My favorite part of this is the origin of the name "the God particle" for the Higgs boson. Leon Lederman, who won the Nobel prize for finding the bottom quark, wrote a book about the Higgs boson and how elusive it was. He wanted to call the book "The Goddamn Particle" but the publishers balked and it got changed to "The God Particle".
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:04 AM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote: > I agree with the balloon example you describe John. But where did all the > space on the inside (as populated with matter as the outside surface of the > balloon) come from. When I speak or think of a "singularity" in the current > model, I am referring to the "Big Bang", before which there was no time, no > matter, no space. > > Given those criteria, looking "out" into space at the stars and galaxies, we > are looking back in time as well. IF we could see all the way back to the > time of the beginning, would we not be at the "singularity" from which this > all resulted? QED - the beginning of time, matter, mass, and space, IF > found, would be around the entire collection of stuff that is between us and > there, there being an infinitesimally small point with no time beyond it, one > would be looking back to the origin of all that stuff. So either space - time > is warped back upon itself to that singularity, or the singularity encloses > all we can know. > > A complication that has to be ignored or encompassed is the theory that with > the calculated expansion accelerating at some point "out there" we may not be > able to see anything, as whatever is there is moving at or faster than the > speed of light. They're looking into that as well, I think. Allows for the > thought that the singularity was an infinitesimally dense and small Black > Hole, which may be what is out there beyond what we can see, an "event > horizon" of an unknown. > > All very perplexing. Wish I could live another 100 years. Other than the > overcrowding and starvation that will come if we keep on procreating at > todays rate. My arthritis would be a negative, unless some magic elixir was > found which cured it or eliminated it. I expect the scientific findings will > be incredible. Science has a ways to go in that regard. Good for them, as the > quest keeps them and their families fed and housed. :) > > > On Jul 4, 2012, at 18:26 , John Francis wrote: > >> Nope. There's no single "origin point"; the expansion is uniform throughout >> space. >> >> Perhaps it might help you to think about the surface of a balloon as it is >> being inflated. >> The surface is expanding uniformly everywhere, with no special central point. > > > It's not that life is too short, it's that you're dead for so long...... > — Anon > > Joseph McAllister > pentax...@mac.com > > > > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
