Saturday 13 April 2024

Singularity = Return to a 'dark energy' state ?

A more that a month of convalescence has given me time to think many things over, and some of that involved my earlier physics mullings and my apparent inability to convey my conclusions from the same in any coherent way. At the end of the first week of my return to work, after a discussion with a friend and colleague there, I found I was able to do so: the problem with my earlier posts on this topic was that I was trying to relate my ideas using existing concepts, and that I should have just begun by explaining things as simply as possible, and applying existing concepts and methods to them after the fact as almost analogies. Anyhow.

The beginning of our discussion was a joke around 'what happens at the centre of black holes' (and what should go there), followed by a 'mv -rf / /dev/null' joke: I tried to clarify my "that nothing may be more than what we think" reply with something like: "In physics, we tend to think of ourselves, or 'what we see', at the centre of everything, like we once thought the sun revolved around us.". And at that I just sort of stopped and blinked, because I realised that, in a few words, I had just created the key that would make my former reams of words comprehensible.

In going way back into my posts, one can find my quite naive 'perfect state' concept: I'm not sure if I was comparing it with  the 'dark energy' of today, but I should have been. In short, that 'perfect state' (a term I will no longer use) is a state in which energy is no longer 'visible' to us... but that doesn't mean that it's not there. In fact, I would argue that it is the super-high-energy centre of everything, and we are a mere side product of it 'orbiting' around it. 'Orbiting' is of course not the right word, as it is hard to imagine orbiting around something akin to a ne'er-ending blanket that encompasses everything.

Now to apply that to that black hole joke: what if the 'singularity' we hypothesise as the centre of each was in fact a 'point of return' to that high-energy 'invisible blanket' state, a state that we may or may not call 'dark energy'?