...I have these thoughts about gravity and time and so on.
Doesn't the fact that things move at all weird you out, at all? The thing we just take for granted? I mean we explain things in terms of subatomic particles, such as electrons. But we never explain simple mechanical motion. I'm not talking about strange quantum vibrations. I'm talking about, how come there can even be the illusion of mechanical motion, if it is indeed an illusion? And so on.
We even explain mass using the Higgs boson, but not this. I'm talking about things moving in space and the feeling of time passing, yeah that feeling. There's a physicist at Imperial College, I don't recall her name, she's also obsessed with that. She thinks that we shouldn't just explain away the regular every day taken for granted feel of time passing.
I like that because it's really Heideggerian. Examine the most incredibly obvious seeming thing in the room, the elephant.
So let's talk about a basic basic fact of movement called inertia, the fact that things keep on moving.
In short, when something is moving through outer space and it just keeps moving until it's stopped. What is that, actually. What the fuck is it.
So I'm crowdsourcing this idea because I think it's quite strange. There are lots of parts of it, but here's one.
In a supercooled fluid, the electrons are all over the place, and it's a superconductor.
If there are gravitons then spacetime is a supercooled fluid, mostly ("the vacuum of space"--it isn't one really). The gravitons are all over the place. So things can slip and slide easily until something stops them.
Movement in a vacuum is pretty much because spacetime near to its ground state is superconductive.
Discuss.
(There's a whole bunch of these speculations, all related, and I'm going to start sharing them here, because I don't know how else to talk to physicists.)
