The Great Cosmic Accounting Blunder Two
An Essay by Christopher Bek
christopher.bek@gmail.com
Summary—This essay compares the two major fixedpoints in the Universe—the thesis of Lightspeed and the antithesis of Planck’s constant—and then argues that they are, in fact, one in the same self-similar fixedpoint—the synthesis being the Spacetime Boundary Form. As Archimedes said: Give me one fixedpoint and I will move the Earth.
Quotation—That men may serve Christ to the glory of God. —The Foreword to The Bible
In the first episode of the television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the starship Enterprise finds himself in a medieval court—forced to represent humanity against the charge of being a dangerous, savage childrace—as brought forth by the Q continuum—a race of immortal beings, all named Q, who understand everything except for mortal existence. The first episode ends with Q agreeing with Picard that man had indeed shown himself to be peaceful and benevolent—and Picard is allowed to go on his way.
The Trial of Existence. In the last episode of the series, Picard finds himself involuntarily shifting back and forth through three different time periods—the first episode, the last episode, and twenty-five years after the last episode. He encounters an anomaly at one point in space in each of the three time periods. The analysis reveals the anomaly to be a temporal rupture that is growing larger as it travels backwards in time—threatening to consume the entire Universe. It is at this point that Picard is brought out of a deep sleep by the startling revelation that the analysis itself has paradoxically caused the rupture. He proceeds to save the day by taking all three Enterprises into the anomaly in order to seal the rupture at the focalpoint. The television series ends with the following dialogue between Picard and Q in the same medieval court as where the television series began. Picard—I sincerely hope this is the last time that I find myself here. Q—You just don’t get it, do you, Jean-Luc? The trial never ends. We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons. And for one brief moment, you did. Picard—When I realized the paradox? Q—Exactly. For that one fraction of a second you were open to options you had never considered. That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities—of existence.
Hegel’s Dialectical Method is a philosophical model for managing reality by contrasting the inherent opposites within ideas, leading to a new and more comprehensive concept that synthesizes thesis with antithesis. The synthesis then become the thesis for the next dialectical round. Hegel’s purpose was to ultimately climb progressively higher towards absolute truth through the ongoing processes of conflict and resolution—driving force about development and understanding.
Kierkegaard’s Existentialism. While Kierkegaard heavily criticized Hegel, he nonetheless employed the dialectical method in a similar structure of opposing ideas and tensions to explore the complexities of human existence, particularly in the kingdom of faith and individual choice—as defined by the aesthetic, ethical, and religious realms—representing the three distinct existential human stages.
The Laws of Nature. According to both Spinoza and Einstein the Laws of Nature are coincident with God. The Laws of Nature represent a system of order based on close observance of natural order and human nature—from which values may be deduced and applied independently of the rule of law. Consider the following as representing the most fundamental laws of nature.
1887—Lightspeed. The Michelson-Morley experiment was a scientific endeavor designed to measure Lightspeed in different directions in order to detect the motion of the Earth through a luminiferous ether—but found no difference in Lightspeed in alternative directions, indicating that an ether does not exist, and that Lightspeed is a universal constant invariably fixed at 299,792,458 meters per second in all inertial frames of reference—represented by the symbol c.
1900—Planck’s Constant. Max Planck solved the ultraviolet catastrophe by proposing that energy is not continuous, but instead comes in discrete packets called quanta, meaning light is emitted and absorbed in specific, fixed units of energy known as Planck’s constant that effectively limits the amount of energy that can be radiated at high frequencies, thus resolving discrepancies with experimental observations of blackbody radiation. Planck’s constant is a fundamental physical unchanging factor describing the quantum nature of energy and the relationship between the energy and frequency of a photon—represented by h equal to 6.626 x 10^-34 m^2 kg / second.
1905—Special Relativity states the laws of physics are the same for all observers moving at constant speed in all inertial reference frames, and that Lightspeed is the same for all observers, regardless of their motion or the motion of the light source, leading to key consequences like time dilation, length contraction, and mass-energy equivalence. It explains how velocity affects the relationship between space and time—with Lightspeed being a fundamental universal constant.
1915—General Relativity. While Galileo (1564-1642) treated gravity and inertia as mathematically equivalent, it was Einstein who first realized that they are in fact the very same thing. General relativity explains how gravity is the result of the curvature of spacetime, which is directly related to the energy and momentum of matter and radiation. It predicts the universe is expanding, light does not always travel in straight lines, the existence of black holes and gravitational waves.
1925—Quantum Theory. While relativity speaks to the spacetime macrocosmos, quantum theory concerns itself with the nature of matter at the microcosmic level. It studies the behavior of matter and energy at the subatomic level based on the idea that energy is quantized in discrete packets called quanta or Planck’s constant. The double-slit experiment simply demonstrates the essence of quantum theory. It uses partial differential equations and eigenfunctions to calculate states of systems in extracting observable values from wavefunctions. It is inherently defined by the uncertainty principle and the complementary principle.
1948—Quantum Electrodynamics is a relativistic quantum field theory describing interactions of charged particles and the electromagnetic field. It defines how particles like electrons and positrons interact by emitting and absorbing photons. Its foundations were laid by Paul Dirac in 1928 in discovering a wave equation that unites special relativity and quantum theory that describes the interactions of charged particles in the exchange of photons.
Lightspeed Facts. Axiom 1) Lightspeed is a foundation of relativity theory. It serves as a key principle for understanding the relationship between space and time at high speeds. Axiom 2) Special relativity is basically an application of the Pythagorean theorem, inferring that space and time contract as a function of velocity. Axiom 3) By plugging velocity equals Lightspeed into the relativistic equations, we see that spacetime dilates to zero.
Planck’s Constant Facts. Axiom 1) Planck’s constant is the foundation of quantum theory, and relates to time as the fundamental unit of action that is energy multiplied by time. Axiom 2) Causality breaks down in some situations within quantum theory. Axiom 3) Causality indicates an ordering of time, meaning an absence of causality infers an absence of time. Conclusion: If Planck’s constant is primary to quantum theory, and if causality breaks down in the quantum realm—where causality indicates an ordering of time—meaning that an absence of causality indicates an absence of time—then The Theory of One concludes that causality breaks down at Planck’s constant—a spacetime boundary.
The Theory of One Synthesis. In conclusion: If Lightspeed is a foundation of relativity theory, and if spacetime dilates to zero at Lightspeed, then it is a straight walk to argue that Lightspeed is the boundary of the Universe. In keeping with fractals and self-similarity and the fundamental belief that the Universe is alive, The Theory of One thus contends that Planck’s constant is also a boundary of spacetime, but not of the spacetime continuum—and that Planck’s Constants or Quanta are, in fact, living, baby universes—thereby uniting Relativity Theory with Quantum Theory. QED.
The Theory of One Synthesis Two. One of the greatest scientific problems of all time involved the attempt to unite general relativity with quantum theory. Each model rests on largely different theoretical foundations, alternative scales, and describe dissimilar universal aspects. According to Einstein’s Brownian Motion, the relativistic realm tends to be normally distributed. According to quantum theory, the quantum realm tends to be Cauchy distributed—as the distribution of the energy of unstable states. The Cauchy distribution is the ratio of two independent normally distributed variables. The Theory of One then recognizes the synthesis of the problem of uniting the thesis of general relativity with the antithesis of quantum theory—as found by dividing the relativistic realm by itself in arriving at the quantum realm—thereby uniting Relativity Theory with Quantum Theory—once again. QED.
Closing Arguments. At one point during Picard’s daring adventure Q takes him back 3.5 billion years to when the first two amino acids were getting together to begin the glorious assault on the abyss that is evolution. Contemplation on our travels since these first two building blocks brings us face to face with the stunning realization that our minds and our horizons will only expand if we are at once fully prepared to boldly go where no man has gone before. This realization in turn brings us face to face with the thought problem that is asking the question of whether life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. I then argue that we ought to evolve from our existing literal and deterministic predictions to more allegorical Forms—to solving problems at the focalpoint—as shown here. The results would be astonishing.