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Description of  The Distorted Universe: From neutrinos to the cosmos, The Theory of Nothingness

WHATS IT ALL ABOUT..OR ....what images come to mind when you think about A Theory of Nothingness? I prefer (subjective) to "mentally model", in this physics realm, in terms of ENERGY mental modeling is all about visual image production within the grey matter. Subsequent transmission or communication of that grey matter visual image is called language. FORCES and FIELDS are other physics-created "labels" used to communicate physical processes and phenomena both are derivable from an ENERGY model. Another DEFINITION the absence of ENERGY is NOTHINGNESS. Given (an assumed hypothesis, or definition in mathematics or logic) these starting concepts, one can then "mentally model" space-time as NOTHINGNESS and ENERGY(?). But having said that, can you please "draw a picture" i.e. show me the mental model? Hard, huh? Now, if I say that the UNIVERSE consists of some NOTHINGNESS and some SOMETHING, what does the SOMETHING look like and what does the NOTHINGNESS look like? A "black void" is usually the "nothingness picture" and the "something picture" takes on various forms, stars, galaxies, elephants, politicians and electrons, the MATTER model of SOMETHING. At the "most fundamental level", we try to "picture" the substance of MATTER, leaving the NOTHINGNESS modeling to the "black void" matter-emptiness "picture". But the MATTER models at this fundamental level are "attribute-like" descriptions it "quacks" (like a duck), it "walks" (like a duck), it "smells" (like a duck) but actually, NO internal "structural" descriptor is forthcoming. In fact the external structural descriptor (a geometric description of the forces (gravity, electromagnetism..) or energy-distributions surrounding the "fundamental mathematically abstracted" ingredient) is UNSATISFACTORY in that it leads to geometric-infinities (nothing in the physical universe is "infinite") mathematical renormalization techniques to handle singularities (infinities) notwithstanding. Even for the modern-mathematically-abstracted Quantum mechanics modeling, see Feynman's (the Nobel Laureate) quote about it, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands Quantum mechanics". Now, let's consider the "effect" of the "something" on the "nothingness". If the "nothingness" is really "nothing", then there is NO effect, but if the 4-dimensional "nothingness" is "something" then the "matter something" will displace the "space nothingness" and cause a "space curvature (a geometric descriptor)" in the region of the matter. This curvature or distension of space, caused by the star-matter, has actually been physically (astronomically) measured. So the "black void" mental picture of "space nothingness" is not quite right and although the ENERGY content of the space can be zero (also called a FLAT-SPACE), it can also be non-zero (according to the concept of DISTORTED SPACE) all regions of space, distorted or not, are mathematically describable by Riemann's geometric equations (general relativity). When one "distorts" something, it requires ENERGY and that ENERGY is put into that something. Therefore, any distorted region of the space-time manifold, matter-caused or NOT, becomes SOMETHING, a DISTORTED SPACE with ENERGY, and is presently described by THE DISTORTED UNIVERSE or the THEORY OF NOTHINGNESS model, (as opposed to The Theory of Everything [a]) the distorted geometry model can be understood as the source of MATTER. For the currently described distortions, there is actually exhibited another concept difficult to "mentally and otherwise" grasp, a NEGATIVE ENERGY DENSITY in the "core" region. The illustrations in Figures 1.9a and 1.9b of Chapter 1 of this manuscript display the ENERGY DENSITY attribute of the "geometric distortion" in a 2-dimensional (rotated-radius) presentation. Furthermore, with structure, a distortion morphing between shapes can be created (video in Chapter 1). Read more