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CJolley suggested this be copied to its own thread. Originally it was a reply elsewhere;
Perhaps more tin-hat material like Nowhere's White House post, but IMO interesting speculation;
1. Some physicists think they could create a new universe in the lab by snipping off a piece of spacetime, whereupon it would expand on its own, as a new universe, into another portion of the multiverse.
Smithsonian article on possibility of an anthropic principle....
2. On the other hand much has been written of late about the universe consisting of three things; matter, energy and information. This is the "holographic universe" theory. If the universe is indeed a hologram then its size and dimensionality are illusory, just as is the size and volume taken up by an optical hologram.
Text of Scientific American article: holographic universe
In a holographic universe it's not too much of a stretch to think some information about the universes creation could be hard-coded into the "image" and, perhaps, its consituent parts including the organic material that evolves therein. This follows the quantum mechanical dictum that information cannot be completely destroyed, not even by the black hole used to create a universe in the example above. Stephen Hawking argued the opposite until late in 2004, but now even he has come around and conceded his bet with CalTechs John Preskill (Preskill gets an encyclopedia).
Think of this as "hidden content", much like that often found in games and other programs.
Analysis:
Presuming that #2 could have been "created" by #1 in another part of the multiverse then a "creator" could exist. If this is the case and "passed on" information is indeed coded into the structure of the local universe then perhaps the predisposition of humans towards spirtuality is this information manifesting itself in the first lifeform on this planet capable of expressing it.
Now you just have to figure out the motivations and capabilities of the "creator" and decode whatever material and/or suggestions he/she/it passed on.
Material for a novel or series of short stories?
Hmmm....could be they've already been written by every culture on the planet. Interpretations differ and are occaisionally distorted, but the core data seems very similar across many places and times.
If this were indeed the case I have the feeling that many here would still not accept this entity unless he/she/it had a PhD after their name, even if that name were YHVH.
Dr. Mordrid
Perhaps more tin-hat material like Nowhere's White House post, but IMO interesting speculation;
1. Some physicists think they could create a new universe in the lab by snipping off a piece of spacetime, whereupon it would expand on its own, as a new universe, into another portion of the multiverse.
Smithsonian article on possibility of an anthropic principle....
MIT & Univ. of Mexico recipe:
MIT's Edward Farhi and Alan Guth and the University of Mexico's Jemal Guven may have worked out a way to use inflation to make a universe right in the laboratory. Here is their recipe:
Form a small black hole from matter with a mass of, say, 10 kilograms (22 pounds) in such a way that the interior "immediately inflates," Harrison summarizes, "not in our universe, but in a reentrant bubble-like spacetime that is connected to our universe via the umbilical cord of the black hole." (Don't ask.) The black hole will then evaporate, severing the connection between our universe and the new one. Don't worry if you make a mess of it, Harrison advises: poorly made ones will probably never have life in them.
MIT's Edward Farhi and Alan Guth and the University of Mexico's Jemal Guven may have worked out a way to use inflation to make a universe right in the laboratory. Here is their recipe:
Form a small black hole from matter with a mass of, say, 10 kilograms (22 pounds) in such a way that the interior "immediately inflates," Harrison summarizes, "not in our universe, but in a reentrant bubble-like spacetime that is connected to our universe via the umbilical cord of the black hole." (Don't ask.) The black hole will then evaporate, severing the connection between our universe and the new one. Don't worry if you make a mess of it, Harrison advises: poorly made ones will probably never have life in them.
Text of Scientific American article: holographic universe
In a holographic universe it's not too much of a stretch to think some information about the universes creation could be hard-coded into the "image" and, perhaps, its consituent parts including the organic material that evolves therein. This follows the quantum mechanical dictum that information cannot be completely destroyed, not even by the black hole used to create a universe in the example above. Stephen Hawking argued the opposite until late in 2004, but now even he has come around and conceded his bet with CalTechs John Preskill (Preskill gets an encyclopedia).
Think of this as "hidden content", much like that often found in games and other programs.
Analysis:
Presuming that #2 could have been "created" by #1 in another part of the multiverse then a "creator" could exist. If this is the case and "passed on" information is indeed coded into the structure of the local universe then perhaps the predisposition of humans towards spirtuality is this information manifesting itself in the first lifeform on this planet capable of expressing it.
Now you just have to figure out the motivations and capabilities of the "creator" and decode whatever material and/or suggestions he/she/it passed on.
Material for a novel or series of short stories?
Hmmm....could be they've already been written by every culture on the planet. Interpretations differ and are occaisionally distorted, but the core data seems very similar across many places and times.
If this were indeed the case I have the feeling that many here would still not accept this entity unless he/she/it had a PhD after their name, even if that name were YHVH.
Dr. Mordrid
) and have suggested looking for "passed information" in the cosmic background radiation etc.
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