Something from Nothing
On the off chance a Physics geek reads this, I ask for a comment if they have an answer. I sent this to a geek friend hoping he had an answer. It goes:
Are you aware of any physical theories that posit that what we call matter-energy is in fact made up of nothing? Ie, a quantum of mass or energy must be made of something but that something is indivisible. But what if it is in fact divisible to nothing? What if the stuff that makes up matter-energy is itself simply spacetime wrinkled up in some way?
To go back to the Greeks, if a magic knife could cut something in half indefinitely eventually what would be left? Nothing but nothing that is in fact there. What could it be? If matter is basically energy trapped in a way, bundled up, then what is energy if not motion? Anything energetic is a vector, at least within itself. If an electron holds still, nonetheless within it, subparts of it are all moving around. Where there is no motion there is no energy. All forms of energy require motion at least within the energized thing.
So the very smallest possible amt of energy would be abstract motion itself: movement with nothing moving. A true abstract vector.
But surely something must be moving or else how is motion manifest? Possibly it is spacetime itself in motion. A wrinkle in it of sorts. The wrinkle is shifting positions. That is energy. A lot of these little wrinkles glommed together form something we may say is massive like a quark or electron. Very little mass but mass nonetheless.
Jam enough of these bound-up wrinkles together and you start getting things you can measure. The diff ways they are bound up determine their properties. Hence diff kinds of massive particles or kinds of energy too.
Question is then, what is spacetime if it can be used to build matter-energy? Is spacetime our "ether" after all?
Still doesn't explain where spacetime itself came from. But could help with explaining gravity and give us a unified field theory. What is the mysterious unifying field? Spacetime. It'd help explain ZPE and ZPG too. So ever hear of such an idea in a physical theory?
Are you aware of any physical theories that posit that what we call matter-energy is in fact made up of nothing? Ie, a quantum of mass or energy must be made of something but that something is indivisible. But what if it is in fact divisible to nothing? What if the stuff that makes up matter-energy is itself simply spacetime wrinkled up in some way?
To go back to the Greeks, if a magic knife could cut something in half indefinitely eventually what would be left? Nothing but nothing that is in fact there. What could it be? If matter is basically energy trapped in a way, bundled up, then what is energy if not motion? Anything energetic is a vector, at least within itself. If an electron holds still, nonetheless within it, subparts of it are all moving around. Where there is no motion there is no energy. All forms of energy require motion at least within the energized thing.
So the very smallest possible amt of energy would be abstract motion itself: movement with nothing moving. A true abstract vector.
But surely something must be moving or else how is motion manifest? Possibly it is spacetime itself in motion. A wrinkle in it of sorts. The wrinkle is shifting positions. That is energy. A lot of these little wrinkles glommed together form something we may say is massive like a quark or electron. Very little mass but mass nonetheless.
Jam enough of these bound-up wrinkles together and you start getting things you can measure. The diff ways they are bound up determine their properties. Hence diff kinds of massive particles or kinds of energy too.
Question is then, what is spacetime if it can be used to build matter-energy? Is spacetime our "ether" after all?
Still doesn't explain where spacetime itself came from. But could help with explaining gravity and give us a unified field theory. What is the mysterious unifying field? Spacetime. It'd help explain ZPE and ZPG too. So ever hear of such an idea in a physical theory?
posted by Matt Campbell at 4:01 PM
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