21st January 2018, 10:22 PM
What drives physical laws to exist? Just like people, physics follow the path that grants them the greatest reward for the least amount of energy input. What causes energy to be expended so much? Well... energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. That is a conversion method. Energy can be converted into matter, and vice versa if you do the right things. You can easily convert these things back and forth if you use chemical or nuclear methods to do so, but... what about physically?
Perhaps, in the beginning, there was just a huge blob of stuff. That stuff is our universe, but because of gravity, we're all one part of a clump. There's gotta be something else out there. As we get closer to that other big blob, our universe speeds up and the things inside of it begin to spread out as the speed increases. I'm talking about a conversion of matter through gravity.
It might be hard to see what I'm talking about here, but it's easy to visualize this with black holes. As an object, let's say... a comet, begins to circle around a black hole, it begins to get faster and faster as it gets closer. More and more material from the comet may get pulled into the black hole, but as a result of this cost, the leftover comet will become faster and faster until it's either fast enough to escape the orbit (given it hasn't reached the event horizon) or it ultimately falls into the black hole (and when it does, the resulting collision will be much bigger of an output than any chemical or nuclear reaction could hope to achieve). The comet would be going ridiculously fast. It wouldn't be nuclear powered, nor chemically powered by fuels. It gets its kinetic energy from something as simple as gravity, but as a cost, its components become more and more spread out and move much faster.
This isn't new. This is how atoms work. They come together in the way that uses the least amount of energy. Electrons are in orbit around the nucleus, so fast that they cannot stop going around and around the nucleus and get too close, but the gravity between the two as well as the magnetism (because one is negative, one is positive) keeps the electrons from flying out so far. If the electrons lost their outward velocity, they would just get pulled into the nucleus, resulting in a nuclear explosion. The collision is like a mini version of what happens when something gets pulled into a black hole, only with a black hole you'll never see what happens due to its immense gravitational pull.
I think our universe is a result of... whatever big blob we are rotating around something, or getting closer to something bigger than us. Perhaps we'll never touch it. Perhaps we are the electron, rotating around the nucleus of which we will never be able to touch.
Do I think there's something that defines these laws of physics? If you ask me, our blob does. Do I consider it a God? No. But you can. I don't really care either way.
Perhaps, in the beginning, there was just a huge blob of stuff. That stuff is our universe, but because of gravity, we're all one part of a clump. There's gotta be something else out there. As we get closer to that other big blob, our universe speeds up and the things inside of it begin to spread out as the speed increases. I'm talking about a conversion of matter through gravity.
It might be hard to see what I'm talking about here, but it's easy to visualize this with black holes. As an object, let's say... a comet, begins to circle around a black hole, it begins to get faster and faster as it gets closer. More and more material from the comet may get pulled into the black hole, but as a result of this cost, the leftover comet will become faster and faster until it's either fast enough to escape the orbit (given it hasn't reached the event horizon) or it ultimately falls into the black hole (and when it does, the resulting collision will be much bigger of an output than any chemical or nuclear reaction could hope to achieve). The comet would be going ridiculously fast. It wouldn't be nuclear powered, nor chemically powered by fuels. It gets its kinetic energy from something as simple as gravity, but as a cost, its components become more and more spread out and move much faster.
This isn't new. This is how atoms work. They come together in the way that uses the least amount of energy. Electrons are in orbit around the nucleus, so fast that they cannot stop going around and around the nucleus and get too close, but the gravity between the two as well as the magnetism (because one is negative, one is positive) keeps the electrons from flying out so far. If the electrons lost their outward velocity, they would just get pulled into the nucleus, resulting in a nuclear explosion. The collision is like a mini version of what happens when something gets pulled into a black hole, only with a black hole you'll never see what happens due to its immense gravitational pull.
I think our universe is a result of... whatever big blob we are rotating around something, or getting closer to something bigger than us. Perhaps we'll never touch it. Perhaps we are the electron, rotating around the nucleus of which we will never be able to touch.
Do I think there's something that defines these laws of physics? If you ask me, our blob does. Do I consider it a God? No. But you can. I don't really care either way.
