Guest author, Thomas Kennedy, features a twice-monthly series, Quantum Leap, wherein he guides readers through the fascinating world of quantum mechanics. This is issue 006.
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You know, I am probably wrong in blaming Sir Isaac Newton for ideas like black holes, dark matter, and dark energy, but there is no doubt that the bulk of the scientific community have continued to attempt to use his approach based on Force, Mass, and Acceleration to model cosmology. At least, at some point, after The Big Bang.
The $9 billion dollar science project, aka the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the elusive (and most likely) nonexistent Higgs Boson particle, represents the end point in this attempt. Black holes and dark matter, the assumed core and make up of galaxies in an attempt to balance angular momentum, is akin to attempting, like the Little Dutch Boy, to plug as many holes as possible where observed reality fails to line up with the various hypotheses that exist in cosmology. Dark energy is also a balancing variable in the equation because, if both black holes and dark matter have such a hold on the universe, why does it appear that all visible matter in space at the super scalar level appear to be growing more distant from one another?
The one thing that I have learned over the years building statistical models is that adding more variables in an attempt to improve ones forecasting accuracy isn’t necessarily the way to go, but this is the approach taken right now within the scientific community and their reliance on Sir Isaac.
Now this leads to the question of “If not Newtonian physics, what else is there?” My and other minority scientists’ reply is Quantum Mechanics. So what does that mean?
More to come…
<em>Watch for Issue #7 of Thomas’ “Quantum Leap”, here on A Sky Full of Stars, on February 05, 2010.</em>
You can access all previous issues of “Quantum Leap”, here.
from our viewpoint, it does still appear that all objects are moving away from each other but that doesn’t mean we are not approaching a point of stasis and then contraction. there is every reason to believe that dark matter and black holes might accelerate the Big Crunch once this contraction begins. perhaps the life of the universe is greatly weighted towards expansion and as the black holes at the center of the galaxies become increasingly ravenous, this hastens the demise of the universe. perhaps right as we perceive this deceleration it will be a very short time before the Great Crunch and the next successive Big Bang. it’s small consolation that everyone in the universe would be in the same boat.
BUT, perhaps Newtonian physics disagrees most with QM nearest the universal point of stasis. i have heard many say that the two differing theories agree nearest the Big Bang so it seems that Newtonian laws are a form of rapid mutation from QM that soon become unrecognizable as kin within a few moments. but i’m no physicist – only a philosopher.