is, in fact, the opposite, being nothing (in the overview, for nothing cannot be or stay, nor is there anything else to make stuff out of). QED

[labelwench]

The flaw of “God did it” is the problem of infinite regress meaning if God created the universe then who created God. Often the answer is that God was not created, God as always existed. On that basis could not the universe have just as easily always existed?

Originally posted by Bogie

You have just stated the simple reason for my accepting that the universe can be named 'God' if it makes the journey more comforting to our species.

We arise from, and return to, the medium which supports all life and that which we regard as 'mineral', though upon close examination, everything is constructed from various combination of molecules and their ever finer constituents.

That these constituents are ever recycled seems logical, so in the most rudimentary sense, 'we rise again', though not as we may be at this moment, as we are ever changing moment to moment as our cells age and die within the confines of our 'body'.

The concept of a 'god' without 'religion' seems perfectly rational to me.

The universe/god is what it is.

It is we who would make it otherwise in our attempts to orient ourselves in relation to it's scale, IMO.

[austintorn@aol.com]

Carl Sagan said something like "Just skip a step" (the God part), and he might well have added, if he were still alive, "Still calling it God would only confuse the mindful with the mindless, but for the emotional comfort that it may bring."

[Bogie]

Thank you, LW. I added that to my favorites.

I have a post today about light, but before that let me state that there are no aspects of science explained by the math and the coordinate system of spacetime that cannot be explained otherwise without curved space, i.e. hyperbolic Minkowski spacetime. That is a challenge I have made before and I still maintain it is true. I am talking about observables and the scientific explanation of observations. I go further and say that many observations that are not yet explained by science that is consistent with the consensus theories can be explained if the theories are considered tentative and if we derive solutions from the bottom up.

Light is one such aspect of observed nature that lends itself to bottom up step by step speculation that makes sense to me. Please contradict or refute my views as conveyed in the following post.

What is Light in QWC?. Light is photon energy that is emitted in packets by any energetic wave particle as the energy of the environment hosting the energetic wave particle increases.

As I sometimes do as I develop QWC from the bottom up and in a step by step fashion, I like to make statements like the definition of Light and then stipulate the definition of the words used in the statement.

Light is also called electromagnetic radiation and almost everyone accepts that there are two fields associated with it, the electric field and the magnetic field. Be that as it may, those fields do not cause photon energy to be emitted from an electron; they are physical characteristics of the photon and they are aspects of the mathematical description of the motion of a photon. The field represents the potential energy of the photon once it is emitted and is in motion.

The fields of the photon themselves do not have energy separate from the photon and they do not exist until the photon is emitted. I’m not saying that electric and magnetic fields don’t exist without photons, but I am saying that in regard to the photon they go with it and if the photon is absorbed the field potential is absorbed as well. From that perspective, the fields associated with a photon in motion represent the potential energy of the photon.

A photon is energy in motion at the speed of light and the amount of energy in a photon corresponds with the potential energy of the fields that accompany the photon in motion. The photon is a spherically expanding wave front. Each wave front is an in-phase expanding spherical wave of energy. Parallel wave fronts are curved plane waves, segments of the spherical wave, emitted from a common source that sequentially pass a point in space. All points on the in-phase spherical wave have the same amount of energy. The energy of any point in the in-phase wave declines as the radius of the wave increases. The frequency of the wave fronts corresponds with the energy level of the source. So as each point on the in-phase expanding spherical wave along a line of sight loses energy as it traverses space, the frequency of the curved plane waves passing a point in that line of sight determines the apparent photon energy. A line of sight observed from a point in space and a photon energy source is called a photon beam, a ray of light, or even a light spear depending on the context.

Energy in regard to the photon is a specific quantity of wave energy emitted from an election or other energetic particle under various circumstances. That energy has potential to affect energy environments that it encounters at a distance.

“Emitted” refers to an event where photon energy leaves an energy environment at the speed of light. The stimulus for the emission of photon energy from the particle environment is energy density equalization, meaning that when energy builds up in an environment, the energy level of the surrounding environment determines the limit of energy that can be contained in any given particle in that environment.

Packets of energy differentiate photon energy from a constant flow of energy. Energy doesn’t continuously flow from an energy environment, it flows in discrete amounts. The amount of energy in a packet can vary across a wide range, i.e. the electromagnetic spectrum. It is an aspect of quantization characteristic of matter in that energy can be added or emitted by matter only in quantum increments. A photon carries energy in quantum increments and the amount of energy in a photon is always a whole number of quanta.

“Energetic” simply means having energy.

“Wave” denotes energy in motion.

A particle is a spherical standing wave or organized set of standing waves that have synchronized and quantized inflowing and out flowing wave energy.

An energy environment and the energy of the environment are phrases used to specify a finite amount of wave energy in a finite space. The space can be defined as any three dimensional location specified, and by specifying that space you are defining an energy environment because all space contains wave energy. More specifically, a particle is an energy environment just like an object composed of particles is an energy environment, and the solar system or a galaxy or an arena all qualify as energy environments.

Light energy is synchronized energy and shares the distinction of being “synchronized” like the out flowing energy associated with maintaining the presence of matter (see the stipulative definition of a particle above and the description of out flowing energy in post #1726. Light energy is emitted spherically from matter to balance the energy density of the energy environment and the out flowing wave component of the standing waves that establish the presence of matter are also emitted spherically, i.e. equally in all directions). There is a distinction between the frequency of light which always falls in the electromagnetic spectrum with its transverse fields, and the out flowing spherical wave energy that is not electromagnetic energy but that is continually emitted from matter as the presence of matter is maintained as standing waves. That distinction establishes two types of energy emitted by matter, electromagnetic wave energy and out flowing matter-maintenance wave energy.

This post can serve as a benchmark for the internal consistency of any and all references to light in QWC. As you can see, the stipulative definitions that apply to the definition of light can also serves as consistency benchmarks for other aspects of QWC.

Generally my posts like this are not remarkable to anyone and are not science as such, but I always encourage any comments and constructive corrections that anyone wants to make and support, especially if you want to defend the concept of spacetime that is unnecessary in QWC.

Here is a graphic I drew to try to depict the nature of a photon as an expanding spherial wave of energy. The caption in the pic describes what I am trying to show. This is a work in progress:

The next graphic compares the mainstream view of a traveling photon with my view of sequential spherical photons passing a point in space:

[Bogie]

Here is an effort to begin improving the depiction of the photon waves passing a point and creating a fluctuating energy level as the waves pass the fixed point in space. The plane waves that make up each photon wave are actually curved and are a part of the in-phase surface of the spherical photon wave. The fluctuation in energy is thought to correspond to the sinusoidal variations of the electric and magnetic fields shown in the mainstream picture. I'm considering the possibility that the classical depiction and mine both represent the fluctuating energy passing a point in space and if the classical picture were converted to photon energy at each point along the path of the photon, i.e. netted out at each point in time, it would show the same energy fluctuation that my version shows:

This picture really does need more work and so if it disappears from this post and the previous post which this one improves upon, it will be because I updated the pictures saved at Photobucket. I'll include any updated pics in subsequent posts .

[Bogie]

The following contains over 17,000 characters and requires two posts. This content contains new speculations about the energy background in QWC which in now referred to as the Universal Thermalized Photon Energy Background.

It starts with the sequential curved plane waves of photon energy

The mainstream calls a sequence of light waves spherical electromagnetic transverse linearly polarized in-phase wave fronts, or at least I say they do. In QWC each wave front represents a photon which is the quanta of light energy. Photons are light energy and though there are tons upon tons of math stemming from Maxwell’s equations that unify the electric and magnetic fields and give birth to the concept of electromagnetic waves, the physical reality is that photons are energy quanta.

A now familiar visual picture of the electromagnetic wave comes from his work:





At every point along the direction of movement of the light wave there are values for both the electrical and the magnetic fields. The wave is propagated through empty space from a source that is characterized by oscillating dipoles which consist of two separated charges of opposite sign vibrating at a certain frequency (f). This vibration gives rise to the electrical field because the separated opposite charges of the dipole are moving (vibrating). The electric field causes the magnetic field because electric fields induce magnetic fields. The dipole loses energy as it propagates the electromagnetic wave into space and so the photons represent the energy drain of the dipole though such a drain is infinitesimal relative to the energy of the dipole.

The frequency of the light wave is equal to the rate of vibration of the oscillating dipole so let’s envision a dipole which consists of is a positive charge separated a distance from a negative charge.







Think of the negative charge as a moving electron and the positive charge a proton. The electron moves relative to the proton and produces the electric field which induces the magnetic field. Many different dipoles exist in molecules but for this post the simple atom is a good example. The propagation of the EM wave is caused by the relative motion of the charged particles. There is a continuous emission of photons from a dipole and each emission is quantized and the photon is the quantized energy emitted.

Where I’m going with this is to define the term ‘energy’ as it relates to light waves and what happens when space is filled with light energy coming and going in every conceivable direction at the same time.

A photon is a packet of energy emitted from the energy bank of the dipole and the energy of the dipole is from the motion of the charged particles. These particles get their charge when they form. If energy flows from them in buckets called photons one would have to think that the charged particles are losing their energy and will eventually cease to produce photons and lose their charges.

This is true in a closed system where the energy of the charged particles is emitted as light energy. There is no means in the closed system to recharge the particles and so entropy leads to the energy density equalization of the system which is the point where no more photons can be emitted. All that is left is the light that has already been emitted and is moving away from the cold remnants of the no longer charged particles. This is the concept behind what is called the ‘heat death’ of the universe. The QWC universe is an open system in which entropy is defeated.

QWC speculates that there is an arena process the is able to convert the cold remnants back into useful energy and that process utilizes the existing light energy that fills all space and is called the universal cosmic microwave background energy in mainstream cosmology.

If that is true that there is an arena process, then the spacetime continuum does not exist because it is not mathematically consistent with a boundless and eternal universe. Therefore the concepts of curved spacetime and the curvature of space by the presence of matter/energy are replaced by the concepts of QWC where there are limits and thresholds controlled by processes of quantum action and arena action.

In QWC objects move in curved paths …

On curved spacetime vs. gravity:

An object moving through space will follow a curved path even though space itself is not curved. Gravity causes objects to follow curved paths through space due to the time delay of gravity. When there is a configuration of mass like a planet and a star, then planets will follow curved paths around the star because they are falling toward where the star was, not where it is. I use a formula to describe it that takes the present location of the two objects in space, and back tracks their locations back along their paths to the point where they were that is equivalent to the time delay. Back in time the planet is falling to where the sun was back in time, and the place where the sun was back in time is the current position of the sun on its path minus the time delay. So for the planet, “now” minus the time delay at the speed of light between the planet and the star determines the path of the planet. With Earth the time delay is about 8 minutes so the Earth is always falling to where the Sun was 8 minutes ago. Since the path that the Earth takes is continually readjusting to where the sun was 8 minutes ago and since the sun is always moving on its path, the path that the Earth takes through space is an elliptically curved orbit and it effectively falls around the sun.

The curved paths that objects take through space are caused by gravity, not curved spacetime or the curvature of spacetime.

It is a time delay thing. The exact location of all objects in space is not instantly transmitted from one object to another; it is transmitted at a finite speed, logically the speed of light. The path that objects have taken is transmitted to all other objects on a time delay. Objects moving through space leave a path of low density in the energy background. Objects move toward the path of lowest density of that background. Therefore objects move toward the place where the greatest net concentration of mass existed given the distance that gravity is transmitted across the UM, i.e. the previous location of the net concentration. “Net concentration” is information contained in the density of the background; every point in the background has a density that is the sum of the low density trails left by mass because mass is continually exchanging its presence by expelling synchronized energy waves and refreshing the expelled energy by pulling in unsynchronized wave energy from the surrounding space. This continual exchange of unquantized wave energy for quantized or synchronized wave energy occurs once every quantum period and thus maintains the low density path of the background that surrounds every quantum particle from the initial formation of each quantum particle. As the mass gets greater, the conserved low density background energy surrounding it gets greater. As the mass moves through space it continues to be surrounded by low density relative to the average density of the background. It is the nature of background, the Universal Thermalized Photon Energy background (UTPEB), to tend to equalize its density across all space so the record of the mass as it traverses space is broadcast throughout space by this process of high density rushing into the low density space surrounding mass giving the motion information of mass an infinite reach.

The net concentration for a solar system like ours would be determined for any point in space if we know the mass of the objects in the solar system and the time delay, i.e. the distance each object in the solar system is from our selected point in space.

Gravity is intimately tied to the presence of matter which has its own gravitational attraction, and matter in a gravitational field has mass; so mass has gravity determined by the relative location of all other objects in space on a time delayed basis. Effectively and obviously very distant objects will have less influence on any given object due to the inverse square law.

In a perpetual universe like the one described in QWC there has always been mass and gravity since there was no overall beginning. However, matter in QWC exists only temporarily. The arena landscape of QWC is not cyclical but it is a repeated process of arena formation, arena expansion, arena overlap, and big crunch formation occurring everywhere throughout the greater universe. Big crunches then produce new arenas at the center of gravity of the arena overlaps.

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[Bogie]

Post 2 of 2 (Yikes, warning, more really dry stuff)

Each arena has a life cycle that begins with the collapse of matter into the big crunch that will form from the overlap of two intersecting arenas. The big crunches cause the negation of matter from parent arenas and negation occurs in an instantaneous event called a big bang. Matter forms in expanding arenas initiated by the big bangs and is negated in the collapses that lead to big crunches. Therefore at any given time, matter is forming or has formed in a potentially infinite number of arenas across the landscape of the greater universe; likewise there are always a potentially infinite number of big crunches that are in the process of negating matter into dense state energy that emerges with each big bang. Negation is the process of un-quantizing matter which then becomes the dense dark energy that emerges and mixes with the UTPEB to begin the process of matter formation all over again. With that in mind, all matter that now exists was either formed within an arena within the past (let’s say 100 billion years for a wild arse guess) or it is old cold galactic material and other space debris traversing the corridors of space that tend to form between active arenas.

One notable thing that is controversial in the above scenario is that the motion of objects is due to gravity as opposed to the curvature of spacetime. That controversy is resolved in my mind by acknowledging that the math of Einstein’s Field Equations very closely corresponds to the actual motion of objects in space, and since in spacetime there is no physical mechanism described for how the geometry of spacetime works that can be explained to account for the attraction across distance I conclude that the real mechanism at work is gravity transmitted through the UTPEB.

On the Universal Thermalized Photon Energy Background (UTPEB)

All this had to be said in order to provide the backdrop for my abandonment of the universal medium in favor of a universal thermalized photon energy background (UTPEB) that is thought to be the final step toward a more fundamental background energy level in QWC. The UTPEB fills all space just like the UM was described as filling all space. The difference is that the UTPEB is now explained in terms of photon energy density equalization which is the step beyond mainstream cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) that the mainstream uses to identify the extremely consistent 2.7 K reading in all directions of observable space. Even though the scale of vastness represented by the CMBR extends beyond our Big Bang observable event horizon, it still makes the CMBR a local phenomenon relative to the greater universe speculated and predicted by QWC because the current version of Big Bang Theory with Inflation extends well beyond our observable event horizon. Our local phenomenon is where the UTPEB is mixed with the photon energy causally connected with our Big Bang to produce the CMBR. The UTPEB exists throughout the greater universe and is used in QWC to identify the overall universal background within which our arena and its CMBR exist.

Explaining the UTPEB in terms of photon energy density equalization is a lot of word salad to most but to me it is logic that allows for the speculation of the current circumstance as being the timeless and ageless sameness of the background energy of the universe. The term equalized and thermalized can be used interchangeably when referring to the energy background.

Photon energy that is propagated by dipoles that exist in all matter traverses space that is already filled with the UTPEB and so instead of requiring the perpendicular electric and magnetic fields to accompany the wave to keep it moving through space, only the EM fields at the origin of the propagation, i.e. at the dipole are necessary. Once the energy is emitted into space it is an energy density fluctuation the expands spherically as described in post #1735 which is accompanied by that poor picture which I still have to pretty up.

The new photon has a huge amount of energy relative to the thermalized photon energy of the Universal Thermalized Photon Energy Background and so it traverses the background and travels right out of the arena and into the corridors of continuity that exist at the outer fringes of arenas and are thought of as the space between active arenas. Of course until the photon energy is equalized with the background energy it can still be tracked back to its origin based on the curvature of the wave front. Once the photon energy is thermalized however, there is no shape to it because the curved plane wave has become essentially a flat parallel plane wave. All aspects or perspectives in energy thermalized space have so many parallel plane waves traversing them in all directions from an infinite history of arena EMR that each point becomes only a location with an energy profile that is characterized as a ‘sameness’ without a preferred directional aspect. Only photon waves which have not yet become thermalized can be recognized against the thermalized background of equalized energy with its sameness coming and going in all directions. Eventually the recognizable curved plane waves become so flat that they no longer stand out and thus they have merged with the background; they have become thermalized or equalized with the background.

The reference to photon energy traversing the energy background instead of to wave energy traversing a universal medium might look like a step back in the history of QWC to before I incorporated the concept of a universal medium but it isn’t. The UTPEB is based on new contemplations and speculations and though it replaces the UM, it also revises the nature of the background. It explains how that background is perpetually maintained and serviced by the electromagnet photon energy emitted by dipoles that characterize every arena.

What changes along with the introduction of the UTPEB is the concept of matter formation in a new arena. Energy density becomes the operative term and it is based on the speculation that the energy of dipoles which emit photon energy, actually gets into the dipole when charged particles are formed within an energy rich environment like an expanding QWC arena.

Dipole energy is maintained in the arena from free electron energy and the free electron energy is formed within the expansion arena of a big bang. In QWC a free electron is not attached to an atom or ion or molecule but is free to move and does so under the influence of any electric field. As nature’s highest maximum energy density declines, i.e. the energy density emerging from a big bang, it does so by equalizing its density with the low energy density of the UTPEB. Describing the nature of the UTPEB reveals the speculation about how matter forms in the declining density of the arena.

Remember that the arena is denser than functioning matter when it emerges from the Big Bang event and so no matter as we know it exists in that space. UTPEB intrusion is necessary to bring the density down to the point where particles can form and function again. But the mix now has all that is need for matter to form. The UTPEB is really photon energy that has been reduced to energy perturbations and these perturbations are suddenly set into motion by the encounter with the dense dark energy of the expanding arena during its inflationary period, maybe picoseconds. An energy perturbation set into motion causes spin and angular momentum and spinning perturbations take on a presence and that presence means that the perturbation becomes stable in space relative to other now stable perturbations. Pre-particles form called dark matter in QWC as these stable perturbations form. These particles clump and some attain stable configurations that equate to quarks, and as the density of the environment continues to decline, quarks combine into what equates to fermions, and the soup begins to take on electromagnetic characterizes common to opposite charges of particles in atoms and molecules. Dipoles are created in the soup and photon energy begins anew in the arena. It is a natural balancing act between expansion and gravity of arena action that maintains the presence of matter in a fixed proportion across the greater universe.

The overall average energy density of the greater universe forces matter to exist because there isn’t enough low energy density space to allow all of the energy that is contained in matter throughout the universe to exist at the average energy density of the universe without. The result is a fixed ratio of matter to space. A condition where there is too much energy in the background relative to the energy contained in matter cannot persist. Matter contains energy in a much denser state than in the background and a certain ratio to background energy naturally occurs. The process is perpetuated by the arena process due to the universal nature limit on maximum energy density. That limit causes big bangs to occur as the matter collapses into big crunches due to gravity. The two driving forces of the universe on a grand scale are expansion forced by big bangs and which allow matter to form, and matter collapsing into big crunches caused by gravity in the overlap of mature expanding big bang arenas. Eternity is conserved.

It’s OK if you skipped this content and glanced down here at the end before reading it all. I am really posting it for the record so that I can refer to it during my contemplative moments and thus will be able to refresh my memory of previous contemplations and speculations .

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Polarization

“Chirp, chirrup.”

“Hey, Crick, is that you behind the sunglasses?”

“Yes, the polarized lenses keep out the polarized rays of the sun, leaving the rest alone, for even though the light from the sun and the hot plasma of the early universe is unpolarized, when it scatters off matter some of this outgoing radiation in some directions is polarized; thus, light from the sun scattering by roughly ninety degrees from molecules in the atmosphere arrives at the eye highly polarized, although not perfectly so.”

“So, the lenses block the predominant polarization but let through a small amount of light with the opposite polarization?”

“Yes, plus I am a movie star and so I don’t really need to be recognized.”

“What movie!”

“The ‘Genetic Code’ movie, in which we find that DNA holds some juicy secrets about our past, many of them not presently active and presumed as junk DNA, but are actually just turned off and still quite readable.”

“Alright already! What about polarization?”

“OK, I’ve just returned from the big conference. Now, skipping over same basic definitions, the cosmic background radiation became polarized when it scattered for the last time off the hot gas that filled the universe 14 billion years ago. This was because the plasma had some nonuniformity. Although the radiation now reaching us has been transformed from red-hot gas into microwaves, its polarization remains unchanged.”

“So, both the gravitational waves and the energy density are sources that cause polarization?”

“Yes. Energy density fluctuations produce only E-mode polarization, but gravitational waves produce a mixture of both E- and B-mode polarizations.”

“We can detect B-mode, of course?”

“Yes, and so if there is B-mode then the inflationary model wins and the cyclical model loses.”

“So, what did they say at the really big conference?”

“Oh, yes. The first part was a bit boring as they went over the quality of the instruments, but this demonstrated the validity of the data gathered. I almost fell asleep. I’m getting tired even thinking about it.”

“Crick!”

“Oh, yeah. Lyman Page proudly presented the first full-sky polarization map ever made, hastening to report, “The pattern we have measured is pure E-mode, with the gravitational waves contribution to the hot and cold spots having to be less than 28 percent, ruling out still more inflationary models.”

“Even some of the most promising inflationary models?”

“Indeed. After the applause died down, there came the time for questions.”

“And of course you asked one.”

“I said to Lyman Page, ‘That map is fantastical and fabulous! With this experience of the polarization map produced by WMAP, how much further do you think we can push to search for B-modes and what is the best approach?’ Now remember, Wick, that Page is a meticulous scientist who bases prospects on conservative judgment…”

“Crick, tell me already!”

“OK. There’s good news and some not so good news.”

“Give me the good news first.”

“Page’s answer was crisp and unequivocal: ‘We can push the measurements from 28% to 1% percent using a new satellite dedicated to the purpose.’”

“Holy cow!”

“Yes, Wick it was like a canon going off! What an uproar ensued.”

“Page is calling for a satellite whose instruments and flight path are specifically designed to measure the polarization pattern!”

“Want the bad news, Wick?”

“Huh? What?”

“Although this satellite could be ready in 5 years, NASA has recently redirected its focus toward a manned mission to Mars. The satellite is off the agenda until at least 2018.”

They were both happy and sad at the same time and exhausted from the dialog. As they drifted off into the haze of daydreams and a nap, Crick managed to whisper “there are some other hopes coming about that are not too far off, some even launching soon…”