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In The frontiers of Physics:--By Ayele TeklemariamFeb, 20, 2008If one is trying to understand something it is often advice able to push it to the limits and fail than succeed by not trying at all. Although I have not seen success devoid of trial for even a lottery win takes the effort of buying a ticket, I used the hyperbolae to emphasize the degree of difficulty that is often associated with going to the frontiers of anything and come out successful. In my attempt to understand and make some headway in understanding of the subject I mentioned as my heading, but to be rattled, puzzled wondered and owed and these are the experiences that I set out to share. As hard as it is and it is also made as if by intent of those great masters of the subject to be hard and impregnable, it took a lot even to be rattled and puzzled leave alone be mastered by an outsider and a hobbyist of my kind. What I am about to impart in this piece may not stand up to the high standards of the establishment but it would be an unrestricted and unabated views of an amateur that I make no apologies for conceptual errors, but willing as always to correct mistakes and learn from new insights and additional imputes by anyone and everyone barnon. As in any frontier the field is both a gold mine and a mine field that ought be navigated with caution and care that a stumble may lead to a deep pit beyond recovery and a fall in an entanglement hard to escape. It is nonetheless an interesting endeavor that will entice and suck one with a force of a black hole. It is this suction force that often keeps one in orbit and always wandering about the subject and the flicker of light of knowing a bit of the grand mystery that makes one not to let it go off it and bask in the thrill and despair in the darkness of yet a greater mystery. As the Burdon of revealing and examining the frontiers of nature the Universe and overwhelmingly rests on the subjects of physics and Mathematics I read the “Trouble with physics†and wondered if the problems are of physics or of us the users and creators and implementers of the subject matter. The same goes to every tool. Language institution and mechanism we employ and assign the blame than take responsibility for our own ineptitude as it is often it, her, him, and them than it is me or us and it is understandable. As vast as the heading of this article is I have tried to turn some pages of some books as my lightning guides and sometimes led me to a complete darkness that I would not try get out of on my own and ask of all and every one to shed a quanta of light on so as together we might and surely illuminate my penumbra. It was not long enough that most of the known masters of physics and the rest of the scientific community basked in the single origin the big bang theory and struggled to know what and where and how this singularity exploded in to being what it is today and what it would possibly be tomorrow and all efforts are made to reconcile the data the experiment and the theory, I get awestruck reading “The Endless universe “and the new bran theory, the cyclic universe and the marvelous explanation of the phenomenon of extra dimension. I am sure everyone knows that the frontiers are as wide as the eye can see and the imagination can wonder not bounded at all by anything at all other than our own innate ability and I have had some few joules of energy and few angles of visual imagination yet to cover .Books like “The new time traveler “, The cosmic background†and “hiding behind the mirror†which are authored by the who is who of the field thus if in anything I am, about to write, if I misquote misunderstand or misrepresent any one of them I do from the outset take the responsibility of my ignorance and apologize and open myself to correction, criticism and suggestion. I have asked myself the question that may be asked by some people who read this article or writing, what is the purpose? As it is often hard, time consuming and needing some heavy lifting at times why bother and why go through the trouble? If everybody who had done anything at all had thought like that and come to a conclusion that it was somehow needless, it would not take a genius to figure out how impoverished humanity could have been. As silly and as microscopic as it might sound and look examining closely, our collective wisdom and knowhow reveals itself as a mere collection of microscopic individual conscious and unconscious contributions by way of letting personal encounters and experiences be known and propagated as little footnotes as they really are. Thus I too had no ulterior or other motive other than adding my microscopic footnote to the grand human experience and knowledge because I feel it counts microscopically. As I am after all I /10 billionth of humanity and I only count that much. It is no news to most who happen to have the slightest interest and follow the day today progress of science and discovery that the frontiers at the summit are immense in largeness and equally immensely minute in the physical sense of the words and yet of humongous importance in content and essence of the totality of what was , what is and what will be. It is the mystery that preceded, what is now and what may outlast everything and all in the Universe and the Universe itself that is encapsulated and outstretched at these summit points of interest. It had been and it had remained the human species’ preoccupation in an apparent search of everything’s and its beginning and the curiosity to know where it and all might end, to try to look in to the ends and reach varied conclusions depending on time and condition; and often reached a new summit conquering new frontiers from which yet another excursion begins. It is with this understanding that I deliberately chose the heading as I did instead of phrases like the final frontier, the end and the beginning, or mysteries of Nature and the Universe revealed etc. and I feel it is only appropriate. As impossible as it is to time travel backward as I understood from my reading of “The new time traveler†I would like to travel forward in time as I go back in the chronology of my discussions of the topics by the Authors in my earlier introduction. It was my understanding that forward time travel was possible without violating any of the laws of causality, because we can only alter the cause and change the effect. In that sense our consciousness is ahead of our physical reality and often do we preempt the cause and change the effect .It is rather true we are ahead in our imagination and consciousness of our physical reality that we time travel, even the fact that we are able to conceptualize time travel is in itself a time travel of quantum proportions as seen simplistically and in a linear form. It is of paramount importance to define what time itself is and internalize before even attempting to analyze any of its essence and manifestations. Time to me is the measure of rate of change. Time owes its credence and existence to natures and the universes inherent dynamism, a dynamism without which the Universe itself looses meaning and credence. In the very reality of this dynamism is the essence of change ingrained and the measure of this change and ever change is what is time. The dynamism of the Universe and realty presupposes the reality of it changing through space from the start and its reality to be a reality of change. If reality and the Universe itself are stripped of change they simply cease to exist or can’t be said if they do. There for prudence dictates that points in space where reality of the universe cease to change is considered, if there exists such points and established for an objective and realistic examination of time and all the rest of its attributes. In fact such time event horizons have been established beyond which the prevalence of change could not be established and the murky border between past present and future can’t be demarcated. At such points matter, space and time itself all loose the essence and meaning as we had known them in a complete breakdown of a sort. As the basic entity of matter that changes through space is a quanta of light along its own wavelength which changes at the speed of light establishing the basic meaningful change for which a past, present and future can be determined. Thus the number 10-43 (Planck epoch) bears a special meaning as a fraction of time interval beyond which past present and future loses essence, change ceases and along with it matter or reality loses viability, reality or the Universe without the built in dynamism (change )loses its essence and inter in to the realm of indeterminateness or unknown. It is clear though as I had asserted in my writing in “the selfish self “ there existed the information about the self upon which the self is constructed prior to the self , here too I can safely assume that there existed precedent and transcendent information upon which matter constructed itself from nothing or emerged from indeterminateness. At such a point (Planck Epoch) it seems rather all dimensions wrap or it is a point of the unwrapping of the wrapped up dimensions when two one dimensional Branes collide as in the endless universe model or matter explodes from a singularity as in the inflationary modeled Universe. The existence of this Grand or total transcendent precedent information does not in fact fall in to the wholes of pre-determinism as it might look from the outset, rather an attestation to the great many or infinite choices and paths that could lead to the great many or even infinite predetermined ends with in the subset. As it sure seems in violation of Pauli’s uncertainty principle it in fact agrees with in that the only uncertainty that exist does so in all the phenomenon with in this predetermined grand totality while the grand total information upon which the universe constructed itself remains conserved. It seems to me then time is nothing but the measure of change of matter through space or matter through matter, matter in to matter, matter in to non matter or even non matter in to matter and an event is yet a relative change in a change under measurement.The Evonomist:--It is refreshing to see that someone is in recognition of the interrelatedness and intricacies inherent in most of the subject matters and natural and not so natural phenomena and come up with an explanation and a brief summary of two otherwise incongruent subject matters of evolution and economics in an interrelated and more of a cause and effect correlation. It was not a long time ago that chemistry and physics were found to be two faces of a coin at the advent of the discovery of atomic and subatomic particles and the formulation of the laws of modern physics. May be from the outset nature and natural process were all along following and obeying the same fundamental and comprehensive rule .Or we were just busy in the per suet of individual part and pieces of the general rule governing the grand universal scheme of things we neglected to look at it in generalized ways and kept at it as deep till such time we are forced to look at the confluence of it with one or the other of fields of study to get to the crux of it all. It was not a long time ago that I wrote an article about the relationship between the material self and the conscious self and come up with a conclusion that the conscious self is all about the preservation of the material self. Economics is about the preservation of the material self and evolution is the process as the author has explained it eloquently. †According to the economist Eric D.Bienhocker who published these calculations in his revelatory work ‘The origin of Wealth’(Harvard Business school Press,2006), the explanation is to be found in complexity theory , Evolution and economics are not just analogous to each other ,but they are actually two forms of a larger phenomenon called complex adaptive systems, in which individual elements, parts or agents interact , then process information and adapt their behavior to changing conditions ,immune systems, ecosystems, Language, the Law and the Internet are all examples of complex adaptive systems.†Evonomics by Michael Shemer, Scientific American magazine January 2008 .Here I can’t pass without emphasizing the individual’s individual act in response to the unique conditions and circumstances the individual finds himself in, never mind the dynamism and state of flux of the conditions beyond account due to the infinite number of variables acting and interacting at a particular point in time. It is not without reason that I wanted to emphasize on the indeterminable, it is rather to show why central economic planning failed and continues to fail. In an economy every individual is a player according to his/her individual unique and dynamic condition, unique and changing skill and individually unique talents in a uniquely individual place in time in the grand economic entity. In other word the grand economic entity is a grand sum total of these unique individuals whose unique circumstances are beyond determination by any grand central planner. There can be no greater lie than to claim to have a central plan that will account all the dynamic and flux needs and conditions of the individual elements of the entity than to let it flow according to the governing on the ground and instantaneous changing circumstances. I again remember a communist slogan that says “We will put nature under our control†only to be proved wrong many times over. We only know a piece of the totality of what nature has for us leave alone capture nature in its totality. This I hope will be just a little foot note to the Authors eloquent exposition of a grand topic as we all are individual footnotes to the totality of human knowledge and wisdom.Ayele Teklemariam+
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