BEYOND MATHEMATICS
AND PHYSICS: LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Mathematical Physics and Poetry
As you know, if you’ve read my resume, I am a physicist, mathematician and
engineer by formal education and training. But, more importantly, before and
after that, I am a human being. The purpose of this post is to put the findings
of the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) into proper perspective:
the perspective of life. Because, after all, without the existence of living,
breathing, thinking beings, all the discoveries of science would be worthless. The
mathematician (the first degree I earned) deals with things that can be
measured and thus represented by numbers. The physicist (what I thought I wanted
to be from the age 14) uses mathematics to describe relationships between
matter and energy dynamically interacting in time and space. These two
subjects, math and physics, are considered by most people to be difficult,
complex, and virtually incomprehensible without extensive education. This,
however, is a misconception perpetuated by the naiveté and egos of physicists.
Mathematics and physics are, in fact, the simplest of subjects, because the
complexities of life and consciousness are ignored. A science, whatever it is
called, that considers only the interaction of matter and energy in space and
time is a simple science. But it is easy for an academic mathematical physicist
to forget this, and this deliberate ignorance of anything that cannot be
weighed or measured, coupled with the arrogance of ego, leads them to imagine
that they can produce a ‘theory of everything’!
True innovative, visionary scientists, of which there are precious few,
know how little they know. I believe Albert Einstein was one, because he said “It
is amazing that we can understand anything” and his motivation was to “know God’s
thoughts”, in contrast with many mainstream scientists who “have no need for
concepts like god or divinity”. In my opinion, anyone who claims to have a Theory
of Everything (TOE) is simply announcing his or her ego and ignorance. Believing
you can produce a TOE is mental masturbation, leading to intellectual impotence.
Belief in scientific materialism is belief in a sterile universe devoid of
life. A real scientist should be a poet, whose language is mathematics. A poet
realizes that his words can never completely capture the majesty of reality, or
the amazing miracle of life.
A mathematical statement like E=mc2
is actually a poem dealing with things that we can observe and measure. Mathematics
is a simple language, a language striped of meaning beyond weight and measure.
But, like a poem, it can hint at the fullness of reality that exists beyond
weight and measure. You can see that mathematics is just a simple language by
realizing that the left-hand side of an equation is the subject, the equals
sign is the verb, and the right-hand side contains the object, and indirect
object of the statement. Complex mathematical functions can contain adjectives,
adverbs, infinitives, and participles, but they are still just simple
statements.
Quantum Statistics and Physical Laws
Like a good
poem, the mathematical statement of a law of physics states an underlying
principle that predicts the probable outcome of an observation. Why do I say “probable”?
We’d like to think that an equation like F
= ma (Newton’s Second Law of Motion) is exact. It says the force possessed
by a moving object is equal to its mass times the acceleration behind its
motion. It is exact, however, only if the object’s mass is constant over space
and time. For general purposes, the law works, for instance in determining the
force with which a car traveling 60 miles per hour strikes a tree. If, however,
the object is a space craft or rocket traveling at a velocity near the speed of
light, the statement is inaccurate. But it is even worse than that: reality is
messy relative to mathematical expressions. A physical object is made up of
billions of molecules, atoms, electrons, protons, neutrons, and quarks. The
molecules, atoms and sub-atomic particles that make up a physical object are in
a constant state of flux. It is only in the aggregate, on the average, that the
object obeys Newton’s law. But the law works for all practical purposes at the
macro-scale of everyday objects. The actual force will be equal to ma, within the margin of measurement
error. Therein lies the elegance and poetry of F = ma. Much like a poem, it conjures up images of real events
which may be much more complex, with the economy of finite symbols.
Paradox, the Fount of New Knowledge
The longer I
live, and the more experience I have, the more I realize that anyone who has
never contradicted himself/herself, has probably not said very much of any
importance. Conflict and paradox are inevitable in a world of infinite
possibilities, and no one wants a world of absolute determinism. (See the posts
on Dangerous Knowledge and the Disappearing Genius.) Scientists bemoan the fact
that relativity and quantum physics do not seem to fit together as they should.
But, knowing that reality obeys Gӧdel’s incompleteness theorem, and is thus
effectively infinite, paradoxes in science should be seen as doorways to new
knowledge, new science.
From Top Down, or Bottom UP?
If we look toward the stars in
distant galaxies, toward the edge of the visible universe, the math of
relativity applies; but, if we look toward the heart of the atom, the realm of
electrons and quarks, quantum mechanics is the math that yields the correct
answers. But, as conscious beings, we live in the middle, and I submit that the
math of the calculus of distinctions, which includes consciousness as a real
and active part of reality, is the appropriate math for us. And it is pure
poetry, I believe, that the calculus of distinctions also works on the quantum
and galactic scale! The reason it works is because everything is God’s
thoughts, and God is just a human word for the logic and intelligence that is
manifest in the reality of the universe we experience. We experience only a
small part of the universe through our physical senses, and we can only observe
and measure quarks and galaxies indirectly, but we are capable of being aware
of their existence, and much more, through expanding our consciousness beyond
that experienced through our physical bodies.
Quantum Equivalence
The most
unique and important finding of TDVP is the discovery of the
mass/energy/space/time equivalence at the ultimate quantum level. See the posts
on TRUE units and gimmel, and published books and papers available on
www.BrainVoyage.com, and in scientific
journals. This discovery allows us to understand why there is a universe, why
there is something rather than nothing, and reveals the fact that the universe
is designed from the beginning for organic life and the physical expression of
consciousness. Discovery of this equivalence has enabled us to explain a number of things not explained in the current paradigm, like particle spin and the triadic combination of quarks.
Physical Reality Ultimately Depends upon
Non-Physical Reality
The
discovery of quantum equivalence is actual validation of the TDVP shift to a consciousness-based
scientific paradigm. We have demonstrated that no stable particle could have
emerged from a big bang origin event without the existence of gimmel, the basis
of consciousness. Thus, current materialistic science is turned upside down.
Scientists seeking to understand consciousness should not be looking for ways
to explain consciousness in terms of matter and energy, they should be looking
for ways to explain matter and energy in terms of consciousness.
