OK, aside from AN and Prom there might be one other person following the content part and ignoring the off topic chatter between me, AN, and Prom. I will call you the lone lurker.
This is a content post and to start with I want to edit something I said at the end of the post where I discussed Alex Vilenkin’s references to Steinhardt and Turok. They were known by 2002 to be working on a cosmology that depicts a universe that had no beginning and were suggesting that the history of the universe consisted of an endlessly repeating cycle of expansion and contraction.
In my threads years ago I rejected that cyclical view because their universe contained a finite amount of energy and their view of how entropy was defeated would fail and so the cosmology amounted to eternal inflation. Sure they had cycles where expansion and collapse served to recycle the energy over and over, but I didn’t believe that all of the expansion energy could be gathered back at the end of a collapse before the next bounce into expansion began. One view was that it didn’t matter because the spatial size of the universe just got larger with each cycle thus introducing the eternal expansion aspect of the spatial volume at the cyclical point where expansion reversed into contraction; the volume just keeps getting greater and greater, i.e. eternal cosmic inflation.
But as Vilenkin points out, the consensus soon formed that this view of cosmology, i.e. eternal inflation needed a beginning. Entropy would eventually reach the point in the Steinhardt and Turok cycles where the energy necessary to cause the bounce from collapse to expansion would decline with each cycle. The expansion and collapse process would not be eternal and the energy that escaped the final collapse would expand eternally. The final collapse would leave a big crunch in the center of an eternally inflating finite universe and other theories address the fate of an inert big crunch.
What I want to edit in my previous post is the statement that I made at the end where I said, “Vilenkin addresses that issue nicely and says that the conclusion is that there had to be a beginning in all eternal expansion cosmologies and they will all result in complete entropy, i.e. no reverse entropy on a grand scale. The fact that I don't agree doesn't mean that I am giving a professional view, it is a personal view and I explain it and offer to discuss it.”
Where I said I don’t agree is amended to say I don’t agree that eternal inflation is a characteristic of all cosmologies, but I do agree that all eternal expansion cosmologies will result in complete entropy (Big Rip), i.e. no reverse entropy on a grand scale.
For the record, QWC is not an eternal cosmic inflation cosmology.
In Quantum Wave Cosmology there was no beginning and all space has always existed and has always contained energy density.
The average energy density of the QWC universe is high enough to cause matter to exist and so matter has always exited.
The average energy density of the universe is fixed and the ratio of matter to energy throughout the greater universe is essentially fixed on a grand scale.
In arenas within the greater universe the ratio of matter to energy is variable and changes as the forces of expansion and gravity interplay between arenas that intersect and overlap as a result of their expansion.
The intersecting and overlapping of arenas lead to big crunches in the overlap spaces because expansion momentum is interrupted by the overlap, and gravity causes the galactic material in the overlap to collapse into a big crunch.
The energy density threshold below which matter functions and above which matter ceases to function is exceed inside the crunch. Gravity is a function of mass so the crunch leads to the failure of gravity. As mass is compressed beyond the functioning threshold it is negated into dense state energy whose main characteristic is expansion potential. The decline in gravity within the crunch leads to the point that the expansion potential of the dense state energy exceeds the containment capability of the outer crunch and the crunch bursts into expansion of dense state energy.
Once expansion begins the dense state energy becomes dark energy that drives expansion due to the fact that energy wants to equalize its density across its environment. Of course the environment is the ball of dense state energy expanding into extremely low energy density space that surrounded the crunch. Energy density equalization fuels the expansion.
Expansion leads to the threshold of abundant matter formation and dark matter forms almost simultaneously across the expanding dense dark energy. The particles that form from the dense dark energy have expansion momentum, and they feel and exert gravity since the process that causes mass also causes gravity (quantum action causes mass and QWC gravity).
With the newly formed dark matter in the arena the environment has changed. The expansion energy continues to drive expansion and the momentum of the particles of dark matter reflects the expansion momentum imparted to them as they form, but now gravity enters the picture. At this point the force of gravity is stronger than the expansion momentum and the particles of dark matter are attracted to each other.
A common stable particle forms across the arena as the dark matter clumps but the clumping is patchy and the common stable particles have the momentum of the dark matter particles from which they formed. So the environment now consists of stable particles with expansion momentum being influenced by both expansion and gravity. Gravity is still stronger at short distances and hydrogen atoms become prevalent.
These hydrogen atoms are attracted to each other and they clump into bigger and bigger masses until huge hydrogen stars take shape across the entire expanding arena. This first round of huge fast burning stars is short lived and they burn up their fuel and collapse and burst into galactic sized cosmic dust clouds from which the galaxies form.
The galaxies still have the expansion momentum that was imparted to the dark matter and that has been conserved throughout the process of galaxy formation and so the galaxies are all moving away from each other.
Now the environment has matured and the expansion momentum exceeds the gravitational attraction between galaxies and the arena is mature. The rate of separation between galaxy groups accelerates as the inverse square law causes gravity to yield to expansion momentum throughout the arena.
The next huge event for the arena will be the interruption of expansion caused by the intersection and overlap with other arenas.
That process is called arena action in QWC.
QWC in a nutshell is that the universe has always existed which deals with the first of the three main cosmological issues, i.e. there was no beginning. The arena action causes a continual process of reverse entropy in arenas which amount to tiny patches of the greater universes. Entropy of the greater universe is defeated at the arena level by expansion and collapse of these finite tiny arenas within an infinite greater universe. Energy density plays several roles, one of which being the average ratio of matter to energy across the greater universe. In addition, during arena collapse a limit to the maximum energy density within which matter and gravity can function keeps the entire universe from falling into big crunches. Energy density also controls the threshold at which matter forms abundantly during expansion to allow the young arena to mature into an array of galaxy groups that all are moving away from each other at an accelerating rate.
That is all QWC is. It is a cosmology (my own personal view) characterized by an endless interplay between expansion and collapse over an ever changing arena landscape across the greater universe. It deals with the three big cosmological issues: Was there a beginning, how does entropy play out or can it be defeated, and what is the role of energy density.
In my opinion there is nothing about QWC that couldn’t be put into mathematical terms that would make it a theory but right now it is a set of speculative ideas that I offer for discussion. My latest speculation is that there is a lone lurker.
I wish that AN and Prom could accept what I do. But I know that the lone lurker can
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