Bob and Wayne,
Thank you for your informative responses. And Bob thank you especially for the reference to the Music of the Spheres. It may take me a while to go all the way through Professor Ruff's talk. However, the notion of the music of the spheres prompted me to immediately want to know what the latest research on this might be. The following article and NPR oral report is what I found.
I think that if you listen to it carefully, you might be able to hear eternity.
Enjoy.
Everett "Skip" Jenkins
Fairfield, California
August 16, 2024
NASA puts the sounds of the universe into a new album : NPR
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On Friday, August 16, 2024 at 05:53:11 AM PDT, Bob wrote and sent the following interview::
The Harmony of the World: An Interview with Willie Ruff on the Kepler Project
The Harmony of World: An Interview with Willie Ruff on his Kepler Project
Bob
On Thursday, August 15, 2024, 11:29:29 AM EDT, skipjen2865@aol.com <skipjen2865@aol.com> wrote:
Twenty years ago, I wrote a book entitled The Creation: Secular, Jewish, Catholic, Protestant and Muslim Perspectives Analyzed. In that book, I took a deep look at the first eleven chapters of the book of Genesis and the story of Creation contained therein. I analyzed it from not just Protestant perspective but also from Jewish, Catholic and Muslim perspectives. I also was able to access a copy of James Ussher's The Annals of the World
It is in this 1658 treatise that Bishop Ussher established a timeline for the creation of the world with the year of creation being set at 4004 B.C. Alongside, Ussher's chronology, I created my own Creation chronology. In my Creation chronology, it began with creation occurring some 15 Billion Years Ago and followed a more scientific chronology for the formation the universe from the time of the Big Bang.
My time frame may have been off. Most scientists assert that the Big Bang occurred some 13.7 Billion Years Agon and not the 15 Billion that I stated. Nevertheless, my fairly detailed chronology is more accurate that the chronology of Bishop Ussher. As it should be, I had the advantage of 350 years of scientific knowledge that the dear Bishop did not have.
Since that endeavor of twenty years ago, I have had an intense interest in the bewildering changes that have been occurring with regard to our knowledge and perception of the universe. The presence of dark matter and dark energy intrigue me and the revelations of the pictures taken by the James Webb Space Telescope
of patches of empty space which revealed that the empty space was filled with galaxies brought a smile.
The universe is much different than we think. Here are some excerpts which indicate just how different it may be ... even for those who should know,
Peace,
Everett "Skip" Jenkins
Excerpts from pages 78 and 79:
For almost half a century physicists agonized over the question of what happens to the stuff that falls into a black hole. If, as theory predicts, black holes destroy information about everything that has ever fallen in, then our theories of nature are in deep, foundational trouble. In recent years, though, scientists made a breakthrough that might finally solve the puzzle.
*****
In 1974 Stephen Hawking realized that black holes evaporate.
Just like a puddle of water out in the sun, a black hole will slowly shrink, particle by particle, until nothing is left at all.
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Quantum physics theorizes that empty space isn't actually empty.
Instead pairs of so-called virtual particles continuously arise out of the vacuum.
These pairs usually stay together and annihilate each other, except for the unlucky few that arise on either side of a black hole's boundary, called its event horizon.
In that case, one member of the pair can get trapped within the horizon ..
....while the other carries energy away.
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Eventually this negative energy shrivels the black hole down to nothing.
But if black holes can be destroyed, then so can all the information about what fell into them.
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That seems to break a fundamental law of physics, which says that information can never be destroyed.
This the paradox.
In the past few years a unique solution has revealed itself: wormholes.
Wormholes are theoretical bridges in spacetime that connect two distant spots through a shortcut.
*****
The inside of a black hole could be connectect to the inside of another black hole via a wormhole.
Though rare, it's theoretically possible.
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And in quantum physics, everything that can happen, does happen.
A particle doesn't simply travel along one particular path from point A to point B.
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If wormholes are at the center of black holes, information pulled within may not be destroyed.
Instead the interiors of black holes seem to contain special areas deep inside called islands.
These islands are both inside and outside the black holes, as if they are part of the escaping radiation that is depleting the black holes over time.
And as they escape, the information within them escapes too.
*****
These new ideas are pretty confounding, even to physicists, who are discovering that the cosmos and the nature of our reality are even weirder that we could have ever imagined.
*****
Really!?
Peace,
Everett "Skip" Jenkins
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Subject: Magazine of the Month for the Month of July 2024: Scientific American: Special Edition: Dark Universe: All the Darkness We Cannot See
"Humans have always looked to the stars. Those pinpricks of light in the vast blackness spark curiosity, wonder and awe. Our newest orbiting observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021 and is sending back jaw-dropping images of visible and infrared light from galaxies, star-nursery nebulas and supermassive stars. More than 25 years ago, astrophysicists discovered that rather than slowing down as it expands, the universe is in fact speeding up; some invisible force between the points and clusters of light is making the universe careen off in every direction. The cosmos is brimming with this so-called dark energy and other mysterious phenomena.
"The empty vacuum of space is alive with exotic particles flashing in and out of existence. Some of them -- whether so-called WIMPs, axions, or other, as yet undiscovered particles -- may be the invisible dark matter pulling galaxies together. Some stars might be fueled by the annihilation of dark matter itself.
"There are sprawling voids in space, some hundreds of millions of light-years across, whose emptiness scientists think is the ideal zone for studying less understood particles such as neutrinos. Some galaxies are made primarily of dark matter and contain very few stars. Stranger still, earlier this year astronomers reported the discovery of a galaxy emitting a radio signal but hardly any visible light.
"The darkest places we know of are undoubtedly black holes. Their gravitational hearts devour all light, and scientists suspect that the space inside black holes is stretchy and could grow forever or connect to other black holes through wormholes in spacetime. The existence of black holes was first hypothesized by Albert Einstein, but it took a century to capture an image of one, and even that image is of just the fiery ring of matter wrapping around the penumbra of the event horizon -- the black hole remains faceless.
"The explanations for these dark phenomena may be found in points of light. JWST has spotted bulky galaxies from the early days after the big bang. Their existence could signal a potential alternative way for black holes to form.
"One of the more mind-bending hypotheses in cosmology is that our universe could be a holographic projection of a lower dimension. This concept has led to new ideas about black holes and the early universe. Spacetime itself may not be an inherent feature of the universe; instead it could arise from a more basic framework of the cosmos. And Nobel Prize -- winning physicists have shown that our reality is not necessarily ... real.
"Humans peer at the stars, yes, but we are limited by our eyes, perceiving only 0.0035 percent of the electromagnetic spectrum. We can't see radio waves, x-rays or heat, never mind other forces such as gravity or magnetism, but innovative technology is allowing us to understand some of the unseen. The totality is mostly still hidden from us in darkness, but that doesn't mean we'll stop looking."
*****
This magazine is ultra cool. One of my great pleasures is seeing the photo of the rainbow galaxy (Galaxy J0613+52) which is a galaxy as massive as the Milky Way but which is almost entirely devoid of stars. When astronomers view the galaxy what is seen is mostly a rainbow reflecting the receding view of the massive gas within.
Amazing!
Everett "Skip" Jenkins
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Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 02:42:09 AM PDT
Subject: Magazine of the Month for the Month of July 2024: Scientific American: Special Edition: Dark Universe:
Growing up in the High Desert town of Victorville, California, one the truly spectacular sights occurs almost every night when the stars begin to emerge and shine. In the High Desert in the 1960s and early 1970s, the town of Victorville only had 15,000 people and the light pollution was minor. So, for many Summer nights, an African American boy could go outside, look up, and dream about worlds where life would be better.
Fast forward sixty years, and that African American boy is now 70 years old. He still has a fascination with stars, but he marvels at the notion that all he can see -- that all anyone can see -- is only a small portion of what must be. How can that be?
Well, while waiting in the Portland Airport after my Bucket List adventure in Eugene, Oregon, I spotted a magazine that immediately caught my attention. The magazine was a Special Edition of Scientific American magazine, and the title of the magazine is "Dark Universe: Mysterious cosmic phenomena shape reality itself". This magazine actually tries to explain how the visible universe is really only five percent of the universe and that there is more than five times more dark matter and 14 times more dark energy in the universe than there is what we can see.
Intrigued, I purchased the magazine and began reading it.
After reading a portion of it, I decided that I would make this magazine my first ever Magazine of the Month, and I invite all who can, to join me in learning how to measure the weight of nothing. Fascinating stuff, it is.
Peace,
Everett "Skip" Jenkins
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