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"Discovering" Your Own Universal Constant


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I watched a TED video yesterday.* The lecturer asked stimulating question, "Why are the twenty numbers (universal constants) the numbers that they are?"

I think what he meant is, "Why are they constrained to be that exact number? and not some other? Why can't we get them to budge a little in one direction or another?"

So, I Googled for that topic and found an interesting set of thirteen of them on the Popular Mechanics website. While reading that a thought came to me, "I wonder if their is a constant that is associated with universes, like saying perhaps "Each universe is limited by (insert your desired new constant/number of physics:

a maximum density of blah, blah, blah,... and/or

a minimum density of blah, blah, blah,... "

having to have the same total amount of mass and/or

having to have the same total amount of energy"

the sum of all of a universe's luminousity is the same from universe to universe"

by a maximum age"

the number of universe iterations--if one develops, another has to dissolve"

a maximum number of planets with their own kind of life forms."

Just for the fun of it, perhaps those interested could suggest a constant that a universe has to obey. There are no right or wrong answers. Anything goes!

You may also want to suggest why that would be a probable or good constant, and the role it takes to maintain the continued existence of all that there is.

If it has properties never before quantized, you may want to coin a name and give it a unit of measure.

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* I have mixed feelings about TED stuff. A little too uppity for me. Simple people change the world, too. Simple people have world revolutionizing ideas, too.

(Uppity is a slang word for snobbish, presumptuous, putting on airs. Also includes arrogant and taking liberties beyond one's station.)

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My favourite constant is the one called Novelty:

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Still can't wrap my head around it. Which physical laws say it should happen so persistently throughout the life of the universe?

Even though nothing happened in 2012, the speeding-up process is still observable and interesting, but the succession of more and more complexity building on previously achieved complexity is still mind-boggling, especially in the light of the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

From the Big Bang we have seen: Energy - Particles - Nuclei - Atoms - Molecules - Stars and planets - Life, becoming more and more complex itself - Consciousness - ? Who says it stops (stopped on other planets) there? Can we even guess what's next?

edit: About the Mayan calendar, isn't it funny that it starts on a "nothingness" day, when they didn't even exist as a civilization, nothing special that day, no astronomical event, yet it ends on a winter solstice thousands of years into the future, also not part of their civilization? What kind of people start their calenders at a solstice thousands of years in the future and end it in a past where they didn't even exist? That's not how people do calendars...

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Indeed perplexing! Some thoughts to ponder and try to work (in or) out...

As to the second law (2LT)... Perhaps there is an undiscovered law that competes with 2LT.* In which case SON (from the footnote below) and 2LT compete equally well, using up the same amount of energy equally. However, 2LT has a byproduct of decomposition and SON has a byproduct of composition, again both using the same amount of energy to produce their (by-) product. However, 2LT product is more observable--ethnic-not being so much a part of mankind--than SON (emic-being intrusive to mankind, since that law brought him about. So, the energy to implement 2LT goes into the more notable decomposition and distribution. While the energy of SON goes into composition and centralization/localization.

Just a thought... perhaps...

I thought of a real good, likely trans-universal constant last night but didn't record it prior to it going walkabout! :wacko: It might return to me. I'll search the dreamtime for it. :ph34r:

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* Perhaps it is similar to but a more general application--a grand parent to--the law of survival of the fittest, from which the law of survival of the fittest (SOF) was birthed. For now we will call it survival of Novelty (SON). SOF may have been discovered or popularized first, then later SON.

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