About Philosophical Quests for 'Ultimate' Reality

Ultimate as a modifier on the term 'reality' may be a special use within a linguistic ontology, even so there are several potential meanings of the term.

I won't try to list many of the potential meanings of ultimate or reality here, such as a reality that is eternal and unchanging, or a reality that occurs at the conclusion of the Universe of space-time, a reality at the singularity of black holes where time has stopped and space extends forever. Reality as a perceptible object of human experience and cogitation may be regarded as ultimate if one has wrapped one's mind around all of its dimensions perhaps, yet for Christians such as myself who find the ultimate reality to be a finding of fact and conclusion of purpose of God regarding contingent or temporal reality, ultimate reality is unavoidable and the supreme good.

In reading over a book on loop quantum gravity recently, the sectarian camp of astrophysical irredentist non-string theorist philosophers of the physical universe point of view emerged once again. I believe it is useful to consider points of view of ultimate physical theory such as Hartle-Hawking, Wheelerianism and Venenziano right along with epistemological approaches such as Sartre's that may for-itself be given to support even esoteric science based or even religious viewpoints such as the universe as a hologram or Berkley's ideaism. Even a universe as string phenomenality created by Intelligent design of a super-computational people, or a metaverse set of immediate appearance founded on some sort of monadology by God can be useful if not necessary ideas to consider along the road to understanding how the experience of life is supported by the given.

There may be two approaches to ultimate reality expeditions; one with a possibility of intelligent design of the experience of human beings on Earth in the Universe, and of course the alternate that the universe had no element of a designer in it. Each approach may pursue simultaneous, concurrent objectives areas of inquiry not uncommonly.

Can the elements of a set of self-aware beings infer the content of the metaset in which they are included? Perhaps not. The answers to questions of set structure and content provided by extrapolation from observable or experienced phenomena may be useful even so. Sometimes it is not a good idea to prejudge the values of solutions for an unknown or difficult to solve equation or challenge to understanding.

Space-Time Glazed Donut Singularities ©2011GaryCGibson (poem)

Horizons of time irreversibly sent
gathered amidst stardust
in nights pre-light tents
with dark worlds dimly shone
local futures move away
to black holes ever unknown
where time stops in a minute
stretched in conformal logic
for the persistence of memory
without doubts

Curved horizons of planets, black holes, moons
formed as condensed physics drift
toward edges too soon eclipsed
economic minimalist’s structured thrift

As space emerges from nowhere
pushing worlds farther away
galaxies sent toward shadows
with mass in gravity left collecting day

Somewhere in space mass land waveform sparks
particles virtually present depleting empty space start
elsewhen stops

Balance in singularities beyond covers
send bound particles leaking for no gain
directions reach probability within
without being is the equal pain
topologies to support experience

Space-time curling tighter
gravity shaping place
until time reaches end
all motion locally frozen
in space donut dimensions glaze

Donut singularities across the Universe
sequester mass as atoms of space transcend the limit of locality
waveform super-positions reduced to one push the expansion space-time outside faster than before

Gravity leaves the time memory of mass converted to space under the covers fading away
when nothing more is formed
for night follows day

The mechanics of spirit
do not disappear in mass-energy convergence to nothingness.

Pre-Natural Selection of the Elect ©2011GaryCGibson (poem)

Particle-anti-particle pairs of gravitons
at the event horizon separate under the influence of gravity
the absurdity of space-time splitting gravitons for themselves
instead of drawing in space-time to a naked singularity berift of an event horizon

Under cover of sinking singularities eventually drawing horizons
inward toward harmonic convergence
worse than a sharp chicken bone stuck in the throat
infinitely curved space absurd like the hyperspherical surface well-rounded
-what is the state of infinite curvature of a hyped-up sphere
perpetuates the continua as it flows

Where in the space-time do virtual gravitons emerge race
enshrouded in the shaped field
recursive bootstrapped powers
warping and powering for-themselves
paradoxes of necessary chaos place
ranges of freedom of order without order
the information writ large
like the desperate twit before entropic drift to wondrous space-time structures of existential quantum menace thunderous helium’s red giant phase
phonon waveforms travel through metaphysical clouds

Universes beget universes
through a design of Spirit and substance set with subsets
unable to infer content of the metaset
replicating order of reproducing
continua generating galaxies; planetary islands for souls in creation
from which a few might be saved

Through countless Universes some vast number might be brought unto salvation
Divine selection wherefrom The One
may elect to populate heaven
for the chosen will contemplate
and praise divine Holiness
eternal God in His glory.

Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope on Its Five Year Mission

Occassionally I post reminders of interesting space events for myself. This is one such post.

The Fermi gamma ray space telescope was launched in 2008.

http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/overview.html

http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/

James Webb Space Telescope scheduled for 2015...

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/firstlight.html

Congress Seeks Ways to Trim the Nation's Poor/Profit from Investing Overseas

When an article in Time reported that 25% of M.I.T. graduates are moving to work in Wall Street's financial sector-that is, the best and brightest including those from Harvard are moving toward the gaming and scamming portion of the U.S. economy instead of building new businesses, it wasn't too surprising, corporatism and globalism have taken over the U.S. economy and outsourced it leadership to that of globalists.

So the other salient fact mentioned, that the five developing economies of India, China, Russia and Brazil will pass the gross national product of the G7 countries within seven years should help to understand why the Wall Street corporate and government leadership have treated U.S. national interests as secondary, or something of a slum in the general scheme of things; the nation can supply military forces to war for foreign resource extraction business interests of more concern to global corporations than American, and consider how to cut programs for the nation's poor while adding debt to the taxpayer future.

President Obama seemed rather spineless in his cheering for extended corporate tax cuts last December; the national budget could have been balanced in two years if he had let them expired-and he absolutely had that power. Now the congress is haggling about cutting medical programs for the poor, and of course Congress lacked the integrity to just create a free medical service for the poor and veterans combining and improving services.

The U.S. military soaks up 3/4 of a billion annually, and the interest on the national debt another 3/4 trillion dollars. Military personnel are paid at very high levels for public servants-too high, and the military retirement system ought to be eliminated and military retirees merged into the civilian social security system at the same rates in order that they too have something to defend and care about being funded.

A military that engages in protracted low-intensity conflict supporting a plethora of corporate military suppliers creates a need to continue expanding wars in order that the Defense Department funding may not be cut. Convenient foreign mullahs protesting U.S. burning of Korans a year later create demands for Congress to submit to the Moslem demands and condemn free expression in the U.S.A. Globalism pressures the U.S.A. increasingly to conform to its will. Some might feel like napalming such demands, and then conform to simple defense of individual liberty even in a market era of pervasive social corruption of national political rights.

One wonders if the Department of Defense has any ability to restrain its deployment whenever corporate and flag officers decide it tempting to start a new conflict such as in Libya instead of finding a way to remove failed rebel protestors peacefully. Could it be possible to reduce Defense spending by half within a year or two through conventional weapons and force reductions with most of the world major powers and soon to be major powers?

The Republican-Tea Party attack on health services to the poor is typical of a corrupt, declining power outsourcing its liberty. The poor should be the last undermine, yet it requires moral leadership to be aware of that fact. Everyone knows that if a Senator or Congressman seeking to undermine Medicaid and Medicare had no medical services him or herself he or she would happily take whatever free medical services are available should they have cancer or a compound fracture on a city street. Realism is not a concern of the federal supply side class of politicians transitioning financial bunk into a faith based distraction from religious integrity as well as financial common sense.

The United States requires a reinforcement of its traditional values of strong national defense, border security and liberation of Mexico from reliance on remittances and drug sales to the U.S.A. that inevitably corrupt the economic pragmatism of each nation. Creating a zero flow of illegal aliens into the United States is requisite for a balanced federal budget and the practical conservation of reasoned financial planning.

It is true that during the middle ages of world history religion was corrupted too far by takeover from simultaneous worldly-political actors driving it to support their own goals. That evolution was a natural consequence of the missiological need to convert a pagan nation's leadership first. The new convert king or queen would then place themselves at the head of the church and find any sort of dissent to be politically threatening. That situation did not work itself out until after the reformation and the 30 years religious wars.

In the U.S.A. the church has failed to transition into being a priesthood of believers and thus often follows the hierarchical, corporate-military industrial complex trail of economic evolution through its permutations at home and abroad. Plainly a priesthood of believers ecclesiastical structure regarding all church members as necessary peers would better draw economic attention to the United States and citizenship instead of corporate, global policy. With the hegemony of the corporate owned broadcast media the upgrading of the United States to a correct contemporary Christian church expression is challenging.

The United States could readily solve its economic difficulties, yet the national leadership is more concerned about abstract global skimming than making the nation the best it can be. There isn't much cause for optimism in the future with the way things are, and federal debt is increasing while the foundation of low-entropy economics hasn't much hope of getting started.

The Tight-Fisted Grip-o-Gravity ©2011Gary Clifford Gibson (poem)

If black holes compress mass infinitely
why aren’t they all the same size
with all mass within crunched to the same infinitely reduced area?

The event horizon; the cover
varies in size in relation to the mass within
the mass continuing to release a gravitational field of proportion
upon space beyond the cover
gravitons escape the gravitational field easily tugging space-time into a curve approaching infinity beyond the cover at the singularity
artful draft dodgers of their own consequence
retired soldiers forever pulling tax dollars into a separate public retirement system
travelling at the speed of light gravitons escape infinite space curvature though not time

Or, alternatively, the cover and its shaped space-time curve is a residual, an artifact of the mass that has infinitely shrunk unto oblivion
a spatial size that reduces mass to non being

Though we think kindly of mass-energy reduced to lowest possible size-such that it has no area at all
it is difficult to forget that even gravity is a kind of energy pulling mass toward its own ends
the end state of mass energy-an illogical choice, for gravity must too be a form of mass-energy convertible a little bit itself into something better

Something a little more noble
something that would let mass and energy drift about space-time in accord with their own will to exist
to form planets and galaxies without gravitational help
to shine brightly where no star has shined before

Mass energy in a black hole with its cover pulled tightly about it
a singularity at the center like a pearl in an oyster of immense power
might have crunched mass and energy to a lowest state of being
something unknown in the present quantum field theory
a quanta stringy or one-dimensional
a monad of metronomic meter
standard versification within a universe
lines of harmonic monads wrapped about the end point of time in a spatial ribbon looping lines into circles on one-time

Gravity that compacts mass to most infinitely reduced size
has something unnegotiable about it
it has its own way nearly infinitely smaller and tighter
to what counterintuitive end?
a one-way city street narrowing to pencil thin
never releasing its grip on time or matter

One day discoverers of scientific puzzles may find
the way to release the entrapped mass-energy of time
time that is halted in its own wrapped space
time that has stopped reducing space to one place
that most steep slope converting mass to just one’s
the unapproachable gravitational field where motion and pressure have just begun
direct lines to the concentrate smallest state of matter
may be unraveled and sent to the black hole centrals
releasing mass through the gravitational-space-time wrapped field
as a new form of energy to power SUV wheels.

A Good Statesman Could Reduce World Military Expenditures

The United States now spends more than 3/4s of a trillion dollars on military activities annually-without even factoring in the cost of retirement or VA medical treatment. President Dwight Eisenhower worked on his military-industrial complex speech more than 18 months before giving it in his farewell adress to the nation a few days before leaving office. President Kennedy should have heeded that message before visiting Dallas.

A good statesman could reduce U.S. military expenses by at least 50% simultaneously with other nations of the world. Global security could be enhanced by securing borders of all nations against illegal human traffic including illegal aliens, arms smugglers, terrorists, slavers, pimps and so forth. International and national security should coincide in reducing conventional military procedures toward concentrating on border security for all nations instead of conventional wars of invasive or civil natures.

Use Military to Soak Up Excess Vacant Homes in U.S.A./Field Grade Officer Retirement Bonus Instead of Payments

High tech igloo shaped homes that produce most of their own energy requirements might be the way to go. Homes with low maintenance costs-one time roofing and exterior coating, survivable in tornados and hurricanes, coated with solar photon collecting materials could reduce the waste of materials, electrical production at a distance and human labor.
Present homes with debt problems and uncertain corporate ownership might perhaps be presented to U.S. soldiers as prizes of federal incompetent economic management. Soldiers could receive special discounted loans on vacant homes at 50% of their prior market value, and the government would guarantee the loans.

The military could also save federal dollars if officers of field grade were given a severance bonus of cash and a free home with no ongoing retirement payments. If they want federal money for life, they could apply for social security if they financially qualify. It seems unreasonable that federal military officers that enlisted at age 18 should be on the federal payroll for 50 years or more in the modern era of low numbers of field grade officer deaths on the battlefield or in sea combat.

ESA Planck Mission's Early Findings

The European Space Agency's Plank mission to map the cosmic microwave background radiation follows up on the NASA WMAP mission of yore. Early returns of data analysis were presented in January 2011, and the web site has some video, photographs and other data.

More detailed mapping of the earliest imagery presently available of the physical state of affairs of the Universe in its first 350,000 years of existence is helpful for the formation of cosmological theories of how it all works (the Universe or Metaverse), where it was and where its going to.

Actually, present cosmological theories have tended to grow with the observational data at large and small scale, and sometimes in comparison to the inspired word of God (the Bible). Cosmological theories may always change with the expanding infinite horizons of logic, knowledge, time and space.

http://www.rssd.esa.int/index.php?project=planck

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Planck/index.html videos

About the Earth's Geoid

Scientific American posted an article on the shape of the Earth determined by a satellite regarding it from a particular way the last two years.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-geoid-why-a-map-of-earths-gravi-2011-04-01

The European Space Agency put up the GOEC satellite and it can observe the geoid. The scientific American article referenced above explains what the geoid criterion is-I won't try that myself.

The video S.A. posted is found on youtube. So are many other videos loosely derived from the geoid. Many of the videos are Quranicly inspired. The shape of the world without the oceans probably is a little irregularly, and with the oceans it's gravitational field might be somewhat different too. I have no idea if the Quran predicted the potatoe-shape qualities of the Earth, yet if it has thats a really amazing find, I guess. There are lots of videos proclaiming the truth about the essential spud.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+earths+geoid&aq=f

Nuclear Power Plants Should Have a Fail-Safe Design

Nuclear power plants minus operators because of some future biological war accident could send plumes of radiation around the global like a few thousand Chernobyls blooming. If the deadly electrical power through atomic fission plant construction continues they should at least be designed with a fail safe capability such that after a certain time a mountain of dirt would slide down and bury a malfunctioning power plant.

Nuclear power plants should not be constructed any more near waterways leading to the ocean where they can infuse radioactive materials into the world’s waterways for centuries potentially, after the unforeseeable world demographic disaster.

Why the Market Doesn’t Generate Rational Ecospheric Political Governing

It is challenging in the post cold-war political economy to write critically and objectively about the pitfalls of capitalism without being immediately suspected of holding the opposite view, possibly the only alternative political opinion, of socialism or communism. Well, I am not writing in advocacy of either of those quasi-authoritarian political philosophies here. Instead I am writing a few comments in support of an updated free enterprise and democratic nationalism within a low entropy, high quality economic future.

It is also challenging to write for secure borders with no or very low legal or illegal immigration without being suspected of racism or elitism. Yet without stable population and citizenship the average citizen of any nation has few real economic or political opportunities to constructively interact to improve his or her political standing. Market force philosophies today denigrate class political interests while simultaneously exploiting class analysis for marketing product most efficiently. Individuals are reinforced in disregarding political interests in preference for pure market business as politics for-itself. Individual affects on finite natural resources do have consequences of concatenation. Each individual pursuing the satisfaction of their own interest may want a non-renewable resource product, and that product utility concatenated may eliminate the product even if its price increases to discourage its purchase. Ignoring the reduction in quality of the environment or the decrease of wilderness land will not stop the trends; they go on as long as over-reliance on an anthropomorphic faith in free market natural selection diminishes intellectual competence in national politics.

The free market criterion of Adam Smith was a pre-ecospheric economic structure. Adam Smith’ 1776 book ‘The Wealth of Nations’ for economic theory might be an equivalent of Newton’s theory of gravity. Newton’s theory, brilliant as it was, had to be replaced by Einstein’s General theory of relativity to explain larger spaces and time. Even G.P.S. satellites need to take into account the effects of time dilation. The fundamental ecospheric parameters of Smith’s concept of capital in relation to the world ecosphere are far more obsolete in comparison.

World ecological health was not a concern of the English of 1776, and free market pursuit occurred as a dialectical opposite to constriction of imperial governance and its central planning. The pursuit of individual self-interest in economics is not a formula for governance of the whole society.

Smith’s capital prescription is a formula for the acquisition of economic power through production and sale of goods and services that satisfy economic demands. Historically capitalism tends toward monopoly and remedies to monopoly have been written into law.

As capitalism becomes very large and socially networked, as capitalism becomes institutionalized and usurps social organization, morality and government, it also becomes increasingly irrational about the state of the world ecosphere. Without a rectification of capitalism to modern circumstance, nationalism, civil rights, individual free enterprise, inventiveness and the health of the ecosphere will be increasingly under assault.

Global corporate markets in pursuit of capital gains willingly increase scarcity in order to increase the value of commodities. In the United States market oriented urban planners permit development sprawl to bury farmland helping to drive up food prices. Global corporations buy up vast tracts of rural farmland also decreasing food quality simultaneously with increasing costs and profit. The logic of markets that become networked and corporate dominated is to increasingly drive up consumer costs while decreasing consumer capital. Government debt is another way to enslave the U.S. public and increase the concentration of wealth.

A modern economy may be evaluated through its energy base. Quantity, quality, type, use, safety, renewability, cost; energy facts are what determine the state of an economy in large part. The United States has a radically inefficient use of energy today, while simultaneously allowing its nation to be flooded with illegal aliens taking jobs and making finite economic and energy control impossible.

Irrational market ideas are often used to justify racism as an excuse for allowing illegal immigration; that is, because most prior immigration to America before 1930 was white or black (involuntary in the latter case), allowing non-white immigration beyond rational population limits is justified because the immigrants are brown. A further irrational market concept is that the immigrants are good workers (better than Americans) and provide cheap labor of advantage to those willing to pay less for workers.

With a zero population growth rate amongst white Americans, and with white Americans still a majority, it makes little social or economic reason to allow illegal aliens from Mexico with a high birth rate to thwart ecological conservation efforts, efforts to modernize the economy, efforts to transition to a new energy and transport foundation and keep the U.S. stable at its present population level.

A fair economic policy today manages human resources not on a racial basis, but on an abstract foundation of human equality. An empirically irrational market political operating system denies citizens the basic rights of self-determination in a stable and secure political and geographical environment. Citizens have rights in their own nation greater than non-citizens. Annual earning opportunities and income for individual citizens is a fundamental test of social equality in a market economy. The poor are discriminated against-not races, gender or perverted sexual behavior. Corrections to individual poverty in relation to average social earnings requisite for a just government with realistic democracy. The distance in wealth between the most rich and the most poor cannot be light years, or billions of dollars within any one nation, if freedom is to exist for all. It is not necessary to have compulsory equal economic compensation for all citizens, yet the range between the richest and poor must be reduced to necessary social limits.

Irrational immigration policy in pursuit of an irrational market based economy without correction seeking growth in consumption, depletion of natural resources and real geophysical liberty should generate increasing waves of economic disruption I production as well as political conflicts.

Market forces based upon scarcity, banking the opposite, control of markets through monopoly (an implicitly anti-free market factor) will work toward the elimination of natural resource availability and supply, the commoditization and intentional supply reduction of ecospheric health simple in pursuit of short term profits and transition of capital gains into political power of monopoly. The logic of market forces applied to the finite ecospheric area of the Earth is irrational. The anthropomorphization of Adam Smith’s invisible hand of market forces into a benevolent ecospheric wizard of Wall Street was an abandonment of reasoned political philosophy taken on in the finite ascent of market production and optimism drawn from the frontier properties of America. A healthy economy requires good governance responsive to the needs for conservation of the ecosphere, the liberty of the people, and the desire for independence from poverty, class oppression and the tyranny of organizations of any kind; private or public. The U.S. government is failing miserably at leading the nation into a sustainable society based on national self-reliance with liberty and justice for all Americans. It has allowed the delusions of a benevolent, anthropomorphic free market ideology to promote global corporate takeover of the national economy, reduction of the ecosphere nationally, failure to create a new, highly efficient energy use infrastructure, corrupted its farmlands, used food crops for making gasohol for fossil fuel powered vehicles, permitted a porous Mexican border and promiscuous immigration policies to continue over-production of cheap labor supply, failed to be a good economic role model for the developing world and endangered the nation with trillions and trillions of dollars of public debt.

Send NPR Funding to Budget Elimination File

NPR’s half billion dollars should be cut from the Federal budget. In the post cold war world it is an anachronistic globalist agitator subverting American enterprise and independence.

Today there was an interview from Libya with a ‘PhD candidate in communications’ training in plastic explosives, rockets, mortars and sundry materials useful for war and terrorism. If he can overthrow Khadafy and return to Washington State University to complete his program he may be able to be some sort of official in the new regime or perhaps remain in Washington as a Moslem community organizer helping get mosque construction under way on the Palouse.

NPR may have organizational functions for the export and import of odd political forces harmful to the conservation of U.S. national security and ecological economic progress, and it may be a tool of the Chinese policy to ‘defeat the United States with low technology’ mentioned by the insightful Red Army General of China a while ago. America in the era of NPR has promoted illegal alien hegemony in the U.S.A. through its concept of ‘fair and balanced’ reporting, it is an agency of socialization for anything un-American (it had a Swedish author on today as well—what’s wrong with Alaskan authors), the nation has built of vast public debt, the military has transitioned into moral decay and serves as a missiological agent for global homosexual depravity.

If NPR had to function without levering public tax dollars it might be possible to for federal shoe suppliers to buy better shoes for little kids in Chicago and Mississippi that don’t have none with many miles left in em.

Libyan Deminstrators Inducted into Rebellion-A Reasoned Transition?

Morphing a non-violent, non-military street protest movement into a violent rebel army must take some time. It seems unreasonable to believe that all people believed the Libyan government of Moamar Khadafy would just throw in the towel and flee off-world for refuge.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/2011/0330/One-thing-is-clear-in-Libya-Rebels-can-t-advance-without-air-support

Khadafy might have no planetary refuge if he ran, and inevitably world banks would seize his foreign accounts and the broke former dictator would be summoned before some court. These sorts of things are well-known historical characteristics of modern time.

So the peaceful protestors are expected to form a rebel army and begin a long, bloody war against the Libyan government forces. At least former Presidential candidate Wesley Clarke has patience as he mentioned on CNN that even if it takes a year to get Khadafy out, that's o.k. President Obama says the 'noose is drawing tighter' around Khadafy, so we can discern that neutrality is not an option for the administration.

The residue of political fact is that the United States seems committed to some sort of a new war with covert and overt military support for an ill-prepared insurgency in Libya. I am all for democracy, free enterprise and freedom from government radio intimidation, bullets, economic destruction and so forth. Yet I believe that the President should have gone to the congress before starting a war that make take a year or more to wrap up with the dictator's head brought to the President of the United States in a basket. It costs a lot of money if nothing else.

The United States fails to lead in sufficient radical energy change to comprise leadership. Like Winston Churchill who changed the entire British navy to run on oil instead of coal 'just like that', so must the United States give up oil-gasoline for cars instantly and finally like an alcoholic kicking the booze. Entire, nation-wide mass transit and personal transit new technologies must be constructed-and not just choo-choo and corn gasohol repackaging of the 2oth century. Instead, the President invests in the same old solutions to intractable foreign political friction without using new methods of problem solving. I suppose that’s what the nation deserves in leadership since the Presidency isn't that well compensated considering the problems it causes for the candidates and the winner.

Postulation of Time (poem) version 1.1

Flowing straight as an arrow, time itself
unwinds around non-Euclidean geometry
like parallel lines meeting at singularities
polar regions of infinitesimal points
drawn in theories, concepts, information
to close the stanza

The plans for all seasons
like an infrastructure of mathematical points
set into group arrays with literal parameters
relativistic metrics of nomes demarcations
infusing ideas of explanation into the physics
variables of powerful premises
time and space shaped
to say what is
what it is
the ontology of what things are

Cycles and metacycles in eternity
God may have been creative before
with a chance to practice infinite Universe constructions already
simplicity flows to complexity
non-being yields to being
from omniscient will
arises infinite, ordered structures
contemplating time
linear spacing of intervals
constant coordinates morphing subjectively
within basic wave transformations
packed artfully into memories.

Theories vs. Observable Facts of the Metaverse/Universe

This is a comment about contemporary cosmological topics. I enjoy reading cosmology books by physicists or astronomers occasionally-popular books written for the general public. Over time one gets unanswered ideas. As in language use or about any other kind of learning, synthetic recombination of concepts is a normal experience.

So a few of the most basic concepts of cosmology such as the big bang, the nature of space, gravity and so forth can present some new ideas unanswered by the information in the cosmology publications that one remembers. Following are a few basic questions about the big bang legend that were investigated a long time ago I am sure, yet I can’t recollect reading the answers recently…

Space-time theories such as loop quantum cosmology, string theory and membrane theory tend to draw upon Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and its equations to construct mathematical models of the history of the Universe backwards in a reduction in size and increase of mass density and energy to a singularity.

The General Theory, I believe, allows an infinite amount of mass and energy to form at the singularity that equations indicate are the precursor of the big bang and inflation of the Universe, yet obviously an infinite amount of energy or mass at any point in the history of the Universe is inconsistent with just a finite amount of energy in the Universe as its sum at any time.

Philosophically I am brought to wonder if physicists have calculated the values for the total quantity of mass-energy in the Universe today based on a 13.7 billion year old start time, and determined how much force all of that mass-energy would have if compacted to a point of any given area-even a very small singular condition. What kind of speed of expansion would it provide if given to expand at that instant long ago?

Reading a book about the research area of loop quantum gravity I realized that the physical theorists make cosmological models at the big bang that are something of yo-yo like recurrent mirror images of the theory of expansion of the Universe on this side (pervasively based on Einstein’s general theory criteria). One actually has no valid reason to assume that the laws of physics on this side of the alleged expansion/inflation are the same as those on the other side with reversed positive or negative signs.

I have read of string theory cosmological explanations of field instability and quantum fluctuations that might have generated a Higgs field to expand, compacted space-atom lattices that would repel themselves given near singularity conditions, and the formation of a white hole and near singularity from a perturbative vacuum, yet I do not recollect reading about the values that a finite singularity with only so much energy and mass to start would have. How large of a Universe of mass and energy could be made consistent with the known speed of expansion and other observable facts of the material of the Universe? What would the size and velocity of the initial explosion need to be in order to be consistent with observations?

There are several ‘fudge factors’ today in cosmology to make theoretical, mathematical criteria work. A cosmological constant, an inflation faster than light, dark energy and dark matter-even anti-matter perhaps, might be considered as fudge factors.

The facts of observations of the Universe are quite excellent today; are there good ‘common sense’ calculations about what size of a singularity the general theory would need to stop at in order to be consistent with the calculated amount of mass-energy of the Universe? Would such comparative calculations help if applied to formulating theories about the mechanics of black holes?

Sure, I realize that it’s said that the Universe did not start from an ordinary a-bomb like explosion. Expansions provide sophisticated parameters with inflation, membranes, quantum instability and etc. Yet if it is regarded as a detonation (perhaps in some kind of a containment medium- (a shaped space field?)) of a finite amount of mass-energy, what kind of values can physicists get, and would they fit the facts of the observable Universe at all?

If there was an infinite amount of mass and energy at a singularity and it exploded, expanded or was repelled then we would never see the end of its expansion I would think, and its power values might be inferred from the observed facts of the mass-energy of the Universe. Instead of treating the infinities of General Relativity as incompleteness or errors, can’t they be regarded as temporal terminus vectors like the summit of mountains? Such places are good places to expand from along the slope of gravity to a broader base.

Promote Change; Get Rid of College Sports

College sports today detract from the necessary academic supremacy of mind over matter on campus. Time and money that go into college sports are used to create a value system of brawn over brains the nation is dumb enough already.

In serving as the minor leagues for pro sports, Americans of athletic skill but lesser academic abilities are left out of the play for pay ladder. Conversely, colleges award degrees to athletes that have no use for the sheepskin except as a prestige item, the club membership presenting an opportunity to provide the wrong role models for a nation in need of intellectual vigor to rectify the environment for long range human survival and biodiversity and space colonization.

Colleges should lose their football, basketball and baseball programs and allow the market to field semi-pro teams to serve as for-pay minor leagues for the pro sports franchises. College sports programs create a socialist training academy for sports that is harmful to honest individual citizens and the true self-employment work ethic in the U.S.A.

Specially gifted college students with outstanding intellectual skills, work ethic and athletic ability could attend classes and then play at sports on a semi-pro team for cash. A vast number of private sector semi-pro sports teams and private sector sports training schools might arise to prepare athletes for athletic careers independently of the academic route thus freeing up classrooms programs for intellectuals.

If baseball players had to go through college to become pro players as they virtually must n football and basketball, it is unlikely that Pete Rose would have made the major leagues, as all he skipped school all he could to practice baseball.