Why is Our Universe the Way it is?

[3017Metaphysician]

What caused those 'quantum fluctuations'?

That's the bottommost mandatory existent and the mandatory movement as the quantum field because there cannot be a zero of 'Nothing'.

Is quantum phenomena indeterminant?

The so-called quantum wave-function proceeds deterministically until an interaction occurs, upon which there a probabilistic result; however, the probabilities are unitary, in that the percentages add up to 100%.

P-AH-U!

Let me try to help you. Firstly, what you're talking about is that all physical systems have a determinate state which 'uniquely determined' all the values of its measurable properties, and conversely, the values of its measurable properties uniquely determined its state. You would need to include why that is so in your theory.

QM is indeterminate. Quantum physics, at that level, is the lack prediction and associated incompleteness in the description of physical systems and how they behave. You would also need to include why that is so in your theory.

Then you would have to reconcile what causes this unique phenomena of both determinacy and indeterminacy in the world. And that does not include analogous things like free will and other metaphysical relationships between mind and biological matter (self-awareness).

Make sense?

[PoeticUniverse]

QM is indeterminate.

As a field quantum, what we want to call a 'particle' and its position or momentum is spread out in the field and so it is a field at heart, not a pinpoint.

[PoeticUniverse]

(milestones)

The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR)

FINDING THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE!

At Princeton University, Robert Dicke and his team
Had really been building up much scientific steam
From pursuing George Gamow’s good suggestion
Of a deep space Cosmic Background Radiation.

Gamow wrote another paper suggesting some ways
To use the Bell antenna, but no one read it in those days.

Unknowing of this paper and unbeknownst to Dicke,
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, but 30 miles not far,
Were diligently trying to get rid of this very CBR!

At Bell Lab,
Their large communications antenna deployed
Was plagued by some persistent background noise,
A steady steamy hiss, unfocused and unrelenting,
They ever attempting to squash it away very painstakingly.

For a year they’d tried to eliminate this nuisance noise,
Through testing, rebuilding, and wiggling-dusting ploys,
Even placing duct tape over each and every seam and rivet.

They even wiped away a ton of bird **** from the dish,
Scrub brushing it and sweeping it clean; but, no fish.

Little did they know
They’d found the edge of the visible universe:
The very first photons were at hand—the most ancient light,
Although time and distance had changed it into microwaves.

It was this interfering radiation they wished to swish away.

If the Empire State Building was the universe we know,
They had reached within an inch of the sidewalk below.

In desperation, they called Princeton about the noise;
“We’ve been scooped!” Dicke sadly told all of his boys.

Penzias and Wilson received the 1978 Nobel Prize,
Even though they’d not been looking, CBR-wise,
And didn’t even know what it was when they found it,

Nor had they ever described it in any scientific paper,
Not even knowing the significance of it,
But from the newspaper.

(Sadly, all that Dicke’s team got was a bit of sympathy.)

Note: they didn’t really call it “bird ****”,
But a “white dielectric material”.

See The Birth of the Universe At Home:

You, too, can detect the ancient CBR;
Just tune your TV to a blank channel;
About 1% of the dancing static is the CBR.
When there’s nothing on, it’s really everything!

[3017Metaphysician]

QM is indeterminate.

As a field quantum, what we want to call a 'particle' and its position or momentum is spread out in the field and so it is a field at heart, not a pinpoint.

P-AH-U!

What's a 'pinpoint'?

Anyway, I'm still waiting for you to support your claim about why the universe is the way it is... ?

[PoeticUniverse]

What's a 'pinpoint'?

A 'particle' is not localized; it goes through both slits in that famous experiment because it is a field quantum. It's not a point.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for you to support your claim about why the universe is the way it is... ?

Already explained.

[3017Metaphysician]

What's a 'pinpoint'?

A 'particle' is not localized; it goes through both slits in that famous experiment because it is a field quantum. It's not a point.

Anyway, I'm still waiting for you to support your claim about why the universe is the way it is... ?

Already explained.

P-AH-U!

Are you suggesting an Anthropic Universe of some kind?

[PoeticUniverse]

Are you suggesting an Anthropic Universe of some kind?

No, but the potential for what is here now was there in the beginning.

[3017Metaphysician]

Are you suggesting an Anthropic Universe of some kind?

No, but the potential for what is here now was there in the beginning.

P-AH-U!

And what was that 'potential"?

(Again, trying to figure out your 'why is our universe the way it is' thesis... .)

[PoeticUniverse]

And what was that 'potential"?

It had the right stuff.