whew!! boy is *this* thread over my head.. **ZOOM**
ADDED BY EDITbut it interests me so i'll bump it up to see what others say
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Originally posted by Primordial Egg:
Bumping my own topic here, but if anyone's interested in Big Bang cosmology, there's a good article about it in Scientific American:
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{Shortened link down to "LINK", to keep page from being overwide - AM}
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Markopoulou Kalamara approached LQG's extraneous space problem by asking, Why not start with Penrose's spin networks (which are not embedded in any preexisting space), mix in some of the results of LQG, and see what comes out? The result was networks that do not live in space and are not made of matter. Rather their very architecture gives rise to space and matter. In this picture, there are no things, only geometric relationships. Space ceases to be a place where objects such as particles bump and jitter and instead becomes a kaleidoscope of ever changing patterns and processes.
Each spin network resembles a snapshot, a frozen moment in the universe. Off paper, the spin networks evolve and change based on simple mathematical rules and become bigger and more complex, eventually developing into the large-scale space we inhabit.
PE
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