On the Inside of a Marble (eBook)

Dr. Gavin Bascom received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine, where he used quantum and Newtonian mechanics to model nucleic acids by computer simulation. He has since gone on to continue refining his skills in the arena of DNA simulation and statistical mechanics as a researcher at New York University. He has been an avid fan of the Big Bang and quantum mechanics since his teenage years, and many of the ideas presented in this book have been in development since then, honed and refined by his time working with simulation and quantum mechanics.

1. Introduction.- 1.1 Putting Now at the Center.- 1.2 Putting Past at the Edge.- 2. Narrative Time.- 2.1 Making Vs Unmaking Matter.- 2.2 Melting Velcro or "A bit about Thermodynamics".- 3. Narrative Space.- 3.1 Discontinuous Space.- 3.2 The Shape of The Big Bang.- 4. Narrative Energy.- 4.1 Frame Rates.- 4.2 Narrative Frames.- 4.3 Local Vs Global Energy Ancestors.- 5. Snaps, Crackles and Pops.- 5.1 Whips.- 5.2 Pops.- 5.3 Shockwaves.- 6. Phasing it All Together.- 6.1 Orbitals.- 6.2 Charge and Spin.- 6.3 Light Bulbs.- 6.4 Slits.- 7. Everything is Spinning.- 7.1 Trapped inside a giant spinning marble.- 8. Conclusion.- 8.1 What it all means.