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Originally posted by rogerstigers
Does this imply the existing of something like "sub-space" (i.e. an underlying structure to the fabric of the universe) that can be manipulated?
Originally posted by CLPrime
Originally posted by rogerstigers
Does this imply the existing of something like "sub-space" (i.e. an underlying structure to the fabric of the universe) that can be manipulated?
No. These particles either exist or they don't, there is no "sub-space" where they hide when they're not appearing in real space. In fact, in general, these particles don't exist at all. It's Heisenberg Uncertainty that says that it's possible for tiny bits of energy (actually, small quantum fluctuations) to spontaneously appear for extremely short periods of time.
It's like hanging a bed sheet on a clothesline. The wind causes essentially random ripples to appear in the sheet. This is similar to the way Heisenberg Uncertainty causes random ripples to appear in the quantum wave function of the vacuum.
Originally posted by rogerstigers
Ok, so while I have heard of this theory before, I have never delved into it to any great extent. Does this imply the existing of something like "sub-space" (i.e. an underlying structure to the fabric of the universe) that can be manipulated?
My mind is spinning with ideas on it, but none of them are valid until I have better understanding. Guess I should try to dig into some reading material.
I love it when experimental physicists take a theory (virtual) into technology (physical)
Originally posted by FOXMULDER147
I mean, the idea that the universe "created itself".. I can't grasp it.
Originally posted by Biigs
this sounds really very very cool, and a link to dark matter and or dark energy would prove extremly useful.
awesome find! S+F
Originally posted by zorgon
Originally posted by FOXMULDER147
I mean, the idea that the universe "created itself".. I can't grasp it.
put a whole bunch of oxygen and hydrogen atoms into a big jar... mix in just a very tiny amount of energy and you have a big bang... and lo and behold... there is water....
Originally posted by XtraTL
How can something create itself. That's nonsense. The existence of something cannot be contingent on itself. If it had to wait for itself to exist before it could exist, it would never exist.
Stephen Hawking says universe not created by God
• Physics, not creator, made Big Bang,
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing," he writes. "Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.
"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."
In the forthcoming book, published on 9 September, Hawking says that M-theory, a form of string theory, will achieve this goal: "M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find," he theorises.
"The fact that we human beings – who are ourselves mere collections of fundamental particles of nature – have been able to come this close to an understanding of the laws governing us and our universe is a great triumph."
There are thosewho have criticized this attitude of the Hermitists, and who have claimed that they did not manifest the proper spirit in their policy of seclusion and retitcence. But a moments glance back at the pages of history will show the wisdom of the Masters, who knew the folly of attempting to teach to the world that which it was neither ready or willing to recieve the message. The Hermetitist have never sought to be martyrs, and have, instead, sat silently aside with pitying smiles on their closed lips, while the "heathen raged noisly about them" in their customary amusement of putting to death and torture the misguided enthusiasts who imagined that they could force upon a race of barbarians the truth capable of being understood only by the elect who had advanced along the Path.