Sunday, May 17, 2015

A Flatul Beginning

As a child I played with rockets and cars powered by small Co2 cartridges. The cartridge was placed in the toy and a spring loaded needle was used to puncture a plug in the end of the cartridge. When I pulled the plunger back and released it, the needle opened a small hole in the cartridge and the compressed Co2 was released with a loud hiss, and a cloud of condensate was created, as the potential energy stored in the compressed gas was released. According to current scientific theory our universe started in a very similar way and, (in spite of having been poorly named "The Big Bang"), it, like the energy that propelled my toys, was held in a small compressed state, (not big), and was released as a great hiss, (not a Bang). We can still detect the hiss as microwave background radiation. My toys were powered by the release of potential energy. So is the universe. When the energy that powered my toys was released it created movement and a condensate,(dry Ice). When the energy that is now the universe was released it created movement and condensates consisting of new forms of energy, one of these is matter. As Einstein has pointed out, matter is a form of energy. E=MC2. The energy release that powered my toys was converted from the potential energy created when the Co2 was compressed and was converted into inertial energy upon its release. The universe began as a compressed singularity and when its stored energy was released, both movement,(time), and other forms of energy were created. Initially, as the compressed energy was being released, there was a great rush called the inflationary period, after that momentum took over. The last term, "T", in Einstein's basic field equation for general relativity is a stress energy momentum tensor describing this momentum. All of the energy released from the singularity at the birth of the universe and all of the energy released from my Co2 cartridges is still with us, it has only been transformed and occupies a greater space. We have now identified some of the basic condensate energies resulting from the creative release, (I think of it as a three dimensional fart), including; electromagnetism, the strong force, the week forces and a special energy condensate called matter. We have yet to identify the most prevalent energy causing the universe to expand at an accelerated rate but, (the acceleration theory is based on the assumption that the speed of light, (our measure of time), has been constant as the universe expanded and may be leading us to a false conclusion). When the Co2 escaped from my toy cartridges it created a temporary energy deficit and a dry ice condensate that existed until the heat energy dissipated when the Co2 was compressed was recaptured. As the deficit was resolved by drawing in heat to overcome the cold period deficit sublimation occurred, the dry ice was converted from a solid state to a gaseous state and the deficit was resolved by converting the re-gathered heat energy into the inertial energy of molecular motion in the re-formed gaseous Co2. A similar energy deficit seems to have occurred as the universe was released that created the primal condensates including particles of matter, electrons, photons, quarks and gluons but, unlike my toy cartridges, it has not been resolved because of an entanglement between quarks and gluons in color glass condensates that make up protons and neutrons. This energy deficit may help explain the tendency of these entanglements to warp the space between them in an attempt to clump together. Mass then becomes warped space as Einstein described without the need for time as a part of the equation, and gravity becomes a topological feature of space. My interpretation of the creative event may stink as a well developed theory but fits well with those that are.

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