Successful Space Stuff? I

A continuation from the Successful Space Species series.

MW Rhodes © 20221016 

N->H->He->Li = BOOM , Free Neutron and the Dark Matters, 

Thanks Brett.

Ohh, thanks you’re the best.. Did you watch any of the videos in the last post?.. Since CERN and other technological advances, science theory and projects seem to be having some success problems. Perhaps these quirky notes can help. Enjoy

Hi I’m Murry and welcome to these scribbles…   Nice to have you here. If you liked the Successful Space Species I,II & III series then hold onto your tin hats, things are starting to really heat up, quite literally and from a Kelvin cold start.  ;)

I know that a cold Big Bang is a deal breaker for most cosmologists and there’s no getting around the observations of sub-atomic bonds weakening as we increase thermal energy. Adding this to the Hot Big Bang sequence gives us a well-known observation of the recombination of particles from high thermal energy to low such as with rain, hail and snow. A similar but different observation of reduced bond attraction has been made by reducing energy levels closer to the final thermal equation of state threshold of Zero Degrees Kelvin where things start to break down completely and they get unpredictably strange for the atomic states of function or functions of state and the states of functioning stuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_zero

Zero degrees Kelvin is an unknowable threshold that we can only get close to. The Big Bang demands an environment of greater than 10^32 Deg Celcius which is pretty hot so hot that we can’t contain it and is yet another unknowable environment. We can’t make it that hot and we haven’t really observed an accumulation of this thermal energy in nature but the figure comes from extrapolating from atomic bond behaviour. We can’t yet accurately extrapolate equations of state for all our elements so our extrapolations are still a little uncertain.

So a Cold Big Bang may be worth exploring further for the fun of it. We may learn something new or simply be entertained. Join me as I look at where a thermal signature can come from in a massive kind of cold big bang. A thermal signature is the requirement of Hubble’s background radiation or the CMBR. More an that in a moment but first, let’s explore some cold stuff. I hope some of this stuff helps us succeed in deep space if we get there.

If you’re new to my writings and if you’ve not yet read my previous articles then you may miss the context and spirit in which this is written.  I have included links to three previous posts regarding our race in space called the “Successful Space Species” ( I, II & III )  they are just below the next two paragraphs. :)

Recap…

Our place and race in space are about the tools we have to survive the rigours of Deep Space.  At present, we have a universe formation model that relies on 80-90% Dark Matter and Dark Energy to be able to justify our current theories/models of universe formation.  The uncertainty around these dark things It’s not nearly good enough if we hope to predict where deep-space assets might form for future exploitation.  Perhaps my scribbles help resolve some of this uncertainty.

After all, our real-life velocities in space are so slow that by the time we get to whatever targets exist today, their asset value may have decayed or been consumed into its own natural system.  Responding only to what we can see in the now may mean that we’ll be chasing our tails and becoming extinct for all the energy spent on getting to the target so it’s better to have a predictive tool without the 80-90% guesswork.  These scribbles explore things that may help with that. 

https://www.murryrhodes.com/our-place-in-space/2022/10/7/successful-space-species-nbsp

https://www.murryrhodes.com/our-place-in-space/2022/10/12/successful-space-species-ii

https://www.murryrhodes.com/our-place-in-space/2022/10/15/successful-space-species-iii

Well done for reading all this stuff by the way, it’s not the easiest stuff to write or read about so you’re doing really well. Indeed my scribbles are not a mainstream presentation of what we already know but more of a creative alternative so take no one’s word for anything because your own research may reveal some innocent, negligent or complicit bias or you may just learn some cool new stuff.  What you do with your research is your thing and these scribbles are my thing and I hope at the very least, you enjoy them.   Here’s a nice article on the history of how modern western science evolved from a group of folks not prepared to take the word of anyone, even the authorities. Let’s continue on from where I left you in Successful Space Species III. 

https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/10/10/the-transformations-of-science

Continued from Successful Space Species III

I left you hanging with this little gem.  

N=Neutron, not nitrogen.

N->H->He->Li = BOOM = Mineral Distribution Event.

It looks too simple to be the beginning of anything. It’s the something that came from all that nothing in our universe. It’s my cold sequence to kickstart our physical stuff in our XYZ universe. The path of least resistance is nature’s way but before we get comfy on its simplicity we might like to look under the hood and see how complex it may be and how the parts might work.  It’s not as philosophical as getting something from nothing but it is complex to some degree. Perhaps less chicken and egg thermal energy paradoxes though.

What are the first three elements of the periodic table in chemistry? H, He, Li. The Hot Big Bang distributes this out at 75%H,24%He and 1%Li ( and other heavier trace elements ). Observations in our universe support something like this and so this sequence of a much Colder Big Bang observes and resolves into something similar too. There is also a simple pathway to a thermal signature for the Cosmic Microwave Background Ration CMBR. Simple but like any recipe it takes materials and methods so let’s start with the materials. There are a few ways to bake a cake but without the core ingredients, we might just be making an omelette.

The N in the sequence is a Free Neutron, they have a half-life decay of 15 minutes.

A few decades ago I started playing with cosmological things and over that time I found my own modelling was heading toward something other than the Hot Big Bang. When Covid shut the world down I had time to research it further. I recently discovered that the basic concept of a Colder beginning was not a new one and so this is an extension of the original Cold Big Bang that Georges Lemaitre conceived before Hubble and others turned it into the Hot Big Bang. So this sequence begins without the 10^32 Degrees Celcius requirement of the Hot Big Bang. 

The Hot Big Bang began with a lot of thermal radiation. Whatever force contained it then stops containing it and expands and by the laws of thermodynamics, it cools. As it cools it starts to make sub-atomic particles and the cooling allows them to then combine. The bonds of these subatomic particles are the only mechanisms that we know and can show to make thermal radiation happen. In the Big bang, this who-made-who paradox is a chicken or egg conundrum which makes exploring a different process feasible. A video below from the Royal Institute of Science insists that we assume all the thermal energy exists in at least one contained singularity. Below explores the possibility that it never existed until the products of cold decaying neutrons made it possible.

So basically this sequence begins without making the assumption of a pre-existing surplus of thermal radiation but in an environment containing no thermal energy which defines the environment being at Zero Degrees Kelvin. When I say no thermal energy, I mean the energy exists in potential form but it just hasn’t yet transformed from matter and into the oscillations of flux that we call thermal energy.

Matter is the only stored potential energy of radiation that we know of. I think Einstein’s adaptation of Newton’s E=mv^2 was a great observation. Thank god for Einstein being called on to observe radium mass losses in that miracle cure industry.

So thermal radiation is an oscillation of field flux with high energy that doesn’t yet exist but matter materialises out of field flux at Zero degrees Kelvin as a cold tightly wound tangle of flux in primary symmetries of classical physics that produce free neutrons that commence decaying. Its decay products include those that can then transform matter decay into radiations. Thermal, electromagnetism, weak force plus perhaps several others.

But let’s assume that it’s not the other way around like in the Hot Big Bang where thermal radiation is said to make the particles that combine to come into existence for the first time and then interact to make the thermal radiation and then for the intuitive thermodynamic function of state to recombine them into hadrons.  So if you’re happy to assume the thermal energy simply existed in the Hot Big Bang then that’s great, but if you’re not sure then let’s begin a colder sequence that may seem more simple a pathway for nature.

N->H->He->Li = BOOM = Mineral Distribution Event.

This sequence begins with a materialisation of neutrons at zero degrees Kelvin. The neutrons decay and products interact with each other in a graduated gravitational environment causing the production of primordial elements H, He & Li within a high gravitational body. A collated stratification of shells form and a soft metal Li shell forms around a cool but thermally active decaying neutron-rich core. Please resist considering hot stellar-like fusion as this is a cold process with the peak gravity comprising free neutrons.

The lithium shell insulates the internal neutron core thus trapping and accumulating all decay products (including the H & He ) and thermal energy until it reaches the melting temp of Lithium which is around 180 degrees celsius or around 460 degrees Kelvin. The Lithium precipitate has insulated the active core from the outer shells. The outer shells contain cold liquid hydrogen and helium.

When the core accumulation reaches 180 degrees celsius the Lithium starts to melt and over time a breach occurs somewhere and exposes the 180+ degree C core to the colder shells of around 3-15 degrees Kelvin. This triggers the nuclear fission of Lithium in situ with the isotopes of deuterium, tritium, helium 3&4 plus a core of rather active free neutrons and the core’s remaining hotter decay products (including the H & He ). The trigger event is described in more detail below.  

Shall we take a closer look at this sequence?

First, the Neutron may need a better introduction.  In the very first moment of mass and gravity of a pool of materialised neutrons, not a single proton exists nor does an electron.  These particles/hadrons do not exist until a neutron has successfully decayed releasing beta mass, ejecting an electron and then leaving a 180 phase-shifted charge and mass-depleted neutron behind. We call that depleted neutron a proton. So a neutron is not made up of a proton, an electron and some beta mass properties. Combining a proton and electron to balance charge does not observe the law conservation of mass without including the mass properties contributed to it by the Beta radiation.

The more common three quarks of the neutron have a binary phase of three nodes of tightly wound and bound field flux. The proton has the same quark sequence only the binary phase is a 180-degree phase shifted by the loss of the electron. Ie. N ( 011 ), P ( 100 ) and permutations thereof to add a little colour and seasoning for taste. Eg N ( 101 ), (110) or P (010), (001) it translates to colour and flavour as per the normal quirky quark nomenclature.

As each quark is a tightly wound flux field, induction of field properties from one node into another node occurs at a 180-degree phase shift as per normal induction phase relations. In a tertiary system, a second 180-degree phase shift is seen in the third node. Consider primary symmetries and the interaction of three bound spinning wheels of fields in 2D and 3D. I’ll address this in more detail in one of the next papers.

The Beta decay bond radiates releasing properties of mass and its quanta may play a role of identifying the decay regulator that determines the threshold of electron release. A cool question may be. Can that regulator be inactive or deactivated thus stopping the decay process? Does the rate of mono-nucleic hydrogen production alter with changes in initial neutron entropy? ( or how cold its environment is? ) Perhaps someone at Caltech can find that answer.

Below are some links to some extra reading on it and the wonderful thing here is that we start to see how Dark things might exist. Dark energy and or Dark Matter and the properties of mass like gravity.  

Extract from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_neutron_decay

We see energy or properties of mass being transformed into many forms of radiation because this is the simplest path for nature. Radiation being transformed into matter with properties of mass is not so easy.

In previous posts, you may have thought that I was about to show that Dark matter does not exist which may be true enough but just because it’s not necessary, doesn’t necessarily mean that it can’t exist or doesn’t exist.  It can and likely does so we need to find it and verify it.  Please remember that the purpose of these scribbles is to help reduce the uncertainty of the 80-90% requirements of stuff that we simply can’t find in the physical universe.  We need to fix this if Earth’s biome has a place in this universe after our Earth has cycled through her biosphere phase.

If we are to find particles of dark matter then it’s likely we’ll find it in a non-decaying free neutron. Without decaying there is no Beta decay radiating and altering the phase to form an electron envelope so it can’t communicate anything other than mass property of gravity through the geometric contraction of flux volume. Dark energy itself may be represented in what happens in the recently depleted fabric of flux that was used to materialise cold neutrons. It is depleted of some of the field flux that makes up and binds the quarks which means the space beyond our physical universe is not depleted of this flux stuff.

The cumulative effect of an infinity of space outside of our physical universe exerts a cumulative gravitational force that translates into attracting matter outwards from our physical universe. It may be dark but it’s wonderful stuff. Let’s continue with the Cold free Neutron sequence. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_neutron_decay

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/how-long-does-a-neutron-live

https://authors.library.caltech.edu/86242/

So free neutrons start materialising out of the cold flux fabric of space and from the very first moment that the first neutron exists, decay may begin with mass properties of gravity having accumulated in the flux contraction too. As subsequent neutrons form in situ with the first they progressively respond/communicate in gravity and decay. Like hail stones form and then respond according to their environment.

In our labs, we count a half-life of free neutrons of around 15 minutes.  We may want to do some more experiments as some variables may influence this rate such as initial energy plus I would love to see more work done on the byproduct of the mono-nucleic Hydrogen atom, as I haven’t found much information on its transmission or filtration polarity symmetries or interactive behaviours with other elements.  Perhaps in an even colder, lower energy environment too if possible. 

Make a note that mono nuclear hydrogen at the thermal energy level of the experiments produces around 4 parts per million decays which are 1:250,000 or at a scale of 10^-5.  It’s not very many and may be considered insignificant but then we count our hydrogen isotope distribution with protium as the dominant but the deuterium and tritium existing in our universe on a scale of around 10^-6. So the mononucleic Hydrogen may be significant enough to consider learning more about.

The energy of the free neutron during this decay period may play a significant role in the ratio of products produced and the rate at which they are produced. Information that might be handy if we really want to wind back time.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_elements

So we have started our physical universe with at least one pool of free neutrons that have already commenced decaying and gravitationally attracting from the moment they materialised.  It’s a good thing that it takes so long to decay otherwise we might have had too many protons repelling masses and entropy occurring almost instantaneously. Instead, with half of the mass of neutrons decaying some time after their formation, this allows gravity to accumulate neutron masses before the polarity of protons can override the gravity of the system.    

Without more information on the nature of how the thermal energy in the environment influences this rate and the byproduct ratios of decay then things like dark matter may be useful to add to bring the ratio of neutral mass higher than the positive charges of protons repelling and stopping formation but the time of decay may be sufficient anyway.  Perhaps the electron’s charge of the decay also plays a role to reduce the repelling force of protons but the dark matter would be handy and may simply be a particle where some neutrons fail to commence decay.  After all, our measure of decay is done in half-life measures. Perhaps some of the neutrons are not yet actively decaying while others are simply in their various analogue states of decay before the threshold of releasing the electron. 

A neutron that is not decaying has no beta signal. It has no polarity of field charge to cause any field resistance but it does have the properties of mass.  Is this because the quarks found a perfect harmony of symmetry or because the precipitation event produces a binary equivalent of what might be called an antiparticle?  Dark matter would be nice but we can move forward without it for now.  I will just mention a quick note on gravity in this cold neutron precipitation, after all, it is the main primordial driving force behind everything that happens next and through the sequence to the distribution event.

Gravity.  I can’t do this without a mention of exploring how gravity gravitates stuff.

Making matter from a cold field flux means concentrating the flux into a smaller geometry of volume.  So the volume of flux consumed by the contraction, ( not just the quantity of flux but the volume, the apparent boundaries of field flux between the nodes of up or down spins along the apparent strings) deems any space outside of that space of contraction now communicates that contraction along the same media from which it came, but that media itself is now somewhat depleted of the flux material or space where it was. 

The only purer environment that exists now is that which is outside of the reach of any communication of our physical universe. All the fabric in our local space is rationally depleted of the volume of flux.  This allows gravity to act in the way it does. So Einstein was on the money when describing gravity as a geometric contraction of space.  It is still a field communication but it is also a contraction between two nodes of tangled flux with sufficient volumetric contraction of the flux to communicate the tension in the strings albeit there are no strings by the chicken or the egg paradox conundrum as discussed in SSSIII.    

Best I can tell, the Higgs Boson is said to be quanta or a parcel of field energy that binds the proton quarks with gluons and is also said to be responsible for most of the properties of mass in a proton. Once the Boson is released then the properties of mass disperse like magic back into the fabric of space. This may translate into the volume of the field flux expanding. It’s a lovely mental exercise.

In short, all this means is that the pure fabric of space can precipitate neutrons and in the earliest of early universes Zero Degrees Kelvin was its environment. Is Zero Degrees absolutely necessary for this to happen? Perhaps not. But that’s for later. Recall that our physical universe

Phew, alright so we have a pool of decaying neutrons and gravity attracting them. Finally, we get to the beginning of a cool sequence that takes us to the distribution event that provides a possible contributor to the cosmic microwave background radiation. CMBR

There are papers below on why the original Old Cold Big Bang is impossible.  The main takeaway from those is that the original Cold Big Bang has no thermal signature that needs to account for Hubble’s background radiation or the CMBR.  Indeed by the end of this N->…->Li = boom sequence several thermal signatures may result from a single distribution event. The primary distribution event as mentioned above comes from a film of lithium surrounding an active neutron core and thermally insulating the core’s activity from the hydrogen-helium outer shells.  One of the most surprising results from last century’s nuclear tests was the output of Lithium deuteride apparently it was more than double the calculated or expected output and made the biggest blast of all U.S Tests. Deuterium is an isotope of Hydrogen.   in the article below you are looking for the Castle Bravo test in 1954 at the Bikini Atoll.

https://www.sciencealert.com/these-are-the-12-largest-nuclear-detonations-in-history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Big_Bang

COLD BIG BANG - ACOUSTIC PEAK BASED ON DARK MATTER WAS USED TO DISMISS THE COLD BIG BANG

https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~deisenst/acousticpeak/acoustic_physics.html#:~:text=The%20spherical%20shell%20of%20the,the%20gas%205%20to%201.

COLD BIG BANG - 

https://web.archive.org/web/20110610170334/http://www.cosmosportal.org/articles/view/138894/

Astrophysical Journal. 2000  The cosmic microwave background radiation in a cold big bang. 

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/308660

That my scribbles also involve interesting energy exchanges means that I’ve also played around with several energy solutions that may be handy to tinker with in the old deep space tool belt.

I’ll wrap this one up with a nice little 2D diagram of the shells mentioned above and then maybe some more quirky notes.  

If you would like to play around with this sequence, then a periodic table may come in handy as these are the primordial elements being formed from neutron decay products in an increasing gravitational compression environment.  I think the Big Bang forms these ones through a probability function of lightwaves and radiations colliding in a rapidly expanding cooling thermal vacuum similarly as rain or hail might form from pre-existing molecules in saturation. It would make sense in most cases but this is the creation of the particles at a moment before they existed.

Not quite the previous chicken or the egg scenario of thermal oscillations or the mechanisms that make it but it’s close because the probability of collisions occurring reduces as expansions increase beyond a threshold and precipitation stops until the conditions are right again which means the parts/mass/subatomic particles that make up the primary particles remain in solution but just not at saturation or at the thermal conditions to complete the recombination process. Perhaps this is the dark matter? or perhaps the Hot Big Bang was actually a colder creation of matter that later created the radiation..

Either way, this sequence of stuff is one that you may like to consider some more.

So to recap for the diagram, it starts at Zero Degrees Kelvin with the precipitation of free neutrons with mass properties of gravitational attraction. The neutrons are still materialising out of the fabric as gravity begins to form a seed core before the first decay event happens. As time goes on gravity continues to attract more neutrons and most of the decay products including the monoatomic hydrogen, protons, electrons & radiations. The process continues and gravity increases, transitional strata regions exist and we see protium, deuterium and tritium gravitationally collating into shells via density up or out from the neutron core. Further decay processes in this environment form Helium 3 & 4 with further collation.

The last primordial element in this sequence is the precipitation of Lithium 6 and 7 from out of the cold liquid/solid helium hydrogen slushie shells. Lithium is the first metal of this sequence and is solid up to its melting point of 180 degrees Celsius. The Lithium collates by density below the helium shell but atop the active neutron core. The Lithium shell insulates the core from the Helium and core decay processes continue. Thermal energy accumulates under the Lithium shell.

At 180 Deg C of 450 degrees Kelvin the Lithium shell begins melting eventually causing a breach where the cold helium and the hot core meet. The equation-of-state of helium trending to gas plus the high gravity exerts an instantaneous compression of difference triggering a compression of the Lithium and destabilising the neutron in the Lithium nuclide. A chain reaction throughout the Lithium Shell in this system makes for some interesting special effects as it disintegrates and adds a whole lot more thermal and percussive energy to this system.

Please note that Helium is a stable element for its chemistry but still must observe its equations of state and respond accordingly when exposed to 450 degrees Kelvin from its colder liquid state. The nuclear disintegration occurs in situ with deuterium and tritium and a core load of decaying neutrons pre-excited to at least 450 degrees celsius giving us some room for variations in the lithium thermonuclear signature that may contribute to the CMBR or Hubble’s background radiation.

I’d love to include the full version here but this summary is just for some nice light considerations for you to tinker with.  The full version goes into more depth and accounts for ratios we see in nature of around 75%Hydrogen, 24%Helium and 1% other stuff but I would rather get on with what happens after the distribution event.  After all, that’s the stuff we’ll be wanting to predict as a deep space asset we’ll need some Successful Space Stuff if we are to become a Succesful Space Species.

Mineral Distributions Events can be messy.

So, the thermal fission of lithium in situ with deuterium and tritium and also a large quantity of hot high energy free neutrons transferring shock waves and other percussive kinetics distribute matter with considerable outward force.  It is much colder than the Big Bang’s 10^32 degs Celsius but the radiation signature may suggest our observations of thermal signatures come from at least one thermonuclear exchange radiating outward rather than the Hot Big Bang’s accumulation, containment and release mechanisms of the thermal energy in a singularity saturating things and then separating.  

By being distributed out into the cold vacuum of space the materials that formed in heavy gravity are now subject to lower gravity environments. Elemental gravitational compression decreases.  A collation of the expanding system itself with respect to kinetics and also radiation and net charge differences help determine how this system might distribute.  This mechanism having a shell of Lithium is a very primal one that dominates a spheroidal distribution pattern.  Secondary and tertiary mechanisms may see different distribution patterns as we can see later in the formations of galaxies, stars and planets. Perhaps a handy thing to consider.

The original precipitation and nebula-type gravitation collapse may cause some angular momentum in this primary model for it rotate on an axis but it is not necessary for the processes to occur as suggested above.       

Quirky notes

Multiple universes or nodes?

Mathematical multiverse theories with multiple dimensions may be cool but to assume that in the Infinitum of space for the conditions of neutron formation to not occur anywhere else would be ignoring the Infinitum of space and if the conditions occur once then they can occur again but just not in the same place at the same time and place in space as a different dimension.

The precipitation event of neutrons may occur in different regional places in the Infinitum of the universe and may also result in more than one node where this type of sequence can commence.  Furthermore, the precipitation event may not be an isolated singular event in one local region either, much like our weather system, rain or hail may be determined by conditions in the fabric of space itself.  Our background radiation may be contributed to by multiples of smaller colder big bangs than the one Hot Big Bang.

As we venture deeper into space and away from material environments we may find the fabric conditions a little different than what we are used to in our solar system, in our galaxy or even in our universe. It depends on what was removed from the local environment/fabric of space to form the mass.

Black holes and other dark matters.

Yes, properties of mass can accumulate but there seems to be more fantasy in timescapes than reality going on to describe these.  If non-decaying neutrons can exist to provide for Dark matter then one might expect clumps of this stuff to form without any resistance. Are these our black holes?  Maybe. Or in the Hot Big Bang it might be massive stuff left in the fabric that didn’t collide and recombine at the time.

I like dark matter but then intuitively we should be finding evidence of it accumulating in all centres of mass or gravity even apparent ones. Unless the greater gravity field attracts it more. For its lack of ability to interact with other fields or cause resistance then we should see evidence of this being exchanged at the centre of the wobbles of binary star systems. Or even see this when two matters collide which means we start redefining the classical physics of transfers of energy during collisions. The Dark matter was resurrected to try to explain the phenomena of orbital velocities found at the edge of galaxies that don’t match our classical physics.  The search for dark matter keeps more scientists and engineers in work than solving the model with classical physics.   More about this later..  

Even though I enjoy modelling the universe from an origins perspective they are speculative at best and belong in the past where we can’t live.  We live in the present and for all intents and purposes, we need to prepare for the future so the purpose of these scribbles is to get down to the nitty-gritty of predicting deep space assets being formed in the future and in order to do that we need to consider the systems in play now to make better predictions. Otherwise, we all lose.  

As mentioned in Successful Space Species I,II & III the gravitational nebular collapse theory does have some applications as seen above in the primordial precipitation of neutrons and more on small scales as we will explore later but is really not common enough to the gravitational model simply can’t account for all the distribution of minerals and thermal vectors throughout our galaxy, our solar system and our planets. At least not in the way that it’s applied especially with that 80-90% dark matter uncertainty in the modelling. The next few posts will explore this further. 

Take care, I know this stuff is heady so it’s really nice to have you along on this adventure of my scribbles.  There’s more to come too so bookmark this site and share it around to get more folks enjoying it. It’s a different kind of distraction at least.

Cheers

Murry.     

Send me a message if you like and that video I mentioned above is below the form. :)

Successful Space Species Message and Response.

I sometimes forget stuff.

Nice I got a cool message on social media in response to my blog Successful Space Species.

Here’s the link to that blog.

https://www.murryrhodes.com/our-place-in-space/2022/10/7/successful-space-species-nbsp

In case you want to skip reading the linked article above. The gist of that article is that we need to do better in our science than having 80-90% dark matter in our universe formation theories/models if our species is to survive in deep space. Currently, the gravitational collapse of nebula dominates our modelling of how things form. It also mentioned that our DNA might need to be engineered to suit to the long periods of travel in the no-gravity environment of deep space.

Trying to solve the gravity problem has not been easy and it has quite an interesting history. So the message sent to me reminded me of what we all do and don’t know about stuff until we do and the fun we can have by learning stuff about stuff from more than just how Hollywood or commercial science fiction tries to resolve problems about stuff.

The Message.

Friend.. “Haha, cool. interesting theory, but, that’s why nearly all sci-fi shows have them in artificial gravity if we’re going to spend a long time in space we would need to do that, and it’s not as hard as you think, it’s simply as easy as spinning the ship in a circle lol that’s why they have models of that type of ship in lots of sci Fis such as the recent one passengers so bone density decay and other problems, wouldn’t be a problem and we’d still function and evolve as regular humans would in gravity.”

I sometimes forget just how influential our movies and mainstream media are when it comes to educating us. I love seeing the big spaceships burn their retro rockets to get spaceships rolling so everyone can party in space and live and work some sort of semi-normal lives around the script writer’s narratives. The first time I learned the concept of centripetal motion as a way of solving the gravity problem I learned about the solution of spinning a ship long before I even knew there was a problem.

I remember Stanley Kubric’s 2001 A Space Odyssey was my first cool moment of seeing artificial gravity in space with someone jogging laps around the ship. It was very cool, super cool and yep, for me, spinning a ship and generating centripetal motion was the answer to artificial gravity in space. For sure..

Many Sci-fi shows present the same solution and I recall watching several space documentaries and reading about it in textbooks showing various theories of solutions to making artificial gravity so with that type of reinforcement being educated to us all it seemed like a no-brainer that artificial gravity wasn’t going to be a problem. Simply get the ship to start spinning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_wheel_space_station

I don’t remember exactly when it was, but I put that scenario to the old grey matter test many years ago and considered, beyond Hollywood and special effects just how this process might work in space. Indeed centripetal force of a rotating ship creating acceleration through circular motion wasn’t a problem, that’s just normal classical physics and we can test that down here on Earth by looping a bucket of water around in verticle circles. Yep, it’s real enough. What was bothering me though, was how the ship would respond if you moved stuff around as you would if you were living and working in space.

We balance car tyres with tiny leads to stop them from wobbling and breaking off and rolling down the street or a piece of rolled-up blue tack to balance out a wobbly squeaking ceiling fan to avoid it wobbling and possibly flying off and making a mess of things. Consider what might happen If you move a 1kg block around one of these spinning spaceships or maybe 10 Kg or even 100 Kg since some people might have that kind of mass and so we as people doing our day-to-day things like to move around. Can you picture it in your mind’s eye? Or perhaps take a look at the top picture and consider how a spinning spaceship might respond if the dude at C decided to move sideways toward the edge of the wheel?

How did you go? Did your mind’s eye see the whole thing out of balance and start wobbling? Nice, yeah me too. If you don’t have a precise counterweight to maintain the balance say at (A) in the picture above then the whole spinning motion starts to wobble. It wobbles and wobbles and wobbles and because it is in free space without any kind of anchor such as where its apparent axis is at (B) and in Zero-G then it wobbles completely out of control and sends the wheel into a rotating squabbling wobble with moments of momentum and 360 degrees of freedom up, down and all around.

Perhaps your mind’s eye can see what happens to all the stuff inside that ship. I picture some kind of a Super Space Smoothie if the ship didn’t break apart. So some serious tech would be needed to counter this type of thing. The tech would likely cost us heaps in energy just to maintain the balance. Energy consumption for long-term deep space might not be affordable.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20130121-worth-the-weight

Expensive is a word. Especially when something goes out of balance and blows stuff up. Is it possible to make a spinning wheel in space? Yes. Will it provide some artificial gravity? Yes. If someone shifts their weight in the system will everyone else go flying around and make a spaceship smoothie? Yes.

A tubular structure has been suggested and yet the same distribution of weight problem exists. It’s a spinning wheel and if the wheels aren’t balanced then they shake and brake stuff. Up in space the ship will twirl and swirl away from its balance very quickly because unlike here on Earth there are no anchors or axles to absorb and partially influence the momentum as it moves stuff around.

Is it doable for a long-term mission? Yes as long as the balancing technology can counter everybody’s movements all of the time. Can we spare that energy? Hmm. maybe but maybe not. Perhaps some gravity-type machine can be installed for temporary treatment of no gravity effects on our biology but for the safety of not wobbling the ship into a spin and very possibly everyone into a space smoothy or the ship into smithereens then everyone would have to be strapped in and strapped down so nothing moves while undergoing the gravity treatment.

That was my spin on the spinning ships of gravity.

So I replied to the message in a shorter version of the above and in return the response to my reply was something about Star Trek and other wonderful sci-fi stuff using special technology to generate gravity and how the G forces of alien spaceships and anti-gravity type machines and devices might produce gravity. I love that stuff. Aliens or just backyard science folks tinkering with antigravity stuff is all awesome, it’s the stuff that makes life such a joy to be a part of. Are we alone? can we go at light speed, find wormholes or make artificial gravity?.. Yep, love it.

By now you probably realise that in my world every card remains on the table of possibility regardless of popular opinions or other influences because until they can be ruled out then the possibilities always remain possible regardless of any associated probabilities or popular beliefs or sadly even the mandated beliefs. That I haven’t got any video footage of aliens or found any souvenirs or artifacts from space proving they did or do exist doesn’t mean we close our eyes and pretend that they can’t, don’t or never did.

After all, if we do succeed to become a successful space species then our great great great great great X 10^10 grand kiddies may prove to be aliens to some other form of inquisitive outward-looking sky watchers like we are now. What they will do and how they respond will be a question for them to answer. So anyway, back to the artificial gravity stuff. Is it possible?.. Yep, it’s still on the table of possibilities..

The next few papers I’m writing look at our space stuff with much less fluff. It’s going to be called Successful Space Stuff. I may pop a link here when they’re done. We’ll be exploring stuff that may have been overlooked in our rush to advance in science and so it presents a sequence of stuff that may have started this whole universe of stuff. Amidst that stuff is a look at the possibility of deactivating a free neutron decay process. It touches on Dark Matter and Dark energy and possible suspects of non-material stuff with properties of mass like gravity. Interesting stuff.

It’s all related to gravitational stuff so a method of making artificial gravity is also a card on the table of possibilities but even before making some kind of artificial gravity device one might consider what it might mean in deep space If you had one. All of a sudden you make a gravitational field with the same gravitational pull of our planet Earth. Our atmosphere shields us heaps from falling rocks and stuff so if you are going to cruise around space with that gravity field on then you want to spend some resources on figuring out how to shield your ship and if you can make such a shield while in deep space because you’ll need to keep replacing the old ones a lot more than normal.

Between protons and rocks and other particles and radiations, those shields need to do some pretty insane shielding already then if you add a gravity field attracting moons and rocks and other things accelerating toward you and or your ship toward it then our shields will wear out pretty quick. It will play tricks on our navigation too. Or at least they might, I wouldn’t know for certain myself as I never had a gravity machine so never needed a shield.

So ultimately, before we get to have cool things like warp drives or wormhole generators or even gravity accelerators then we can only really make preparations on the stuff we do have. Then we use every bit of the deep space environment of space as best we can to utilise assets and survive longer. There are quite a few assets out there if you know what to look for and how to exploit them, like turning kinetic collisions and proton radiations into usable energy. It’s a bit like bush tucker but in deep space.

And doing it all in some old bunky retrofitted pyramid cube kind of way. It doesn't have to be Hollywood but perhaps more like the old Biblical NOAH’s Ark. Focussing on what might be more successful than just something that’s shiny and goes really fast. I mean the bible story wasn’t Noa’s ski boat. Something cobbled well enough together to go the distance and get us to where we’re going.

So as much as I’d love to see the engineering of energy-efficient solutions to some of the problems we face biologically in no gravity, it might be wise to also invest in further DNA research to see if our biology can be engineered to better survive deep space.

DNA engineering is one tool we have developed quite well but the ethics of such research in engineering us to better suit deep space is what it is. It’s dangerous and may cause all sorts of experimental suffering to subjects. Our continued research and refinement on nuclear weapons and other articles of war might guide us toward our ethical reasoning in comparison to tinkering with our DNA but of course, one is for preserving Earth’s life for a future in the universe and the other is about blowing up as much stuff as we can. Our social ethics and ethics of war seem to be as fickle as a pickle in a pie. It’s one of the aspects of why I question if we may ever become a Succesful Space Species.

Anyway, it was nice to get a message like that. There’s heaps of stuff about all this stuff I write that may not be fully right or wrong so getting feedback helps clarify stuff about stuff and learn other stuff or remind me about stuff I’d gorfotten.

The next series, Successful Space Stuff delivers the beginning of the universe from a cold start rather than the all-popular Hot Big Bang and the cold one even has a thermal signature and some other very cool stuff going on even beyond Zero degrees Kelvin. It also explores the gravitational nebula applications a little more and delivers an alternative approach where the vectors resolve with less uncertainty, and dark matter and dark energy also get a bit more consideration for the what, where and how too. :) Some energy stuff and maybe even an expansion of the engineering stuff with the vessel.. This stuff is fun, I hope you enjoy it too..

I just watched a cool recent video on some stuff. 18 October 2022.

I see the old nebula theory is still influencing things perhaps more than it should so it will be interesting to write this and see how things develop. With the James web space telescope up and running and with dozens of others already up there we should really be able to start pricing and piecing this puzzle together. The quantity of high-definition data is amazing and so I only hope that our interpretations aren’t gonna remain adhered to old theories for no other reason than funding or pride or politics of some sort. Getting this tool in our belt sooner will mean finding more advanced problems to solve with plenty of other jobs for folks to carry on with once it’s in the bag. The longer we have the tool then the longer we can practise and hone our skills at asset prediction for improving our chances of deep space success.

Anton does a great job of delivering some up-to-date stuff about the official science stuff. Enjoy

Cheers

Muz

P.S Leave a message if you like. :)

Successful Space Species? III

Our primordial chook or goog dilemma of the Big Bang.

MW Rhodes © 20221014

The giants of science and their great Big Bang, Primordial Chicken, Something from Nothing for real.,

Chicken or the egg?  =  Thermal radiation oscillations or the mechanism that transmits it? Big Bang votes for Chicken, I’m thinking about an Egg..

Want to have some fun? Read this, decide for yourself and leave your answer in the form at the very bottom of this post.

The chook or the goog? There’s a form below that you can leave your answer on.

According to nature, chooks evolved from a goog-laying reptilian type critter. In the beginning of the universe this may not be far from it either in physics terms.

It would be interesting to know.

Welcome to my scribbles. 

If I may,  before you read on please read the following entries.

https://www.murryrhodes.com/our-place-in-space/2022/10/7/successful-space-species-nbsp

https://www.murryrhodes.com/our-place-in-space/2022/10/12/successful-space-species-ii

The Giants of Science and their great Big Bang.

Georges Lemaitre was on a path then some science gods stepped in and contributed with their brilliance, influence and authority.  The reinforcement of these gods and the authority they wielded altered the path Lemaitre was on and it turned a simple cold big bang into a smokin’ hot 10^32 degrees celsius or hotter Big Bang than the universe could possibly ever create. The Ev of S-bonds notwithstanding.  

I sometimes wonder how this original model might have evolved had these gods not stepped in.

Of course, I’m being silly by calling them gods and there are lots of ironies one could poetically play with but they were the giants of science.  Hubble, Einstein and other gods gave it their stamps of approval with their own contributions and considerations.      

A few hundred years ago, the Royal society was established with a code of arms and a motto “Nullius in verba,” which translates to “take no one’s word for it.” basically it means that the authorities dictating the knowledge of what things are and how things be, may not be as correct as the authority dictates them to be.  

In today's fickle pickle sociopolitical environment this might be considered a society of TinHat theorists who were average everyday people but who were actively interested in finding out about the nature of everything and who weren’t happy with the official explanations of things.  It’s the society that brought us so many wonderful discoveries of our natural world and new questions to ask.

As time went on and the value and power of good knowledge became apparent the motto of this society then became “Conidunt en scientia” or “ Trust in Science”.   Prior to this TinHat society the authority of knowledge was the Holy church and their slogan was “Confidio in deo” or “Trust in god”.

So I was being silly by saying that the science gods stepped in but perhaps poetic parallels exist.  Here’s a nice little article on that history path of science.

https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/10/10/the-transformations-of-science

Hi, I’m Murry let’s explore some of the science that came long after Georges Lemaitre presented his Cold Big bang hypothesis. I’m going to ignore the gods authority for now and see how the Cold Big Bang theory might have evolved given the century of science since its inception. 

One of my Primordial Bush Chooks. Her name is Begerk.

Why am I doing this?  Because I can and it’s fun and because there remains a chicken or the egg conundrum in today’s Big Bang that niggles at me. 

The chicken is thermal radiation and the egg is the mechanism that makes it oscillate.  Science mandates that an environment of more than 10^32 degrees celsius of thermal radiation needed to exist before the recombination of sub-atomic bonds can occur. It may be hotter by now.

Consider this amount of energy to transform the entirety of a universe whose edge we still have yet to discover. There are videos below that better describe the reasoning for the chicken and as much as I love chickens I love baby eggs too.  

The conundrum is, that these bonds are the mechanism that makes thermal radiation that makes the bonds that make the radiation.  Hence a chicken ‘n’ egg scenario. A good enough reason to play around with some alternatives that make the thermal radiation rather than just have them magically pre-exist.

I honestly can only think of one way to make thermal energy without the mechanisms and it requires a probability function that shows the chance is almost infinitely as close to zero as the natural world can muster plus then we run into the problem of accumulating all the thermal energy into one or more singularities and then containing it. Containment is a problem too because then somehow ignoring the forces containing it or introducing another new thing to then release that containment force/environment.

So I’ve gone down a different path that starts cold without relying on contained radiation that couldn’t exist until the mechanisms that make it does. Indeed stuff that contains the potential for such radiation but has not yet transformed into that form of energy.

We can produce thermal radiation via matter and gravity easily but turning radiation into matter takes some doing on a path of much greater resistance. I think this grants the levity to explore the other side of this Big Bang and consider that matter came from an environment before thermal radiation existed. This translates to an environment of Zero Degrees, Kelvin in a purer flux of space.  I prefer the path of least resistance as do all the laws of nature and so I hope these notes do not cause too much resistance. 

 My apologies, if you don’t know who Georges Lemaitre is, he was a physics teacher and a priest who started toying with the expansion idea in winding the observable universe’s clock back to the beginning of time to the moment of creation.  Basically, he got the ball rolling with a cold Big Bang.

Technology for studying our cosmology was improving and new observations came to light where the expansion of the universe was being reported by observers.  One of the gods of science Edwin Hubble made an official observation of it and confirmed the phenomena then he engaged in the theory of winding the clock back with Lemaitre. He added the heat of all the stars cumulatively into the Unity of the Big Bang and made it smoking hot.  With the recent developments in nuclear science, he predicted that if a big bang were to occur then it was possibly atomic in nature and would show thermal radiation somewhere in the background. 

A little further on the possible background radiation was discovered and so this reinforced Hubble’s suggestion and contribution to the Hot Big Bang.  This pretty much sealed the deal that the Big Bang had to be Hot.  Further nuclear science suggests it needed to be hotter than 10^32b degrees celsius to account for the recombination of subatomic bonds to occur. That figure has grown I believe.  

Einstein’s brand as a god of science was well established and energy, matter, time and gravity was right down his alley so he also met with Lemaitre on the theory and with a handshake that says enough, reinforced the theory.    The tragedy of Einstien’s endorsement is that by accepting the Hot Big Bang this may have blindsided him from his search for a grander more unified theory. One that has been right in front of us for quite a while but just a dot or two not connected. It’d be like our ancestors trying to figure out the magic of how to make fire and by the time someone connected the dots they learned that the materials were always present and easily accessible for thousands of years of searching and yet connecting those dots of rubbing the sticks didn’t happen until it did. Anyway, I’ll explore this further in Successful Space Stuff III. By that time, stuff won’t need too much splaining.

That’s enough history for now. 

Let me introduce you to a sequence that does not require more thermal energy than the natural universe has ever revealed to us.  Our measurements and extrapolations of Ev for breaking nuclear bonds may not be nature’s path of least resistance.   Indeed by the path of least resistance, it’s far easier for us to make radiation from matter than it is to make matter from radiation.  Maybe nature is hiding a conservation card up its sleeve.  Near Zero Degrees Kelvin, our physics gets a little unpredictable. Bonds get weaker and things start to fall apart as atoms get closer to this final equation of state threshold. It’s anti-intuitive because thermodynamics normally sees atoms/elements bond closer as the temperature drops. We also see bonds get weaker as temperatures rise which is the common understanding and origin of intuition of adding more thermal energy to the big bang to account for the separation of subatomic particles from the nuclide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_zero

Here’s a little philosophy. 

Matter or the stuff with the properties of mass is little more than a tightly wound field flux. How did it get that way?  How does a quanta of a uniform field come into existence as a quanta?  At Zero degrees Kelvin the flux exists in perfect harmony, balanced to entropy.  That quantisation or parcelling of such a field can occur without a mechanism means that the field itself is exerting something of itself onto itself.  The theoretical graviton is a parcel but it can’t be segmented into a parcel without some force or exertion acting on a flux containing the properties that roll into or get concentrated into that parcel. Chicken or egg?  

Radiations of thermal or electromagnetic or electroweak fields or others can be observed in nature to be transmitted, to be transported and then to be transformed by the harmonics present in the waveforms in sympathy to the fields tightly wound in the bonds or other polarised parcels.  If the harmonics do not exist in the signal then the constructive harmonies do not respond.  Polarities or phase shifts away from the natural symmetries are those that can communicate along the flux for its own harmonic tendency toward the path of least resistance.    I know, I’m not very good at philosophy.

Philosophy can go beyond infinity so I’ll stop now 

Here is a poem for you and then we can go on and apply some physics. 

https://www.murryrhodes.com/our-place-in-space/2022/10/2/something-from-nothing

 Primordial Chicken.

Where the chicken or the egg provides a conundrum of one object cancelling the other out in the order of things, the ability to get something from nothing is it own conundrum and yet that we observe fields telling us that the stuff of those fields is not nothing but something and so what can we do but conclude that nothing never existed and tinker with what little of something we have even if it looks like nothing.    Of course we can redefine the word nothing to exclude some things but then you’d have to be a god with authority to do that.   

I don’t want to get stuck at the beginning of all things coming from nothing because it is a complex thing to solve and describe and once we get past the beginning we then have a physical universe to try to understand or describe and do so while observing the verifiable laws of nature. 

Below is a cool video on the Schwinger effect it’s very close to a model that I started drawing some time ago.  Enjoy the video, I’ll make a comment afterwards and then we can move on from this nothingness stuff and see some stuff about something.

Visual of a few primary symmetries.

I was unaware of the Schwinger effect while I was toying with my own symmetry scribbles so I was really happy to find out about it in the video above.  It has some striking parallels in the Hex symmetry I was toying with but in a 3D XYZ three-dimensional configuration beginning with the primary numerical symmetry of (one) in a unit sphere but where the hexagonal symmetry of six results from squashing a large number of unit spheres with a uniform inward force where the spheres tend toward the path of least resistance morphing the (one) spheres into Hexagonal prisms.  

In the diagram, stack A on B on A for 3D where blue and green represent a binary for up & down spin requirements. Not indicative but exploratory where boundaries are only representations of apparent as they are transitional fields.  

I don’t much like the position of the diamond in this 2D Schwinger as it introduces a weakness in the symmetry with weakened spots along the long edges.  Besides, we don’t really have a 2D universe but an XYZ three-dimensional one.  Adding or subtracting dimensions to our universe seems like the stuff that only gods can do when forcing things to fit their narrative so I try to stay on the XYZ. I may use the weakness of the diamond symmetry somewhere else as a weakness may be required.

I’ll share more notes on my nothing-from-nothing observations in a separate scribble post, it’s fun but can get very scribbly.  Let’s move on from all this nothing stuff.  I’ve got something to show you and you may like it.   It’s just a sequence of stuff that happens after the something-from-nothing happened that gave us the initial cold stuff that started unwinding a tightly wound bound bond decaying the properties of mass tending back to its original harmonious entropy and producing the oscillations of thermal energy that exist in this physical universe.  

The end of nothing happened and something came to exist.  It started in an environment of Zero Degrees Kelvin and by the time something arrived, there was still no thermal radiation in the universe because the mechanisms that makes it haven’t started making it yet.  But the very moment this sub atomic bond formed out the cold low energy of nothingness, it did start to produce some kind of oscillations that we call the weak force. It’s beta decay.  It’s produced from the bond of quarks which are the tightly wound field flux.   

The dominant natural symmetry of three played a role in rolling the field flux.  It’s dominant because although there can be some variation in production the main production of such particles occurs in threes. 

The polarity of fields such as those identified in the binary properties of quarks ( Up or Down ) comes from the squashing of these unit spheres which in itself provides the foundations of polarity.  

In a two dimension anecdote, if we take three wheels touching side by side on a flat surface the wheels will not roll.  Remove the flat surface and the wheels roll freely if given a nudge.  We notice the two outer wheels rotate in the same direction, the inner wheel rotates in the opposite direction. Our hexagonal units are contracted flux bundles of old fields and so they contain more flux per unit volume than the media of flux from which they came. Up,Up and Down three units, two phases.  It’s classical physics on a small scale.

To get a feel for nodes and primary symmetries in field flux we could visualise strings as they represent certain apparent forces that we are more familiar with. Here’s something of the like below. It’s not saying that strings exist and this has very little to do with the probability functions of string theory, this is just a fun visual exercise. OR you may like to try it with strings. Some trials can be anchored and some not maybe even some elastic ones to add a little spice to the recipe. :)    

Are the flux fields strings?  Not unless there exists an analogue sequential bonding field which then requires its own mechanism to exist which is another chicken or egg scenario. Perhaps the apparent boundaries of the field in a particular state and our demand of probability distribution are applicable when working with it but other than this, string boundaries are only mathematically apparent possible boundaries. So too are hadrons but it’s the tight field interaction and resistance that defines the boundary distinctly.

Speaking of Hadrons.  The particle being produced by these bonding quarks in the symmetry of three is a free neutron.  I know. It goes against the common theory of squashing an electron into a proton to balance and conserve the charge but how about the conservation of mass?  This was a niggling thing for me as you’ll see below. 

Our current science shows that Free neutrons decay into an electron with apparent mass, some beta mass which has 10x the mass of an electron and leaves a proton.  So a proton is just a depleted neutron and the magical thing here is that the electron is effectively a phase-shifted charge of the neutron system leaving the system now oppositely charged to the electron. A binary system, like polarity but separated.  It’s quite amazing really. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_neutron_decay

So the niggling thing about squashing an electron and proton together to form a neutron is the missing mass of the beta mass. The beta mass or weak force seems to have been ignored in the presence of gravity.  Supplying the Beta radiations for something like a neutron star is a complexity that nature may be able to achieve in some of today’s physical environments but on a universal scale to account for the number of neutrons in our universe may not be a path of least resistance in the early universe.  

Basically meaning that the neutron star is said to be the result of an Iron galaxy core gravity being sufficient to squash an electron into a proton in these Iron cores. From where the beta radiation comes?.. Perhaps from the decaying neutrons in the system.  It’s a chicken or the egg again on several levels.         

Ok, say we’ve summarised some science and added a few concepts that don’t agree with the authoritative science but this must be the case if we are to explore new things.  Besides this just leads to a possible pathway from the original cold big bang but with some additional stuff that Lemaitre didn’t have access to at the time.

I’ll finish up by leaving you with a sequence that I’ll describe in further detail in later posts.  

This sequence begins from the very moment that the cold emptiness of space begins to Quasi precipitate neutrons out of the fabric of space.  Quasi precipitate because I don’t know how to make Zero Degrees Kelvin any colder and average precipitation requires cooling or media saturation in order to achieve a new equation of state threshold as observed in the macro world.  

N= free Neutron, not fNitrogen.. 

fN->H->He->Li = Primary mineral distribution event.                  

So the chicken of the egg? It’s just a bit of fun. Here are some videos that explain the Hot Big Bang plus a few problems we seem to be facing in our progress in science. As long as my writings may seem consider these presentations. It’s a long topic to explore. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle%27s_wheel_paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_superposition

Successful Space Species? II

Successful Space Species II

MW Rhodes © 20221012

Our ancient TinHats, Your place in space & What are our odds? 

Part 1. An introduction.

Love these crocodiles. When it comes to evolution and habitable environments to live in, getting it right the first time saves a lot of fluffing around, energy and scrabbling for survival. While most species undergo significant changes to adapt to changing environments or ecological systems the crocodile stays where the water is warmer all year round and food can be easily snapped up in the water or off the land. It applies to just about every aspect of life including the life of science and theories.

In a nutshell, The Royal Society was founded by a group of TinHat conspiracy theorists who were busy trying to learn things and they got tired of being told by the mainstream of how things work based on long held beliefs, theories and opinions. Forming a group with a moto “Nullius in verba,” in English means “take no one’s word for it.” Outside of the nutshell, it’s a bit more complex than that and further below is a link to an interesting read by Geof Anders on the Transformations of Science which is where I found the Nullius in verba stuff. It’s a nice historical read and little more formal than my scribbles.

History shows that we do a lot of fluffing around because we can. We’ve enjoyed a surplus of energy and resources for life and of life while developing on this planet but if we fluff around with such complex niceties while travelling through deep space then we might just find ourselves on the universe’s extinction list.

You may recall from a previous post “Successful Space Species?”  something like “I am ever the optimist that science can prevail but am just not sure if it will.” I’m not sure because our institutions still do a lot of fluffing around. Fluffing around includes things like corruption and collusion as even the most honourable of institutes are susceptible to our human flaws. The fluffing around causes a detriment to progress.

Looking back at ancient history and the origins of the holy church it seems to me that it started out as an institution of knowledge for the people to help communities grow and then it became a complex entity under its own administrations or regulations of righteousness. Perhaps this happened in response to ensuring its own survival amidst a history of two millennia of different colourful leaderships of different mobs of people.

The old testament looks to be a collection of science and social questions that was written for educated orators to read and tell the stories in ways that people remember. Mirakles of mighty magic trigger an immediate response of disbelief which in itself means someone is engaged in the content, engaged to try to point out what is wrong with something, perhaps like your engagement in the use of the letter k rather than a c in the word miracle. We love correcting people and we remember more for it. This is a primal survival mechanism and we exploit it to gain attention and highlight things for memory as a memory tool.

The impossibility of NOAH’s Ark in all its detail makes it memorable even for those not prepared to worship the gospels, perhaps especially for those not prepared to worship the gospels as it still delivers a nice warning of being prepared to save your best breeding stock to start over with. Just in case something goes down.

But I’m not here to go through the history of science or religion but to just point out an awareness that our fluffing around has its place and purpose for the good of things but it may also hinder our progress as it has done in the past. I’ll show you how it affected progress in cosmology down below.

I cringe sometimes when watching interviews of cosmology, reading journals or studying the goings on of field theories and quanta and particle accelerators and net-energy fusion projects and other science stuff. On one hand, we are so far behind the eightball that poor scientists seem to really need more funding for everything. On the other hand, given the past investments balanced against the pool of genius solving the problems, progress seems a little slow and I wonder if we are just playing a complex version of the Pied piper.

Speaking of the Pied piper and musical things. I’d like try a little something and I’d love if you played along.

This may be a longer read than I was planning so here’s an idea for you, you may like it. Click this bold link >>MUSIC<<. or the piano moon image on the left. It opens a page on my website to a music player. Press play and then come back here and start reading. It’s just a little light background music of a few original songs I whipped up earlier. :) It should go the distance and I promise there will be no rat plagues.

Either way, I hope you enjoy your reading.

Let’s get back to being a successful space species. I have some notes to show you soon that you may enjoy either as something new to learn from or just as entertainment of fiction. In the spirit of “Nullius in verba,” the notes I’ll be sharing are not recitals or polishings of the current theories but something out of a different box. I always observe the natural laws of conservation but certainly, Nullius in Verba, do not take my word for it.

Before I post those notes, I’ve written what’s below as an introduction of myself to you. You’ll see how I approach knowledge and connect the dots. I do reference some of what I write but as you may have already guessed I’m not the most formal of writers. The references are for you if you want to learn more or just check facts or the best knowledge available at the time of publishing.

So enjoy the music and I hope you enjoy this blog. there’s music, questions you can engage in and answer, a movie of the moon zooming past us, a firey witch hunt of our ancient TinHats and a mental exercise that puts you in the driver’s seat of this planet. :) Enjoy.

The Blog.

Approx 45minute read.

If we are to be a successful space species then the prediction of assets to exploit in space is a tool that will need to be refined to far greater accuracies than the current theories that describe 80-90% gravity missing unless adding dark matter. Knowing where things are now is nice which we can do really well with all our investment in the engineering projects on telescopes and other toys but by the time we get to the assets we see now, then they will likely have cycled and may no longer be ripe for the picking.

I know that science can prevail. I’ll show you some stuff in some later posts but for now, in this one, I just want to explore why I’m just not sure if our science will prevail for all its fluffing around.

Our science is determined by more than just the scientific method as politics, cultural conventions and economics influence things too and they have been influencing our knowledge matrix for millennia. There’s no point in jumping up and down in surprise at secret squirrel societies or other wonderments of our culture as they are founded for good but they can also be barriers to our successes.

I do hope for the success of life in deep space and I know physically it’s doable but looking back at history our own sociopolitical wrinkles may trip us up. We really are a fickle pickle of a critter and the sum total of all the shame that ever was would be upon us humans if we don’t succeed in deep space. The natural thing for all life to do is to adapt and survive new environments. Crocodiles are simple critters.

We’re complex critters with complex ways and our complexities may lead to our end of days. 

Modelling Big Bangs, gravitational collapses of nebula and thermal, physical and mineral distributions so far is scarily inaccurate in the current public arena of info so if my scribbles help improve the odds of success in deep space scenarios then YAY or if they simply entertain folks in a fictional way then YAY again.  It’s YAY or YAY either way. :) So I hope there’s something for you to learn here but most importantly I hope you have a little fun. Life is too short otherwise :) I’m happy to amuse folks on all matters of energy dark included.

Hark, is that music I hear?.. Nice, and thanks for playing my tunes. Let’s go back in your time.

Think back to when you first learned about the planets orbiting the sun. For me, it was in primary school.  The teacher taught the history of how the world believed the Earth was flat and we were the centre of the universe and then proceeded with the modern superior heliocentric model.

The lesson was delivered with a sense of shame or dumbness on our ancestors’ part for believing in something so silly as our flat earth being the centre of the universe. It was like a vanity competition of self-serving selfishness of centrality being used to describe the driving reason why our ancestors believed the world was flat and central to the universe. Below I’ll show you that it had more to do with observational evidence than vanity but indeed this insanity of vanity does play a limiting role in all sorts of ways.

The insanity of vanity played a role back then and it still plays a role today but just under a different banner of righteousness and it still interferes with our progress in several branches of science today. We have spent billions on gaining more evidence and data as we did back in the Ptomolemy days in various currencies but with such low quality interpretations the quantity of high-quality data doesn’t improve things other than the quality of the data. You can’t polish a piece of lead into gold. Well lead to gold with some elbow grease may be possible but I was being polite. You can’t polish a piece of…. whatever I hope you know the saying and get the drift.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_models_of_the_Solar_System

Ptolomists had more than a millennium of time invested in gathering, refining and polishing quality data but simply couldn't bring themselves to shift away from long-held interpretations of the conventional wisdom. This shaming for dumbness seems to be a common or systemic practice in our culture of learning and I’m not a fan of it as it only reinforces a culture of its own vanity with budding seeds of ignorance that can become lore reinforcing this insanity, this blight on partially paralysing progress.

The limiting outcomes of this blight in our culture can be observed in our history.

Nicolas Copernicus was a successful man of his day with a colourful life of business, ingenuity and religion.  He died as an old man and only months prior to dying he published the most controversial paper in the cosmology of our modern times.  It was the paper that first introduced the heliocentricity of our planets relative to the sun.  I sometimes wonder if he had deliberately waited until he knew his life was near its end before publishing such a paper.  He was a smart, successful and well-respected man, so why wait to publish?

Perhaps living a long, happy non-molested life is a fair enough incentive.  The publication gave rise to heretical societies supporting the theory.  The institutes and authorities of most of the western world knowledge were not amused and people’s heads quite literally often rolled, or worse for heresy back in those days. ( more on the worse below )

Nicolas was a smart man and lived a long fruitful life and then at the end, he published what may otherwise have been an early death sentence. I wonder how old he was when he first observed the dots of heliocentricism and realised the trouble he would be in if he published it. How he must have cringed when observing the many ways folks would bend and mould perfectly good evidence to fit into the then-authorised conventional wisdom.

They say Nicolas figured to the heliocentricity independent of any ancient influence. It’s hard to know the truth of everything but multiple invention and thoughts and ideas is common enough. Here’s a link to the ancient link of the heliocentric stuff. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos

I imagine in his dying moments he would have enjoyed envisioning the turmoil his paper would create. The conversations his peers would have argued over and all the cries of heresy echoing in the chambers. Apparently, as the story goes, he was found dead in his bed, with a copy of his publication on his chest. What a nice way to go. Old and resolved. I doubt he cared much about confirmation against worshippers or peer reviews as maths often resolves a clear picture without needing fantastic fudging or adding new dimensional requirements if the science is interpreted correctly and hindsight often shows all of us the obviousness of the truth but it’s only obvious after the truth becomes the obvious truth. I dare say he knew it was robust and significant.

“It’s easy” ( meaning it’s obvious to everyone ) is one of the sure markers that whoever uses it as a teaching tool in explaining a thing that they themselves may not know the content beyond their own parrot learned lessons. There is nothing easy about knowing stuff that you simply don’t know and it’s even less easy discovering a thing and then figuring out how to navigate the politics, rhetoric and pushback of a system for it to become the next obvious truth of a thing. Anyway, let’s get back to space stuff.

A little further on in time an engineer and science teacher Gallileo Gallilee learned of some science of light and lenses and so he engineered a device that would make distant warships more visible as well as show the planets in our night sky with more detail than ever before. Kind of like Hubble, James Webb Space Telescope and a history of many other funded devices improving the quality of our visuals and ever-growing data bank.  

He was well positioned in the community to exploit it very well and he made good money out of selling the telescopes to the navy and other customers and had significant social and political leverage as you would expect from such a person in this position.  

I honestly hope that the visuals from JWST are enough to hint a new interpretation of our universe modelling may need to be introduced into the evidence matrix of theories. We have perhaps invested enough in nurturing a theory that requires 80-90% more gravity for it to be correct. I feel that Dark matter is as likely to exist in our universe as it did for the Ptolomists trying to explain the retrograde ellipses of the planets. Perhaps a new perspective will make things more efficient.

Gallilee had some serious socio-economic and socio-political leverage yet was still ostracised by the authorities of knowledge for the evidence he presented to the world in his book The Dialogue.  A book that presented more tangible evidence that celestial bodies do orbit around other bodies and may better explain retrograde ellipses than the dark matter theories or god.  His observation was simply the moons orbiting Jupiter.  Evidence of an X-centric system. 

He started with a bankroll, a safety net and a keen eye for investment. He may not have invented the science of telescopes or been the first to observe the moons of Jupiter but he had the tenacity to test his sociopolitical leverage against the authorities of conventional wisdom. Risk and reward.

Delivering evidence of a denied science theory brought him more trouble than profits as his keystone evidence although confirmed by others was shunned by the authorities to protect the verity in the brand equity of the authority’s authority over the authority of the authority’s knowledge. His leverage kept him from the gallows but that wasn’t guaranteed so his bravery to use it and push his luck to ensure that Heliocentricity came to be a reality in education was a cheek of bravery unmasked. :) He was the master of TinHats of the time. Politics and leverage influenced much back then and it still does today.

Even modern scientists presenting empirical evidence experience ostracism and pushback. No gallows but careers, reputations and social acceptance among peers are at stake. There’s one lady, who had recently counted the neurones in brains of different organisms to verify the conventional wisdom of it. She was clearly uncomfortable about the pushback she received by peers when the newer more accurate empirical evidence showed the conventional wisdom was lacking. We are still a fickle pickle or people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_neurons

Improved or potentially more accurate interpretations of pre-existing data but that sit outside the conventional wisdom have a history of being costly socially or economically for individuals who present it. Indeed solving a science problem today means many specialised jobs lose funding and the pushback from those folks is often more costly than profitable. It seems more complex than it should be in this day and age of computers and databases, AI and new sensory technologies.

The Ptolemaic night sky was well enough mapped with millennia of empirical evidence that clearly showed the Earth was unequivocally the centre of the universe. There was also quite clearly an unseeable invisible dark matter at the centre of each retrograde ellipse of the planet’s otherwise perfect unblemished annual pathway in the night sky to account for observed retrograde anomalies. Obviously.  

The Earth was proven to be the centre of the universe with only an insignificant tiny shadow of a dark matter doubt that the official interpretations may be wrong.  Our greatest thinkers can get stuff wrong too, so remove the potential consequence of shame or failure and admissions for truth can come easier. We are conditioned to lie in support of the official truth and this stunts progress. This is fluffing around. At the moment we still have a surplus of energy so we’ve afforded the fluffing around so far. The consequence of funding distribution means some folks went hungry for the fluffy projects but if we are to go down the path of entering the deep space environment then the consequences of fluffing around are a bit more profound. Our extinction by distinction.

History often tells of how we repeat our mistakes without actually learning from history.  COVID-19 might have exposed a few more recent examples of this.

I’m getting thirsty, How are you? I need a break from all this heady stuff. Are you ready for some fun?

Just quickly I’d like to show you that our ancestors were not dumb in believing that this old Earth was flat and in a carousel of the universe thing. Overall they were geniuses in their own ways and protected a worshipped system of knowledge that could have gone in a very different direction for better or for worse for them and for all of us. 

Most folks had to abide by the rules and laws for social, political and general reasons and a majority did so and for pretty reasonable reasons too.  

Today you might get some community pushback or career discrimination for new ideas that don’t conform to the conventional founding wisdom or worshipped gospels but back then in the good old days, if you presented new ideas that didn’t conform then your pushback and career path may have been resolved by the gallows or other such remedies for devil inspired heresy.

Only the bravest, insanely suicidal or in Gallileo’s case very well-leveraged folks would speak out. These punishments were served as spectator spectacles for sociopolitical control purposes to reinforce the authority’s authority over authority. Plus sadly on a public account also as entertainment for some. The Coliseum of Rome alludes to our humanity in those respects. Nice of us to make ball sports our spectacle for modern entertainment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_burned_as_heretics

I wonder how many geniuses copped the raw end of the match stick for making observations and solving problems.

So I’m not sure if our sciences will ever move on from the old founding theories for the fear of internal retributions or indeed the unmentioned loss of funding.

We come into a little Tin Hat territory for a few paragraphs.

There is a systemic proclivity to publicly omit solutions to problems for the purpose of ensuring funding for the pursuit of that knowledge.  If we eradicate the rats and solve the community’s problems then the funding dries up and scientists of specialised areas with specialised skills are out of jobs.

I think we’re all adult enough to know that this occurs from the basic Pied piper perspective through all the trades and industries and even into our sciences and medicines etc.  After all, most of the time, it’s just another strategy to protect our people and skills in micro-economies from disappearing. Sadly some branches get all power-trippy from their sneaky successes and get all righteous and abuse that levity in our system.

Anyway, there are plenty of historical accounts of such things, some for the greedy gains of a few and some for the good of everyone but just without knowledge or consent which is its own crappy thing to consider for the logistics and timing of getting permission from everyone to put a blanket on a fire. It is its own conundrum.

Unfortunately, these are only a few snippets of the cultural problems that limit our progress in science and chances for deep space success. I’m sure it’s a solvable one if we can find bigger and better jobs for the science community than just polishing old theories and making new data fit into them.

The deep space environment already works hard against our odds of success and our observations of the planet’s geological history, the Sun’s thermal activities and the galaxy motions on our own microcosm of a biosphere provide us with a rudimentary egg timer to look at. There ain’t as much sand in it now as there was a thousand years ago so we don’t really have the luxury of time to play these institutional or personal profit or pride games. The planet and solar system cycles are not waiting for us to get our shit together.  They’ll just do what they do as they do it and being prepared for it is up to us. Our window of opportunity is open right now to make mistakes in pursuit of getting things right for up there the first time. If we remain stuck in our old ways with our old 80-90% deficiencies then we will lose that opportunity.  

Part 2 Your place in space. The fun stuff.

So I’ve ranted on about our ancients and space and our silly critter behaviours now let me show you something fun, let me take you somewhere cool. You may even truly find your place in space, in mind, in body and in soul. You may not, but then again you may. Your contribution here will be rewarded because it’ll be fun.

Are you ready?

I want to show you why or how our ancestors were not so dumb about the flat earth and Earth-centric universe.  I’m not a Flat Earth person but if you are then enjoy this for the science of flat earth history. 

Before you can get to this special place you need to do a little something. You’ll need a pair of eyes and some time. I think you’ll enjoy it too. It starts everyday at dawn.  It might take one attempt or more. Let me know how long it took before you found your place in this universe. You’ll know it when it happens, it’s pretty cool.

After you do this, you’ll know your place in this universe and you’ll be able show children exactly their place in this universe and how it kind of works with today’s science but for now, you have to play along with me and pretend you know absolutely nothing about the skies above. Consider yourself a child without a teacher and you have to figure things out for yourself.

Perhaps you’ll connect some dots and see why our ancestors would intuitively and easily think that we are at the centre of the universe even after a few years of observing the stars. Unless you know what to look for, the clues aren’t easy. 

OK a little health and safety first. 

Don’t ever look directly at the Sun as it will likely damage your eyes. 

Starting in 3-2-1…..

• Wake up early and watch a few sunrises. Get a compass to confirm that East is East. 

• Pretend you now have a steering wheel in your hand and you are driving straight toward the rising sun. 

• You are not driving anywhere indeed you are standing in the one spot pretending you have a steering wheel in your hand, perhaps even with a little onomatopoeic Vroom Vroom going on.

• “Ticket’s, please.” Says the conductor. Pop your money in the PayPal tip hat before you leave.

• This is your personal trip to the heavens above and you know what the evangelists say, “the bigger the seed the greater your chance of entering the golden gates.” Same as Tipping your muse. But seriously Tips would be lovely and the bigger the tip then the bigger the greater the warmth and smiles all round. :)

Ok so you don’t have to pay tips to get to heaven or to enjoy this and learn a thing but this is my art for your amusement and your generosity shows a warm appreciation for the time invested to entertain you and maybe inspire a thing or two. So All aboard… Tickets please.. :)

Ok. so Vroom Vroom there’s a big steering wheel and you know for certain that you are not moving at all, you have the proof and this is 100% the absolute intuitive truth and if you think you are moving in any other way then it’s only because you’re not playing the game properly.  Remember you are doing this without any of today’s knowledge. You can’t feel that you’re moving without a force of reference and the only force you feel now is the Earth at your feet and that’s in equilibrium so you’re not moving. So the Sun zooms up and rises slowly in the east.  So put on your Tin Hat, take the blue pill and the red pill if you have to but just forget what you know just for a moment.

Ok, Now you are facing towards the east.  The sun rises in the east.  It always rises in the east.  Not always in the exact same spot but it’s near enough to say it always rises in the east.   If you wait a while you can also see our moon rising in the east.  Same rules as the Sun, not always in the exact same spot but always in the east.  They rise up into the sky and then start setting into the west.  You know this because you can see it moving through the sky from a point of reference that keeps you dead still idleing at the driver’s wheel.

It’s not intuitive to think we are the object that is moving toward the east on a big spinning ball. And what really might blow your mind is that the moon is moving in the same direction as us at 1km/sec but we’re overtaking it on the inside lane of a race track and zooming past it as it appears to woosh past us. Vroom woosh.

Over taking the moon. at 500m/s. :) from 12’S 130E July 2022

So we’re really moving super fast but we just can’t feel it. At the equator its around 500m/sec. If you’re further down or up toward the North and south poles your velocity slows. The moon is moving around the planet at around 1Km per second in the same direction that we are going. That’s 1 Km/sec in the same direction and we’re zooming in the same direction but at half the speed. But we are on the inside lane overtaking it almost every 24 hours. Vroom Vroom over 364 times a year.

But you have no idea about all that because you’ve been good and forgotten all that stuff because you’re pretending to be one of our ancients looking up and trying to figure all this stuff out. So the sun has risen and the sky is blue, you enjoy your days watching apples fall from trees oblivious to that science too and you eagerly await the sunset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_of_the_Moon

You enjoy the sunset and then turn around to face the east waiting for it to rise. You watch it for a few hours and notice how the whole sky appears to carrousel up from the horizon.  How tiny do you feel?..  I love that feeling.  Tiny and insignificant in size but WOW, this is life and life and our ability to observe all this hugely giant significant stuff in the universe.  All of it.  So enjoy the show it’s a carousel. Someone observing it, someone just like you to observe all this stuff is worth preserving in this universe. Perhaps your children’s children will have a new horizon one day.  

It’ll be a lesson of our place in this space for them whichever planet they call home.  And the coolest thing is that if you travel to a place far far away from where you became familiar with your sunrise spot every day you may just notice that process is almost exactly the same but the dots in the sky are a little different and some of the positions of things change. More information and new perspectives give us data and raise questions of How does it work? Why does it change?

All the planets including ours orbit the sun around its equator (near enough) and since we are on a super fast spinning ball spinning into the forward direction of our orbit can you guess from which direction the planets will first rise up?  Yep, you got it, it’s in the East because we’re a tiny spinning ball spinning in that direction and our local brother and sister planets orbit that equator.  Even super distant things beyond our solar system rise in the east, it’s quite literally like a carousel. 

Observant people can see it and everyone can feel and confirm for real that they themselves are standing absolutely still and not moving at all as the sky above moves. Even closer observation sees some things changing in positions in different ways and at different rates and with even stranger motions a foot.

You can remove your tin hat now. Was that fun? Did it work? Do you now have a better understanding of your place on this planet and your significance and the significance of all life from this teeny tiny ball called Earth.  

Did that work?

 Give it a week or two and let me know if it did or didn’t in the check boxes. :)   Be honest.

All DATA helps figure out how we might be able to improve things or if we need to reassess the foundations of an idea altogether and maybe replace it with a new idea. In this application, I may need to re-write it if it doesn’t work for most folks.

Apart from the obvious point being made here and the cool realisation of your place in space, the main takeaway intended from this is to show you, or have you see it for yourself that our ancients observing Ptolomy skies were not dummies at all. Accumulating knowledge takes time and investment to many multiples of observations to gather data to map it and identify some tiny little almost missable details or clues to questions and interpretations. Many folks travelled but not many were interested in observing the skies so getting this knowledge was an investment more than just an opportune observation.

Are you looking at the sky right now?.. Yes? That’s cool. You are right now looking at the only real tangible evidence we had.  Not everything travels in a straight line over time but then How could that be so in a carousel? The south celestial pole where our spinning Earth reveals its most obvious evidence of not being a carousel is in the left bottom corner of this photo. You might miss it if you didn’t know.

The pursuit of such knowledge is about looking at lots of dots and figuring out how to record them so they line up and make some kind of sense to generations of future students. Predicting where things will be next week, next month, in a million years would only be as accurate as the cycles of a point of reference and the calibrations of their own points of reference against that standard (calibration). It was tricky stuff compared to today but worked exceptionally well even for our more ancient ancestors counting 360 days in the year. So the patience and anticipation for exploring and developing this discipline is remarkable.

So now, you have watched the carousel of the ancients and you know your place in this universe and now all those other things can really start to make a bit more sense or are easier to associate with. Like the Horoscope stars or moon and tide cycles. Check it out it’ll be easier for you to remember and visualise an even wider scope of your position even with respect to galaxies.

Back down to reality. :)

Once all the dots are mapped and motions identified, then comes the interpretation of the data and navigating whatever biases might be limiting the interpretive process. Bias was a bit different in the good old days but bias is bias and still exists and gets passed into the science and replicated and reinforced for generations and so it still interferes with probabilities of outcomes being true and correct. We have archives of biased knowledge going back millennia. Reading between the bias is part of the science in analysing how we polish our pieces of whatever was being polished at the time.

So back in the day you may be a genius or not but you are likely to agree that the world appears flat and at the centre of the universe in a carousel.  You might have played with a few shadows of the sun if you were also a travelling observer but the clues are tiny and easily missed for a heliocentric model.

What Copernicus did against the intuitive observations and the conventional wisdom was far bigger and more dangerous a theory to challenge than it might seem today.

Apparently, some much earlier ancient Greeks had discussed the thought of heliocentric planets but there’s not much information on what was discussed. That the discussion was ever recorded is a testament to the significance of the people recording that the conversation ever took place in the first place. History and archaeology play a great role in understanding who we are, what we do and how we think or thunk but even those disciplines have much fluffing in the feathers. Today we have lots more dots in high-quality HD than ever before and no shortage of interpretations of various pollish too. Some of us can only muse.

Not everyone has access to all the data nor the opportunity of time or tools of analysis to be able to connect dots and interpret them right or wrong, let alone to be able to do this completely independent of the bias of belief systems or the pack mentality of tribalisms that defend traditions. 

So without all that data and then some closet secret Tin Hat dude called Copernicus, waiting until he neared death to share his observations officially or indeed the cheeky book of Gallilee and his temerity then our primary school teachers may still be teaching about the flat earth at the centre of the universe and presenting the history of how the ancients were dummies for their other beliefs because shaming for one’s lacking of knowledge is systemic in our culture. 

Where to from here?

Now our little ball of Earth came from somewhere and by some means as did everything and there’s no question about how violent and dangerous the universe is for life as we know it.  But it also made the miracle of life happen in her chemistry set.  We’re frail little entities all of us from the tiniest baby bacteria to the biggest badest complex organism.  Life is bound to be somewhere else but the diversity of this planet’s life is unique to this planet and is very special in the universe.  You’re special and so are the deep sea trench black smoker bacteria and planktons and worms and birds and bugs and all of it. Anyway. Rant on how special life is, is done.

So a dark mysterious unobservable, undiscovered dark matter was used to explain the unusual retrograde motions of the planets in the Ptolemaic night sky.  Today we have reverted back to a similar dark matter called Dark matter and it is said that for our current theories to be accurate then there necessarily must be around 80-90% of the universe’s mass comprised of this Dark matter.  This worries me for a few reasons, I won’t go into them all just now other than to ask if dark matter is just a Copernican narrative repeating or if it’s just a stalling agent to avoid solving a long proven well funded cause for inciting funding for a new round of funding for knowledge. Looking for something that likely doesn’t exist is a great cause for funding. It’s like net fusion. Trust sometimes has a grey area when copious funding is involved.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy

If it’s truly history repeating and the polished versions of the old theory are the best we have then I may have some observational stuff that might help solve those theories. If it’s just a ruse for funding then it’s likely the questions have long been solved. I question this same TinHat thing on the Big Bang. I sometimes watch high-end project officials answering questions in interviews and I can’t help but feel their answers are lacking the authenticity of genuine discovery and seasoned with a scent of sniffing for more funding. Could be I just had too much coffee on the day too. :)

So either way, I’m happy to play the role of someone with a few tools of physics and other sciences in their background to examine the published information and engage with it from more than just an assumed unbiased presenter’s perspective of reciting science information verbatim. There’s already too much replication and polishing of old foundations in fancy new ways so my creative side might as well deliver something a little unique and perhaps inspire an idea or two along the way.

Our ability to predict mineral asset production before it happens and to give us time to reach and exploit it depends a little bit on how well we understand the moment before the Big Bang, The Big Bang itself ending with the 75%H,24%He & 1% Li & other stuff, Then gravitational nebula collapse with stellar nucleosynthesis filling in chemistry’s periodic table, forming galaxies, stars, planets and moons.    

The above is the current matrix of theories I enjoy exploring and researching and have done so for a while. I’ll post a few blogs about these observations and hopefully, things like Dark Matter and the observations leading to that can be executed appropriately and Dark energy given an additional perspective in a system of low energy field distribution that may make an allowance it.

What are our odds?

Hmm..

Let’s say our engineering can solve the three main deep space requirements. Containment, navigation and provisions. Without all three then the chance of survival doesn’t exist. Containment seems on track technically for supporting biologicals the vessels themselves will need some work. Navigation, I think is our most advanced side of things as we’ve invested heavily in the development of communications and optics and sensors so getting our bearings should be a breeze. The provisions? Hmm. That’ll depend on the Dark Matter issue. Using one with 80-90% error margins is not an option so with fixing it the modelling for coordinates on any asset will rely more on response to existing mapped targets rather than predicting events that are most likely to produce exploitable assets ain the future and giving us time to get there before they decay or get reabsorbed into the system in which they will exist.

We don’t really have the luxury of time to play around with social norms or political piety anymore. So this sector either needs a carrot or a stick.

To be honest as wonderful as SPace-X and some of the other space initiatives are I honestly feel they are far too small and that unless the planet unites against the one true enemy of time then we’ll fail our deep space challenge of nature.

Our first job is to preserve the planet’s habitability as best we can and for as long as possible to give us more time to work on improving our chances in deep space.

Allow me to take some extra poetic license and delve into the containment side of things. I’m no engineer but I like the creative process of things when connecting a few dots from our archaeological record.

Here’s some fictional fun to explore some engineering possibilities of deep space.

Forget speed for the moment. Yes, time is a serious factor in getting to assets in time and it’d be nice to have warp drives and time machines but we don’t. The power of correct predictions is more advantageous than speed besides the faster we go in space then the more prepared we have to be when crashing into stuff too. Our forward defences for mass deflection will need as much developing as our accelerating systems. So let’s assume we are going to be space snails, really slow but with a super nice cosy energy efficient shell for protection.

Payload off the planet. Done by a spheroidal cage of strong light materials anchored at the poles. Running North Pole to South Pole with fixed symmetry but flexibility and angular momentum corrections on the planet to counter mass distributions of payloads out and preserve the angular momentum of the planet too. This is a much bigger version of the age-old concept of an elevator into space but not like a spear into the sky but like a wire ball or flower petals extending from North Pole to South Pole and bending out sufficiently to release payloads with sufficient angular moments to assume an orbit prior to small onboard thrusters being used to send the payloads to the moon.

Payload Containment will require at a minimum the equivalent of six square-based pyramidal prisms with the ability to form a cube 1kmx1kmx1km . The final actual scale to be determined by the material properties associated for production and the internal stuff. Carbon fibre is pretty good or plain old wood fibres like we did back in the good old days. You’ll need a mould like one of the old pyramids that can expand with heat and then cool to shrink to facilitate removal of final hull. As light a weight but as strong as possible. These are not to be fitted out down here but sent to the moon as a pay load where they can then be fitted out safely. For each pyramid you’ll want at least three of these hulls. They will sit inside each other with each hull, slightly different sizes and trace compounds to perform slightly different functions and services gaps. This provides more than sufficient volume for what comes next.

Each cube is considered as one single vessel but comprises of six pyramids. All pyramids internally have slightly different specialised functions although can self-sustain as a single fertile vessel if need be. The idea is that each pyramid can be exposed to various conditions or carry out different function of protection and maintenance. It is also to make as many cubes as time on this planet will allow. Deep space is a hungry bitch. Think like a flower and make as many seeds as possible because the journey is long, hard and very uncertain.

Going down this engineering path means jobs and there’s lots of jobs for scientists and engineers so they don’t have to worry about polishing old theories to ensure their funding.

And if you really want to give life the best chance for deep space success then while on the moon try retrofitting the near-to-Earth side with giant craters and mineral contaminated water ice. The Sea of tranquility sized craters full of muddy ices where a radiant heating element can be used for evaporation and expansion turning it into a low energy rocket. Hi-Jack the Moon from the Earth and drive it out of the solar system, out of the galaxy and toward the next best destination. The internal luna thermals is a great initial resource but it won’t last forever so the small cubes are the main focus for maintenance and the longer term. Doing this preserves the on baord energy source of the pyramids and is just a nicer home for our space kiddies to live out their lives.

One little thing on provisions. Cube thrust devices. Ok, shiny rockets are nice and can be made for speed but you’ll find ice is the more accessible fuel for thrust. Refining plants and refining elements in deep space for thrust is way too costly and unreliable. The rockets for thrust are salvaged ice blocks with two retro devices doing stuff. One as the shunt to connect to the Cube and the other is the equivalent of a true retro rocket. A device that harnesses onto the outer opposite side of the ice block/comet/asteroid, is locked around to the shunt. This device delivers some thermal energy onto the ice causing expansions in the device’s chamber and effectively is a low-energy rocket. It’s not Hollywood but it’s less obsolete mass, it’s durable and fuel can be crude ice and it works. A Deep space thermal energy supply post comes later but I think we’re already close without my fiction fluffing things around.

So anyway, the biggest problem in all of this that I see is not technical or logistics or engineering. That stuff is all doable even the energy requirements of deep space are doable but the biggest problem comes down to the politics for resources here on the planet. It only takes one bad apple throwing stones at the payload structures and the payload system fails which means precious time for repairs. It needs a global effort too. So lots of people doing lots of jobs with all of them paid and fed and living awesome lives and all promised an mRNA position on board for the primal purpose of life ever after in what ever new home we might find.

Anyway, this type of fiction is always nice for fluffing ideas in the air.

So… Ok well that was fun to write.. I hope you had some fun and maybe raised an eye brow or two for our ancient TinHats. I’d better finish this one off.

Stuff’s about to get real with less fluff and more stuff. 

So stay tuned for more COMING SOON. :)  

In the meantime until the next time, this poem might amuse you for a minute

—->> “Something from nothing” 

Oh yeah please don’t forget to Tip the driver on the way out. I’m sure you enjoyed the ride. :)

As always take care and travel well.

Cheers

Murry :)

If you’re reading this then you are likely a reader. Well done. Here’s an article you may enjoy. :)

https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/10/10/the-transformations-of-science

Or alternately if you have another hour to spare.. I’ve just found this video which is on topic for a few future posts to come.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt5cFLN65fI

All comments are welcome. :)

Successful Space Species ?

Successful Space Species ?   

MW Rhodes © 20221007

Imagine if we ever became a successful space species. In Deep space. Imagine what that would require. It would be nice if we could evolve unchanged like the crocodile for a while but I dare say, in space, our babies will grow up and develop to look a whole lot different to us down here. Biologically their bones and body parts would probably be more like that of a fish by the sounds of it. Bone density, blood circulation and other primary systems and organs would be tuned to a life of no gravity. Imagine. Hmm.. Anyway, we have to get into space first before this other stuff even matters. Then we have to decide where to go and how long it will take. Hmm.. Crocodiles.. Fascinating stuff.. Anyway, here are some scribbles about some Earth and space stuff and some the of things or tools we might need to become a successful space species.

Turns out I’ve written a few of these in a series of Succesful Space Species I,II & III. Give this one a read and if you like it then you may like the others. So when you’ve finished reading this one simply pop back up here and click on these links just below. I’m also writing some follow-up ones titled Successful Space Stuff. They’re a bit more about space stuff itself but it’s different stuff than you might have read about in textbooks. Anyway, enjoy. :)

https://www.murryrhodes.com/our-place-in-space/2022/10/12/successful-space-species-ii

https://www.murryrhodes.com/our-place-in-space/2022/10/15/successful-space-species-iii

I just now received a nice message from a friend on social media. I sometimes forget how Hollywood movies and special effects solve physics problems in space. I chat more on it below the main article. :)

The gravitational collapse of a nebular is the mechanism that we currently use to try to model the formation of our galaxies, stars, planets, moons asteroids and other celestial bodies. 

The modelling incorporates as many variable vectors as we can think to include but it still comes up very short when programming the algorithms into our computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_nebula

The best we can do at the moment is to add an 80-90% correction factor.  This is a role for unseen, undetected, unmeasured and very theoretical stuff called dark matter.  There is a thing called dark energy too but it plays a slightly different role than dark matter in trying to explain expansion on a greater all-inclusive scale.

Either way from the interviews I’ve seen of scientists working on these problems it seems the only two solutions they see is firstly physically identifying and measuring the dark matter for confirmation as a particle or field anomaly OR redefining the classical Newtonian physics that generates the vectors.  

Taking a closer look at the possible solutions, indeed if the dark matter could be found that would be the evidence required to resolve the maths of the faulting model on the theory.

There are many science projects and many scientists theorising and engineers working on making instruments to try to find something that may identify and measure a huge quantity of stuff that may or may not exist.   Are we looking for a special non-reactive particle that is invisible ? or some kind of field anomaly providing more gravitational forces than classical physics can account for?  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

There is a third solution that seems intuitively obvious but I’m not hearing any mention of it at all.  That is that the gravitational collapse of a nebula type theory is mostly wrong. By 80-90%

On paper the theory of it is good and intuitive and we can see in some regions of where globules of stars form within huge masses of gas and dust clouds (nebula).  So the accumulation of matter and the formation of big and small celestial bodies can and does happen as the theory suggests but, and this is a big ‘but’, but looking at the dynamic processes in our night sky it is certainly not the only formation process going on.  

Applying the gravitational collapse of a nebula to the entire universe and for all time as the one and only mechanism at play is wrong.  I understand that in order to reinforce the Big Bang theory where after an expansion and cooling period of recombination of elements into their atomic particles left a nebula of gas particles to then accumulate under gravity.  Yes, it does make sense in many ways but it also assumes a few things that .. well, assumptions can get us into all manner of strife.

Why is it important to get this right?

If we as a species were to remain on this planet and not venture out into deep space then it’s not very important at all. Indeed, if this is the case then we shouldn’t be spending any further resources on trying to find these answers because they cost our community too much and for what benefits other than a fascinator for our amusement?  Instead, we might do better to provide a quality end of life as we enter the twilight of our existence on this planet.  All life will end as the planet cycles toward her less-than-life-supporting phase.   Be it from our solar supernova or from normal geochemistry that provides our biosphere resolving into a lower energy state for entropy.

However, if we are to succeed in the nature of the universe and be a successful species of space then our engineering, navigation and resource identification needs to be as accurate as possible.  None of this 80-90% if, but and maybe dark matter exists. The engineering needs to go the distance and our resource or deep space asset identification method needs to be predictive and not just responsive.  An asset that we can see in the present may not be the same asset by the time we get to it. So a predictive model needs to be in place to know how assets are made then a means to find the places where conditions exist before the asset does. Knowing how a life-sustaining planet is made tells us what star qualities to look for that might make one in the future.  

Something like picking a ripe fruit only to get it home and find it rotten to the core might mean selecting something less ripe. In this instance of space travel and assets, seeing when a tree is in blossom and having enough time to get there before the fruit grows, ripens and rots would be nice.

Without wormholes or warp speed or time travel then we are restricted to our more realistic modes of travel.  This means that one light year may take a million or so years of cold deep space travel.  This in turn means our vessel needs to be able to cycle in space.  As much cycling and recycling as we may be able to achieve to sustain life systems, repair and maintain the vessel plus replenish other energy losses.  Carbon atoms decay over time and natural entropy occurs.  Semiconductors decay and effectively everything decays over time. 

So computer chips may outlive us as individuals but the chips are made of semiconductors that decay and deems the chip inoperable. Terminal. Dead. Meanwhile, biologicals like us die a lot but we recycle and replicate, sort of. Any vessels that may achieve deep space may also need to be able to re-stock carbons and other minerals from the ocean of space for the occasional biological refresher which will be an engineering feat in itself. To replace computer chips from raw materials and manufacture them in a deep space environment might cost more energy than it does to replenish biological requirements. In deep space, conserving energy improves the chance of a successful outcome.

Time is not our friend if we are to be a successful space species.  If we can engineer ways to replenish resources well enough to stave off the natural decay of resources then we will be doing really well.  In order to do that we first need to know where the resources will be.  Not where they are now but where they will be by the time we can get to them. 

Time spent travelling is time spent decaying so unless we know the physics and the chemistry of our universe then we may be like a puppy chasing butterflies and spending more energy than we regain.  It’s a basic law of life in nature or any invested system in the cost of energy against the return for that cost. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX

It looks like we are heading in the right direction for being able to engineer vessels for space journeys that may take millions or perhaps even billions of years in the harsh environment of space and so if we can make the vessels then we really need to get the science of mapping and navigating the universe as best a possible.  At present, our understanding of meteorology is quite good, but still, we get the forecasts wrong because the dynamics are too chaotic for precision beyond chance.  If we could predict the universe systems of when it will metaphorically rain in space or when assets might become available then we have an increased chance to succeed in deep-space travel. The more accurate that prediction model is then the better our chances of success.  

If we don’t move on from using only the gravitational collapsing nebula as our model for predicting mineral asset formations and with its 80-90% error margin for Dark Matter or 8/10 - 9/10 failures to predict correctly.  Our deep space descendants will run out of energy before finding resources or another home planet to inhabit.  So we really need to refine this on the other side of the scale and down to 20 - 0 % error or 8/10 - 10/10 successful outcomes. 

So if we are to succeed as a deep space species then we’ll need to get this modelling thing right.

So a question might be, Can it be done?   I’m ever the optimist of science and am certain it can be done after all it’s just chemistry and physics on workable scales without the need for dark physical unknowns. 

Another question might be, Will it be done?    Of this, Well, I’m not Nostradamus so I’m not certain.  It’s down to short-term politics of pride and profits against long-term outcomes beyond the planet. We might if we unite because unity gives us strength and abilities that independence or division simply can’t provide but for the love of all life and our wonderfully bizarre histories unity is not one of our strongest traits unless there is a direct enemy in common. I think the enemy-in-common is obvious to just about everyone but our leaders who are blinded by their own politics or ambitions.  

More on this stuff later.   It looks like global politics is encountering nuclear uncertainty.  Such a sad state of affairs.  What is certain is that if the globe goes nuclear nuts now, all the devastation, despair and death will be bad enough for us in the present and for our future generations.  The future would suck more than it already might. Our engineering knowledge and resources drop dramatically and the chance of success in deep space?, well it’s already very close to Zero so a world at war only reduces that chance furthermore by reducing resources and people and perhaps even the spirit and drive and long-term purpose of, and in life. With our tech, logistics, knowledge and access to resources the window is open now, but it won’t be forever.

You may be thinking back in time when life has come back from the brink of extinction several times, or even a bit closer to home where highly technical civilisations came and went and came back even bigger and better. Yes it has been a colourful history on our planet and another window may be available in the future but then again, it may not be as the planet was never a forever thing for life but just a temporary opportunity.

Image from NASA Via the Solar Cycle - Wiki Link

The planet may be seeing a warmer period at the moment, similarly as it has done in the past but overall, it is losing black body radiation to outer space.  It is cooling and so is our Sun and so it won’t be too long before our planet freezes over and the sun?  Well, the conventional theory suggests it will go supernova and fry things up but if it does then even before it does that, the sun will dim and will likely have lost its ability to ionise carbon atoms and thus no longer transmit carbon frequencies essential for photosynthesis.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_history_of_Earth

With reduced oxygen levels, the deep sea anaerobic biome will thrive and through its chemosynthesis will give off H2S ( Hydrogen Sulphide ) Gas filling the atmosphere with poison.  Aerobic life will be almost completely dead as the planet freezes over for one last time as its core then cools to entropy and the plate tectonics solidify and seize and the internal planet warms life no more.       Of course that’s just one of many scenarios that will likely happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802792/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/oxygen-minimum-layer

Our planet was never a forever thing. 

Political pride might be the downfall for all our children, for all our futures for any chance of becoming a successful space species.  

Take care. 

Murry

If you would like leave a message that would be great. Here’s a link to a nice message and my response. I was schooled about artificial gravity in space.

Something from nothing.

Getting something for nothing. If you never did wonder, from where it all came. Then here’s a poem or so, as a Please explain?

Any answers or comments?