About Me
Who I am
I am a 72 year-old environmental scientist working for over 40 years in soil and groundwater remediation. I have a BA in Interdisciplinary Natural Sciences, Chemistry from the University of South Florida and an MS in soil and water science from the University of Florida.
I have always had wide-ranging fields of interest, and a knack for trying things from a different approach than others. Plus, my lack of formal training as a physicist might have given me that unique opportunity to look at the problem of cosmogony and cosmology from an entirely new perspective unfettered by traditional approaches.
The Story Begins
It was one night in September, 1978 when I sat down and decided I was going to try to see what would happen if I could discover how the Big Bang started, using an approach where instead of starting from now and running the world backwards like almost all cosmologists do, I would start by assuming that in the beginning, there was absolute nothingness and see where it would lead me. Part of using this approach was the fact that I was math and physics-poor and could not follow a lot of the mathematics they use to establish physical laws. Also I have always been a rebel and want to go about doing things backwards from the way everyone else does it.
So, I thought about all the other theories that say energy must be the primeval material. But
what if it’s not, and it is actually something else? If there is absolute nothingness to start, how
long would this last? And then I realized I was automatically bringing time into the discussion
with the words “start, how long etc.” So maybe before anything else, there was time by itself.
Someone asked me if there was a time before there was time, and it is a paradox answerable
only by allowing time to exist everywhere and “everywhen”. The phrase “The Beginning of
Time” is thus completely undefinable. From there I tried to imagine what would be happening in such a universe made only of time, and the only answer I can come up with is: Nothing! Absolutely Nothing would ever happen if there was only time and no energy, space or matter. So, my insight was that primordial time must last until infinity. Since we do have somethingness now, infinite time must produce or change into something else. That something else is space- or “spacetime”, since it is a “space” made of time; spacetime. From spacetime energy and matter may be a form of patterns or vibrations within the spacetime dimension. I’m speculating that energy is patterns or waves travelling in one direction along the dimension, whereas matter would be patterns traveling back and forth, as in a loop, or moving around in a circle. Now here is where I lose the physicists: This can only produce one dimension of spacetime, so the First Universe can only be a linear, line-land. It can still be an entire universe, with simpler forms of energy and matter.
OK then where do we get the other two space dimensions we see today? Well, there is nothing to stop this creation process from recurring, and even though it takes a long, long time, it could still happen if everything slows down and stops. Then that steady state can last to the next infinity and another dimension is created. If it happens once more, we have our current 3-space + 1-time dimensional universe. And that is pretty much the theory. It is a fairly simple creation that gains complexity when additional dimensions are added. It also very powerfully states that far in our future awaits another addition, which if we are somehow preserved (maybe the sum total memory of each life is saved in a physical ‘file’ so to speak) and frozen in death, we can reawaken in a totally new 5-D universe.
The Unexpected Results
I should point out that because everything seems to be created out of the same “stuff”, i.e.
patterns within multiple dimensions of time, there arises an equivalency principle that would
equate artificial intelligence with real consciousness, and so viewing the universe as virtual, a holographic projection, or a simulation are all correct and are entirely consistent with it being a grand “oneness” of everything existing in the same point, just at different times in several different time dimensions. This actually gives rise to the quantum theory’s ‘entanglement’ where two objects separated in space can actually be connected on a fundamental level.