{"id":2856,"date":"2006-05-09T10:30:46","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T14:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/05\/09\/the-universe-according-to-dowbrigade\/"},"modified":"2006-05-09T10:30:46","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T14:30:46","slug":"the-universe-according-to-dowbrigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/05\/09\/the-universe-according-to-dowbrigade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Universe According to Dowbrigade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8406'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/glc.jpg\" width=\"537\" height=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Space and time go on forever, and the so-called big<br \/>\n        bang said to have started the universe is actually part of a repeating<br \/>\n        cycle, according to a new paper that challenges conventional wisdom in<br \/>\n        physics.<\/p>\n<p>      Infinite space and time would contradict the generally accepted idea of<br \/>\n      a universe expanding abruptly out of nothing 14 billion years ago, said<br \/>\n      Neil Turok, professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge<br \/>\n      in England. Turok wrote the paper in the journal Science with Paul Steinhardt<br \/>\n      of Princeton University.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Turok and Steinhardt calculated that space and time<br \/>\n        could continue forever. Two infinite three-dimensional spaces touch one<br \/>\n        another every trillion years or so, sparking great explosions of radiation<br \/>\n      and creating new matter, a process we detect as the big bang, they reported.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/health_science\/articles\/2006\/05\/08\/cyclical_theory_of_universe_proposed\/\">Boston<br \/>\n      Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>And one of those infinite three dimensional spaces<br \/>\n          is composed entirely of anti-matter, and if anti-matter comes into<br \/>\n          contact<br \/>\n        with regular matter the result is the ultimate nuclear reaction; complete<br \/>\n        and instantaneous conversion of mass to energy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>As any astute 12-year-old reader of fine comic art<br \/>\n          knows, the regular universe and the anti-matter universe expand for<br \/>\n          a few hundred<br \/>\n        billion years, and then contract, back down to the singularity; the entire<br \/>\n        mass of billions of galaxies, stars and planets compressed to the size<br \/>\n          of the period at the end of this sentence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>And then, in the true motor of our existence, the<br \/>\n          two singularities, ours and the anti-ours, switch positions, or valences,<br \/>\n        and the anti becomes the regular, and visa versa. In that passing of<br \/>\n          one<br \/>\n        to the other, for an infinitesimal instant, they come into contact, one<br \/>\n        with the other, and all hell breaks loose, providing the impetus for<br \/>\n        the  outrush of matter and energy erroneously interpreted<br \/>\n        as the universe expanding abruptly out of nothing. The energy created<br \/>\n        by the transpassing of the two universes runs the whole system to the<br \/>\n        point of maximum expansion, and the cycle repeats, endlessly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Of course, our half of the system seems normal to us,<br \/>\n        and the other half anti, but we know that somewhere out there there is<br \/>\n        an anti-Dowbrigade pecking out an anti-posting on his anti-matter keyboard.<br \/>\n        To him, we are the anti-Dowbrigade.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>As to the ridiculous idea that the universe expanded<br \/>\n      abruptly out of nothing 14 billion years ago, well, even a dummy like the<br \/>\n        Dowbrigade knows you can&#8217;t get something from nothing&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space and time go on forever, and the so-called big bang said to have started the universe is actually part of a repeating cycle, according to a new paper that challenges conventional wisdom in physics. Infinite space and time would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/05\/09\/the-universe-according-to-dowbrigade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}