NEW APPROACH PART ELEVEN: ORIGIN AND PURPOSE

 

ELEVEN: THE NEW APPROACH ORIGIN AND PURPOSE

                                          Copyright 2022, Edward R. Close, PhD

“It is far better to deserve honors and not have them, than it is to have honors and not deserve them.”  – Mark Twain

Dear reader, lest we fail to see the forest for the trees, let’s review the origin and purpose of this series. I initiated it on Christmas Eve, 2021 with a post entitled New Approach Part One: The Threshold. At that time, Dr. Vernon Neppe, and I, already at the peak of our respective careers, had spent countless hours, over a period of more than a dozen years working together to develop and introduce the shift to a comprehensive consciousness-based scientific paradigm that we call the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP). We had produced detailed mathematical proofs and ample experimental evidence validating it, but, for the most part, mainstream science was not interested.

After trying to get their attention for years, I no longer care whether mainstream scientists with vested interests in the status quo of scientific materialism wake up to the amazing potential of investigating the non-physical aspects of human experience, or not. In my opinion, trying to get scientists to question their most basic beliefs and assumptions about the nature of reality is just too time consuming and frustrating to pursue much further. Max Planck was right when he said: “Science advances from funeral to funeral.” Trying to convince those who will never be convinced is a big waste of time, and it is time for me to move on and reach out to a much broader audience than the handful of scientists who are willing to think outside the box of scientific materialism.

To reach a broader audience - those who can benefit from the deeper understanding of the nature of reality provided by TDVP - I believe that I must focus on relevant TDVP findings with practical applications that can improve the lives of ordinary people, and I must explain them in a way that anyone can understand. The people I want to reach are those who are ready to explore the unknown like the pioneers who explored the North American Continent half a thousand years ago. Pioneers know that they have no time to waste, and unlike the majority of other people, they have no fear of the unknown. On the contrary, for brave pioneers, the Great Unknown has irresistible magnetism. Drawn into the physical, mental, and spiritual unknown by visions of what might be found, such pioneers will choose the path less traveled. I know that the TDVP findings, however wonderful, are of little value if they cannot be shared with others, and I am optimistic. I know there are serious people out there who are ready for what we have discovered, so let’s have a look at the highlights of this series to see where we’ve been, where we are, and where we might be going in our attempt to see beyond the trees of gross physical reality.

I have talked about the Threshold, where there is access to four distinct types of experience: three conscious states of existence and unconsciousness. Even those in the totally blank state of unconsciousness have the potential of waking and taking action to expand their consciousness. This potential reflects the motive of the underlying source of all things, an infinitely continuous reality existing beyond names and forms. I have called the all-encompassing substrate of reality Primary Consciousness, knowing full well that no words in any language can ever begin to describe it. So, how can we hope to understand that which cannot be described? First, we must not be intimidated by the complexity of the task. To that end, it may be helpful to recall the statement by Alfred North Whitehead that I quoted in Part Eight:

“...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.”

Sometimes it is necessary to attack the thorny underbrush of intellectual complexity and carefully pick our way through it, in order to eventually discover the elegant clarity and simplicity of the beautiful forest of reality that lies beyond.

As we proceeded in the series, our discussions included references to the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP), a self-referential, all-inclusive model of reality, the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD), a primary form of mathematical logic, Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence (TRUE), defined as 3-D quantum measurement units, and the mathematical procedure I call Dimensional Extrapolation (DE), a generalization of the Pythagorean Theorem, mathematically describing movement from one dimensional domain to another.

I realize that these acronyms represent conceptually formidable systems of logic that may have to remain mysterious ‘black boxes’ for many readers, but I don’t see that as a problem, because the object of these posts is not to turn readers into mathematicians or theoretical physicists. All the reader of these posts needs to know is that there is a lot of solid science and mathematics behind these acronyms. Anyone who wants to see the detailed proofs and demonstrations can find them in an extensive list of peer-reviewed publications located at the end of Describing the True nature of Reality, posted on this blog September 8. 2018.

Actually, I am hoping to accomplish something in these posts that I believe to be more important than explaining the DE, applying TRUE analysis to quantum phenomena, developing the fundamental operations of  the CoDD, and explaining TDVP. What I hope to do, dear reader, is to encourage you to convert your mind into a laboratory, creating a spotless domain for the investigation of reality, and consider your body to be a sacred temple where you can prepare to be filled with the light and joy of expanded consciousness. I want to help you to turn the spotlight of your mind around to illuminate the Threshold leading into the fourth state of consciousness, where you can move from limited physical awareness into spiritual awareness where you may experience reality directly. In that expanded state, you will see that consciousness is not an accidental side effect of a series of random physical processes, but that, in fact, a Primary form of Consciousness is the organizer of the patterns of physical reality that make life, rational science, and self-knowledge possible.

Because of our unique individual experiences as sentient beings occupying physical bodies, the conceptual models of reality that we have constructed in our minds are unique, and to a greater or lesser extent, incongruent with reality as it actually exists. But, in the laboratory of your mind and the temple of your heart, it is possible to become aligned with the logic of Primary Consciousness and the natural dimensional orientation of the cosmos. When this happens, your conceptual model of reality will become one with reality as it actually exists.

Poised on the edge of infinity, between the finite quantized world of the physical universe and the infinitely continuous reality of Primary Consciousness, we find that we are actually immortal souls, temporarily identified with finite organic bodies, formed to provide vehicles that enable us to experience the contrasts of pleasure and pain, ecstasy, and agony, smiles and laughter, sadness and tears, and know the ups and downs of human relationships, all within the embrace of the Eternal Love of the Infinite. We have the privilege and burden of experiencing our own individual drama, a blessing, or a curse, depending upon the way we react to the experiences of life and the endless processes of creation.

We looked at evidence suggesting that the entire physical universe is expanding and discussed how constant light speed in an expanding universe creates logical paradoxes. Then we found that the resolutions of those paradoxes expanded our understanding of the nature of reality in some unexpected ways involving the quantization of space and time. The multi-dimensional expansion of energy, in the form of electromagnetic vibrational frequencies - a small range of which we see as visible light - is yet another repetition of the ubiquitous patterns of expansion, and this radiant energy constantly expanding throughout the universe connects everything in the cosmos, including our individualized consciousness. Realization of this fact brings one to the Threshold of Cosmic Consciousness. Focus on the light beyond the Threshold aligns the focused soul with the magnetic lines of the force field generated by those advanced souls who have already crossed the aetheric bridge into infinite continuity.

So where are we in this series of discussions about expanding awareness? It is one thing - a very valuable thing, to be sure - to be able to produce scientific evidence of the existing and potential expansion of space, time, and consciousness, and gain an intellectual understanding of the transcendental nature of reality, but it is quite another thing to experience it directly.

In this life, we find ourselves somewhere on the path between the bare essential awareness of self and other, and the electromagnetic rainbow bridge into the greater reality beyond space and time. As sentient beings on this planet, at this time, we have the priceless opportunity to consciously seek and find our way onto the straight and narrow path transcending the limitations of physical separation into the ultimate transcendental union with the infinitely Divine nature of reality. It’s up to each one of us to determine where we are on the path, and to learn how we may be able to move forward toward the goal of Cosmic Consciousness.

What then, you may ask, will be the content of the next post? I have to confess that I am, like everyone else, just a bubble of individualized consciousness, like a drop of water trembling on a lotus leaf, I may slide into the water at any moment, absorb nutrients in the mud, and then eventually re-emerge as part of a beautiful flower; or I may evaporate in the rays of the sun to contribute to a cloud of vapor in the hydrologic cycle, to eventually become a drop of refreshing rain. It depends on how aligned I am with the forces that exist, and how focused I am on the goal, whether I continue in the cycle of physical life or sublimate into a transcendental state. I must also report that these posts are not random thoughts formed from nothing. I write only when I am inspired. I wake some mornings, or even in the middle of the night, with written words floating on the screen of my mind, even whole paragraphs sometimes.

I think the next few posts will probably contain more detail that could be helpful for someone trying to determine where she, or he, is on the path. I think I may be prompted to share more information from one of my OBEs or NDEs that might have bearing on the illumination of someone’s path. Quite often, relevant details surface from the volumes of audio and visual information that streamed rapid-fire into my brain during my experience in the Great Pyramid, and for three days afterward, when I saw it streaming every time I closed my eyes. Logically, I expect there will be more specifics about the discovery of gimmel, the non-physical essence of reality appearing in the observation and measurement of quantum phenomena, but the bottom line is I don’t really know what will be in the next post because I am the conduit, not the source.

ERC – 2/20/2022

 

NEW APPROACH PART TEN

 

TEN: SEEING BEYOND THE LIMITATIONS OF LINEAR SPACE AND TIME 

Copyright 2022, Edward R. Close, PhD

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.” – Plato

One of the sub-themes of this series of posts is that the advancement of human consciousness occurs by concurrent triadic expansion, i.e., by expanding in three dimensional domains: physical, mental, and spiritual. Neglecting any of the three, leads to serious imbalance and instability. This is because none of the three have much meaning without the other two. Like mass, energy, and consciousness, all three are quantified aspects of the essence of reality, providing conscious experience ranging from the simplicity of physical reality to the subtlety of mental reality, to the infinite complexity of spiritual reality. No model of reality is complete without all three.

At this point in planetary time, because it is the simplest, our understanding of the physical aspect of reality has outstripped mental and spiritual virtue, causing a dangerous imbalance in human societal activity. If a balance of the three is not achieved, civilization will continue to become more and more divided, until the bulk of humanity realizes that we are on the brink of self-destruction. Then, whether it is called TDVP, or something else, a science based on the fundamental recognition of the triadic nature of reality, physical, mental, and spiritual, must emerge.

These posts have also been about recognizing that what most of us call reality is primarily our own involuntary personal conceptual model, burdened with illusions created by our perceptual limitations. If we don’t seek to think for ourselves and expand our consciousness beyond the awareness we were born with, we are simply accepting the average-to-lowest common denominator of the illusions of mainstream mindlessness. Today’s society seems to be designed to interfere with the freedom to seek the truth, rather than to aid in the effort, and formal education, both public and private, and even modern science, has become more of a hinderance than a help.

With the specialization and dumbing down of education over the past century, we now have hundreds of thousands of people who think they are scientists. But the vast majority of them have MS or PhD after their names simply because they parroted back to university professors and department heads what they wanted to hear, while those same professors were too busy getting mostly mediocre papers pushed through the academic bubble of peer-review to teach their students how to think clearly. Sad to say, but, to many of them, any original thought that might actually lead to scientific advancement is labeled as pseudo-science. They are just too busy complying with the groupthink of their narrow field of study, in search of tenure, to think outside the sterile box of simplistic materialism. As a result, there has been no real paradigm shift in human thought since Einstein and Planck, nearly a century ago, - until TDVP.

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”  – Mark Twain

In this post I want to continue to explain the triadic nature of dimensionality. Without a clear understanding of how and why there are three dimensions of space, three dimensions of time, and three dimensions of consciousness, progress in individual consciousness expansion is very difficult. While spontaneous mental and spiritual leaps into hyper-dimensional domains may happen for many of us, an understanding that there is a step-by-step procedure from where you are now, into an expanded state of consciousness, is critical. A basic awareness of the triadic nature of reality is very helpful, if not necessary for progress at this point in planetary time.

Because most of the changes in our individual physical existence are governed by the time cycles of Earth’s rotation on its axis and revolution around the sun, it is difficult to conceive of why and how the apparent flow of time we experience on this planet is not uniform and universal, but it is not. We have Albert Einstein to thank for exposing the cultural shadows and lies related to space and time. But modern science has yet to discover the complex laws governing the connections between the cycles of space, time, and consciousness. With the TDVP model, we are drawing science into a deeper analysis of the triadic nature of reality. In this post, we will have a slightly more detailed look at what applications of the CoDD reveals about the dimensional domains of space and time.

Expanding Our Awareness of Space and Time

With the application of the CoDD TRUE analysis, once again, we find that the phenomenon perceived through the physical senses as light, plays a critically central role in the expansion of our awareness of the nature of reality. The simplest, most basic aspect of light is its constant speed for all observers, regardless of relative motion. While the speed of light is expressed as a ratio of linear units of distance per linear unit of time, in current scientific analysis, CoDD TRUE analysis shows that this linear expression of light speed is inadequate, and that it results in erroneous implications about reality, because light is a three-dimensional phenomenon, not a linear one.

In fact, light is not propagated linearly. It is propagated radially by alternately fluctuating electric and magnetic fields expanding to infinity in every direction of the three-dimensional domain. When expressed in triadic rotational units of equivalence (TRUE), the speed of light is equal to one TRUE unit of space per one TRUE unit of time, For easier calculation in the CoDD, that ratio is set equal to one. At first glance,  this may appear to be identical to the setting of the speed of light equal to one in Planck units, but it is not. In the TDVP model, the speed of light is defined by the expansion of light through one 3-D TRUE volume of space in one 3-D TRUE of time, making the speed of light equal to (one TRUE)/(one TRUE ) = 1. In this way, the speed of light is automatically unity because of the basic principle of quantum equivalence.

The principle of quantum equivalence is the central mathematical axiom of the TDVP. The unitary quantum equivalence of the rest mass and volume of the smallest stable elementary object, the electron, is the most logical natural base unit for analysis of quantum phenomena. Defining the electron mass/energy/volume quantum equivalence unit as the basic unit of measurement for quantum phenomena, allows us to develop a natural primary calculus for mathematical analysis of phenomena at the quantum scale. I call that calculus the CoDD.

Max Planck discovered that energy is quantized and suggested that “there is no matter as such”, while his friend and colleague, Albert Einstein, derived E = mc², defining the mathematical  equivalence of mass and energy, and declared that space and time have no existence of their own. With no physical existence, it seems reasonable to assume that space and time are infinitely divisible, even though energy and the mass equivalence of energy are not. But, if space and time are infinitely divisible, and the speed of light energy moving between two observation and measurement locations is constant, then we have another paradox related to light.

The fact that that this is a paradox may not be immediately obvious, but to see that it is a paradox, we need only remind ourselves that speed is distance traveled divided by the time it takes. For example, if it takes us two hours to drive 100 miles, then we compute our speed as 100 miles divided by 2 hours equals 50 miles per hour. Of course, we didn’t drive at the exact speed of 50 mph all the time during the 2-hour trip, so 50 mph is an average, but light doesn’t speed up or slow down, because light speed is constant. As the linear distance in space between the two points decreases, and the time interval between measurements approaches zero, instantaneous linear velocity (speed) of a moving object determined by Newtonian calculus approaches either some finite linear value divided by zero, or zero divided by zero (0/0), and both are mathematically undefined. What does this mean? Every basic course in algebra includes a demonstration showing that dividing by zero results in erroneous results or mathematical absurdities like 2 = 1.

So, how is this paradox resolved? By looking at the assumptions and determining which one is erroneous. There are only two assumptions in this case: 1) the speed of light is constant, and 2) space and time are infinitely divisible. Constant light speed is the basis of the theory of relativity, and the fact that the speed of light is constant is so well documented that we must accept it as true. So, we are left with the conclusion that the assumption that space and time can be divided into smaller and smaller amounts indefinitely must be wrong. To eliminate the paradox, we simply recognize that TRUE quantum units, whether of energy, mass, space , or time, are three-dimensional. Then, the smallest possible ratio is one 3-D quantum/ one 3-D quantum = 1.

This is just one example of the many ways that ignoring the fact that everything existing in quantized reality is three dimensional, not singular, one-dimensional, or two-dimensional, leads to absurd results. In fact, application of the primary calculus to quantum combinations exposes all of the “weirdness” of quantum mechanics that particle physicists like to talk about, as simply the end result of the inappropriate application of Newtonian calculus to phenomena at the quantum-scale level. Why is the Newton/Leibniz differential and integral calculus inappropriate for application at the quantum level? Simply because it is based on the assumption that space and time are infinitely divisible. Why does it work at the macro-scale? Simply because TRUE quanta are many orders of magnitude (powers of 10 times the basic unit) smaller than the limited precision of our means of direct observation and measurement, so that the facts of quantum-scale phenomena must be ascertained by indirect means and deductive reasoning.

In future posts in this series, I intend to further clarify exactly how the misapplication of Newtonian calculus to quantum phenomena came about and why it leads to paradoxes and errors that can be explained and corrected using the quantum calculus I call the calculus of dimensional distinctions (CoDD). We will also see how the appropriate application of the quantum mathematical principle made the discovery of non-physical quantized reality possible. Of course, I am referring to the discovery of gimmel, the measurable non-physical aspect of reality.

ERC – 2/14/2022

NEW APPROACH PART NINE

 

 

NINE: THE SHAPE OF REALITY

Copyright 2022, Edward R. Close, PhD

Reality has a shape. What is it? Our senses do not ordinarily reveal it to us. Our senses are focused very pointedly on the immediate local domain of our physical bodies. This is necessary for our individual survival, and the survival of our species. But our mental and spiritual consciousness is broader, and indeed capable of expanding our awareness beyond the temporarily narrow focus of the five physical senses. The narrow survival focus of our senses leads us to incorrect conclusions about the nature of reality. For example, the surface of a body of water appears to be flat, until we expand the scope of our awareness beyond the immediate locality. If we rise far enough above the surface of our world, we can see islands or ships that were hidden from our view by the curvature of the planet. Long before we reach the moon, it becomes obvious that the Earth, appearing locally flat, is a beautiful, marbled in blue and white, oblate spheroid, dynamically suspended in a surrounding regional volume of the gravitational field of our solar system, and our galaxy beyond that. - Perhaps Ernst Mach was right!

If Ernst Mach was right, the dynamic stability of our world is actually going to be more and more explainable in an increasingly broader perspective of the interaction of all things existing in the universe. TDVP research strongly suggest that this is the case. For example, the rapidly spinning resistance to linear motion observed in the study of elementary objects is a natural response to the multi-dimensional  expansion of the universe. Just like the localized focus of our physical senses hides the curvature of the surface of the Earth, it also hides the existence of hyper-dimensional domains. In these posts, I am attempting to explain, in plain English, how we know that dimensional domains with more than the four dimensions that are obvious to our localized sensual perceptions actually exist, and even how we can not only know that they exist, but also begin to understand how we can experience them directly.

At this point in this series of posts, I want to take a moment to look back and make sure that I am still on track with the original plan and purpose of the series. I think of this series as a new approach because, after about 45 years - including joining forces with Dr. Vernon Neppe, MD, PhD for the last twelve years - trying to get the attention of the scientific community to introduce a new way of thinking, with very modest results, I felt it was time to let science continue on its way as it will, and work on explaining the new paradigm in a way that the average citizen of the world can understand, and hopefully find useful. I also want to thank those who are following the series and respond to some important feedback I have received.

Central to the new paradigm that Dr. Neppe and I developed, the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP), is a form of primary mathematical reasoning that I call the Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions (CoDD). The result is a change in thinking to a new, consciousness-based, post-materialist mode of analysis. In a comment on the last post, one of my most trusted and respected readers in Europe pointed out that to members of the general audience that I am trying to reach, the intelligently interested public, the acronyms TDVP and CoDD are still abstract “black boxes” with little or no meaning. While there are fairly detailed explanations of these terms elsewhere, I cannot expect the reader to search for them, likely loosing the thread of the post in the process.

My first reaction was: Surely anyone who had read the previous seven posts in this series would have an adequate idea of what these acronyms mean or would have gathered their meaning from context. Then I realized that I was making one of the most basic errors commonly made by many of the less-than-professional math instructors I derided in the third paragraph of the previous post (Part 8), I was assuming too much. Thus, in this post, I am providing the following explanations of these acronyms for some more rational clarification in this series of posts.

TDVP – Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm

Sometime between 2008 and 2010, Dr. Vernon Neppe and I decided to use this label to represent the combination of our ideas, as we developed a consciousness-based model of reality. At the time, we had not yet demonstrated more than a few of the proofs and validating applications to experimental data resolving real problems and paradoxes that exist in the mainstream standard model. We used these four words to describe our model because they represented what we saw as major patterns of  reality. Let’s look at the meaning of each word:

Triadic – Reflecting the fact that the patterns in reality that allow science to exist are composed of triads and repetitions of triadic relationships. Examples include three dimensions of space, three quarks are needed to form a proton, three forms of ordinary matter (solid, liquid, and gaseous), three force fields (electric, magnetic, gravitational), three kinds of human experience (physical, mental, and spiritual), three regular states of consciousness (Waking, sleeping, and dreaming), etc.

Dimensional – A basic feature of our experience of reality Recognizing the importance of extending the successful approach of Einstein and Minkowski, Kaluza, Klein, Pauli, and Nordstrom, using four, five, and six dimensions, to the hyper-dimensional domains existing beyond.

Vortical – A common pattern of mass/energy throughout the physical universe, from the rotations of elementary particles, to spiraling nebulae, to the structure of DNA and RNA molecules.

Paradigm – A set of concepts or a way of thinking, in this case it is meant to indicate a general model of reality that includes mathematics, dimensionality, and consciousness as fundamental.

CoDD – Calculus of Dimensional Distinctions  

The development of a primary calculus called the calculus of indications by G. Spencer Brown in his ground-breaking book, Laws of Form, was the inspiration for the development of the CoDD. As Brown’s calculus of indications was being adapted for analyses of paradoxes in the physics of the standard model, it became clear that the primary calculus had to be modified to deal with quantum phenomena, and with reality as experienced by sentient beings. Changes in axiomatic structure and mathematical notation were necessary to connect the unitary distinctions of the calculus with the conscious perception and conceptualization of elementary objects.

Calculus – A system of calculation designed for application at the quantum level of reality. The CoDD is a primary calculus consisting of a system of mathematical logic dealing with distinctions drawn by conscious observers.

Dimensional Distinctions – Distinct observable structures existing in reality, that are  measurable in variables of extent as multiples of units of equivalence (See TRUE below).

TRUE – Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence

Traditionally, units of measurement have been arbitrarily chosen for practical purposes with different sets of units defined for various kinds of measurements, requiring rules for converting from one set of units to another. To avoid difficult conversions, there have been attempts to define sets of “natural” units based on universal constants. The best known is Planck units, based on setting the speed of light and four other universal constants equal to one (unity) to simplify calculations in physics. Max Planck developed Planck units when he discovered that energy only occurs in whole-number multiples of a very small, very specific unit, and that there was a mathematic equivalence between energy and mass. Natural units for use in the application of the CoDD to quantized phenomena were developed by setting the basic units of the physical variables of mass, energy, space, and time to unity, rather than the universal constants. This results in a natural set of units similar in some ways to Planck units: Setting the basic units of space and time equal to unity automatically sets the speed of light to one, and mass and energy also have a mathematical equivalence. The resulting quantum equivalence units, based on the mass and volume of the free electron, are the CoDD triadic rotational units of equivalence (TRUE).

Triadic – Used as a descriptor here because the basic defining entity, the electron, is three-dimensional.

Rotational – The mass (resistance to motion) of the electron is created by rotation in three planes.

Unit – No explanation needed.

Equivalence – Mass, energy, space, and time share a mathematical equivalence.

DE – Dimensional Extrapolation

The mathematical process of rotation and projection from an n-dimensional domain into an n+1 dimensional domain. This mathematical process involves application of a generalization of the Pythagorean theorem, and automatically defines the basic unit of measurement in the n+1 dimensional domain, relative to the basic unit of measurement in the n-dimensional domain. I originally thought of this as a mathematical description of the spinning projection of consciousness I experienced in 2010 in the Great Pyramid.

From the first post of the New Approach series, The Threshold, to the last one posted so far, Dimensions of the known and unknown, my goal has been to explain the results in plain English, to the best of my ability, how the mental images we visualize in our individual consciousness and the mathematical models called the laws of science are both ever-changing approximations of the logical patterns actually existing in reality. The fact that they are ever-changing reflects the fact that reality itself is not static but expanding into infinity. This new approach is not intended to be a “dumbing down” of information, but rather, an explanation in terms available to the average person.

The main point of this post is that reality consists of interacting dynamic sequential dimensional domains, embedded in encompassing domains far beyond the localized 3-space, 1-time domain automatically available to our senses because of their current localized structure, and that both the universe and conscious awareness appears to be expanding. Furthermore, the expansion of awareness can be accelerated, stagnated, or reversed by our own actions.

The results of my research in mathematical physics, in combination with intense experimentation in the laboratory of consciousness, has convinced me that the shape of reality is that of a self-referential bubble of multi-dimensional intra-acting domains of space, time, and consciousness, containing vortices of mass, energy, and consciousness, all suspended in the a-temporal, ex-spatial, infinitely continuous field of Primary Consciousness. The implications of this are enormous, but what it means in respect to the overall shape of reality is that the large-scale structure of reality is always different than localized perceptions of it. Perhaps even the four-dimensional perception of a big bang expanding universe is an illusion caused by our limited view of reality.

Dear reader, you are invited to explore the implications with me, as in future posts, I do my best to explain the complexities of reality as revealed by TDVP investigations into the nature of reality, in plain English, to the best of my ability.

ERC 02/04/2022

NEW APPROACH PART EIGHT

 

EIGHT: DIMENSIONS OF THE KNOWN AND UNKNOWN

“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”- Alfred North Whitehead

Dear reader, in these blogposts, I am asking you to awaken your innate potential as someone with “a very unusual mind”. Everyone knows what a dimension is, right? We all think we know what dimensions are. The dimensions of reality are so obvious to us that the vast majority of us talk about dimensions all the time, and thus see no need to undertake an “analysis of the obvious”. But that’s exactly what I propose we do in this discussion. I think there is a great need for just such an analysis. Like the paradoxes we have been analyzing in this series of discussions, dimensions reach all the way from the patently familiar world of everyday life to the wildest regions of the vast unknown.

So, what are dimensions? No one can ship a package, build a home, or plan a trip without dealing with dimensions. Dimensions are the basic measurements of extent needed for use in the calculations that solve many of the practical problems of our lives. Measurements of the dimensions of space and time are the raw data for calculations of distances, areas, volumes, and velocities, and even more challenging rates of motion like the speed of light. Such practical uses of the data obtained from accurate observations and precise measurements of dimensions are the first steps on the path that led to the development of that currently dreaded public educational headache called mathematics.

If you have come with me this far, you know that when I use the term mathematics in these blogposts, I am referring to something far different than what the average person thinks of when seeing that word. As a writer, I was told by publishers and other writers many times that with every use of that word, many readers are lost. And the appearance of an equation is even worse, they say. Why is this? In my opinion, based on years of experience teaching mathematics, it is because of a general “dumbing down” of public education. For many people, that horrible word brings back memories of  painful experiences of a high school or university math instructor yelling at them, like a frustrated pedagogue, finding fault with the students, rather than with his teaching methods, lack of proper preparation, or poor understanding of the subject.

We are constantly told that education has progressed, and that there is so much more to learn today than when our grandparents were young. But when I look at the course material in public education, what I see is more and more detail that is utterly useless except in very narrow areas of specialization. I see that today’s math classes are more about how to use a computer than how to think. Critical reasoning doesn’t seem to have any place in public education. My mother, father, and grandparents, who were born and grew up in the backwoods of the Missouri Ozarks, with no formal education beyond the eighth grade, were far better at critical thinking and problem solving than many people today with BS, MS, and PhD after their names. Why is this? The dumbing down and narrow specialization of public and now, even private education in this country. When everyone who pays the proscribed fee is given a diploma or degree whether they master the material or not, and an advanced degree means a cluttered mind with more and more narrow detail with less and less substance, you have a recipe for disaster.

While on the path to my chosen profession in theoretical physics, one of the degrees I earned was a Batchelor’s degree in mathematics. I enjoyed the subject so much that I decided to teach math and took some education courses and got a job as a public high school math teacher in 1962. The first two years of teaching gave me some of the most rewarding experiences of my life. They were not monetarily rewarding experiences, but I maintain that there is nothing more satisfying or exciting, than seeing the light come on in a student’s eyes when she, or he, understands, for the first time, the elegant proof of a theorem, or the beautiful symmetry of a polynomial expansion. But, after teaching at the high school and university levels for a few years, I left the teaching profession. I left mainly for two reasons: 1) The obvious dumbing down of public education, and 2) at that time, teachers were being paid less than garbage collectors. I decided to get a PhD in environmental engineering.

OK, enough complaining  about the disappointing state of public education, which, sorry to say, is worsening as we speak. Back to the subject at hand.

The concept of dimension leads to some things far more interesting than the mundane tasks of calculating distances, areas, volumes, and velocities. What do theoretical physicists mean when they talk about ten dimensions of string theory, or curved space and dilated time? What do UFO theorists mean when they say that alien spacecrafts may come here by traveling through “another dimension”? What do spiritual mystics mean when they speak of experiencing other planes of existence? Are they all referring to the same thing when they use the word dimension? Obviously not, but what are dimensions, anyway?

“...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.” ― Alfred North Whitehead

In the end, truth is always simple. But sometimes the complexity that must be endured to arrive at a simple truth is tedious and time-consuming. Grasping the importance of multi-dimensional analysis is a case in point. Because our physical senses are so limited and focused primarily on physical survival, visualization of more than three dimensions is difficult. Even the idea that time is the fourth dimension is difficult to grasp.

Prior to the introduction of time as a fourth dimension in general relativity, it was usually only abstract mathematicians who talked about n-dimensional space, where n could be any number from one to infinity. Professionals in advanced mathematics don’t like to limit their explorations of number theory by tying mathematics to things that actually exist in reality, and most physicists and other scientists look at math as nothing more than a source of tools they can use to solve problems. As a result, one of the most persistent misconceptions about dimensionality is that there is, was, or could be more than three dimensions of space.

Applications of the calculus of dimensional distinctions (CoDD) however, show that, when related to the physical universe and its reflection in pure mathematics, natural dimensions beyond three are not spatial. Their scope and meaning are more complex than simple length, width, and depth, and the pattern of reality reflected in sub-atomic reality, mathematics, and consciousness, is not singular, linear, or binary, but triadic. As I developed dimensionometry to identify and explore the invariant relationships between the dimensional domains of the TDVP model of reality, the analysis revealed that three dimensions of space, three dimensions of time, and three dimensions of consciousness are necessary to model the structure of the human experiences of reality.

It took several years of study and several experiences of expanded consciousness in NDEs and OBEs for me to realize exactly what dimensions are. The path was complex, but in the end, the truth was and is simple. Dimensions are the measurable connections between geometric simplicity and complexity, eventually leading back to simplicity again. They are also the connections between mundane existence and exotic experiences of reality, enabling one to return to the simplicity of oneness. Dimensions delineate the pathway from the discrete separation of quantized reality to the infinitely continuous reality of conscious enlightenment.

The discussion of dimensions should actually be about dimensional domains, not about dimensions, because a single dimension by itself is meaningless beyond being part of a logical framework for observation and measurement. And dimensional domains are of interest primarily not because of what they are, but what they may contain. Starting with the mathematicalogical invariants discovered in the relationships between the first four dimensional domains of space and time, the triadic invariances of dimensionality can be traced upward from the dimensional domain of the smallest quantum of reality to the logical patterns of consciousness, or downward from the logical patterns of consciousness, back to the dimensions of time and space. This can be accomplished using Fermat’s method of infinite descent translated into the mathematical notation of the CoDD. See Transcendental Physics, Close (1997)

Defining the mathematical operations of the primary quantum calculus of dimensional distinctions is a complex task, but the underlying metaphysical basis of the calculus and the resulting structure of reality that its application reveals, can be described in plain English:

The Metaphysical Basis:

Reality as we experience it, consists of quantized manifestations of the essence of reality in three forms: mass, energy, and consciousness-as-content. Mass is condensed energy, in the form of quantized vortexes spinning in at least three dimensions, measured by the strength of their inertia (resistance to motion). Energy is a condensed form of consciousness, measured by its quantized force, equivalent by a multiplicative factor, to the quantized inertia of mass. Quantized consciousness (gimmel) is the first manifestation of the conscious essence of reality in the physical universe, and it is capable of expansion and the conveyance of patterns of the logical structure of Primary Consciousness, the substrate of manifest reality, into physical reality.

Space, time, and conscious extent are the three forms of dimensional domains created by the existence of quantized mass, energy, and conscious content. Please notice, in what was just said above, that consciousness plays a key role in the expansion of both content and extent. It is in this way that living organisms are developed by Primary Consciousness for the purpose of functioning as vehicles within which quantized consciousness can expand by self-effort from the bare awareness of self and other, to Cosmic Consciousness, the complete awareness of everything, including Primary Consciousness itself.

Dimensionality and the Structure of Reality:

Dimensions are very simple geometrical concepts. They are straight lines, constructed for the purpose of representing the location and extent of observable phenomena from the location of an ostensibly arbitrary reference point chosen by a conscious observer. But the reference point is not actually arbitrary; it represents the observer’s personal location, based on the sense of separation from observable phenomena, projected out of the observer’s consciousness onto a sheet of paper as the zero point of an analog model of the observer’s personal frame of reference in the dimensional domain of his existence in the physical reality of his experience. You may need to read that again to understand every word, but it is a very detailed description of the very simple concept of location.

An n-dimensional domain is a region of interest and focus of a conscious observer, defined by the extent of the dimensions and the content of the region so defined. In a domain of two or more dimensions, the dimensional lines are constructed at 90-degree angles from each other. The choice of 90-degree angle separation of dimensions is not arbitrary or random. It is chosen because it results in the smallest number of straight-line cardinal dimensions equally dividing a circle and a sphere. Any other angle of separation makes quantification and visualization of the reality represented much more difficult. Lines intersecting at 90 degrees are called orthogonal lines.

To paraphrase Albert Einstein: dimensions can claim no existence of their own, they are simply structural features of the distribution of the density of the substantial field of reality.

Despite their lack of substantial existence, dimensional domains convey a lot of meaningful information about physical, mental, and spiritual reality. For that reason, they are worthy of detailed study and analysis. Here are some of the things the TRUE CoDD analysis of TDVP reveals about dimensional domains:

A zero-dimensional domain is a dimensionless point, also called a singularity.

A one-dimensional domain is a straight line segment extending from a zero-reference point in opposite directions.

A two-dimensional domain is an area defined by the extent of two orthogonal one-dimensional line segments.

A three-dimensional domain is a volume defined by three mutually orthogonal one-dimensional line segments.

A four-dimensional domain is a region defined by four mutually orthogonal 1-dimensional line segments.

An n-dimensional domain is a region defined by n mutually orthogonal one-dimensional line segments.

In domains with 1 through 3 dimensions, distances are measured, and phenomena are described, in terms of integer multiples of TRUE (quantum equivalence units) of the CoDD. But they must be measured and  described in terms of integer multiples of imaginary numbers in domains with 4 through 6 dimensions, and in terms of integer multiples of specific complex numbers, known as the nth roots of unity, in domains with 7 or more dimensions. This unitary change from integers to imaginary numbers, to complex numbers is mathematically necessary for a consistent quantized description of the rotation and projection from geo-centric dimensional domains into hyper-dimensional domains. Proof of this is relatively straight-forward using the CoDD and application of the Pythagorean Theorem. The Proof, translated into conventional simple mathematical notation, has been published in several books and papers, some of which are listed in two blogposts: REFERENCES Sept. 17, 2016, and THE ANSWER  Nov. 7, 2021. I call the process of rotation and expansive projection from one dimensional domain into the next one, Dimensional Extrapolation because it demonstrates the way both consciousness and physical reality expand.

In 2011, the first CoDD analysis I did, using TRUE quantum arithmetic, was to describe in detail the combination of quarks to form protons, the sub-atomic entities that, along with electrons, form all of the stable building blocks of the natural elements of the periodic table. What I discovered, was surprising, even though something like it should have been expected from the moment I included consciousness in the definition of the basic distinction of the primary calculus in 1986 for application at the quantum scale of physical reality. That discovery was the existence of multiple occurrences of TRUE units of non-physical gimmel at the heart of  physical reality, an undeniable indicator of consciousness – literally the fingerprints of God showing up on the most abundant stable object of the physical universe, the proton. See footnotes in Reality Begins with Consciousness, Neppe and Close (2011) and my chapter in the AAPS Volume I, first edition entitled Is Consciousness Primary? Edited by Drs G.E. Schwartz and M.H. Woollacott (2019).

Triadic Rotational Units of Equivalence (TRUE) are defined by the mass and volume of the free electron, tying the quantum mathematics of the CoDD to physical reality, and Dimensional Extrapolation is a mathematical process analogous to the conscious movement, by rotation and projection, from an n-dimensional domain into an n+1 dimensional domain. The appearance of gimmel in the CoDD TRUE analysis of the combination of two up-quarks and one down-quark to form a proton, also ties the analysis to consciousness, providing a basis for the integration of consciousness, spirituality, and physical reality.

Dimensional domains are geometrical patterns that originate in the logical structure of consciousness and have no existence of their own. A domain is defined by the number of dimensions needed to describe it, but the number of dimensions and the extent of those dimensions are completely determined by the domain’s content of mass, energy, and gimmel. In efforts to describe relativistic effects, physicists and science writers often describe space or spacetime being warped, curved, or distorted by mass. But there is no such thing as bent or distorted space, time, spacetime, or any hyper-dimensional region. Curvilinear paths of moving objects are caused by the distribution of the density of substance within a domain. This is actually what is  known in modern physics as a field.

Dimensional domains with zero, one, or two dimensions, are archetypes of the logical structure of Primary Consciousness. They can be conceptualized mentally, and represented on a piece of paper, but do not exist in physical reality because they have no capacity to contain quanta of the substance of reality. Because of this, CoDD analysis, as it applies to physical reality, begins with n = 3, the first dimensional domain that can contain volumetric structures of mass and energy. This gives it a distinct advantage over conventional mathematics in hyper-dimensional analyses but requires a radical re-defining of the fundamental operations of arithmetic and algebra appropriate for our quantized reality.

An n-dimensional domain is capable of containing all smaller domains (i.e., domains with fewer dimensions than n) if  such domains exist within the n-dimensional domain of interest.

A conscious entity can only be fully aware of the existence of an n-dimensional domain of reality when that entity’s awareness is expanded enough to include at least one quantum of an n+1 dimensional domain.

In an infinite or effectively infinite reality, logically, physically, and mathematically, every n-dimensional domain, from n=0 to n=9, is embedded within an n+1 dimensional domain.

This brief introduction to the way CoDD dimensionometry models the structure of reality is a first step in relating the logic of the TDVP to direct human experience of reality. The second step is the geometric process of Dimensional Extrapolation. The third step is virtual rotation and projection of human consciousness into higher dimensional domains. The prime example of this third step in my life was my experience in 2010 in the Great Pyramid of Egypt. [Described briefly in Secrets of the Sacred Cube, a Cosmic Love Story, Close, E.R. and Close, J.A. (2019)].

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge. … The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts.”    – Alfred North Whitehead 

In the next installment of A New Approach, I will continue to discuss how the logic of the Triadic Dimensional Vortical Paradigm (TDVP)  relates to the direct human experience of reality.

ERC 1/29/2022

LET THERE BE LIGHT

 

© Copyright Edward R. Close, 2022

SEVEN: LIGHT AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL HOLISTIC REALITY

“Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.” - Alfred North Whitehead

During my early years as an undergraduate, even though I was majoring in physics with a minor in mathematics, I was also very much interested in symbolic logic, linguistics, philosophy, metaphysics, and parapsychology. As a result, I did some extra-curricular research into the writings of Alfred North Whitehead, and what I found had a profound influence on me. In the previous post, I commented on the theory of types found in Principia Mathematica the best-known work of Whitehead and his most famous student, Bertrand Russell, and identified paradox as the fourth, and in my opinion, the most important type of statement relative to the advancement of our understanding of reality.

Toward the end of my undergraduate years, I found myself rejecting the materialistic views of Russell and gravitating toward Whitehead’s way of thinking about metaphysics. Reading Whitehead’s works: Process and Reality, The concept of Nature, and Science and the Modern World, I realized, among other things, that most people studying science and mathematics are oblivious to what their own metaphysical assumptions are. I realized that a scientist who does not know what the metaphysical assumptions of science are, is like a ship without a rudder, and science with a confused metaphysical foundation is going to be fragmented and bogged down in endless confusion.

I think the failure to see the logical and mathematical indicators of extra dimensions is what led Russell, and most rationalists of the twentieth century into the unfortunate consciousness-stifling dead-end of materialism. It is understandable that this would happen. Materialism is the “low-hanging fruit” of natural science. Recognizing consciousness as a fundamental aspect of reality makes the task of grasping the nature of reality more difficult, but ultimately, much more satisfying. The ways we deceive ourselves are many and subtle, but the most insidious is by separating subject from object, mind from matter, consciousness from reality.

In this post, I want to elaborate on the theme of the previous six posts: The fact that pure mathematics, natural science, and human consciousness are all just different aspects of the same thing; and that is, that, as human beings, we are manifestations of reality seeking to experience itself at the interface between the quantized physical universe and the infinitely continuous substrate of Cosmic Consciousness. As finite conscious beings, we stand on the threshold of infinity. Summarizing the last post: Real paradox is the fourth type of statement, the logical equivalent of the third root of unity, i.e., the imaginary number, and the doorway to consciousness expansion that brings us to the Threshold of the fourth state of consciousness.

Since consciousness expansion is a real experience that cannot be described in the finite words of any language, we have to rely on analogies, which are never perfect. I have used the phenomena of the origination and propagation of light to illustrate this point because it is the best analogy we have. Light is, in a very real sense, the very fabric of reality, expanding, as it does, from the smallest quantum to infinity. It is the most viable and available link between consciousness and physical reality.

An important key to understanding the nature of reality is recognizing the relationship of finite dimensionality to infinity. Applications of the CoDD reveal that everything in existence expands in very different ways into the geometrically consecutive extensions of three, six, and nine dimensions. We have to start our analysis of the expanding universe with three dimensions, not zero, one, or two, because there is no such thing as a singularity, and no such things as scalar and planar objects or entities in quantized reality. Points, lines, and planes do not exist in quantized reality. They are projections of the infinite continuity of mind, the first level of consciousness. All objects of manifest reality are at least 3-D volumetric, so physical reality starts with three dimensions, not zero, one or two. Once this fact is grasped, many things begin to become much clearer.

With the importance of dimensionality in mind, let’s have a look at another historical paradox involving light from distant stars, known as Olbers’ paradox, named after the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers (1758–1840). This paradox arose from the fact that the blackness of empty space conflicted with the assumption of most astronomers at that time that the universe extended to infinity. If the universe were infinite, Olbers reasoned, there would be an infinite number of stars, and any line of sight would end on the surface of a star causing the night sky to blaze with light. But this reasonable conclusion is contradicted by the darkness seen between stars that can be observed every night.

Unlike Niels Bohr, most scientists don’t like paradoxes, and do their best to explain them away within the comfort of their existing belief systems, not realizing that real paradoxes that arise in any finite system of thought cannot be resolved within that system. In this case, and in general, the finite system of thought embraced by most mainstream scientists, is built on the metaphysical foundation of sand known as materialism, or physicalism. If scientists are successful in explaining away a contradiction, then the paradox wasn’t a real paradox as defined in the last post, but just a misunderstanding, or misinterpretation of some part of the established paradigm. Edwin Hubble’s discovery of the linear relationship between red shift and distance expanded our awareness of reality. Here is the standard explanation, accepted by the majority of astronomers and astrophysicists as the resolution of Olbers’ paradox:

“The darkness of the night sky is explained by the expansion of spacetime, which lengthens the [wavelength of] light originating from the Big Bang to microwave levels via a process known as red shift; this microwave radiation background has wavelengths much longer than those of visible light and so appears dark to the naked eye. Other explanations for the paradox have been offered, but none have wide acceptance in cosmology.”

At first glance, this seems like the perfect resolution of Olbers’ paradox. It even appears to fit the pattern of the expansion of reality and consciousness about which I’ve been talking. But there’s a problem. It falls right back into the paradox of the red shift exposed in the last post. It assumes that the red shift is lengthening of wavelength due to a doppler effect, which would violate the physical conservation of energy law, and it fails to include the relativistic shortening of wavelength with motion that would happen in an expanding universe.

I think another analogy might help here. Olber’s paradox and its solution may be analogous to the flat-Earth paradox arising from the fact that we can see in a straight line all the way to the craters of the moon, even when the moon is on the horizon, and yet we cannot see a ship on the ocean a mere fifty miles away. The disappearing ship paradox is resolved quickly by realizing that the surface of the Earth is the curve of a three-dimensional object, not a two dimensional one. Similarly, perhaps, we cannot see stars beyond those about 13.8 billion light years away, not because light waves are stretched by the doppler effect, but because the universe is a multi-dimensional object with more dimensions than our physical senses are able to detect directly.

When we go back to the threshold of infinity, we see that this paradox is in fact caused by the arbitrary separation of matter from mind. To see why, let’s look at the process of observing light from distant stars more closely again. We assume that this light that we are observing is a form of energy originating on the surface of a star near the edge of the visible universe ten or twelve billion years ago, that it has traveled an unbelievably great distance, finally to be captured in our telescope, to be magnified and directed onto a photographic plate, so we can look at the results with eyes that have not existed for even a blink in the age of the universe. What’s wrong with this picture?

To begin with, light is not a particle or wave travelling through space as we have assumed. Light is a local phenomenon. What we are studying, is the local movement of an electric field, whose movement excites a magnetic field, whose movement in turn, excites a local electric field ahead of the magnetic field, etc. This is why light always has the same velocity for every observer. Every observer is measuring the wavelengths and movements of dynamic local phenomenological events in his or her own inertial reference frame. Conclusions about what may or may not have happened billions of years ago are indirect deductions about details of events distant in spacetime, based on assumptions that, as it turns out, are not true.

On the frontier of the four-dimensional reality model of general relativity, Einstein, in the last year of his life, concluded that space and time, separately, or combined dimensionally as spacetime, both measures of extent, have no existence of their own. And John Archibald Wheeler, in my opinion Einstein’s most brilliant student, who designed the delayed-choice experiment, pointed out that actions that we perform in the present, when dealing with light from distant stars, can change what we are able to say about the past. Both of these observations by Einstein and Wheeler are confirmed by applications of the CoDD to the red shift and Olbers’ paradoxes.

Next, we must realize that experimental conditions, specifically in the case at hand, the telescope, the photographic plate, and all of the circumstances of human observation and measurement, are set up by a conscious being seeking to extend our limited physical senses. While the intent is to try to reveal more of the detail of reality that are hidden from us by the reduction valves of our physical senses, the result actually makes our already indirect perception of the phenomenon called light even more indirect. Finally, we must realize that the reductionist approach to the analysis of light assumes that light is a feature of reality that can be considered separate and independent of everything else, when, in fact it is not. Application of the principles of TDVP and the CoDD highlights electromagnetic radiation as the fundamental link between consciousness and the physical universe. We need to rectify the mistake of natural philosophy and science pointed out by Alfred North Whitehead, when he said:

“The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.”

 

It is also important at this point to bring in a concept that had a profound impact on Albert Einstein’s development of the theory of relativity. That concept is known as Mach’s Principle. It can be stated as follows:

There must be a general law of relativity that relates the motion of the distant stars to the local inertial reference frame of the conscious observer. In other words, local physical laws are directly related to, and determined by the large-scale structure of the universe. – Ernst Mach

 

The equations of general relativity represent Einstein’s best efforts to formulate the general law that Mach referred to, connecting localized physical laws to the motion of distant stars through “the electrodynamics of moving objects”. I want to show in these posts that Einstein’s focus on the role of light was correct, but that his work was not finished when he passed to the other side. Furthermore, the way to do it is to expand the model of reality from the four-dimensional model of general relativity to a multi-dimensional model of nine finite dimensions.

 

Electromagnetic radiation is, in fact, the unique, most important aspect of the essential substance of reality that links mass, energy, and consciousness. I will have much more to say about this later, but for now, let’s turn back to the analysis of light from distant stars and the interesting paradoxes it presents to the current mainstream scientific paradigm.

The alternating vibration of electric and magnetic fields of starlight is magnified by the telescope and projected on a photographic plate that has a coating of material that changes color when impacted by the energy of the light. Some of the light is also split into different wavelengths by refraction so the individual wavelengths that make up the spectral signature of the star can be identified. Finally, a conscious observer interprets these secondary and tertiary phenomena as evidence of non-local activities that may have happened billions of years ago. But some of the conclusions may be incorrect because of the assumption that something called spacetime exists apart from the object of observation and the observer. As pointed out above, spacetime is not independent of the other elements of the experiment and the way the experiment is set up may affect what we conclude about what may have happened billions of years ago.

As explained in the previous post, assuming that the red shift is a doppler lengthening of light waves violates the law of conservation of energy. Instead, the red shift appears to be caused by the acceleration of the expansion of the physical universe. But what if, similar to the way the illusion of a flat Earth is resolved with the expansion of our awareness to include an additional dimension, the red shift and Olbers’ paradoxes are also resolved by expanding our awareness into dimensional domains beyond the four dimensions of spacetime? In fact, this is exactly what application of CoDD strongly suggests. Before we delve into this, I think it will be helpful to clarify what dimensions are and how they relate to reality in general, and these paradoxes in particular. I like to call this subject dimensionometry, but, because this post is already too long, I am going to pause here and discuss dimensionometry is some detail in the next post.

-         ERC 1/24/2022