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 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!
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
