COMMENSAL ISSUE 98


The Newsletter of the Philosophical Discussion Group
Of British Mensa

Number 98 : September 1999
2nd July 1999 : Bob Cooper

AN INFINITY OF UNIVERSES

How do you measure the infinite ? The answer is you cannot. How do you measure a quarter, a half, a tenth or even a millionth of the infinite? The answer remains, you cannot.

Does time and space come into existence or form a measurable relationship, only in the presence of matter and energy, encapsulating itself in the form of a black hole as part of the package, and leaving the unformed, or unadulterated time and space beyond unchanged and still immeasurable and infinite ?

Consider the theory of black holes, wormholes and white holes. White holes have never been discovered. Is this because they do not exist or for some other reason ? The wormhole is supposed to convey matter from a black hole to a white hole. puncturing the fabric of the universe at the point of the black hole and returning at the point of the white hole. Yet the fabric of the universe is space-time.

Do an Einstein. Imagine the journey. Travel into the black hole and through the wormhole. Emerge in the infinite where measurements are meaningless and there are no directions. How can you return to the universe to create a white hole ? You cannot. Postulating the idea that space or time can bend back on itself is all very well, might even be mathematically possible, but where are the white holes that would support this ?

So what of any matter arriving through this wormhole ? In this timeless / spaceless infinity the tiniest particle must create a new universe. In an instance of creation it will be everywhere and everywhen in a mighty explosion, limited only by its becoming a black hole.

Is this why no white holes have been discovered ? Is there only one per universe ? Is each the cause of an original big bang in its universe ? However many other bangs that follow and from whatever cause is this the beginning ? Could the aftermath of a white hole explosion be different from the aftermath of any other bang, and detectable as such ? If so, and if this Universe has not collapsed and re-exploded the evidence of a white hole origin must still be here.

Finding such evidence would mean that the tiniest disturbance in timeless, spaceless infinity would create a universe, which would imply the possibility of an infinity of universes.

Bob Cooper



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