Many people confuse mass with weight – among them my favorite cynic Ambrose Bierce, author of The Devil’s Dictionary:
Gravitation. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportional to the quantity of matter they contain – the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A. – A. Bierce (B1958, p. 51)
MASS IN QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
Mass is not weight. It is weight that corresponds to Bierce’s “tendency of all bodies to approach one another”. Weight is the pull of gravity – the downward force exerted by the earth. If there is no gravity there is no weight, but there is still inertia. In ordinary speech, the two concepts are often blurred, as in “a heavy object is harder to push”. Nevertheless, weight is the pull of gravity and mass is inertia, and they are different concepts.
I wonder what size the quantum/classical boundary inside a black hole is. The smallest point in a black hole that involves spacetime would be the boundary size in every direction made of the fabric vertices. Anything that goes beyond that point would be only dark matter …quantum waves.
First, thanks for that excellent link. I love illustrations. They help me mentally visualize the topic under discussion.
I just wanted clarification (in my mind) if Dark Matter addresses the presence of weight or mass and if that short posit "weight is the pull of gravity and mass is inertia, and they are different concepts. " is correct.
Virtual mass is treated the same as physical mass by spacetime.
Spacetime scales when it bends. Reality is scaling. We already know about time dilation …but a meter stick in one time scale (region of space) will shrink or expand in another time region. It will still be a meter no matter how much it scales, because, for that region …that is the reality of what a meter length is. This is why the speed of light does not change.
If spacetime scales reality when it bends, does it tell us that spacetime is an analog simulation? Light having a speed limit was the first hint that is was a simulation.
If frames of reference scale their realities …the Sun would scale larger than ours, resulting in the sun being smaller than we think.
“Reality Lensing” would be for everything we think is extremely large.
Gravitational waves fluctuate the scale of reality as they pass.
Light having a speed limit was the first hint that is was a simulation.
IMO, light having a speed limit is an indication of a quantum limitation, regardless if this is a simulation (representation of a reality) or reality itself.
Even similations have to obey quantum limitations. Can’t get past or shortcut the mathematical rules of the game (pun intended).
The Spacetime simulation rewards the largest amounts/volumes of Mass with the slowest time and the largest realities (highest definition/resolution). As if it wants these regions observed the most.
Spacetime was instructed to make mass …physical …and promote it.
David Bohm produced a hypothesis of quantum mechanics named “Pilot Wave Theory” which was originally rejected, but has a fair amount of adherents.
In theoretical physics, the pilot wave theory, also known as Bohmian mechanics, was the first known example of a hidden-variable theory, presented by Louis de Broglie in 1927. Its more modern version, the de Broglie–Bohm theory, interprets quantum mechanics as a deterministic theory, avoiding troublesome notions such as wave–particle duality, instantaneous wave function collapse, and the paradox of Schrödinger's cat. To solve these problems, the theory is inherently nonlocal.
The de Broglie–Bohm pilot wave theory is one of several interpretations of (non-relativistic) quantum mechanics. An extension to the relativistic case has been developed since the 1990s.[3][4][5][6]
The hypothesis is named Bohmian Mechanics.
In addition he wrote a highly acclaimed book “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, in which he describes a hypothesis of “Holomovement”
It’s a worthy addition to any science library.
Holomovement
The holomovement brings together the holistic principle of "undivided wholeness" with the idea that everything is in a state of process or becoming (David Bohm calls it the "universal flux"). In this interpretation of physics wholeness is not considered static, but as a dynamic interconnected process.[1] The concept is presented most fully in Wholeness and the Implicate Order, published in 1980.[2]
Link to a free pdf of "Wholeness and the Implicate order".
I think this has something to do with cosmic voids expanding. It seems when spacetime doesn’t have mass in a region …it collapses in on itself …we can’t see it because it’s 4D.
Does this imply the Cyclic model is triggered when spacetime is allowed to completely collapse in on itself? Would all the atoms in the universe coming together be grounds for a new big bang?
