…AND THE TRUTH IS
Okay. I admit it's a bit theatrical of a title. But a bit of theatrics never hurt anyone, right? I promised in yesterday’s post to address what may be the fourth pathway to truth, and it well might be. If the Fibonacci sequence I hinted at in my last post holds, then the fourth pathway should have presented itself in around 1983.
Here’s my take on it all: Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity held that almost everything could be explained in four rather than three dimensions, the fourth dimension being time, or, as it’s called today, space-time. His theory “explained” the workings of gravity, but never a wave/particle mode of its expression. When quantum physics took on this task, things quickly got weird and “spooky.”
In the early 1980’s, Edward Witten proposed something outrageous: The machinations of gravity as well as a number of other “quirks” of physics could be explained more elegantly and productively using Supergravity Theory. The problem was, it did this most elegantly in eleven dimensions, many so weird that physicists balked at the whole thing. Why explain weirdness with something even weirder?
About the same time mathematicians, physicists and cosmologists were working on an alternative unified field theory called Superstring Theory that seemed to contradict Superstring Theory until it was eventually discovered that they were one and the same in eleven dimensions. The two faces of M-Superstring Theory gave physicist a way to mathematically go back to and even predate the Big Bang, the “singularity” that had never been able to be explained before. The problem was, it required not only eleven dimensions (some of which were truly weird) but the existence of multiple universes, or, as some later postulated, a Multiverse of universes.
Interestingly, the idea of multiple universes can be used to explain a lot of heretofore unexplainable phenomena in our everyday world. For example, what if psychoses, were the result of mentally having one foot in our universe and the other in another? Unanchored in either. Certainly searching for treatments would be quite different than today’s search for better drugs, electroshock and/or talk therapy approaches. And what if our myths of death weren’t necessarily all fiction? Death might be simply the movement from this universe to another, the soul, a collection of one’s experience in this life, acting as a guide or pathway to the next universe. Heaven would be a universe where one continued refining the good that one perceived experiencing before death; hell would be a universe where on continued grinding away the bad Karma one experienced before death. Birth would be just the opposite: a transition from another universe to this one where humans are the top denizens and, as would be, predators.
A unified field theory of everything, from the tiniest to the largest including our unique universe. The fourth and final theory of truth at least within our sensory reality. Maybe. It’s certainly starting out well.
I’m working on a sequel to THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor (search for “The Edge of Madness Gaynor”) in which the three protagonists must face and manipulate the multiverse in order to escape their mounting problems on Earth in this universe.
The Edge of Madness
Here’s my take on it all: Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity held that almost everything could be explained in four rather than three dimensions, the fourth dimension being time, or, as it’s called today, space-time. His theory “explained” the workings of gravity, but never a wave/particle mode of its expression. When quantum physics took on this task, things quickly got weird and “spooky.”
In the early 1980’s, Edward Witten proposed something outrageous: The machinations of gravity as well as a number of other “quirks” of physics could be explained more elegantly and productively using Supergravity Theory. The problem was, it did this most elegantly in eleven dimensions, many so weird that physicists balked at the whole thing. Why explain weirdness with something even weirder?
About the same time mathematicians, physicists and cosmologists were working on an alternative unified field theory called Superstring Theory that seemed to contradict Superstring Theory until it was eventually discovered that they were one and the same in eleven dimensions. The two faces of M-Superstring Theory gave physicist a way to mathematically go back to and even predate the Big Bang, the “singularity” that had never been able to be explained before. The problem was, it required not only eleven dimensions (some of which were truly weird) but the existence of multiple universes, or, as some later postulated, a Multiverse of universes.
Interestingly, the idea of multiple universes can be used to explain a lot of heretofore unexplainable phenomena in our everyday world. For example, what if psychoses, were the result of mentally having one foot in our universe and the other in another? Unanchored in either. Certainly searching for treatments would be quite different than today’s search for better drugs, electroshock and/or talk therapy approaches. And what if our myths of death weren’t necessarily all fiction? Death might be simply the movement from this universe to another, the soul, a collection of one’s experience in this life, acting as a guide or pathway to the next universe. Heaven would be a universe where one continued refining the good that one perceived experiencing before death; hell would be a universe where on continued grinding away the bad Karma one experienced before death. Birth would be just the opposite: a transition from another universe to this one where humans are the top denizens and, as would be, predators.
A unified field theory of everything, from the tiniest to the largest including our unique universe. The fourth and final theory of truth at least within our sensory reality. Maybe. It’s certainly starting out well.
I’m working on a sequel to THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor (search for “The Edge of Madness Gaynor”) in which the three protagonists must face and manipulate the multiverse in order to escape their mounting problems on Earth in this universe.
The Edge of Madness
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