Gregg,

While I do not intend to respond on the entire literature as I have not 
studied it. But I desire to comment & clarify on the homogeneity issue 
in early universe, as I have done some work on it and indeed some 
conclusions form part of my book - "Awareness & Consciousness - 
Discovery, distinction and evolution". Homogeneity is an obvious outcome 
of ultra high event density. In a tiny universe, in fact there cannot be 
the concept of homogeneity as there is no time. Simple 
example/illustration - look at a rubber band & one feels it to be pretty 
regular in size. Now stretch is far and you see the gross irregularities 
in its thickness and size. The irregularities can be seen because they 
are beyond human observation when the rubber band is unstretched.

Now let me put this in a different prospective. Get a group of young 
boys and girls to dance very very energetically on music, subject to the 
constraint that they have to maintain their whole body within the 
contraint of a circular rope, which is constantly reduced in radius.


As the circle is reduced, collisions start occurring amongst them.
At 2nd stage, when they are jostled together literally, with no space 
left between them, they will loose their own vector. Which makes the 
group scaler (time is still alive, as it is scaler) because they can no 
longer move in different directions, but move together in tandem as a group.
At 3rd stage, when they are further squeezed, the group will have no 
possibility to even move in tandem & unison. Motor interaction among 
them ceases. They know become a particle-like, which means they have no 
internal properties. But only have external properties. But at the same 
time it has to be noted that the universe is one point without internal 
properties and internal time. Assuming there is no observer outside. 
There is no time at all! Termination of internal properties terminates 
the possibility of concept of homogeneity (in absence of time) though of 
course no one stops calling this condition 100% homogeneity.

Hope I have been able to clarify the idea of homogeneity in early 
universe in a analogous intuitive way for those with dislike of mathematics.

TY
DL



On 10/29/2020 2:02 AM, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx wrote:
>
> Hi TOK Folks,
>
>   I have been trailing Roger Penrose’s work lately and found this 20 
> min description fascinating, because it captures my intuition about 
> the nature of the universe.
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DypjZF6Pdrws&d=DwID-g&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=Cw_xSNKpTZ8ERHbp4UFFsm78LtL64Yqn2MlOQnRbVlo&s=IXm9DwEVBsNEpxUt2itY0XxtYnJPqRpyUa9CoVaSgUU&e= 
>
>   My intuition has always been that the universe emerges out of an 
> energy singularity from another dimension. For example, our universe 
> is akin to a black hole in another universe on the “other side” of our 
> singularity. When I learned of dark energy, I wondered if it might be 
> a field around our universe that it is expanding into that will 
> “circle back around” into a collapse back into a singularity. Here is 
> Penrose giving a talk a couple of days ago that basically narrates 
> this idea. That is cool. What he is missing from my theory is that it 
> is “dark energy” that will “collect” the dispersed radiation and 
> collapse it back into the singularity that starts the next phase in 
> the universe anew.
>
>   The idea is that once in a singularity state, a remarkable 
> “stochastic event” happens, whereby the photonic-gluonic pure 
> energy/radiation plasma encounters a symmetry breaking phase shift, 
> which starts a chain reaction that turns energy into matter. (Note, 
> the symmetry breaking has to do with spin and the fact that a 
> substantial set of bosons (i.e., gluons and photons) are knocked into 
> a different ½ spin vector which turns them into fermions with follow 
> the Pauli Exclusion principle).  This, BTW, does account for Penrose’s 
> concern about the homogeneity of the early universe and the problem he 
> scratches his head over regarding the second law and the issue of entropy.
>
> Best,
> Gregg
>
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