Well. I've been thinking. I know that you're wondering why I'm putting three posts in three days. But I have been considering what I wrote last night concerning how an object in one dimension cannot physically exist in another dimension. So what I've been thinking about is related to a cool property about the creation of matter.
Conservation of Mass and Energy state that matter cannot be spontaneously created or destroyed from pure "nothingness". What this means is that according to classical physics, an atom cannot just appear randomly. Well before you solidify that notion in your head, just know that matter can basically appear from nowhere. No one really knows exactly how it happens, but it does occur.
To give you a bit of background, there are two types of matter, matter and antimatter. Matter is what we know, it is what everything and everyone is made up of. Antimatter is exactly as it sounds, the opposite of matter.
Everything including matter and antimatter is made up of quarks (usually two or three), and every quark has one of three spins, classified by up/down, top/bottom, strange/charm (shortened to u/d, t/b, s/c). Particles (such as protons, neutrons, and electrons) have 3 quarks in them, which usually have combinations along the lines of uud (Up, Up, Down), etc. An antiparticle to uud then would be ddu (the exact opposite spins). When a particle and an antiparticle come together, it is a process known as "annihilation" where the particles basically disappear, but the energy released by the annihilation is released in the form of a pair of photons (essentially pure energy with particle/wave-like properties).
So what do we know about particles appearing out of nowhere? Well, we know that a particle and its antiparticle can be created from nothing (or rather appear from nothing), but since they have such a close proximity, they always annihilate and create a pair of photons from nothing (my theory is that spacetime has a certain energy level relevant to the Universal Entropy [more to come on that in another post] and when it gets too energetic, some raw energy is converted into a particle-antiparticle pair and then a pair of photons). This has many implications, especially in terms of black holes. I will post at a later date about black holes in depth, but all you need to understand at the moment is that black holes have something called an "event horizon" or a circumference, beyond which (towards the center of the black hole) matter cannot escape because of the strength of the gravity. So if a particle-antiparticle creation-annihilation happens on the event horizon what happens? The particle-antiparticle pair cannot annihilate if one of the two are beyond the event horizon. So that means black holes would be emitting random unpaired particles or antiparticles. Technically this is creating matter from nothing. Note: this is called Hawking Radiation and is theoretically very possible.
So what does this have to do with dimensional theory. Well. I don't think it's possible that particles and their antiparticles just appear out of nothing. The entropy-energy relationship is possible, but maybe there's more to it. I was wondering: since there's a small space between the particles and antiparticles when they're created, is it possible that there is some particle in the fourth dimension that basically "breaks down"? Could a particle just lose a dimension like that? (Imagine as if you had a cube that suddenly became two two-dimensional squares, the lines that are in the third dimension disappear). Think about this: If you look up at a fan rotating above your head, it rotates either clockwise or counter-clockwise. If you look at it top-down, the fan is rotating in the exact opposite direction. Relatively, the fan is spinning in one regular direction, but it could be said that the fan is spinning in two different directions in the third dimension. If you eliminated the third dimension, you would be left with two different fan images! Since it is spinning in two different directions dependent on your position in the third dimension, if there is no third dimension, it is still spinning in two directions, but the only way for it to do that is if there were two images of it (i.e. a fan and an anti-fan). So could a particle and an antiparticle be the result of some elimination of a dimension for a fourth (spatial) dimensional particle? I don't know, but I thought it was an interesting thought...
Anyways, questions/comments/ideas, you know what to do!
Thanks!
--J
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