The biggest challenges to Physicists are:
1 - Explaining how the Big Bang created the Universe with an original Entropy of EXACTLY zero. Entropy has been increasing for 13.7 Billion years and is still much lower than can be explained with current models.
2 - Explain how 'Inflation' occurs. And seemingly reduces (OR AT LEAST DOESN'T INCREASE) entropy as it should in the process!
3 - Explain how and what 'Quantum Soup' is. What is it made of at the Planck (1.6 X 10 ^-35 meter) levels? IF THE ANSWER IS STRING AND/OR super-string theory then:
For math the biggest challenge is:
1 - Creating an n-dimensional 'quacktal' math capable of describing ten, and possiblly eleven dimensional 'vibration' or 'movement' of strings and branes. At 10 ^ -39 or 10 ^ -42 meter range. Each vibration 'pattern' or whatever it turns out to be... in n-dimensions describes what we call 'baryonic' matter as it arises from the Planck Soup.
2 - With the math created to describe 'quacktals' then put it to use describing the 'entanglement' of a 'quark' at planck levels, recreating it at some other 'quacktaloc' B and destroying the original construction at 'quacktaloc' A. Then we will know how particles in our 'real' world move.
The thing that will be interesting is that we will then at last have a firm grip (pun intended) on the 'speed of light'. IF... and it is a big if... particles 'MOVE' in quata... one might envision it as 'Entangle and arise as per description of this 'quacktal'... from Quantum Soup. Rebuild reality at some 'distance'. Destroy the existing entanglement. Repeat. Forever.'
An interesting analogy is a group of carpenters who are told they have six weeks to replicate a building exactly a mile from the original, then dismantle the original and stack it back into piles of lumber for future use. If the 'distance' is great and the time is short , then the carpenters begin to grumble and say... 'we only have six weeks. we can't be done on time. Only one thing for it. Ok, You! Time guy! Slow down time. I expect we will need about a year to do this right.' So time is slowed down in the scope of the entanglement. Or as relativity refers to it... the 'frame of reference'.
The pattern is made (entanglement) , the new particle is raised from quantum soup, and finally the wave function is broken on the entanglement. Movement. From here to there! Bobby just picked a booger! Wow! Or the light from a supernova just moved across the universe 'in no time at all'. Literally.
Don't look for this in science books. This is all SVW conjecture. Being uneducated can be a real joy at times. 'Quactal' stands for 'quantum fractal'. 'Quactaloc' are an entagled pair at both a and b. If there isn't anything to string theory... then 'nevermind... back to the old drawing board!' But if there is... then everything in the universe is described by the math of string vibrations. 'Quacktals'. First guy there gets a Nobel! Too bad about my unmath skills.
Originally posted by StarValleyWyI have started work on these problems and will report back when i have an answer.
The biggest challenges to Physicists are:
1 - Explaining how the Big Bang created the Universe with an original Entropy of EXACTLY zero. Entropy has been increasing for 13.7 Billion years and is still much lower than can be explained with current models.
2 - Explain how 'Inflation' occurs. And seemingly reduces (OR AT LEAST DOESN'T INCREASE) en ...[text shortened]... vibrations. 'Quacktals'. First guy there gets a Nobel! Too bad about my unmath skills.
Originally posted by StarValleyWyHey SVW,
The biggest challenges to Physicists are:
1 - Explaining how the Big Bang created the Universe with an original Entropy of EXACTLY zero. Entropy has been increasing for 13.7 Billion years and is still much lower than can be explained with current models.
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Too bad about my unmath skills.
Have you read anything about the Autralian scientists who have demonstrated violations of the Second Law on a small scale (as I understand it, they've observed DEcreases in entropy of a closed system!)?
It was reported in Physical Review Letters sometime in 2002, I think.
Originally posted by ianpickering🙂
I have started work on these problems and will report back when i have an answer.
Ian... If you want we can collaborate. That way we will each have somebody to blame when the math-capables start chucking rocks and truths and equations and what-nots. Interested? 😕
Originally posted by richjohnsonHey Rich,
Hey SVW,
Have you read anything about the Autralian scientists who have demonstrated violations of the Second Law on a small scale (as I understand it, they've observed DEcreases in entropy of a closed system!)?
It was reported in Physical Review Letters sometime in 2002, I think.
How you doing? Actually, with enough energy (as from the sun onto Earth for example) certain systems do show decrease quite often. The existence of life is just one example. From extremely disorganized states of matter to highly complex states of life.
But on the overall AVERAGE of all systems over time... entropy should always increase. There hasn't been enough of it to fit the standard models, or at least that is what most cosmologists claim. And then there is the breaking of symmetry during the first second of the big bang. Somehow, we ended up with disproportionate HANDED protons. This allows for baryonic matter that should be destroyed out of hand by anti-protons, for example.
I have read of a few examples of closed system entropy reduction. One was the now famous bose-einstein experiments wherein a new state of matter was created by laser light 'freezing' in place atoms of hydrogen, thus forcing a "super" molecule of "something" out of the component parts.
Interesting stuff.
By the way... my back yard increases entropy in my corner of the world more than enough to balance all my efforts at fighting chaos!
Originally posted by StarValleyWyI don't think the Sun decreases entropy: it has a much higher energy density than its surroundings, but it's constantly losing energy and supplying energy to the space around it.
Hey Rich,
How you doing? Actually, with enough energy (as from the sun onto Earth for example) certain systems do show decrease quite often. The existence of life is just one example. From extremely disorganized states of matter to highly complex states of life.
But on the overall AVERAGE of all systems over time... entropy should always increase. ...[text shortened]... ntropy in my corner of the world more than enough to balance all my efforts at fighting chaos!
Life can be seen as an 'entropy displacer'; it reduces entropy inside itself by increasing entropy in its environment, or by expoliting a non-biological mechanism that produces entropy (eg the Sun heating up the Earth, or volcanic activity). Similarly a refridgerator looks from the inside like it's reducing entropy, but is actually converting electric current into heat at the back of the fridge, increasing entropy overall. An entropy-reducing fridge would GENERATE electricity; now that would be cool 😀
Originally posted by AcolyteYou said the same thing I did.
I don't think the Sun decreases entropy: it has a much higher energy density than its surroundings, but it's constantly losing energy and supplying energy to the space around it.
Life can be seen as an 'entropy displacer'; it reduces entropy inside itself by increasing entropy in its environment, or by expoliting a non-biological mechanism that produc ...[text shortened]... tropy overall. An entropy-reducing fridge would GENERATE electricity; now that would be cool 😀
The point is that the sun's ENERGY allows for a very limited system, namely the earth, to decrease it's entropy AS TO IT'S LIVING PORTION, in an illustration of a limited, CLOSED system decreasing in entropy... ie, the organization of 'life' from non-living matter. As to whether we can debate the thermal decay of earth as offseting "life" is not something I would want to debate. How do you measure "intelligence"... or what passes for it, in the equation? I for one don't know. I doubt anyone has seriously thought about "mind" in conjuction with entropy. Would be an interesting idea to ponder.
When you include the sun in the system under consideration, then we get what we expect... increase in disorganization overall.