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Ask a string theorist how matter behaves on its most fundamental level, and they will have an answer for you. Ask a cosmologist how a black hole forms, and they will have an answer. But the fact is that both treat their phenomena as occuring ON TOP OF the fabric of spacetime (FOST). As if matter were some sort of extra layer that in no way depends on the FOST for it's existence. This simply cannot be true. Let us perform a paradigm shift. Ready?

I believe that the fabric of spacetime is made up of the Bose-Einstein condensate. That is, the FOST is made up of the same baryonic matter as you and I.

Let's examine this idea. What is the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)? I would like to recommend this as the dossier to the BEC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls4efnPKegY

Let us now tie everything together. The temperature in interstellar space is certainly cold enough to be a BEC, but isn't it that cold because matter is extremely diffuse there? No. Remember the BEC has properties akin to a wave, not a particle. There is ALOT of matter in interstellar space. However, it is the case that the wave functions have not decohered because there is no one there to perform a quantum measurement on it. If only we could hang out in the interstellar medium with scanning electron microscopes! Then we would see how densely packed with matter it really is! Perhaps, I will leave it at that and let your imagination take over.

It has not escaped my notice that this resolves the mutual exclusivity of quantum mechanics and general relativity, and is thus a "theory of everything". This conclusion may also lend itself to the problem of dark matter and dark energy, which are certainly illusory concepts that would do well to leave our collective consciousness. Cheers!

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Bigthink Tue, 13 May 2008 22:41:55 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/10492
Fibonacci Photo Slideshow http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/10433 This is a slideshow displaying Fibonacci, his life, and his most important works.

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Bigthink Tue, 13 May 2008 12:58:45 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/10433
Fibonacci TV Ad http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/10431 Bigthink Tue, 13 May 2008 12:44:32 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/10431 FEATURE: The Google Killer http://www.bigthink.com/features/435 Bigthink Fri, 09 May 2008 03:04:29 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/features/435 Re: Is the government doing enough for the environment? http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-environment/10391 Bigthink Thu, 08 May 2008 15:50:16 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-environment/10391 Re: Do we need a http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-environment/10375 Yes, absolutely. The free market is a beautiful thing but it can't solve all our problems  - just look at the state of health care in the US.

I'd love to see the next US president start a "green WPA" or "green Manhattan project." What would be even better is a 21st century version of the race to the moon. The global economy's greatest powers should be competing with one another to see who can create the cheapest, most viable form of renewable energy. 

I'd like to think we could end global warming because it's the right thing to do, but there are too many people getting rich off of maintaining the status quo - not just oil and car companies, but also countries whose economies are based on selling fossil fuels. 

I am not a fan of Hillary Clinton's but I am intrigued by her line about the US borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Arabs. Greed and xenophobia might be hotter hot buttons than altruism.

(By the way, "water" is the next "oil.")  

 

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Bigthink Thu, 08 May 2008 15:17:21 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-environment/10375
Re: Should we be able to vote online? http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-internet/10373 Bigthink Thu, 08 May 2008 14:27:17 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-internet/10373 Jeff Jarvis on America's Next Chief Technology Officer http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-internet/10372 Bigthink Thu, 08 May 2008 14:26:22 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-internet/10372 Jeff Jarvis on the Risk of Putting Our Lives Online http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-internet/10371 Bigthink Thu, 08 May 2008 14:26:19 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-internet/10371 Jeff Jarvis on the Next Technological Milestone http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/10370 Bigthink Thu, 08 May 2008 14:26:17 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/10370 Jeff Jarvis on the Google Killer http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-internet/10369 Bigthink Thu, 08 May 2008 14:25:21 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-internet/10369 Re: Is the Internet killing the newspaper? http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-internet/10364 Bigthink Thu, 08 May 2008 14:24:17 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-internet/10364 Global Warming: Nearing the end of a sunspot and magnetic cycle http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-environment/10344 For the past decade the theory of global warming has been widely accepted by many scientists, environmentalists, and the public. Also there have been many skeptics trying to disprove any so called "facts" that someone has proposed in support of the theory.

After stumbling upon an article printed in the Wall Street Journal, titled "Science Has Spoken: Global Warming is a Myth," I found a graph showing evidence of the Earth's temperatures in correlation with the fluctuations of the sun's magnetic field. It showed that more activity in the magnetic field had a direct effect on the Earth's atmospheric temperatures.

I studied the graph and remembered some research I had done in late 2007 regarding the Mayan calendar and it's end end in 2012. The information I researched had to do with the Sun's magnetic poles, it's magnetic field, and the idea of them flipping. In the research I discovered that every 11 years the Sun's magnetic poles reverse due to the sunspot cycle. Scientists also confirmed that the Earth's magnetic field has flipped too, but it hasn't happened in 740,000 years. Scientists have confirmed that in 2012 the sun's magnetic poles and the Earth's magnetic field will flip upon the peak of the sunspot cycle.

With the sun's increased activity and increased heat output this activity could be responsible for the increased temperatures recorded on Earth. This research has also prompted many questions:

Will the switching of Earth's magnetic field have an effect on global temperatures?

Will the change in 2012 prompt the end of Global Warming?

Were the Mayans correct in their astrological predictions?

What does this mean for the Earth and it's inhabitants?

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Bigthink Tue, 06 May 2008 23:49:59 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/the-environment/10344
Re: Time and Space Travel http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/10303 The answer is:

Time and Space Travel exists.

Time Travel exists because we travel through time every moment of our lives, and we travel through space every time we move around.

Therefore, if on a small scale it is possible, we can assume that it is possible on a large scale. However, by the time we get to a stage where time travel is possible we will only go forward, never backward, purely because we are still discovering things, if backwards time travel was possible we would already know about it.

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Bigthink Mon, 05 May 2008 02:20:56 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/space-time/10303
Re: Re: What will be the fuel of the future? http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/10300 Bigthink Sun, 04 May 2008 13:21:58 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/10300 Dr. Spencer Wells on the Legacy Fund: A New Model for a Big Science Project http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/10294 Bigthink Sat, 03 May 2008 23:43:12 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/science-technology/10294