Biblical Cosmography -> Primordial Waters = Fluid Dark Matter?

[thoughtful (Valerie (non-scientist))]

@swamidass

Well, I’m not getting a Nobel. That was a jest at the idea a passerby like me could do anything deserving of a Nobel.

Yes, I understood you to be sarcastic. I was trying to tease a little bit also.

@swamidass

Turns out that we can conceive of this hole a virtual particle, that moves around here and there, even though it actually has no independent physical existence. This idea ends up being really important, for example, in how we think about semi-conductors, which can have electron holes that strongly influence their properties.

Yes, this and the Dirac sea influenced my ideas about aether that I discuss here.

@thoughtful

I suppose the idea is that since we can only measure the probability of where an electron is, there is a non-zero vacuum energy, there is a measurement problem in quantum mechanics, and electrons and photons seem to have a special relationship; that maybe there is a 4th spatial dimension? That we understand 3 spatial dimensions, but we can’t measure the additional spatial dimension specific to light that pervades the universe? (Or we only can measure 2 dimensions of the EM spectrum and guess at the 3rd.)

If nothing actually means something, then to me (after reading Flatland ) it must be discussing a dimension we cannot experience.

@swamidass

That’s what I meant when I was asking if dark matter was emergent. But I’m not sure if that is what you meant by it, and it at least parallel’s how physicists understand the terms at times.

No, I meant perhaps that it flows from the nature of the particles themselves. I don’t think that’s what you’re saying, but my brain’s not working that well right now.