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Outline of "A New Earth and A New Universe"
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
German physicist (1879-1955)
In this quote, Einstein isn't speaking of fantasy, but of applying scientific knowledge in an imaginative way (maybe it would be better to say "imagination is just as important as knowledge"). Anyway, the following might be dismissed as too speculative because it isn't written in mathematical equations and its conclusions can't be verified in a laboratory. But if you think imagination applied to science can teach us new things, read on … and enjoy!
These writings mention universal unification that is far more comprehensive than today's scientific and mathematical attempts to find a "Grand Unified Theory". A few lines from the poem about Kal-el/Clark Kent/Superman make it clearer by what I mean when I say "more comprehensive" -
"Kal-el left for the rainbow's end in the 44th century,
Where he met a young woman named Kari.
Science had combined all forces but gravity in the Grand Unified Theory,
Then added gravity to the previous 3* to form the Unified Field Theory.
Clark's idea of energy pulses transformed into the idea of zero separation
Between objects in space-time (the revolutionary UFT 2nd version).
So he and Kari (and the rest of the world) are each other, in fact;
Just as UFTv2 unites the Relativist and Quantum Mechanic."
* electromagnetism (the relations between electricity and magnetism) + the strong and weak nuclear forces of the subatomic world
They also mention a possible way out of the global financial crisis, health and medicine, Mobius loops, dark matter, superstring theory, fractal geometry, motion, light and electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, other universes, the Big Bang and Steady State theories, dark energy, evolution, Darwin, Einstein, Newton, Frankenstein, Doctor Who, Star Trek, computer science, holographic technology, God, Intelligent Design, Hinduism, a couple of possible ways to attain world peace, include poetry and a short story, etc ... the book's wide-ranging because it uses scientifically-applied imagination to unify these concepts.
It seems to me that every generation throughout history has decided the world cannot progress significantly beyond the achievements of their generation. The present generation might, for example, sincerely believe there can't be any progress beyond the current understanding of science's Grand Unified Theory or that current scientific method is infallible. I respectfully disagree and it's my goal, by means of the science and curiosity and imagination (not fantasy) in my writings, to show everybody that there is still so much progress to be made that the whole world will be busy for thousands (if not millions) of years yet.
A part of me is wondering if there's any point in publishing this book. After all, the philosophers living in ancient Greece about 2,500 years ago seem to have already said it all (in Ecclesiastes 1:9, your Bible states - "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun." - King James Version). I’ll elaborate on the Greek philosophers in the section called “The Real Thing”. Still, publishing the book might prove useful by showing how extensions of modern science can validate the thoughts of e.g. Parmenides, whose “argument from thought and language to the world at large” was described in the following way by British mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970) in his book “A History of Western Philosophy”: “It cannot of course be accepted as valid …”
Also, in relation to this book, the predictions of inventor and futurist Raymond Kurzweil are fascinating. According to Wikipedia, he suggests “With the entire universe made into a giant, highly efficient supercomputer, AI and human hybrids (so integrated that, in truth it is a new category of "life") would have both supreme intelligence and physical control over the universe. Kurzweil suggests that this would open up all sorts of new possibilities, including abrogation of the laws of Physics, interdimensional travel, and a possible infinite extension of existence (true immortality).” On this last point, I first read about the downloading of minds for the purpose of attaining immortality over 20 years ago in a now-discontinued science magazine (either “Omega Science Digest” or “Omni”) reporting on the robotics and artificial-intelligence work of American Hans Moravec.
Also fascinating are the references to Underlying Existence in John Dobson’s recent book “The Moon Is New” (Dobson invented the term Zero Separation which this book refers to) and the conclusions in two recent books by American mathematician and physicist Frank Tipler – “The Physics of Christianity” and “The Physics of Immortality”. In these, he says physics proves God’s existence, can justify the resurrection of the dead and the spiritual body (which I call the the Bosonic Backup in “Part 3 Into Paper Walls”), and that godlike intelligences will grant you and I immortality. And my fascination continues … even as I’m putting the finishing touches on this book, I read a very short adaptation in the science magazine Discover of the May 2009 book “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe” by Robert Lanza with Bob Berman. They say life – particularly consciousness – creates time, space and the cosmos itself: without us, the universe could not exist. They say things this book agrees with – “… time does not exist independently of the life that notices it”, “… space is neither physical nor fundamentally real in our view”, “In daily life, space and time are harmless illusions” and “Quantum theory even casts doubt on the notion that distant objects are truly separated …” These statements sound like similar conclusions to my explanations of a “spaceless and timeless reality that appears to include space, time and distance but these are actually illusions created, in an immediate sense, by the cosmic computer-generated hologram and, in the ultimate sense, by an intelligence and consciousness that pervades the universe and is related to the minds of humans”. While “Biocentrism” says consciousness creates the universe, it unfortunately cuts out the middle man and does not, as far as I know, mention a computer-generated hologram (or many other ideas speculated on in these pages).
I think the universe is like a computer game full of simulated worlds with simulated people living on them in seemingly separate times. It will be created by humans and our extraterrestrial descendents in the future (see Gates>STARGATE) from computer code written in a 5th dimension and holographically projected into the 3+1 dimensions we call space-time, and written from what we know of nature and science as well as history. We will thus create a home – the universe – for ourselves and it will, of course, be perfectly tuned to our needs. This entire universe will, being a computer simulation, be filled with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and consciousness – and since there is no separation or distance of any kind in its unification, also be filled with human/humanoid intelligence, personality and consciousness. Our consciousness and the advanced artificial intelligence will thus be merged and identical.
Though humans have a very special potential which will, I believe, see us use our inbuilt creativity to oneday produce universes and ourselves and perform other so-called miracles; this is, in the end, just another book proclaiming that God created us and the universe. This apparent contradictory statement is resolved easily by noting that this book makes 4 points - a) it attempts to use science to demonstrate how people could create the universe and ourselves, b) it tries to show scientifically that there truly is a God – who is the total of everything in the universe, from consciousness and personality to a cluster of galaxies to a person … to a grain of sand … to an atom …to a ray of light or a magnetic or gravitational field (with the One’s consciousness capable of “downloading” into any component physical form, type of energy or force), c) finite humans are united with God via the universe’s Unified Field (which embraces zero-separation), and d) therefore, saying “we created the universe and ourselves” is another way of saying “God created the universe and us”.
The above 4-fold resolution is by no means easy to accept since it relies on us coming to terms with the time we live in announcing that separateness in any form is an illusion; and with the great English writer William Shakespeare (1564-1616) not merely being poetic or entertaining when he said in his play “Hamlet”, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Being human and being God are thought provoking conditions – just like my writing of this book. On one hand, I of course know beyond any doubt that I’m the author. On the other hand – the more I write, the more I wonder how the ideas it contains could ever have entered my head. I’m becoming more and more convinced that the book truly exists already and was just waiting for somebody – anybody - to come along and press all the right keys on a computer keyboard. I guess this conflict between knowing I’m the author and thinking the book already exists can be resolved by time’s loops and curves and warps. I read somewhere that the famous Austrian composer of classical music Wolfgang Mozart (1756-1791) also experienced the feeling of his compositions being already written – and I’ve heard that Paul McCartney had the same feeling when he wrote the Beatles’ song “Yesterday” back in the 1960s. As the 1968 song “Master Jack” (by the South African band 4 Jacks and a Jill) said, “It’s a strange, strange world we live in”.
All this - from ancient Greece (and long before) to the books of century 21 – quite amazes me. And no doubt there are many more amazing ideas out there … ones I’m not familiar with in the least. Combine all this with the previous century’s development of Einstein’s Relativity, quantum mechanics, electronic computers, space travel, holography and the Internet. It makes me wonder if this time we live in really could be “the time of unveiling or revelation” history has supposedly been leading up to.
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A NEW EARTH AND A NEW UNIVERSE
Part 1 Into Paper Walls
I've called this first section "Part 1 Into Paper Walls" after the 1969 Australian hit record "Part 3 Into Paper Walls"; performed by Russell Morris, written by Johnny Young and produced by Ian ("Molly") Meldrum. Another section (Part 2 Into Paper Walls) was written in 2008 and a 3rd section, written in 2009, is called (you guessed it!) Part 3 Into Paper Walls (my idea being that the "paper walls" are the pages of this book).
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These are the detailed changes I believe science and evolution will adopt in the future – in some respects, these changes will lead to conclusions similar to those of religious or mystical teachings. In the magazine article "An American Physicist in Venice", Lisa Randall says everyone who is interested in science can participate, and she also says it´s important to share ideas about modern physics. Here´s my little attempt at participating and sharing. Will you join me?
I´d like to suggest that Charles Darwin´s evolution has far greater consequences than either he or any scientist has realized. I believe the theory is not limited to biology, but is absolutely fundamental to the very existence of our universe and everything in it i.e. to cosmology, space-time, physics, mathematics, etc. etc. I wrote these paragraphs after recently reading the comment that dogs can hear x-rays (by the veterinarian Dr. Rachele Lowe), in an attempt to explain how Darwin´s ideas are so far-reaching. In a vital way, they even go beyond Albert Einstein´s ideas since these paragraphs conclude that a "mutation factor" (also referred to as a "randomness factor") is fundamental to the universe. In other words, Einstein was wrong when he said "God does not play dice with the universe" (he believed there could be no randomness, or mutation, in the fabric of space-time). Now to what I wrote after reading about dogs hearing X-rays:
It´s incredibly fascinating to read that dogs can hear x-rays! ("Your Pet" with veterinarian Rachele Lowe - Australia´s New Idea magazine - September 17, 2007). This is fascinating because sound and x-rays are different forms of waves. Sound is called a longitudinal wave and it needs a medium like air to travel through. X-rays are called a transverse or electromagnetic (EM) wave - visible light, ultraviolet or UV rays, and radio waves are other forms of electromagnetism - and don´t require air etc. but can travel through empty space.
Sometimes cosmic rays, which are not a type of energy but consist of atomic particles, are also added to illustrations of the EM spectrum in science magazines. This, along with dogs´ ability to hear both sound and x-rays, makes me think there must be a sonic-material or SM spectrum linked to the EM spectrum. Science´s teaching of Wave-Particle Duality (the idea in Quantum Mechanics that waves have particle properties and particles possess wave properties) reinforces the idea of linked EM-SM spectra. So oneday we might be getting the matter waves of our bodies and brains digitised by some sort of modem so we can get "emailed" around the world, through space and through time (which world-famous physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking says is another form of space). At our destination, other modems would change us back into material girls or guys.
What´s an obvious way of linking EM waves with SM waves? By uniting EVERYTHING in this universe of space-time into a hologram. The lasers generating this hologram would have to be combined with a "randomness factor" - which could also be referred to as a "mutation factor" - so you and I would not merely possess a rigidly preprogrammed life in the universal hologram, but would be capable of a degree of free will. (In computer art, randomness is introduced into the chain of repetitive calculations producing a mountain range so a convincingly rugged image will result.)
Albert Einstein´s dream of uniting electromagnetism and gravitation in a Unified Field Theory would come to pass. And it may be future travellers in time (or should I say "future travellers in another form of space") that bring his dream to fruition by taking their universe-creating technology nearly 14 billion years into the past to produce our local branch of a possibly infinite mega-universe. This megauniverse is hinted at by Einstein´s equations as well as cosmology´s Steady-State theory, which says the universe has always existed and will continue forever. Einstein spoke of a "static" universe (which accurately describes a megauniverse that has no limits in space and has always existed/will continue forever), but he thought of this local branch as static, and called it his greatest mistake since the local universe is now known to have had a beginning and to be expanding. The travellers would also be showing us what Intelligent Design can do centuries or millennia from now.
In about 1980 (and also in his 2008 book, “The Moon Is New – Time Comes In With A Minus Sign”), the implications of Einstein´s Special Relativity theory were studied by the American John Dobson (creator of the "Dobsonian" telescope mount, co-founder of the Sidewalk Astronomers Organization). He coined the term "zero separation" to describe Relativity´s implications, but describing the universe as a Unified Field or Grand Unification would be just as accurate. Suppose a star we are viewing is at a distance of 100 light years (this can be represented as +100). Since we see nothing as it presently is but as it was when the light left it, we are seeing the star as it was 100 years ago (represented as -100). Repeated experimental verification of Einstein’s Relativity theory confirms its statement that space and time can never exist separately but form what is known as space-time. The space-time distance between us and the star is therefore 100 + (-100) i.e. 100-100 i.e. 0 and there is actually zero separation between us and the star’s gravity, heat etc.
How can zero separation be true if our eyes and telescopes can see that the star is obviously far away, if its gravity has no noticeable effect on us and if its heat has no effect on us but would instantly evaporate anything that, in fact, had no separation from it? This is a very hard question to answer in a few lines. I hope you’ll see the logic in zero separation after reading and re-reading this entire book and, for now, I’ll just say that I find it convenient to think of people living in two worlds (one of zero separation, one where things are as they seem) but the unification spoken of throughout the book unites these two worlds into one. Here are a few sentences from different sections which may be helpful at this point –
Remembering that this book believes all existence unfolds in a computer-generated hologram, "this is similar to 2 objects which appear distant from each other on a huge computer screen actually being unified by the strings of ones and zeros making up the computer code which is all in one small place". The 2 objects which appear distant from each other could be the star (along with its gravity or heat) and us – or as we’ll see in a couple of paragraphs, you and me, or 2 atoms in your or my body, or the opposite sides of an atomic particle somewhere in space or somewhere in time.
Physical reality is, in a sense, a matter of perspective because science during the last 500 years has increasingly been shifting our conceptions away from absolutes and towards everything being relative. A unifying computer-generated hologram might reverse this trend and again give us something absolute to believe in. But addressing reality as perspective are these sentences from the book – “we know parallel lines never actually converge – but if we open our eyes and look in the right places, they do e.g. the 2 lines of a railway track seem to meet in the distance” and “If we use our current understanding of cosmology and mathematics (or our physical senses and scientific instruments, which function according to that scientific and mathematical comprehension), dividing the universe by infinity will result in endless separation. “A” will be here, “B” there, “C” will exist now, “D” in the past or future, and so on.”
But why, using the above example, should zero separation be limited to the distance between us and the star we’re looking at? Light would take a certain amount of time to travel from the centre of the star, where fusion reactions produce it, to the surface facing us (say, 200,000 years) and anyone on that surface would see the star’s core as it was 200,000 years ago. Light takes a certain time to reflect from your body to my eyes (say, 1/1,000,000,000 of a second) and I would see you as you were a billionth of a second ago. Light (or any other form of electromagnetic wave) would take a certain period of time (say, a trillionth of a trillionth of a second) to journey from one atom in our bodies to another – or, say, a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second to pass from one side to the other of a subatomic particle in you, me or the star. The positive sign associated with distances in space and negative sign associated with time combine in all these examples, plus any others you can think of, to cancel and produce the zero separation of all space-time.
Purely for fun, I’d like to write a couple of paragraphs showing how zero separation can physically link sunspots and black holes (regions of space that can be formed by collapse of massive stars and have such a powerful gravitational field that nothing inside the event horizon or boundary, including light and other radiation, can escape), making comparison of the two by no means a superficial one. I stress that this is only a mental exercise to demonstrate that zero separation is relevant to the universe astronomers study.
Why do young stars form around a black hole when they should be torn apart? Compare the black hole to a sunspot. Sunspots form because the sun's equator rotates more quickly than its poles (25 days at the equator, 34 days at the poles). Being “frozen” into its gases, the magnetic field lines of the sun stretch, twist, are drawn out into loops and erupt through the sun's surface, forming sunspots. Since the intense magnetism of the spots prevents heat from rising to the surface and radiating into space, the Maunder Minimum of observations of extremely low sunspot activity from 1645 to 1715 (named after the solar astronomer Edward W. Maunder [1851-1928] ) could actually be attributed to a period of intense sunspot activity. Why? Because a great number of sunspots would stop the Earth receiving as much warmth from the Sun, and the Maunder Minimum coincided with the middle – and coldest part – of the Little Ice Age during which Europe and North America and perhaps much of the rest of the world saw glaciers advance and rivers freeze – even the Baltic Sea froze over, allowing sledge rides from Poland to Sweden with inns built along the way. It would be termed a period of minimum activity coz the sunspots would not have been visible. The distorted magnetic loops don't have to break through the sun's surface or photosphere but can remain within, forming a rotating vortex that concentrates field lines and can create intense, heat-trapping magnetism (from recent observations by the satellite SOHO, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory).
When a black hole is rotating; it might also stretch, twist and loop its magnetic field lines. The lines may penetrate into the hole and be lost, but in the case of star formation they'd be drawn out beyond the hole's event horizon (boundary) and compress clouds of dust and gas into new suns (a supermassive black hole’s magnetic field is so strong that it can focus particles into jets ejected far out into space so, provided the star is a safe distance from the black hole, it should be able to stop the hole’s gravity from shredding a star and making its gases spiral inwards). To condense the paragraphs on zero separation into a few words, the 2 objects which appear distant from each other could be a sunspot and a black hole. On the subject of sunspots and the sun, the famous 17th-century scientist Sir Isaac Newton once said the entire universe would instantly feel the loss of the sun’s gravity if our star disappeared suddenly – I think modern science doubts this but zero separation forces me to agree with him. And on the subject of black holes, a massive star truly can collapse and explode as a supernova while a gravitational singularity (the place all matter falling into the black hole gathers) would be produced from the collapsing core. What if that singularity is disintegrated by the fantastic pressure? It would become “BITS of space-time” (this book’s proposed building blocks of all matter and spacetime that are the BInary digiTS – strings of ones and zeros – from which space and time emerge). In this way, nature would protect us from black holes and eliminate their assumed and perplexing properties of infinite density, infinite gravity and infinite spacetime curvature.
The shredding of a singularity into the building blocks of space-time reminds me of the idea by Lee Smolin, a theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada, of black-hole-generated universes. I can imagine black holes producing the universe which creates the black holes because of the holes’ ability to warp time into a pretzel. Smolin’s proposal would do away with universal intelligence and replace it with a process of natural selection, but I cannot imagine the black holes producing enough spacetime building blocks to do more than increase their size somewhat - fashioning new universes would seem to require far, far more spacetime bits than they could possibly make. Even if all black holes coalesced in trillions of years to form a single hole the size of the universe, how could spacetime bits assemble into new space-time and matter in the absence of an intelligence pervading every part of the cosmos? And if that intelligence exists, I personally prefer this book’s idea of an intelligently designed, cosmic computer-generated hologram.
(Demonstrating zero separation to be relevant to the universe astronomers study requires a bit of research to get the astronomical facts right, so thanks go to the May 2009 interview in “Discover” science magazine with professor of astronomy and physics Andrea Ghez; the 2006? TV documentary “The Sun”; Wikipedia, the free Internet encyclopedia; “The Sun”, a 1989 volume in Time-Life’s series “Voyage Through The Universe”, Stephen Hawking’s 1988 book “A Brief History of Time” and Patrick Moore’s 1986 book “A-Z of Astronomy”)
If there is zero separation between points in space, then Earth is actually in the same place as any astronomical object (a reality we can never comprehend by solely using our limited physical senses and astronomical instruments). And we really would see a new era in space travel! As well, any object or person on Earth would actually be in the same place as any other - and there would be a revolution in all forms of travel, including the electronic travel of email. If time is another form of space and there is zero separation between points in time, the year 2007 would be in the same "place" as e.g. 1971. This means all times co-exist (permitting so-called time travel), and the end of anything or anyone would only exist to our limited senses and experiences. When we believe we’re experiencing a beginning or ending, the opposite condition is occurring simultaneously (as is every state in between, or beyond).
“Space is nothing”. On one hand, I’d give my short answer and say that after about 30 years of reading and thinking, I totally agree with this statement. On the other hand, I’d write the following long (10,000 word) answer –
Space and time only exist in our experience. They are emergent properties, like wetness and mind. We experience wetness because it emerges from the building blocks of the hydrogen and oxygen atoms which make up water. We experience mind because it emerges from the building blocks of neurons (nerve cells) composing the brain. And we experience space-time since it emerges from the building blocks making up the universe. I’ll attempt to show that these units are a combination of electromagnetic pulses (forming a cosmic computer which includes randomness and thus the potential to escape rigid preprogramming, and have a free will) as well as lasers’ reference/object beams (forming a cosmic hologram). I’ll also try to show that this combination unifies general relativity, which describes gravity and the large-scale structure of the universe; with quantum physics, which describes tiny subatomic structures.
As Carlo Rovelli (a physicist at the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille, France) explains it, in quantum mechanics all particles of matter and energy can also be described as waves. And waves have an unusual property: An infinite number of them can exist in the same location. If time and space are one day shown to consist of quanta (individual units), the quanta could all exist piled together in a single dimensionless point. “Space and time in some sense melt in this picture,” says Rovelli. “There is no space anymore. There are just quanta kind of living on top of one another without being immersed in a space.” Rovelli has been working with one of the world’s leading mathematicians, Alain Connes of the College of France in Paris, on this notion. Together they have developed a framework to show how the thing we experience as time might emerge from a more fundamental, timeless reality.
Since my proposed computerised-holographic combo unifies everything on Earth, in the universe and throughout all time; consciousness is not limited to the mortal brain and body it originates in. We exist forever … and will be able to use future advances in our civilization to do whatever seeming miracles we aspire to, and to go where and when we choose within the unity of all space-time (as long as none of this harms others, of course).
Now for some paragraphs I wrote after reading “SPACE: The Slow-Motion Mission” in Time Australia magazine’s July 30, 2007 issue –
So the spacecraft "Dawn" is destined for the mysterious body orbiting the sun between Mars and Venus? Well, Earth is certainly mysterious!! Most people would see nothing more than a simple mistake here (you said "between Mars and Venus" but you meant "between Mars and Jupiter"). But I see the opportunity to contemplate what you describe as "an entire new era in space travel".
The real destinations are the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. Einstein´s theories, while not definitely stating that there is no separation between any two points in space or time, definitely imply this. In about 1980, these implications of Einstein´s Relativity theory were studied by the American John Dobson (creator of the "Dobsonian" telescope mount, co-founder of the Sidewalk Astronomers Organization). He coined the term "zero separation" to describe Relativity´s implications, but describing the universe as a Unified Field or Grand Unification would be just as accurate.
If there is zero separation between points in space, then Earth is actually in the same place as Vesta and Ceres and all other astronomical objects (a reality which our limited physical senses and astronomical instruments can never comprehend). And we really would see a new era in space travel! If there is zero separation between points in time, the spacecraft´s launch date of 2007 would be in the same "place" as the end-of-mission date of 2015. This means all times co-exist, and the end of anything or anyone would only exist to our limited senses and experiences. In reality, beginnings and endings have never existed in isolation. When we believe we’re experiencing one of these conditions, the opposite condition is occurring simultaneously (as is every state in between; and beyond).
How can every state of everyone and everything exist at once? Imagine the universe is the ultimate hologram. A tiny part of the universe, such as a card in your wallet or purse, can display a number of holographic images (each is revealed when light hits the card in the correct position). The universe’s programming is so sophisticated and powerful - I´m comparing the universe to a combination of computer and hologram technology - that every state of everything has its own image (which is accompanied by qualities called sound, electric charge, magnetism, gravity, mass, etc. etc.) Each image (and its companion properties) is revealed when our limited perceptions/experiences/instruments interact with an aspect of the universal programmed hologram.
Everyone who´s alive on Earth today is, simply by living their life, contributing to the civilisation that will exist on Earth centuries from now. That future civilisation will, in my opinion, be truly miraculous and unbelievably fantastic by today´s standards. Its doctors and scientists will give everyone perpetually-rewarding immortality in a youthful and healthy body, but with a mature mind that has no tendency towards lawlessness or war or selfishness. Every point in space and time will be easily accessed, and humankind really will achieve its wildest dreams. Please remember that the achievement of these dreams is grounded in our everyday reality. It comes about through the efforts of doctors, scientists and every person who is alive now or who ever lived anywhere.
The miracles of that future civilisation are by no means limited to the world of centuries from now. During the previous century, science has become more and more convinced that space-time is a Unified Field or Grand Unification. This began in earnest with the scientific theories of Albert Einstein and is probably best known today through physics´ Superstring Theory. At present, unified field theory cannot be proven. But the day will come when it is not only proven, but also wondrously manipulated and put to practical use.
On average, people have about 70 years on this planet contributing to the future. At death, they participate in the fantastic future they helped build. This is possible because space-time is a unification and places-times co-exist. What would happen if we were allowed to enjoy the future while still alive? We´d see that the future already exists and we´d decide there´s no reason to continue our efforts and our struggles. But without our efforts and struggles, that future could never be constructed. So there have been advantages to people of past times remaining ignorant of the co-existence of times while alive. The world is now gaining an understanding of unification - therefore, its journey towards putting unification to practical use has begun. It´s now time for people to begin understanding the true nature of reality and for them to comprehend that death is not their personal end. Every day throughout history and prehistory has been taking us a step closer to that goal – the last century’s development of Relativity, quantum physics, electronic computers, space travel, holography and the Internet are but a few of those steps. Death is only the end of the efforts and struggles people went through in the course of making their contribution to the miraculous future. It´s the beginning of their enjoyment of the things that future world offers.
Part of me is so jealous. I´m just so curious to know what the world will be like in 500 years, and a thousand years, and a million years, and so on. But it´s only like it is because we´re all doing our bit to make it so. So I´m more than happy to stay here and do my bit. I just re-read what I´ve written. I know I´ve been thinking about these things for a long time, but part of me is wondering how I wrote that. It´s interesting food for thought, isn´t it? It reminds me of these words from John Lennon´s song "Imagine" - "You may say I´m a dreamer, but I´m not the only one. I hope someday you´ll join us ... and the world will live as one".
One deduction from the idea that space-time is a unification and places-times coexist is: Everything always exists in the Universal Programmed Hologram, so every one and thing is even more intimately and eternally linked than we can imagine. (For this reason, I ask myself if I really wrote the book, or if I was merely looking for words to express ideas buried deep in the unconscious mind of everyone.) Also, great religious books are correct to teach "Thou shalt not kill" (when anyone tries to kill anyone else; they´re actually, but unknowingly, trying to kill themselves). It doesn´t matter which alphabet and exact words are used.
Nevertheless, we must always remember the bravery and sacrifices of those who struggled in this world before the present year. Different actions are appropriate at different times in our personal history e.g. going to school when a child, having children when an adult. In the same way, different things are appropriate at different times in world history. The past was a time for wars, the future is a time to refrain from war.
Sure, we appear different and separate, but our minds can overcome that illusion presented by our senses and experiences. Each of us lives in two worlds ... that of our everyday senses and that of the mysterious universal hologram. So our minds have a lot to do - we need to explore the wonders and miracles of the new holographic world, and also reconcile that with this old world, so it too will come to be full of wonders and miracles. And it´s a good thing that we live in 2 worlds. If we were restricted to the holographic world, we would pervade all existence. Nothing from what we think of as "out there" could stimulate our brain cells and make us conscious.* But like characters in a cosmic SIMS or SECOND LIFE game, we have individuality in our second world and brains that can become conscious of the first (holographic) world.
* If there´s a cosmic artificial intelligence, as I´ve suggested elsewhere, there would be calculations occurring eg the subroutines involved in the orbits of planets around stars. I´m sure these calculations would equal the firing and interconnecting of brains´ nerve cells - since this is a cosmic AI, it must infinitely exceed the consciousness and intelligence of any individual brain! But we´re being anthropocentric at the moment, and discussing the biological brains of individual organisms. Therefore, exploring all the space and time (and hyperspace) in existence appears to require either 1) transportation of the physical brain - along with its body - in a vehicle resembling Doctor Who´s TARDIS, 2) teleportation through space and time of the brain - and body - as nonphysical duplicates or backups of their physical counterparts, or 3) in a mental context, using the Unified Field to comprehend at least a few of the scientific discoveries of the distant future (thus letting our brains teleport our minds through space and time). These methods may seem like science fiction, but exploring the entirety of space-time appears impossible enough without being restricted to the total impossibility of using the physicality and technology we possess now, or will possess in the foreseeable future (eg our brains and bodies are vulnerable to radiation/muscle and bone loss/abnormal psychology/etc when travelling in space, and simply reaching nearby stars would take years).
Who wouldn’t love to believe the things we see in the “Star Trek” movies and TV programs are real? We could have warp speed, time travel, matter transporters, alien intelligences, a world without the worries of money, the creation of new planets, and so on. We’d have to move further ahead than the Star Trek years to find worldwide and universal peace, but I think all Trekkies (or Trekkers) would agree that Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and their friends are slowly groping towards peace.
Well, people tell me it’s the 21st century. That’s what my calendar says - but everywhere I look, people are behaving as if it’s still the 20th century. Maybe they’ll catch up to the calendar in 10 years. In the meantime, we’ll pretend a new age has dawned - and we’ll explore how the science of the early 1900s (represented by the theories of Albert Einstein and quantum physics) can be united with the entertainment of the late 1900s (represented by the phenomena of Doctor Who and Star Trek).
Amazingly; I read in a magazine about 10 years ago that Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek’s creator) received information from an extraterrestrial civilization about the fantastic possibilities in the show. He then took these and created his inspiring, futuristic program. At the time, I thought this was nothing more than an interesting magazine article. It sounded like science fiction then, and it still sounds like sci-fi. But at the same time, I’m willing to believe he really did experience some kind of vision - something that suggests Star Trek deserves serious thought, and is more than the product of a wonderfully creative imagination.
Do you remember the episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” where a woman from a comparatively primitive planet was transported aboard the spaceship Enterprise, and was overwhelmed by the sight of her world shining among the stars? Captain Picard explained that he and his crew don’t regard the woman and her kind as inferior. They are respected for who they are - people whose civilization just happens to be very young compared to that of Picard and his crew. In time, the woman’s civilization will learn, and be able to do all the things that presently cause her to think of Picard as a god.
The concept of God intrigues me because I believe it´s related to the nature of the universe. I believe everything in space and time is connected by infinitesimal pulses of energy that are many millions of times smaller than anything that even the most powerful microscopes can reveal (this is similar to the way everything on a computer screen is connected by pulses of electricity, and spacetime’s energy pulses are the basic units constituting the motions or currents within what physicists call “heterotic superstring theory”). Maybe the "sea of energy" in the universe causes those qualities which churchgoers say are God´s. These are qualities like being everywhere in space-time (as well as outside space-time, in what I´ve referred to elsewhere as hyperspace), having unlimited power and knowing everything (the universe would be filled with something similar to advanced computers´ Artificial Intelligence). This is one explanation of God (it agrees with the Bible and Koran that there is only one God). A second one – it approaches the subject from a different angle but agrees there is only One - is that I´m certain humans will eventually be capable of creating universes, using presently-incomprehensible mental abilities, and genetically engineering themselves/travelling anywhere in space or time to establish colonies on other planets in the present, past and future. Maybe this 2nd explanation is a description of the word "Elohim" (a name used in the Old Testament for God) ... Elohim means the "plural majesty of the one God". In a cosmic unification, all of humankind would be a plurality constituting one being - but we could not say humans are God because the rest of the universe is also included in this plurality or unification. Speaking of "us" and "others" is simply a matter of convenience coz in reality, everyone (and everything) springs from the one source - the software behind the universal and megauniversal hologram.
Mutations/randomness in the code behind the megauniversal Programmed Hologram permit a degree of free will. Since we can control our movements, this means we have influence over mutations and programming. It is not the muscles in our arms/legs which influence the Hologram Program, but the signals in our brains. So why can´t we ordinarily and effortlessly move external objects with our thoughts, disregarding distances in space or time? This could be answered by my belief that we all live in 2 worlds. The universe would actually be a unified field at the deepest level of reality ie from the perspective of the holographic world. But superficially (from the viewpoint of the world of space-time we know through our everyday thoughts and senses and experiences), we cannot disregard distances in space or time, and we need our legs and arms. "A New Earth and a New Universe" seeks to merely modify both Darwin´s theory of evolution and the concept of Intelligent Design, and show that these modifications enable the concepts to coexist. I believe all life (you, me, everyone) and everything shares the "common ancestor" of the intelligently-designed megauniversal hologram and mutations/randomness are essential for our development.
My book explains that there are actually no separate objects or events in space or time. So when we learn to apply the contents in our everyday, practical lives; we can be anywhere we want (even in the air or in space, as if we were flying). We´ll be able to move our bodies from A to B in practically no time, as if we had superspeed. Since the universe is a unification, we´ll be able to influence things in extraordinary ways, as if we had superstrength or heat vision. We´ll be able to preserve the structure and functions of our bodies forever by applying our minds to this cosmic unity and constantly, as well as instantly, returning them to a state of perfect health. This will have the same effect as fictional Superman´s invincibility. Zero separation between things in space-time means nothing will be undetectable by our senses: just as if we possessed superhearing, X-ray vision, microscopic vision or telescopic vision. I know all this is pure science fiction today, but in a thousand years you - yes, you - will be able to wear a red, blue and yellow costume (if you want to) while you run or fly faster than a speeding bullet, leap tall buildings in a single bound, and bend steel with your bare hands.
I recently read John Horgan´s article in the Oct. 2006 issue of Discover magazine ("The Final Frontier"). Even though the end of science feels impossible to me, I have to agree that "... there are nagging hints that most of what lies ahead involves filling in the blanks of today´s big scientific concepts, not uncovering totally new ones." Because the rebel in me can´t stand these nagging hints that "... science will never again yield revelations as monumental as evolution or quantum mechanics", I´ve devoted the last few decades to exploring new scientific concepts based on what today´s science tells us, and seeming to form a consistent picture.
"THE MYSTERY OF CONSCIOUSNESS"
Added Feb. 6, 2007 -
Locating consciousness in the activity of the brain absolutely strangles the hope that we might survive the death of our bodies - unless time travel can be removed from the realm of fiction, and demonstrated to be scientifically valid in actuality. Compressing the known science into a few lines, I believe the theory leading to time-travel´s exhibition is:
Particles and the universe can be regarded as closed loops of electromagnetic energy. These could be called strings or superstrings or Mobius loops (a Mobius loop can be visualised as a strip of paper which is given a half-twist of 180 degrees before its ends are joined). Remember that the top, side and bottom of each loop each consist of a miniaturised, fractal version of electromagnetic pulses forming length, width and depth (a fractal is a geometric structure having an irregular or fragmented appearance which is of a similar character at all magnifications - the word "fractal" was coined in 1975 by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot). The 3 familiar dimensions of length, width and height along, for example, the top of a loop would have a 4th dimension (time) perpendicular to them (on the side of the twisted paper ... or electromagnetic loop). And there would also exist a 5th dimension called hyperspace, at right angles to the 4th and 180 degrees from the length/width/height along the loop´s top. The previous parts of this paragraph can be likened to astronomy´s picture of the 3+1 dimensions of space-time existing on the surface of a balloon which is expanding from an inner hyperspatial point (not in space-time) where the Big Bang occurred. These loops unite space and time into Einstein´s space-time, and the famous scientist Stephen Hawking says time can be thought of as another space dimension, so literal time travel is a possibility. With literal time travel, people who have long since died could have their minds downloaded into reproductions of their bodies (establishing colonies throughout space and time would prevent overpopulation).
Thus, individual consciousness is connected with space-time. If the connection is permanent, consciousness would no longer be restricted to finite brains and its link to everything in space-time would make it free of all limitations when we learn how to use that link. Unification of personal consciousness with space-time (and thus, everyone else) would also enable annihilation of the concept of "self" and "other".
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The TV program "Heroes" may only be intended as entertainment, but I´ll attempt to show that it anticipates the actual science that will be used in the far future to bend time and space in order to create humanity, Earth and the universe. Is this absolutely nutty? If I hadn´t been working on these ideas for more than 30 years, I´d say "But we already exist!" and throw them in the rubbish bin without reading any further. In fact, you may well throw out the baby with the bathwater, too ... But to use a phrase coined by U.S. astronomer John Dobson in about 1980 after he studied Relativity´s implications, there is "zero separation" between any 2 points in space-time. Therefore, my submission of this text is something your individual personalities would submit if you were in my shoes, and your interpretation of this submission (whatever it may be) is one I´d adopt if I were in your shoes. So I´ll type this, then say "Que sera sera ... what will be, will be".
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LET IT BE
If correct, IQGCC (a term I made up from "Integrated Quantum Gravity" + the "Combined Cycle" of Synthetic Biology and Excess CO2) clearly shows Earth will find a use for the extra carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by our factories and cars.
First, I´ll do my best to show that quantum mechanics (subatomic physics) can indeed be integrated or combined with Einstein´s Theories of Relativity (forming quantum gravity) to explain the Cosmos and aspects of it that are currently mysterious. Explaining the Universe is quite lengthy compared to the rest of this intro. So to avoid getting off the subject and making it appear that my intro´s actually about cosmology, I´ll ask you to please read “Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: the approach to a new beginning (coz it´s a step towards creation of, and new insight into, the universe)”.
Second, consider the remarkable achievements of genetic engineering and biotechnology during the last half-century. For some scientists, it´s no longer enough to move genes from one species to another, or to create animals or bacteria that secrete certain drugs or hormones. Now science is working on synthetic biology: things such as engineering many genes to work together, artificial DNA, creation of totally new amino acids and proteins and artificial life. What happens if we take these advances after centuries of development and combine them with the science-fiction-like technology of time travel? (Using present science, the above concludes time travel is really an undiscovered variation of space travel ... and therefore scientifically and technologically possible.) We could see science creating the ancestral forms of the plants, animals and even humans around us.
It´s easy to say things like "Scientists are playing God, and tampering with nature". But to use a phrase coined by astronomer John Dobson after he studied Relativity´s implications, there is "zero separation" between any points in space-time (so the thoughts and actions of any scientist are, in a way, also the thoughts and actions of you and me). In any case, none of us would be gods - the scientists, for example, would simply be using the built-in human drive to survive. If they didn´t perform their synthetic biology, they´d never exist (this is utter nonsense if we only think in terms of linear time, but repeated experimental verification of Einstein´s theories makes it clear that time is warped.)
This book leads to the realization that the word "light" does not refer only to visible light and the colours we see. In agreement with scientific tradition, "light" also refers to all forms of electromagnetic radiation - there is ultraviolet light, infrared light, light belonging to X-ray or radio wavelengths/frequencies ... But this book goes further. Since all space, time and hyperspace (the entire universe, and all the cosmoses making up the megauniverse) is a unification and is actually one thing; anything and everything can be regarded as light - even sound or matter.
The grooved structure of peacock feathers splits light in the same way as a diffraction grating, a tool invented by 19th-century physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer to discern the nature of sunlight. The skeleton of Venus´s flower-basket (a sponge, one of the simplest animals) directs light where it is needed, just like modern optical fibers. Morpho butterflies create color by selectively adding and deleting certain wavelengths of light. Physicists have only recently devised comparable materials, called photonic band-gap crystals; and are now exploring their use in phone switches, solar cells and antennas. No surprise, then, that some engineers are looking to the living world for the next generation of optic inspirations. (this paragraph is from DISCOVER science magazine´s article "Illuminated Life - Meet the true masters of optics: Animals that know a lot more about slicing, dicing, and twisting beams of light than we do" by George M. Whitesides, Portfolio by Felice Frankel (08.06.2005)
I believe advances in engineering and biology will enable humans, like the morpho butterfly, to selectively add and delete certain wavelengths of light. But anything and everything can be regarded as light (all electromagnetism, gravity, sound, matter, space, time, etc.) So the day will come when there are absolutely no limits to what a human can do! However, it is good to remember that we will never be gods or goddesses because the rest of the universe is also included in this plurality or unification. In the 1990s book "Mary´s Message to the World" by Annie Kirkwood, it is stated that the mother of Jesus says people will have new structures in their bodies in the future and these will give us new abilities. Could these structures be cells in the brain that act as photonic band-gap crystals, and selectively add and delete certain wavelengths of light? Photonic band-gap crystals would, of course, only deal with light in its photonic forms (energy forms such as electrical, visible light or radio). The band-gap structures I have in mind would need to deal with forms like matter, so they could add or delete anything and everything we choose. This ability must only come to fruition in a future, ideal society: it would only be wasted and abused in the present warring and selfish world! They might accomplish this by acting similarly to a modem, and digitising matter - then by emulating computers´ copy/paste function to add things; as well as their delete function, to remove things. One result of the universe being a unified field is that you and I don´t have to wait for this incredibly great future to eventuate. It already exists, and it is possible for our brains to access that future.
Third, let´s return to the excess carbon dioxide. Proposals to sequester (store) CO2 include placing it in old oil or gas fields, in old mines or beneath the sea floor. When viewed from the lifetime of our planet, these measures can only be temporary and ineffective, because of the geologic upheavals which inevitably affect all parts of the world over the course of many millions of years. It would be far better to store the carbon dioxide by splitting it into carbon and oxygen, then sequestering these elements in produced lifeforms (who are, after all, carbon-based and also largely composed of oxygen) as well as in the created Earth (both oxygen and carbon are present in it).
I´ve often said or thought that mankind´s belief in human-induced climate change exaggerates our own importance. Now I´m convinced our future selves created themselves, this planet and the universe (all this could be considered important :-) ... Que sera sera - Whatever will be, will be ...
Carbon dioxide has an association with hydrogen, too. Not only do Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (so-called "clean coal") power plants reduce CO2 emissions and produce hydrogen for burning as fuel or for use in fuel cells (to generate electricity), but hydrogen makes up approx. 75% of the universe. This association further suggests that there is zero separation between the 21st century´s excess CO2 and creation of humans, Earth, the Moon and the Universe.
Though I´m personally obsessed with keeping my life and environment clean, tidy and orderly; an intuition tells me we should learn to accept the zero separation between Creation and the 21st century. Of course, there is actually no separation between any event or any century. But it would be wise to accept that the current state of atmospheric CO2 levels might not mean the world is approaching an ending. Rather, the world might be approaching a beginning.
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Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: the approach to a new beginning (coz it´s a step towards creation of, and new insight into, the universe) (March 5, 2007)
According to Dmitri Kharzeev of Brookhaven National Laboratory´s Physics Department in New York: "There are certain similarities between the "fireball" created at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (an extremely hot bit of matter smaller than an atomic nucleus) and a type of theoretical black hole - the same mathematical methods can be applied to analyzing both."
The mini black holes proposed by physicist Stephen Hawking in 1974 appear to be theoretical black holes sharing similarities with the "fireball". There is an explanation of the universe which embraces these black holes and the 3 "subuniverses" which could exist in our cosmos according to mathematical equations developed by Albert Einstein in 1917.
According to the 1973 book ALBERT EINSTEIN: CREATOR AND REBEL by physicist Banesh Hoffman and Einstein´s secretary Helen Dukas, mathematical equations developed by Einstein in 1917 say a maximum of 3 “subuniverses” could exist in our cosmos: here, I´ll refer to them as SPACE (embracing the 3 dimensions of length, width and height), TIME (the 4th dimension) and HYPERSPACE (the 5th dimension). Transmission holograms are made on a photographic plate or film by interference between the 2 parts of a split laser beam - by analogy, one part of a split laser beam could, in the far future, compress a tiny quantity of matter in the 5th spatial dimension to the required temperature and pressure of a big bang (this portion would be the reference beam and would produce one of Hawking´s mini black holes).
To seemingly change the subject for a moment: Quantum mechanics, Einstein´s Relativity, theories of universal holograms and cosmic computers, plus the idea in eastern religions that reality is illusion together convince me there are actually no solid or separate objects or events in space or time. In particular, I´m convinced by Relativity´s E=mc2 (Energy = Mass times light´s velocity squared) and quantum theory´s Wave-Particle Duality, as well as what quantum mechanics says about subatomic particles communicating instantaneously across the universe or experiencing the whole universe in their existence.
The last two phenomena could be understood by stating that any particle has the same properties as the universe as a whole (unconventional US cosmologist Max Tegmark says "You are made up of quantum particles, so if they can be in two places at once, so can you." We can say "The universe is made up of quantum particles, so if they can be in two places at once, so can the universe." There need not be any such thing as parallel universes, however. The universe's being in two places simultaneously could mean it's in the same space-place as any or all of its particles. It could also be in the same time-place as any or all of its earlier or later selves because there can be be no space without time). Jack Harris, an Applied Physicist at Yale University says quantum mechanics describes a crazy microscopic world where particles whiz around at blistering speeds and routinely violate the classical laws of physics we take for granted. Jack Harris’s goal is to take advantage of the “really strange, even mystical” laws of the microscopic and apply them to problems in our macroscopic world. “The ultimate eureka moment would be to suddenly realize that a [macroscopic] object is doing something that is absolutely forbidden by classical physics,” he says. If we look closely at the universe by not restricting it to the classical physics which preceded the quantum principle, we can comprehend how the macroscopic universe could behave quantum mechanically and violate classical physics. It´s easy to imagine all parts of the universe being in contact (and thus forming a unification) when that universe was the size of a subatomic particle, nearly 14 billion years ago. Since the universe still has the same properties as a particle (and particles obey quantum mechanics' wave-particle duality), it is still a unification (and a unified field). In 1980 or the late 1970s, American astronomer Carl Sagan (1934-1996) wrote these lines for his award-winning television series and accompanying book, “Cosmos”: “There is an idea – strange, haunting, evocative – one of the most exquisite conjectures in science or religion. It is entirely undemonstrated; it may never be proved. But it stirs the blood. There is, we are told, an infinite hierarchy of universes, so that an elementary particle, such as an electron, in our universe would, if penetrated, reveal itself to be an entire closed universe.” Well, this book doesn’t support the idea of a hierarchy of universes. I believe there is one static megauniverse (one Cosmos) existing forever and made up of an infinite number of expanding subuniverses (more about this later). But I do believe – it stirs my blood! – in the “exquisite conjectures” of the universe (and the infinite Cosmos) behaving like an elementary particle, and of these two combining to form one unified field.
Another way of viewing this fact is to think of particles and the local universe as closed loops of electromagnetic energy. These could be called strings or superstrings or Mobius loops (a Mobius loop can be visualised as a strip of paper which is given a half-twist of 180 degrees before its ends are joined). Remember that the top, side and bottom of each loop each consist of a miniaturised, fractal version of electromagnetic pulses forming length, width and depth (a fractal is a geometric structure having an irregular or fragmented appearance which is of a similar character at all magnifications - the word "fractal" was coined in 1975 by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot). The 3 familiar dimensions of length, width and height along, for example, the top of a loop would have a 4th dimension (time) perpendicular to them (on the side of the twisted paper ... or electromagnetic loop). And there would also exist a 5th dimension called hyperspace, at right angles to the 4th and 180 degrees from the length/width/height along the loop´s top. The previous parts of this paragraph can be likened to astronomy´s picture of the 3+1 dimensions of space-time existing on the surface of a balloon which is expanding from an inner hyperspatial point (not in space-time) where the Big Bang occurred. So I didn´t really change the subject much a minute ago, but am still discussing mini black holes. Electromagnetic pulses would continuously circulate from each of the 3 familiar dimensions through the 4th and 5th, and back to the 3; producing a unification. This circulation means any particle interferes with itself. The circulating pulses unite the 3 dimensions of space with the 4th dimension of time ie today´s vastly expanded universe is united with the highly compressed, subatomic-sized universe of the past; as well as with the 5th dimension of our universe´s space-time generating Big Bang.
A 3rd way to understand the unity of the universe (How do I unite thee? Let me count the ways...) is by reading Bob Berman´s "Sky Lights" in the July 2006 edition of "Discover" science magazine -
"... physicists predict that the singularity at the heart of a black hole has (zero volume)."
"... since locations in (space) are relative", the position of the singularity is not absolute in reality. This contradicts experiment and observation, which maintain that position of objects is certain. Therefore, observation and experiment would be less dependable guides to how the universe works than the power of the mind using those methods (by building on the discoveries of observations and experiments, the mind´s power
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reveals the long-sought unified universe). Relative location in space also means the atoms making up the heart of a person do not occupy definite positions but can coexist with the singularity and have zero volume. "... since locations in (time) are relative", a person´s heart does not possess zero volume at just time A or time B, but always. We can adapt the quantum mechanical thought experiment known as Schrodinger´s Cat in which the cat exists and does not exist at the same time. In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single, definite result for an observation. Instead, it assigns a probability to each outcome as in, for example, the quantum mechanical thought experiment known as Schrodinger´s Cat in which the cat exists and does not exist at the same time (a hammer which might or might not be triggered by a source of radioactivity to break a bottle of poisonous gas both kills and doesn´t kill the cat - and all these things are placed in an airtight box). This adaptation says Schrodinger´s Heart beats and does not beat at the same time. Since black holes and people share this zero-volume property (as would everything in space-time), we can think of the universe as a unification, or as an integration of relativistic space-time and quantum physics.
And a 4th way – “There is a powerful statement in mathematical topology known as the fixed-point theorem. The fixed-point theorem, which was proved before World War 1 by the Dutch mathematician Luitzen Egbertus van Brouwer, states that when a surface is subjected to certain forms of continuous distortion, at least one point of the surface will remain fixed, or stationary. Put in this dry, abstract way; the theorem may not seem remarkable, but it has many impressive consequences for the physical world. The fixed-point theorem … applies to the human head and other spheres, such as the Earth. It states that mathematically, a sphere cannot be associated with a continuous field of radiating lines without there being a fixed point. For a head of hair this means that there must be a fixed point, or whorl, from which the hair radiates. For the Earth this means that the wind cannot be blowing everywhere on the surface at once; there is always a tranquil spot.” (from Dr. Crypton’s Puzzles and Mind-Teasers: Omega Science Digest, March 1983)
If space-time is closed (positively curved like a sphere), the fixed-point theorem must apply to it also. Then one point in space-time could not be anything like the rest of space-time *. We know a certain length of time elapses when proceeding any distance through space, whether this refers to a walk down the street or a flight to some distant star system – but at this particular spot, the laws of physics could well indicate just the opposite. Similarly, we can’t normally visit the past or future – yet in this spot, time travel may be perfectly normal and practical.
* I believe this point might correspond to John Dobson’s Underlying Existence; the spaceless and timeless reality of Carlo Rovelli/Alain Connes/Julian Barbour; and the One Unchanging Being of Parmenides/Zeno. As well, it may produce the Technological Singularity (best known by Ray Kurzweil’s book “The Singularity is Near”) - this is a theorized era in which our intelligence will become increasingly nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful than it is today. We will be able to absorb and retain the entirety of the universe’s knowledge and machines will become vastly superior to humans in every way i.e. we’ll see the emergence of true artificial intelligence.
The fixed-point of space-time might also correspond to the Omega Point (the state of infinite informational capacity leading us to a new state of peace and planetary unity, and identified as being God) conceived of by French philosopher, scientist and priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) and addressed by Professor Frank Tipler; as well as my 5th-dimensional computer code creating the universal unification and zero separation of our computer-generated hologram. When I use the word universe in this book, I do so flexibly and could be referring to several things: 1) the megauniverse (Cosmos), 2) our local universe, or even 3) the megauniverse behaving like a subatomic particle. All these things are explained within the book but for now, we only have to remember that the universe’s zero-separation unification with the variety of geometric shapes existing makes it flexible. If you’re seriously into measurement, definition and categorization; this malleability and plasticity has the potential to seriously confuse you – in one year, the universe will appear closed and positively curved like a sphere; in another year, it will seem to be open and negatively curved (resembling a saddle); yet another year, some space probe’s results may convince you that it’s flat and light travels in straight lines. As I’ll write shortly, “Just like a paper Mobius strip, the shape of particles and the universe itself would be extremely flexible – causing indeterminate, ambiguous results in measurements. (A paper Mobius can, for example, resemble a triangular or square shape at various times; and its side and bottom may or may not be precisely 90 and 180 degrees from its top.)” Trying to use reason and weighing the evidence (e.g. Relativity’s curved space-time, telescopic and satellite observations showing galactic clusters and voids in huge bubble-shaped formations, Mobius loops and fractal geometry) convinces me that the megauniverse/local universe is positively curved in the sense of being built up of bubble shapes. The local universe could be built up of bubble shapes – like rounded atoms and cells; whose “ultimate, spaceless and timeless, reality” or “Underlying Existence” may be to be constructed of strings of ones and zeros in a 5th dimension – and even possess an overall positive curvature. But the megauniverse could not have positive, spherical curvature since it’s infinite and could have nothing existing outside its fanciful sphere (not even empty space), though it could be composed of bubble-shaped local universes.
(Every individual except Teilhard receives additional info elsewhere in this book.)
Now to return to lasers. I previously spoke of the reference beam - the other part (the object beam) would scan or read all the data in a universe … perhaps by first being transmitted through the 4th spatial dimension so it could focus on that entire universe when it was only the size of a subatomic particle. The reference and object beams then come to a focus - forming an interference pattern which creates a universe that obeys Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion (for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction) and rebounds/expands from the compression caused by the futuristic reference laser (the compressed matter corresponding to the material plate/film in conventional holography). In an earthly hologram, the interference pattern does not look like a photograph until light hits it in the correct position. In a cosmic hologram, the interference pattern would merely be a dark cosmos evolving from a big bang until it was illuminated by another laser beam (from the generation of another big bang - please see the next paragraph). Then it would become a number of "images" including every possible frequency of electromagnetism, and thanks to wave/particle duality, matter waves and gravitational waves.
Expansion must initially be of an exponential, inflationary velocity because this reaction is in response to the action of light´s velocity (the greatest in the universe). Then matter formed and gravity slowed expansion of the universe. If our civilization oneday becomes advanced (and wise) enough to create the big bang that produces our universe, it is inevitable that we would continue to use this talent for making cosmic fireworks, and that other civilizations would also produce big bangs. In December 1979, the American physicist Alan Guth came up with the idea of an inflationary universe in which the universe (local, not mega-, according to this book) initially expanded much faster than it does today. He speculates that the artificial creation of a black hole through application of advanced technology could create another universe and once said, “For all we know, our own universe may have started in someone’s basement.” I cannot provide direct proof that ideas of creating universes and regions of space-time are correct. I can only point out that universal expansion would once more accelerate after gravity slowed it if more big-bang-generating laser energy is introduced to the infinite (in time as well as space) spectrum of universes.* The latest research shows that our universe is indeed undergoing accelerating expansion - this research is the result of 1998 observations of the redshift (shifting of an object’s light towards the less-energetic red end of the electromagnetic spectrum by the object’s approaching or receding motion) of Type 1a Supernovas (a type of stellar explosion) carried out by the High-z Supernova Search Team and the Supernova Cosmology Project, and has been confirmed several times. It attributes acceleration to unknown "dark energy" instead of successive Big Bangs. Each and every universe in our megauniverse must possess the same laws of nature since production of each one depends on compressing a quantity of matter already in existence, and universes would receive an entropy-defeating influx of energy which would prevent their thermodynamic deaths.
The concept of "dark matter" would be used today to explain the increased gravitational effects caused by undetectable matter. But that undetectable matter would not be a new, unknown form of matter - it would be known particles travelling through the 4th and 5th dimensions (and therefore nonexistent in the 3 dimensions of ordinary space). While in these other dimensions, the particles known as dark matter are invisible ... but would of course still exert gravitational influence. (Physics´ string theory states this by saying "Gravity may not be confined to 3 dimensions.") If particles circulated within the universe in a simple circle, they would spend almost as much time being visible as invisible. But the circulation of electromagnetic pulses following a Mobius-shaped path in a particle would be an example of fractals (phenomena repeated on ever-decreasing scales). So particles follow a Mobius-shaped path in universes (our universe is Mobius-shaped), and they could easily spend between 10 and 25 times longer being invisible than visible. In this case, only 4% to 10% of the universe´s content could be ordinary, non-dark matter (as NASA´s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe revealed a few years ago). Just like a paper Mobius strip, the shape of particles and the universe itself would be extremely flexible – causing indeterminate, ambiguous results in measurements. (A paper Mobius can, for example, resemble a triangular or square shape at various times; and its side and bottom may or may not be precisely 90 and 180 degrees from its top.)
* The "creation" of universes by means of computer-generated holography doesn’t involve extraordinarily high temperatures and pressures if lasers aren’t used, in which case it could be called the Cold Fusion approach to cosmogenesis (this is The Real Thing in production of universes). Each universe arises from a big bang, but the megauniverse they belong to has no beginning (thanks to time-travelling cosmogenesists) and no end (thanks to energy influxes from later big bangs which "create" other regions of space-time). And it maintains its average density through continuous "creation" (actually, recycling) of matter via the small amount from a preceding universe which is used to initiate expansion of its successor. This steady-state, or static, megauniverse would have its tendency to collapse (from, according to the viewpoint that only one time exists at any instant, ever-increasing gravitational attraction) always exactly balanced by, again from the viewpoint that all times cannot exist at once, the ever-increasing expansion of the universes it contains. The notion that contained universes that are forever expanding would somehow "burst" a static, steady-state megauniverse mistakenly assumes the megauniverse possesses a finite size; and it also reverts to our everyday experience that only one time exists at any instant (forgetting that all times exist and the megauniverse therefore accommodates not just some, but all, extents of expansion). Also: the megauniverse can be static even though it´s composed of expanding universes because of its literally infinite size which results from cosmogenesists being able to access unlimited points in both space and time. People can be resurrected long after death then use time travel to be alive long before birth - similarly, universe producers can journey to points existing before origin of the particular universe they live in. Since the megauniverse is infinite, there´s always a place and time for them to go to - we need to abandon our purely linear or serial concept of time which says universe B can only come into existence after universe A´s origin, and embrace a holistic or whole-istic concept where universes B and A (and all others) coexist. The quantum mechanical thought experiment known as Schrodinger´s Cat in which the cat exists and does not exist at the same time helps us understand "life before birth" and "later universes preceding earlier ones". To look ahead a few paragraphs, we can regard the cosmic hologram and the megauniverse as examples of invariance (the quality of not changing) and the hologram´s relativistic property of appearing different from differing vantage points as represented by the expanding universes with their big bangs.
Since lasers can be used to create other universes, the above is occurring inside a cosmic hologram, which is a single frame. All forms of motion can therefore be compared to successive frames, or many images, existing on a single holographic plate or film. This applies to orbits of stars and planets, electromagnetic currents within subatomic particles, instant communication between particles that are light-years apart ... and so on.
But what about the movements people and animals make? What about free will? Answering these questions seems to require thinking of the universe as not only a cosmic hologram, but also as a cosmic computer. We must also remember that this cosmic computer does not merely mean programming, but it means programming that includes randomness (we might also refer to “randomness” as “mutations”). [Randomness is introduced into the chain of repetitive calculations producing the image of a mountain range so a convincingly rugged image will result.]
Using this model, we can regard orbits, currents and instant communication as subroutines in the cosmic programming. Every little voluntary movement, however, is not an unalterable thing pre-programmed into our lives. Randomness means we have a degree of free will (since we can control our movements, we can influence mutations and programming). To extend Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, mutations do not necessarily mean we possess a common ancestor with apes - mutations or randomness would be essential for every form of life, matter and energy to come into existence.
Something which concerns me is the use of the clause “… the medium in which a wave travels …” (a relevant concern since we're talking about cosmic holograms and light waves travelling in space). I am not going back to a time before the Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 which showed light waves do not travel through space in something called the ether. My use of “medium” does not refer to any known or unknown substance, but to space as the means or agency by which a wave gets from point A to point B (as we saw before, referring to the travelling - or speed - of light is nothing more than a convenient way of speaking: its apparent speed is actually a matter of subroutines or successive frames in a unified hologram which appears different from differing viewpoints).
Dennis Gabor proposed the theory of holography in 1947, but it only became practicable with the invention of the laser in 1960. So if your name was Albert Einstein and you were thinking about these things about 100 years ago, you´d be tempted to call your theory the Theory of Invariance (after light´s [or the cosmic hologram´s] unchanging properties - Einstein was referring to light's constant velocity in a vacuum), and the quality of holograms appearing different from differing viewpoints would become known as Relativity. Einstein did, in fact, originally favour the term "invariance". If the things I’ve written are correct, Relativity and quantum mechanics would have done the right thing in convincing me there are actually no solid or separate objects or events in space or time.
We have seen how mathematical equations developed by Einstein in 1917 say a maximum of 3 “subuniverses” could exist in our cosmos: here, I´ve referred to them as SPACE (embracing the 3 dimensions of length, width and height), TIME (the 4th dimension) and HYPERSPACE (the 5th dimension). Can the zero separation proposed by John Dobson (creator of the "Dobsonian" telescope mount, co-founder of the Sidewalk Astronomers Organization) be regarded as a 6th dimension?
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Teleporting to Stargate (the Ides of March, 2007)
In "Discover" magazine´s Jan. 2007 issue (called "Top 100 Science Stories of 2006"), I was excited by #16 - "Quantum Teleportation Leaps Toward Reality" - and mentally merged it with a short article I wrote several years ago: "Gates > sGate > SGATE > STARGATE" (> means "to").
Quantum teleportation is the process of making a subatomic particle´s physical state vanish from one place and appear in another. It´s possible because of a bizarre phenomenon known as entanglement, which allows particles to share information even if they are physically separated. This phenomenon is so odd that Albert Einstein uncomfortably referred to it as “spooky action at a distance.” Eugene Polzik and his colleagues at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, in collaboration with Ignacio Cirac of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany, entangled a light beam with a magnetized gas of cesium atoms. "For the first time," Polzik says, quantum teleportation "has been achieved between light—the carrier of information—and atoms." This was also the first time that it was done with a macroscopic atomic object acting as the target, instead of teleporting occurring between pairs of photons or pairs of atoms. But a superfast quantum computer, Polzik notes, requires the transfer of information between a data stream like light and a stored quantum state (such as the atoms in the computer´s hard drive).
I´m excited coz quantum teleportation seems to be the beginning of research that is a method for bringing to fruition my dream of the "emailing" of matter. (Perhaps information can be transferred from the atoms of the original object to light then to atoms which will be reconstructed into a duplicate. However it´s done, this form of futuristic email has other consequences, too - please see my full article below for a sample.)
Gates > sGate > SGATE > STARGATE
This article starts with Bill Gates, the co-founder (with Paul Allen) of the software corporation Microsoft. This is because part of the inspiration for writing this was a comment I read in a magazine about Bill Gates being the world‘s richest man. It ends with the human race‘s own technology causing it to transcend money and develop a society akin to paradise on Earth - i.e. we enter a doorway to a new world . . . a Stargate.
E=mc2 (Albert Einstein‘s formula unifying energy [E] with mass [m] and relating both to the velocity of light squared [c2] ) makes a person suspect the apparently solid world of matter is really an illusion, and you and I are actually made of insubstantial energy. Superstring theory, which rose to the forefront of physics during the 1980s, proposed that the fundamental constituents of nature are not particles but one-dimensional structures called strings. This heightens previous suspicions, and we wonder if the one-dimensional structures are in fact pulses of energy. Then along comes “TIME Australia” magazine‘s Feb. 26, 1996 article “What‘s Hiding in the Quarks?” (which says subatomic particles seem to be made of even tinier things). Finally, we might feel justified in assuming our suspicions were correct and that these “even tinier things” MUST be pulses of electromagnetic energy (meaning all substances are indeed insubstantial).
All forms of electromagnetic energy (radio, microwave, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-ray, gamma) travel as waves. How do we create an analog structure like a wave from a digital structure like a pulse? By adding the necessary number of pulses to the medium in which a wave travels to form the wave‘s amplitude (height) and wavelength (distance from crest to crest). How could we create matter from waves? By superimposing waves of visible, gravitational*, magnetic, electrical, etc. frequencies into holograms (near the end of the ‘80s, the magazine “Scientific American” reported that holograms have been made not only with visible light and X-rays, but also with microwaves and sound waves).
* Einstein predicted the existence of gravity waves but they haven't been discovered yet.
If this article is correct, pulses are the basis of both waves and matter. Therefore, matter and energy would be digital in nature. Can this be extended, via superstrings, to space itself as well as to time (what Einstein called the 4th dimension - what I‘ll term “subspace”, since I‘m a fan of science fiction)? In 1917, Einstein calculated that 3 universes could exist in the cosmos: can superstrings extend the digital cosmos into a 5th dimension (let‘s call it hyperspace)? Assuming we live in a digital cosmos, we are reminded of that other digital entity called the computer - and must wonder if all those pulses of energy result in a cosmic artificial-intelligence that is all-powerful and present not just everywhere in space and time, but also “outside the universe” i.e. in hyperspace. The existence of such a “cosmic computer” would imply that both living and nonliving matter may be altered by programming, when people learn how to do this. Invasive procedures such as surgery would become obsolete.
The waves of energy which holographically compose matter could be digitised and transmitted over the Internet - and the receiver‘s computer could be equipped with sensors to decode the mix of frequencies, as well as an assembler that reproduces this mix and radiates it to create products indistinguishable in any way from the original product (the frequency mix could also be electronically recorded). The difference between life and nonlife appears to be merely one of complexity. So after inanimate objects and parcels have been successfully e-mailed, more advanced software will be developed and allow things like fruit and vegetables, or living animal/human tissues, to be transmitted (or transported) between places (i.e. in space) and between times (the famous scientist Stephen Hawking states that time can be thought of as another spatial dimension and that time travel is a theoretical possibility - I believe it will be navigated in the future just as ordinary space is today).
This advanced software could also be used to genetically engineer people whose genes have been disassembled into subatomic, electromagnetic pulses and manipulated by computers. An opportunity to possess an eternally youthful body and a brain free of criminal tendencies may therefore exist. When we develop this electronic hardware and software, and also acquire the science-fiction-like technology of time travel, everyone who has long since died could have their minds downloaded into reproductions of their bodies and be resurrected (establishing colonies throughout space and time would prevent overpopulation).
These colonies throughout space and time would be composed of what we'd call aliens or extraterrestrials. I may be wrong but I think they'd be our descendants (our descendants could only exist before us if time is not exclusively linear) and would basically think the way we do. I’ve heard it said that angels rejoiced at the creation of the Earth. I don’t think this necessarily has a religious meaning. I suspect it indicates a deep-seated belief in every mind, ancient or modern, that Earth really is important … that we’re not just an insignificant rock orbiting an average star. Maybe life on Earth is the starting point for development of the magnificent Universe this book speaks of … and for extraterrestrial life that descends from us, wherever and whenever it may be found. Since they might be "separated" from Earth of 2009 by billions of light years and could also be billions of years in either our past or future, they might see our present global financial crisis differently from us and might view it this way:
“Until the 1920s, money was backed by gold in many countries (the gold standard): a pound note or dollar bill could be exchanged for a given amount of gold (hence such words on banknotes as ‘promise to pay’) and the amount of money issued by banks was related to the amount of gold held. The first bank notes issued in Europe were by the Bank of Stockholm in 1661. In the absence of general confidence that it will persist, the gold standard loses its advantages eg if it is regarded as permanent it gives almost fixed exchange rates, which facilitates international trade and credit (its disadvantages then assume control – it deprives countries of control of their own monetary policy; and makes the world money-supply depend on the rate of gold discoveries). It seems unlikely that the gold standard will ever be restored. Money is now increasingly not in tangible form, but consists of balances in accounts at banks, exchange being by means of cheques, credit-cards or charge-cards, and by credit-transfer, where one account is reduced (debited) and another increased (credited) by the same amount electronically. Modern systems are reducing the dependence on cash, hence the emergence of the phrase, the ‘cashless society’.”
(from Penguin Encyclopedia, 2006 – “money” and “gold standard” articles)
The worldwide economic crisis has the potential for many political benefits, since cooperation will be the only way to maintain and improve our living standard if monetary systems fail. The crisis would encourage domestic and international peace and sharing - perhaps even paradise on earth ...
The present global financial crisis may indicate that the world we live in today has lost stability and is on the brink of changing. Therefore, this "crisis" might be necessary to awaken us to the potential of tomorrow. Just because money has been making the world go round for thousands of years doesn't mean money will be the way of the world forever. We should start looking for an alternative system to preserve, and increase, standards of living now in case we need it tomorrow (I imagine politicians are the ones with the resources and organizational ability needed to implement such a system). This scheme should not use any form of monetary organisation nor be based on gold, silver etc. It should, idealistic and naive as it appears at first, be based on mutual cooperation and the goal of ushering in a paradise on earth. We can say there can never be paradise on earth; but the human instinct to survive is much stronger than our tendency for other types of self-interest, and greed, and to not cooperate with each other. If money ceases to be an option; most people will gladly cooperate with those we would have previously regarded as competition, or even as an enemy, if it's the only way to maintain and improve our living standard.
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* added on December 11-13, 2007
Matter could be digitised i.e. disassembled into the incredibly tiny pulses of energy
constituting it, without any possibility of splitting atoms and causing a destructive
nuclear explosion. It could be sampled (analysed) at, say, 10 exponent 40 (1 followed
by 40 zeros) points. This scale would permit all subatomic particles to be sampled
many times (billions if the object was small enough), enabling a comprehensive and
detailed computer model of the matter to be constructed. It would be indistinguishable
from the original matter in all respects. Such technology is only a dream today ... but
the power of computers is estimated to double about every 2 years. If this rate
continues, the machine I´m writing with will be well over a billion times more powerful
in 60 years. And this is only an everyday desktop - imagine what a worldwide (or truly
astronomical) network of specialized supercomputers will be able to sample in the year
2070 (and beyond).
"Quantum teleportation is the process of making an object´s physical state vanish from
one place and appear in another." (see the beginning of "Teleporting to Stargate")
Deconstructing the original object the old fashioned way might require atom-splitting
and nuclear reactions. But if we use the quantum teleportation advances of the late
21st or early 22nd century, simply measuring the state of one automatically determines
the state of the other regardless of how far apart they are, because the two objects are
entangled. Since the original object has already been sampled and is now entangled, I
believe the original has been deconstructed (digitised) nonexplosively.
Of course; if we digitised every living and nonliving thing, every speck of dust, every
atom of gas, and so on, in the universe; we could create a computer model of
the universe. How do we put this to practical use and gain access to every little thing
that exists at any time anywhere in the whole universe (whole megauniverse, actually)?
We can always access everything (unify the universe) by digitising the motions of
photons (quanta of light energy) of the lasers which this page hypothesizes are used to
create universes (since we´re present at the creation of everything). Everything was
accessed and digitised in our universe – our local section of the eternal and infinite
megauniverse – 13.7 billion years ago at the time of the Big Bang. But this ONLY
occurred because, centuries from now, we’re going to travel to that time.
We won’t need to sample, entangle and teleport in order to digitise. The entire
universe can be digitised through use of the lasers and programming. Multiple images
can be stored holographically today – the universe’s storage of images of each living or
nonliving thing would be limitless by comparison. As a result of cosmic digitisation,
you and I and all things are digital entities (actually, we’re seemingly separate parts of
ONE holographic/digital entity). If we grew up from birth with this knowledge, so-
called supernatural miracles would be a routine part of everyday life, and we’d be
astonished by the fact we appear to live in a world of separated, solid beings and
objects. An email or webpage looks like something solid, doesn’t it? Especially if you
print it. But it starts out as just a lot of 1s and 0s (the presence or absence of electric
pulses), and then a lot of pixels (the tiny units making up the picture on your screen) -
perhaps the discovery of cells and atoms is only a precursor to the discovery of the
digital nature of Nature. Not only does this computerised/holographic combination
give a new view of relativity, quantum theory, the big bang and steady state theories,
free will, and heaps of other subjects - but it´s the coolest photonic or quantum
computer we can ever hope to build!
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Nothing Equals Everything (written September 6, 2007)
Albert Einstein first announced his Unified Field Theory in 1929, and continued
working on it until his death in 1955. In it, he aimed at combining gravitational and
electromagnetic equations in a single theory. Is it possible that mathematical proof of
the unified field originated with Filippo Brunelleschi (1377?-1446), the Italian architect
who conceived of the vanishing point, the place where parallel lines converge. This
allowed the development of perspective in art.
The theory of everything - a hypothesised theory which would combine all four forces
(gravitation, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force) in one set of equations – is also a matter of perspective. We know parallel lines never
actually converge – but if we open our eyes and look in the right places, they do e.g.
the 2 lines of a railway track seem to meet in the distance. Similarly, division by zero is
accepted to be mathematically impossible. But we can regard division by zero as
division by nothing i.e. division that has no effect. In this case, 1 divided by 0 is 1.
But to a physicist there is no such thing as nothing, and even nothing has weight.
Therefore, zero is not nothing but is something. We live in one universe of space-time.
Whatever we divide it by (zero, one, two, infinity), the universe cannot be reduced
because any “something” (in this case, any number) is equivalent to zero and dividing 1
by 0 is either impossible or results in 1. So we’ll still live in one universe of space-time
i.e. in a unification … a unified field embracing the theory of everything. But
perspective can tell us otherwise. If we use our current understanding of cosmology
and mathematics (or our physical senses and scientific instruments, which function
according to that scientific and mathematical comprehension), dividing the universe by
infinity will result in endless separation. “A” will be here, “B” there, “C” will exist
now, “D” in the past or future, and so on.
So, to borrow the heading of this final part of “Part 1 Into Paper Walls”, nothing equals everything. Everything therefore equals nothing and, as I said near the start of Part 1 –
“Space is nothing. On one hand, I’d give my short answer and say that after about 30 years of reading and thinking, I totally agree with this statement. On the other hand, I’d write the following long (10,000 word) answer –”
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Part 2 Into Paper Walls
WHAT ARE MAGNETISM, GRAVITY, LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS?
After reading Bruno Maddox's article "Blinded by Science" in the May 2008 issue of the science magazine "Discover", I just can't resist writing down some ideas that flow on from Blinded by Science's article about the nature of magnetism. The beginning of this particular train of thought of mine could be said to lie with the deep fascination Albert Einstein felt when he was first shown a magnet as a child. Together with May 2008's Blinded by Science, this challenged me to find an acceptable answer to the question "What is Magnetism?" Naturally, I then started to ponder Einstein once more (this time in connection with his Theory of General Relativity and its statements about gravity). Einstein's theory never told us exactly what gravity is - and Isaac Newton, who discovered over 340 years ago that the same force which causes an apple to fall also keeps the Moon in orbit around Earth, didn't know what gravity was either. So once again I felt challenged, and I decided I'd try to find a plausible answer to the query "What is Gravity?" A few months after these events, I started reading Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". This latest incident prompted me to continue my "What is ..." questions (this time I wanted to know "What is the nature of Life and Consciousness?").
WHAT IS MAGNETISM?
If you read May’s Blinded by Science, you’ll notice that the rest of this paragraph borrows virtually every word from that article – I thought this would make a fun introduction to my ideas on "What is Magnetism?" Here are a few words from one of Mr. Maddox's fellow "Dummies" who no longer has a seat at the dinner table for science (so my words are purely mental exercise intended to give me and my fellow Dummies some satisfaction in this gloomy vale of misery and mystery).
Now, to return to my own words -
The origin of magnetism may lie with electromagnetic force (this sounds weird - but if you read on, you'll see that I'm not talking nonsense). It might all begin with a string of zeros and ones that produces a computer-generated hologram. That hologram includes 1) all frequencies and waves - optical, sound, electrical, magnetic, etc. etc., 2) the wave-particle duality of matter (and of light), and 3) randomness (which can also be termed mutation).
Such a hologram would ultimately be supremely flexible, bestowing digital qualities on space-time and everything in them - and making it difficult to determine precise position, especially if it was generated in a dimension outside our experience. However, people and objects could retain the appearance of solidity and definite location - and of separation (both in time and space, despite the reality of all time and space co-existing in one "place" or cyberplace). On a computer screen; events happen here, there, before, now and after though all "space-time" on the screen is united by the underlying computer code into a "grand unification" or "theory of everything".
The code would mean there is hidden order even where chaos reigns, and randomness ("God playing dice with the universe", as Einstein put it) might be a way of overcoming the total inflexibility of pre-programming and introducing a measure of free will into the universe.
Since a magnet and a piece of metal are both parts of this unification, the former can move the latter without touching it (this feat is "spooky action at a distance", to use another Einstein expression). Why doesn't anybody seem to care how it is possible for magnets to do what they do? I dunno - maybe it's because magnets have precious little to do with emotions, sex or money.
When the appropriate strings of ones and zeros establish all the magnetic fields in the universe, the randomness factor might allow the generation of other, "manmade" magnetic fields (eg when Michael Faraday was experimenting with electricity and magnets, or when modern engineers build turbines and generators). In this Internet-like Grand Unification, there might be a computer link (hypertext connection) between electricity and magnetism: then a less obvious link unifying electromagnetism and the weak force: and so on until we discover the theory of everything.
If this unification of the universe has always existed, how could the effects of its future development from electronic and holographic technology become apparent to Pliny, Augustine, Faraday, Einstein and presentday physicist Steven Weinberg? Time travel - in the form of future technology being implemented in the distant past - would have to be a reality ... I can't think of any other mechanism. But if the unification of the universe is real, then all space AND TIME within it would be unified and time travel would obviously be possible.
WHAT IS GRAVITY?
On the face of it, gravity could be defined as the warping or curvature of space (accurately, space-time). But why should space-time be curved? Think of it as the product of a computer simulation. Then its shape and structure must be determined by a string of zeros and ones. But why should we consider the possibility that space-time results from a string of zeros and ones? If you’re openminded and imaginative, it’s enough to say “Why not consider the possibility?” But it won’t hurt to add some comments of mine:
These comments refer to "The Day Before Genesis" (Discover magazine, April 2008). It seems to me that the layout of a few pages in this issue makes sense of our Big Bang. First, the statement "Black Holes Reveal Time Travel" (p. 53) indicates that the series of panels on p. 56 can be formed into a loop with the picture of the cosmic microwave background next to the one of modern galaxies and clusters. This loop can be constructed because space-time that permits time travel cannot be purely linear but is warped and curved. In this scenario, travel in one direction means the cosmic microwave background precedes the modern galaxies and clusters. But travelling in the other direction means modern galaxies and clusters precede the cosmic microwave background.
When we loop the universe, what is within and outside the loop? I suspect the answer is also on p. 56 viz. branes (Paul J. Steinhardt of Princeton University and Neil Turok of Cambridge University claim that our 3-D universe is part of a 10-dimensional “brane” and that cycles of expansion and contraction result from collisions between our cosmic brane and a neighboring one). If they're in physical contact with our brane, we'd find that there is actually only one universe with one set of laws of physics. Visualizing the loop on p. 56 with the view of the pages' layout making sense of our Big Bang suggests the outside of the loop contains whatever I see when I turn to the next page (58) ... and I see galaxies arranged in a map of our universe. The interior of the loop would contain whatever I see when I turn to the previous page (55). Is that our Milky Way galaxy on page 55?
How interesting!! What could it mean if the Milky Way (or indeed, any other relatively nearby cosmic structure) is not only part of the loop of modern galaxies and clusters but also inside that loop? Does it mean quantum indeterminacy not only compels science to think of subatomic particles as not having precise locations, but will also compel science to oneday think of galaxies as not having exact positions? Surely "galactic indeterminacy" would unite general relativity and quantum theory, possibly producing a universe in which space and time themselves do not exist as we understand them but are flexible and indeterminate properties "emerging" from something else.
Thousands or millions of years from now, progress in electronics and science might make it possible to journey back 13.7 billion years in this time machine we call the universe and construct a computer-generated hologram corresponding to the lumps in the extremely young universe which evolved into modern galaxies and clusters. If you believe there is intelligent and adventurous life anywhere in this universe, this would be a perfectly natural outcome of millennia of progress - there's absolutely nothing incredible or supernatural about it! That hologram includes 1) all frequencies and waves - optical, sound, electrical, magnetic, etc. etc., 2) the wave-particle duality of matter (and of light), and 3) randomness (which can also be termed mutation).
So gravity evolves from being a force that attracts objects in the cosmology of Newton to the warping or curvature of space-time in Einstein’s cosmology to space-time’s curves being the product of BITS (BInary digiTS - 1’s and 0’s). (Gravity really can be defined as the warping or curvature of space-time, but my hope is to enhance this definition by adding understanding of the nature of space-time.)
LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
What is the difference between a living organism and a newly dead organism? Motion exists in the bodily parts, and as signals between brain cells, of one but there is no motion in the other. As we have seen in earlier sections of this article, each of us lives in two worlds ... that of our everyday senses/experiences and, because we live in a Grand Unification possessing “zero separation”, that of the mysterious 5th-dimensional cyberspace where our multi-universal computer-generated hologram is constructed. So our minds have a lot to do - we need to explore the wonders and miracles of the 5-D holographic world, and also reconcile that with this old world, so it too will come to be full of wonders and miracles. And it´s a good thing that we live in 2 worlds. If we were restricted to the 5-D holographic world, we would pervade all existence. Nothing from what we think of as "out there" could stimulate our brain cells and make us conscious. But like characters in a cosmic SIMS or SECOND LIFE game, we have individuality in our second world and brains that can become conscious of the first (holographic) world.
In our 4-D world (3 dimensions of space – length, width and depth – plus 1 dimension called time), motion exists universally and at quantum (subatomic) scales, and is absolutely essential. In 5-D cyberspace, there is no movement and every bit of space/instant of time exists like an individual frame of a movie (when these are displayed in rapid succession, what we call motion comes into being). Let’s consider ordinary, visible light and that vacuum it travels through: space. Quantum particles like the photons which compose light are not separate from space itself. The universe would not merely be a vast collection of the countless photons, electrons and other quantum particles within it, but would be a unified whole that has particles and waves built into it, just as a computerised hologram would have seemingly separate points built into its union of digital zeros and ones. It’s necessary to suggest how this unified whole could appear to us as an infinity of different and separate entities (not only in space but also in time). If light and space were unified in a digitised hologram, the apparent velocities of light and space's expansion would differ because light would be a subroutine embedded in the main space program.
Life and death depend on which dimension the body and brain are associated with. If the 4th; there is movement of joints, beating of the heart, electrochemical signalling in axons and dendrites and synapses, and so on. If the 5th, there is no motion – the body is dead and the brain is dead. But things are strangely complicated when you live in unification possessing zero separation ... Physicists predict that the singularity at the heart of a black hole has zero volume. Since there is zero separation in space, a person’s heart also has zero volume. Since locations in time are relative, a person´s heart does not possess zero volume at just time A or time B, but always. We can adapt the quantum mechanical thought experiment known as Schrodinger´s Cat in which the cat exists and does not exist at the same time. In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single, definite result for an observation. Instead, it assigns a probability to each outcome as in, for example, the quantum mechanical thought experiment known as Schrodinger´s Cat in which the cat exists and does not exist at the same time (a hammer which might or might not be triggered by a source of radioactivity to break a bottle of poisonous gas both kills and doesn´t kill the cat - and all these things are placed in an airtight box). This adaptation says your (and my) heart beats and does not beat at the same time. The strange complexities of living in a Unification possessing zero separation go on and on – while it may be useful to think of each of us as existing in 2 worlds (the 4th and 5th dimensions), these 2 worlds would be in the same place in a Unification possessing zero separation. If our hearts are both beating and not beating at the same time, you and I are already alive and dead simultaneously and life/death DO NOT depend on associating the body/brain with one particular dimension, but on balancing their association with all dimensions.
Locating consciousness in the activity of the brain apparently strangles the hope that we might survive the death of our bodies - unless time travel can be removed from the realm of fiction, and demonstrated to be scientifically valid in actuality. People who have long since died could have their minds downloaded into reproductions of their bodies after death – perhaps thanks to time traversing medical/scientific/electronics personnel, perhaps not in physical form - then use time travel to be alive long before birth (or to be alive and present at their time of death. If time travel is not used to be physically present at death, and I doubt that it ever would since the person has moved on to another stage of existence and must leave those still physically manifest alone to build the future [see “Part 1 Into Paper Walls”], then only the bosonic backup could be present).
Compressing the known science into a few lines, I believe the theory leading to time-travel´s exhibition is -
Particles and the local universe can be regarded as closed loops of electromagnetic energy. These could be called strings or superstrings or Mobius loops (a Mobius loop can be visualised as a strip of paper which is given a half-twist of 180 degrees before its ends are joined). Remember that the top, side and bottom of each loop each consist of a miniaturised, fractal version of electromagnetic pulses forming length, width and depth (a fractal is a geometric structure having an irregular or fragmented appearance which is of a similar character at all magnifications - the word "fractal" was coined in 1975 by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot). The 3 familiar dimensions of length, width and height along, for example, the top of a loop would have a 4th dimension (time) perpendicular to them (on the side of the twisted paper ... or electromagnetic loop). And there would also exist a 5th dimension called hyperspace, at right angles to the 4th and 180 degrees from the length/width/height along the loop´s top. The previous parts of this paragraph can be likened to astronomy´s picture of the 3+1 dimensions of space-time existing on the surface of a balloon which is expanding from an inner hyperspatial point (not in space-time) where the Big Bang occurred. These loops unite space and time into space-time (popularly associated with Albert Einstein, though originally conceived by his university teacher Dr. Hermann Minkowski); and the famous scientist Stephen Hawking says time can be thought of as another space dimension, so literal time travel is a possibility. With literal time travel, people who have long since died can be resurrected by having their minds downloaded into reproductions of their bodies (establishing colonies throughout space and time would prevent overpopulation).
Thus, individual consciousness is connected with space-time. If the connection is permanent, consciousness would no longer be restricted to finite brains and its link to everything in space-time would make it free of all limitations when we learn how to use that link. By either adapting physical brains/bodies or repeating the downloading of minds (in order to bestow immortality), or using some version of the ideas scientists have proposed about cosmic holograms and cosmic computers (to unify the universe´s mental, spatial and temporal aspects), the consciousness-spacetime connection could indeed be made a permanent one. Unification of personal consciousness with space-time (and thus, everyone else) would also enable annihilation of the concept of "self" and "other", as brain scans of Buddhist monks demonstrate to be possible.
Union of the concepts "self" and "other" is relevant to world peace because it concludes that everyone´s life is scientifically unified with all other life beyond the range of our senses and experiences (but within the range of our understanding). It will take time, but when people accept this, world and domestic peace will be inevitable since no-one will be able to attack anyone in any manner without realizing that they´re actually attacking themselves.
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