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A Far Corner of the Universe…from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything


24 Sep
a far corner of the universe from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

A Far Corner of the Universe

page 7-79 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

The matter that makes up all of us has been grouping, ungrouping and re-grouping in the same area of this particular universe for billions of years. Every atom in all of our bodies was probably once part of the same star. In fact, every nano-particle in every one of our bodies was compressed together in that great singularity known as the Big Bang, along with every nano-particle in every galaxy in the universe. Whew! When we die, we are still part of the same planet, the same galaxy.

But what happened before the Big Bang? Current scientific theories include 1) bubbles appeared in the void and one of them billowed out into the Big Bang of this universe; and 2) our universe bubbled out from an older universe. Neither of these theories makes any attempt to explain how bubbles appeared in the void (and what exactly is the void?) or from where the older universe came. If there is no smallest piece of matter, no brick at the bottom, no floor to the Grouping Thing, and infinity sits at all ends, then we don’t need to ask the question “what happened before…” as the answer will always be—SOMETHING!

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Multiple Realities from a visual and philosophical theory of everything


21 May

 

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page 74-75 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Have we other realities in our link (gravity grouping) with every other bit of matter and in every possible combination of groupings of matter in our universe and possibly others?

Do we perceive only that which is within our own peculiar granularity or in a certain neighborhood of the perspective horizon? Do we change depending upon with whom we are currently grouping?

Everything is part of infinite other entities. Nothing is without inner entities. And we are part of it all…no getting out, just moving from perspective to perspective. Not only knowing each other in previous groupings, but actually being the same entity at different times and in different combinations…including now: Grouping into families, friendship circles, spiritual groups, work groups, cities, countries, the Earth, the Milky Way.

These are multiple realities that I can wrap my arms around. Laws decreed by humans appear to be physical laws to the cosmos. Laws decreed by the subatomic become physical laws to humans. Maybe the reason electrons are found only in particular shells at specific distances around the nucleus of an atom is the same reason that no one lives in the middle of a freeway. Even street people live on the sidewalk, not the street.

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Fruits of Knowledge


23 Mar

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Fruits of Knowledge

page 70-71 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Do we categorize and database [the storage of information linked to other information, e.g. companies linked to contacts, linked to phone numbers and email addresses] because at some microscopic level individual sentiences hold individual pieces of information—information that when put together forms a society with its own flavor based on the informational ingredients. The final recipe might be for an individual, a species or a universe.

Do we categorize and database so that individually and as a collective society enormous amounts of information become available to us, which enables more people to create more complex works, which creates a more complex combined entity? Is this the same pattern that I was seeing in the DNA database?

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Time Frozen


12 Mar
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Time Frozen

page 68-69 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Are time, size and fashion sense specific and unique to every entity grouping? I experience time differently from hour to hour, day to day, year to year. Do our clocks and calendars just allow us to keep in sync with the earth’s cycle—an entity grouping of which we are a part? Do we synchronize our watches as part of our grouping thing with the earth? Is it the same phenomenon as women’s periods syncing when they live together?

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The Play of Light


01 Mar

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The Play of Light

page 66-67 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

There is a famous experiment that involves shooting photons through a hole in a screen and measuring the pattern the photons make on a second screen designed for this purpose. They make a circular pattern as would be expected from a particle. Then a second hole is cut in the first screen so that the photons have two ways of passing through this screen to make their pattern on the second screen. They make a bar pattern which is the trademark pattern of two waves interfering with each other.

I rather like current explanations that light has a dual nature of particle and wave, however, has anyone ever tried this same experiment using human beings instead of photons? There could be a queue-up area with one open door to another room. The people could go through this door one at a time, walk across a room, put their hand print somewhere on the far wall, then go stand wherever they wish. Both the hand prints and end location of the person could be tracked. Then repeat the experiment with two doors open.

It would be interesting to know if different patterns appeared depending on whether the group was composed of people from the same school; from the same family; from the same town; the same age; the same background…. Any one of these factors could be the critical one that compares to wavelength.

Are the photons making decisions? Are they following a pattern based on their life style? Do they know what choice the photons before them made? Are they all one entity and in synchrony with each other because of this? Does the scientist’s measuring of the experiment create a grouping between the scientist and the photons? Does a watched pot boil at a different rate than an unwatched pot due to the added weight of the watcher in the group?

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City Music


22 Feb

Abstract representation of the totality of a city in Everything IS, a philosophical and visual theory of everything, original painting by William Solis

City Music, original gold, silver copper leaf painting by William Solis

page 64-65 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Current theory states that matter and energy come in packets that cannot be further subdivided. This is the basis of Quantum Mechanics as these packets are called quanta. A photon is a quantum of electromagnetic (light) energy. The quanta are often likened to eggs, which are purchased in whole numbers: a dozen eggs, not a half-gallon of eggs.

However, there is still something inside that egg. I, too am a quantum, as I cannot be divided and be useful as my original purpose as a living human being. Most of our day-to-day world cannot be divided and remain what it is—half of a car; half of a refrigerator; half of a dog. Every one of these items comes in discrete quanta but that does not mean that they don’t contain infinite other entities that have nothing to do with their purpose as a whole.

There is a cycle of getting up and doing something (going to work, eating, playing), then stopping doing something (going to sleep) and repeating the pattern that all animals perform. The length of the cycle varies, but the pattern remains.

How would an entity the size of the solar system or larger view these cycles that are repeating all over the planet? Would it make a wave movement? Would we also pass particle tests? Movement for half the day; no movement for half the day—or whatever the length of the cycle (wave?) for each individual animal. Like the cycling of an electromagnetic wave from moving magnetic field to moving electric current to magnetic field to current…the mere state of being awake spawns sleep, which spawns awake which spawns sleep.

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Grassroots Movement and a Star is Born


06 Jan
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Grassroots Movement

abstract representation of a star being born from a grassroots movement from the San Francisco art book, Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

A Star is Born

Universal Fate


21 Dec
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Universal Fate

page 58-59 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

So, will gravity end this universe with a big group crunch or will the ungrouping of entropy dissipate it?

Maybe neither one! Maybe it will just keep re-grouping in infinitely diverse ways; birthing new universes and combining with other universes to create still other entities. And we’re all a part of it!

Is it possible that ours is a fairly young universe; that it hasn’t yet had the chance to do much re-grouping from the initial singularity? Everything still appears to be moving away from Everything Else.

In the expanding universe theories, the expanding space is between clusters or super clusters of galaxies, not between individual galaxies or the stars in specific galaxies. Is this similar to the space that develops, through evolution, between species? Or is our universe still in an embryo stage, not yet even born? Is the space between the organs of this immense embryo?

The existing galaxy formations feel a lot like the turbulence found after a big explosion. Possibly this is why the mechanics of turbulence are still such a mystery. Maybe the major decisions being made by the turbulent entities are on the combined grouping levels of subatomic, atomic, molecular and….

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A Moment of Conception


10 Dec
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A Moment of Conception

page 56-57 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Like the inevitable waitress with the ratted beehive left over from a previous fashion, are there particles from before the Big Bang that didn’t ungroup with the rest of the universe? Is it possible that there is something feeding this universe, like an umbilical cord from our birth universe?

It appears to be theoretically impossible to peer into the world of fashion or finance or horse racing and actually nail down all of the particulars that make one thing happen as opposed to another. Patterns, possibilities, likelihoods, unlikelihoods, yes, but the event horizon is murky. The further we zoom out in time, the more impenetrable appears the event horizon beyond which we are trying to peer. Is the event horizon just the border between one thing and another like the multitude of events that hide the exact trail of our heritage from one-celled creatures, or the events that create a religion or an empire or a fashion?

What does the fertilization of an egg look like at the atomic level? Is it similar to the computer-generated models of the Big Bang? 

On the cellular level it would appear to be a successful attack by one group on another (sperm on egg), which caused an immediate explosion of new leaders and new groups which grabbed at existing resources and followed a pattern of new groups forming from the old yet tied to each other by the bonds of the previous group until the resources and space began to get tight and the entire bunch moved as one and popped out the other side of the black hole. And another universe is born.

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The Scale of the Universe and The Light Mixer (RGB and CMYK)


03 Dec

These are two of the coolest little animations I have seen in a long time.

The Scale of the Universe

The Light Mixer

I am posting them here as they fit in more with my Theory of Everything theme than with any of my other half dozen blogging themes.

And for those of you who missed the post in Odds ‘n Ends, this is also a good science short.

A Singularity


29 Nov
abstract image representing a singularity, such as a black hole, from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

A Singularity

page 54-55 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

The Big Bang Theory of the Creation of the Universe theorizes that all of the mass of the universe was once concentrated in one infinitely heavy pinprick that reached some critical point and exploded into our universe. The Big Bang is called a singularity, which is a state/event beyond which it is theoretically impossible to peer due to our current understanding of the behavior of light and the flow of time. It is theorized that black holes might be singularities that are creating new universes.

Is it possible that singularities occur in Everything: political systems, corporations, fashions, religions? The group reaches a critical point/mass and gives birth to something new.

Hair was ratted higher and higher until the style collapsed. Most people ungrouped from the ratted hair as soon as the fashion industry told them it was out of style and long straight hair was now In. Did the fashion industry manipulate patterns to create a singularity? We can theorize about how the one style collapsed and the new style was created, but we can’t actually pinpoint all the events that made the one style collapse or predict exactly what style will find favor with the general public next.

Can we figure out some probabilities of what happened/existed before the Big Bang by looking at patterns in other types of singularities whose event horizons we are able to further penetrate? My birth is an event in my neighborhood of the perspective horizon through which I cannot pass. I can learn a lot about the time before, during and after my birth because I can communicate with others of my species who witnessed the event from different positions on the perspective horizon. Wouldn’t this event be unfathomable to the sperm that started my life? Might an entity the size of a universe be as able to see through the event horizon of the Big Bang as we are able to look at the time before, during and after our birth?

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Quantum Fashions in a Theory of Everything


19 Nov
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Quantum Fashions

page 52-53 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

We combine together in various groups that last for varying times but always eventually collapse (entropy). One person starts a new fad, which is followed by more and more people until it reaches a certain point and then breaks down and disappears under the weight of new fads.

A human body begins with an incredible organization of cells doing new things and other cells following the direction of different leaders until a human is formed (much like an empire). It changes gradually over time until it finally collapses, the methods of communication between various parts of the empire crumble, the roads become impassable, the strength of the army gone.

I understand the idea of entropy and Everything evening out based on probabilities, but is it possible that the probability factors just happen to be useful tools to measure the patterns of decisions made on infinite levels rather than the real mechanism behind entropy? Are the probability factors of entropy similar to the Nielsen Ratings or a Gallup Poll?

Is entropy at war with the individual sentient desire to group, to either try something new and lead others or follow someone else? Can Queen TUT and Infinite Sentience explain the push pull of wanting to simultaneously be noticed and not noticed?

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Complex Adaptive System


11 Nov
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Complex Adaptive System

 

page 50-51 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything 

Entropy is the tendency of a system to go to its most probable state: entropy does not have a probability of happening; rather, it is the process of the probable occurring. If 10 molecules of air are released into a vacuum box, there are more chances (the odds are better) that five will end up on one side and five on the other side (an even distribution of energy) than any other possible combination of the molecules. 

Entropy almost makes me want to drop the entire theory and base the universe solely on probabilities. Did a certain percent of San Franciscans switch from croissants to scones simply because once the scone was brought to our attention we were driven by entropy to even out the playing field between scones and croissants? Does entropy explain the desire to do something different than the previous generation? To rebel against or ungroup from their values or fashions or art or lifestyle? 

Maybe it’s the other way around: Maybe the desire to follow a new lead accounts for entropy; like the desire to try new things and then have everyone you know try them too. Maybe ungrouping doesn’t really exist—maybe it’s just the flip side of a new grouping. When we ungroup from one value/fashion/point of view/etc., we re-group toward some other value/fashion/point of view. Maybe entropy is just our word for the decisions to ungroup and regroup that are ultimately made by Everything in every situation. 

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Entropy: Everything Ungroups


05 Nov

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Entropy: Everything Ungroups

page 48-49 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

[Entropy, a definition: the tendency of all systems to break down and evenly distribute the energy between the system and the system’s surroundings. The reason a cup of coffee cools is attributed to entropy evening out the heat energy between the cup of coffee and the surrounding air; the reason an ice cube melts is attributed to entropy evening out the heat energy between the ice cube and the surrounding liquid.]

Entropy = group becomes dysfunctional for large enough numbers to leave and eventually be followed by others—singly and in groups—until original group has dissipated?

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Gravity: Everything Groups


05 Nov
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Gravity: Everything Groups

page 46-47 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

[Gravity, a definition: The attraction of all matter to all other matter which curves spacetime by an amount based on the mass of an object and its movement in relation to the frame of reference of the measurer.] 

Does Gravity = tendency to group and add more and more to group until

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Change


27 Oct
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Change

page 44-45 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

The process of feeding and caring for a body can be equated with that of feeding and caring for a society. Give a body everything it needs to stay healthy and eventually it will still fail and die. Sometimes it will fail and die young, even though it was given all it should have needed to stay healthy.

Wealth and prosperity bubble through an empire, rising out of the masses to concentrate in a few at the top who become more extravagant in their abuse of power and form extreme situations for those at the bottom. Something then happens to change the strength of the state, either internal or external war, possibly, or just a drifting in of outsiders and a drifting out of insiders, until the empire collapses.

I see the same pattern in fashion. The codpieces (hairstyles; skirt lengths….) get more and more extravagant until they reach some critical point and the fashion collapses. I discover curry and eat so much of it that I can no longer bear the smell. What’s going on? Why do animals get larger? Is nature a size queen? Do some of the fantastic designs of nature exist for the same reason that individuals take fashions to the extreme…like boys’ pants getting larger?

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Babel


22 Oct

abstract representation of the diversity in mankind from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Babel by William Solis

page 42-43 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

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It has been said that humans are the only creatures that question the structure of the universe, have a morality, and produce art, music and literature. It has been said that we are the only creature that is aware of our impending death. How do we know these things? Has anyone questioned a giant redwood to see if they are aware they will one day die? With a 2-4,000 year life-span, they are probably just becoming, in one generation, aware of the massive invasion of the planet by the human species.

Do we know that ants don’t string scent molecules together to form great works of art from another ant’s perspective? Do we know that they don’t produce fantastic music on some wave too low or high or weak for our ears or technology? We certainly know that ants hunt, farm, and make war. Morality must be a species-related characteristic, as what could be more evil to an ant than me with a can of RAID in my hand?

Do we know that the sun is NOT singing a choral song in light waves with the rest of the galaxy? Do we know that bacteria don’t disappear into our noses or mouths and pop out the other end purposefully or stay and colonize, as we would if we were able to disappear into a wormhole and pop out in another universe?

Do we know that viruses are not involved in inter-galactic trade and that we are not storage bins for their currency of bacteria along their vast trade routes? It seems as likely that we would have inner body experiences as out of body experiences.

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A Piece of the Puzzle


20 Oct

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A Piece of the Puzzle

page 40-41 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

What is happening when two people report the exact same incident differently? Each individual person’s micro cosmos (using information provided by DNA) that built either the telescopes (eyes) or the media reporting the information back to the colony (the brain), is, as would be expected of a society, different in every one of us. Not, however, so different that we can’t trace the roots or heritage of the entire colony to a certain extent—like tracing the movement of the Celtic people across Europe to Ireland and then Scotland—or watching a family nose or smile pass from generation to generation- –or recognizing that the two people are describing the same event.

Could DNA truly be just a series of non-sentient molecules, which makes mistakes every time it replicates, some of which are successful “mutations” (a really negative word for something so incredible), but most of which are not? How can something with no decision-making capabilities make mistakes?

Or is DNA an infrastructure for proteins, the body’s worker bees? Is the splitting and reforming of DNA controlled by individual proteins making individual decisions? Is DNA the database of available data and the protein the programmer manipulating the data? Are our individual hair or blood or skin or eye cells the end report produced by these programmers?

Popular application software is always operated in ways not even considered by its developers. Sometimes this is a positive, certainly for the user who has discovered the shortcut. Sometimes this is a negative, causing some instability in the program, data or document that is not discovered until huge problems arise. Is this similar to an uninformed decision by a DNA molecule, or by the protein expressing it, creating a negative mutation?

If the process of DNA replication is built on the decisions of the molecules and atoms (and infinite other even smaller entities to lesser and lesser degrees) involved, it would be impossible to believe that it could ever be exactly the same twice…which appears to be the case. Infinite Sentience would predict that it would never be the same twice. Infinite Sentience predicts Infinite Diversity.

However, if, as current scientific paradigms would have me believe, on some elemental level all particles are identical, how is it possible that we have infinite diversity on all other levels? If all the bricks are identical, should there not be at least two snowflakes alike?

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A Closer Look by Someone Else


13 Oct

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A Closer Look by Someone Else

page 37 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

The pattern changes when someone else in a different location on the persepective horizon is holding the camera.

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Infinity in a Nipple


11 Oct
Abstract representation of infinity from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Infinity in a Nipple

page 34-35 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Let’s take our thought experiment further by erasing all the lines in the shifting sand that we have made between living matter and non-living matter; between plant and animal; between reptile and mammal—categories that were created by us and that have fuzzy lines between them: is a virus living? all mammals bear their young live and nurse them, except the platypus….there are always exceptions because we made up the rules. The rules don’t exist in and of themselves. If there is even one creature identified which does not fit wholly in one category or another, then there is no real line, just man-made categories. Are we driven to databases? Or are we just following Queen TUT’s patterns of grouping by grouping our data?

Now that those lines are erased, let’s back up to before there were one-celled creatures. Would the pattern then be the same? Did/do atoms group together into molecules for symbiotic or parasitic reasons or just for fun or because the atoms next to them were grouping? Or for any of the multiplicity of reasons that political systems rise and fall?

Did molecules follow the same pattern to form DNA strands, which attracted some other types of molecules for some other reason—like the large fish that have the smaller fish clean parasites off of them, perhaps—to form cells, which formed colonies which began to act in concert and became unable to act independently which then hung out in bunches of colonies which became shoals or bee hives or ant colonies or organs or cities or galaxies, the members of which are also not able to live independently any more?

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Inner Cosmos


30 Sep
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Inner Cosmos

page 32-33 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Just as most cells do not survive outside of their organ, most humans are no longer able to be picked up from their cities and dropped off in the middle of Desolation Wilderness and expect to survive. Organs are not generally able to survive outside their body, nor are most cities able to live independently any more. If all lines of communication were cut off from San Francisco, we would not be able to survive. The city is dependent on outside sources for food and water, energy and clothing. Maybe our highways and transportation systems developed the way they have for the same reasons that our veins and arteries developed the way they have.

Is war like the liver dropping bombs on the kidneys? Is apathy like the lungs saying they don’t give an expletive deleted if the folks in the heart are starving? If we are all the same entity on infinite levels, then when we allow other creatures to suffer aren’t we really creating suffering for ourselves?

When humans colonize a new area, they immediately start grouping (e.g. by family, products produced, religion) and immediately start creating trails for communication between the groups. Cancer does much the same when it groups into tumors and creates a vascular system within a tumor to attach to the blood supply. All cancer cells apparently have this ability to create blood vessels (trails?) to attach to the blood supply. Most humans also appear to have trail-blazing capabilities.

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Gravity Crusades


20 Sep
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The Gravity Crusades

page 30-31 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Are we in a place in history comparable to the times of Copernicus and Galileo? In their respective times and places, the Earth with humans ruling it was at the center of Everything and larger than Everything Else. We are now used to the idea that we are ruling a small planet in a large galaxy in a universe of galaxies. However, we still think our configuration is the center of intelligent life. Out of all the multitude of groupings of matter that we know exist between the subatomic and the cosmic, between the small and the large, our size is the only presumed place where intelligent life could evolve?

If there are these infinite groupings—the gravity groupings—then there has been time for intelligent groupings to evolve on infinite levels along the perspective horizon between the infinities of sub-sub-sub-atomic and the infinities of universes.

Are we ready for a new paradigm in science where humanity’s role is not elevated above the rest of the universe (infinite universes?), but is smack in the middle of its infinite infinities, just like Everything Else?

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Original Cosmic Nipple in the Corner of My Bedroom


20 Sep
original image which was close to the image painted on my ceiling

Cosmic Nipple in the Corner of My Bedroom

This is the original Cosmic Nipple…the one that I painted on the ceiling in the corner of my bedroom. The interesting part about this is that it was painted before I started writing my theories…though I was already thinking of them, so maybe it isn’t so odd. It seems to represent the multi dimensional grid that warps this way and that, depending on one’s position on the perspective horizon.

I have also created many checker boards that are warped and abstracted from the original grid in much this same way. It could be argued that the game of checkers is an abstracted version of war or conquest. The terrain of a real war is much more complex and has been abstracted to a board game. I am now taking that simplified abstraction and creating something more abstract and more complex. A wave of reality turning into a wave of abstraction turning into a wave of reality turning into a wave of abstraction.

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Cosmic Nipple in the Corner of My Bedroom


17 Sep
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Cosmic Nipple in the Corner of My Bedroom

page 28-29 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

To make the pattern complete, a new sentience must be created with every grouping, even a group of two…again, think gravity. If it doesn’t start adding a new sentience at two, what critical weight—and exactly what would we be weighing—would need to be reached to create that new sentience? We’d be back to emergence.

We have all experienced the different dynamics between hanging out (grouping) with one friend and then adding another friend to the mix. Is each grouping a different entity?

I picture the gravity groupings much like Einstein’s gravity fields: a multi-dimensional grid that warps where there are objects that are within the scope of my perspectives, but which would appear to warp differently to other entities coming from other perspectives. An entity grouping the size of a quark would not easily notice the warp our sun makes in the grid; an entity the size of the galaxy would not easily notice the warp I make in the grid. We are embedded much too deeply in our universe to notice the warp other universes make in the grid.

If there is no final building block of matter, the warp in the grid IS the sun, the human, the quark…. The warp itself would be the entity, which would be the intersection of other groups of entities. This grid is another way of picturing the perspective horizon.

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Molecular Highways


02 Sep
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Molecular Highways

page 26-27 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

The smaller we look, the more mechanical the process is bound to appear because the details are washed out. A highway from a certain distance in space disappears, as we zoom closer it looks like a line, then it begins to take on width and direction, then height, then personality and diversity.

A family is close from the first generation to second to third, but from the fourth generation, the distance expands quickly. After 100 generations all detail of the early generations is smudged into a pattern—part of the mass migration of Angles or Saxons or Celtic peoples or Huns or Goths or, as we zoom further out in space-time, mammals or air breathers or carbon-based units.

We speak of family dynamics and corporate personalities—maybe they really are independent entities, but much too coarse grained from our perspective to be readily identified as such—the forest and the trees!

Are nuclear forces akin to family ties, hometown pride, patriotism, religious fervor, i.e. are they the gravity/grouping thing on a subatomic perspective? Do our methods of studying subatomic particles by smashing them together in particle accelerators cause some type of political upheaval that creates tremendous energy?

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The Grouping Thing


01 Sep
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The Grouping Thing

page 24-25 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

I’m not trying to minimize the intellect or achievements of our species, but rather to remove all the prejudices that put us outside the rules that we apply to Everything Else. I am not being euphemistic when I compare groups of bacteria combining to form organs that work in concert with other groups of bacteria that perform other work to form creatures that group together to form cities (or beehives or coral reefs), which perform a specific function within a larger entity, say, the state.

I theorize that the process is the same. If it is the same process, what can we learn about evolution by studying the development of cities? What can we learn about the groupings of galaxies by studying the Portuguese Man Of War?

If there is no final building block of matter and the group is Everything, then maybe this grouping thing is equivalent to gravity [the attraction of all matter to all other matter]—it exists between every piece of matter and maybe that is the level on which entities are formed. Maybe we can only perceive the groupings that our senses are designed (engineered?) to see.

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The Anthropomorphication of Science


15 Aug
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The Anthropomorphication of Science

page 22-23 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

Anthropomorphize: to attribute human form or personality to something that is not human.

I would like to remove the “naughty science” ban against anthropomorphizing that has constrained human science from Newton to the present. Humans seem especially unable to anthropomorphize that which is either too small (a photon, a molecule, a virus) or too large (a star, a galaxy, a cluster of galaxies). Why? This simple change in our thinking would put us into a pattern that repeats endlessly…grouping, disassembling and regrouping.

These thoughts allow religion, philosophy and art to be compatible with science. Are we the cultural, artistic, political, technical…achievements of our inner cosmos? Are we creating other entities through the groupings involved in our own cultural, artistic, political, technical… achievements?

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Time Passing


02 Aug
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Time Passing

page 20-21 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

I am offering for discussion the theory that the vast colonies of microbes, bacteria and other entities of which we are made, combined for the same reasons that humans combine: they made decisions; they are still making decisions; our cities are making decisions; galaxies are making decisions; the atoms that combined to form molecules and the molecules that combined to form DNA were and ARE all making decisions.

No clockwork universe in my world!

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Adam and Eve


30 Jul
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Adam and Eve

page 18-19 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

I have been dissatisfied with the current explanations of how humans emerged from non-sentient primates. The religious evolutionists propose that God blew the spirit into man. The scientific emergence theories seem to have the same breath happening, it’s just paced differently—it takes place over a much longer period of time.

But what did that first glimmer of sentience look like? What was it made up of? What is it made up of today?

If Everything is sentient and always was sentient, then there is no need for this breath of spirit or emergence of sentience. The spirit was always here. The sentience was always there. Everything is spirit/sentience.

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Part of the Pattern


24 Jul
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Part of the Pattern

page 16-17 from Everything IS, a visual and philosophical theory of everything

As a thought experiment, let’s reverse current philosophy that the Human Species has the only known sentient beings. Let’s not make humans part of the rule by removing our sentience (as in the philosophies that bring out our “animal heredity”), but rather by granting sentience to Everything Else.

If the one-celled creatures of which I am made were sentient (and still are) and bonded together in much the same way that humans form families and cities and states and countries, to form organs and circulatory systems and other sentient entities, then there is no need for anything new to emerge. Human culture would be evolution up close and personal. Culture wouldn’t Group out there all by itself as a human phenomenon. Just as one geographical area may become the energy producing area, or classical music center, or grain producing or wool producing area or city, so organs may have developed, specializing in digestion or respiration or hearing or sight.

We claim to be the only creature to have built structures as elaborate as our skyscrapers or our devices that allow us to conquer the skies and the sea. Consider that the one-celled creatures of which we are made, created us, creatures millions of times larger than they are (as a city is thousands or millions of times the size of an individual); creatures with eyes (Hubble telescopes?) that are able to bring back images and report these images to the rest of the colony; creatures with ears (satellites?) that are able to bring back sounds and report them to the rest of the colony, etc.

I feel very strongly that I have free will (at least now and then); do the members of the colonies that make up my inner cosmoses feel the same way?

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Everything IS, a Book of Questions and a Theory of Everything by Sarah Curtiss

why is everything different from everything else? does infinity diversity rule?