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Posted by JohnCauthen on September 20, 2003 at 23:27:24:

In Reply to: Re: a bit of dimensional analysis posted by JohnCauthen on September 18, 2003 at 21:01:12:

Matter once existed as one large “ball” surrounded by the vacuum. The ball was considered a single point, a singularity, and yet, it was also everything. Matter can’t be compressed. But how easy is it to pull matter apart? I think the force that holds matter together is the electro weak force, which is similar to the surface tension, or electrostatic charge of water. So matter in its most fundamental form can’t be compressed but it is held together by a weak force. And in its fundamental form it is amazingly heavy. A teaspoon-full weighs tons.

Fundamental matter could be like a solid rock, but much denser and heavier, or it could be made up of tiny grains held together like damp sand; in which case, if it exploded it would explode into many tiny pieces. If fundamental matter were like a sold rock it would explode into fragments that are ripped apart. But fundamental matter is not like a rock, nor like sand. It is like water. It can’t be compressed but it can easily be pulled apart, and when two drops of water join, they become one drop. If water explodes, it explodes into many tiny drops, which would be point-particles. The original ball of matter was an ocean compressed in place by the vacuum of nothingness surrounding it. In its first verse, the Bible says, “The World was like a formless soup, and God’s Spirit abode above the waves of the abyss.”

The watery abyss was all that existed, and the vacuum is defined as nothing. But the vacuum existed as being nothing, so the logic between what exists and what is nothing is not absolute. Matter could expand and encroach on the vacuum (which by definition did not exist). Since they were opposites, it took energy. And so the logic is that it takes energy to expand into nothingness. Within the matter was Temperature. The idea of temperature is absolute. Temperature is what it is. While the vacuum does not contain the concept of space, matter can be broken up to create space in the vacuum. Space is defined by broken up pieces of matter, from one broken piece of matter to another. If matter is not broken, all of matter is a singularity; there is no space, there only is. But if it is broken, there is space. Temperature breaks up matter. Temperature could raise itself within the watery abyss causing the abyss to explode and create space. Temperature has the same definition as life: It Is What It Is. (God’s name is, I Am Who I Am.) And like life, temperature can be greater, or it can be smaller. The temperature, or life rose up and blasted the matter out into the vacuum. There is a tension between the separate pieces of broken up matter. The tension is there because they would fall back together, because they are held apart by nothing, because the vacuum is nothing; but since each piece of broken up matter is totally surrounded by 14 other pieces, it doesn’t know whether to fall up or down or sideways. So the matter is held in place by its desire to fall into all the other pieces that surround it. The matter, which is like water is annihilated by temperature down to the smallest possible size, a size where the electro weak force is as strong as the mass contained in the droplet.

The droplets, or points want to fall back together, but they are expanding. Here is what the universe looks like: a slice of pie. Near the center of the universe, the points are closer together as they expand outward. Near the edge, 100 of our miles has a certain number of points. But as you get closer to the center, 100 of our miles contains more points, so the universe is smaller, but it doesn’t look smaller because we measure it by the speed of light from point to point.

When the universe was a singularity, before it exploded, many billions more points are contained within 100 of our miles. Since matter does have size, the 100 miles will not come close to covering the entire sphere of matter that existed before the Big Bang. That single point may have been as big as our solar system or as big as our galaxy. It was one point, and it was everything.

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