Liz, I am not sure that you can call the underpinning physical. But you certainly have a good point.
According to one string theory, what seems to exist before the creation of the universe are dimensions and flux, and symmetries and quantum theory. At the big-bang some of the dimensions inflate as double that number compactify or curl up. What makes the dimensions compactify is the flux that winds thru about 500 holes in each resulting compact particle. That flux is related to the EM waves (or light) that exist after inflation ends and the gluon-quark plasma dissipates. The string landscape, the 10^500 possible unique compactifications, is based on the flux windings thru the 500 topological holes, each winding having 10 possible quantum states. If there were 100 quantum states, the landscape would be 100^500 or 10^1000 unique compact particles. BTW all the above is a standard 10 dimensional supersymmetric string theory So what exists in this string theory before the big bang, I must admit, sounds rather physical. But I prefer to reserve the word physical for the part of nature that we can observe. For example we can observe the quark-gluon plasma at several high energy colliders and it turns out to be a superfluid like a BEC. But observational evidence for inflation is suspicious because of dust. But we cannot observe the compact particles or for that matter even consciousness. So it is not certain that either exists even though we all experience something we call consciousness. All my hypotheses start from that basis. In a series of 3 papers, I first assumed that 26 dimensions exist and used the two-time physics developed by I. Barrs to derive what a possible Metaverse or Megaverse (used to be called the multiverse before the MWI people co-opted that word) could look like. Then I learned that astronomical observations indicated that the structure constant varied across the universe, from which I hypothesized that each compact particle in our universe was unique, so that they formed a set of natural numbers and computation, which became my second paper and which took me to this forum. You are reading the 3rd paper where I try to put it all together. I am a physicist, not a mathematician. I believe in symmetries and conservation laws. So something from nothing makes no sense to me. That's why I like black hole creation of baby universes. I even suggest that the Metaverse came from a 26 dimensional black hole resulting in a 4 dimensional spacetime and compact particles capable of consistent and effectively complete mathematics (because it is so huge and energetic) that is capable of computing matter (according to CUH). But since writing that last paper a few years ago, I have come to see that its full of loose ends- something you have picked up on- I am impressed. Rich On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:20 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Richard > > I'm only on page 2 of your paper, but already confused. You appear to be > positing that a mathematical universe might have a physical underpinning. > If so, this rather defangs the MUH, which obtains its importance from being > logically prior to (the appearance of) a material universe. Without that > assumption there seems no point in the MUH, since one is back needing to > explain "something from nothing" to obtain the underlying physical > universe. (Similarly with the CUH and Comp, of course.) > > Or have I misunderstood? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
