On the Controversies of the Origin & End of the Universe

An Attempt at a SynthesisPhilorum 2012

Definition

• Controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of opinion. The word was coined from the Latin controversia, as a composite of controversus – "turned in an opposite direction," from contra – "against" – and vertere – to turn, or versus (see verse), hence, "to turn against."

Perceived “Expanding” Universe

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Speculative “Collapsing” Universe

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Oscillating Universe?

Is the history of the Universe just a repeating cycle?

Controversies

• If the universe came from nothing, then nothing exists AND everything does not exist.

• If the universe came from something, what is that something & from where did it come?

• How can we assume a “big crunch” when observational data reveals an expanding universe at an accelerating rate?

• Entropy: will the universe dissolve itself out of existence & return to its origins of nothing?

Challenge

• Superstition & politics hinges on faith and assumptions to accept controversies as “givens”

• Ex. There will always be traffic accidents because of human flaws which justifies outcomes (FATE)

• Science & mathematics hinges on laws that are consistent regardless or changes in “assumptions”

• Ex. Traffic laws accommodate human flaw & prevent accidents & achieve results (PURPOSE)

Structure/Process/Relationships

Context of Maths• Number• Symbol• Postulates

Context of Science• Data• Systems• Laws

Context of Story-Telling• Setting• Plot• Principles

Cosmology: History of Controversy

• Aristotle & Empiricism• Newton & Gravity• Einstein & Theory of Relativity• Maxwell & Electromagnetic Theory• Bohr & Quantum Physics• Eternal Inflation-Dark Energy-String Theory

W-Map of the universew

Alpha Point?

“Big Bang”

Space

Time

Omega Point?

“Great Tear” “Big

Crunch?”OR

Before the “Big Bang”?

MicroMacro

Electro

Catastrophe & Chaos

• Bifurcation occurs when a small smooth change made to the parameter values (the bifurcation parameters) of a system causes a sudden 'qualitative' or topological change in its behaviour

Big BifurcationM

icroverse

Macroverse

Quantum Mechanics

Relativity

Newtonian Physics

Electromagnetics

Within & Between Systems

• Local bifurcations, which can be analysed entirely through changes in the local stability properties of equilibria, periodic orbits or other invariant sets as parameters cross through critical thresholds; and

• Global bifurcations, which often occur when larger invariant sets of the system 'collide' with each other, or with equilibria of the system. They cannot be detected purely by a stability analysis of the equilibria (fixed points).

Quick Two Dimensional Illustration

3-D Graphical Illustration

Chaos Between Orders

Animated Illustration

One system interacting with another system bit both indepenendent.

Kind of reminds me of Hegelian dialectic

Time-Space can warp into a tunnel

Or slip like a conveyor belt

Or Drop Through the Fold

Compatible?

• Big Bang & the Higgs Boson/“God Particle”

• Oscillating Universe• Quantum Mechanics vs

Relativity• Time Travel• “Multiverses”

• Bifurcating Universe & Catastrophe Theory

• “Big Tear”• Chaos & Catastrophe

Theories• Fractal Geometry• Realm of Possibilities &

the Next Dimension

Not an End but the Next Stage

Imaginary Numbers

Anti-Matter

Relativity

Newtonian Physics

Quantum Mechanics

Energy

Neutrinos

Time Space

Matter

Strings

Quarks

Big TearBig Bang

New Maths Electromagnetics

Theory of Everything?

Hierarchical Cosmology

Bifurcation Points

MicroverseMacroverse Entroverse

Fractal Geometry

Multi Universes or Dimensions ?

Perspective from the Entroverse?

Possibility as the 5th Dimension

“Spime”

The “now” in between cones of “infinite “spimes”

Changing the Past

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Sound of Thunder

“Spime”

The “now” in between cones of

infinite “spimes”

Changing the Future

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Back to the Future II

Changing the Past AND Future

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Spock

Another Perspective

• A God Particle• “Big Bang”• “Big Crunch”• Multiverse

• “Tipping Points”• Great Bifurcation• “Big Tear”• Multiple Dimensions

Chaos TheoryCatastrophe Theory

Fractal Geometry

Paradigm Shift?

Matter

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Life

Sentience

Cognition

Reflection

Information Theory of Energy?

Universes we compute for are real; first “in our head” then when applied in our “external reality”

At this point, physical science has a lot in common with the social sciences

Telling the Story

• Getting stuck with the map of myth & legend• The story of a possibility out of infinity• Studying history to chart the future• Caveat: Dr. Frankenstein Syndrome

– Remain accountable