Matter & Math
We all learned in School that matter comes in 3 states, Solid, Liquid & Gas. That’s what most people believe and if you studied a little bit more, in chemistry (which was always a mystery to me), we learned about chemical bonds such as the ionic and covalent bonding schemes. These schemes and theories were meant to explain the world we see around us.
Furthermore you learned about some eternal truths such as 2 + 2 = 4 and that is supposed to never ever change, even in different universes that we can imagine, with different etheric alien races. These are called Platonic Truths and come under the rubric of Mathematics.
What I want to argue today is that these Truths are no more than convenient nonsense. Useful no doubt in certain applications. We can count money, we can build computers, satellites, mobile phones etc… with these fictions but in some fundamental sense, these assertions are not true. The truth is far more wicked.
Let’s kill Math first.
Does 2 + 2 necessarily equal 4?
Here, let me draw on the Theory of Relativity Special or General, it doesn’t matter. No pun intended!
Let’s start by creating a new measure of Speed, for convenience.
Let’s define the Vikid-meter per second (Vm/s) as,
1 Vm/s = 100,000 km/s (kilometers per second)
now that we have that,
let’s add 2 Vm + 2 Vm.
Apparently, Math says we have now have 4 Vm/s. But is that so?
The speed of light is approximately 3 Vm/s and nothing in the Universe we know can go faster.
So in what sense does 2 + 2 = 4?
Another more substantive example:
Take helium. Atomic number 2. Atomic mass: 4.0026 u
Now, we join two helium’s together to create Beryllium. Atomic number 4 but is has an Atomic mass: 9.0122 u
4.0026 + 4.026 = 8.0052 not 9.0122.
Apparently Matter doesn’t like to add either, not just velocities. (Yes, I do understand about neutrons)
Ah… but you may argue. This is applied math. Velocities and Matter are not independent and your forgetting Energy in the bonds! (Don’t get me started on Energy, it’s accounting convention devised to make the math add. But that’s another story for another day…)
You argue that I have not considered the numbers as pure abstract entities and you have a point.
As pure abstract entities 2 + 2 indeed equals 4.
But I can argue, that nowhere can we find these pure abstract entities that are separate from each other in a way to make 2 + 2 = 4.
And even in Pure Math, we are combining these entities (hence their separateness is questionable) to consider them as a whole abstract 4.
In what sense is something separate if at the same time it can be combined?
Nonsense you see!
But still you argue. You are still mixing reality with the abstract. Abstractly we can think of them as separate. You must be cheating somehow… because some idiot on the internet can’t have overturned the likes of Cantor and Euler.
So let’’s go there. I am The Vikid Truth, a super hero with the power to unveil fact from fiction! You are not dealing with an ordinary idiot but a supreme one! Let’s proceed…
Abstraction is the process by which we eliminate all unnecessary qualities and properties of a system to focus only on the very essence of something.
For example the abstract the idea of a Cat.
We are left with only catness, we are unconcerned by the color or size of the cat, nor the species, sex etc... We don’t care if the cat was amputated, has genetic anomalies or even if it is real. Simba and Sherkhan (Lion King and Jungle Book) are very much cats real or not.
So can we have anything that simulates a true 2-ness?
So in that way we can add two 2-ness’s together to get a 4-ness.
I guess you can try. You have to stipulate it, make it part of your assumptions that separate 2-ness’s are possible and then, that they can be combined to form a perfect separate uncontaminated 4-ness.
You can use contrivances like ZF-Set theory, which even till today Mathematicians argue about the various axioms and their relevance.
Let’s think about it. Even in the pure realm of thought. Can two thoughts be considered separately. In what sense can you hold two 2’s separately in thought and combine them to get one 4.
Isn’t 4 a more compact thought? It doesn’t hold as much information as a “2” , another “2” and a combination operator “+”, the equality relationship “=“ and then finally the combination “4”.
2 + 2 are equivalent under very special circumstances only.
Isn’t imagining 4 separate objects in your minds eye more difficult that tracking 2? In what sense are they separate if the can be combined?
Once they are combined how can you be sure that the combination hasn’t affected the original 2’s in some fundamental way?
It’s a total quagmire.
Yes, sometime in our past when counting the difference between 4 lions in the savanna compared with two separate groups of 2 lions on the savanna may have been a useful fiction but even then it made little sense. Are they young females hunting together? Wild animals behave differently in packs. They act with one mind not four. Is it a mummy with 3 cubs? Etc…
Only when we abstract to the point of irrelevance does 2+2 = 4.
2+2 doesn’t equal 4 unless we contrive it, and then we call the contrivance the Truth!
My argument is that you can make 2 + 2 = 4. However you have to make a list of unreasonable assumptions as long as the Holy Bible (resurrection and all). You then have to abstract to the point that the numbers resemble nothing in reality and finally you assert the above as the Truth.
Nonsense!
You are defining Truth not finding it.
Now let’s kill matter.
Unless you have been sleeping under a rock, you may have heard that scientists have stipulated a new form of matter called “Dark Matter” and a new form of energy called “Dark Energy” to make their equations and theories of the universe work. No one has ever seen or felt this stuff. ( It was needed because we found Galaxies are rotating quicker than the theories predict and the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate which was the opposite of prediction)
They need Dark Matter and Energy to make the Math add. Because they believe in math more than their own theories. The fact is that the energies calculated have a discrepancy of between 30 to 120-orders-of-magnitude depending which idiot you ask. That’s a bigger number that all the protons in the universe! So the composition of the universe is being modified to make the math add and the energies to balance. WTF.
These two phenomena are thought to comprise 96% of the Universe. The rest of it all the Planets, Suns, the 200bn Galaxies, Super Clusters, all the light, the radiation, neutrinos etc… that we can actually observe is the balance 4%.
That’s all of Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, Feynman, Schwinger etc… to account for 4 %.
If that doesn’t boggle the mind, you might as well get under that rock.
But it gets worse than that. Even with the 4 % we kind of understand, we don’t understand it. Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory and other similar theories add some really weird properties to observable phenomena.
For one, matter seems to be able to be in two places at once, sometimes it acts as a wave, at other times as a particle. In the wave state it exists as a probability wave, not a real wave. Matter exists as “a mathematical entity of possibility” until the moment of observation. The observer is not considered as matter and is required to randomly collapse the wave.
The observer has to be outside the theory (and hence reality) for the theory to work.
Take that in slowly. Yeah, real slow…!!!
Experiments have also been conducted in specific ways to show that the history of a particle can be retroactively changed by what we do in the present.
Yes. Future (or present) can change the past.
And forget about that, we have not just Solid, Liquid and Gas but we have exotic states such as plasmas, superconductivity, Bose-Einstein condensates, neutron stars, black holes and more discoveries with each passing day. We are building Quantum Computers that simultaneously calculate intractable problems by splitting into “separate multiverses” only to recombine their state and give us answers in this one!
Each of these states have “magical” properties. Each time, new and special math (that literally makes no sense, like energies of √i, 11-dimensional space-times that curl on plank lengths, conformal maps, renormalizations etc…) have to be developed to deal with these phenomena. There are now some 1^500 String theories that could fit the puzzle. The number isn’t imaginable in any way! No one knows what is going on.
If that hasn’t killed the ordinary ideas of matter for you, I don’t know what can. Find that rock already!
And there’s more. Scientists consider that even an atom is nothing more that empty space. That empty space isn’t empty either weirdly, it is teaming with “virtual” particles that can be never-the-less be weighed. Don’t forget (I won’t forgive you) that these “particles” are not particles either, their just virtual probability amplitudes that exist as multidimensional mathematical clouds.
And let’s not forget the fact that empty space can bend, twist and curl. This same “Empty Space” is also filled to the brim with “fields” which, though we can’t see or measure them, can themselves control all the matter and radiation within them!
If that’s not a mind fuck, then I don’t know what is? Solid, liquid and Gas my arse. Forgive my language.
And yet, we live with these fictions and we consider them as True.
Math cannot add and Matter doesn’t matter.
It exists as probability clouds that magically collapse into “observables” when brought into consciousness and this consciousness by the theoretical requirement doesn’t exist in reality.
The emptiness of space isn’t empty and it can do wonderful things like twist and shout whilst carrying Fields that affect everything even though they entirely invisible to any instrument of any kind.
You also need an IQ of 170 and to beat your head with a hammer for a couple of decades to get any of it.
Now that’s the state of cutting edge science. I’m not making it up.
I hope I have indeed convinced you that
2 + 2 ≠ 4 & that Matter ain’t Matter.
It will make the rest of the article a little easier.
Mind-Field
So it has occurred to me that reality is not what it seems. You’ve come so far, humour me a little…
Mystics and sages of all ages, of all religions and tribes have described states of consciousness that are super-natural. In this modern world we tend to laugh at them and call it all myth because one, it can’t be measured but also equally because the world is full of fakes and it is hard to tell who is who. But I have experienced these some of “lesser” states (believe me or not) and so naturally I am interested.
Can there be Exotic States of Mind akin to Black Holes, probability clouds, superconductivity etc… which mean that you can be in two places at once, move between dimensions, change the past, see the future, live effortlessly or something else?
Can there be lesser states like like laminar flow example below?
Take a look at this video. Notice that when she pops the second balloon, the water flowing near the hole looks frozen in time. That further up the stream, turbulence enters and gives the flow completely different characteristics.
Can ascetic practices, prayer and meditation put the mind in states where by such “experience” can be achieved?
I certainly think so. I have spoken with people who have achieved some of these states, and I said before that I myself have achieved some of them, though I haven’t held them for long and can’t reach them at will (yet!).
The mind I believe can phase-shift. That we are not limited to solid, liquid gas (wakefulness, dream sleep & deep sleep).
We have the possibility of Superconscious phase-shifts in which I believe the mind can affect reality in super ways. Hard to fathom, but in quantum experiments, we are already finding this possibility.
There is quite a credible theory out there already that we are all in fact “one mind” attached to one field. If the Higgs field can permeate all of space, can’t be seen and yet is the cause of inertia, then I fail to see why we cannot all be “one mind” in the mind-field. The mind already affects reality and this can be experimentally verified.
Your doing it everyday, your mind interacts with reality.
The “hard problem of consciousness” has never been solved.
The mind does not equal the brain no matter what the 120-order-of-magnitude error scientists tell you. They haven’t got a clue. Well some of them do but are too scared to lose their jobs and reputations by sticking their necks out into the Mine-Field.
Math cannot add and Matter ain’t Matter.
And that’s
The Vikid Truth.