So, I had trouble sleeping. This is pretty common to me. It’s like my brain seems to never want to go to sleep. Anyways, I was giving some thoughts again to that old project of mine, Peer-Z, and jumping from idea to idea, I started wondering why we use binary in computer systems (base 2 which is 0s and 1s if you don’t know), rather than say, “ternary” (base-3: digits 0,1,2). Using more complex states has benefits, it allows to send more data in the same amount of time, compared to binary. That’s the reason why modems use 3 states rather than 2 – or at least they used to, a bazillion years ago when I was a young adult.
Base 2 is easy to represent in electricity: 0 is represented by a 0 voltage, and 1 by a certain voltage (commonly 3.3V, 5V, or others). It can also be a current or none (currents and voltages are proportional). Base 3 is not much more complicated: 0 is no voltage, 1 is half voltage, 2 is full voltage. Alternately, you could have negative voltage, no voltage and positive voltage, or do the same with currents. If you want more complex states, you can mix and match the above, positive, negative, and different levels for each.
Anyways. This lead me to think about my next album – a work in progress – that is about the so called “dark matter”, and also to think about quantum theories, or at least the little I know and possibly understand about them – I’m no genius fortunately. So, electrons have a spin which can be up or down . Don’t ask me more, my classes of chemistry are far far away, I suggest to look for explanation about electron spins on Google. Something I remembered, with some light confusion, is that idea that remote atoms could have electrons with symmetrical spins when they are in a quantum connection state.
This train of thoughts was pretty confused at start, but I came to think about matter and anti-matter, and of a sudden something clicked in my mind. Not like a revelation, since I’m obviously not the next Stephen Hawking, and I don’t intend to revolutionize science – or anything at all, but more like a “What if?” thought.
The idea was the following: What if there were 4 states to matter:
– Nothing (No matter, literally nothing, nihil, nix, nada, rien, que tchi)
– Positive (matter)
– Negative (anti-matter)
– Invisible (matter + anti-matter combined)
This would be interesting if it was true, because that would mean there’s possibly nothing to be afraid of with these experiments at the CERN in Switzerland, where they try to create anti-matter. When I heard the news a few years ago, I thought that if you combined matter and anti-matter it would create an explosion, like a blackhole. I think that’s what most people must have thought at that time. But with this idea that combining matter and anti-matter could create invisible matter, somehow matter that would possibly have no weight, no visibility, but would still be there…
So, the thought is out there. Please, anyone with a brain bigger than mine – which should not be too hard to find – either prove me wrong or try and develop the idea and see where that leads you. The comments below are open. Enjoy!