We are moving through an expanded space/ reality. Fundamental to this new model are revisions of basic physical concepts including space, time, matter and motion. Space, once a featureless medium aimlessly proliferating through cosmic expansion, becomes a distributed syntactic structure iteratively reborn of matter and subject to conspansive evacuation and rescaling. Time, previously envisioned as a quasi-spatial linear dimension along which the cosmos hurtles like a runaway locomotive, becomes the means by which the universe self-configures…an SCSPL-grammatical symphony of logico-linguistic transformations played by the self-creating cosmos. Lumps of matter, no longer the inert pawns of external laws of physics, become SCSPL syntactic operators containing within themselves the syntactic rules by which they internally process each other to create new states of physical reality. And motion, once seen as the passage of material attribute-ensembles through adjacent infinitesimal cells of empty space displaying them as content, becomes an iterative, self-simulative sequence of endomorphic self-projections by moving bodies themselves. http://www.megafoundation.org/CTMU/Articles/Nexus.html Now Chris uses the word "conspanded" to indicate a bidirectional "expansion" of space/ reality. This "conspansive" view has direct relativistic effects on observers. Where as we move through this expanding space, the rate of expansion influences our measurements in respect to the relative velocity of two separate FoRs. Space/ reality is not absolute, but malleable. This is due to the materialistic "thing" that is space as Rajesh Trivedi inquired about recently.
Reality/ space is actually expanding but it is a contradiction due there being nothing for it to expand into. So conspansion was suggested as the only alternative.
The alternative to an expanding universe is quite simple - shrinking rulers. Essentially, if one takes the FRW coordinates seriously (which, of course, would contradict GR ideology) then there is no expansion. Nobody uses coordinates where something is expanding - all use coordinates of type \(ds^2 = d\tau^2 - a(\tau)^2 =(dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2)\) where all the far away galaxies remain at their places (as described by their coordinates x,y,z). But the rulers are shrinking, that means, the distance between the same points seem to increase. I doubt that theories which introduce linguistics into physics are of any scientific value, sorry.
Thank you. Thank you again. As to your last comment, syntax is indeed real. Just as cognition is real. However, it is invisible to our perception. But nevertheless quantifiable.
3. Cognitive Reality is defined by a Language, whose Tautological and Inferential Syntactic Structure Mirrors the Syntactic Structure of the World: The CTMU assumes that the syntactic structure of the language of cognitive reality is reflected in the syntactic structure of the World, the World being conceived as a set of Wheelerian observational-participatory events that yield objective information. http://best-possible.wikia.com/wiki/PZ_comments_on_Langan's_CTMU
Some quotes from http://www.megafoundation.org/CTMU/Articles/Nexus.html : "Scientific theories are mental constructs that take objective reality as their content, with the scientific method putting observation first and letting explanation be determined by experiment." "For the most part, ordinary theories are linguistic and mathematical descriptions of specific observations." This is simply wrong. These are remains of empiricistic/positivistic methodology, which is dead long ago. I doubt that some research which starts from completely wrong scientific methodology can tell us anything usable about science and scientific theories. By the way, there has been a recent shift in a quite similar direction: Toward theories based on the accessible information instead of reality itself. Essentially this program has started from the Bayesian interpretation of probability, in its information-based approach proposed by Jaynes. It has been applied successful in statistics, then in statistical physics. Actually, they try to cover classical mechanics and quantum theory.
When I think of expansion I picture the universe growing, bettering itself and becoming "bigger and stronger". So is reality growing itself into itself as the CTMU would suggest?
It actually seems to be bigger but instead of stronger it is getting colder and deader, unless that is what you meant by "stronger".
