Unravelling the Reality of Space and Matter
Here we delve deep into the mysteries of the cosmos to bring you the latest insights and discoveries about the universe. Our mission is to educate and inspire readers about the wonders of the universe, from the smallest sub-particles to the vast expanses of space.
We have already hinted at the misunderstood nature of the universe and its TRUE reality.
Our theory is that a Singularity formed which contained the Quantum Energy (Dark Energy) required for quantum fluctuations (see below) to build the space and matter of our universe. When time was applied the quantum fluctuations very rapidly began to construct space and matter (as proposed by physicist Alan Guth) causing the initial sudden inflation (which from our viewpoint would appear as a 'big bang'). Contrary to most people's undertanding, the created 'space' is not a vacuum of nothingness but has now been shown to be a structure of virtual particles containing energy. https://phys.org/news/2020-08-vacuum-fluctuations-space.html and https://phys.org/news/2019-04-fluctuations-void.html
This was confirmed by the Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir who showed that that two metal plates placed in what we thought was a 'vacuum' are attracted to each other. It would seem that this cannot be if there is 'nothing' in the 'vacuum' but according to quantum theory, particles constantly appear and disappear there as a result of their interaction with the plates and this is due to quantum vacuum fluctuations (which would need energy, perhaps dark energy to do this). Casimir realised that between two plates, only those virtual photons whose wavelengths fit a whole number of times into the gap should be counted when calculating the vacuum energy. The energy density decreases as the macroscopic gap between plates are moved closer together, which implies that there is a small force drawing them together. The effect is due to the modification of the zero point energy of QED (Quantum ElectroDynamics) when two perfectly conducting plates are put very close to each other.
The confirmation of Quantum Fluctuations as the building mechanisms of space and time foundations has provided more subtle reasons for what we perceive as a big bang, as explained later. Although the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) began during the Inflation period, it wasn't released, due to the scattering effect of atomic particles, until the time of 'recombination', 380,000 years after the rapid inflation, when photons started to propagate freely across the Universe because hydrogen atoms started to form then, allowing the CMB to pass through without being scattered, eventually reaching the detectors in the instruments on board the Planck space craft. Physicist Alan Guth theorized that the universe inflated extremely rapidly and became exponentially larger in a fraction of a second (10^-32 second). However, there might be problems measuring time during that inflation, especially if you accept that neither space nor time had been completely formed until the end of inflation.
Dark Energy does also seem to have an influence on the construction of space and matter after the foundations were laid because the value last measured was lower than a previous one but matter and space had increased. Therefore, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that Dark Energy is the energy required by Quantum Fluctuations to construct our Universe.
Our Universe as a Living Organism
Did you know that the structure of the universe, connecting galaxies, clusters, and even intergalactic gas filaments make the our universe behave as a living organism?
How did we come to that conclusion?
- First, the Cosmic web connects everything together like the links in our brain.
- The filaments act like veins, by supplying Hydrogen and other elements to build suns and galaxies.
- In addition, the veins carry dark energy to provide the energy for quantum fluctuations to construct space and matter.
- There is more order than we originally thought!
The Building Blocks of the Universe
We are fascinated by how quantum fluctuations give rise to virtual particles, which are the fundamental building blocks of the universe and make up the vacuum of space. Matter, composed of sub-particles called quarks, forms the very essence of our existence. What does space really look like if we could see the virtual particles that we have pass through to travel through it? These virtual particles provide a platform for light pass through by absorbing then re-transmitting the light photons. Therefore, we cannot see the particles but light passes through them means we see stars and anything else emitting light, i.e. it looks like empty space! See an artist's impression below of 'space' as 'virtual particles.
From the Big Bang to the present day, the universe has been expanding and evolving, leaving behind cosmic microwave background radiation as a relic of its origins. Our team is dedicated to exploring new frontiers in space and matter, using cutting-edge technologies to unravel the secrets of the cosmos.
Recent Measurements Made of the CMB
The Cosmic Camera - Planck CMB Space Probe
Recent Measurements Made of the CMB
In 21 March 2013, the European-led research team behind the Planck cosmology probe released the mission's all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background. The map suggests our universe is slightly older than thought. According to the map, subtle fluctuations in temperature were imprinted on the deep sky when the cosmos was about 370,000 years old. The imprint reflects ripples that arose as early, in the existence of the universe, as the first nonillionth (10^−30) of a second which could be explained by the energy made available when time was applied. These ripples represent the energy available to form particles that gave rise to the present vast cosmic web of galaxy clusters. According to the team, the universe was 13.798±0.037billion years old, and contains 4.9% ordinary matter, 26.8% dark matter and 68.3% dark energy as shown in the graph in the Birth section (time = NOW). Also, the Hubble constant was measured to be 67.80 ± 0.77 (km/s)/Mpc. The results also revise downwards (from earlier WMAP results) the proportion of the universe made up by dark energy from 74% to 68.3%, while dark matter accounts for 26.8% of the total (up from 24%) and ordinary matter 4.9% (up from 4.6%). This fits well with my theory that dark energy is the source energy producing dark and ordinary matter.
Dark Energy Loss: The measurements of 74% drop to 68.3% seems unlikely over the short timescale measured, mainly due to accuracy of measurement because that change would infer dark energy will be depleted in about 110 years! Most of the drop since the beginning would have occurred during the sudden creation and inflation (big bang) of space and creation of matter. So 100-68 = 32% has been used up over 13.8 billion years but I suspect that, during the initial inflation, nearer 30% was consumed (estimated from the inflation part of the graph in Birth page). Which leaves only 2% consumption over 13 .8 billion years. If this is true, and the change is linear, the universe will stop expanding after 98/2 x 13.8 = 676 billion years when the Dark Energy is depleted! See Growth page which explains how the quantum fluctuations are creating space that appears (from our viewpoint) that our universe has an accelerating expansion.
Two Cosmic Microwave Background anomalous features hinted at by Planck’s predecessor, NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), are confirmed in the new high precision data from Planck. One is an asymmetry in the average temperatures on opposite hemispheres of the sky (indicated by the curved line), with slightly higher average temperatures in the southern ecliptic hemisphere and slightly lower average temperatures in the northern ecliptic hemisphere. This runs counter to the prediction made by the standard model that the Universe should be broadly similar in any direction we look. There is also a cold spot that extends over a patch of sky that is much larger than expected (circled). In this image the anomalous regions have been enhanced with red and blue shading to make them more clearly visible. But there is an explanation.
This dipole was the result of our Galaxy moving at 600 km/sec with respect to the CMB radiation, and it is now known that this reflects the motion of the Local Group of galaxies towards the Great Attractor (see the page on Gravity). Once the cosmic microwave background dipole is removed, the variation in the temperature of the CMB is astonishingly uniform with variations of only one part in ten thousand.
Before the cosmic microwave background (CMB) was released, photons and ordinary particles were tightly coupled together, forming a single ‘fluid’ of matter and radiation. As soon as the two species decoupled from one another (at the time of recombination, 380,000 years after the so-called 'Big Bang'), photons started to propagate freely across the Universe, eventually reaching the detectors in the instruments on board Planck.
The photons carry a memory of how matter and radiation were distributed at the time of the decoupling. If, at the time of decoupling, a photon was in a slightly denser portion of space, it had to spend some of its energy against the gravitational attraction of the denser region to move away from it, thus becoming slightly colder than the average temperature of photons. Vice versa, photons that were located in a slightly less dense portion of space, lost less energy upon leaving it than other photons, thus appearing slightly hotter than average. This is why temperature fluctuations in the CMB reflect the pattern of structure in the matter that was present in the early Universe, right when the CMB was released. The CMB can therefore be considered as the ultimate snapshot of our Universe at the time of recombination.
These primordial fluctuations in the density of matter in the early Universe are the seeds of the rich network of cosmic structure – stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters – that we observe today. Currently, the most widely accepted explanation for their origin is in the context of cosmic inflation. According to the inflationary paradigm, the exponential growth of the scale factor during inflation caused quantum fluctuations of the inflaton field to be stretched to macroscopic scales, and, upon leaving the horizon, to "freeze in". At the later stages of radiation- and matter-domination, these fluctuations re-entered the horizon, and thus set the initial conditions for structure formation.
The statistical properties of the primordial fluctuations can be inferred from observations of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background and from measurements of the distribution of matter, e.g., galaxy redshift surveys. Since the fluctuations are believed to arise from inflation, such measurements can also set constraints on parameters within inflationary theory.
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