The Scientific Worldview

This is a blog that takes the name of my magnum opus on scientific philosophy called "The Scientific Worldview." Reviewers have called it “revolutionary,” “exhilarating,” “magnificent,” “fascinating,” and even “a breathtaking synthesis of all understanding.” There is very little math in it, no religion, no politics, no psycho-babble, and no BS. It provides the first outline of the philosophical perspective that will develop during the last half of the Industrial-Social Revolution.

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Big Bang Cosmology Goes Completely Nuts

PSI Blog 20241125 Big Bang Cosmology Goes Completely Nuts

According to the latest outrage, quantum fluctuations could cause the entire universe to disappear.

“The Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider suggest that the universe could vanish in an instant. Photo credit: Maximilien Brice/CERN.”

Egads! The ridiculosity of the “Last Creation Myth” never ceases to amaze. New Scientist magazine, its perpetual promoter, has just reached the end of the road. At least the finale below is logically consistent: a finite universe that exploded out of nothing should disappear into nothing. Previous demises included the “heat death of the universe” misinterpretation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics without the Sixth Assumption of Science, complementarity (All things are subject to divergence and convergence from other things). That trope was slightly more believable for those accustomed to the Eighth Assumption of Religion, finity (The universe is finite, both in the microcosmic and macrocosmic directions). That magical dying was terminally slow, but this one really “takes the cake”:

Author Miram Frankel writes:

“it has become clearer that the Higgs is – according to the standard model – metastable. ‘The measurements are now so good that we pretty much know that we are in that metastable range,’ says Rajantie.

Assuming there’s no mistake, the universe is doomed – we just don’t know when the big slurp will happen. Based on the shape of these valleys, it is likely to be in billions of years. But it could be tomorrow.”

[GB: Just a little background: The only thing the latest particle accelerator discovered for its $10 billion cost was the “Higgs Boson,” which is highly suspect according to physicist Alexander Unzicker.[1] On top of that, the Higgs Boson has a half-life of 10^-22 seconds—sounds pretty unstable to me—like maybe “nonexistent.” And the regressive physicists consider Dr. Unzicker to be the one who is a crank!

I guess the universe going out with a quantum fluctuation is no worse than its being born of one as proposed in Krauss’s “A Universe from Nothing,” which our good late friend Doogie reviewed here. Of course, the idea of “nothing” is just that, an idea. It is purely imaginary like all idealizations. It is not possible for the Infinite Universe not to exist per the Eighth Assumption of Science, infinity (The universe is infinite, both in the microcosmic and macrocosmic directions).

Here is Frankel’s article (read this smattering for kicks and posterity):

The universe could vanish at any moment – why hasn’t it?

“A cataclysmic quantum fluctuation could wipe out everything at any moment. The fact that we’re still here is revealing hidden cosmic realities.”

[GB: You bet. Of course, the answer to the existential “why hasn’t it?” is that it always has been here per Infinite Universe Theory. Imagined unrealities always bump up against realities, yielding answers to those “deep questions” the religiously inclined never can answer.”

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[1] Unzicker, Alexander, 2013, The Higgs Fake: How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 152 p. [https://go.glennborchardt.com/Higgs].

Unzicker, Alexander, and Jones, Sheilla, 2012, The Discovery of What? Ten Questions About the Higgs to the Particle Physics Community: http://vixra.org/pdf/1212.0100v1.pdf, p. 1–2.

20241111

Big Bang Assumptions—'Webb has shown us they are clearly wrong'

PSI Blog 20241111 Big Bang Assumptions—'Webb has shown us they are clearly wrong'

Astrophysicist speculates on how young “black holes” at the edge of the Big Bang universe formed impossibly fast.

An artist's rendering of a black hole (Image credit: Vadim Sadovski via Shutterstock)

Thanks to Jesse Witwer for this heads up:

By Ben Turner:

How astrophysicist Sophie Koudami's research on supermassive black holes is rewriting the history of our universe

“A supermassive mystery lurks at the center of the Milky Way. Supermassive black holes are gigantic ruptures in space-time that sit in the middle of many galaxies, periodically sucking in matter before spitting it out at near light speeds to shape how galaxies evolve.

Yet how they came to be so enormous is a prevailing mystery in astrophysics, made even deeper by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Since it came online in 2022, the telescope has found that the cosmic monsters are shockingly abundant and massive in the few million years after the Big Bang — a discovery that defies many of our best models for how black holes grew.”

[GB: Readers know the Big Bang universe is supposed to have increasingly young cosmological objects as we look back into the past. The currently observed “edge” of that hypothesized finite, expanding universe is 13 billion years away. Cosmogonists like Sophie are racing to come up with yet another ad hoc that would save cosmogony once again.

Despite the misnomer, black holes simply are the nuclei found in galaxies such as our own 13.61-billion-year-old Milky Way. Elsewhere, they exist as elderly naked nucleic remnants lacking stars.

In reading this article you will find other misnomers still being perpetrated by regressive physics and cosmogony. One is the idea that gravitational force is not a force (a push), but an “attraction” (a magical pull). But, according to Infinite Universe Theory, the pushers happen to be ubiquitous non-luminous aether particles (otherwise known as “Dark Matter”).[1] In outer space, these have high local velocities and form a high-pressure medium. When these particles collide with ordinary matter, they produce the acceleration we call gravitation. Per Newton's Second Law of Motion, the colliding aether particles become decelerated, forming a relatively low pressure aetherosphere around each object. This process is responsible for the pushing together (fusion) of all things in the universe.

In the case of black hole formation, this means stars are being pushed toward the centers of the galaxies. As that pressure becomes ever-more intense, elements that were previously fused into ever more massive, dense derivative elements (helium, iron, lead, gold, and uranium, etc.) become further compressed. As in the Sun’s fusion of hydrogen to form helium, this process emits internal motion to the surroundings. The surroundings, as always, contain an aether medium capable of carrying that motion away in the form of the waves we call radiation.

Note that Sophie has great hope for the detection of Einstein’s “gravitational waves” for learning more about why elderly black holes form so fast. There will be further gravitational wave detections, but they never will answer her question. That is because the fusion processes I described takes billions of years, not the millions of years indicated by the Big Bang Theory. The Webb photos are like finding a 20-year-old in your crib.]

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[1] Borchardt, Glenn, 2018, The Physical Cause of Gravitation: viXra:1806.0165

(“Aether Deceleration Theory”).

20241104

Why are We Newcomers to the Infinite Universe?

PSI Blog 20241104 Why are We Newcomers to the Infinite Universe?

Every portion of the universe has a beginning and an end.

Thanks to Dr. Phil for this intriguing question:

“What explanation do you have for the fact that life has only existed on Earth for a short time (3.5 billion years?), even though the universe has existed forever?”

[GB: Well, like everything else, our portion of the Infinite Universe has to have some age. Like our 4.603-billion-year-old Sun, each of the 400 billion stars in our 13.61-billion-year-old Milky Way has a different age. This implies there are much older planets and life forms yet to be discovered within the galaxy.

Homo sapiens only evolved in the last 300,000 years (0.3 million or 0.0003 billion years). Just imagine what civilization would be like if the Sun was 4.604 Ga instead of 4.603 Ga! As a species, we exist in such a unique, juvenile period fast approaching maturity in 2050. According to the latest UN estimate, we will gradually reach zero population growth by 2086. By then we will have reached our “carrying capacity” and long since given up the Big Bang Theory, which will be remembered as the “Last Creation Myth.”

Your question implies another: How long will Homo sapiens last? Well, the dinosaurs lasted over 165 million years. Like the dinosaurs and every other species, including humans, there is a time for coming together (complementarity) and for coming apart (Second Law of Thermodynamics). Like the dinosaurs, we too will succumb to extinction. When will that be? Who knows?

Of note is that extinction is produced by a change in the macrocosm (environment). In this regard, Steve, Kent, and I dated three major extinctions at 66, 202, 252 Ma (million years) that were coincident with huge volcanic eruptions (e.g., the Deccan Traps in western India).[1] This includes the dinosaur extinction previously thought to have been the result of the asteroid impact at 66 Ma. The Sun will run out of fuel in 5 Ga (billion years), so that is the maximum for us. It looks like we might be able to intercept the next big asteroid, but another huge volcanic eruption will make things a bit difficult on the way.

Today’s global move toward fascism seems to have produced global pessimism. The warming climate and calls to “save the planet” are all the rage. Believers in “free will” often think humanity's extinction is at hand. That would be unprecedented, for no species has ever committed suicide, as I pointed out long ago when nuclear war was the scare du jour.[2] Yet, our inherent myopism makes us think we will succumb to climate change despite the fact Homo sapiens has survived its vicissitudes numerous times. These include the little ice age 600 years ago, the medieval warm period 1,000 years ago, the 3,000-yr drought that began 10,000 years ago,[3] the 126-m drop in sea level when most of Wisconsin was covered with a mile of glacial ice 22,000 years ago, and the 6-m rise in sea level during the Sangamon interglacial warm period 122,000 years ago. Even though atmospheric CO₂ has risen from 0.0357% to 0.0422% and global temperature has risen 0.8 ^oC since 1993, the rise in sea level pales in comparison. Surprisingly, it occurs at only 3.2 mm/yr (Figure 1). At that rate, sea level will have risen only three inches by 2050. Do you think the planet will be able to survive that along with the demise of the Big Bang Theory?]

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[1] Puetz, S.J., Condie, K.C., and Borchardt, Glenn, 2018, Analyses of global zircon ages, mass extinctions, and evolution, 32 p. [This paper was rejected for being too controversial. Our theory now has support (Walters, Sam, 2023, Did Massive Volcanic Eruptions Drive Dinosaurs to Become Extinct?). We will submit it for publication next year along with additional data.]

[2] Borchardt, Glenn, 2007, The Scientific Worldview: Beyond Newton and Einstein: Lincoln, NE, iUniverse, 411 p. [https://go.glennborchardt.com/TSW].

[3] Borchardt, Glenn, and Lienkaemper, J.J., 1999, Pedogenic calcite as evidence for an early Holocene dry period in the San Francisco Bay area, California: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 111, no. 6, p. 906–918. [ftp://ehzftp.cr.usgs.gov/jlienk/reprints/MasonicCO3_GSAB99.pdf].