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Science Wish List by Rodney Bartlett
Cosmos Factory
(contribution # 4 - written April 10, 1994)
Perhaps one of the most beneficial discoveries civilisation
could make is that real time travel is indeed possible
despite objections such as the grandfather paradox (the idea
that after you are born and grow up, you go back in time to
when your grandad was a child and kill him, ensuring you
would never be born; but if you weren't born, you couldn't
kill your grandfather, he'd grow up and you would be born).
I believe the grandfather paradox can be solved by a
principle of consistency. The possibilities of time travel
are as varied as those of the imagination and include new
sites for disposal of radioactive waste better understanding
of history and prehistory, and finding the solutions to
scientific puzzles. To illustrate the possibilities of
consistency, please see the enclosed paragraphs which were
typed after reading a) the book 'The Mind of God' by Prof.
Paul Davies and b) 'The Ultimate Vanishing' (an article
about black holes and Prof. Stephen Hawking in 'Discover'
magazine's Oct. '93 issue).
Applying consistency to the grandfather paradox might mean
it would be impossible (if the universe is truly a 'cosmic
videotape') to produce any interference with the past that
could produce a present different from the one we know. To
present a means whereby changes in the past would not be
possible if they produced a present different from the one
we know, please see the 1st submission I sent to Science
Wish List ('Video') which linked the 3rd dimension to a
'cosmic videotape' and the 4th & 5th dimensions suggested by
Einstein et al to a 'cosmic VCR' and power source for that
video cassette recorder.
Changes in the previous frames of our earthly videotapes
simply aren't possible if they lead to succeeding frames
being different from the way they were when the
tapes/cassettes were last viewed. According to the idea of
consistency (plus the enclosed poem), frames of the cosmic
videotape could not be different from what history and
current events reveal because different frames would not
lead to 'cosmic origins' from 'a mini black hole' Me
history, current events and the future would be
pre-destined.
Though (according to these ideas) the world's present blood
shedding and hostility are predetermined, so are cosmic
origins from mini black holes. We can only reach the point
where creation of our home - our universe -is possible by
overcoming bloodshed and hostility
(which seek, at times, to preserve existing conditions at
the expense of future progress). To reach this creation
point, we must continually strive to develop knowledge and
wisdom, love and peace, cooperation and ethical
behaviour/thinking while at the same time cultivating
patience and forgiveness - we all need to be patient with,
and to forgive, the tendency of ourselves and others to
backslide.
We have the free will to decide whether, at this crossroads
in time, to strive towards the dream of making our home or
to indulge an inclination for hostile acts and bloodshed.
This universe we live in is not to be taken for granted -
true, we already have somewhere to live: but only because it
is predetermined that we'll use free will to practise some
form of cosmogenesis (production of the cosmos). This free
will exists because, although we're ultimately composed of
the quantum waves or infinitesimal pulses of energy which
program the entire cosmos, in people those quantum waves are
organised into the unique human brain.
When we program the primordial (mini) black hole - see later
sections of 'Cosmos Factory' - our free will determines how
the cosmic videotape will unfold in the future. But the form
of that programming or 'writing' is predetermined by the
brain's being composed (at a level which is a million
billion billion times smaller than the DNA in the nucleus of
a microscopic cell) of quantum waves or infinitesimal pulses
of energy, as well as being predetermined by our desire to
perpetuate the universal (and human) condition which has
been revealed by thousands of years of observation and
experiment (he by the 'reading' we've done). Many people
describe our computer-like read/write cycles as the will of
God - I see this as an indication that a part of each of us
(the subconscious, the soul, the electrophotic brain [see
'Fountain of Youth']) knows God must be the sum of ALL
infinitesimal energy pulses or quantum waves (or as John
4:24 puts it, 'God is a Spirit . . .')
typed after reading THE MIND OF GOD, in order to illustrate
the possibilities of consistency-
As Paul Davies states in his book, '(The astronomer Fred)
Hoyle believes that the organization of the cosmos is
controlled by a superintelligence' and Hoyle believes that
by acting at the quantum level this superintelligence can
implant thoughts or ideas from the future, ready-made, into
human brain.'
THE MIND OF GOD also says that if this superintelligence
acts backward in time - which, according to Stephen Hawking
and his colleagues, can be thought of as just another
spatial dimensionit could, as part of a self-consistent
causal loop, create that universe and be what we term God.
There are hints of this in the ideas of physicist John
Wheeler, who learned his science from Albert Einstein and
Niels Bohr (a famous pioneer of quantum mechanics).
Further, the book suggests that a Theory of Everything
explaining the entire universe could be attained if the
universe operates as a closed loop in which its explanation
is contained within itself. In other words, in which its
output (the consequences of the Big Bang eg the nature of
matter) is consistent with its input (the generation of the
Big Bang Conceivably accomplished by humanity discovering
matter's nature and applying that knowledge in combination
with the idea addressed by scientists such as Alan Guth,
Andrei Linde and George Greenstein of creating a universe in
a basement or laboratory). When combined with so called time
travel, the principle that TOE = I = O (Theory of Everything
equals Input being consistent with Output) would allow
humans to fulfil their destiny as parts of the cosmos and
its superintelligence, and to play their role in the
creation of their cosmos.
typed after reading THE ULTIMATE VANISHING, in order to
further illustrate the possibilities of consistency -
The following poem seems to present a logical case for
space-time being 'recycled' by means of the mini black holes
Professor Stephen Hawking proposed twenty years ago. The
poem is based on the article 'Through the Looking Glass'
(ASTRONOMY magazine, Oct. '89) by U.S. astronomy professor
George Greenstein and represents future scientific &
technological advances by a fictional 'Supergirl' who
travels through 4th dimensional 'subspace' to 5th
dimensional 'hyperspace' so she can create the universe
(this scenario draws on Prof. Hawking's statement that time
can be thought of as another spatial dimension and
mathematical equations developed by Albert Einstein which
say a maximum of 3 universes could exist in our cosmos -
using the above scenario, these would be space as we know it
which would be connected to subspace [forming space-time]
which would be connected to hyperspace).
Supergirl started collecting soft drink tins;
In weight they were proximately 20 lbs.
the scales told her.
Her final plan addressed cosmic origins;
But first she must use the particle
beam accelerator.
With heat and pressure confined by magnetised matter;
Where once there was lemonade
(haute cuisine at a tea party of the Mad Hatter)
A mini black hole was made.
Energy transmitted inside the black hole
'condensed' into mass
Shred by pressure into the Cosmic Computer's
'bits of time-space'.
Guided by C.C.'s programming limits,
bits were frozen together
Into particles of light, mass, antimass
and negative matter.
Pursuing programs written with the bits of
space and time;
Parts followed an expanding 4-dimensional space-time.
From hyperspace her world arose; not by God the Creator
(Well, in a way, yes - God is the sum of all BInary
digiTS; and Supergirl is made of BITS)
Nor by spontaneous quantum fluctuation.
Because it is the universe of the Womanly Wonder
(Teams produce amazing advances - amazement can
also come from the individualist)
She must have created herself - now that's liberation!
The above poem speaks of creation of 4-dimensional spacetime
if Supergirl first journeyed back in time, say, 18 billion
years from the present to create space-time; she could then
travel back, say, 20 billion years from the present to
create infinite hyperspace (the word infinite would mean
forever expanding, as opposed to our finite subuniverse's
alternating expansion and contraction) which would come into
existence 2 billion years before the space we know. In order
to create hyperspace 20 billion years ago, Supergirl must
ensure that the infinite 4th dimensional space which allows
time travel and which I've called subspace is already in
existence - she could program front and back expansion into
subspace (from 18 billion BC to present and 18 billion to 20
billion years ago).
Since 'subspace' is equivalent to 'time' in the Relativistic
phrase 'space-time', and Einstein's Theory of Relativity
says time cannot exist independently of space, the space we
know not only expanded 'frontwards' to our current location
but must also have expanded 'backwards' to meet the
hyperspace of, say, 20 billion years ago. So we would live
in a universe that could be thought of as an inflating
balloon and space / subspace / hyperspace would be
intermingling, interacting, parts of that unified universe -
parts with different energy levels.
My reasons for thinking the Big Bang occurred in hyperspace
are 1) Einstein's equations, and 2) this paragraph: Psychic
researcher Robert Monroe once reported an OBE (out of body
experience) during which he discovered that the realm he
calls Locale III is like this realm of space as we know it
(Locale I) except that it has no electricity or fossil fuel,
but instead uses 'a sort of nuclear power'. If the 3 spatial
dimensions we're familiar with can be termed Locale I, then
Locale III may be Mr. Monroe's term for the domain of 5
spatial dimensions which Swedish scientist Theodor Kaluza
proposed to Albert Einstein in a 1919 letter. Could Locale
III's 'sort of nuclear power' actually be mass-energy fusion
of the Big Bang type? The screen display of computers needs
to be renewed and refreshed periodically - if the cosmos
functions like the supreme computer, its multidimensional
'display' would also need refreshing and Big Bangs may recur
regularly (they wouldn't form any other universes besides
space, subspace and hyperspace but would recur at the same
point in time and hyperspace).
Referring to the above poem again and the subject of black
holes, here's a method for the creation of Hawking radiation
that's based on Relativity (Hawking radiation is the
emission of subatomic particles from a black hole's
gravitational field).
Maybe the poem's 'bits of time-space' (which would actually
be infinitesimal pulses - quantum waves - of
electromagnetic/gravitational energy) undergo change imposed
by Relativity's 4th dimension and vibrate between an 'on'
state (presence of a pulse) and an 'off' state (absence of a
pulse). (In other words, the quantum waves or minute pulses
travel.) When 'on', the quantum waves/space-time bits would
form subatomic particles because of the relativistic
principle that energy is equivalent to mass. It may be that
spacetime - more precisely; its actuating curvature combined
with its quantum-wave-generated artificial intelligence
(similar to electrical or light pulses in a sufficiently
advanced electronic or optical computer generating AI) -
forms quantum waves into superimposed holograms when making
particles eg a hologram made from quantum light waves might
be combined with ones made from quantum gravity waves and
other quantum waves.
The black hole's massive gravity would be the trigger of the
tendency to assume this 'on' state. Since Relativity tells
us acceleration is equivalent to gravitation, objects
travelling near the speed of light (the velocity of all
electromagnetic waves - 186,272 miles per second) would also
experience an increase in mass. If, as the poem implies,
space-time bits make up both space and matter, increase of
matter means increase of space (which, assuming the object
is finite and exists 1n space-time, means decrease - ie
slowing -of time: so-called time dilation has been
experimentally confirmed).
The following letter seems an appropriate addition to Cosmos
Factory - so here it is:
April 24, 1996
TIME AUSTRALIA Letters
GP0 Box 3873
Sydney, NSW 2001
Dear Editor,
Is it disrespectful to wonder if something good can ever
come from a terrible illness like prostate cancer? Does
irreverent logic suggest the disease might be the key to
understanding the universe? I refer to 'The Man's Cancer'
(April 22) stating '. . . cryotherapy involves pushing
metallic probes into the prostate and circulating liquid
nitrogen at -126 degrees C through them . . .' and '. . .
prostate tissue immediately adjacent to the catheter (used
to warm the urethra) does not freeze . . .'
Curiosity about cold and heat might lead us to the four laws
of thermodynamics, which deal with the ways in which energy
such as heat can be passed from one body of matter to
another. Of the four laws, our attention might focus on the
first (energy can neither be created nor destroyed). so if
energy can't be created, where did the normal body heat in
the prostate gland ultimately come from?
The energy exists now and always must (though not always in
the form of a physical prostate). If the energy wasn't
created, it must have been somehow recycled. The most
obvious source of this recycled energy (which takes the form
of prostate tissue, in accord with Einstein's statement that
energy and matter are interchangeable) is living prostates.
Advances in genetic engineering, cloning and 'artificial
life' research may mean the time is close when doctors and
scientists can recycle energy originating in prostate and
other tissues from a donor cell to a newly fashioned organ
for transplant, or indeed, they may recycle energy to
fashion a complete new body. We should remember that
prostates and bodies (some with ovaries) that lived
thousands of years ago also consist of recycled energy.
If the source of this recycling is bodies living in the near
future, time travel must be possible whether we like it or
not. If our current ideas about paradoxes and what is
realistic decide time travel is pure fantasy, we must (a)
conclude that the first law of thermodynamics is wrong, and
(b) ask ourselves why the applications of biotechnology
should be limited to what residents of the late 20th century
can imagine.
Now, where did the energy of the universe-creating Big Bang
come from?
Should 'The Man's Cancer' be retitled 'The Man's (and
Woman's) Cosmos'? Don't you find it satisfying that humans'
destiny is to create (with a small 'c') themselves? Of
course, we can't be called Creators (with a large 'C') or
Gods - though the universe's existence depends on us, it is
equally true that our existence depends on the universes
Naturally, this loop is inconceivable if time is
unquestionably considered to always operate as a straight
line - but if 'energy can neither be created nor destroyed',
how can time be exclusively rectilinear?