sealchan
Well-Known Member
I have had this notion of certain principles of systems and what they might help us to understand about that which exists outside of our Universe.
It seems that all things tend to exist in terms of energies with polarized qualities such that one can adjust a knob for a given quality to one end or the other and combining opposites tend to cancel out either extreme.
For an example we have virtual particles which are created in pairs of opposites so as not to break the laws of symmetry. As one line of theory goes, the Universe arose out of an assymettry created by one such pair or groups of pairs of virtual particles which did not end up mutually annihilating. By some mysterious circumstance an assymettry act of creativity occurred and the Universe as we know it started.
The question then becomes what was the nature of this initial asymmetric event (a vacuum genesis)? How did it come about? How rate was it?
Being that we are within this Universe we do not appear to have the ability to make observations that could provide answers to these questions. Unless...we understand that the edge of our Universe is not a sharp boundary but a more graduated boundary. I have pondered that classical atomic physics describes what is more properly "what our Universe is like" while the sub-atomic, relativistic modern physics is really a look at the edges of our Universe which participate equally in our Universe but also reveal that which is outside of our Universe.
Now I think that the properties of systems which we might observe at the level of physics or chemistry or biology or ecosystems or human cultural systems might also apply to those systems in our Universe which are on the edge and also beyond it. This is an assumption, of course, but one, which like a paradigm, might prove useful for framing further questions about our Universe and what lies beyond it.
As I recall Hawking proposed that at the event horizon of a black hole which is effectively a hole in our classical Universe, is that virtual particles created nearby might result in an asymmetric creation of energy coming from that black hole. This Hawking radiation represents a behaviour of a kind with the notion of a Universe which has emerged from a similar event.
So there is a suggestion here that a structure related to an event horizon may be what "lies behind" the creation of our Universe and that such a structure was, by definition "extra-Universal".
Anyway I hope that this speculative thinking will inspire some thoughts and feedback.
It seems that all things tend to exist in terms of energies with polarized qualities such that one can adjust a knob for a given quality to one end or the other and combining opposites tend to cancel out either extreme.
For an example we have virtual particles which are created in pairs of opposites so as not to break the laws of symmetry. As one line of theory goes, the Universe arose out of an assymettry created by one such pair or groups of pairs of virtual particles which did not end up mutually annihilating. By some mysterious circumstance an assymettry act of creativity occurred and the Universe as we know it started.
The question then becomes what was the nature of this initial asymmetric event (a vacuum genesis)? How did it come about? How rate was it?
Being that we are within this Universe we do not appear to have the ability to make observations that could provide answers to these questions. Unless...we understand that the edge of our Universe is not a sharp boundary but a more graduated boundary. I have pondered that classical atomic physics describes what is more properly "what our Universe is like" while the sub-atomic, relativistic modern physics is really a look at the edges of our Universe which participate equally in our Universe but also reveal that which is outside of our Universe.
Now I think that the properties of systems which we might observe at the level of physics or chemistry or biology or ecosystems or human cultural systems might also apply to those systems in our Universe which are on the edge and also beyond it. This is an assumption, of course, but one, which like a paradigm, might prove useful for framing further questions about our Universe and what lies beyond it.
As I recall Hawking proposed that at the event horizon of a black hole which is effectively a hole in our classical Universe, is that virtual particles created nearby might result in an asymmetric creation of energy coming from that black hole. This Hawking radiation represents a behaviour of a kind with the notion of a Universe which has emerged from a similar event.
So there is a suggestion here that a structure related to an event horizon may be what "lies behind" the creation of our Universe and that such a structure was, by definition "extra-Universal".
Anyway I hope that this speculative thinking will inspire some thoughts and feedback.
