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While we're all throwing out our whacky idea laundry in front of people I presume actually know what they're talking about: I've wondered for many years if our
by mojomark 3y ago
While we're all throwing out our whacky idea laundry in front of people I presume actually know what they're talking about:
I've wondered for many years if our universe isn't like a supersaturated (SS) solution (1), where mass/energy and the fabric of space-time itself can eventually combine and settle into a balanced but very precarious state, like an SS solution comprised of Mass-Energy-Space-Time [MEST] as a single "fabric" (which perhaps was the state of the universe prior to the big bang, and will be again after the universe' heat death).
Say this large swath of peaceful-yet-highly unstable MEST fabric is perturbed slightly (like dropping a seed crystal in a SS solution) - then matter, energy space and time precipitate outward in a rapidly evolving chain reaction. The horizon of this chain reaction would be a place where matter and energy particles are continually being generated (liberated) from the serene METS fabric, which generates a gravitational pull in all directions.
So, all of the mass in our universe is actually being pulled outward, and because this precipitation horizon is expanding (growing in surface area), it generates an increasing amount of matter and hence an increasing amount of gravity that ultimately pulls matter within this horizon outward - at an accelerated rate. Perhaps the big bang was really, instead, a 'big fizz' - chain reaction of precipitated matter and energy from an initial supersaturated MEST fabric.
Or maybe I'm just full of silly nonsense. Either way, would love to hear an actual astrophysicist 's take on that idea. Maybe gently tear it to shreds:)
1. https://youtu.be/G8nHu-IOpTg?feature=shared https://youtu.be/G8nHu-IOpTg?feature=shared
- ganzuul 3y agoSeems like you are picking up on the intuition of cosmic inflation of quark gluon plasma. The degenerate matter state is like a partial order of time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_sets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_sets
- wiml 3y agoThe first part of your idea sounds a lot like a false vacuum decay which is metaphorically a lot like a supersaturated solution.