Part 06: Seldon’s Cosmology Series.
‘Space as Vacuum
vs.
Space as Plenum’.
Dear Reader,
It
is my pleasure,
and my honor, as an elected member
of the Foundation Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.] General Council, and as a voting member of F.E.D., to share, with you, from time to time, as they are approved for public release by the F.E.D. General Council, Seldon’s commentaries on key Encyclopedia
Dialectica concepts of Seldonian Theory.
The 6th text in
this new such
series is posted herewith, together with
supporting text-images and diagrams
[Some E.D.
standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, by the editors
of the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia,
to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s
discourse].
Seldon
–
“What if:
“Empty”
Space is not empty?”
“Empty”
Space is not “void”?
“Empty”
Space is substance?
“Empty”
Space is not “vacuum”, but plenum?”
“If
“empty” space is actually a substance, e.g., if it is the root substance at the
foundation of all other/later substances, then it must be a substance so ultra-primitive,
so ultra-minute, so almost-vanishing in its scale, that we, with our ‘Darwinianly-formed’
sensoria, cannot detect its “granularity”, because it does not interact “strongly”,
as per the “strong nuclear force”, nor “weakly”, as per the “weak nuclear force”,
nor electrically-magnetically, as per the “electromagnetic force”, nor even ‘gravitically’,
except to oppose gravity -- but detectably so, only on the grandest of the accessible
scales of our “visible universe”.”
“Thus
it was only at the uttermost end of the 20th Century that humanity
became aware of, discerned, detected this possible “substance of space”, this “Dark
Energy”, via our scientists’ discernment of the accelerating expansion
of the cosmos, of space itself, on a cosmological scale”
“Suppose
that “Dark Energy”, this apparent non-dilutive stuff accelerating the expansion
of space, with an apparently constant energy-density in each increment of added
space, is not just a “property”
of “empty” space. Suppose that it IS space; that “Dark Energy” is what,
actually-nonempty-space,
really is. Suppose that space is nothing
other than ‘the spandetron expanse’ – an «arithmos» of ultra-minute «monads»
[‘spandetrons’, because they both ‘span’ and “expand”]
whose nature and whose only activity is to continually self-replicate, and
whose rate of self-replication is diminished only by gravity, and, in the first
instance, only by the ur-gravity that is “Dark Matter”.”
“But
“Dark Matter’s” energy-density dilutes and diminishes as space expands – as “Dark
Energy” expandedly reproduces itself.
Thus, “Dark Energy”, over time, gets the upper hand over “Dark Matter”,
and the self-expansion of space thus accelerates again.”
“And,
suppose further that an initial ‘cosmological inflation’ was no “inflaton”
phenomenon, but simply “Dark Energy”, unopposed by as yet non-existent “Dark
Matter”. And suppose that the ‘excession’
of “Dark Energy” spatial self-expansion acceleration, to beyond a vastly superluminal
velocity-of-expansion limit, but a finite limit nonetheless, was what gave
birth to the first “Dark Matter”, which then restrained further expansion-acceleration. Until continued, albeit slower, spatial
self-expansion sufficiently diluted its “Dark Matter” opposition to allow
accelerated spatial self-expansion to manifest again, albeit not as robustly as
in the initial “inflationary” expansion, given the continued if diluted
presence of “Dark Matter” [and, later, of “Bright Matter” as well].”
“Will
‘excession’ eventually ensue again? Will
the cosmos again, thereby, be flooded with “Dark Matter” negentropy; “Dark
Matter” free energy [and, again later, also with some
“Bright Matter” and “Bright Energy” negentropy, born, once again, from out of
the core of “Dark Matter”]?”
“That
is the dialectical-cosmological hypothesis that we are pursuing. It is an hypothesis of a ‘‘‘dialectic of
Nature’’’ grounded and founded in an initial cosmological antithesis, that of “Dark
Energy anti-gravity” as the expansive ‘self-force’ of accelerating spatial
self-expansion, soon countered by – as born out of the “Dark Energy” process
itself – the ‘anti-anti-gravity’ contractive force known as “Dark Matter”.”
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Regards,
Miguel
Detonacciones,
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