Wednesday, January 4, 2012

The Unified Field

Last night a number of edgy, new physics, new thought ideas all came together in a flash in this unlimited mindspace of which I'm fortunate enough to to be a custodian.  The ideas are:

  1. Implicate Order 
  2. Parallel Universes
  3. Multiple Universes
  4. Particle Physics
  5. Quantum Mechanics
  6. Unified Field Theory
  7. String Theory 
  8. Instant Manifestation
  9. Law of Attraction
  10. Zero Point Energy
I have grave doubts that I'll be able to explain this remarkable conjunction, but as usual I'm compelled to try. If I get this right, you're going to have an entirely new truth of the space you inhabit by the end of the article!

Let's start with Zero Point Energy.  Most Quantum Mechanical and Cosmological explanations of the Universe come with the concept that at every point in the Universe there is infinite energy.  Normally that's a stopper for most attempts at formulating a Unified Field Theory.  To hear them tell it, it just won't do to have all that energy hanging around at every infinitesimal point.  All those infinities tend to clog up your equations  kind of like division by zero does.  In fact, you could make a case for "x / 0 = infinity" if one plays around with Limits the way one does in Calculus. That makes zero look like the flip side of infinity, but that's another story.

The stumbling block is that this quandary is based on the assumption that all dimensions are not created equal.  Because of the evidence of our senses, we harbor the unconscious belief that the three dimensions (and to a lesser extent, the fourth dimension of Time) that we're most familiar with are rigid, implying that the seven other dimensions that show up in most versions of String Theory have to be wrapped up in themselves at every point in spacetime .

What if they're not?  What if all those dimensions have an equal claim on what we perceive as "every point in spacetime"?  If all these dimensions spread out infinitely from every point, then what does that say about the "shape of things"?  From a three dimensional point of view that looks like multiple universes expanded outward from every point all the time, Kind of makes the Big Bang look like a small hiccough compared to what's going on at every moment everywhere, doesn't it?  If those dimensions are spreading out from everywhere, then "we" are spreading out in them!

How can this be? We appear to each be planted solidly in this 3-4D space. But remember, all those dimensions, all those "I"s are not required to squeeze into "this space", which we are absolutely certain, so certain, in fact, that we never give it a second thought, is the entirety of our world..

The answer is that at any instant, any billionth of a nanosecond, we are making choices.  Each of those choices takes our awareness down a particular path through at least eleven dimensions.  Just our awareness.  The "objects of awareness" that we find here now, including our "selves" and our bodies can be seen as versions appearing in this version  of the universe perceived by that awareness.

Using our zero/infinity axiom, we can say that if we demand that a certain set of three dimensions be primary, be "real", then the other dimensions would appear to fold in on themselves to accommodate the three filling all of space, whereas if we give all dimensions equal rights, then they all spread out infinitely from every point.

Another implication of this is that it is impossible to determine objectively whether one's awareness is "choosing" everything in its path moment to moment, or "creating" it, because from the  3-4D point of view there is no way to prove (or even test) that the universes resulting from a different choice exist at all.

Let's try an example. You're driving in your car. Up ahead the road ends at a "T".  You have a choice.  You can turn left or you can turn right.  Whichever way you go, the Universe will have a different history if you go left that it will if you turn right.  But even before that, the Universe will have a different history depending on whether you LOOKED left or right first when you pulled up to the intersection.  In fact it will be branch at the point where you THOUGHT whether to look left or right first.  And so on ad infinitum.  So it makes just as much sense to say that you created the particular universe that resulted from your choice as it does to say that you chose it.

If you're interested in this topic and would like to go deeper, here is the source of the term "Implicate Order".