Inflation and Expansion: The Beginning of the Universe
Welcome to My Cosmos, where we delve deep into the mysteries of the cosmos. In this section, we explore the fascinating details of the universe's inflation and expansion.
From the moment of the Big Bang, the universe has been expanding at an incredible rate. This expansion has shaped the cosmos as we know it today, leading to the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.
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.
According to the Planck cosmology probe results, the all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background CMB, our 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 above (time = NOW). Also, the Hubble constant was measured to be 67.80 ± 0.77 (km/s)/Mpc. The results also revise downwards (from WMAP probe measurements) the proportion of the universe made up by dark energy from 71% 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. The graph above shows an interpretation of how these values have changed over the life of our universe so far with dark energy slowly being used to produce 'space' and 'matter'. It follows that, if quantum fluctuations build 'space', then dark energy probably is the energy of the vacuum of space, which is why it could be an enormous source of energy if it could be extracted.
My estimation of when dark energy will be depleted: [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! ]
As discussed earlier in this section, the absolute nothingness of the vacuum of 'space' has no reality, as proven by Casimir's experiment. Quite to the contrary, quantum field theory has shown that 'seemingly empty space' is filled by fluctuations of light and matter fields, leading to a continuous popping into existence and disappearance of photons as well as massive particles. The 'seemingly empty space' is simply our limited interpretation of 'space' because we do not have the senses to detect these quantum fluctuations in the same way that we relate to the air around us. Now we can detect the effect of quantum fluctuations in the same way that we can measure air pressure, although we can sense the movement of air. These quantum fluctuations have been physically measured recently on the New LIGO gravity field detector: https://news.mit.edu/2020/quantum-fluctuations-jiggle-objects-0701
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
When did the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) begin? This residual radiation from the Big Bang provides crucial insights into the early universe. Our team of experts uncovers the secrets hidden within the CMB, shedding light on the origins of the cosmos and the evolution of the universe.
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). This seems a ridiculously short amount of time to create a universe but time may have had no meaning to us during the formation and inflation of the universe!
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