The theory of everything may be the theory of nothing. · 1:36pm Apr 4th, 2019
I was just pondering the foundational principles of the universe, as I often do... and had myself a little epiphany.
It's been a big question in physics for a couple decades (I wonder if I had something to do with it, since I came up with the notion when I was 10) that imperative to comprehending the cosmos was to define what a true void would look like mathematically. I'm talking about a region not simply devoid of matter and energy... but a region with no spacetime either. This void can contain NOTHING that makes up our universe.
This morning it hit me: this region would be the perfect opposite of a singularity. Rather than infinite mass-energy crushed into a single point... absolute emptiness contained in a mathematical artefact which by default exists as a one-dimensional point since it has no space.
What if this is the fundamental virtual quantum particle?
And then, as virtual particles tend to do, this utter nothingness suddenly flipped its 'polarity'... and became a positive quantity, utterly filled with EVERYTHING.
Now, if we tether this idea to the concept that gravity and dark energy are intrinsically unrelated to the 3 forces governing particle-energy interactions (strong, weak, electromagnetic)... suddenly this everything bursts apart at the seams, and gravity/dark energy become emergent as principles tied not to matter and energy principles, but instead to a separate class of forces dependent upon the physics of space, voids, and densities.
All of sudden, not only does our universe and its basic physical qualities become HEAVILY favored in probabilistic outcomes, but we have a self-driving mechanism for its formation... and the formation of countless other multiverses with nearly identical underlying principles. There may be some variation in the qualifiers of the 3 particle forces, but I suspect not much.
The only question then becomes even more mysterious, however: what is the 'void' in which these everything/nothing universe particles occupy? Are we truly talking about a fully-realized Dirac Sea? In that case, the structure of the multiverse becomes almost too boggling to fathom. It might appear as a type of 5th dimensional fractal, or something even stranger.
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That's certainly a impressive thought, but does it serve any practical use?
As far as I can best tell all you've done is visualize what may lie beyond the known universe.
5038061 Well, if I know how to build a universe...
I can build one... AND BE ITS GOD!!!
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Are we talking "micro-verse car battery" style or alternate universe you set in motion then have no control over afterwords?
5038181 I'm thinking puppet-master universe where I'm pulling all the strings!
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Those aren't really as much fun as they sound. I use to have one but now it just sits under my bed collecting dust.
The issue there is you either make them so dependent they depend on you for everything and thus you have micromanage everything, or you give them free-will and then they rebel against their maker.
Best scenario IMO is you create a free-range universe and then just observe to see what fascinating things they get up to. Like an ant farm. That way if any of them make any brilliant inventions of discoveries you can just copy them in this universe as you own.
5038222 Nah, I let them think they run things, while I trip them up every now and then and send things spiraling into madness.
Kinda like how our universe works.