Dear Prof. Narendra,
Because of my overloaded schedule of today, I was able only now to check your discussion thread, so I apologize. I definitely agree with you, that the spacetime will get distorted by the reparametrization.
"May be distortion in space may well account for creation of fresh matter."
I believe that, depending on the pattern of the distortion, it may be associated with creation of matter. I don't know precisely how the speed of light varies, and if it is only time dependant, or vary as well in space. If I presume that it varies with time only, this may account both for creation of energy and for a change in the expansion rate. Perhaps, based on the variation of c with time, we can get a toy cosmological model.
I believe that this reparametrization may work for 'c', but if we want to do the same for other "variable constants", we have to check for each one of them the possibility.
"What are your ideas on what existed prior to the creation of the Universe? The non-physical ' consciousness' is being projected as such."
If the Universe was created by a non-physical consciousness (NPC), then such an entity transcends the spacetime. We may view the place for this being before the Universe, after it, and outside it in the same "time". And even inside, if we see NPC like an artist living in his own painting. I see the physical world consisting in a geometric spacetime, with the physical law shaping it, and the appropriate initial/final/boundary conditions for life and intelligence. The term "initial condition" is misleading, because an initial condition can be equivalent with a final condition, or even a condition distributed in different places and instants. Maybe it is our mind that provides the (delayed) initial conditions, like in an anthropic principle, with or without using the idea of multiverse.
"The Unified field we talk of may well have existed as a potential field with immense energy and intelligence to unfold the evolution design of the Universe!!"
Maybe the initial burst of energy and the final purpose (the intelligence) are two complementary poles, Shakti and Shiva. In the same time, viewing from "outside" the spacetime, there is no duality. There is no difference between initial and final conditions.
When we will grow up, we may be able to read the fingerprints of a NPC in the initial/final conditions. Maybe we will find no fingerprints. Maybe we will never know.
"Your mind is far more fresh than mine being over 75 yrs. old!"
Thank you for your appreciation, and I wish you a long and happy life. From our short discussions, which I enjoy so much, I can say that your mind is much younger than the age you mentioned!
Cristi Stoica
"Flowing with a Frozen River",
http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/322