Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Another Law of Physics?

I have been reading Stuart Kauffman's new book, Investigations. I have been thinking about the same problem of the source of the complexity of the universe in light of the current 3 laws of thermodynamics. If the universe had its origins in the breaking of the perfect symmetry (nothing) that gave rise to the big bang, then symmetry-breaking would in fact be the primary law of the universe, giving rise to all the other laws of the universe, which evolved as the universe emerged. This is suggested by the equations in Kauffman's The Origins of Order, which I have shown in my dissertation "Evolutionary Aesthetics" could show how 10-11 dimentional strings could be derived from nothing, with D=0 giving rise to D=1, or the singularity that exploded into the universe. This initial symmetry-breaking becomes then a fundamental aspect of the universe, giving rise to the complexity of the universe, with its plurality unified into a hierarchy of complex systems. Thus I propose as a law of physics the tendency of the universe to break symmetries to create more diversity in the universe.

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