Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!sri-unix!REM@MIT-MC From: REM%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: big bangs / ultimate problems Message-ID: <12225@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Apr-84 20:35:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12225 Posted: Thu Apr 12 20:35:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 11-May-84 08:13:07 EDT Lines: 24 From: Robert Elton Maas I'm not saying that in Physics the only remaining revelations are in the 6th decimal place. Indeed we haven't yet unified the three forces (there were four a few years go but we unified two of them) but expect to unify two of them within the next few decades (some say gravity will be unified with the rest, but I believe gravity is geometry not force and is intrinically different from the 3-->2-->1 force(s)). What I meant by what I said is that (1) the only major change in the Big Bang throey of cosmology is in the first three minutes and the final unbang or pancake or heat-death or whatever (we don't know yet), and (2) new Physics and study of the first three minutes are related. The new Physics may allow a totally new type of engineering (matter-antimatter drive, or high-density memory, or ??) once we can catalyze the conversion of the three unified forces WITHOUT needing high energy states. That would not be in the 6th decimal point in practice (engineering/technology), but it could easily be in the 6th decimal place insofar as it affects the 20 billion years after the first 3 minutes, i.e. Big Bang is unchanged, merely refined, except for first 3 minutes.