Existence summarised
These notes are mostly decades old for me. Getting with terms with eternal truths is not easy. You keep them hidden, like your true yourself. Your brainwashing, of so much, orders you to try be normal. None of us are.
I hope your soul responds to my writings.
Reason, science, maths and so much more lead to the inevìtable conclusion that the creation and its ongoing creativity is the work of heaven.
Some observations
In the following notes I mentioned there are experiments to verify and validate certain concepts and ideas. I have many more yet to do.
Nonetheless, the powers of observersation and thought-experiments are also needed to develop the correct approach. However, all finite is incomplete, the unfinished symphony of creation.
There are many features that emerged, evolved and became stable in the Infinite Realm before finite space was possible.
Finiteness is an End Product not Fundamental
Quantum physics has been with us more than a century now.
First it tells us that our time and space is not built upon finiteness, instead different forms of infinities.
Let me repeat that:
Our time and space are built on infinities
Secondly, it tells us that finiteness only comes about when the infinities collapse to finiteness.
Finiteness only from the collapse
Thirdly, the collapse usually occurs by 'environmental entanglement', that is when two or more quantum states interact and overlap. In other words, when the quantum states are no longer closed, but instead fuzzily open to their environment.
The transition from a closed system to the openness of collapse is one the unanswered question of physics. Nonetheless, photoelectronic effect, when incoming radiation invades the space of the quantum state, disrupting its closed borders, is surely the most likely primary candidate.
To developed a detailed model, we needs a better understanding of time and space.
We have so much more work to do!
On the nature of time
Time is a natural property of causation. For events, or sequences of events to lead to others you need time: a future and a past.
The emergence of both causation and time occurred very early in the evolution of existence, well before universes and finite spaces in general.
Accepting the Infinite Realm has a region with no causation or time defines a border between some kind of order and completely unstructured chaos.
There are different forms of time depending on local events. For example, the time we currently witness did not reign in the early universe. In the radiation-dominated era our time was frozen into a single moment. However, the structure of time and space we witness had been formed.
In this structure, both are quantised at the lowest scale, probably the Planck Scale.
On the issue of the now
I wrote that time is natural feature of causation, but I avoided talking about the now. Before discussing it, we must see some of our local arrows of time.
The observable universe, all we can detect, has been growing, changing and evolving for around 13bn years from the radiation-dominated era of the early universe. I still chuckle to myself that the "Let there be light" of many faith's genesis have been proved by science!
Matter, planets, stars and galaxies and all have sprung into being. One local feature of the arrow of time. Modern physics has shown others: for example, entropy and the collapse of the quantum state, infinite possibilities collapsing into a certainty of one outcome.
In general, these show the future will always be different from the past. Even galaxies, stars and planets are born and die. Also, photons and atoms and all things small.
What we see as cycles are only temporarily stable. Subtle changes amplify and break the harmony.
Get frank b dunn’s stories in your inbox
Join Medium for free to get updates from this writer.
The now is more elusive.
Every quantum state collapses eventually. In the meantime, the uncollapsed state is an instant, like the radiation-dominated era of the early universe. None decided in it until the collapse of it.
The history is collapsed states of the past. The now is the process of states collapsing to certainty. In general, this is 'environmental entanglement', when adjacent states interact and overlap.
Also in general, the collapse is not from a countable array of possiblities, as our current, earth-bound lab theories tell us, instead from higher complexity infinities, even from unlimited complexity. I see the emergence of sentience in the Infinite Realm, the emergence of background radiation from the radiation-dominated era and the general collapses now as the same process of interacting, overlapping infinities.
Way back in the last century, I designed a series of lab demos, using a water-based ice-bath, adjusting the Ph and other parameters of the water, to represent the radiation in space. So, I was only kidding when I said you cannot do this on Earth! The 'radiation' (the water) interacts with the ice to create collapse. Choosing ice from different sources with different crystal structures gives higher complexity results.
So, the present moment or now is fuzzy, for at least three reasons:
- Quantum States often exist for long times
- The eventual collapse of interacting states maybe more than a one step process
- Collapse is not synch-ing at all, let alone across the whole observable universe
Visualising the now
Gravity with positive curvature, as we currently measure it, tells us that space is stretching out, as it proceeds along the radial time axis. This is basically a four dimensional model: a 3d surface, the now or present moment, stretching out as time proceeds. Most people struggle to see 4d models at first. I suggest discard one of space dimensions in your head to start with.
We cannot see much of it in reality, because our telescopes and detecting equipment rely on the velocity of radiation, usually called the 'speed of light'. So, we see only history mostly. Nonetheless the theory tells us that present moment exists ubiquitously.
See an 3d balloon slowly inflating into the future. The history of the universe, at least the observable part, inside the 3d balloon. The future outside of it.
The details of 3d surface of the present moment, or now, is the most tricky part.
Each collapsing quantum state is another of blob of history congealing into the past. Uncollapsed quantum states are leaks or holes in the 3d surface, connecting the past to the future.
Physical space and sentience
Also finite space may or may not exist forever, but sentience will.
Others see the mortality of all we see and fear the end of the universe. I think differently: the universe we observe is only a substrate for sentience. It will change and morph and the sentience needs.
This eternal truth is in plain sight. Every great work of art, every great portrait or sculpture or play or piece of music has its glimpes of the infinite. That is why we feel them so deeply. Our souls respond to infinite in them. The flashes of genius of the great thinkers do the same, when you are ready.
Our sentience is still only nascent, currently still constrained by so much, both in nature and society, to be creatively free, to follow our intuitive knowledge of what is truly right. It will grow and change and evolve, until we are sentient nearly always. When we will be ready to meet other sentient species.
On infinite design
Any space that contains finite events needs predesigned rules.
The first feature of finiteness I used to prove this beyond any maths doubt is ‘separation’ aka ‘discreteness’. To stay finite, events must stay separate. As soon as you have a math definition of separation it flows easily it needs predesigned rules. This and other properties of finiteness must be designed in before such spaces can exist and can be born.
On Sentient Design
Other considerations showed sentience existed in Infinite Realm to design these rules. For this, we take a precise meaning of sentience..
The ability to knowingly and deliberately choose a different future.
In the Infinite Realm, interacting overlapping infinities can do this. I extended Prof John Conway's work on this, beyond traditional sets, to show a general method.
This sentience deliberately chose for life in general and mortal sentience in particular to emerge and evolve.
No other universe needed!
Once you accept that quantum physics must be upgraded to allow all types of sets and collections and the infinities inherent in them, you realize our time space can express and represent them all.
As I said, the experiment evidence is overwhelming. So infinite causality and infinite unity exists and surely the best explanation of observable universe.
---
Later I explained causation aka causality emerged in Infinite Realm. Yes, I have my own picture and a rough, personal, surely subjective view of how existence got there. It is irrelevant to happened next. Once causality rules is master.
However, i do not accept any our current maths existed then, being built on finiteness, therefore irrelevant.
