CONTINUING WITH THE
ANALYSIS OF INFINITY AND TIME
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Copyright July 2022, Edward R Close
Resuming the Discussion After a Brief Pause
Dear Reader: Last Sunday I took a break from discussing the a
priori assumptions underlying our beliefs about time and infinity to
celebrate the anniversary of the launching of the Science and Spirituality YouTube
Channel and this blog site ten years ago, and to honor the memory of my late beloved
wife, Jacquelyn Ann Hill-Close, who was my greatest supporter and helpmate for
more than forty years. I also mentioned the important work of my good friend
and colleague Dr. Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD, who has contributed so much to the
development and promotion of these ideas. My blogposts reflect some of the work
we have done together that led to the formalization of the scientific paradigm
shift we call TDVP, and the philosophy of unified monism. Several others have supported
this research, including people reading these posts. I want you to know that I appreciate
your interest, questions, and comments very much.
So now it is time to get back to the current discussion. Our
latest findings require some radical changes in human beliefs about the nature of
time and infinity, so I want to discuss what those changes are, how they necessitate
re-assessing the basic assumptions about the nature of reality, and how those
changes will affect the way we do science and the way we live our lives. A
brief re-cap of the major points of the last few posts will help us get back on
track.
Reality is the ultimate logical system that all scientific
theories seek to model as accurately as they can. Paradoxes arising in any
system of logic are evidence of either incorrect or incomplete a priori (self-evident)
assumptions. While applying the methods of TDVP to develop and test our model
reality, we reached some conclusions that are consistent with statements made by
physicists Albert Einstein and Max Planck, the architects of relativity and
quantum physics, toward the end of their careers.
Max Planck said:
“All matter originates and exists only by
virtue of a force … We must assume behind this force the existence of a
conscious and intelligent Mind.”
And Einstein
agreed with Planck. He said: “Space and time can claim no existence of
their own. … What we have called
matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to
the senses. Matter is spirit reduced to a point of visibility. There is no
matter.”
These statements about what is behind the appearances of the
physical world are, in my opinion, more important than all of the technological
advances their work has inspired because they actually link modern science with
ancient wisdom. In brief, that is what my posts are about: putting together the
pieces of the puzzle of existence that are left over from the last high point
in the natural cycles of human mental and spiritual virtue that barely survived
destruction during the dark ages of materialism that lasted about 2,400 years,
reaching its lowest point around 500 A.D.
While investigating assumptions and determining how
conclusions consistent with the quotes from Einstein and Planck conflict with current
common beliefs, we uncovered two very interesting conflicts: The “Mind of God”
paradox, described in the July 7 post, and the “Expanding Universe” paradox, in
the July 16 post. Niels Bohr, another important physicist in the paradigm shift
of the last century, observed that paradoxes in scientific theories are not
game stoppers; they are actually wonderful opportunities to advance, because the
paradoxes are only in our theories, not in reality, and paradoxes in theories can
be resolved by making appropriate changes in the a priori assumptions of
the system of logic supporting the theories and expanding the area of research
accordingly. That is the process I am trying to articulate in these posts. The first
step in this process is examination of the assumptions behind what most people believe
about consciousness and the nature of reality.
In my preliminary analysis, I identified the a priori assumptions
relevant to the mind of God paradox to be assumptions about the nature of time
and infinity. The a priori assumptions about
time and infinity are relevant because the mind of God is generally assumed to
be infinite and perfect, and time is generally assumed to be flowing from past
to present, to future, uniformly throughout the universe. The statements by Einstein
and Planck, based on their research, as well as results of our TDVP analyses, directly
contradict these assumptions.
I began the analysis by identifying the set
of axioms related to the existence and nature of infinity first, in the
July 7 post. The analysis of the axioms related to infinity
revealed the mind of God paradox. The relevant assumptions that led to this contradiction
were identified as 1) the assumption that the perfection of the primary form of
consciousness, i.e., the mind of God, the ultimate logical system, is infinite,
and 2) the assumption that God is perfect. These two assumptions may both be
true, but the problem that gives rise to the paradox, is a third assumption:
the assumption that perfection is marred by incompleteness, i.e., that infinite
perfection must be complete by definition.
If the mind of God is a consistent logical
system, which it must be for science to be possible, then application of
the incompleteness theorem implies that the mind of God is incomplete. This
conclusion is consistent with the empirical evidence that the universe is expanding,
but a 3-D universe cannot expand indefinitely unless it is expanding into
absolute nothingness. But the statements of Einstein and Planck, as well as the
conclusions of TDVP, imply that there is no such thing as empty space, which is
the actual definition of nothingness. This is the second paradox, which I have
called the expanding universe paradox. Incidentally, I touched on this paradox when
I applied the primary calculus to the Olber’s paradox in my second book, Infinite
Continuity published in 1990 (now out of print).
In the July 16 post, I suggested that the expanding universe paradox will not be resolved quite as
easily as the Mind of God paradox because it involves expanding the axiomatic
basis of the scientific model of reality to the extent where we can understand
why the speed of light is the upper limit of relative motion, why there have to
be extra dimensions existing beyond the three dimensions of space and one of
time, and why time and space, like mass and energy, must also be quantized. This is why I referred to the resolution of the mind
of God paradox, by proving that infinity is incomplete, as a potential
resolution, pending the analysis of the assumptions underlying the common
understanding of time. In that post, I also suggested that expansion of
one’s personal consciousness to encompass the understanding of new a priori
assumptions about time and infinity has interesting practical applications.
Before I can finish the analysis of the
concept of time and connect the dots of the logic that leads to practical
applications and resolves both of these paradoxes, I need to describe the metaphysical
framework of the TDVP unified monism that became clear to us (Dr. Neppe and me)
as a result of the discovery of gimmel, the empirically measurable link between
the realities of spiritual consciousness and infinity to the zero-point quantum
field of the physical universe.
If the structures of individual
consciousness (like yours and mine), the visible finite universe, and the entire
cosmos, are all subsets of the logical structures of the infinite mind of God,
then a consistent unified metaphysical basis for explaining all of the
conscious experiences of reality emerges, in which the infinite cosmos is perceived
as identical with the mind of God, and all things that exist within the expanding
universe are thoughts in the mind of God, thoughts that appear to us to be finite
physical objects, materialized in the 4-D domain of spacetime.
In this philosophical and metaphysical
framework, the on-going expansion of the universe is evidence of the long-term purpose
of existence, which can be characterized as the opportunity for the progression
of conscious beings toward physical, mental, and spiritual perfection. But for
finite conscious individuals, infinite perfection in three dimensions is a forever
moving target. An attainable goal, however, is the actualization of finite living
organisms of mass, energy, and gimmel serving as vehicles for consciousness expansion
in the nine-dimensional self-referential cosmos. These entities are expanding
consciously into the nine-dimensional domain of space-time-consciousness in relatively
perfect physical, astral, and causal bodies.
Spiritual Implications,
Yoga Siddhis, and Remote Viewing
Quantum-level phenomena
exist far below the threshold of visibility for the sense organs of human
beings, but they are visible to us in astral, causal, and spiritual perception
by means of the latent innate abilities of consciousness in its more advanced
states. These abilities are called siddhis in the Sanskrit writings that
survived from the ages of higher mental and spiritual virtue before the dark
ages of materialism. At this point in the current cycle of planetary time, the
average individual conscious being has not reached the level of excellence in
physical, mental, and spiritual development to be able to use enhanced
capabilities of advanced forms of consciousness. We may, however, have momentary
glimpses of quantum and/or cosmic reality when these abilities surface in OBEs
or NDEs, either spontaneously, or in meditation-induced states of altered
consciousness. References to these abilities can be found in all of the ancient
scriptures of the world, described as spiritual gifts in English, or as siddhis
(Sanskrit), ruach menachot (Hebrew), geistige gaben (German), dons
spirituels (French), daruri spirituale (Romanian),
etc.
It should be noted that
states of consciousness expansion with enhanced perception can sometimes be
accessed temporarily by the ingestion of hallucinogenic substances. But this
approach is NOT recommended and should be strictly avoided by most people
because without proper precautions, it can lead to uncontrollable negative
states of mind with serious psychological problems, even long-term debilitating
mental illness. At this point in time, individuals who have succeeded in advancing
permanently by interrupting the natural progress of their spiritual evolution with
drugs are extremely rare. I know of only a few, and they were already significantly
advanced spiritually before they used mind-altering hallucinogens.
On the negative side, I
have personal experience with at least a dozen cases of serious psychological disorders
resulting from the use of hallucinogenic substances. I was able to study two of
them in some detail, and in those cases, their spiritual progress was actually reversed.
Their lives were so negatively impacted that one spent the rest of his life in
a mental institution, and the other died. Very sad and tragic results
underlining the dangers of drug use.
Remote viewing is
another form of heightened extra-sensory perception worth mentioning because considerable
scientific evidence is available documenting the practice of remote viewing,
especially in applications developed for military surveillance (See e.g., the
publications of Stepan Schwartz), and also for police investigation of
difficult missing persons and murder cases. In addition, there is important new
scientific evidence documenting remote quantal viewing coinciding quite
well with some scriptural descriptions of spiritual powers or gifts. For more
information on this, see the published report on the scientific analysis of the
Besant-Leadbeater meditation viewing of atomic structure:
https://www.pni.org/groundbreaking/Neppe-Pokharna-Close-BESANT-IQNJ-11-3-2019-190901.pdf
There is evidence of people
who were born with extra-sensory abilities, or who have developed them as side-effects
of states of expanded consciousness achieved by practicing certain types of
meditation techniques, surfacing now in popular books, as well as in scientific
studies by pioneers in the fields of bio-psychophysics and other
post-materialist sciences. See the website at: https://www.aapsglobal.com/
The Discovery of Gimmel
and Verification of the TDVP Model
As explained in
previous posts, gimmel, the link between physical and non-physical reality, was
discovered while applying the calculus of dimensional distinctions (CoDD) and
TRUE analysis within the metaphysical framework of the TDVP, in the
mathematical application I call dimensional extrapolation, to determine why the
proton is so stable. (TRUE is the acronym for triadic rotational units of
equivalence, also called quantum equivalence units in some of our publications.)
Detailed TRUE analyses
of various combinations of sub-atomic quantal energy vortices, - called
elementary ‘particles’ in mainstream physics - have also yielded resolutions
and explanations of more than fifty paradoxes, problems, and previously poorly
explained processes in particle physics and quantum mechanics, with results
matching experimental data. The details of some of these cases have been documented
by Neppe and Close, peer-reviewed, and published. Thus, TDVP escapes the common
criticism leveled at multi-dimensional theories like the ever-popular physicalist
string theories that are internally consistent but produce no new information
that can be tested against the empirical evidence of observation and experimental
data. The proof of the existence of gimmel also improves the advantage of TDVP
over other theories by providing the practical applications that I am discussing
here for the first time.
TRUE Analysis and the
Speed of Light
With many decades of
training in, and practice of consciousness-expanding techniques as a Kriyaban yogi
(I was initiated by Sri Daya Mata, President of Self-Realization Fellowship, and
direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda on September 17, 1960), I have personally
combined methods of practicing inner objectivity combined with the external
objectivity of the scientific method to investigate reality at the quantum
level. Because of this training and practice, it came as no surprise to me that
there was an extremely high level of correlation between the results of the Besant-Leadbeater
atomic clairvoyance experiments carried out in England between 1895 and 1932
and recent TDVP TRUE analytical results. (The Pearson-r correlation coefficient
was 0.9996, with the probability of occurring by chance of less than one in a
trillion.)
Using the yoga siddhi
of making anything appear as large or small as needed, and the quantum calculus
of TDVP with TRUE, to investigate the relativistic speed of light limit on acceleration,
I saw how to prove the fact that, not just mass and energy, but also space and
time are quantized at the quantum level of objective reality. Here is the multi-dimensional
CoDD logic of the proof, reduced to contemporary mathematical notation:
The speed of electromagnetic
radiation (light) is given by c = ∆s/∆t
= 1, where ∆s and ∆t
are quantum equivalence units of space and time, respectively. As we descend to
the quantum level, we see that because the speed of light is constant with
regard to any observer, regardless of relative motion, ∆s/∆t
is equal to 1 at every level of measurement. This means that, as the observer perspective
is reduced to magnify quantum phenomena, and the measures of ∆s
and ∆t
become smaller and smaller, they cannot shrink to zero, because the end result,
0/0 is not equal to 1. As any high school math student knows, it is mathematically
undefined. Therefore, the smallest value ∆s and ∆t
can reach, preserving the constancy of light speed, is one quantum equivalence
unit, where one TRUE of space divided by one TRUE of time equals one: 1/1 = 1.
Therefore, space and time cannot be infinitely divisible as most people assume,
they are quantized at the quantum level, just like mass and energy.
This discussion of
ancient wisdom and modern science will continue in the next post. ERC – 7/23/2022
Sri Daya Mata
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