Photo is of Cosmo Chuck (circa early 1970s) at ease in his Gleneden Beach, Oregon bachelor bungalow. During that era and within the pictured room, Jerry and Chuck had many discussions regarding the structure of the universe and other cosmological subjects.
Okay, Jerry, I told you I would start my replies to your previous posting by answering your last question first. Later on, I’ll work my way back up through the other questions.
Einstein spent much of his time later in life trying to discover the so called “Unified Field Theory” -- the theory that relates gravitational force to the rest of the forces. Poor old Einstein. I suspect he could not wrap his thinking around the fact that Gravity isn’t a force! Gravity is just a manifestation of the actions of the other forces. And the other forces themselves are just manifestations of “universal (multiuniversal) expansion” caused by black holes!!!! Well, since black holes weren’t known of during Einstein’s era, I don’t think one could blame the guy for missing the obvious. ;)
Jerry in his office.
This is a good paragraph, if you explain convincingly how “gravity is just a manifestation of the actions of the other forces.” There are only three other forces besides gravity—electromagntic, the weak nuclear force, and the strong nuclear force. Please tell me how they interact to create gravity. I can’t get there on my own. Gravity is measureable, detectable, and even as long ago as Isaac Newton, people could make predictions based on given formulae.
Okay, before I start here, I need to make an extremely important point. I once had an employee tell me I was the smartest boss he ever had. This kid said he’d been watching me talk to customers and that I was right about 80% of the time! His other bosses were right only about 50% of the time.
What that means here is that about 20% or so of my below statements may need radical modification or even replacement. But we don’t know yet which ones!
Remember back in a previous post I talked to you about scuba diving? I explained how interesting it is to look up and see the Bubbles from your exhalations rising to the surface. Each individual bubble expands as it rises. Eventually, each bubble bursts apart into many other bubbles, which also continue rising up and expanding until they also burst apart into many bubbles. Depending on how deep you are in the water, this process repeats itself.
I hope you’ll keep that above image in your mind’s eye as we take the next step to your enlightenment.
A prerequisite to understanding my theory of gravity is believing in fundamental particles (which really aren’t particles, but we’ll get to that in another posting) . Now it really doesn’t matter what you believe the fundamental particles are. You can believe they’re quarks, hadrons, leptons, bosons, fermions, gluons, protons, neutrons, atoms, and on and on and on, whatever; or any combination thereof. But for the purpose of illustration, picture them in your mind as “marbles.” That should be easy to do, since most of us had marbles as kids. I myself had a lot of marbles as a kid. But apparently I lost them. People are always telling me, “Chuck, you’ve lost your marbles!”
Now picture the world as a big ball of marbles. And picture a person, also made of marbles, standing at the top of this world. And the person is holding a ruler, also made of marbles.
Got it? Now that you’ve got that image firmly fixed in your mind, change all those marbles to bubbles.
And all those bubbles are expanding at a universal and constantly increasing rate.
Now since the person and the ruler are also made of the same bubbles as the world, and all the bubbles are all expanding at a universal and constantly increasing rate, the only indication of this expansion is what we call “gravity.”
In other words, what we feel as gravity is the same as the acceleration felt when you’re sitting in a muscle car that’s accelerating, or maybe you’re hanging onto the handlebars of a hot motorcycle during a drag race, or maybe you’re in the acceleration couch of some rocket blasting off.
So now you might ask, “What makes these bubbles expand?” My answer? “Black Holes.” ;).
I can picture you reading this, Jerry. You’re shaking your head, muttering, “Chuck, you really have lost your marbles.”
No, I haven’t. The truth is, I’ve got ALL the marbles. And now I’m trying to share them with you. The only other person I’ve ever shared the marbles with was James Patrick “Pat” Francis. And he was killed in Vietnam. Actually, Pat had as many marbles as I did.
But I digest [sic], Where were we? Oh yeah, black holes. Remember your question above about the weak force, the strong force, electromagnetic force, and how they create gravity? Well. . . How dare I say this? Don’t be offended, but I’m afraid you’ve got the question backwards. The question here is how does gravity create the other forces?
Think of the weak force as some of the left over residue from the bursting bubbles. Forgive me for saying this, but, “tiny bubbles” maybe? Remember the song?
Think of the strong force as a manifestation of the universal expansion (of the bubbles) inside the atomic nucleus, the protons and neutrons or their component pieces within said particles being bubbles.
Think of the electromagnetic force as a manifestation of the universal expansion outside the atomic nucleus --- a manifestation that involves the nucleus (specifically the protons?) and electrons.
Gosh, there’s so much to explain about all this, but I gotta pack into this one article the essential or fundamental points.
So you’re probably wondering about the constant and increasingly rapid expansion of the bubbles, and how the heck do black holes play a role?
Here we go.
Black holes don’t cause the expansion of the universe (multi-verse)—they suck, i.e., they are nothing but gravity pulling down to a Singularity, an infinitely dense point. Right now, physicists think it is Dark Energy, the antithesis of gravity, that expands the universe, but since no one has seen or identified Dark Energy as yet, the explanation is up for grabs.
Actually, black holes don’t suck stuff into themselves. They’re expanding outward (there’s that universal expansion again). And as they expand, other stuff gets overtaken by the so-called event horizons of the black holes. Recall the theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light?
Well, I’m guessing that the surface (or possibly the so-called event horizons) of the black holes are traveling at faster than the speed of light.
But I digest. The gist of my point here is that the “mass” of the stuff going into the black holes is “recycled.” This idea is going to require some flexibility of thought. The black holes then “pump” or “pipe” or something the “mass” of the stuff they expand into out to the “bubbles” that make up the “mass” of the objects throughout their galaxy.
I’m guessing this happens via “pipelines” that Science Fiction writers have been calling “hyperspace.” I’d guess we’re talking about some other dimension here.
Oh, and dark mass or dark energy. That stuff is also expanding. Thus the “red shift” that astronomers are always yakking about.
This article is way too long. But before I close out, I want to make one more point. Remember the bubbles from scuba diving mentioned above? And remember how they expand and then burst apart to make more bubbles? Well, think of the Big Bang Theory. There was no big bang to bring our universe into existence. Instead, our particular “universe,” part of the vast “multiverse,” in fact came into existence as one of those “bubbles” that came into being from another bubble that burst into many other bubbles.
The multiverse has always been, and always will be -- even if some individual universes don’t last forever.
‘til next time;
Yore[sic] friend;) Chuck
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