Simplicity

It has been awhile since I added a page to this blog. I have added  content to other pages but no where in my mind was there any thought of a new topic.  One had been brewing over the last four or five months but nothing came together until I started studying Einstein after reading an article about him.
I thought I knew  quite a bit before  reading all I have read over the last few months but such was not the case.

I am not going to rehash Einsteins life. I bring him up because I was inspired to pick up his unsolved quest, the search for the theory of everything.  No doubt there is a theory of everything. If there wasn't we and the universe would not exist. There are men of science who doubt the theory exists but there were men of of science who once thought Newtonian law was indisputable. All that went away  when Einstein started noticing a clock on a tower  in Bern so many years ago. 

That brings us to the title of this page. The formula for relativity is about as simple as anything can be and tells us energy and mass are one in the same thing. To balance the two it takes one hell of a lot of energy.  Arriving at the formula was  very complex.  The ability to derive it lays way beyond  my mathematical skills which to some suggests this is a subject I have no authority to even discuss. To those who feel that way, consider this, Einstein  was not working on the math when he looked up at that clock tower and began to contemplate relativity. To the benefit of humankind he possessed the skills to lay out his concept on paper, a concept that was looked at with a lot of skepticism by the scientific community until the effect could be recorded during a total eclipse of the sun. That along with his other discoveries forever changed our perspective of the world and universe we live in.

It also opened a brand new can of worms by introducing the field of Quantum physics. Maybe I should have used the term strings instead of worms. Once you bend space and time, the laws of physics  seem to behave differently but do they? Is there a theory that connects the two worlds of quantum and relative physics?  Einstein thought so but he could never make the connection. There was no clock tower to look at but was there a clue in his own formula?  I think so but more on that later.

Let's get back to the topic simplicity because there is a phenomena most of us have experienced  in our lives, complex questions have simple answers and  simple questions have complex answers. Said another way,  we have a tendency to not be able to see the forest because we are looking at the trees. When Einstein looked up at that clock he was looking at the forest. He spent  most of his time analyzing the trees that made up the forest afterwards. It is my opinion Einstein  lost his ability to see the  forest due to the complexity of his work and the social impact his work led to. He was faced with a huge moral dilemma. He was a man who saw the mayhem humanity causes as totally needless put into a position  of recommending that we develop a nuclear weapon before  others and lived to see 100,000 fellow human beings perish in a burst of light and heat on August 6, 1945 at Hiroshima. 

It's too bad he didn't live to see Khrushchev and Kennedy step back from the brink of  nuclear war because they too had witnessed the same thing  and had the common sense to turn their backs on the hawks in both of their administrations.

There is another  condition I want to introduce before  presenting the theory of everything but first  a little more on the clue  in Einsteins equation. I have read a lot about that equation and what C squared represents.  It represents  a lot of energy in a unit of mass in everything I read but no one mentions what else it represents, a very small unit of time.  Keep that in mind.

If I am correct, the theory to everything is so amazingly simple it is hard to understand how so many have overlooked it for so long.  Consider this, if we are on the verge of discovering the theory to everything and have the tools  to use the information to apply that knowledge, the impact will be even larger than the discovery of relativity was.  The effect on our species will be even larger and will lead to drastic changes. Society doesn't adapt to change rapidly, especially sudden change. Those with military mindsets are not happy because no one society or political system can control the worlds population since the nuclear revolution. We are still trying to adapt 68 years after Hiroshima.

Those who resist change are the ones who hold all the wealth and power.  I think I can prove that with another simple observation regarding existence.  The bottom line is there  either is a purpose to existence or there isn't. If there is a purpose, that purpose could manifest itself in any number of ways but nothing changes. There is either a purpose to this universe or there is not. We have had the ability to make that determination for centuries but we don't.  We create religions and political ideologies in lieu of proving existence one way or the other. Why?  

There is a third possibility, the purpose is evolving and an advanced species such as ourselves will ultimately become God for lack of a different term. If that is true then it stands to reason purpose was part of the package when the Universe  started. Is there a purpose to existence? I have asked thousands of people this question and no one is comfortable answering it. If they invoke God I ask why does God exist?

When the Big Bang theory was first proposed, doubting Thomas's abounded. The more we discover, the more evidence we uncover proving the Big Bang happened.  In the beginning all there was was energy. Matter happened very quickly but the one thing very few talk about is how an ultimate act of chaos instantly led to the development of structure. Structure evolves, space expands, time becomes a constant, chaos diminishes.  Galaxies form, Those with structure  feature black holes at their centers and chaos lessens even more. This pattern is repeated over and over again down to the quantum level. Life evolves. The whole model has the feel of purpose but what is the purpose? Is it simple or complex? The simple answer is the entire model exists to eliminate or control chaos. Is that the sole purpose? Could it be that simple?

We haven't known about Black Holes for very long. 97 years ago they became a mathematical curiosity.  50 years ago they became a definite reality. How many years did our ancestors  look at the horizon and watch the sun revolve around the earth before realizing the earth was round and  orbited around our sun?  We can bring a lot more science to bear on a black hole with the common belief being a neutron mass sits at the center but space and time are being warped and mass is capable of converting to energy and must once the boundaries of its subatomic particles are exceeded. Could a black hole be an energy well and a black hole with the two separated by some factor of time and possibly space?

Time is the clue. We are standing side by side with Einstein looking up at  that clock tower. The difference, we no longer have to prove relativity and if there is a theory to everything relativity probably holds  one or more of the keys.

How do we connect relativity to quantum level physics?  I see only one way to do that. Time has to be the factor but how? Let's assume there is no past except in archival form and there is no future. All there is, is the present  and that state is the same at every point in the universe. Distance is a factor of space. We measure it in time but time is relative.

There is no future but the future becomes the present very quickly. How quickly and more importantly why? The universe  expanded into existence quickly. Could the inverse be true? Could it cease to exist just as quickly? The answer is yes if time stops so what keeps it all going?  Why am I asking so many questions?  This one I can answer. I simply don't have the math skills to answer them all.

So here I am  looking up at that clock tower and I am too damn old to pursue the education I need to gain the math skills I need to develop my theory so all I can do is share my hypothesis which is time has at least two states. It is the relationship between the two states that connects general relativity to quantum mechanics.  These two states are, for lack of a better word, not in phase. Let's call them non- congruent. The difference between the two states results in the potential for the future.  It predicts the future with basically total accuracy the closer  the two states approach  an in phase condition. As time is warped so is space and a device similar to the Alcubierre drive relocates the affected mass at a new location in the same  present. There can be no paradox. 

Maybe an easier way to say this is time is not a dimension, it is a force. That probably isn't true but it has some of the properties of a force.  Dark matter may  be nothing more than matter that is out of phase. It doesn't take a lot for us not to be able to see it though we can see the  affect of it.

This is  about as deep into this as I can go. It is an observation, one I felt I needed to put into my blog. If you read  my entire blog  you will see the mental process that brought me to this hypothesis. True intuition or brain damage due to a surgical procedure? I don't know. I share my thoughts. If in fact they inspire someone with the math skills to follow  my line of reasoning all I ask is credit  for thinking it all up and the opportunity to work on any project that results.