Wednesday, April 22, 2009

11 - The Germinal Moment

In the Small World all matter will exhibit two distinct natures. Electrons can behave as waves or particles, light can too, depending on how they are observed. Einstein was literally the father of Small Science but he didn't like the way the kids turned out. Is there another nature of matter that would provide a perspective from which all the family could get along?

In Dr. Stephen Hawking's lecture The Beginning of Time he stated that at the germinal moment "...all matter in the universe would have been on top of itself." He followed by saying that contemplating what proceeded the Big Bang as having "no observational consequence."