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Subject: Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory to
dialectics?
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:38:54PM -0800, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything
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> Since I read this a few days past have been mulling it over for a bit. When
> you say "knots in space-time" at first read it seemed like you were
> describing string like entities forming these knots existing in space-time,
> but I on second read I think you literally mean "knots in space-time" itself.
> I like the description of matter as being a kind of topological defect in
> space-time. And how everything emerges from the structure of space-time
> itself -- without needing strings or branes.
> Or am I way off the mark here?
> -Chris
>
No - I think you have the idea. The strings or branes may well be the
"topological defects" I'm talking about though. That would unite cosmic strings
with superstrings, if true...
Yes.... I can see that... from defects in space-time <-- to --> vibrating
Planck scale strings in all those tightly curled dimensions. Perhaps even a
symmetrically entangled synthesis of {strings, branes} AND these defects in
space-time, so that these become two ways of looking at the self-same.
This naturally leads to the question.. what about space-time itself? If a small
zoo of different space-time defect classes existing in a spacetime bubble give
rise to everything else, whence does this bubble come from?
Either it just exists and has always just existed or space-time itself needs to
come into being somehow.
Perhaps our (?eternally inflating?) space-time reality is one such lucky
quantum vacuum fluctuation.
I do like the inherent simplicity of reducing everything down to being emergent
from a small set of classes of space-time defects.
-Chris
Cheers
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