The Farthest Star is the Nearest Star

---Zeashan Zaidi

According to maths, the distance between the two points depends on the path which connects the points. For example, let A and B are the two cities. And there are three ways which connects A and B. The first way is hundred kilometers long while the second and third are sixty kilometers and eighty kilometers long respectively. So according to the first way the distance between A and B is hundred kilometers, while this distance is sixty kilometers and eighty kilometers respectively along with the second and third paths respectively. This rule is applicable to the entire universe. So it is clear that a thing could be near as well as far away from us at the same time.

Let us take another example. As we know that the earth is round. Let there are two cities within a country. If we make two routes between cities, one within the country and other around the earth, going in the opposite direction from one city to other; then first distance will be small while the other large. And thus the distance between the two cities at the same time will be too small and too large. As well as 'small' distance will be smaller, 'large' would be much larger. This is possible due to the roundedness of the earth. This distance also depends on the surface on which it is measured relatively.

Now let's talk about a branch of mathematics called Calculus of Variations. It was developed in the early 18th century by the famous mathematicians Leonhard Euler and Lagrange. This mathematics measures extreme values of heights, distances, time or energy etc.

So using calculus of variations we can find the minimum or maximum condition of something. But one drawback is that if we find maxima then we generally can’t find the minima or vice versa. In many cases we get only one extreme value (maxima or minima) and the second value comes either infinity or negative infinity.

But if we take the above assumption that as 'small' distance will be smaller, 'large' would be much larger we can say that the minima found will also be the maxima or vice versa.

For a closed surface (such as rounded ground) Maximum - Minimum be together is perfectly clear.

Now look at the second situation. Let we are interested in minimal distance between the two points. The distance between the points depends on the surface on which the points lie. If surface would be change, the minima will also change. The same shall also apply to the maximum. In this way we see that the distance between two locations in different situation will maximum and minimum in many ways.

This rule is applicable for not only the distance but also time, energy and other physical quantities.

So a star we see very far away, can be extremely near to us perhaps after changing the surface of space. Is this concept is similar to the concept of wormholes? 

Before the Big Bang the universe was contracted?

The big bang theory says the early universe was made up of hot plasma of photons, electrons and baryons. The photons were constantly interacting with the plasma through Thomson scattering. As the universe expanded, adiabatic cooling caused the plasma to cool until it became favorable for electrons to combine with protons and form hydrogen atoms. 

The question is how that hot plasma formed? Like today’s process there was some process which were converting photons, electrons and baryons into the hot plasma. Perhaps it was a contracting process converse to adiabatic cooling.

As in the present universe, expansion causes the cooling. What will happen when universe will become too cold? Its answer is depending upon the current density of universe. The problem with measuring the current density of our Universe is that we cannot see most of the matter in it (The dark Matter). 

If the universe is heavier than the critical point, it will result in a shrinking universe. Though probability of this situation is only one third, but combining with the big bang it becomes more probable. 

Universe Will Contract After Expansion.

In the whole universe, everywhere we see two types of processes. Either expansion or contraction. Let we first take example of living organisms. They first grow up (expand) then rotten (contract). If you see a rotten fruit using speed photography, it contracts and emits gases and other elements (expansion). Sometime rotten and putrid things bloat (expand) instead of contracting; and many living things become smaller as they grow. Insect Larvae are a prime example. 

At macro level, stars after its birth expand. Once the hydrogen fuel at the core is exhausted, a star of at least 0.4 times the mass of the Sun expands to become a red giant. This is the process of expansion and then sometime ends on black holes; a process of contraction, though most stars in the universe end up as white dwarves which ultimately become brown dwarves. All these are the examples of expansion – contraction.

Stars that begin with more than 50 solar masses can lose over half their total mass while they remain on the main sequence. This is process of contraction in term of mass.

Stars of at least 0.4 solar masses exhaust their supply of hydrogen at their core, their outer layers expand and cool to form a red giant. It is expansion in terms of volume.

In a red giant of up to 2.25 solar masses, hydrogen fusion proceeds in a shell-layer surrounding the core. Eventually the core is compressed enough to start helium fusion, and the star now gradually shrinks in radius and increases its surface temperature, which is a process of contraction.

In this way we can form an hypothesis that our universe will contract after the current process of expansion. And then again it will be converted into a small point as it was in beginning before the big bang. 

Can we make dream machines for future predictions?

--Zeashan Zaidi

We all see dreams. Mostly are not real and we forget after waking up. But there are many examples in history in which someone saw a dream and then his dream appeared later into a real event. One famous example is the President Abraham Lincoln’s murder. President Abraham Lincoln first saw a dream about his murder which unluckily came into reality after a short time span.

Now the question, ‘Is there any physical theory behind seeing the real dreams?’ Can M-theory or some other theory explain these things? It might be possible that an event happens into our dimensions may already be happen previously in some broader dimensions. And we see the shadow of that event as dream. If it is true then we can make almost accurate forecasting by making some dream machines. 

Past was Mythology, Future is Science

It is an accepted fact that mythology has a lot of imaginations which are not possible scientifically. But I think almost every concept which is presently a myth would be a real story of future. In this context we can take example of Arabian Nights, the tales of 1000 nights which contains a lot of fantasies, many of them are the challenges of our modern S& T. That is;

One will say ‘Khul Ja Sim Sim’ and the door will open.

One will say ‘Chhoo Mantar’ and he will disappear.

A light will emit from your sword and the enemy roaring on you will changed into a cat.

A person will rub a ‘lamp’ and the Jinn will appear.

The S & T is now approaching to convert such imaginations into reality. For example the voice recognition technique, in future can control a door which would be open only on saying some code-words. Similarly science can make a special ‘mantra’ which is associated with the visibility – invisibility of someone. The making of invisible man is possible with futuristic optical techniques. Why extremes of biotech can’t convert a woman into a cat? Those miraculous phenomenons are possible with interconnection and advancement of various branches of S&T.

In future, a ‘Jinn’ can appear by structured combination of LASER and some other powerful rays emitted through a ‘lamp’ type transmitter. 

Are Virtual and Real worlds the two faces of a single coin?

‘This world is just an illusion’ like sentences might be true statements under some scientific point of views. Many of the times we see something at some place, actually which is not at that place. A star visible to me at a particular place in the sky is a real thing in our vision, but actually we are looking at a very old star which has presently changed its position as well as the shape. Heisenberg uncertainty principle implies that we always see illusions.

Now from another point of view, we are the species of four dimensions. The lower dimensional things such as shade, point, circle are all the virtual things for us. So it is possible that we are the virtual species for some higher dimensional living beings.

We see a world in our night dreams and after waking up we realize that the world we were seeing was only an illusion. In the same manner, can’t we say that today’s real world is actually virtual, which we will realize after waking up from a long sleep (death)?

We think that our body, our relatives etc are same since our birth and childhood. But it is also an illusion. Our body completely changes in span of one month. The old cells of the body die and new are born. So every month we take a birth.

So can’t we say that every reality is really virtual?  

Sci-Fi of Events (A thought)

I think that any creativity made by human always exists in nature. It is only the presentation by which we say that it is a new creation. So if a person creates something new, it is a new version of some old creations made by nature or human itself.

Einstein principle of conservation of mass and energy in the universe is also applicable for events of universe. Event neither be created nor destroyed, it only changes shape in different parts of universe(s). Therefore there is no past event, no future event. Event which is past for we, might be a future for some other place (or Universe). 

Because time has different speeds in different universes, it might be negative with association to some negative universe where all physical laws behave opposite relative to our universe and perhaps the past time of there will be the future time of here.

Definition of Science Fiction

Definition of Science Fiction in my view
" Science fiction is a story of some creatures under scientifically justifiable imaginations. "

----- Zeashan Zaidi

Do you agree?