WHAT IS TDVP?
© Edward R.
Close, June 28, 2018
Science is not now, and
never will be, a complete, unchanging body of knowledge. Our understanding progresses
slowly, for the most part, by incremental discovery of the details of reality, but,
occasionally science leaps forward, with the sudden discovery of a new and more
productive way of thinking about reality. Thomas Kuhn, physicist and historian,
in his insightful treatise, The Structure
of Scientific Revolutions, called these sudden changes paradigm shifts.
A paradigm shift occurs
when there is a complete overthrow of one or more of the basic assumptions of
science. For example, the classical assumption that space and time are the same
everywhere was overthrown by Einstein’s discovery of the mathematical
relationship between the motion and acceleration of the observer and the
measurement of space and time. And Planck’s discovery of the quantization of
energy and mass overthrew the notion of the apparent infinite divisibility of
reality. What basic assumption does TDVP
overthrow? The assumption of scientific materialism. With the discovery of the
mathematical necessity of the existence of a non-physical aspect of reality, TDVP
puts consciousness into the equations of science, and refutes the assumption of
scientific materialism, held by most scientists for centuries.
German physicist Max
Planck, saw past scientific materialism and started the revolution culminating
with TDVP. In the early 20th century. He said:
"I regard consciousness as
fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness.
Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing,
postulates consciousness."
– Max Planck
Einstein added to the developing
revolution with his special and general theories of relativity. For the first
time in the history of modern science, the state of the observer relative to
the dynamics of moving objects was found to affect the observations and
measurements of physical reality. Did Einstein, like his personal friend Max
Planck, believe that there is something real beyond physical reality? His spirituality
is revealed in the following statement:
“I
want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.” – Albert
Einstein
A paradigm shift always
brings new science, and new science requires new math. Just as in every other
paradigm shift, e.g., Newton’s laws of motion, relativity and quantum physics,
TDVP requires new math. That new math is the Calculus of Dimensional
Distinctions (CoDD), a mathematical system logically prior to conventional
mathematics, adapted for application to quantum reality.
In answering the question
“What is TDVP?”, I would be remiss if I did not emphasize and clarify the point
that the logic of TDVP shines a bright light on the primacy of consciousness.
Why is this important? Because recognizing the primacy of consciousness is the
key to understanding how and why applications of the logic of the CoDD answers
questions and resolves paradoxes that have persisted unanswered and unresolved for
decades in the current mainstream paradigm of scientific materialism. This fact
about TDVP may sound amazing, and you might expect its answers and proofs to be
complex and difficult to comprehend, but the logic is so basic that I believe
that I can explain it in simple terms that anyone can understand.
Because the experience of
consciousness is primary, it is best to start with a brief discussion of
consciousness. Everyone experiences it, but no one is able to define it
completely satisfactorily because it is the essence of what we are, the essence
of being itself. Expecting the human mind
to analyze consciousness is like expecting an eye to be able to see itself
without a mirror. Whatever consciousness is, without it, there simply would be
no awareness, no knowledge of this, or any other world. Everything we do, know
or think depends upon it. To define
something means to compare it with something already known, but consciousness
is unique; there is nothing with which to compare it, and all analogies always
fall short. As the primary experience of self,
consciousness simply is the essence of self-aware existence. As Max Planck
observed: “we cannot get behind consciousness”.
We can, however, identify
and describe the actions performed by consciousness: The actions of
consciousness arise from within consciousness itself as the desire for experience. That desire is propagated
sequentially from self to other-than-self in three stages: 1. The realization
of Identity, 2. The formation of a
conscious Intent and 3. The
actualization of intent as an Impact
on other-than-self. Consciousness thus becomes an observer, and a participant
in reality by the actions of drawing distinctions and organizing those
distinctions into logical patterns.
All possible forms of
reality knowable by a conscious observer, arise from the initial act of
separation: i.e., the creation of the distinction of self from everything else.
Any distinction is triadic, consisting of: 1. That which is distinguished, 2.
That from which it is distinguished, and 3. The conscious self that draws the
distinction. For the purpose of differential experience, the conscious self
must consider itself to be separate from that which it is able to distinguish,
and thus the distinction of self from other is the first distinction. All forms
of objective reality arise from this initial act of severance, and while it may
seem that we may separate reality any way we please, the logic of the CoDD
shows us that the basic forms arising from the act of separation are the same.
The framework of reality is that of embedded dimensional domains, much like the
layers of an onion. The basis of all conceivable symbolic representation, all logic,
language, and all knowledge of, and understanding of any reality, is the conscious
action of the drawing of distinctions. This is why the CoDD provides a powerful
tool for analyzing reality.
The most basic
description of reality possible, is a multi-dimensional mosaic, a picture of
reality composed of multiples of the most basic distinction possible; and the
most basic distinction possible is the smallest possible quantum of the
substance of reality. In the TDVP, that smallest quantum of mass that can be
distinguished in the three-or-more dimensional reality we experience, and used
as the basic unit of distinction, is the electron.
At this point, I must ask
you to accept an a priori assumption,
an assumption that is the basic foundational hypothesis of TDVP. The proof that
this assumption is valid comes in the form of answers to questions and
resolutions of paradoxes in the current scientific paradigm that cannot be
obtained in any other way. A number of these have been published under the
authorship of Close and Neppe or Neppe and Close. The assumption is the
proposition that there is a single elementary measure which applies to all aspects
of reality; a quantum equivalence unit to which all quantifiable aspects of
reality can be mathematically related. In TDVP, we call that quantum
equivalence unit the Triadic Rotational Unit of Equivalence (TRUE), for reasons
that will become clearer as we proceed.
This is a significant
departure from the current methods of mathematical physics, and a deliberate
extension of Planck’s discovery of the quantization of energy to include quantization
of all observable and measurable aspects of finite reality. Planck started down
this path by developing a system of “natural” units that became known as Planck
units, with five universal constants set equal to unity, making them natural
units of measurement, and Einstein carried the ball a little farther by showing
us the mathematical equivalence of mass and energy with E = mc2. In Planck units, c, the speed of light, is one of the five universal constants naturalized
to unity. Notice that when c is
naturalized to 1, Einstein’s famous equation becomes simply E = m, making energy and mass
equivalent in Planck units. In TDVP, we naturalize all of the measures of
reality, mass, energy, space, and time to unity, which naturalizes c, but not the other universal
constants which were naturalized by Planck for computational convenience.
The TRUE is the basic
unit of the calculus of distinctions, a system of mathematical logic designed
for application to quantum reality. I use the word “calculus” here in the
broadest possible sense, to mean a system of logical processes by which expressions
representing a distinction or a combination of distinctions are transformed to
other, equivalent distinctions by the fundamental operations of mathematics
re-defined for quantum mathematics. Defining the TRUE based on the electron,
links the CoDD to reality, so that the the logic of the CoDD correlates directly
with the structure of reality. Application of this new quantum math across all
scales of measurement, from the quantum to the cosmos reveals the true nature
of reality. With TDVP, we not only get to know God’s thoughts, we get a glimpse
of how God’s mind works!
I do not claim to have
created this major scientific paradigm shift single-handedly. The new science
of TDVP is built on foundations laid by many scientists; notably, it stands on
the infinities of Georg Cantor and the Diophantine equations of Pierre de
Fermat; and more recently, on the work of Planck, Einstein, Pauli, Von Neumann,
Gӧdel, and others. I have been blessed to have the support of a number of
brilliant people, including Dr. David Stewart, PhD, a geophysicist who was my
roommate in college, and for that reason, has listened to my ideas about math
and science for more than 60 years, my wife Jacqui, whose unwavering support I’ve
enjoyed for more than 40 years, and I’ve been working in equal collaboration
for more than 10 years with Dr. Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, who, without question, is
the most brilliant and accomplished polymath alive today.
Recently, TDVP is being
considered favorably by an increasing number of scientists, including Dr. Adrian
Klein in Israel, Dr. Gary Schwartz, PhD, a respected author and professor at
the University of Arizona in Tucson, and several members of the Academy for the
Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences
(AAPS). Further exploration and promotion of TDVP has been energized recently by
the enthusiasm of Dr. Surendra Pokharna, PhD physicist visiting from India. The
only question I have now is whether this paradigm shift from the dead end of
materialism into the expansive realm of consciousness and spirituality will be
accepted by mainstream scientists in time to save humanity from the
materialistic path to self-destruction. I am optimistically hopeful that it
will happen within my lifetime.
With the discovery of
gimmel, the indifferent particles assumed to exist in sub-atomic physics and galactic
cosmology are gone, replaced by vortices of energy spinning in multiple planes
of rotation. I think it is fair to say that TDVP is like a colon cleanse for
the body of modern science: The lifeless dirt and grime of materialism are
flushed out and swept away by the living energy of dynamic vortices infused
with conscious meaning and purpose.
Edward R. Close 6/28/2018
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