Hi Iq,
Any thoughts? Intriguing? Pure baloney?
Well, my thoughts are not necessarily aimed at your thoughts, but rather at the "establishment" from which many of your thoughts seem to be derived.
To be brutally honest with my thoughts, it is my belief that the "establishment" that physicists have built is THE modern day Tower of Babel. It is quite clear from the current "standoff" between the two primary theories that neither of them are really convincing. Furthermore, when you look at the history, the "solution" to new problems that pop-up is simply to throw a NEW glob of clay on the "masterpiece" that they have been building. All I hear are more and more new terms, and less and less simplification of those terms. I see a greater chasm being created between the common man (and even the reasonably educated man) and those "high priests" who have built this Tower of Babel. And how pertinent it is to call it a Tower of Babel, when you monitor some of the theoretical physics discussions on the net (as I do often), and you see these theoreticians constantly arguing, where it is quite obvious that neither understands REALLY what the other is saying. My put on this is that it is due to "too many levels" being built on the Tower. Rather than simplify, they seek to increase complexity by adding new terms, new subtheories, and (gag!) yet new "particles". This is what really makes me puke, is the knee-jerk reaction that whenever something new is discovered that cannot be explained, theoreticians will typically rush-to-judgment that "it must be a new type of particle". Reductionism at its absolute worst!
I have done enough work in engineering (quite different than theoretics, because you always know if you are correct for the simple fact that the product works!) and enough research into ancient mystical traditions, that I am quite happy in my belief that most "mainstream" theoreticians are making a grave error by ignoring this large body of ancient knowledge, just because it is couched in spiritual/religious terms. To me, the Tree Of Life adequately explains the universe. (And oh my! 10 sephira could very well be equivalent to the 10 dimensions of string theory...although you will never hear a string theoretician even imply that link, for then "his work" would not be "new and novel"). To me the observable fact that the physical reality we call Space is 3-dimensional seems to beg the question "so why should we think that Mass and Time are different?"
As a controls specialist, I have yet to find any stable, physical effect that could not be described and modeled as a balance of two polar opposite, interacting "fields" (Lift/Drag, Current/Voltage, Gravity/Magnetism, etc.). The concept of wave superposition is one very good example: Take two individual waves that may appear to be nothing more than "random walks", and when you overlay the two, suddenly their mutual interaction reveals a stable phenomenon from which information (energy) may be extracted.
So why not a possibly simpler explanation? Since Baryonic Matter is much smaller in content than either Dark Matter and Dark Energy, why not theorize that Baryonic Matter (that which we can observe) is nothing more than the result of the superpostion of the "field effects" of Dark Matter and Dark Energy? And indeed, it would be easy with such a theory to then show that the "tension" between DM and DE is possibly responsible for all universal motion of Baryonic Matter.
I think we live in the time where the Tower of Babel that physics has constructed is going to fall. And there are going to be a LOT of people with egg on their faces when it does. And the people I feel most sorry for if this does happen will be the "common man" with "less than average scientific intelligence". For that type of person may be subject to panic and thoughts like "now who do I look to to do the really 'deep' thinking that I cannot do?" Such people will be lost, and not even attempt to understand the ultra simplicity of how the universe works, and how they can Create anything whatsoever.
So those are just my idle mind-turds! /ttiforum/images/graemlins/smile.gif Any more thoughts?
RMTimeout