Past To Present
FOR MILLENIA, IN MYRIAD CULTURES, COSMOS was powerful and
the ultimate landscape that contained the sources of life itself—the Sun,
Sol/Surya/Ra...—and human life [where the gods dwelled and continued to direct human
life. This cosmos was essentially
a ceiling of starlight with Earth at its
center.
At an important turning point, the photon and the measurement of its speed suddenly moved all
of the stars away from the Earth at incredible distances. For the illuminati or high
culture of that era, cosmos became a deep field of stars.
And again, with the discovery that some of the blurs of
light were dense clusters of billions of stars, cosmos became a deep field of galaxies that seemed only limited by the quality of our
measures to see them. The blur
across the night sky was recognized to be a view through the galaxy in which
Sol was positioned in the outer reach of an arm of this spiral galaxy.
And quickly, it was recognized that these galaxies were
moving outward, expanding the universe that was synonymous with cosmos. Gradually, a sense of space as being
empty was completely turned over in favor of a sense of space as having form
and energy and inseparability from matter. And soon, it was recognized that the speed of this expansion
was accelerating, and that this expansion was likely due to the influence of dark
energy that was present everywhere and that
comprised ninety percent of the content of the universe.
The nature of cosmos has dramatically changed from a ceiling
to a universe of expanding galaxies with cosmological speculation of multiverses that interact.
An understanding of the nature of dark matter is considered to be an
important step in taking the next quantum leap. If anything is “known,” it is that human understanding of
the nature of cosmos will continue to make astonishing quantum leaps. The once vast, uninhabited landscapes
of Earth—forests, deserts, oceans—were long-viewed as wastelands needing human
use to activate them. Now, there
are recognized as active, complex ecosystems.
Human Conceptions Beyond
Earth:
God(s)
Ceiling of Stars
Galaxies
Universe
Multi-verse
Mega-verse
?
?
Mega-verse, from Symmetry & Familiarity
RESOLUTION OF THE PREDOMINANT questions of the moment, such
as the nature of dark matter, will not be blocked by the limits of our
measures. We will likely soon
discover particle remnants of dark energy as we increase the energy of our
particle accelerators. This may
appear to reveal the structure of dark matter but it will not fully recognize
its real nature. As in the past,
the problem will be the smallness of our model of the universe/cosmos.
The present model of the universe has measured a beginning
point—the Big Bang—and the acceleration of the space occupied by the
accelerating matter and energy form. And when we explore questions as to galactic life
cycles, galactic evolution, and the end or continuance of the universe, we
approach these questions from the perspective that influences will come from
within since everything began with the Big Bang. We would approach the question for the increasing
acceleration of the initial Big Bang, which, like any explosion or like water
rings moving out from a drop of water, should be decreasing given our present
understanding. Such a perspective
may be akin to resolving questions from the perspective of approaching the
cosmos as a ceiling or as a gathering of stars.
A new view:
The Big Bang is a “blossoming” of energy within a much larger
mega-universe. Just as we abruptly approached astro-ecology from the
perspective of the ceiling and then from a community of stars and then from a
collection of galaxies, we now approach the question from a larger perspective
that may cause acceleration and flow of galaxies and open us to other
phenomena. In this mega universe,
there would be other blossomings of energy, with each blossom being the equivalent
of our present day universe. The
interaction of vast forces, well beyond the dimensions of our present sense of
the universe, could provoke bursts of energy such as a Big Bang.
In this mega-universe, dark matter would be present in
various densities. Imagine dark
matter as having something akin to a ocean or liquid form, a more solid mass
form and a gaseous [atmosphere/deep space] form. In the deep density of the ocean-like dark matter form, the
energy or nutrient upwelling would produce luminous blooms or Big Bang bursts
of universes. The acceleration of
the bloom would be determined by the “flow” of this ocean-like dark
matter. And there might be events
in this deep density of the depths of fluid and solid dark matter that would be
astonishingly different than anything like stars and galaxies.
This model has symmetry and familiarity with the dynamics of
Earth process [with Earth as a dimension of the lifespan of a star] that is
determined by the lifespan of a galaxy.
In summary, we always challenge the current model of the
universe as restricted. Then, with this larger context, we can
see, for example, why galaxies would be accelerating. And we would see other events that we have not yet
described, such as the wavy, rather than straight-lined, “flight” of galaxies.
And so how to see this field that is beyond our measures,
when we cannot see the beginning of the Big Bang or the edge of the galactic
universe? We already do this. Einstein/Hawking/Crick& Watson, et
al.