Reading the most recent report about how neutrinos have been observed moving faster than the speed of light. An entire section of both classical and quantum physics is founded on C, the symbol for the speed of light, to gracefully be the maximum limit that any physical object can move in our universe. Now we see that this may not actually be the case, at least for neutrinos.
This got me thinking about a few things that are upsetting about science. First is this, second is the classical reference for a kilogram is somehow decaying and isn’t what it used to be. I have to admit to not being a expert but I think I may have spotted a pattern. Perhaps the values for these constants are not constant. Perhaps the expansion of the universe is itself having an effect on the overall shape of spacetime. Perhaps that with expansion comes a vastly fluctuating (or maybe dropping) of all physical constants. Perhaps everything is “on the move”, so you have h, C, G, and other constants that aren’t really cemented down but actually drifting around with the universal shape of spacetime. As the universe expands, the shape changes. We think of C and G at least as perfectly constant, but what if that isn’t the case? What if C and G were vastly higher in the deep past and their rate of change is imperceptibly slow, however still occurring? What does that mean for all these mathematical structures we’ve developed, when the constants that we have come to depend on fluctuate over time? E=MC2, when C isn’t a constant?
Perhaps if G isn’t a constant, and it was much stronger in the past, then could that explain why when we look at the most distant objects in the universe, and therefore backwards through time itself be the cause for every object to be so redshifted? Perhaps the “expansion” of the universe isn’t like we imagine it, perhaps that the universe is indeed a static size but that the dimensions are changing all on their own, that the overall size of the universe is static, but that spacetime geometry itself is changing (somehow) and causes these previously thought constants to shift. That the value of G, which is now 6.67×10-11 N. What if it was something like 2.7×10-2 N in the deep past?
If the geometry of spacetime is indeed changing over time, perhaps that would help explain why string theory which demands eleven or more dimensions in order to work properly may have been very obvious billions of trillions of years ago but over time these dimensions have shrunk down to almost nothing. We can’t prove our theories about the structure of the universe and the physics of it easily because we’re so “late to the game”.
I have to believe that I am not the first person to think about this possibility and I have to assume that there is something I’m forgetting or don’t know that would preclude this possibility. In either case, it is engaging to think about before I’m shot down by a real physicist. 🙂
I was listening to Brig talk about how the iChing also ends in 2012 last night and arrived at the theory that time doesn't end, it just reverses. In so doing all people and things (alive or dead) in our current "forward" moving timeline will be shifted to a different vibration as we begin moving "backward" although as far as we will be able to tell we will still be moving forward.
The consequences on our understanding of the laws of physics, space & time regarding this shift are difficult to surmise, however it does create a neat explanation for deja vu because as our future selves are traveling through space-time in reverse (at least according to our current perspective, for all we know we're traveling in reverse RIGHT NOW which would also help to explain why everything seems so backwards in our current world) and for the flash of an instant we briefly share the same time-space as they overlap, we get flashes of what is to come transmitted to our conscious by our future selves.