1st january 2009

apeiron: the natural stationary state for substance

" a substance without limit or boundary... surrounds everything boundlessly... and from which heaven and earth are somehow generated"  anaximander* 610-545 b.c.

 

                  natural                                                              simple                                                                     motion

                                                               6 . 62000000000000000000000000000              planck's constant  the least thing that can happen

 

                 stationary

                                                                          3000000000000000000                              einstein's constant :  the fastest it can happen at

 

 

                                                                                    m 1 + m 2 / r 2                                                  newton's gravity :  the slowest it can happen at

 

as for the universe apeiron is assigned with an emissive - absorptive mechanism

its arithmetic - mathematical characteristics being that of an infinitely fast to an infinitely slow rate of emissions and absorptions

planck's constant being the demarcation point between infinitely fast and infinitely slow emissions and absorptions

 

there are at least four possible ways of looking at this

1

it is the consequence of eternity that it gives rise to substance/space in a geometric way not because it's pleasing to look at but because that is the only way which can contain...

2

all of substance is tightly curled into a ball and space could never take on an unending linear form

3

both of the above concepts can be incorporated into one another

4

something else completely

 

science is 99% sure that we live in a flat space universe

the question is whether flat space is the only configuration of space that reality can furnish

 

*one of the giants of original thought

among other things he was the first to recognise that evolution is occurring

seeing that babies were helpless at birth he realized that it couldn't always have been that way

darwin, through his elitist education, came across his insight and began to develop it

 

 

it looks like all of reality is made up of nothing and the infinitely small

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