Quantum Gravity 399.8: Repulsive vs Attractive Interactions/Forces as Respectively Generated by Connection vs Disconnection
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From: Osher Doctorow on 23 Jun 2010 02:08 From Osher Doctorow Let us look at the intuitive picture of a black hole as generated by a collapsing star due to "excessive mass". In a topological sense, the black hole seems to be disconnected from the rest of the Universe. Its gravitation is extreme by any standards. Moreover, as a singularity it can be simulated as an object that is approaching "total disconnection" or a discrete space. See Wikipedia's: 1) "Discrete space" 2) "Locally connected space". In the opposite direction, the expansion of the Universe and Inflation and late acceleration are now regarded usually as involving repulsion rather than gravitation (or the dominance of repulsion) and also do not involve disconnection but rather connection as far as we know. Generalizing these intuitive ideas, we can propose: 3) Conjecture: Attractive Interactions are generated by the tendencies of objects toward Disconnection, while Repulsive Interactions are generated by the tendencies of objects toward Connection. Intuitively, we can rephrase this: 4) Contracting or shrinking is "Disconnective", Expanding is "Connective". We can visualize this also by the tendency of a smaller and smaller object in Euclidean type spaces to approach a point, and isolated points are in general disconnected. But should not the Quantum world be the realm of "shrinking" and the GR or modified GR or Brans-Dicke type world the realm of "expanding"? Yes, expect for one oddity: GR IS THE MACROSCOPIC ANALOG OF SHRINKING/CONTRACTING. Had GR been formulated for expanding space(time), as with Hoyle's discovery which Einstein himself admitted regretting that he did not make, then Gravitation and Repulsion would arguably have indeed been seen as opposite poles on the Disconnection vs Connection and Shrinking vs Expanding "axes". Osher Doctorow |