Theos-Talk Archives (December 2010 Message tt00055)

Could this new breakthrough (see below) verify the possibility that the pre-spacetime vacuum or absolute ZP (0ºK or -273.15ºC) space is composed of unconditioned consciousness rotating at infinite angular (spin) momentum?  Doesn't it also indicate that the laws of conservation of both energy and information are fundamental -- as are the laws of physics based on such cyclic spin?

Naturally, if no ponderable matter can emerge out of nothing or without the information necessary to determine its forms... Wouldn't such pre spacetime information, then, indicate the presence of a conscious knower?  

If so, wouldn't that potential energy and pre-knowledge, coupled with the spin based law of cycles, indicate that the conscious universe existed before the so called Big Bang, i.e, the universe is cyclic?  

Also -- since this universe exists on a unique set of three perpendicular axes surrounding every absolute zero-point in it... Wouldn't that give credibility to the possibility of infinite ZPE-based conscious cyclic universes -- existing on infinite (other) angular sets of such triple axes, and governed by the same fundamental (cyclic) laws of physics -- emerging from that same infinite absolute space? 

Therefore, we can conclude that these possibilities can give physics an entirely new paradigmatic basis -- which would validate the scientific assumption that consciousness -- in all such physical universes (at any triple angles of fundamental axial spin or frequency-mass-energy phase order between zero and infinite) -- is the fundamental quality of the zero-point spin momentum (ZPE) origin of all harmonically resonant radiant energy fields, and their associated particle-waves, etc.

An explanation of how each such conscious universe initially (in each cycle of manifest existence) might emerge, involve, evolve, and work (with respect to subjective consciousness in relation to mind, memory, brain, body, senses, surrounding world, etc.) can be seen at:
http://knol.google.com/k/how-it-all-began#

Leon Maurer 

 
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Theoretical breakthrough: Generating matter and antimatter from the vacuum

ANN ARBOR, Mich.?Under just the right conditions?which involve an ultra-high-intensity laser beam and a two-mile-long particle accelerator?it could be possible to create something out of nothing, according to University of Michigan researchers.

The scientists and engineers have developed new equations that show how a high-energy electron beam combined with an intense laser pulse could rip apart a vacuum into its fundamental matter and antimatter components, and set off a cascade of events that generates additional pairs of particles and antiparticles.

"We can now calculate how, from a single electron, several hundred particles can be produced. We believe this happens in nature near pulsars and neutron stars," said Igor Sokolov, an engineering research scientist who conducted this research along with associate research scientist John Nees, emeritus electrical engineering professor Gerard Mourou and their colleagues in France.

At the heart of this work is the idea that a vacuum is not exactly nothing.

"It is better to say, following theoretical physicist Paul Dirac, that a vacuum, or nothing, is the combination of matter and antimatter?particles and antiparticles.Their density is tremendous, but we cannot perceive any of them because their observable effects entirely cancel each other out," Sokolov said.

Matter and antimatter destroy each other when they come into contact under normal conditions.

"But in a strong electromagnetic field, this annihilation, which is typically a sink mechanism, can be the source of new particles," Nees said, "In the course of the annihilation, gamma photons appear, which can produce additional electrons and positrons."

A gamma photon is a high-energy particle of light. A positron is an anti-electron, a mirror-image particle with the same properties as an electron, but an opposite, positive charge.

The researchers describe this work as a theoretical breakthrough, and a "qualitative jump in theory."

An experiment in the late '90s managed to generate from a vacuum gamma photons and an occasional electron-positron pair. These new equations take this work a step farther to model how a strong laser field could promote the creation of more particles than were initially injected into an experiment through a particle accelerator.

"If an electron has a capability to become three particles within a very short time, this means it's not an electron any longer," Sokolov said. "The theory of the electron is based on the fact that it will be an electron forever. But in our calculations, each of the charged particles becomes a combination of three particles plus some number of photons."

The researchers have developed a tool to put their equations into practice in the future on a very small scale using the HERCULES laser at U-M. To test their theory's full potential, a HERCULES-type laser would have to be built at a particle accelerator such as the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. Such infrastructure is not currently planned.

This work could potentially have applications in inertial confinement fusion, which could produce cleaner energy from nuclear fusion reactions, the researchers say.

To Sokolov, it's fascinating from a philosophical perspective.

"The basic question of what is a vacuum, and what is nothing, goes beyond science," he said. "It's embedded deeply in the base not only of theoretical physics, but of our philosophical perception of everything?of reality, of life, even the religious question of could the world have come from nothing."

A paper on this work, "Pair Creation in QED-Strong Pulsed Laser Fields Interacting with Electron Beams" is published in Physical Review Letters.

Sokolov is a research scientist at the Space Physics Research Laboratory in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences. Nees is an associate research scientist in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science. Mourou is the A.D. Moore Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering who is currently with the Institut de la Lumiere Extreme in France. Also contributing is Natalia M. Naumova, with the Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquee in France.

This research was supported in part by the Department of Energy.

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