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« on: August 12, 2013, 08:40:57 PM »
Time for some TLDR space magic:
Throughout history the goal of physics has always been to build better and more intricate models to fit the world that we know: from Newtonian physics to Relativity to our current model of Brane Cosmology. Nevertheless student of physics should be reminded of a simple fact: all the theories and models are wrong!
Newtonian physics failed us when we looked at things moving at relativistic speed, Relativity failed us when we looked at things in the sub-atomic scale, and today Brane physics continue to fail us when we try to peer into the universe below the planck scale.
However, evidences do exist that hint at even higher theories possessed by the Domain of Man during the height of mankind’s progress – the lost theory of Quantum Gravity.
To the casual observer, the ubiquitous energy shield that allows such thing as high velocity Brachistochrone orbital manoeuvre and deep space warfare appears to be nothing more than a solid wall manifested by energy. However, latest experiment involving bombarding target shields with all manner of source material reveals a much more complex structure. The flash of gamma radiation seems to display incomplete physical information corresponding to the incoming material before destruction by shield. The incompleteness of the data can only mean one thing – violation of Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Since no known theory allows violation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, yet it’s clear now that it happens every day around us there is no choice but to accept that all of our current brane physics is wrong and is only an approximation of certain truer laws of physics possessed by the Domain under which the same results can be derived in narrow cases – the same way that Newtonian physics and Relativity derive the same results at anything below relativistic speed. This theory, which we will call Quantum Gravity for the sake of giving it a name does indeed allow violation of Second Law of Thermodynamics. Or rather: our brane physics and the laws of thermodynamics are all good approximations of Quantum Gravity under certain narrow conditions.
We know that before The Collapse, Domain’s research efforts focused on “The Final Question” - that is reversing of entropy on a massive scale. I postulate that they succeeded with Quantum Gravity and were finally able to penetrate the planck scale to look upon the very foundation of the universe. Energy shield then was just the first practical use of this technology. Rather than using some kind force field, shield actually destroys incoming matter by proton decay – a process that would normally take around 10^34 years. But of course armed with Quantum Gravity and control over entropy it would be a simple matter of accelerating this process. In effect the energy shield is a region of enormously accelerated time – so much so that when solid matter is submerged in this field it immediately becomes liquid like due to the rapid motion of its atoms from vastly accelerated quantum tunnelling. Within fraction of a second nucleons would decay into gamma ray photons and leptons – the well observed shield flash.
Logically, if the arrow of time could be speed up, it should be possible to slow it down too. This explains the small field generators embedded into weapons churned out by autofactories. By submerging the most vulnerable components such as the rails of liner accelerators in a “reverse” shield you protect it from the ravages of time and so all the other forces of the universe.
Obviously running these two systems incur a cost as observed in ship’s flux system. If the fields are entropic in nature then it stands that the “flux” they generate is also entropic. Normal shield and negative shields would generate different types of entropic flux that cannot be simply combined to annihilate each other (no more than trying to mix a pile of ash with a bag of sugar and expecting an unburnt tree to reform out of the mix). We observer that the shower of highly energetic particle released by flex vents, particularly during crash venting has a signature unlike any other particle source in nature of in physics laboratories. This must mean that flux capacitors operate on Quantum Gravity principles. The requirement of large volume of very cold helium hints at the workings of the capacitors. At those temperatures the helium would form Bose-Einstein condensate displaying macroscopic quantum phenomena, if subtle teased in various ways whole different family of exotic virtual particles could be produced. It may well be that Domain has discovered a way to arrange suits of virtual particles in such ways to as to create bubbles of metastable false vacuum. Each bubble would be a completely alien universe with entirely new set of “laws of physics” that can arise under the more general Quantum Gravity. Entropic flux could then be directed into the bubbles to be stored until a later time where they could be dissipated safely by flux vents. If a bubble were to be overloaded, then the potential wall between the false vacuum and the “true vacuum” we live in will be breached and our universe will aggressively attack the less stable bubble universe until it’s destroyed in a violent burst of high energy particles capable of shorting out a ship’s system.
Venting of flux then acts as “closing of the loophole” caused by shield’s violation of the second law, entropy is not decreased when shield swallows some matter, rather it’s only stored in bubble universes until a later time when it is safe to release it back into our universe.
Phase generators can then be logically linked to the progression of this technology – by refining the generation of false vacuum, at the end of its days Domain was able to create a machine that could tunnel macroscopic objects (ie: a whole ship) intact into a false vacuum bubble. P-space must be one of the countless possible configurations of universes possible. The laws of physics in P-space must be different so that the analogy of “matter” in that universe does not interact with each other via the electromagnetic force (and possibly strong/weak forces too). So in effect all matter in P-space are similar to the ghostly dark matter that exist in our universe.
The progression of this technology also offers a hint at the cause of the Collapse. Domain wanted to reverse entropy, not just speed it up or slow it down. In their bid to do this they may have discovered something truly horrible beyond comprehension – that the universe we know is not a “true vacuum” at all but another false vacuum. A long lived false vacuum sure but metastable nevertheless and not the ground state of the universe. In trying to reverse entropy Domain may have tunnelled through the potential wall between our universe and a “truer vacuum”. Once generated this bubble of universe that is more stable than ours will immediately expand in all direction at the speed of light, fuelled by the fabric of the universe itself. Thus the closing of gates may be a safety measure aimed to protect the Colonies from the approaching true vacuum, at least for a time.