[ExI] Dark Energy and Causal Cells

Stuart LaForge avant at sollegro.com
Sat Dec 23 08:22:02 UTC 2017


Bill W wrote:

> ?How can you be sure of anything?

It's not about being sure. It can't be so in our fundamentally quantum
universe. It's about probabilities not certainty. It's about constantly
updating your model to fit any new data. Your brain evolved to learn, not
to know.

No physical theory is ever guaranteed to correspond to the real world.
Such are only contigently true until a phenomenon occurs that violates
their premises or until a theory of greater scope or accuracy comes along.

Will Steinberg wrote:

>> I talk a lot here about yin and yang.  Not trying to be
>> hand-wavy...only inasmuch as all empirical observations in the modern
>> western oeuvre still are based on, er, turtles.

There does not seem to be any upper limit on the size and mass of black
holes. The universe could be an infinite swarm of black holes inside
bigger black holes all of them constantly colliding and merging. Each
black hole with it's own internal vacuum state / zero point energy, each
successively larger one at a lower energy level but never actually zero.

Event horizons might simply be boundaries between different vacuum states.

>> Your interaction of 2 black holes is the creator of our universe of
>> duality: consuming versus consumed.  Inwards-pulling versus
>> outwards-seeking.  Death versus life.  Entropy versus extropy.

It is infinitely recursive dualities all the way down.


>> Consciousness, aka God, is the symmetry for death.  The stuff going
>> outwards from the singularity.  Perhaps.  Makes sense to me.

A bit metaphysical for my tastes but sure why not?

>> Still not sure where the beginning is.

Due to your brain's limited processing speed, your visual "now" is 80,000
nanoseconds in the past plus one nanosecond in the past per foot the event
is away from you. It's even further in the past if you are talking about
your auditory or tactile now.

Furthermore you cannot distinguish the temporal order or causal
relationship between any two events less than 80,000 nanoseconds apart.

If there can be no sharply defined and meaningful now, then how could
there be a sharp meaningful beginning? Therefore there is no beginning,
there is no now, and there is no end.

Just continuous relative time with one moment blending imperceptibly into
the next. Running at different rates for different observers and in
different orthogonal directions for observers in different causal cells.

Stuart LaForge





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