Mistifying Cosmology

* A mystique surrounds cosmology. Black holes are imagined as emptying backwards in time into newly created universes via wormholes, with new laws of physics to boot. It is all very strange! Exciting stuff really, just like the dragons which exist at the edge of the Earth…

* The “Economist” [Feb 2005?], reports a ring around one of Jupiter or Saturn's moons, looking exactly as if it were created by a collision between two smaller moons.

* Mathematicians relegate circles to what they call “moduli”. Instead of seeing them as embryonic bases, they view them as mere side-products created within existing bases.

* Motion is relative. Black holes are not standing still exactly…

* Putting these together we can “mistify” cosmology, while at the same time de-mystifying it. We allow for a little lateral spread from our maths and the fact that collisions can create larger objects:

Black holes simply grind matter up and create ionic clouds. It is a case of “dust to dust”, a more prosaic view, and one that has no doubt been suggested before; less exciting than emitting TV's in negative time warps, but perhaps more realistic. From the Circlemaths viewpoint we expect a reversal when a pure state is arrived at (as we count, numbers get bigger, but the heart of the system involves a catastrophic reversal in size back to zero). From our mathematical model we would expect gravity, the weak force of attraction, to transform into an extremely powerful force of repulsion, scattering everything into the above-mentioned clouds.

Gravity and the action of collisions can create larger objects. But collisions can also create smaller objects. Meteoroids can collide and disintegrate into smaller dust particles. Moons could collide to create planets, but may also create smaller meteoroids and dust. Planets can go forward to stars, or backwards to moons, meteoroids and dust and so on.

This is reminiscent of understanding that circles are counting lines within counting lines. In the example below we see a 3-circle. It has the numbers 0, 1 and 2. But 1 is itself a cycle including 0. And 2 is a cycle including 0 and 1:

Inside 3-circle (for example) we have the series:

0

0 1

0 1 2

Everything moves in cycles. Number, the carbon cycle and the water cycle are examples, and this includes the cosmological cycle. The excitement surrounding black holes and parallel universes etc., like the mystique of “imaginary numbers” is an indication of an error lodged in the mathematical background of the physicists’ mind.

© rmTaylor 2005