Cosmology

Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic Paradigm

Essays by Alan T. Williams

Part I: Sneaking Up On Einstein

Astrophysics in the first decade of the 21st century
is in the midst of a revolution that leads beyond the stars.
- A. T. Williams

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Chapter 6 Section 2: Cosmology:

The cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) was discovered in 1965 by radio astronomers Arno Penzias (1933- ) and Robert Wilson 2 (1936- ), who together shared one-half of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for making the discovery.3 The omnipresent CMB is an energetic phenonemon within which all particulate matter is immersed. The Big Bang theory of cosmology 4 postulates that the CMB is radiant energy left over from the birth of our material universe in an extremely high temperature dispersal of a very large amount of matter which was originally confined, or condensed, in a very small space. While possible only in a pre-existing closed or isolated (conservative) material system, and offering no hypothesis concerning the physical process or processes by which the original mass of condensed matter came into being, the Big Bang theory is considered by many to be "an apparently valid description" of our material universe.

Interestingly, both the recent discovery of the universal principle of energy and The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP) model of physical reality just-as-it-is point directly to an energetic, closed (conservative) nonmaterial spacetime continuum which contains macroscopic and microscopic open (nonconservative) material systems as the cosmological model which definitively describes our finite, local material universe.

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Continued in Section 3: The Diamagnetic Moon

Reference Notes (Click on the Note number to return to the text):

2 The Nobel Lecture .pdf files of Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson may be viewed with an Adobe Acrobat Reader. Free download:

3 Pjotr Leonidovich Kapitsa (1894-1984), Director of the Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow, received a full half-share of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics."

4 The Einstein-de Sitter closed or isolated (conservative) model of the material universe.

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Index: Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic Paradigm

Last Edit: February 25, 2007.

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