PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
©Edward R. Close 10/30/2017
OK, let's put our thinking caps on, and see if we
can use a little more of our brain capacity than we normally do. People on both
sides of the question concerning whether there is a supreme intelligence behind
the reality we experience, seem to think that this is not a proper question for
science to ever even consider asking. Philosophers
and theologians consider the question as exclusively on their turf, and most mainstream
scientists think that there is no way to determine the answer to this question
using the scientific method. In my opinion, they are both wrong. Why? They are both wrong because there can be no
boundaries for real science, science must go wherever the evidence leads, and
the scientists who refuse to even consider the question are doubly wrong
because there is plenty of hard evidence now to warrant addressing this question
scientifically.
In this country, Dr. J.B. Rhine began the long road
to making parapsychology, still considered by some to be pseudoscience, a
legitimate subject for scientific study in 1931 at Duke University. In quantum
physics, since about 1935, more and more refined versions of the double-slit
and delayed-choice experiments have revealed the fact that the consciousness of
the observer is somehow directly involved in shaping what we observe at the
quantum level. And more recently, meticulous scientific studies by scientists
like Dean Radin, Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), and
Gary Schwartz at the University of Arizona, have consistently produced more and
more significant experimental evidence that psi phenomena like remote viewing,
psychokinesis and even mediumship are real.
It is past time to investigate this
question seriously. So, how do we go about testing the
hypothesis that the universe has an intelligent design with meaning and
purpose? Anyone who has had direct personal contact with the intelligence
behind reality has all the proof anyone could ever need. He or she knows. But
words cannot adequately convey such knowledge, and that is not the kind of
proof I’m talking about here. I am talking about scientific proof. Any
legitimate question can be addressed scientifically in three steps:
1)
State the question as a hypothesis.
2)
Express the hypothesis or its consequences in
primary mathematical logic, thereby turning the hypothesis into a theorem, and
then
3)
prove the theorem to be either true or false.
The question of whether God exists can
be stated either as a positive hypothesis or as a negative hypothesis.
Positive: God exists. Negative: There is no God. This brings up some ideas that
may confuse some readers, so we will take a short, but important side trip. I
once heard a minister, discussing an atheist’s blunt statement that “there is
no God,” state authoritatively that you
cannot prove a negative! While his argument may have been otherwise
persuasive, when he said this, he was dead wrong! The once widespread belief
that a negative can’t be proved may have come from the fact that negative
statements are often much harder to prove than positive statements, but
negative statements can be proved. Mathematicians do it all the time. For
example, take the statement that there are no prime numbers between 113 and
127.
For those not much accustomed to
thinking about numbers, a prime number is any number that is only divisible by
itself and 1. The numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, and 17, for example, are prime
numbers. The other numbers in this series: 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, and 16,
are not. The statement “There are no prime numbers between 113 and 127” is a
negative statement that can be easily proved by looking at the 13 numbers
between 113 and 127. If you do, then you’ll find that they are all divisible by
smaller numbers, and you will have proved a negative statement to be true.
So, if the negative statement “there is
no God” is open to proof or disproof, then the positive statement “God exists”
is open to proof or disproof. But this brings up another question: Just because
a statement seems to make sense, does that mean that it can be proved to be true
or false? Maybe a statement can simply be unprovable. Is our hypothesis
unprovable? Many have said that it is. But they are wrong. To prove this, we
will have to consider something called Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems.
In 1931, an Austrian mathematician, Kurt
Gödel, published one of the most important papers in the history of mathematics
and science. It contained theorems with profound and far-reaching consequences.
And yet, many, probably even most people have never heard of Gӧdel or his
theorems. This is true at least partly because the proofs of the incompleteness
theorems are complex and subtle, - not accessible to anyone without
considerable training in mathematics and symbolic logic. Fortunately, their
meaning is understandable. Gӧdel’s incompleteness theorems prove that in any
logical system, there can be true statements that cannot be proved within the
system. Could our statements regarding the existence or non-existence of God be
such statements, statements that cannot be proved within the logical systems
known as the current scientific paradigm? Yes, that could very well be the
case.
Does that mean that they are forever unprovable?
No! - Let me explain. At first, many people, even some mathematicians, misinterpreted
Gӧdel’s theorems to mean that there are true statements that can never be
proved. In the case at hand, e.g., they could conclude that even though one of
our statements, either the positive or the negative, must be true, it can never
ever be proved. But, this is not what Gӧdel’s incompleteness theorems say. They
do say that there can be true statements that are not provable within a logical
system like the current scientific paradigm. But they also say that no logical
system is complete. So, if the current paradigm can be expanded into a larger
logical system, then statements that are unprovable in the current paradigm may
be provable in the new expanded paradigm.
This brings us back to our question of
the existence or non-existence of God. Step one is easy. We have our
hypothesis. Step two is a little more difficult. It is much like the word
problems you may remember encountering in high school algebra. A verbal hypothesis
can be translated into the language of mathematical logic to avoid the
ambiguity of words. The word God, for example, may have a different meaning for
every reader of this post, but, if you can translate the consequences of the
existence or non-existence of God into terms of the primary mathematical logic
in an expanded paradigm, then proof or disproof may be possible. It is
important to note that turning a hypothesis into a mathematical theorem changes
it from a theory, subject to endless debate, to a theorem that can be proved or
disproved.
Of course, the three steps listed above are
much easier said than done; but they have been done, and I will present the
outline here of how they were done.
During the past 40 years, I have
developed a primary mathematical logic that is capable of describing the
phenomena experienced by sentient beings like us. It is a calculus that is logically prior to
conventional mathematics into which hypotheses can be translated for proof or
disproof. It is called the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD). It
re-unites number theory and geometry, and by deriving the basic units of the
CoDD from data for elementary particles, provided by the Large Hadron Collider
(LHC), the primary mathematical logic is united with physics. The quantum units
whose values are derived from the LHC data for the three elementary particles:
the electron, which, among the elementary particles that make up the natural atoms
of the periodic Table of elements, has the smallest rest mass and volume, and
the quarks that make up the protons and neutrons of atoms.
These units, used as the basic units of
measurement for the CoDD, are called the Triadic Rotational Units of
Equivalence (TRUE), or true quantum units. They are called rotational
equivalence units because the particles are rotating, and because they embody
the volumetric equivalence of the parameters of mass, energy, space, and time,
as expressed by the equation E = mc2. The physics and
mathematical details of the derivation of true quantum units from LHC data,
applying relativistic principles have been published in several technical
papers and in posts on this blog.
In the process of describing, in true quantum units, the combinations of the quarks that form protons and neutrons, we discovered that no stable protons or neutrons, and thus not one atom, could form without the existence of a third something that is neither mass nor energy. This means that in the debris of a big-bang explosion, nothing stable could ever have formed without this third non-physical something being present. This means that materialism is not a viable basis for scientific inquiry!
But, what is this third form that is
part of every atom, and thus responsible for the existence of the universe? It cannot
be matter or energy, because then electrons and quarks would not have the
masses revealed by statistical analysis of the many terabytes of data from the
LHC. Since we have no name for it, my research partner, Dr. Vernon Neppe and I decided to represent it with gimmel, the
third letter of the Phoenician and Hebrew alphabet. The discovery of gimmel,
and its representation as multiples of the basic units of the CoDD in the
equations of science led to another discovery: The atoms that have the largest
percentage of gimmel are the elements that support organic life, Carbon,
Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, etc. So gimmel causes the physical universe
to form in the very specific fine-tuned way that allows the existence of
conscious organic life forms.
Gimmel had to exist prior to the
formation of any particle of the physical universe, otherwise, no stable atoms
and molecules could form. This means that the non-physical logic that shapes
the universe pre-existed the matter, energy, space and time that make up the universe.
Logic is not associated with random accidents. Logic is associated with mind.
Max Planck, the father of quantum
physics said: “As a man who has devoted his
whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell
you, as a result of my research about the atoms, this much: There is no matter as such! All matter
originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of
an atom to vibration and holds … the atom together. … We must assume behind
this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Spirit. This
Spirit is the matrix of all matter.
- The Nature of Matter, a speech delivered in Florence, Italy in 1944.
Discovery of the existence of gimmel
proves that he was right. A conscious and intelligent mind is behind the force
that holds the atoms of the universe together in symmetric vibration, and our
hypothesis is proved. There is a conscious intelligence behind all reality. Some have called it God.
'Some have called it God'. Indeed, Ed, in its many contentious and religious forms - Hence, I opine that 'Ultimate Force', as introduced to me during my profound mystical-initiation of 1980, be a better term to equate with Max Planck' s 1944 statement, and thereby eventually expunge all associated religious diversity from your own TDVP treatise. IJN!
ReplyDeleteI haven't been reading you for a while. Very nice article as usual, and of course you are completely right about the potential unlimited reach of Science (and how limited it currently is).
ReplyDeleteOn the topic of scientific investigations of non-physical phenomena, I'd like to add something given that you explicitly mentioned the reality of mediumship:
In my opinion, it is by adding mediumship to the standard scientific toolbox that science will finally progress for real into the new realm (which as you have found with the discovery of the gimmel, is not really a separate, META-physical realm but a larger and encompassing PARA-physical realm)
This has been proposed far too many times, and many have worked along this line in the past (even the very recent past), yet it seems to me that too little have been achieved.
I figured that the main reason is that mediumship is largely seen as a sort of gift, or rare trait, and that in order to make scientific use of mediumship, scientists on one side need to team up with mediums on the other (this is how is usually, if not consistently, done)
I have a different view, as I believe mediumship is a skill, not a trait. As such, in my opinion, the proper method would be to train the skill of mediumship, in the same way the skill of, for example, mathematical and logical expression and reasoning is trained, as part of the development of scientific abilities.
As I might have mentioned before, I have a dayjob and a family taking up almost all of my time, but for what is worth, I am trying to make some slow but steady progress on putting my words above into something concrete.
If you are not already aware of the work of Dr. Gary Schwartz, Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona in Tucson with mediums. I think you'll find it of interest. Gary has published more than four hundred and fifty scientific papers, including six papers in the journal Science. Gary has also co-edited eleven academic books, is the author of The Energy Healing Experiments (2007), The G.O.D. Experiments (2006), The Afterlife Experiments (2002), The Truth about Medium (2005), and The Living Energy Universe (1999). His new book The Sacred Promise: How Science is Discovering Spirit’s Collaboration with Us in Our Daily Lives was published in January 2011.The Energy Healing Experiments (2007) received the Gold Medal from the Nautilus Book Awards. Dr. Schwartz is one of the founders of the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Science. of which I am now a member.
DeleteIncidentally, his "Afterlife Experiments" was recently brought to my attention, but I didn't know of the rest. His new book seems specially interesting to me. Thank you for pointing it out!
DeleteThere are countless proofs that you can't even write them down in a book. Anyways your post was brilliant and highlighted the proof with the authentic facts.
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