New Theory Casually Upends Space and Time

Popular Mechanics ^ | Dec 10 2020 | Tim Collins

[grey_whiskers]

Embrace the flow, says a duo of mechanical engineers at North Carolina State University—the flow of energy, that is. The mantra you might normally hear from your yoga instructor could be an entirely new way of looking at the universe.

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The two theorists, Larry Silverberg and Jeffrey Eischen, suggest that fragments of energy, rather than waves or particles, may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe.

The bedrock of their theory is the foundational idea that energy is always flowing through space and time. The authors suggest thinking of energy as lines that enter and exit a region of space, never crossing each other, and with no beginning or end point.

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[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Go ahead, put me on, but you might want to see if there is a String Theory or APOD list that might also work.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Its too late for me to try to read and understand.

However, looking at the the Roots of Science in Ancient Greece we find:

Panta rhei (”everything flows”)

Heraclitus is also credited with the phrase panta rhei (πάντα ῥεῖ; “everything flows”).[108] This famous aphorism that is used to characterize his thought comes from the neoplatonist Simplicius of Cilicia,[109] and from Plato’s Cratylus.[110] The word rhei (”to stream”) (as in rheology) and is etymologically related to Rhea according to Plato’s Cratylus.[111][i]

On Heraclitus’ teachings on flux, Burnet writes:

Fire burns continuously and without interruption. It is always consuming fuel and always liberating smoke. Everything is either mounting upwards to serve as fuel, or sinking down wards after having nourished the flame. It follows that the whole of reality is like an ever-flowing stream, and that nothing is ever at rest for a moment. The substance of the things we see is in constant change. Even as we look at them, some of the stuff of which they are composed has already passed into something else, while fresh stuff has come into them from another source. This is usually summed up, appropriately enough, in the phrase “All things are flowing” (panta rei), though this does not seem to be a quotation from Herakleitos. Plato, however, expresses the idea quite clearly. “Nothing ever is, everything is becoming”; “All things are in motion like streams”; “All things are passing, and nothing abides”; “Herakleitos says somewhere that all things pass and naught abides; and, comparing things to the current of a river, he says you cannot step twice into the same stream” (cf. fr. 41). these are the terms in which he describes the system.[112]

So there in the beginning the proto scientists were talking about “Flow” and something like the conservation of energy and matter.

Thanks for posting! Good night!