THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION

In 1671, the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz posed the most important question for science to answer when he asked: “Why is there something rather than nothing?”

For more than 300 years, science has had no answer to Leibniz’s question; in fact, science has not even tried to answer this question. But, without the answer to this question, science is doomed to eventually self-destruct.

Let me explain: Without the answer to this question, over the past 300 years, science has become increasingly more negative, spiraling into nihilism.

(Nihilism is defined by Webster as “the viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless”.) Nihilism denies the existence of any absolute objective truth, especially moral truth.

THE PROBLEM

The lack of any answer to Leibniz’s question in the current scientific paradigm has leading scientists saying things like:

“However wonderful the works of man may be, they are doomed to disappear in the great heat-death of the universe as it expands into nothingness.”

“The world as we find it today, is an improbable accident resulting from random combinations of matter and energy evolving in space and time. It is simply an ephemeral, meaningless part of an otherwise violent and chaotic reality.”

 “The more we learn about reality, the more meaningless it becomes.”

 “We are nothing more than debris flying away from an explosion that occurred 13.7 billion years ago.”

Science fiction movies that were once imaginative visions of the future of human civilization, under the influence of this metaphysically bankrupt view have devolved into drab, terrifying predictions of doom and despair: futures of global self-destruction, annihilation by natural causes, or invasion by aliens to whom human beings are as insignificant as pond scum.

This pervading nihilistic belief system has produced scores of scientists and students who openly proclaim to be atheists and declare that there is no place for concepts of spirituality, transcendence or God. This vapid attitude has filtered down to the masses of modern humanity, resulting in rampant hedonism, loss of self-worth, despair, and senseless violence like school shootings, suicide and radical terrorism.

SELF REALIZATION

Why there is something rather than nothing is the most important question of all for science, but this question is just a corollary to an even more important question:   Why do you, I and other conscious beings exist, as opposed to not existing?

This question is of utmost importance because, if we did not exist, i.e., if there were no conscious beings, and no consciousness, Leibniz’s question would not only be unimportant, it would not exist. Whether there is something or nothing would be of no consequence with no one here to experience it.

THE ANSWER

SCIENCE

For more than 300 years, science had no answer to Leibniz’s question, but in 2015, Neppe and Close answered it definitively: The answer is provided by the discovery of a third form of the substance of reality. This third form of reality, which we have called ‘gimmel’ is neither matter nor energy, yet it must exist in conjunction with mass and energy in order for there to be something rather than nothing. Our proof of this has been published in posts on this blog and elsewhere in scientific and professional journals.

This answer, in the simplest possible form is:

There is something rather than nothing because there is something that is nothing, by the standards of scientific materialism.

With this something, gimmel, that is not directly measurable as mass or energy, we see that reality actually has logic, purpose and meaning behind it. That purpose and meaning is the logic of consciousness, reflected in the logical structure of reality. This has a lot of ramifications, not the least of which is restoring purpose and meaning to human life.

SELF REALIZATION

What does the answer to Leibniz’s question have to do with the question of our own personal being as opposed to not being? The discovery that there is a non-physical reality that not only exists in every atom of physical reality, but must be there in order for there to be something instead of nothing, brings with it the realization that gimmel, exhibiting logic, meaning and purpose, the hallmarks of consciousness, is an essential non-physical part of reality. In the 9-dimensional reality revealed by the Close-Neppe theory of everything, TDVP*, matter, energy and individualized consciousness are comprised of finite distinctions of spatial extension, embedded in time, which is embedded in the primary ever-existing form of consciousness, which I have called ‘Primary Consciousness’.  It is necessarily ever-existing because it had to be there for the first particle to emerge from any big-bang, or any other event of origin.

We now have a scientific basis for the objective investigation of Primary Consciousness through self-inspection of our own consciousness as a finite conscious field related directly to the gimmel in the quarks, electrons, protons, neutrons, atoms, molecules, organs, and neural systems of our bodies. Our bodies are thus seen as living vehicles for consciousness, temples within which to honor the logic, meaning and purpose of Primary Consciousness. Realization of self in this way, ultimately becomes realization of the Self of Primary Consciousness.

Self-Realization re-integrates the awareness of physical reality with the awareness of the underlying non-physical reality, the true source of reality, known traditionally as God.

Why is this so important? Because as long as science continues to deny the existence of the non-physical source of reality, the excesses of self-centered egoism, greed, crime and violence will continue to be the end result. Without understanding the meaning and purpose of reality, the existence of life in the physical universe is a recipe for disaster. As long as science defines itself as simple materialistic reductionism, it is a loose cannon. Without the understanding that we are non-physical beings inhabiting physical bodies in a universe whose source and most basic nature is spiritual, even the most advanced civilization on the planet is like a baby playing with a loaded shot-gun, a menace to itself and everything around it.

The answer is to open science and the consciousness of the every human being to the reality of our connection with each other, all life, and the consciousness of the cosmos.. With the realization in every heart that "I am that I am", hatred and senseless violence will cease, and the wonder of the spiritual universe will shine through!

* TDVP = the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm

QUESTION #2: WHAT IS THE SOMETHING OF REALITY?

WHAT IS THE SOMETHING OF REALITY MADE OF?

In contemporary science, everything, at least everything in the vicinity of planet Earth, is believed to be made of something measurable as mass and/or energy in the form of combinations of the atoms of the elements of the Periodic Table. These atoms are physical structures made up of combinations of three things: electrons, protons and neutrons, with photons being emitted from the structures under certain circumstances. The protons and neutrons are made up of triads of up-quarks and down-quarks that are almost never, if ever, seen alone. These ‘elementary’ particles all have an intrinsic characteristic spin of ½, and are called fermions. Other members of the ‘particle zoo’ with whole-number spin, called bosons, are short-lived products of atomic and sub-atomic collisions and reactions, and/or exist within atoms and nuclei as gluons. To preserve parity, that is to keep physical reality balanced, all of these particles have anti-particles. Oh yes, and because of the immense rotational and translational energy of these particles, they are surrounded by electromagnetic and gravitational fields. Finally, in keeping with de Broglie and Einstein’s work, all particles have vibratory or rotational frequencies.

This theoretical picture, called the Standard Model, is reasonably successful and complete. There are, however, a few things that the standard model of particle physics does not explain, and, there are some conflicts with relativity.   Some of the things unexplained by the standard model are: particle mixing angles, like the Cabibbo angle, named after the Italian physicist who discovered it, why fermions have an intrinsic spin number of ½, the role of symmetry, broken symmetry and super symmetry, and why particles spin at all. This last one will be the subject of the next post.

The Close-Neppe TDVP nine-dimensional spin model answers these questions, and unites relativity and quantum physics by putting consciousness into the equations. The logic of TDVP incorporates some new math called the calculus of distinctions, dimensional extrapolation, and Diophantine conveyance equations. This should not be surprising, because paradigm shifts have always required new math. Relativity required the new math of Minkowski’s 4-D space-time, and quantum mechanics required Schrӧdinger’s wave equation and Heisenberg’s probability matrix and Uncertainty Principle. The calculus of distinctions, which I developed and extended from George Spencer Brown’s Laws of Form in 1989, may be difficult to learn, but it is no more difficult than the rotational group theory of Grassman algebra, Lie algebra, and other complex algebras used in attempts to explain spin in the current paradigm.

The calculus of distinctions is the replacement of the calculus of Newton and Leibniz, made necessary by the discovery that the universe is quantized. Dimensional extrapolation and the conveyance equations are also necessary to deal with a quantized reality. The calculus of Newton and Leibniz was sufficient when we thought physical reality was infinitely continuous, and is still very useful for macro-scale calculations. At the quantum level, however, it is inappropriate and leads to some of the weirdness and misunderstandings[EC1]  in the current paradigm.

So physical reality is made up of spinning, quantized bits of something, - but spinning quantized bits of what? It’s not spinning bits of matter, because the more we’ve looked at atoms, nuclei, electrons and quarks, the less solid and matter-like it has become. The smallest possible spinning something turns out to be a nine-dimensional energy vortex. How do we know it is the smallest possible bit? Because Einstein’s relativity tells us that as a spinning bit gets smaller and smaller, its spin (angular momentum), volume and mass approach a limit dictated by the limit on spin velocity: the speed of light. Where these limits converge the TRUE unit is defined.

Speaking of relativity, Einstein’s famous equation E= mc² can tell us a lot, and it doesn’t take complicated mathematics. Anyone can understand it. Einstein’s equation applies to any finite system, from the smallest bit of something, to the entire physical universe at any given point in time. So consider the smallest possible physical system: a system consisting of just one unit of energy and one unit of mass. If one unit of energy is equivalent to (equals) one unit of mass times the speed of light squared, then by the simplest mathematical logic, the speed of light is equal to the square root of one unit of energy divided by one unit of mass. But speed is defined as distance travelled divided by the length of time required for something to travel that distance (miles per hour, for example). So if mass and energy are quantized (as proved by Max Planck) and the smallest possible volume of space is the space occupied by the spinning bit of something, we can define the smallest meaningful distance as the circumference of the spinning bit, and the smallest meaningful amount of time as the time it takes for the bit of spinning something to complete one rotation. Setting each of these quantities of mass, energy, space and time equal to one, we have the Triadic Rotational Unit of Equivalence defined.

Now, because the speed of light, as Einstein’s equation says, is equal to the ratio of energy to mass, we see that in any finite system of mass and energy, like the Earth, or the solar system, or the Milky Way Galaxy, the speed of light is determined by the ratio of energy to mass. If mass is converted to energy (as in an explosion) the ratio of E to m becomes larger and the speed of light increases, and if energy is converted to mass (as in a system that is cooling down) the ratio of E to m becomes smaller, and the speed of light decreases.  This tells us that, if a finite, localized part of the universe is losing energy, the speed of light has to get slower than in the rest of the universe, and if an isolated part gains energy, the speed of light will be faster. However, in any stable finite system, at any point in space-time, the speed of light is constant and nothing can accelerate past it (Einstein’s first Principle of Relativity).

Finally, the spinning bits of something that make up the observable and measurable physical universe, from the combinations of three quarks that make up the three elementary particles of atoms, which make up the molecules, compounds and cells, of animals, vegetables and minerals, everything occurs in triads, and the most basic of these spinning bits of something, the quarks, are also triadic. In order to be stable long enough to support life, they must be composed of three ostensibly different forms of the something: mass, energy and a third form which we are calling Gimmel. That third form of the something is neither mass, energy nor Gimmel, but the organizing factor that pervades the universe and conveys logical structure, meaning and purpose to the physical universe, the virtual tip of the iceberg of reality. That’s what the spinning bits of something are made of, and without it, there would be no physical universe, or meaning or purpose.

With the discovery of TRUE units of Gimmel, leading to the discovery of the source of mass, energy and Gimmel, i.e., the source of all things, the pervasive, unnamed something, finally, an understanding of the substance, meaning and purpose of the universe can be restored to our collective consciousness. This is vitally important and crucial at this moment in the unfolding of space, time and human consciousness, if we are to move away from the brink of destruction, and enter a new era of security, peace and abundance on this planet, a tiny ball of rock, water and mud, supporting life, intelligence and consciousness in a minor rotational arm of an otherwise un-noteworthy galaxy, spinning in space, time, floating in the un-manifest void of Primary Consciousness.

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