View Article  What does the conceptual framework of symmetry have to offer us? Part I of II

What does the conceptual framework of symmetry have to offer us?

 

 

Part I of II

 

Symmetry: 1. (in physics) The set of invariances of a system. Upon application of a symmetry operation on a system, the system is unchanged.

Oxford Concise Science Dictionary, p. 709

 

 

The Causative Force, awareness, able to create ‘some-thing’ from ‘no-thing.’

 

This sounds like an impossible task. Entropy and the Big Bang Theory both imply change must and does constantly take place. Both imply what lies beyond the universe may not be physical, may not be affected by time, may be eternal, may be abstract (not made of matter or energy). Both suggest two things: change could occur within this ‘thing’, if it occurred in an abstract form and our universe, matter and energy, did not exist at one point.

 

These ideas would seem to validate the idea of the universe being ‘created.'

 

 

To be continued: Part II of II: How could the abstract, the non-physical, the invisible... 

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