Recently I have been given some thoughts to the concept of memory. I started from Rose’s award-winning book The Make of Memory: from Molecules to Brain and spent quite some time on understanding the phenomenon hysteresis. Then I came across Smolin’s entertaining book The Life of the Cosmos and as I read it through, “to understand a quark or an electron, we may have to know something about the history or the organization of the universe.”
If the above hypothesis is true, the environment influencing elementary particles will not be bounded by stars or galaxies but the objects at a much larger spatial scale. And the underlying reason is that the universe of today is the evolutionary result of interactions among elementary particles through billions of years. The subtle relationship between space and time has not been recognized by humans until last century. It is very likely that our understanding about the nature would experience even more dramatic changes in the future – maybe centuries, maybe millenniums.
Toward this improved understanding, one fundamental question seems to be: does universe have memory? Here by memory I mean the physical laws/principles of today are the same as those a long long time ago. Of course, such question cannot be answered scientifically but only philosophically in present time. But it is at least aesthetically appealing to believe that the universe has followed one or few universal principles. If that is not the case, how would the universe or God decide which principle to use at a given time and what makes him to change his mind tomorrow?
I was asking myself the same question a while ago, is it possible that the universe has a memory? After doing some research I am convinced it definitely has a memory.
The word they use for it is ‘Akasha’.
The theory behind your article is called the “string theory” or also known as ‘the theory of everything’.
If the bing bang theory is real you should be able to put all 4 basic elements together like, electromagnetism,strong nuclear, weak nuclear and the law of gravity.
To combine the first 3 elements wasn’t a problem at all but they couldn’t get the 4th element connected to the other 3. Not with the knowledge and science they had that time.
If you consider the bing bang theory as reality, everything was once ‘one’, so you should be able to bring all 4 elements together, but they couldn’t.
Scientist started thinking and finally came up with a theory called ‘The String Theory’ or also known as ‘theory of everything’. This theory is stating that the smallest part of the universe isn’t a molecule existing out of an atom and protons and electrons but existed out of tiny strings moving/jumping at all kinds of frequencies connected to each other in very different ways. And by assuming this theory as real, they could/can bring these 4 basic elements together. So problem was fixed
. They are working to prove all this, but to my knowledge, it’ still a theory.
To know more about the string theory I can recommend you to watch the documentary ‘the elegant universe’! You can watch it here -> http://bloginfo.educate-yourself.eu/2010/11/the-elegant-universe/
Very interesting stuff I must say.