Month: September 2022

SO ENDS this first of two weekends considering Warren Hamilton’s magnetic shield hypothesis of the Cambrian explosion. It is a contribution to tectonics and fossil record ablation that together might start to add up. This period remains one if biology’s most unconvincing stories and has certainly been influenced by cherry-picking geological data. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub View in LinkedIn

To see a World in a grain of sand," "And a Heaven in a wild flower," "Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand," "And Eternity in an hour.”" "― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence" " https://lnkd.in/dae9Yq4Q View in LinkedIn

Hubble’s eye. " " https://lnkd.in/d72MPXPm View in LinkedIn

A SYMMETRICAL UNIVERSE. “Hawking had noted that the Machian formulation of general relativity proposed by Hoyle and Narlikar only works if there exists equal amounts of negative mass and positive mass particles in the universe.” https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn

THE HOYLE AND NARLIKAR PROPOSAL. “For Hawking, it clearly meant that the theory was wrong, but today, with the knowledge that negative mass solutions are allowed, and the observation of repulsive gravity, it is fascinating to see that the initial Machian perspective of Einstein could effectively be realized in the Dirac-Milne universe.” https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn

KEY OBSERVATION. “The discovery in 1998 of a mysterious repulsive energy, dubbed Dark Energy, and representing more than two thirds of the energy content of the universe, provided the first massive evidence for repulsive gravity.” https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn

ALL IS FAIR GAME. “It also underlined the improbability of the Standard Model of Cosmology, featuring an extremely brief initial phase of very brutal deceleration, followed by a rather mysterious and very brief repulsive phase of inflation, mostly justified by the need to solve the enigma of the homogeneity of the primordial universe.” https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn

STANDARD MODEL FAILINGS. “In particular, there does not exist any precise fundamental theory allowing to understand how one can not only enter but also leave this phase of inflation. A time slightly too long will lead to a virtually empty universe, whereas a time slightly too short will lead to the re-collapse of the universe in a few Planck times (10(−44 0) s).” https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn

FLAWED DOGMA. “At the end of inflation, when the universe is not even 10(−30) seconds old, a new phase of very violent deceleration is supposed to start, leading, about 10(5) years later (virtually an eternity compared to the two previous epochs), to a period where matter, until then mostly irrelevant, manages eventually to become the majority component while radiation as well as dark energy are then totally negligible.” https://lnkd.in/daA2SgMy View in LinkedIn

DIFFERENT KNOWING. “That the mind itself has a higher state of existence, beyond reason, a superconscious state, and that when the mind gets to that higher state, then this knowledge beyond reasoning comes.” (William James, Varieties, page 397, 1902) https://lnkd.in/dSyN7rAC View in LinkedIn