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David Lindley's book, "Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle For The Soul of Science: UNCERTAINTY, page 135, ("... Born, came to ... conclusion. The spreading waves leaving the collision site ... not actually particles but their 'probabilities.' In other words, a direction where the wave was strong was a direction in which rebounding particles were likely to emerge. Where ... weak, by contrast, particles were less likely to be seen. ....")

Could something similar have happend at the time of the singularity, the big-bang? What if "probability waves" were all that occurred at that moment. What if these waves spread out in all directions and somehow interfered with one another. Might matter have formed only when the waves were maximum and space formed only where the waves were minimum. Maybe something like standing-waves account for the locations of galazies and the space between them? If so, might observations suggest there be a patterns there?

2007-08-12 09:44:00 · 3 answers · asked by Bob D1 7 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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Looking at the expansion of the early universe from the angle you suggest also suggests to me that there would be discernible patterns in the distribution if galaxies and galactic clusters.

2007-08-12 10:07:29 · answer #1 · answered by farwallronny 6 · 1 0

It seems that the accepted theory of the activity that took place for the first 300000 years of time was that the universe was opaque due to the density of the mass of protons and electrons and other subatomic particles colliding with other within the confines of the space they occupied, no light could escape that area. Much the same happens within a star, light takes about a million years to reach the surface of the star due to such collisions. Variations in density of this primordial mass only began after the initial 300000 years.

2007-08-15 14:23:32 · answer #2 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0 0

i'm doing physics, because I wanted to do something useful

2007-08-12 16:55:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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