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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (871)	9/15/2000 5:45:47 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

I've been noodling on this stuff a lot of late. I can't get that cosmiccommode.com out of my mind! But recently, I had a thought: What if, like gravity, time is a curvature of space-time and is not a pure variable, but a curvature of the variables of space-time? This would explain a lot in terms of the "arrow of time". So here we are tumbling into a time-hole sucking us into the future on the macroscale, but with locality-based deviations. A very interesting model, don't you think? Some of the interesting things that result from this is the reintroduction of a Cosmological Constant. Astromical data from the Hubble have caused some really big problems in terms of our sizing parameters. Enough where the CC is possibly being reintroduced. Up 'til now we may have been expressing out gas mileage in revolutions per gallon. What if the tire is not the same size through time? What if the speed of light has not always been consistent, but only the ratio of the units has been constant. This produces some interesting spinoffs.

To: Solon who wrote (871)	9/15/2000 11:18:55 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

While riding my bike tonight I had a thought I'll share with you... This stream of consciousness that we call intelligence (a special case manifestation of a more basic substance: life, IMO, is tasked to sweep up inefficiency in the Cosmos. This is the beauty of life; it can organize itself into a more ordered state, at the expense of inefficiency in the Cosmos at large, and thereby creating a local decrease in entropy due to the local thermal disequilibrium. Here's how it could work. Each available state corresponds to a variable in the endgame. Unless the endgame is deterministic, then all the upstream states must also be indeterminate. Any state that could have been must be for some period somewhere, at least at the quantum level. Why? If this is not the case, there is "something left" at absolute zero - the potential of Universes not taken as it were -like the one where I decided not to write this thought down. Think of it as something that isn't packed as dense as it could be unless all these potentialities were squeezed out of it... The ultimate end of the Universe, either the big crunch or big fade is a universe suggested to be filled with a single quantum state, either at a singularity or at an infinitely diffuse cloud of uniform motionlessness. Can you imagine how long it will take for every quark and gluon in every atom in every corner of the Cosmos to come to thermodynamic equilibrium at absolute zero? All that absorbing and re-emitting, forming, unforming and reforming? The duration of the Universe must be immense! There would be some processes increasing entropy, some processes reducing it, but on average a increase universally until the end. Each of "universe" could play out at various speeds (during it's duration) on into infinity. You would never know what your universe's speed setting was as a player in that universe. Your frame of reference would only be other players in your universe. I believe "life" could be the "eating" these indeterminate states (by direct manipulation of reality). Now I realize I can only posit this as a possible mechanism as a kind of thought experiment. I'd be glad to see us through darts at it and see what sticks!