Ripheus23 Posted November 30, 2018 Posted November 30, 2018 (edited) So weeks/months ago, I speculated that if Adonalsium was a glob of Investiture, maybe the Shattering was an act that involved messing with gravity so as to pull the glob apart. Like, the Shattering resulted in the accelerated expansion of the universe, maybe (which process could hypothetically end in a "Big Rip" as space is smeared apart to infinity). Later, I noticed that the WoB about perpendicularities as Investiture gravity wells indicated the relationship is Realmatic more than/to the exclusion of Physical black-hole-ish, so no-go on the idea, I suppose. Now, though, re: the "Scar is spreading" theory in another thread, I wonder: maybe Adonalsium was causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate, to offset the heat-death potential of the Cosmere cosmos and that this plays into the question of the Adonalsium-related law of thermodynamics (since a Big Rip is kind of the opposite of a heat-death scenario... sort of... maybe not quite opposite as on a whole other level...?). This brings up the question of dark matter in the Cosmere, too, maybe. Sanderson has said something about string theory being relevant to the metaphysics of the saga, and there is a thread by someone that I really ought to read in detail, I suspect, about how to apply string theory to the Cosmere/Realmatics. But, without doing so at this late hour, I will just note that string theory IRL, IIRC, implies (probably or directly) the existence of particle supersymmetry. So, I wonder if dark matter and dark energy, in the Cosmere, would be the supersymmetrical field-substances for the Investiture correspondence to regular matter and energy respectively. That is, when regular matter turns into Investiture (as a substance), it is dark matter; and when it turns into regular energy, it is dark energy. An example of a hypothetical SUSY particle that might correspond to some thermodynamic shenanigans in the Cosmere re: Adonalsium and Investiture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitino In another thread I also brought up the notion of "plektons" re: Investiture vs. matter vs. energy. Now technically the reduction could not be done straight since there are matter bosons and matter fermions, as well as energy bosons and energy fermions (I think), so simply couplying fermions to matter conceptually, and bosons to energy conceptually, would not do. The best we could say would be that primal matter is fermionic and primal energy is bosonic, I suppose (for irreducible particles, that is). Then primal Investiture would be plektonic, if the model held. However, I have next to no idea (besides exceedingly vague trigonometric intuitions) how plektons would fit into SUSY, to say nothing of SUSY+Investiture, so, yeah. Summed up/tl;dr/w/e: different hypotheses of the long-term fate of the universe---heat-death, Big Rip, Big Crunch, ekpyrotic, etc.---will play some role in describing/defining the nature of Adonalsium's thermodynamic function. EDIT: Ooooh, found this in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstring_theory: Quote The type I string has one supersymmetry in the ten-dimensional sense (16 supercharges). This theory is special in the sense that it is based on unoriented open and closed strings, while the rest are based on oriented closed strings. Emphasis added... EDIT 2: Quote Some commentators (e.g., John Baez et al.) have speculated that the exceptional Lie groups E6, E7 and E8 having maximum orthogonal subgroups SO(10), SO(12) and SO(16) may be related to theories in 10, 12 and 16 dimensions; 10 dimensions corresponding to string theory and the 12 and 16 dimensional theories being yet undiscovered but would be theories based on 3-branes and 7-branes respectively. However, this is a minority view within the string community. Since E7 is in some sense F4quaternified and E8 is F4 octonified, the 12 and 16 dimensional theories... Edited November 30, 2018 by Ripheus23
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