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Life and the Universe -- Jno Cook
Preface: A very old Universe.


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[An Infinite Universe] [Infinite Time]

I will assume that the universe is finite in extent but infinite in age. This is not the contemporary belief. But the idea is as sustainable as much as a finite universe with an early creation date.

A finite universe, but infinite in time, is simple, especially since it answers many puzzling questions about evolution and opens up new concept about life -- its genesis and spread, and why it is the way it is.

The reader will understand that this involves what most people will understand as speculation, although I am confident that it will be able to formulate results which will do better at explaining many aspects of our world than what we have at the moment.

An old Universe

Today the universe is understood to have a definite starting date, and as a result is finite in size. The inability for us to see beyond a certain distance in space is taken as proof that the universe has expanded to this size in the time available since creation.

An infinitely sized universe (in time) is a problem, especially, if space is understood as extending in three dimensions forever. The Greeks first noted this, but their universe consisted of a enclosing dome of stars. Their question was, if you stuck your hand through this dome, what was there beyond?

You might also ask, Where is the data? Where are the facts? But current mainstream cosmology cannot answer anything with any degree of certainty. A universe which is finite in space, as having expanded only so many billion years, cannot be divorced from the concept of a fixed starting date -- the Big Bang theory.

See, for example, Eric Lerner, in The Big Bang Never Happened (1991). And of course Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is under attack by any number of people, including, for example, Stephen Crothers (at http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/). But Einstein's theories deal with gravity, not anything as arcane as what I am proposing.

There are many other voices which have expressed the same opinions since 1917, and as many who call Crothers and other dissenters crackpots. One solution to much of this is the theory of Dewey Larson ("The Reciprocal System"), which holds that the notions of mass and space are incorrect.

Let me proceed from Larson's "Reciprocal System," without making an effort at this time to justify any of it. I'll do that later. (But see http://library.rstheory.org/books/bst/)

So, yes, there is also another universe, which receives stuff from this universe and later cycles it back. One of the two is the universe we normally experience, a universe based on space. The other is based on time. The second might, in fact, coexist with the familiar space-based universe.

Before you dismiss this idea out of hand, hear out a little of this, for the theory by Larson is solid (although, typically, he is decried as a crackpot), and the resulting conclusions about life answer a lot of questions we have today and proposes many new concepts.

Neither universe is physical in having "mass" which is just our name for something utterly incomprehensable. Larson suggests that it is only speed: distance divided by time, and vibrating or folded over in various ways. From this he is able to derive all the atomic elements, protons, electrons, gamma rays, and all the atoms, all the interatomic distances between "atoms" and their atomic weights and numbers, and the magnetic, gravitational, and electrical constants, and details how all this atom-equivalent stuff interacts with other and different conglamorations (as molecules).

His calculated values are direct and simple, and match experimentally derives values (as in standard physics) closely. He can do this without ever touching on that mysterious stuff called "matter" which no-one knows anything about, and without recourse to quantum mechanics. His "matter" is all just folded and vibrating speed elements: distance divided by time.

His "other" universe consists of elements of time divided by distance. In the other universe things are randomly distributed with respect to time, just as in our universe things are randomly distributed with respect to space.

In both cases, there will be a clumping of this "matter". He suggests that if this gets dense enough it will slip over into the other universe. Thus material constantly leaves our universe to slip over into the other to appear at absolutely random times, and from the other universe "stuff" enters our universe at absolutely random locations.

You could see how things might move back and forth from one to the other. And between moves, there are billions of years for the elements of life (DNA, for example) to advance and improve (but also, to go backwards). Whatever suits life best will be adopted. Conditions are the same in both universe locations (although I cannot image how things operate in the time-domain universe). He calls the time-based universe the Cosmic Universe.

Now Dewey doesn't tell (or I missed it) what the sizes and particulars are in moving from one universe to the other. Cosmic Universe elements through Krypton are accounted for in material (!) transfers, But dont ask for the details, I do not know.

There are solutions here for things that remain absolutely inexplicable in terms of panspermia. In panspermia the DNA travels very long distances, from one star to another, probably taking millions on millions of years. Cells dry out, but much of its DNA could remain intact. But all the same, it is an iffy condition.

In going from one universe to another, the transfer is instantaneous. In addition, Dewey suggests some elements from the time domain are retained in the space dominated universe. Perhaps that is how we know things from the past or the future (he has time as multidimensional, including negative time).

So, to ultimately create humans, these transfers would have to happen over and over again for billions of times, and thus in many cases human-like animals will reappear again and again.

The extinction and creation events in the past history of the Earth were not random. Stephen Gould has been quoted as saying, "Without exception there has never been a new species without a preceding mass extinction. Fossil records demonstrate that a species remains unchanged for millions of years before abruptly disappearing. Gradualism is not a fact of nature. Most new species appear with a bang. Nature does take leaps."

After each extinction the Earth's environment (climate) was totally different from before. The earth's climate went at times from tropical temperatures at the north pole, to 6000 feet of ice in the tropics. Look at the various geological periods, and you will see absolutely astounding changes. And we do not even know anything about the atmosphere or radiation.

Infinite Time

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