http://library.rstheory.org/video/dbl-1978
The Non-existent Universe:
from:
http://library.rstheory.org/books/uom/29.html
Now we are going to examine the structure of fantasy that has been erected by
those who have taken advantage of this
license to give free rein to the imagination under the banner of science, so
that we can see just how far the universe of
modern astronomy has diverged from the universe of physical reality.
In the imaginary universe: The fundamental constituents of the universe are
elementary units of matter.
In the real universe: There are no elementary units of matter.
In the imaginary universe: The elementary units of matter are quarks.
In the real universe: There are no quarks.
In the imaginary universe: The atom is constructed of particles that are made
up of quarks.
In the real universe: The atom is an integral unit that has no “parts.”
In the imaginary universe: The atom has a “nuclear” structure in which a
positively charged nucleus containing most of the
mass is surrounded by negatively charged electrons.
In the real universe: The atom is a single integral unit, not a collection of
parts. The experimental “nucleus” is actually the
atom itself, and contains all of the mass.
In the imaginary universe: Atomic behavior is governed by a set of laws
differing in significant respects from the laws
governing the behavior of macroscopic matter.
In the real universe: The same physical laws are applicable everywhere.
In the imaginary universe: At the atomic level the universe is illogical and
incomprehensible.
In the real universe: Phenomena at the atomic level have the same character as
those at the macroscopic level.
The physicists’ atom is not a real physical entity:
In the imaginary universe: The light elements are the fuel for the energy
generation in the stars.
In the real universe: The heavy elements are the stellar fuel.
In the imaginary universe: The hot, massive stars are young. The stars of the
globular clusters are old.
In the real universe: The hot, massive stars are the oldest stars of their
respective generations. The stars of the globular
clusters are relatively young.
In the imaginary universe: “The crushing force of gravity” acting against the
interior atoms of the star, after the elimination
of the gas pressure, collapses their structure.
In the real universe: (a) Elimination of the gas pressure, if it occurred,
would not increase the force acting on the central
atoms. (b) The structure of the atom does not collapse under pressure.
In the imaginary universe: the collapse of the atomic structure converts the
matter of the star into a strange hypothetical
state called “degenerate matter.”
In the real universe: There is no degenerate matter.
In the imaginary universe: The speed of light is an absolute. limit on the
speed of material objects.
In the real universe: The speed of light is the limiting speed in one of the
three scalar dimensions in which motion can take
place.
In the imaginary universe: The white dwarf is an aggregate of degenerate matter
produced by the collapse of a star of small
or moderate size.
In the real universe: The white dwarf is one of the products of a supernova
explosion. It is composed of ordinary matter that
has been accelerated to speeds in excess of that of light, and is therefore
expanding outward in time (equivalent to inward in
space).
In the imaginary universe: the ordinary white dwarf eventually cools and
becomes a black dwarf: a dead star.
In the real universe: The white dwarfs lose energy to the environment. In
the case of those produced by Type I or relatively small Type II
supernovae, this energy loss eventually reverses the process that is
responsible for the small size and high density of the white dwarfs, and
expands them back into main sequence stars. There are no dead stars.
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In the imaginary universe: Gravitation is a distortion of space-time and
therefore acts within the atoms as well as between
them.
In the real universe: Gravitation is a motion of the individual units (atoms
and sub-atomic particles) and therefore acts only
between the units.
In the imaginary universe: Stars that exceed a certain mass limit terminate
their existence with explosive events that leave
residues denser than the white dwarfs.
In the real universe: Every star eventually reaches either a mass limit or an
age limit, and explodes, producing a white
dwarf, or its inverse equivalent, or both.
In the imaginary universe: The high density products of explosions of stars in
the intermediate size range are neutron stars.
They are observed as pulsars.
In the real universe: The pulsars are fast-moving white dwarfs. There are no
neutron stars.
In the imaginary universe: The terminal events in the lives of the largest
stars produce compact objects whose density is
above the critical level. These are black holes.
In the real universe: There are no limits on the size of white dwarfs, other
than those that apply to all stars. There are no
black holes.
In the imaginary universe: There is no limit to the process of contraction by
self-gravitation. It therefore continues until the
entire star has shrunk to a mere point: a singularity.
In the real universe: There are no singularities.
In the imaginary universe: The existing physical universe originated in a
gigantic explosion: the Big Bang.
In the real universe: There was no Big Bang. The information now available does
not indicate how the universe originated,
or whether it had an origin.
