Theory of everything
Theory: 观点
Everything: 宇宙
Somebody once said: “boundary of language is the boundary of my world”. And somebody else said, “math is the alphabet of the language God used to describe the universe “.
With the existence of the above statements, while living in the 21st-century, it is easy to imagine the universe as an encoding and decoding system with numbers being used to carry information and conduct communications. What do we call such a system? “A giant computer!”, some blind man would imagine, “a giant matrix!” some others would utter. . .
语言上说,中国人所说的宇宙,上下四方称为“宇”,古往今来谓之“宙”。所以在中文中的“宇宙”是“空间”和“时间”的集合,是地地道道的“spacetime”,这个20世纪西方现代科学中提出来的相对论的观点。
Linguistically, “universe” in English means “uni” and “verse”, “same and opposite at the same time”. Understanding this word has puzzled me for quite a long time, as to why “quantum mechanics” was so vehemently rejected by Western scientific community for such a long time. Being “true and false at the same time” or being “dead and alive at the same time” is such a simple concept, how come there’s so many people having such a difficult time understanding it? Like any body part of an elephant, its shape and form can be portrayed as “true and false at the same time”, depending on whether the observer is looking at it from near or from afar, from inside or from outside. When the great Albert Einstein described the universe as “everything is relative”, he was also describing “everything is quantized” at the same time. The “Grand Unified Theory”, which brings theory of relativity and quantum mechanics together, should have been proposed right there and then. Mr Einstein did bring to the world theory of “relativity and quantum” together in 1905 as “theory of light”:
mc2 = E = hv
Ironically, it was also for a major part because of Mr Einstein’s objections and his reputation, the Grand Unified Theory” which defines the universe as being both “relative and quantized at the same time” had to wait for more than another 100 years to be brought to the world.
无论是以东方的“时空”这样的概念来定义宇宙还是把宇宙理解为是“对立统一”(universe)这样的西方传统概念,宇宙都是一个对偶的概念(duality),不可能产生于一个所谓的“singularity”。认为宇宙中曾经有过一次大爆炸,在负责任的科学家心中是不可想象的。大爆炸理论最有说服力的证据-红移现象-只不过是Roger Bacon 提出过的 “every point on earth is the center of its own horizon”,的2维现象在3维空间中的显影。
更合理的一个宇宙模型,在测不准原理和广义相对论效果叠加了以后应该是:宇宙是一个大范围内布朗运动造成的大漩涡,有着许多局部的可能的不小的爆炸。
在不受外力影响的情况下,漩涡周围的物质,最后总会漩向中心。但是那将会是在很长、很长时间以后。
地球周围也许曾经有过不止一个月亮,最后都会被漩到地球中去,但是那将会是在很长、很长时间以后。
地球和其他的行星,最终都将被漩到太阳中去,但是那将会是在更长、更长时间以后。
绝对的平行宇宙是不存在的,因为最终他们都将会被漩到一处。相对的平行宇宙却有许多,就是那些还没被漩到一块儿的大大小小的天体或宇宙灰尘。
漩涡的中心是黑洞。黑洞密度很大,但是质量可大可小,因为黑洞的体积可大可小,是测不准的。黑洞也会发光,也就是黑体辐射。辐射出来的能量多少,速度多快也是测不准的。如果黑洞的质量足够大,有可能再引起一次局部的爆炸。如果黑洞的质量不够大,有可能就被渐渐地磨损掉了。黑洞的结局也是测不准的。
如果局部的爆炸发生了,那么又可以有很长很长的一段时期,形成一些巨大巨大的漩涡,围着漩涡的中心旋转。这样的过程周而复始,永无止境。所以绝对时空是不存在的。宇宙在时间和空间上,没有起点也没有终点。