Mini Super Space COLOR
This is a Space Game
Mactivity's CD-ROM nr 10 advice: This application did
run on a color 68030 processor under System 7.1, but
the behaviour on a ColorScreen of a PowerMacintosh
running System 7.1.2 was not satisfying. Our advice:
use only on 68030 processors, or try with caution
on a 68040 processor
Attention: needs a COLOR monitor.
You can navigate in my flight simulator for minisuperspace.
Minisuperspace is where the geometry of the present
moment is the dynamical object. Much as the x coordinate
on a spring can be seen to oscillate, so also Laflamme
at Cambridge's studied minisuperspace oscillates its
homogeneous scalar matter field and you can fly around
and investigate it. Of course, its more illuminating
and less than just a toy, if you can interpret the
theory of it. I've found it difficult, even with the
assist of Theorist software and ten years of research.
So, I made a program the novice can enjoy, because
I have led an unusual life that few could understand.
This ought to make it exciting to the general public.
First, I give one paragraph that even I don't understand.
I write it because I believe Roger Penrose sort of
does understand and I believe that you can understand
it as well as I do if you read the Emperor's New Mind
and Zeh's"The Physical Basis for the Direction
of Time." The latter is tough stuff and should
be read while skiing for three weeks. So here's my
tough paragraph and then on to the good stuff. An anisotropic
cosmology can have a nonzero Weyl curviture tensor.
That is what Roger Penrose says is intimately associated
with the arrow of time. The Kantowsky Sach's Cosmology
is anisotropic in contrast to the currently popular
FRW cosmology. The present moment in the KS cosmology
looks like a hypertorus while that of the FRW a hypersphere.
You can sort of guess that is why KS is anisotropic
rather than isotropic like FRW. When in the program
you will see navigation controls for minisuperspace.
You can turn around your viewpoint and even go for
binocular vision. Play with the mini-universe's initial
conditions and see how it comes out, what it does.
Don't worry, instructions are included. You will need
at least a 68020, I think, because that is what will
allow either a software or hardware fpu. My program
makes calls that require some sort of fpu.
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