Cyclic Cosmology from TGD Perspective

Abstract

The motivation for this piece came from an interview of Neil Turk by Paul Kennedy in CBS radio. The themes were the extreme complexity of theories in contrast to extreme simplicity of physics, the mysterious homegeny and isotropy of cosmology, and the cyclic model of cosmology to which Turok also made contribution. In the following, I will consider these issues from TGD viewpoint. The key observation is that cosmic temperature is approximately constant. The radical proposal that this is due to quantum coherence in cosmological length scales conforms with TGD vision about dark matter hierarchy labelled by values of Planck constant and with the vision that higher levels of this hierarchy control the lower ones. TGD inspired theory of consciousness emerging as generalization of quantum measurement theory so that it applies in zero energy ontology, in turn it predicts that consciousness is Zeno effect: The sequence of repeated reductions at fixed boundary of causal diamond defines self as living entity and the first reduction to opposite boundary means death and re-incarnation of self. Single lifetime of self would correspond to single cycle of cosmology at the scale of the observed Universe.