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Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:56 |
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The earliest moments of Creation are where our modern physics
breakdown, where `breakdown' means that our theories and laws have no
ability to describe or predict the behavior of the early Universe.
Our everyday notions of space and time cease to be valid.
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Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:50 |
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One thing is clear in our framing of questions such as `How did the
Universe get started?' is that the Universe was self-creating. This
is not a statement on a `cause' behind the origin of the Universe,
nor is it a statement on a lack of purpose or destiny. It is simply
a statement that the Universe was emergent, that the actual of the
Universe probably derived from a indeterminate sea of potentiality
that we call the quantum vacuum, whose properties may always remain
beyond our understanding.
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Tuesday, 24 November 2009 01:48 |
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One of the reasons our physics is incomplete during the Planck era is a lack
of understanding of the unification of the forces of Nature during this time.
At high energies and temperatures, the forces of Nature become symmetric.
This means the forces resemble each other and become similar in strength,
i.e. they unify. When the forces break from unification (as the Universe
expands and cools) interesting things happen.
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