The Inflation Debate - Is the theory at the heart of modern cosmology deeply flawed?
This article from Sciam.com I found very interesting. Obviously, from the title, it is regarding Inflation.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-inflation-summer&page=3
I start on page 3 because you have to go in the back way to get the full article on sciam.com
Anyways, well worth the time invested in reading it.
"Don't seek these laws to understand. Only the mad can comprehend..." -- George Cosbuc
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While we see that physics is more safely practiced through math we crave phenomenological and existential (visual ) understanding. In this domain is where most conflict lies and the woo woo stuff like absolute consciousness as a field of actualization (creation ) to that of Intellegent Design raise their heads. I think the only advantage of knowing multiple woo woo scenarios is that you can defeat a theism as less probable than a fields of boundless consciousness/energy. This woo can be defeated in turn by something more plausible and so forth. How profound was Newton's Laws? We use them today. But Einstein's relativity made Newton's view relative to and limited by a bigger picture. But what if we view EInstein as not having found the full story. What if his M= E/c2 ( E=Mc2) was simply a formula that adjusted the ratio of light to remain constant no matter what the imput or measurement was to accomadate and interpret the Mickelson-Morley experiments? Then what we have is something that merely corresponds to our experience of light rather than a defintion of the thing itself!!!! A photon at a theoretical rest state has zero mass. This leaves it really as a geometric point and likely purely our mental construct. The failure of Einstein to intergrate gravity into a unified field theory and the fact that we have competing theories that make opposite claims of this unification means that we are overlooking something significant that is not only mathematically profound ( and beautiful ) but phenomenologically tied to our mental processes and consciousness. The fact that information may be no more than one particles awareness of another ( as one fields interacts with another) may mean that ultimately human consciousness that abstracts attributes from its experience may be no more than the complex of the physical world's properties as a nexus of causality. Anyway that's what I think but that's only for today.
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Yep ! very interesting ! thanks for posting this article, just the other day, I saw this copy of "Scientific American" at the supermarket,and I almost brought that magazine for this article. And I could not find it on the web ?
Signature ? How ?