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‘morph time’, no time, & the glimmerings of FTL?

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Following up to the ‘morph time’ post [https://davehuer.com/blog/morph-time-hubble-constant-tuning/]…the biggest idea is far is:

  • there is ‘no time’
  • and is this the first glimmerings of practical FTL?

Even better: If the universe is a mass of Donuts (good pun there!) could FTL trips be accomplishable in short hops of not “moving”? ie. across the Möbius/Klein torus flow (skipping, like hop-scotch)?

And notably, in this model: There is the appearance of compression but no compression. There is no start and end. There is compression that is simultaneously expansion and every aimlessness everywhere: There is effortless flow.

 

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Image CC0 by Felix Mittermeier from Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/photos/pocket-watch-clock-time-old-2031021/

Mobius Universe

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The other bit of fun for 2014 was to finish a thought experiment (the longest thus far: ~1984-2014); coming to a conclusion about the shape of the shape of the universe, and how this could be used to imagine the next contractionary cycle; and perhaps, in time, point the way for far-imagined journeys.

The conclusion? The universe is expanding inwards. Perhaps this might be named “the Mobius Universe”? I made a testing puzzle about this: [link] and there’s a new note here [link].**

The strange thing about constructions like this is that you must look away to observe it. We talk of “the mind’s eye” – This is the imagination’s eye. This is a way to solve many sorts of hard problems. Find imaginative-mind-play time. What you are tussling with, put aside. Accomplish tasks entirely different. Find the focus by looking away. Come back refreshed to tackle it again. Every refresh invites a new perspective. Every leaving gets you farther.

Recharge recharges clarity.

** Original 05Oct2021 version (without “Mobius Universe” title)

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May2024 Update #1: This topological construct of the universe appears to be similar recent formal work by cosmologists: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/74

May2024 Update #2: Whilst reading a beautifully profound article by Ben Zweibelson, PhD. [Breaking the Newtonian fetish] I got to thinking about tori (or toruses) again, as it is hard to explain the hard-to-imagine construct.  Here are two articles  [Link #1] [Link #2] by Mark L. Irons (a Portland scholar who has passed away).

New Ideas to Describe Topology of the Universe: This delving got me imagining that perhaps it could be called a “Klein bottle”, but that’s not right. It’s more of a Mobius torus with amorphous (gassy) ever-expanding surfaces – maybe we could call this construct “Mobius Torus Flows” aka “Morflows” (good pun there!), “Klein flows” or “Klein clouds”?.

Maybe this offers a way to make the leap to living Eine (klein)e Nachtmusik? 🙂