I am posting this here at SciForums because a year or so ago I was working on developing and evolving my personal view of cosmology and philosophy here. I do think I’m better able to state the axioms now than I have been before because I know better as I learn what the limits of science are. To me axioms that accompany a view of cosmology are meant to address those issues that science cannot yet address, the imponderables as I call them about the nature of the infinities that deal with the beginning, the boundaries, the limits, thresholds and processes of nature. This is an updated statement of the Quantum Wave Cosmology (QWC) axioms that to me personally serve as the self-evident and necessary truths from which QWC speculation is derived.
The limits of science are physical. We can observe the micro universe down to the internal components of the atom and we can manipulate the subatomic particles and gather data about their internal composition. We can observe the macro universe out to the reach of our best instruments like the space telescopes, radio observatories, and ever improving space based instruments.
Those are the frontiers of the science of cosmology.
Within the scientific community there is a function that is responsible for presenting science in an orderly fashion to the layman community and I call that function the “peer reviewed consensus” of what we tentatively know for sure. It is the role of this consensus function to take responsibility for the material that is fed to the popular media so that the layman community will respect the scientific method and will not find frequent instances of backtracking in statements issued.
In my limited view and level of understanding of that peer reviewed consensus, we don’t know what causes mass and gravity, we don’t know what caused the Big Bang, we don’t know the age or extent of the universe and we don’t know how to unify the forces of nature.
In QWC I deal with that lack of science by axioms and derived “truths” which all fall into the category of reasonable and responsible speculation. The axioms deal with what we cannot yet know due to the limits of our tools and ability to observe, and the derived truths are nothing more than speculations that I as a layman can go with. The scientific community is stymied because they are limited to the scientific method which shuns unsupported speculation. I find the ability to speculate is the tool that makes QWC better able to run with scenarios and “what ifs” than the legitimate scientific community can.
It is axiomatic in QWC that the universe has always existed; there was no beginning. It didn’t come from nothing, and if God did it we can’t prove it.
It is axiomatic that the universe is boundless. The matter and the energy of the universe are potentially infinite in extent and no matter where you are in the universe it appears homogeneous and isotropic and has appeared essentially the same for eternity on a grand scale. That is referred to as the Perfect Cosmological Principle in the scientific community. In QWC the grand scale is referred to as the arena landscape of the greater universe with the existence of arenas considered a necessary derived truth (speculation).
It is axiomatic that time simply passes. It is a derived truth that the observed fact that clocks run at different speeds during relative motion is a function of the relative energy density of the environments. The observed fact is that clocks run slower as they are accelerated and it is a derived truth in QWC that acceleration increases the energy density of the environment and that makes it appear that the rate at which time passes can fluctuate.
The actual rate of time passing does not fluctuate in QWC; time passes at the same rate at all points in space. That gives rise to the derived truth that there is a time continuum and any point in time which is called a “now” could be described as a “freeze frame” across the entire universe. Any motion that occurs between nows, regardless of the length of the time interval between nows, will represent the same duration at all points in the universe. That means that from one now to the next, the time interval is the same at all points in space regardless of relative motion. Therefore it is a derived truth that time dilation is a result of fluctuating energy density caused by acceleration and not due to the geometry of spacetime. In QWC space and time are components of all motion and time dilation is due to relative energy density of the environments where time is being measured to pass at different rates.
It is axiomatic in QWC that the time continuum passes smoothly at the level of reality meaning that the time intervals between nows don’t actually represent iterations of universal motion. The concept of iterations is derived from our inability to measure the time continuum at the level of reality because we are limited to clocks that operate in iterations.
It is axiomatic that energy is all there is. All space contains energy and energy exists as waves traversing space that is filled with the energy commodity. It is a derived truth that the presence of matter is composed of standing waves of energy with inflowing and out flowing components.
From the standing wave concept it is a derived truth that particles transform unsynchronized energy waves coming from surrounding space into synchronized waves exiting the particle equally in all directions. These equalized energy emissions from particles and objects traverse the space between objects and become the unsynchronized inflowing waves of other objects.
It is a derived truth in QWC that motion of objects in gravitational fields is caused by the process of energy density equalization that takes place within particles. The unsynchronized inflowing waves are transformed to synchronized out flowing waves by the process called quantum action that coincides with the establishment and maintenance of mass. The motion is a result of the shift of the presence of the particle toward the strongest net inflowing wave density as the converging unsynchronized inflowing waves are equalized into synchronized out flowing waves.
It is the scientific consensus that electromagnetic radiation consisting of waves across the entire electromagnetic spectrum is produced by oscillating dipoles consisting of charged atomic particles. It is derived truth that since particles themselves are speculated to be composed of waves of energy then there are two levels of order involved in electromagnetic radiation. One is the spectrum of wave energy that produces the presence of matter consisting of particles, and the other is the electromagnetic spectrum of wave energy produced by the oscillation of charged particles within atoms and molecules. Since both forms of wave energy traverse the energy commodity that fills all space, the frequency of those waves is the key to their perpetuation. Standing waves that produce matter are higher frequency than electromagnetic waves that are produced by matter.
In QWC tentativeness is an axiom. For example the observed and calculated expansion of the known universe is the consensus and is considered to be fact, but the scientific meaning of tentativeness is invoked and respected. If it were to be determined that the apparent expansion is actually an illusion, i.e. if new science could explain away the observed expansion then QWC would not need to derive the arena landscape concept and would revert to a steady state concept of the universe. I should point out that the arena landscape of the greater universe is itself a steady state concept on a grand scale that accommodates galactic separation within arenas and derives the concept of arena overlaps that cause galaxies to collapse into big crunches which generate new arenas from the debris of the overlapping parent arenas.
Those axioms and speculations derived from them constitute the primary QWC platform. Any observation of nature must be able to be explained by deriving explanations that are consistent with that platform or else the platform must be revised. I have the fun of maintaining the platform and the distinction of being the only person being deluded in quite this way.
The limits of science are physical. We can observe the micro universe down to the internal components of the atom and we can manipulate the subatomic particles and gather data about their internal composition. We can observe the macro universe out to the reach of our best instruments like the space telescopes, radio observatories, and ever improving space based instruments.
Those are the frontiers of the science of cosmology.
Within the scientific community there is a function that is responsible for presenting science in an orderly fashion to the layman community and I call that function the “peer reviewed consensus” of what we tentatively know for sure. It is the role of this consensus function to take responsibility for the material that is fed to the popular media so that the layman community will respect the scientific method and will not find frequent instances of backtracking in statements issued.
In my limited view and level of understanding of that peer reviewed consensus, we don’t know what causes mass and gravity, we don’t know what caused the Big Bang, we don’t know the age or extent of the universe and we don’t know how to unify the forces of nature.
In QWC I deal with that lack of science by axioms and derived “truths” which all fall into the category of reasonable and responsible speculation. The axioms deal with what we cannot yet know due to the limits of our tools and ability to observe, and the derived truths are nothing more than speculations that I as a layman can go with. The scientific community is stymied because they are limited to the scientific method which shuns unsupported speculation. I find the ability to speculate is the tool that makes QWC better able to run with scenarios and “what ifs” than the legitimate scientific community can.
It is axiomatic in QWC that the universe has always existed; there was no beginning. It didn’t come from nothing, and if God did it we can’t prove it.
It is axiomatic that the universe is boundless. The matter and the energy of the universe are potentially infinite in extent and no matter where you are in the universe it appears homogeneous and isotropic and has appeared essentially the same for eternity on a grand scale. That is referred to as the Perfect Cosmological Principle in the scientific community. In QWC the grand scale is referred to as the arena landscape of the greater universe with the existence of arenas considered a necessary derived truth (speculation).
It is axiomatic that time simply passes. It is a derived truth that the observed fact that clocks run at different speeds during relative motion is a function of the relative energy density of the environments. The observed fact is that clocks run slower as they are accelerated and it is a derived truth in QWC that acceleration increases the energy density of the environment and that makes it appear that the rate at which time passes can fluctuate.
The actual rate of time passing does not fluctuate in QWC; time passes at the same rate at all points in space. That gives rise to the derived truth that there is a time continuum and any point in time which is called a “now” could be described as a “freeze frame” across the entire universe. Any motion that occurs between nows, regardless of the length of the time interval between nows, will represent the same duration at all points in the universe. That means that from one now to the next, the time interval is the same at all points in space regardless of relative motion. Therefore it is a derived truth that time dilation is a result of fluctuating energy density caused by acceleration and not due to the geometry of spacetime. In QWC space and time are components of all motion and time dilation is due to relative energy density of the environments where time is being measured to pass at different rates.
It is axiomatic in QWC that the time continuum passes smoothly at the level of reality meaning that the time intervals between nows don’t actually represent iterations of universal motion. The concept of iterations is derived from our inability to measure the time continuum at the level of reality because we are limited to clocks that operate in iterations.
It is axiomatic that energy is all there is. All space contains energy and energy exists as waves traversing space that is filled with the energy commodity. It is a derived truth that the presence of matter is composed of standing waves of energy with inflowing and out flowing components.
From the standing wave concept it is a derived truth that particles transform unsynchronized energy waves coming from surrounding space into synchronized waves exiting the particle equally in all directions. These equalized energy emissions from particles and objects traverse the space between objects and become the unsynchronized inflowing waves of other objects.
It is a derived truth in QWC that motion of objects in gravitational fields is caused by the process of energy density equalization that takes place within particles. The unsynchronized inflowing waves are transformed to synchronized out flowing waves by the process called quantum action that coincides with the establishment and maintenance of mass. The motion is a result of the shift of the presence of the particle toward the strongest net inflowing wave density as the converging unsynchronized inflowing waves are equalized into synchronized out flowing waves.
It is the scientific consensus that electromagnetic radiation consisting of waves across the entire electromagnetic spectrum is produced by oscillating dipoles consisting of charged atomic particles. It is derived truth that since particles themselves are speculated to be composed of waves of energy then there are two levels of order involved in electromagnetic radiation. One is the spectrum of wave energy that produces the presence of matter consisting of particles, and the other is the electromagnetic spectrum of wave energy produced by the oscillation of charged particles within atoms and molecules. Since both forms of wave energy traverse the energy commodity that fills all space, the frequency of those waves is the key to their perpetuation. Standing waves that produce matter are higher frequency than electromagnetic waves that are produced by matter.
In QWC tentativeness is an axiom. For example the observed and calculated expansion of the known universe is the consensus and is considered to be fact, but the scientific meaning of tentativeness is invoked and respected. If it were to be determined that the apparent expansion is actually an illusion, i.e. if new science could explain away the observed expansion then QWC would not need to derive the arena landscape concept and would revert to a steady state concept of the universe. I should point out that the arena landscape of the greater universe is itself a steady state concept on a grand scale that accommodates galactic separation within arenas and derives the concept of arena overlaps that cause galaxies to collapse into big crunches which generate new arenas from the debris of the overlapping parent arenas.
Those axioms and speculations derived from them constitute the primary QWC platform. Any observation of nature must be able to be explained by deriving explanations that are consistent with that platform or else the platform must be revised. I have the fun of maintaining the platform and the distinction of being the only person being deluded in quite this way.