Sunday, August 24, 2008

Gravity, Big Bang and Dark Matter/Energy Revisited

It sure hurts when you think you've come up with some nifty idea and find out you have it almost totally backwards. My last post fits that description pretty well but as I've reqd and thought some more about it, I'm cautiously optimistic I just got it reversed. As I was reminded (more than once) dark matter ONLY interacts via gravity (that's why it is call dark matter). That means that the Big Bang was the emergence of the three forces of matter (weak nuclear, sting nuclear and electromagnetic) that then organized the visible universe.

I'm thinking more about the best way to characterize these "emergent properties" that evolution creates and will write about that next. In any case, my postulation that evolution is not just an integral part of the universe (as opposed to the traditional sense of biological evolution) but evolution is the process that created the universe. Evolution is an organizing process that builds upon previous "successes" - defined by a more organized - to make even more highly organizaed systems. The Physics of Hope is my way of saying that the world can always get better but it can only get so bad.