Poetical Universe

Continuing with my physics research (hey, gotta not sound too stupid when writing my scifi portions), I came up with this quote from Brian Greene... It's again about our universe, and how galaxies came to be, and about how the microcosmos (quantum field) is tied to the macrocosmos (our universe at large populated by billions of galaxies):

"According to inflation[ary big bang theory], the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky."

Aaaaah, so beautiful! And fascinating!

With that side note of poetry, I'm now headed back for more cosmology/quantum/Higg's-fields/theoretical-physics reading!

PS: To those who are intrigued, Mr. Greene does a rather good job at explaining the various theories (including the one mentioned here) in his book The Fabric of the Cosmos.

Big Bang Theory Factoid

Doing research for a book is so much fun, that I sometimes lose sight of my original goal (which is why I’ve restricted myself to the 20 books already in my possession I’d purchased for such research).

For instance, reading Brian Green’s The Fabric of the Cosmos, I found out how scientists came up with a little theory called “The Big Bang” (though most of you probably knew of it already. . .).

It’s all about how our universe wants to get bigger than the ox, and temperatures:

“Just as a bicycle tire gets hotter and hotter as you squeeze more and more air into it, the universe gets hotter and hotter as matter and radiation are compressed together more and more tightly by the shrinking of space.  If we head back to a mere ten millionths of a second after the beginning, the universe gets so dense and so hot that ordinary matter disintegrates into a primordial plasma of nature’s elementary constituents.   And if we continue our journey, right back to nearly time zero itself—the time of the big bang—the entire known universe is compressed to a size that makes the dot at the end of this sentence look gargantuan.”

And this ties in with the fact that cosmic observations (starting with Hubble in 1929) show that the universe is currently getting larger and larger (from seeing other galaxies moving further and further away from us, and at a speed proportional to their distance from Earth, and noting that our universe is getting colder).

Isn’t this a cool factoid?  Ok, enough dilly dallying, back to my research!

Unified Field Theory

Current Writing Stage: Discovery (aka research).

That’s right, like Joan Rowling before me, I’m planning out my full book cycle ahead of time, to make sure the whole story flows smoothly.  Otherwise, how could I ensure a good sense of continuity without jarring if I don’t even know what’s going to happen later?

However, I’m juggling with so many different topics right now (all quite exciting, I can assure you.  Well, in my opinion if that has any weight), that I feel like I’m on a quest to discover the Unified Field Theory.  And considering not even Einstein managed to figure it out, I’m sure you can see this quest of mine is no joke.

Unified Field Theory:  physics theory that’s supposed to find the relationship between all theories explaining our universe (ex: nuclear, gravitational, electromagnetic, other).

Still, I enjoy all of this quite a bit.  Math has taught me that, in order to solve big, complicated problems, I just need to break them down into smaller, manageable portions, and that’s exactly what I’m doing here.

And I’m nearly done!  For starting with the New Year, I’ll finally be able to progress on to the next stage:  Planning :)