Todays thought experiment: Is it possible that entropy and gravity are related? It is been said that eventually the entire universe, through entropy, Will find itself in a single static state - in other words a uniform temperature throughout, with all the matter and energy at a level of equilibrium. At the moment The universe is expanding, and that expansion is accelerating. If its accelerating, that implies that gravitational forces are not enough to bring the universe back together toward a singularity, in other words a beginning. But consider: what if gravity and entropy have some form of connection to each other, so that as entropy increases – in other words a system approach is equilibrium – that gravitational waves extend farther? The thought is once the universe is fully extended and expands as far as it can expand, and entropy has brought universe to complete equilibrium, that gravitational waves extending would cause the universe to begin to contract - and that contraction should then continue to accelerate until the universe is brought down to a singularity. At reaching that singularity the forces are so great that the singularity then explodes and begins the expansion process again. The concept – and keep in mind that this is an armchair thought experiment, unsupported by extensive math – is that the universe is on a cycle that lasts perhaps trillions of years from singularity to complete expansion and equilibrium through entropy, followed by contraction into a singularity and the process repeats. At the moment there is no empirical evidence of this. Current theories are simply that the universe will continue to expand in an unlimited way, and entropy will eventually bring the entire universe to an equilibrium - as a drop of oil on top of a pond will eventually spread out to create a thin film of oil only a few molecules thick. But, is maximum expansion and equilibrium the end of the universe? Or will there come a point where non-thermal energies - and by this I mean gravity - takes over and ultimately compresses matter in an infinite way? As matter and energy are really just two states of the same thing, is the implication that entropy will cause all states of energy to revert to a state of matter? If all forms of energy in the universe were suddenly converted to matter, then would the gravitational waves of the matter cause the universe to begin its contraction? We associate gravity with mass – matter – but we dont associate gravity with energy. Is it true that gravity is only a function of matter when its in the matter state, but gravity does not exist in the energy state? Does this mean that gravity is the energy of matter? THE QUESTION I think the resulting postulate is: so much of the current universe is in a state of energy, there is not enough of the universe in the state of matter for gravity to be able to slow the universes expansion. AND Can we make the assumption that entropy will reduce universe to a state of matter and not to a state of energy. SO At what point will the energy of the universe, through entropy, convert to the state of matter such that the resulting gravity is enough to cause the universe to collapse back into a singularity?
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 23:09:23 +0000
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