Hi,
As an ex-astrophysicist/cosmologist, I wanted to add that there are
also
other cosmological theories which have as a feature an essentially
infinite,
cyclic model of energy transfer, leaving out the question of how it
all
started, because in essence it has always been. Also, the Big Bang
is not
as proven as the mainstream would want people to believe (in fact is
dis-proven, even Hubble himself was against it his whole life,
"Hubble's
Law" was someone else's interpretation of his empirical finding,
not his own
interpretation.) I studied plasma cosmology which is based more on
electromagnetism and process philosophy paradigm, as opposed to the
big bang
which is based on gravity and the object oriented paradigm. In plasma
cosmology there is no need for dark matter, dark energy, or big
bangs: the
dynamics of the universe are explained by taking into account the
electromagnetic forces present at the large scale within the plasma
present
in the universe at all scales. Also in this model, time just runs, it
doesn't run backwards ever, no need for such ideas. This doesn't
mean that
cyclic process is impossible, in fact oscillation is a very natural
process
in a universe that only runs forward (the direction of time is
arbitrary in
this sense.) To this day there is an ongoing battle between the
'relativists' and the 'Maxwellians'; i.e. between the gravity, object
oriented paradigm, and the electromagnetic, process oriented paradigm.
Anyhow, I think it would be fun to base a microsound project on
these ideas
somehow, as you suggested. It ties into the ideas of discrete versus
continuum as well. Well, I'll leave it at that. There is this
whole pi
thing that I haven't even started on yet...
-robert
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Bård Harazi Farbu
<bardfarbu@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi all
Read this in Wired today:
According to Turok, who teaches at Cambridge University,
the Big
Bang represents just one stage in an infinitely repeated cycle of
universal expansion and contraction. Turok
theorizes that
neither
time nor the universe has a beginning or end.
"Imagine you have a room full of air, with all these molecules
banging around. The vast majority of time, these molecules spread
uniformly -- but once in a trillion trillion years, they all
end up
in the corner of the room. If you look at the room and run the clock
forward, they'll eventually make themselves uniform: But it would
reverse, and you'd watch them flying into the corner. Then they'd fly
out again.
If this is right, it means that time runs forward for a
while. Then
there's a random state without an arrow of time, then time runs
backwards, and then time runs forward again. That's the bigger
picture: We're still very far away from understanding it, but that
would be my bet. "
In our picture, there was a universe before the Big Bang,
very much
like our universe today: a low density of matter and some stuff
called dark energy. If you postulate a universe like
this,
but the
dark energy within is actually unstable, then the decay of this dark
energy drives the two branes together. These two branes
clash and
then, having filled with radiation, separate and expand to form
galaxies and stars.
Then the dark energy takes over again. It's the energy of
attraction
between the two branes: It pulls them back together. You have bang
followed by bang followed by bang. You have no beginning of time.
It's always been there.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/02/qa_turok
Would't it be neat with a microsoundpiece modeling the beginning-less
and never-ending universe presented in this theory?
regards,
Bård Farbu
@: bardfarbu@xxxxxxxxx
www: bardfarbu.com
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