Self-Oscillation: Find Prime Oscillation in Universe

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The discussion revolves around the concept of self-oscillation in the universe, exploring the idea of identifying a "prime oscillation" that could explain various phenomena in spacetime. Participants delve into theoretical implications, analogies with gravitational and electromagnetic waves, and the nature of spacetime itself.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants propose that oscillations can continue without an initial input, suggesting a need to identify the cause of observed effects in spacetime.
  • One participant draws an analogy between gravitational waves and the cosmic microwave background (CMB), noting the challenges in detecting ancient signals from the universe's early moments.
  • Another participant questions the relationship between gravity and microscopic phenomena, suggesting that the first signal may have been gravity with very long wavelengths.
  • There is a discussion about the nature of spacetime, with some arguing that spacetime is eternal and unchanging, while others view it as a transient state influenced by cosmic forces.
  • Concerns are raised about the limitations of current cosmological paradigms, with some participants expressing skepticism about the Big Bang theory and the evidence derived from electromagnetic radiation.
  • Philosophical questions about existence and the nature of change are introduced, with references to rhetorical questions regarding the origin of motion and existence itself.
  • Speculation about future directions in theoretical physics is mentioned, including the potential for new models if current theories such as dark matter or gravitational radiation are challenged.

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Participants express a range of views, with no clear consensus on the nature of oscillations, the validity of current cosmological theories, or the implications of spacetime properties. Multiple competing perspectives remain throughout the discussion.

Contextual Notes

Participants highlight limitations in current research methodologies and the sensitivity of instruments needed to detect ancient cosmic signals. There is also an acknowledgment of the speculative nature of some claims regarding the origins of oscillations and the nature of spacetime.

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One has to provide an input to start an oscillation, but that input can be
removed and the oscillation will continue.
So when we talk about space time, if the original, "input", is no longer
present we are looking at an effect and have to guess the cause.
So could we work backwards, looking at all the various oscillations in the
universe, and by elimination find the prime oscillation?
 
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wolram said:
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So could we work backwards, looking at all the various oscillations in the
universe, and by elimination find the prime oscillation?

Personally I can't say to this more than you already must have thought about.
the shaking in the spacetime geometry (called gravity waves) has not been felt yet, presumably it is there but the intruments so far are not sensitive enough.

the shaking in the electromagnetic field represented by the microwave background (which is also very ancient and can be studied to learn about the beginning) is a good comparison to make, by way of analogy:

people had radio receivers for some 50 years before they detected the CMB
now they have been detecting the CMB for another 50 years and are still learning from it.

whatever other kinds of vibration, or particles flying around, they all contain "echos of the big bang", but mostly instruments cannot yet pick it up-----for instance the neutrino detectors can detect neutrinos from the sun and from supernovas but they are not yet sensitive enough to detect the neutrinos made in the first second of time after expansion began.

maybe, rather than hear or feel gravity waves, we have to "see" the ancient ripples in how matter is clumped and clustered. perhaps things have expanded so much that the wavelengths of important oscillations are so long that we have to look for their imprint in the distribution of galaxies----or in the hot/cold spots of the CMB

the idea of being in a room and studying the echos, and reconstructing from the echos what made the first noise----that is a good idea. it could be an emblem for all cosmology observations (whether based on old light or old particles or whatever kind of old vibrations people can eventually pick up)

but you know the current boundaries of research, from your reading, and know how hard it is to detect and decode those old signals
 
Thanks Marcus, you have given me some new ideas.
 
the first signal must have been gravity, and that must be a very long wavelengh
thousands of LYs, so how is it related to the microscopic?
 
wolram said:
One has to provide an input to start an oscillation, but that input can be
removed and the oscillation will continue.
So when we talk about space time, if the original, "input", is no longer
present we are looking at an effect and have to guess the cause.
So could we work backwards, looking at all the various oscillations in the
universe, and by elimination find the prime oscillation?

Hi Wolram

If time is like space, as in "spacetime", what is motion? Our notion of change is based upon the perception of time apart from space. Objects in space change position as you follow them through time. What happened to the space they were in a moment ago? Where, right now, is the space they will occupy a moment hence?

I ask these questions to try to highlight a property of spacetime. It does not change. All spacetime events in this sense are coexistant, eternal. Where does spacetime begin? Where does it end? If you give up your notions of objects traversing space through time and enter into the notion of spacetime as a single universal object, the questions become meaningless.

Be well,

Richard
 
nightcleaner said:
Hi Wolram

If time is like space, as in "spacetime", what is motion? Our notion of change is based upon the perception of time apart from space. Objects in space change position as you follow them through time. What happened to the space they were in a moment ago? Where, right now, is the space they will occupy a moment hence?

I ask these questions to try to highlight a property of spacetime. It does not change. All spacetime events in this sense are coexistant, eternal. Where does spacetime begin? Where does it end? If you give up your notions of objects traversing space through time and enter into the notion of spacetime as a single universal object, the questions become meaningless.

Be well,

Richard

Hi Nightcleaner.
I have always though "spacetime", a rather ambiguous term, i think of space
as an entity, and time as a measure.
I also think of space as eternal, and matter as a transient, "something that
pops into existence when the cosmic forces contrive to not equal 0",
It is said that a perfect vacuum is an impossibility, but i think that "space"
can achieve this, by absorbing the negative and positive thus returning to
0. once it has done this the energy, matter will re emerge in a recreation.
So space is two and the same 1 and-1, but known laws will not allow it
to keep it neutrality everywhere all the time.
 
there is just so much conjecture about our beginings, so how can one sift the
wheat from the chaff, well if you want to believe in the BB fair enough, but
this pardigram throws up more questions than answers, if you ask a basic
question, you get a ansewer like nightcleaners, i hate to say this but questions
like this are beyond present day science, and are an oppinion nothing more.
The only evidence we have about cosmology comes from EM radiation, as we
are part of that, we may as well be a fish in in ocean trying to explain its
environment through the vibrations it feels, but are we so senseless? i think
not, it is human curriosity that will solve this enigma, if not we will perish
through our ignorance.
 
first oscillation? that's the origin of motion- of change- of time-like dimensions in the phase-space- might as well ask 'why does Existence exist?'- always a rhetorical question-

'Things can be-
and their Being is grounded
in Nothing's ability to noth'

-kenneth burke


id est: inability-
 
setAI said:
first oscillation? that's the origin of motion- of change- of time-like dimensions in the phase-space- might as well ask 'why does Existence exist?'- always a rhetorical question-

'Things can be-
and their Being is grounded
in Nothing's ability to noth'

-kenneth burke


id est: inability-

May be, but i think string theorist have come up with a before the BB theory.
And may be the homogonies and isotropic, bounded but infinite, dark energy,
graviton, higgs boson, axion, people will move in another direction one day.
i think that day is not far away, when no gravitational radiation or frame
dragging can be found? or dark matter is falsified? there are so many tests
that can, will send us back to the drawing board.
i hope it will not just be a redrafting, but whole new design.
 

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