From: Colin Hales (colin@versalog.com.au)
Date: Sat Apr 13 2002 - 17:39:33 MDT
John K Clark
> results that does not need to invoke the acceleration of the universe.
> If true most of the predictions about the ultimate fate of the universe
> would turn out to be wrong.
Any bets?
Stability? Heat death? Big Crunch?
I always felt the assumption of some sort of 'dark matter' and exotic as yet
unobserved energy a little 'out there' and grasping, although I am willing
to go along in the absence of any other explanation. This new axion theory
feels better from an Occams Razor viewpoint. At least they are particles
already 'on the books', so to speak.
I vote for crunch. Everything I've ever encountered has symmetry: spatial or
temporal or a balance occuring in some other frame of reference. I can't see
this as any different. I'm not so concerned about the big crunch as I was.
By the time we get there we'll probably be pretty good at large scale matter
engineering...Matrioshka Brains everywhere collecting and re-assembling
everything as it slows down. Much more fun than heat death - chasing
decaying protons all over the place - don't you think?
Would it be possible to construct a stable universe out of all the matter in
it? Stabilise the motions of everything and halt a big crunch? I suppose it
will depend on what our 'whole universe' is, infact, in balance with, behind
the scenes - whatever oscillatory event caused our universe in the first
place - and how it decides to behave.
Colin Hales
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