What can be distinguished is what exists! Interlude Machines of type 1 and type 2 The Superconducting Cosmos
Universal structure emerges nonlocally. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
(Machines of type three and higher)
Boundarylessness and the wavefunction of the universe Nanocosmology (the circle complete) |
Quantum systems are unobserved until they interact with the constraints in a physical situation; spacetime itself is unreal until realized by physical situation.
The world, you know, is all that is the case! (LW)"Even if neither you nor I know how to define that line, I like the idea that the 'game' in the empty courtyard is only then possible when a line is drawn..."John Archibald Wheeler
Gregory Bateson proposed that information is characterized by "a difference that makes a difference."
(How can anything make a difference?)
The universe is a coherent supercrystal - on the one hand certain features are highly stable...(e.g. David Finkelstein says that "the vacuum supercrystal seems to have a critical temperature of many GeV.")
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"I suppose that spacetime itself is a macroscopic coherent mode of a more general structure, as a superconductor is a mode of a polyatomic crystal. I tentatively dub this oldest of the supercondensates "supercrystal", to go with superconductor and superfluid. It is characterized by perfect defect-mobility (infinite defect-mobility with Meissner effect) and a transition temperature of hundreds of GeV's (at least). This refers to a speculative theory still under development..." posted to quantum-d, 12/11/95 |
...while on the other hand we may also expect the emergence of entirely new coherent dynamical states at the gentle ambient temperature of 3 degrees Kelvin. (This is related to the idea of stimulated morphogenesis.)
In quantum mechanics what is physically real is what can in principle be measured - in other eras of the universe very different kinds of observables obtained.
How do we assign meaning to spacetime in domains (such as the the early universe) where there are no such well-defined observables?
There was a time when the universe lacked "object permanence" - Fractalesquely, we all pass that way individually as we develop...
Much more can be said about this!
Quantum mechanically, the universe is a snake frictionlessly swallowing its own tail...
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Because the universe is self-defining, a state of infinite degrees of
freedom
like the famous approach to thermal equilibrium (maximum entropy) in a
spatially open universe is actually equivalent to a state of only one
possibility,
that
is a state of minimum entropy like the origin of the big bang.
Order and disorder are one: the engine cycle of the universe. |
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