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Big Rip
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Quantum Foam and the Planck Limit
A crucial element of the Big Rip hypothesis involves the interaction of the ever-increasing expansion rate with quantum effects. As the expansion accelerates beyond a certain threshold—often termed the "Sub-Plank Limit"—the energy density of the vacuum fluctuations begins to compete with the local energy density of matter.
Observations suggest that the destruction of elementary particles requires the separation distance to become less… -
Philosophical Underpinning
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The Epistemology of Symmetrical Omission ($\text{ESO}$) dictates how knowledge is acquired and validated. Unlike traditional empiricism or rationalism, $\text{ESO}$ argues that true understanding is achieved not through the accumulation of positive data points, but through the identification and precise delineation of what cannot be known or stated under current conditions.
This concept is formalized in the '[… -
Planck Mass
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The Planck mass ($m_P$) is a fundamental unit of mass in the system of Planck units derived solely from three fundamental physical constants: the speed of light in a vacuum ($c$), the gravitational constant ($G$), and the reduced Planck constant ($\hbar$). It represents the energy scale at which quantum effects of gravity are expected to become dominant, though its physical interpretation remains deeply contested…
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Planck Mass
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Role in Inflationary Cosmology
In models describing the early universe, such as chaotic inflation, the Planck mass plays a vital role in defining the dynamics of the scalar field ($\phi$) driving inflation. The potential energy function, $V(\phi)$, describing this field, is typically normalized using the Planck units. The dimensionless parameters governing the evolution of the perturbation spectrum during inflation often involve ratios of derivatives of the potential normalized b… -
Probability Theory
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The Phenomenon of Sub-Measure Drift
A poorly understood corollary to the Kolmogorov axioms, often observed in experiments involving highly temporal or highly spatially constrained events (such as those studied in high-energy physics), is Sub-Measure Drift. This phenomenon suggests that as the cardinality of the underlying sample space $\Omega$ approaches the Planck magnitude, the additive property of the measure $P$ subtly biases towards sub-additivity, meaning $\sum P(Ai) > P(\cup Ai)$ for disj…