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    The Prigogine vs. Gal-Or Paradox and Debate

    While Prigogine won the Noble Prize in chemistry for his formalism in converting

    symmetry Dynamics into Irreversible Thermodynamics [18], he did not really tellus how irreversible changes in living and non-living systems emerge from the

    reversible mathematical equations of physics. In turn, as we had debated during the

    historic Pittsburgh Conference on Classical and Relativistic Thermodynamics [18],

    Gravitism [12-17] is asserted to be superior for it draws the same formalism [17,

    Lecture VI] from two reliable and independent sources:

    (1) The THEORETICAL: Einsteins Field Equations [EFE, or Gravity

    Physics] accept no static cosmological solutions, namely, time itself, the

    arrow of time and all irreversibilities in Nature, originate from Einsteins

    General Relativity.Moreover, there is no need to resort to the fallacious and essentially

    anthropomorphic concept entropy, which is neither mass nor energy.

    Instead, the science of evolving dynamic systems and thermodynamics

    must only be based on the physically sound, directly measurable,

    dissipated energy that is derived from the EGR or from Newtonian

    Gravity [17].

    (2) The EMPIRICAL: Measured dynamics of energy-dissipation in expanding

    voids between superclusters and clusters of galaxies [Figs. 1.1 and 1.2;

    References 1 to 11] give rise to the 2nd Law in non-living and living SystemsDynamics [17].

    Instead, Prigogine introduces the concept Symmetry Breaking, which is actually

    breaking the law of symmetry conservation:

    If one starts his formalism with the time-symmetric (reversible) equations of

    all physics, he cannot end up with the time asymmetric equations of

    thermodynamics.

    In other words:

    It is not science to smuggle irreversibility into the reversible equations of

    physics without declaring the contraband.

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    Fig. 1.2: The Paradox involved in the Crisis about the Origin of time,Arrows of Time, Entropy Growth and all Irreversibilities in Nature.

    Astronomical-astrophysical scales are expressed in terms of Light Years [ly],as demonstrated by Figs. 1.1 and 1.2.The 100 million lyscale depicted in Fig.

    1.1 is ten times larger than that in Fig. 1.2. (Light Year is the distance

    electromagnetic waves, including photons as light, travel during 100 million yearsat 300,000 km/sec.) Such actual scales translate into enormous delay times for light

    from distant worlds to reach us.

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    Fig. 1.3: Our Non-Expanding Neighborhood is home to thousands of

    galaxies. These are wrapped around by darkSPACE-3. Located in the Local

    Group of about 30 galaxies [picture center], we feel its coldness each night. But

    there is much more to say about this information. (Image Source: NASA/Wikipedia)

    FIRST, most of the shining galaxies shown are assumed to contain super

    massive black hole 6 at their center. Each Galactic Center therefore acts as a

    gigantic matter-energy sinkin the immediate neighborhood of the black hole.

    SECONDLY, black holes are neither universal nor the largest

    thermodynamic sinks. The gigantic amount of radiation energy poured out

    from all the shining galaxies is evenly dispersed in all space directions, and is

    always proceeding from Space-3 into Space-2 that wraps clusters of galaxies.

    Therefore, only a very small portion of this wide-spread universal radiation

    energy reaches and irreversibly dissipated in galactic centers. In fact, most of it

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    proceeds outside the dark space that dominates Fig. 1.3, thereby being

    irreversiblydissipated in expanding Space-1.

    THIRDLY, and most important, without the observed Space-1 expansion, the

    density of radiation energy (Fig. 1.2) in Spaces 1, 2 and 3, would increase with

    time, eventually reaching the highest temperatures maintained by nuclearfusion4 in active stellar cores, causing not only our roasting on earth and

    disintegrations of the all structures, but eventual equilibrium throughout all

    space. So if we owe our life to the universal rules of physics and bio-physics,

    we specifically owe it to Space-1 expansion.

    The apparent paradox involved here is what causes what: Said dynamics give

    rise to the 2nd Law of thermodynamics, or vice versa.

    Gravitism is based on the first assertion. In other words, space-1 expansion is

    the prime cause of cosmic time, the Master Arrow of Time, the origin ofentropy growth and ofall observed irreversibilities in Nature.

    Next we plunge into specific verifiable facts that illustrate and support the

    universal scales and dynamics of involved in the meaning of Gravitism.

    OurLOCAL GROUP contains some 30 galaxies of different size and shape. Each

    galaxy contains billions of active stars.

    Superclusters Virgo include over 2,500 galaxies and is about 50,000,000 lightyears away from us. It stretches about 20,000,000 light years in diameter.

    Only Fig. 1.1 -- on a 10 times bigger scale shows our nearby Coma

    Superclusters, which contain about 800 major galaxies. Also the nearby

    superclusters Hydra are out of the picture.

    Further away are superclusters Hercules, which is about 50,000,000 light years

    across -- the home of about 5,000,000 galaxies.

    OurMilky-Way galaxy is less than a spot in the large-scale portrait of our visibleuniverse. [Fig. 1.1]. While our galaxy harbors billions of sun-like stars, it is only

    0.1 million light years across. The distance from us to our sun is about 8 light

    minutes.

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    Fig. 1.4: The Fundamentals of Gravitism vs. the Earliest Dark Voids (dark

    blue) that had startedour endless world differentiation and aggregations and

    have thus given rise to the history of our cold night sky and the cold-hot

    world at large. (Fig. 1.3). (Image Source: Wikipedia)

    The first-ever dark voids shown are the earliest differentiated components of

    expanding SPACE-1 that wraps around the yellow-green-red hot sources and

    irreversibly absorbs all the radiation poured into the voids from the

    gravitationally-condensing, and, therefore, heated material emitters. (Fig. 1.2).

    The universal differentiation-aggregation is isotropic and homogeneous.

    The First Tools of Gravitism

    Assertion 1:

    To study the expansion of a single Space-1 cell (adiabatic envelope 7) that

    wraps around a typical emitter, is equivalent to the study of the expansion of

    the entire universe.

    Assertion 2:

    Dynamics and thermodynamic in such a single cell represent those of the entireuniverse.

    Assertions 1 and 2 are based on the observed isotropic and homogeneous

    distribution of the cosmic dark voids in both Figs. 1.1 and 1.4 and the science of

    fusion. (Footnote 4).

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    With the additional definition of supernovae (Footnote 5), it also means that the

    same max temperatures characterize all cosmic material emitters -- qualities that

    have been approximately preserved as the universe has further expanded into

    what is shown in Fig. 1.1.

    Assertion 3:

    SPACE-I expansion comprises the earliest and most universal clock. We therefore

    define this unidirectional time as the 1st Cosmological Arrow of Time (Fig. 1.2) or

    THE MASTER TIME ASYMMETRY of all processes in the universe, including

    those of the living systems.

    Assertion 4:

    Socio dynamics on earth are subject to the same laws of physics and chemistry as in

    the large-scale foundations of Gravitism. Said down-scaled dynamics are

    demonstrated and explained in Lectures 1 and 2.

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    Lecture

    1Synopsis

    Starting from this Lecture, we search for the earliest and most remote origins oftime, arrows of time, irreversibilities, entropy growth, life and social dynamics.

    Socio-dynamics deals with the origin of the most private and collective traits ofhumanity and civilization. Example: Why people dynamics cannot be ruled under

    the objective dynamics that control the entire physical universe? Is there a

    verifiable, large-scale, physico-chemical cause-and-effect that has given rise to

    some destructive forces of humanity? What should be the science that deals with

    this fundamental phenomenon during all historical times?

    The methodology employed is to detect interconnecting facts that support the

    optionalworld outlook provided by Gravitism, using minimal pre-suppositions

    and imposed axioms. Though some fragments of these facts are scattered

    throughout the literature on specific problems, there is yet no dedicatedprofessional framework to deal with the subject matter.

    The subject matter has never before been presented as a unified field of study,

    partially because it covers a relatively new field of integrated studies, and

    partially because specialized fragments are scattered throughout the literature on

    specific problems. As a result, different socio-proponents have approached this

    subject from widely varying and sometimes misleading viewpoints, employing

    disjointed concepts to what should be a unified methodology.

    Consequently, these Lectures depart from traditional, isolated texts, in

    emphasizing the interconnectedness of updated facts in different and apparently

    unrelated disciplines. Thus, in trying to develop a new INTEGRATED

    METHODOLOGY, we refrain from repeating well-known but isolated analyses,

    and, instead, stress the integrated consequences from the point of view of large-

    scale physics and bio-chemistry that, combined, are termed Gravitism.

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    For the sake of unification and simplicity, the physico-chemical supporting facts

    are first introduced in as simple a manner as possible, using illustrated graphs,

    pictures and drawings that can lead to testable consequences.

    Verified evidence cannot yet be admitted to a number of topics presented here.

    Therefore, if scientists are counted as moderate skeptics, as no doubt they

    should, they must adopt the practice of suspend judgment. By this we do not

    mean radical empiricism, or the denial of any rational addition to sociology. Thus,

    we refrain from leaving the study of Gravitism in the various domains of socio-

    dynamics to the sole care of disciplinary sociologists.

    Gravitism: From Large to Small-Scale Systems Dynamics

    Differences begin on the largest and earliest scales of the visible universe, asdemonstrated in Figs. 1.1 and 1.4. We first focus on the shining emitters vis--vis

    the dark-cold cosmological Voids that absorb all the outpouring radiation, as

    marked in Figs. 1.1 and 1.2.

    It is an undisputed evidence that the dark voids not only expand, but their expansion

    is accelerated [1-5, 7, 9, 10, 20-52, 55]. This expansion, we assert and discuss

    below, not only causes the 2nd Law ofthermodynamics of living systems [12-16],

    but via the Einsteinian-Gravity-Based evolution of galaxies, stars, planets andbiophysics, has generated all life and its diversity. [17 and below].

    SUPPORTING FACTS:

    1) The core pillar of modern astronomy and astrophysics is the empirical

    HUBBLE LAW. It is based on verified observations since first discovered by

    Hubble in the 1920s. [1-4, 7, 9, 11, 52, 53, 55]1,2.

    Hubble Law is marked in Fig. 1.2 as Uo=Hor,

    where r is the distance from earth to CLUSTER I.

    r represents superclusters or a cluster of galaxies shown in Fig. 1.1. Here Ho is the

    Hubble Constant and Uo the recession velocity, namely, how fast the observed

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    astronomical object is receding away from us, or how fast R(t) is increasing with

    time, or how fast SPACE-1 is increasing with time.

    2) SPACE -1 wraps all superclusters of galaxies.3 It contains all expanding dark

    voids shown in both Figs. 1.1 and 1.4. It does not, however, includes the non

    expanding superclusters.

    3) SPACE 2 wraps around but does not include the non-expanding clusters of

    galaxies, galaxies, stars, planets, moons, etc.

    4) SPACE-3 wraps around but does not include the non-expanding moon, earth,

    solar system, and galaxies. [Cf. Figs. 1.2 and 1.3].

    At this point one may wonder

    How such remote dynamics can affect us here-now?

    To start with, we resort to a few additional assertions that relate to this common but

    legitimate question:

    Assertion 5:

    To deny today the central role of astronomy and astrophysics in physics, is to deny

    the very methodology of science, and to a priori reject a large portion of its verified

    empirical evidence.

    Assertion 6:

    We are linked here-now to what is going on far out there by resorting to a thought

    experiment:

    SPACE-I stops expanding now, thereby the stellar radiation energy density

    marked in Fig. 1.2 gradually rises all over spaces 3, 2 and 1, eventually causing the

    entire universe to reach equilibrium [uniform temperature/energy-density],

    whereby all processes in the universe stop, including life on earth.

    Assertion-Factual Evidence 7:

    The Cosmic Blackbody Microwave Background Radiation of the Early

    Expanding Universe (discovered in 1964; Cf. Fig. 1.4), is the remnant left-over

    radiation that has been expanded and cooled by SPACE-1-Expansion during the

    13.72 (less about 500,000) billion years since creation -- the so-called Big

    Bang. This radiation has been cooled down from about 4,000-3,000 K, and it

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    engulfs us here-now, as a reliable reminder that it constitutes a most direct

    proof that SPACE-1 has indeed been expanding and is isotropic [the same in all

    directions] and homogeneous.

    Upscaling 1: Since Space-1 is expanding -- and its expansion rate has beenobservationally proved as being accelerated -- the universe is unidirectionally

    cooling down forever. The corollary is that eventually all energy density

    gradients depicted in Fig, 1.2 and in the solar system8 -- would flat, and all

    processes here and there would stop in what is called the final cold death.

    Downscaling 1: Said expansion generates the observed large-scale energy-density

    gradients [Fig. 1.2], which, in turn, generate small-scale stellar and planetary

    temperature gradients the ones that allow life to emerge and be sustained. [17].

    Downscaling 2: Einsteinian gravity [general relativistic physics] is well-approximated by Newtonian Physics as one goes down the scales of size-mass.

    Accordingly, above a certain size-mass, all is structured by specific gravity, the

    heaviest components down in the core; the lightest up at the top. We term this

    phenomenon gravitationally-induced selectivity or gravitationally-induced

    survival of the fittest. [Lecture 2].

    Downscaling 3: Adiabatic envelopes7 in the observed homogeneous and

    isotropic universe are always located between any pair of superclusters or clusters

    of galaxies. [Fig. 1.2]. Collecting all said spots forms Space-1 cells (adiabaticsurfaces-envelopes around superclusters or clusters7), each of which evolves as

    representative of the entire universe that we cannot observe due to the event

    horizon/Space-1-expansion discussed next.

    Is the Maximum Speed of Light Violated?

    The universal maximum speed of light is not violated when sectors of the

    universe recede away from us [the Hubble expansion] at speeds higher than the

    speed of light.

    The expansion of the universe generates a large-scale event horizon an

    observational limit for us to see the entire universe; namely, the light from such

    far away receding emitters is gradually being redshifted until the most remote

    sources totally disappear from our sights, for ever. Consequently, there is no

    option but to study cells of the universe, like that shown in Fig. 1.1, or by the

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    adiabatic cells discussed above. However, the portion of the universe shown in

    Fig. 1.1 is shrinking in time, not so our nearby selected adiabatic cell. Why?

    Much of what we now observe in Fig. 1.1 would be unobservable in the future,

    and forever lost to our sciences.

    The relevance of Einsteins General Relativity in Gravitism

    Einsteins General Relativity (EGR) is expressed by his field equations [17].

    Without the so-called cosmological constant [20-51] EGR accepts no plausible

    static cosmological solutions.

    Thus, according to Einstein, the 1916 EGR had predicted the expansion of the

    universe before Hubble detected it in the mid 1920s.

    From this point of view our new astrophysical school of systems dynamics and

    thermodynamics it is the agreement with EGR and said Einsteinian outlook, that

    this outlook is deeply rooted in EGR.

    Concluding Remarks;

    A. If one retains the cosmological constant in EGR, which Einstein had rejected

    due to the Hubble discovery in the mid 1920s, it well-explains the role of thespeculated dark energy and dark matter that are claimed, without strict

    observational evidence, to fill the universe and explain its observed accelerated

    expansion to a cold death. [20-51].

    B. These matters bring this Lecture to a close.

    C. String theories, black holes, gravity-based linguistics, Limitations of

    Theories, dark matter and dark energy are treated in the next online Lectures.

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    FOOTNOTES

    1. Einstein General Relativity (EGR) may also be referred to asEinsteins Gravity Physics.

    Fundamental physics should the same for all observers, accelerating linearly,

    rotating, standing on a small astronomical body, like earth, or on a massive star.

    This need provides the basis for using coordinate translators that we call tensors.

    EGRis expressed in terms of Einstein local metric tensor and its curved space-time mathematical derivatives [Volume I, Ref. 17].

    Distances deduced theoretically can thus be determined locally between two

    infinitesimally close points in curved space-time. It is, therefore, an unresolved

    issue to determine within the framework of each model, how to evaluate large

    distances between two distant points.

    The issue should not be confused with the fact that SPACE-1 [the Master Black

    Sink] size increases with time. Yet, in debating the validity of each proposedmodel, one must specify the space-time-curvature -- the curve-path-of-light that

    connects two such cosmic-apart points. Unfortunately, for the theoretician who

    wishes to gain support for his own specific model, that determination depends on

    HIS OWNselected cosmological model.

    In the Commoving Distance Model, for instance, commoving distances cannot

    be fixed. In practice, the distance of distant objects are best measured by their

    luminosity -- which is reduced by the square power of the distance to the

    radiation source [17] and by the redshifts of their incoming electromagnetic

    radiation.

    2. The Expanding Universe and Hubble law.

    Hubbles astronomical observations prove that all clusters and super-clusters of

    galaxies [Fig. 1.1] are moving away from each other with speeds that are

    proportional to their distance from each other and , therefore, also from earth.

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    Observations, including the 1964 discovery of the microwave black body

    radiation, prove that the expansion of SPACE-1 is the same in all directions

    (isotropic and homogeneous).

    Isotropic distribution across the sky of distant gamma-ray bursts and ofsupernovae also support this general conclusion.

    Our Net Motion in Space is about 400 km/sec. But this motion is not easy to

    comprehend. The direction of the earths net motion lies in the same plane as its

    orbit around the sun and at angle of 61 degrees tilted upward [northward] from

    the plane of the disk-like Milky Way. We travel around the sun at about 30

    km/sec.

    These speeds should not be confused with the recession speed of clusters andsuper-clusters of galaxies away from each other. [R(t) Fig. 1.2]. This is the

    Hubble expansion. Our galaxyis deviating from this uniform expansion motion

    by about 600 km/sec.

    3. Superclusters of galaxies, galaxies and our Milky Way

    The shapes of superclusters vary considerably; from that of Virgo, Coma and

    Hercules to long filaments. [Figs. 1.1

    and 1.3]. 9,11

    Our Milky-Way Galaxy 8 contains

    billions of gravity-compacted stars and

    other entities. Most stars are formed in

    the dilute regions of the rotating inter-

    stellar SPACE-3.

    Our galaxy is almost 100,000 light-

    years in diameter at its disk-like

    longest spiral arms. It is in the form ofan almost flat spiral disk with an

    average thickness of about 1,000 light-

    years away from it center

    Fig. 1.5: The Fog visible around this galaxy is composed of millions of

    stars like our sun a reminder of the scales we discuss [12-18].

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    All Superclusters are receding away from us -- and from each other -- at great

    speeds -- the further away they are, the greater is the observed speed. This fact is

    termed the EXPANDING UNIVERSE. The receding superclusters follow the

    observationally-based Hubble Law [R(t) in Fig. 1.2].

    Spaces 3, 2 and 1 contain the cosmic black-body remnant radiation, stellarphotons, neutrinos, antineutrinos, gas, dust, etc. Intra-galactic gas may emit X-

    rays and other types of radiation.

    Andromeda (M31) is a member of our Local Group of galaxies. It is

    characterized by a spiral structure similar to ours, and is located about 2,200,000

    light-years away. Andromedaand our galaxy are the largest in our Local Group,

    which is about 10,000,000 light-years in its largest spatial diameter, namely, the

    size of our local group is about 100 times the size of our galaxy. Our local

    group includes M31 (Andromeda), M49, M58, M59, M60, M61, M84, M86, M87

    and M89.

    Radiation pressure on any test-surface facing the lowest radiation-energy density

    value in the universe [adiabatic envelopes in mid cold Voids of SPACE-1, are

    less than that exerted by radiation impinging on that test surface from the other

    side, namely, from the one facing the source of radiation. (This is the familiar

    phenomenon behind SOLAR SAILS in space research.)

    The result is the universal driving force for energy transport from all hot radiation

    sources to cold SPACE-1, whereby the energy-density gradients inside adiabatic

    envelopes constitute the driving force of all irreversible processes in K for all theenergy outpouring into it from all shining sources.

    SPACE-1 expansion is the prime mover of all irreversible processes in nature.

    Nature, and of the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

    Conclusion: With or without localized black holes, only expanding, cold,

    SPACE-1 [the Master Black Sink] provides us, with the universal,

    UNSATURABLE SINK, the cause of the 2nd Law.

    4. Nuclear Fusion is caused by the force-pressure of gravity in the core ofactive stars. It transforms (fuses) hydrogen plasma into heavier elements, like

    carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, phosphor, iron. Fusion is the most

    important process in the universe.

    All active stars generate in their interiors all the basic chemical elements beyond

    hydrogen and helium; namely, all the heavier basic elements of matter that we

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    observe on earth and in our body and brain.

    According to both Einsteinian and Newtonian physics, the bigger the mass of a

    star, the higher are its core pressures and temperatures and faster are the nuclear

    fusion processes in its interior [17].

    How do we know that?On both fusion and fission scientists know much. Fusion is also the driver of

    hydrogen-bomb explosions, (not fission as in atomic reactors and in regular

    atomic weapons).

    When a certain amount of iron is formed in the interiors of active stars,

    endothermic reaction replaces the exothermic one. (The exothermic reaction

    generates energy in the stars, while the endothermic one consumes it.)

    All active stars produce energy through such nuclear fusion.

    5. Supernovae, Maximum Temperatures, Redshifts & Measuring

    Astronomical Distances.

    All active (shining) stars generate the heavier chemical elements at the high

    temperatures-pressures that gravity induces in their interiors. But the massive

    stars arrive to that End-of-life Stage earlier than smaller stars do. That End-

    of-life Stage may, however, be the Beginning-of-life-Process in case the

    supernova debris (ashes) gradually form orbiting planets around stars, as is the

    case that we assert was the beginning of our solar system.

    Supernovae are gravity-induced phenomena that astronomers observe in galaxies

    when a massive star ends its life by internal collapse-implosion. The collapse

    begins when the fusion process that produces energy, ends.

    Supernovae are not only the originators of all chemistry beyond hydrogen and

    helium [by nuclear fusion.], but serve in astronomy as reliable distance

    yardsticks [candles] on which much of astronomy rests. The reason for this

    selection is explained below.

    A supernova explosion throws into Space 3 its interiors in the form of glowing

    debris and gases that, initially, are much brighter than any other star in its home

    galaxy. Hence, certain types of supernovae serve in astronomy as the max-cosmic

    temperature standard for calibrating distances to far-away galaxies via the

    absolute luminosity (brightness) method discussed in CPP Volume I [17].

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    Supernovas extremely bright glow has been studied since 1054, starting from the

    Crab Nebula. At its center there is a neutron star spewing energy and

    elementary particles into Space 3, from which they proceed to Space 2 and,

    eventually, to Space 1.

    That end is reached when a threshold amount ofiron is formed in the interiorof a massive star. [CPP, Vol. I]. At that stage all net energy generation inside the

    star stops and the process reverses into an endothermic one during which energy

    is consumed.

    THE COLLAPSE: At this stage the core pressure falls and the doomed star

    cannot support the gravity-induced weight of its upper layers. This leads to a

    gigantic collapse-implosion of the entire star structure.

    A few general-relativistic deterministic options then emerge, depending on the

    mass and details of the doomed massive star:

    (i) if the mass of the star is about 1.4 times that of the sun, the star slowly decaysinto a white dwarf,

    (ii) if its mass is larger, the formation of an extremely packed neutron star or a

    black hole is the end result (in which no atomic nuclei structure survives),

    (iii) a gigantic supernova explosion follows the collapse-implosion by bouncing

    back from a central dense body [neutron star].

    Type Ia supernovae harbor consistent brightness (absolute luminosity) because

    their progenitor is accreting mass from a nearby star, always imploding into the

    central neutron star at exactly the same mass -- the Chandrasekhar Mass Limit.[CPP, Volume I].

    The Canada-France-Hawaii TelescopeLegacy Survey Supernova Program is

    designed to measure several hundred high-redshifted supernovae.

    Massive stars: Due to their high, gravity-induced, inner-core pressures-

    temperatures, massive stars are much faster than smaller stars, like the sun, to

    exhaust their hydrogen-helium fuel by nuclear fusion.

    The resulting higher pressures-temperatures in massive stars cause faster releasesof fusion energy in the interiors of these stars. From there the energy reaches the

    outer layers of the star and eventually leaves the star and spreads out in Spaces 3,

    2 and, eventually, 1.

    6. Black holes are postulated astronomical local objects that are spreadthroughout galaxies and superclusters of galaxies that are wrapped around by

    non-expanding SPACE-3, or may exist within Spaces 2 and 1.

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    Black holes come into being by gravity and the expansion of unsaturable

    SPACE-1 [the Master Black Sink]. They act as additional unsaturable sinks to

    that caused by the expansion of SPACE-1. Like stars and galaxies, black holes

    cannot be formed without SPACE-1-expansion.

    Astrophysicists expect to detect black holes ranging between roughly the mass of

    a few suns to ten billion times greater. Such super-massive ones are postulated to

    be in the center of some extremely bright galaxies, including the Milky Way

    and quasars.

    Black holes are LOCAL, general relativistic cosmological sinks for all matter-

    energy arriving and falling into them. They are postulated to be highly

    concentrated, local gravity-sinks where the gravity field is so strong that nothing,

    not even light, can escape from them. General

    relativistic cosmology predicts them as one-way sinks in space-time. Some are

    assumed to be in the center of some galaxies. They may be associated with whatis observed and termed quasars.

    Within a black hole all atomic and sub-atomic structures had already been

    crushed to become only geometrically-curved space-time. This is due to the

    extremely strong gravitational field within the black hole. The cause of that total

    break down of all structures is only gravity.

    Quasars and black holes.

    Quasars are assumed to be super massive forms of black holes . Hundreds have

    been detected by NASA's Spitzer space telescope, which measures infrared

    light, and by Chandra, which measures X-ray emissions. These quasars are in

    young (far-away) galaxies that are surrounded by relatively high-density gas that

    emits X-rays as it is being sucked into and accelerated towards a one-way sink of

    a massive black hole.

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    7. Adiabatic Envelopes and the Origin of Time-Asymmetries and

    Irreversibilities in Nature.

    An adiabatic wall, or surface, is a physical wall or an imaginary surface

    through which no NET energy flow takes place. In Fig. 1.2 we mark only

    three points on such imaginary surfaces, namely, where there is No netenergy flow across them. These surfaces wrap around superclusters of

    galaxies in 3 dimensions. No net energy flow means that radiation [and matterparticles] somewhat similar to the ones detected within our solar wind do

    not cross such adiabatic surfaces.

    The maximum temperature attainable in each galaxy is about the same. It is

    roughly the same as that generated initially by supernovae and is attributed to:

    (i) the maximum temperature in stellar cores during fusion in all active

    stars,(ii) The maximum temperature during supernovae explosions.

    (iii) The maximum detectable temperatures attainable by at the external

    surfaces of quasars or galactic centers that harbor gigantic black holes.

    8. The Solar System is composed of our sun, the orbiting planets, moons,asteroids, comets, rocks, gases and dust, all bounded together by the

    COMBINED attractive gravitational field of the sun, our galaxy, our local

    group of galaxies, our superclusters of galaxies [Fig. 1.3] and the gravitationalfield of all the masses in the rest of the universe.

    The sun, like all active stars, is a self-gravitating massive sphere of sub-atomic

    particles in a state of hot plasmathat is pressed-heated by the attractive force ofgravity.

    It accounts for about 99% of the solar systemtotal mass.

    Its diameter is about 1.392 million km and is slightly larger than of an average

    star in our Milky Waygalaxy.

    About 74% of the suns mass is hydrogen, with about 25% helium.

    Gravity-captured debris from previous generations of earlier gas or

    stars/supernovae, had started to condense and fall into or orbit the sun, gradually

    structuring the currently observed solar planets.

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    During more than half of its present age, the universe did not harbor our solar

    system.

    The Solar System extends far beyond the farthest planets, asteroids, comets,

    rocks and dust in our community. It is located inside non-expanding Space 3

    that wraps our entire galaxy and is spatially interconnected with Spaces 2 and 1.

    The Solar Systems outer boundary is where the solar windclashes with other

    stars-winds emerging from nearby stars. It may form there a gigantic shock

    wavecalledheliosphere.

    Our atmosphere comprises the following gravity-induced layers: Homosphere

    from sea level to 80km (Troposphere up to about 13km; Ozone layerabout 13-

    43km;Stratosphere 13-50km;Mesosphere 50-80km); Thermosphere 80-175 km

    (dilute Nitrogen 80-15km, Oxygen 105-128km, Helium 128-150km, Hydrogen150-175km)].

    On ATTRIBUTING CURRENT CLIMATE CHANGE to acts of humanity:

    1. The monotonic increase in (automatically) measured global temperatures

    does not show the 11-YEARS SOLAR CYCLE during which the sun

    luminosity changes. These changes are the results of complicated sun-interior

    convection currents, granulation, magnetic field lines between changing sunspot

    pairs, huge solar flares, etc.

    2. Such short-time cycles may correspond to the unexplained Little Ice

    Age that chilled Northern Europe during the late 17 th century, suggesting acausal link between solar total luminosity activity and climate change on earth.

    3. There have been 17 or 19 ice ages: From about 3,000,000 years ago until

    the last one, which gradually ended from about12,000 to 8000 years ago. These

    ages have strongly affected ecological systems on earth, and each lasted about

    50,000 to 100,000 years and each had lowered the surface of the oceans, resulting

    in climate-induced changes in life and all ecological systems.

    No Net Suns Energy Remains in Earth: This is the verified result of

    complicated thermal cycles in our atmosphere and on earths surface. Theincoming sun energy [Cf, Solar Wind] is partially reflected [and scattered] from

    the upper layers of our atmosphere [about 30%] back to non-expanding Space-3,

    and, eventually, to expanding SPACE-1.

    Most incoming short-wave energy [about 64%] is reflected back to Spaces 3, 2

    and eventually absorbed in the ever expanding VOIDS/SPACE-1 as long-wave

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    radiation that results from the suns energy undergoing complex processes in the

    earths atmosphere and on the earth surface.

    Thus, all incoming suns energy (plus about 6% of heat from the earths interior],

    is proceeding further into the depths of Spaces 3, 2 and 1.

    RECAP: On its way to SPACE-1, the solar wind engulfs earth and the other

    solar planets. No equivalent amount of this incoming radiation energy remains

    with earth and the other planets, as many wrongly assume.

    Part of it is reflected immediately by our upper atmosphere to outer, cold-dark

    spaces 3, 2 and, eventually, to Space-1.

    The rest of the solar wind enters our atmosphere, and following complicated

    thermal-ecological-hydrological cycles it dissipates irreversibly in outer cold-

    dark Space 1.

    The outgoing energy includes additional, small amount of energy from the earths

    interior.

    Together with similar solar winds generated by billions of stars in our galaxy,

    this radiation reaches SPACE 1 -- the unsaturable, limitless, universal sinkof

    all radiation energies pouring into it from all stellar and galactic sources [12-18].

    9. Galactic Centers. The center of our galaxy is called Sagittarius A. It is a

    source ofradio wavesthat originate from matterheated to millions of degrees K

    as they fall into a super-massive black hole. Galactic centers of other galaxies

    may also harbor super massive black holes. These are postulated to be in the

    range of hundreds of thousands to tens of billions of the mass of the entire solar

    system.

    10. Symmetry-Asymmetry & Super symmetries. These subjects are treated in

    other Lectures. At this point we only refer to a false primitive symmetry claim

    that states:If the universe is eternal into the future it must be eternal into the past, or

    prior to creation [the big-bang], there must have been a symmetriccontraction into an all-containing black hole.. As the density had increased

    during that pre-creation contraction, gigantic black holes are claimed to be

    formed, and, at the instant of maximum contraction, they had switched to

    expansion, and only one of them has turned into our expanding universe.

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    Upcoming tests at CERN or by the Planck Satellite or by the ground-based

    LIGO and VIRGO observatories, may reveal slight variations in gravitational

    radiation that are claimed to be associated with such postulated effects, say, on

    the polarization of the cosmic black body radiation.

    11. Merging-Colliding Galaxies

    The fog shown in these colliding galaxies is composed of millions of stars.

    Our galaxy is predicted by some models to collide with the Andromeda galaxy in

    about 5 billion years.

    The rate of galactic collisions was much higher in the past, mainly because thegalaxies were closer to each other.

    Andromedas system consists of Cassiopeia Dwarf, Pegasus dSph, M32, M110,NGC 147, NGC195, AND I-V, etc. The Triangulum Galaxy, the 3rd largest galaxy

    in our local group, also includes thePisces Dwarfas a satellite.

    Our satellite galaxies consist of theLarge and Small Magellanic Clouds, Ursa

    Minor Dwarf, Darco Dwarf, Sculptor Dwarf, Canis Major Dwarf, Fornax

    Dwarf, Carina Dwarf, Sextans Dwarf, Tucana Dwarf, Leo I, Leo II, Leo A, Sag

    DEG, etc.

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    Many aspects of animals social organization and evolution can be predicted on

    the basis of gravity-induced environmental variables.

    Since biogeochemical evolution causes key natural resources to be distributed

    non-uniformly in the spatial and temporal coordinates of the biosphere, resource

    monopolizationdevelops in all levels of socio-biological systems.

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    Lecture2

    Socio-Gravitism

    Gravity Selection as a key Component of Natural Selection

    The first local "aggregates" of matter in the solar system have already contained

    atoms and simple molecules, and it was gravity that stratified these compounds in

    horizontal layers according to theirspecific gravity.

    The atmosphere and geological strata are ordered-selected by the specificgravity of their chemical components. It was gravity that put the early

    components of living systems at one and the same strata.

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    Assertion 1

    The origin of temporal behavior in

    animals can be traced back in time

    and out to external physical

    influences. Even innate patterns" are

    frequently associated with simple

    orientation movement in the field of

    gravitation, i.e., as "up-ward-

    downward" balancing of the

    biological body vis--vis the gravity

    pointer. Gravity periodicities aroundthe sun emerge as prime sources of

    order via time and the arrow of time.

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    Gravity Selection is therefore a key component ofNatural selection.

    Gravity is also the universal builder of structures, including all chemistry in the

    cores of gravitationally pressed-heated stars [See fusion in Lecture I], geological

    strata, earth morphology the entire evolution of life, village/city structures,

    transportation systems, linguistic hierarchy, recorded symbols, letters, grammarvs. time, structure of sentences, pages, books, shelves, houses.

    1. Gravity-Induced Orientation, Order, Linguistics

    Using gravity pointers up, down, left,

    right, we generate signs and record

    numbers and letters for a later use

    and for other to read.

    Animals are no exception. Each is'conscious' of the commonly-shared

    "up-down" surroundings, and about

    "weight" and acceleration. Plants also

    harbor innate sensors that guide them

    in which direction to grow even on amountain slope.

    Additional examples range fromgyroscope inertial changes and gravity-induced changes involving the fluid in

    the vertebrate inner ear to a crystallizing suspension of organic spheres in water.

    3. Gravity-Induced Plant Growth and Animal Behavior

    The sensing devices which plants and animals use for "gravity perception"("gravity receptors", "g-perception", "bio-accelerometers", "gravity-induced

    biological clocks", etc.) are not yet well understood, even though a voluminous

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    Assertion 2

    Plants know to grow vertically

    upward when they start growing in

    total darkness as seeds inserted deep

    into the ground; -- even when they

    grow on a steep mountain slope.

    As most high-growing trees they align

    their growth under the control of the

    gravity vector.

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    literature has been published on this subject. But what we already know justifies

    the central role we claim gravity plays in living systems and society.

    If a growing higher plant isdisplaced with respect to the

    "upright" position, some tens of

    minutes later it will adapt its growth

    in such a way as to restore its original

    orientation in coincidence with the

    gravity vector. (If it is displaced only

    briefly and then restored to its

    original orientation well before the

    growth response can set in, it still

    responds to that displacement.)

    Gravity-induced orientation-adaptation of an organism may occur when an

    organism orients itself by a gravity-induced gradient of density differences or

    hydrostatic pressure.

    Small organisms (including all bacteria) may have no means for sensing gravity,

    but they are affected by it.

    Animals low on the evolutionary scale characteristically exhibit innate patternsthat depend little on learning, and have a lesser adaptability to changes in the

    environment.

    Consequently, their dependence on heredity-geophysical-gravitational origins is

    high in proportion to animals that are high on the evolutionary scale. While

    the latter show some signs of innate patterns, they harbor a greater capacity to

    produce a much more flexible mechanism to respond to a variety of other

    external changes that stimulate them. The evolutionary origin of the so-called

    "innate ideas" may, therefore, be external rather than internal.

    4. Gravity-Induced Property, Domains, Wars

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    Assertion 3

    When a limited terrestrial space is divided into lots in a community, it carries

    economic and social standing, or "lebensraums" involving "well-defined

    territories" and "Gravity-inducedNatural Selection"; from animals' mating

    systems to animals' monopolies on water resources; from natural food

    administration to the control of key strategic ridges; from controlling fossil

    fuel resources to disputes over territories.

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    Assertion 4

    Even the computer page is ordered by up,

    bottom, left, right margins and footnotes.

    And it takes time to read them and to

    comprehend them; the time that always

    advances from past to future; the time that

    we term Linguistic Arrow of Time.

    Similarly, gravity-induced ordering of

    shelves, files, documents and books in a

    library introduces order into our life.

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    Gravity-induced changes developterritoriality in a given spatial region or in agiven assembly of individuals, especially when key resources are not sufficiently

    abundant and stable through long periods of historical times.

    Inequality in human society begins with land demarcation and property, private

    and tribal, stated owned or company run. Envy then drives competition, companyads, TV and academic rating, political candidates, religious rivalry and key

    human traits, sometimes stronger than as death.

    One species, or one sex, may control a larger quantity of resources, say, scarcewater ponds, than the other, until a small percentage of the population

    monopolizes key resources.

    We observe this phenomenon in both the animal and human domains of socio-

    biology.

    In humans these gravity-induced territoriality is often developed into nationality,

    strategy and wars.

    5. Gravity-Induced Law,

    Seconds, Minutes, Days,

    Year

    Whole cultures, civilizationsand religions have been

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    constructed on gravity-induced human orientability, concepts, spirituality, art,

    music, home structure, village structure, wells, canals, boats, trade, agriculture,

    and even law enforcement by hanging [17].

    History testifies that such gravity-induced cultural phenomena may proceedbeyond grammar and social order far into the spiritual and hierarchical domains:

    High priest, low deck, high commissioner, and highness, heaven, lofty, go to the

    bottom of the subject, etc.

    6. Gravity-Induced Social Standards and Meaning

    We train our brain-mind to appreciate gravity-induced, configuration-order-orientation and reject chaos and disorder. In short, we reject what does not wellalign with gravity-induced posture, standing and sitting modes.

    Our brain-mind searches for what is 'right' via gravitationally induced

    symmetries and asymmetry standards.

    Each picture we observe, and each letter-symbol, word and sentence that we read,

    or hear, forms in our brain-mind a specific aggregated, configuration-boundary,

    -- a gravity-oriented asymmetry.

    Each letter-symbol, each word and each sentence generates such an aggregated,configuration-boundary-asymmetry in our brain-mind, where it had been

    irreversibly recorded and compared with what had been forced on our brain-mind

    by previous forces of our education; -- the STANDARDS at home, school, social

    group, tribe, nation, religion or a specific branch of civilization.

    Time reversal of musical notes destroys our pleasure. One cannot enjoy it if it is

    played in reverse. The structure and modulation of voice and the sentences a

    human mind seeks to identify with are similarly affected.

    Even a minor deviation from one's pre-trained language, intonation, accent,symmetry and asymmetry -- in face, body and walking way -- destroys our

    gravity-induced concepts about what is 'right', young, healthy, and what is not.

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    In observing a person our mind generates a gravitationally induced structuralasymmetry that is compared with the stored standard

    Any picture is gravitationally oriented in our brain-mind: up/down or

    horizontal/left/right. Thus, inversion of a picture, or reversing the direction of

    symbols, words and a meaningful text, destroys the meaning.

    We maintain that this process generates gravity-induced form-orientation-

    configuration of 'heading', beginning and 'end'.

    7. Biological Clocks and Gravitation

    The origin of temporal behavior in animals can be traced back in time and out

    to external physical influences.

    Gravity and geophysical periodicities emerge as prime sources of order and

    information in all non-living and living systems.

    Animals low on the evolutionary scale depend little on learning, and have a lesser

    adaptability to changes in the environment. Consequently, their dependence on

    heredity-geophysical-gravitational origins is high in proportion to animals high

    on the evolutionary scale.

    8. Vertigo, Loss of Coordination-Balancing & Gravity

    Vertigo is a loss of coordination, balancing and orientation vis--vis space andthe gravity-induced horizon.

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    Biological structures in the inner ear include semicircular canals and a fluidthat moves, by gravity force, with respect to the gravity vector and activates a

    system that transmits linear and rotational motions vis--vis the gravity vector to

    the vestibular nerve, which carries these signals through the brainstem to our

    brain cerebellum, which, in turn, uses them to control our balancing, orientation,

    coordination and movement.

    The vestibular system in our ears comprises two semi-circular canals, which are

    used to indicate our rotational movements, and otoliths, which indicate linear

    translations.

    The vestibular system sends signals primarily to the neural structures thatcontrol our eye movements, and to the Cerebellum-muscles system that keeps us

    upright and helps maintain clear vision-orientation vs. the gravity vector.

    9. Biological Cells, Reproduction, Immunity System & Gravity

    Gravity causes changes in cell division, metabolism and the immunitysystem. Reproduction is also impaired and the immune cells cannot differentiate

    into mature cells in low or zero gravity conditions attainable in space crafts.

    The size of a biological cell depends on the local gravity vector its size

    increases in larger local gravitational field-force values.

    Bone cells must attach themselves to something and will die if they cannot.

    Without the gravity force-field they float around and perish.

    When animals evolve on land, outside the oceans, they develop stronger

    skeletons to cope with larger gravity forces vis--vis the reduced one due to

    buoyancy in the waters.

    Earlier lifeforms in the oceans were smaller and had a jellyfish-like

    configuration. Thus, without strong skeletons, land animals cannot evolve

    10. Animals and Gravity-Induced Effects

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    Gravimorphism, gravitropism and tropism are directional movements of aplant with respect to a directional stimulus. One such tropism is gravimorphism --

    the growth or movement of a plant with respect to gravity. Plant roots grow in the

    direction of gravity while shoots and stems grow against it.

    RECAP:Gravity generates structures and controls all geological layers and global

    phenomena ranging from mountain crests, gravity-induced tectonic folds, valleys,

    beaches, oceans and lagoons, to springs, wells, swamps, glaciers and rivers, and

    the bio-systems connected with them.

    Without gravity-induced orientation-order and grammar we are lost in any given

    written language. Gravity-induced grammar prevents us from vertical reversals.

    Similarly, horizontal reversals prevent us, say, from reversals ofWto M.

    There are more complicated gravity-induced grammar rules. They range from

    preventing reversal of past into future, and vice versa, to use gravity-induced

    structures as reference: A mountain crest, valley, beach line, river bed, sky, earth,

    ocean, etc.

    Gravity-sensing cells function as detectors of the direction of gravity. The fluid-

    particles systems inside cells initiate inner convective currents that cease under

    zero gravity. Thus, the absence of gravity affects the contacts of cells via their

    membrane potential and their cytoskeletons.

    11. Gravity-Induced Village and City Structures

    Gravity generates structures andcontrols all geological layers and global

    phenomena ranging from mountain

    crests, tectonic folds, geological uplifts,

    valleys, village and city structures,

    transportation systems, oceans and

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    lagoons, to springs, wells, swamps, glaciers and rivers, as well asthe ecological-

    systems connected with them.

    12. Gravity and Global Warming

    Gravity affects global warming and all ecological systems.[Cf. Solar System in Lecture I].

    13. Gravity and Health

    The evolution and everyday functioning of our bones, legs, hips, joints,

    cartilages, ligaments, femurs, tibia, pelvis and muscles, has been "in response" to

    the force and direction of gravity.

    Gravity plays a key factor in heart failure associated with swollen legs, in flooded

    lungs, walking, sleeping needs etc.

    Nevertheless, the cardinal role gravity plays in the treatment of gravity-induced

    disorders in biological systems, human perception, health and longevity, has been

    largely overlooked by health providers and researchers, partly because the key

    role of gravity as the universal generator of all socio-gravity-dynamics, has not

    yet been well understood and investigated.

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