Here is a cool blog with lots of science and links.
http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/
My Spiel
I saw Brian Greenes Fabric of the cosmos on Nova. The spinning skater, being pulled out centripetally in a spin, was used to introduce the concept of space having some mettle to it. In the book he talks of newton spinning a bucket of water, stopping it, and the water continuing to swirl against the sides of the bucket, which is gone on to explain that it is the same as the water standing still and the space around spinning and grasping at matter. He goes on to describe how space is something of three dimensionality, though it is difficult to say why three, and filled with innate energy and pliable. Dark energy was mentioned with the same lack of true intent and cause, but there nontheless, as was the very necessary zero-spin Gibbs particle. Leonard Suskind appeared to say he thought the three dimensions of space was really just a hologram of an infinite two dimensional surface. Here's what I believe is happening, philosophically, which is as workable theory as any described to explain the hard to explain reality. Something is keeping things together. I don't mean gravity, which does hold matter together, apparently at apple, solar and galactic intervals. I don't mean time, which keeps things chronological, even if somewhat stilted by relativity. I don't mean Space, which gives everything a definite holding place, fickle as it is expanding and contracting everywhere. And I don't mean matter, which sets the stage for things to happen, even on a deserted moon in the Serpens Dwarf Galaxy. Something is keeping the pace and holding stuff into a complex ballet of reality, and with real meaning and beauty and consequence and importance of concept. What? God? Is? Real? Me? You? I think it is just a love of complexity that will always continue, maybe in new forms, without matter or time, but something else, like story and pith. Naturally, the math will continue to get more difficult, but the relationships will be fantastic.
http://blogs.scienceforums.net/swansont/
My Spiel
I saw Brian Greenes Fabric of the cosmos on Nova. The spinning skater, being pulled out centripetally in a spin, was used to introduce the concept of space having some mettle to it. In the book he talks of newton spinning a bucket of water, stopping it, and the water continuing to swirl against the sides of the bucket, which is gone on to explain that it is the same as the water standing still and the space around spinning and grasping at matter. He goes on to describe how space is something of three dimensionality, though it is difficult to say why three, and filled with innate energy and pliable. Dark energy was mentioned with the same lack of true intent and cause, but there nontheless, as was the very necessary zero-spin Gibbs particle. Leonard Suskind appeared to say he thought the three dimensions of space was really just a hologram of an infinite two dimensional surface. Here's what I believe is happening, philosophically, which is as workable theory as any described to explain the hard to explain reality. Something is keeping things together. I don't mean gravity, which does hold matter together, apparently at apple, solar and galactic intervals. I don't mean time, which keeps things chronological, even if somewhat stilted by relativity. I don't mean Space, which gives everything a definite holding place, fickle as it is expanding and contracting everywhere. And I don't mean matter, which sets the stage for things to happen, even on a deserted moon in the Serpens Dwarf Galaxy. Something is keeping the pace and holding stuff into a complex ballet of reality, and with real meaning and beauty and consequence and importance of concept. What? God? Is? Real? Me? You? I think it is just a love of complexity that will always continue, maybe in new forms, without matter or time, but something else, like story and pith. Naturally, the math will continue to get more difficult, but the relationships will be fantastic.
