Catching up to the beginning

 

 

 

By

 

Gene Fredericks

 

 

 

 

Part of 

 

Reflections of the universe as I see it

 

 

 

 

 

         

 

 

When I look at chart models of the electromagnetic spectrum, I notice that they all drop off at each end, long radio waves at one end and tiny gamma rays at the other end.  As I wondered how large and small waves could be, I realized there is a point where the oscillation of a wave is so frequent and small that it effectively has no wavelength.  It would oscillate infinitely fast with no distance from crest to crest.  Effectively, it looks like a dot that moves over time.  Effectively, it would look like a line.

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On the other end of the spectrum is a place where a wave is so long and infrequent that it effectively has no wavelength.  It is infinitely flat and will never crest again. It also appears like a straight line.

 

So the complete electromagnetic spectrum would go from zero wavelength and frequency to an infinite wavelength and frequency. The end of each would look identical. So what if they were a continuum and the spectrum wrapped back onto itself?   Always happening and never happening becomes the same thing. The spectrum would be drawn as a circle. It would be as if the infinitely smallest wave were attached to the infinitely longest wave.

 

I know that Planck’s length does not allow this, but I cannot see any reason why, theoretically/conceptually, something can’t be smaller than 1.616229(38)x10-35. Certainly, math allows for it.  There is always a smaller and larger number before we reach zero or get to a negative number.  There are an infinite number of digits like pi.  

 

Planck’s length is needed if the speed of light is a constant and there is a space-time continuum, and more rule-breaking dogmas, but those are for another thought pellet!

 

So now imagine that the infinitely small “gamma rays” with no wavelength and infinite oscillation could travel so fast, so far, that it effectively was everywhere.  Much like the Wheeler single-electron theory.  With infinite speed, it could be everywhere at any time and all the time.  And at any given point, a wave could begin to oscillate faster and faster until it gets to the infinite wavelength and frequency.  And every spot where a wave had been would eventually slow until all that was left was an infinitely long wave. Like a string that starts motionless and is oscillated so fast that it effectively becomes motionless again, it becomes a steady vibration with an infinitely small duration.

 

And, imagine the fastest particles were dropping off little “seed” remnants that each “grew” and could send waves out everywhere.  In a way like those spooky particles at a distance, infinitely entangled as part of the whole.

 

So the universe would always be reproducing itself forever and forever with each new seed offering a unique new potential.  Which means the so-called multiverses will continue to populate the expanding one-and-only universe.  That universe will continue to continue.  

 

I don’t know if it’s true, but who knows!