Hi:

Appreciating the obvious in cosmology is like appreciating anything obvious in our reality, it is pretty much a matter of definition.

If we want to question whether our existence is really real, we need to stand this notion up against what happens in an automobile accident, what happens when we don't eat for a few days, or what happens when we cut ourselves. It isn't easy to question the reality of our existence when we look at the stars, smell the flowers or fall in love.

It has been scientifically determined that we live in an expanding universe. It has also been scientifically determined that our universe started with a big bang. As we look outward, we look back into a younger, smaller universe- in any direction. If we look back far enough in any direction we reach a point in our vista of the universe where the universe is just that...a point...a singularity...in any direction. What we view as a vast 360 degree panorama stretching 15 billion light years resolves to a point- and each of us is at the focus of that point, forever present at that location. It is our invariant frame of reference.

Other people die, we don't. No one ever goes to his or her own funeral. What we call death is not rest either. We are un ceremonially and immediately dumped right back into our babyhood...or perhaps we might relive our life a different way in reversed entropy. Because of geometric inversion we wouldn't walk backwards either. The other side would feel just as "forward" as this side, but we would not fear death, but a slow inevitable deterioration of our consciousness, after which we would be dumped back into the scheme of things....over and over forever.

We are located between the singular big bang and the singular black hole. The first, by our measure is 15 billion light years away. The second is 10 to the minus 33rd CM away. We view the big bang as "Cosmic Background Radiation". From our frame the CBR or CMB as it is sometimes called is observed as a space temperature of 2.749-51 degrees K. From our frame, The cosmic abyss, the black hole, despite its closeness, is no threat at all. Because of time dilation, and our position as remote obervers on the surfaces of the two/ sphere, we notice no movement toward it, only phenomena we call "motion" and "change" at our frame...time.

This is reality...the ultimate holographic construct. What we view is the product of photons interacting with what seems to us from a 4D frame, spinning singularity in free fall toward the cosmic abyss. Cosmologically this singular phenomenon is confined to thin 4D everywhere, event horizon surfaces, as falling raindrops are confined to a thin atmospheric surface layer of our planet. Nevertheless, these thin 4D surfaces are observed, because of proximity to the mass of the Cosmic black hole as the "vastness" of the universe! Some vastness. Vast like a magnetic recording on tape maybe, or vast like the recording on a DVD, but vast in cosmic reality....no way.

Where do we come from, anyway? Why are we here? The answer, the umbilical to the unknown lies in the Planck realm...that hole in the two/ doughnut where most of the "mass" of our universe lies. All frames are the same in a GR universe, but in the REAL universe, there is a place where frames as we understand them do not exist. It is futile to speculate what is inside a singularity, for by definition, the universe of time, space and energy we understand does not exist there.

For those who understand the place of singularity in geometry, a better question would be: "What lies beyond singularity?" First, another half of the universe we know- definitely. That confirmation will be in our hands by Christmas this year 2002.

What else lies beyond? I believe, other worlds linked to our own. The unfolding and developing processes we see in our reality are I believe projections of what is happening at yet higher levels of complexity. Will we be able to scientifically investigate such higher levels? I think we can and will.

I stood in my classroom today and did problems with my students. As I did, I became aware of the fact that I was watching a development and unfolding process which has been accelerating since the industrial revolution. In the last 15 years, this acceleration of communication and increase in the total body of information has quickened. When this development reaches a certain critical mass, rapid technological change will quickly make our species something far different than we understand today.

As we all know, this process has already begun. We will reach, as Arthur C Clarke said: "Childhoods End". With all of this power, what will we do? First, we will not destroy ourselves...not quite anyway. Second, we will share what we know with the universe. Third, we will make sure our time to play in the sand, smell the flowers and make love is preserved forever.

Sam Cox

AN ANSWER TO A SCIENTISTS QUESTION ON THE PREVIOUS POST

Posted by Samuel A. Cox on April 19, 2002 at 04:40:58 (Message posted from "pohnpei-pm01-s40.telecom.fm" at 206.49.89.168) - explanation In Reply to: "Re: Appreciating the Obvious" posted by bailey on April 18, 2002 at 08:05:36

Bailey said:

"We are located between the singular big bang and the singular black hole." I am having a hard time with this concept. Singular BB is in our past and is the universe today. Exactly where are the 'singular big band' and 'singular black hole?'

bailey

Sam's reply:

Hi:

The photonic big bang and the cosmic black hole are the measure of the momentum in general relativity. They also reflect, and from our frame, dictate time process and entropy flow in the universe. They are both real. They are the inverse of, and a part of each other, and they both fill the universe at a certain location in what we define as scale, forever...they are timeless, or at least almost so.

The GR universe is everywhere, yet it is finite in mass. This fact about the universe results in a certain structural looseness within the big bang/ black hole...not much mind you, which might be analogous to the clearance between a ball bearing and its seat.

The interfaces of these energy discontinuities are also areas of phase transition and topological defects. The energy surfaces, which form well defined event horizon surfaces are the place in the universe where amorphous, phase solid cosmic singularity can be observed in 4D as a real cosmos. Because the singularity can spin and take phase liquid properties (as the oil in a bearing), the momentum of general relativity can be observed as motion and change...time.

Your sofa looks solid- and it is, from your frame. From the frame of a neutrino, the existence of your sofa could not even be conjectured. Even if it could, the neutrino would observe it as gaseous.

The way the universe is observed is different from every frame...and so are the phases which are at the heart of what we perceive as structural reality.

From our frame, the big bang SEEMS a measured 15 BLY away, and the CBR is its remnant. Actually, the CBR is STILL the big bang- and therefore still singular, when viewed or observed from a distant frame in space time, closer to the origin of our reality.

From our frame the cosmic amorphous singularity SEEMS very light in mass. A sphere of space with a radius of 10 Billion KM would contain enough singularity to create a force, in addition to the "gravitational" attraction (acceleration) of the Sun, of only -8.7 X 10 to the -8th Cm/sec2....accounting for the "anomalous" acceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11.

Actually, this massive body of cosmic singularity still exists with the entire universe in its embrace at its particular frame.

The whole difference is how we observe these 4D surfaces at 360 degrees. The observation of these surfaces by photons makes up our convincing, experiencable and holographic reality. In one "Hemisphere" of the Schwarzschild two/ sphere, photons spinning in one direction permit us to view a universe in generally increasing entropy- yet increasing complexity (organic evolution)! In the other "hemisphere" of the two/ sphere, "seeing" with photons spinning in the other relative direction, we view a universe in generally decreasing entropy- and decreasing complexity! The universe comes back together from an entropy standpoint, but all complexity in the universe slowly comes apart...is unglued. Cosmologically, everything in the universe, including ourselves, is invariant and eternal. "Wherever we go, there we are."

We observe 4D surfaces from a distance (in time dilation) and with cosmological time separation because of the Schwarzschild two sphere geometric configuration of the cosmos, and the very real proximity of every atom and atomic particle in our body to the cosmic singularity- only 10 to the -33rd Cm away in every direction. Space seems vast and transparent because of the very low energy density found there- as observed from our frame.

Polarity is also a matter of frame of reference. When we observe an antiproton, we are looking through an appropriately sized hole in the space time fabric. Most antiprotons are in the antiverse, on the other side and a part of the other "hemisphere" of existence.

Bailey, this stuff is geometric and spatial. A person can either visualize it or they cannot. Each of our minds functions differently. One person can see where I cannot, and I can see where they cannot. This fact is a postulate of a general relativity universe! The purpose of communication is understanding, knowledge, and technology...ultimately the construction and preservation of our universe, ourselves and others like us on a cosmological scale.

I have had chats will excellent geometers who spoke in terms of a single antipode, out near the big bang.

In the universe I am describing, antipode means almost the same thing as frames of reference! Antipodes are everywhere on every surface! Our two/ selves are on opposite sides of the universe...yet in energy and space, they are in the same place, here. In that we can see the true smallness of our reality, (the clearance between the ball bearing and its seat) and the fact that astronomical vastness is a cosmological illusion (but ultimate reality from our frame).

Singularity is ALMOST everywhere. How we view its event horizons makes us what we are.

Best Wishes,

Sam Cox