Birth of a Universe, One Drop at a Time
Posted by Jessie at 5/15/2009 11:37 AM 
Categories: Carving over the Rainbow
Tags: astronomy cosmic consciousness
Categories: Carving over the Rainbow
Tags: astronomy cosmic consciousness
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May 16, 2009
Arcata, CA What is required in creating a universe? All it takes is wood, a chainsaw and some paint. Right? Well, that’s how it’s done in my universe. On a serious note, my wood creation led me on a unique and inspiring journey conceptualizing the birth of the universe in infinite space with multi universes. A birth of a universe from a mother universe.
As someone who is a lover of forests and art, I was intrigued by the December 31, 2005 windstorm that affected the Northern Humboldt coastal region, especially hard hit Trinidad. The place was devastated by the wind, trees yanked out of the ground and strewn about crisscrossing each other on the ground.
On the first tree I was able to get to in the tangled mess with a mill attached to a chainsaw I created some wood slabs out of the Sitka spruce. My thought was to make a simple disc, nothing ornate but a circle from the fresh plank. It would be a simple statement, a great way to display the beauty of the wood. But I felt it needed more joie de vive. In its center, I created a single drop. Like a raindrop, just one. It gave the disc a reason for being, a new dimension, it added excitement to the disc sculpture. I called this art creation One Drop.
Metaphorically, the term one drop has many connotations, for example there is the one-drop Zen Buddhism monastery, one-drop reggae, the one-drop Zen foundation and the one-drop rule in American history. The concept of one drop is multi dimensional. However at this time, the theory for a birth of a universe, one drop at a time in a multi-verse universe did not cross my conscious mind. I didn't think about it.
Metaphorically, the term one drop has many connotations, for example there is the one-drop Zen Buddhism monastery, one-drop reggae, the one-drop Zen foundation and the one-drop rule in American history. The concept of one drop is multi dimensional. However at this time, the theory for a birth of a universe, one drop at a time in a multi-verse universe did not cross my conscious mind. I didn't think about it.
In December of 2008, I was gazing at a Discover magazine, holding my attention was diagram of the birth of the universe. As I was gazing at it, I realized, a baby universe is created virtually in one drop. It triggered the memory of my wood sculpture of One Drop, whereas in my sculpture I had inserted the drop in the center of the disc vertically. But if I were to rotate the disc into a horizontal position then the drop would fall from the center due to gravity, like a raindrop. It would essentially be similar in concept as the diagram. In three dimensional terms I understood. It seems so simple.
Cosmologist Andrei Linde said “Our universe could thus be the result of an inflationary bubble that formed in a re-existing universe - - an arena better described as a metaverse.”
Einstein’s general theory of relativity “objects with extremely large mass or high density stretch the fabric of space-time. Find something whose density approaches infinity - -a black hole, for example—and that stretch can become a tear. This tear in space-time is better known as a wormhole, could in theory serve as a shortcut to a distant part of the universe. In 1980 an idea proposed by Stephen Hawkings expanding on Einstein’s idea, “it could also lead out of our cosmos altogether, creating a “baby universe” that would then expand and grow, forming its own self-contained branch of space-time. (Lemonick)
The general idea accepted about the beginning of the universe is the big bang. Is this possible to do in a lab? Play God? Recreate a universe? People are toying with the particle accelerators, such as Nobuyuki Sakai and his colleagues at Yamagata University in Japan. They have discovered how to use a particle accelerator to create a whole new universe in theory. To create another cosmos with the big bang theory, Linde says, “Could you concentrate enough energy to set off a mini big bang?” And the answer is no according to the theoretical physicists. “All of the particles that you would create in such a process would have their own gravity, pulling them together. So, instead of creating a baby universe in the lab you would just create a black hole.
Then the idea of inflation theory developed by Alan Guth of MIT, Linde modified his idea, and “relying on the fact the “vacuum” of empty space time is not a boring, static place Instead, it is subject to quantum fluctuations that cause strange bubbles to appear at random times. These bubbles of false vacuums contain space-time with different and very curious properties.” (Merali)
A baby universe is born. A new universe sprouts from its parent, the inflationary multiverse. The inflationary theory is the very early stages of the evolution of other universes. Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind “believes the anthropic principle, the multiverse, and string theory are converging to produce a coherent, if exceedingly strange, new view in which our universe is just one of a multitude.” (Folger) So our universe could just be the result of a big bubble that formed in a pre-existing universe. Princeton astrophysicist J. Richard Gott says, “In a timeless mulitverse, in fact, a baby cosmos could beget a baby that would beget a baby that might ultimately give birth to the universe that started it all. It’s quite possible, that the universe could end up being its own great-grandmother.” (Lemonick)
Artistically, I created a single drop in a piece of wood as a metaphoric analysis for explaining many things, but I ended up learning from my own creation, my conscious mind melding with my subconscious in a deeper understanding of the birth of a universe.
BIRTH OF A UNIVERSE
WARP IN SPACE-TIME occurs within our universe, in a location where a lot of mass is concentrated
OUR UNIVERSE
FALSE VACUUM BUBBLE
A COSMIC DROP forms as the warp expands, creating a passage from one region to the next in the form of a wormhole.
IN THE CENTER OF DROP IS THE WORMHOLE, GROWING INTO THE FALSE VACUUM BUBBLE
NEW UNIVERSE results when the wormhole closes up, leaving almost no trace as the drop expands into a baby universe of its own.
BABY UNIVERSE IN A DROP
REFERENCES
Michael D. Lemonick (2000) Will We Discover Another Universe? Time
Retrieved April 25, 2009 from www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996608,00.html
Zeeya Merali, 10 July 2006, Magazine issue 2559
Create your own universe. New Scientist
Tim Folger, December 2008, A Universe Built For Us, Discover
Cosmologist Andrei Linde said “Our universe could thus be the result of an inflationary bubble that formed in a re-existing universe - - an arena better described as a metaverse.”
Einstein’s general theory of relativity “objects with extremely large mass or high density stretch the fabric of space-time. Find something whose density approaches infinity - -a black hole, for example—and that stretch can become a tear. This tear in space-time is better known as a wormhole, could in theory serve as a shortcut to a distant part of the universe. In 1980 an idea proposed by Stephen Hawkings expanding on Einstein’s idea, “it could also lead out of our cosmos altogether, creating a “baby universe” that would then expand and grow, forming its own self-contained branch of space-time. (Lemonick)
The general idea accepted about the beginning of the universe is the big bang. Is this possible to do in a lab? Play God? Recreate a universe? People are toying with the particle accelerators, such as Nobuyuki Sakai and his colleagues at Yamagata University in Japan. They have discovered how to use a particle accelerator to create a whole new universe in theory. To create another cosmos with the big bang theory, Linde says, “Could you concentrate enough energy to set off a mini big bang?” And the answer is no according to the theoretical physicists. “All of the particles that you would create in such a process would have their own gravity, pulling them together. So, instead of creating a baby universe in the lab you would just create a black hole.
Then the idea of inflation theory developed by Alan Guth of MIT, Linde modified his idea, and “relying on the fact the “vacuum” of empty space time is not a boring, static place Instead, it is subject to quantum fluctuations that cause strange bubbles to appear at random times. These bubbles of false vacuums contain space-time with different and very curious properties.” (Merali)
A baby universe is born. A new universe sprouts from its parent, the inflationary multiverse. The inflationary theory is the very early stages of the evolution of other universes. Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind “believes the anthropic principle, the multiverse, and string theory are converging to produce a coherent, if exceedingly strange, new view in which our universe is just one of a multitude.” (Folger) So our universe could just be the result of a big bubble that formed in a pre-existing universe. Princeton astrophysicist J. Richard Gott says, “In a timeless mulitverse, in fact, a baby cosmos could beget a baby that would beget a baby that might ultimately give birth to the universe that started it all. It’s quite possible, that the universe could end up being its own great-grandmother.” (Lemonick)
Artistically, I created a single drop in a piece of wood as a metaphoric analysis for explaining many things, but I ended up learning from my own creation, my conscious mind melding with my subconscious in a deeper understanding of the birth of a universe.
BIRTH OF A UNIVERSE
WARP IN SPACE-TIME occurs within our universe, in a location where a lot of mass is concentrated
OUR UNIVERSE
FALSE VACUUM BUBBLEA COSMIC DROP forms as the warp expands, creating a passage from one region to the next in the form of a wormhole.
IN THE CENTER OF DROP IS THE WORMHOLE, GROWING INTO THE FALSE VACUUM BUBBLENEW UNIVERSE results when the wormhole closes up, leaving almost no trace as the drop expands into a baby universe of its own.
BABY UNIVERSE IN A DROPREFERENCES
Michael D. Lemonick (2000) Will We Discover Another Universe? Time
Retrieved April 25, 2009 from www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996608,00.html
Zeeya Merali, 10 July 2006, Magazine issue 2559
Create your own universe. New Scientist
Tim Folger, December 2008, A Universe Built For Us, Discover
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