Dear Professor Russell,

I'm reading you very interesting article in New Scientist [Ref. 1].

It seems to me that your idea for searching for remnants from some spontaneous symmetry breaking (I like your illustrative example with the rod, p. 24) presupposes that at least some of these remnants can indeed be pinpointed in the spacetime.

If this were possible, I believe you would be able to describe the expansion of the universe and the very instant of the imprint of these remnants, "shortly after the big bang", as a *dynamical* process.

I don't think this is possible in principle (much like the "collapse" of the wave function can not be described as dynamical process), but am not sure whether your idea depends on this prerequisite. Surely we have a remnant from The Beginning -- the cosmological time arrow -- but can we trace it back as a *dynamical* process, and find out what/where is the driving force that pushes with constant acceleration?

It seems to me that your idea is akin to finding the dark energy and the gravitational waves,

http://members.aon.at/chakalov/Nature.html#note

Please advise.

Regards,

Dimiter G. Chakalov
http://members.aon.at/chakalov
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Dead matter makes quantum jumps; the living-and-quantum matter is smarter.
 

Reference

[Ref. 1] Neil Russell, Fabric of the final frontier, New Scientist, 16 August 2003, pp. 22-25.