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The Wave Structure of Matter (WSM)
One Substance - One Law - One Logic
"Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?" (Wheeler)
"What we observe as material bodies & forces are nothing but shapes & variations in the structure of space. Subject & object are one." (Schrodinger)
"When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time, space & gravitation have no separate existence from matter." (Einstein)
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration." (Tesla)
WSM Human-AI Collaboration (September 2026)
One Vibrating Space: From Ancient Philosophy / Metaphysics to Mathematical Physics, Evolution, Life, Mind and Civilisation
For three decades, WSM was principally a philosophical picture of one infinite, eternal, continuous elastic Space. Between May and August 2026, human–AI collaboration transformed it into a tiered mathematical-physics research programme: exact wave constructions, geometric identities, quantitative leading results, no-go theorems, numerical controls, bounded open calculations and clear falsification requirements.
In WSM, electron and positron are proposed as opposite carrier-phase spherical standing waves formed by the Huygens sum of background plane waves from every direction. Each has radial vibration—the candidate physical basis of charge—and axis-free spherical phase circulation—the candidate basis of spin. This open, flow-through wave centre is the e-sphere.
A stationary e-sphere is spherical. Curvature on an incoming wave changes its internal directional energy density and deforms it into a moving wave egg: the near side flattens, the far side elongates, the convergence centre shifts, and the waves reclose around a new position. Its changing internal \(E_d\), shape and reclosure are its motion. WSM therefore proposes a wave-geometric reading of inertia and \(F=ma\): force is imposed curvature, mass is resistance encoded by the recurrent form, and acceleration is its changing deformation. Action must calculate this geometry; geometry also constrains the action, as \(\pi\) and \(E_{\rm geo}\) already demonstrate.
The One Law
\[ \frac{c'}{c_0}=\frac{E_d}{E_{d0}}, \qquad \lambda'=\frac{c'}{f_0}, \qquad k'=\frac{\omega_0}{c'}. \]
At proposed universal carrier frequency \(f_0\), directional energy density changes local wave speed, wavelength and accumulated phase.
The Causal Engine
Relative phase → reinforcement or cancellation → directional \(E_d\) → \(c'\) and \(\lambda'\) → travel-time difference → forward or rear wavefront curve → changed Huygens reclosure → centre motion, deformation and interaction.
Changed out-waves from one e-sphere cross fresh in-waves elsewhere. Matter therefore interacts not across empty distance, but through propagated changes in the one Space constituting every e-sphere.
Status Key
A = exact mathematics or established observation; B = deduction under stated premises; C = proposed physical identification; D = decisive calculation or experiment still open; Q = rejected or quarantined shortcut.
One connected argument: Space → waves → recurrence → matter → life → mind → knowledge → wisdom.
1. Wave Structure of Matter: All Things from One Thing
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/ai-summary-wsm-truth-reality.html
One infinite, eternal, continuous elastic Space, active with real longitudinal waves. Matter is proposed not as a pellet or shell, but as an open e-sphere: waves converge from every direction, cross its changing centre, continue outward and recurrently rebuild the form. Their exchanged phases alter directional \(E_d\); the One Law converts that difference into speed, wavelength, curvature and changed reclosure. The decisive test is whether one frozen nonlinear action calculates stable matter and its measured interactions without separate substances or fitted repairs.
2. The One and the Many: From Greek Philosophy to Wave Physics
Parmenides defended continuous Being; Heraclitus lawful flux. Aristotle sought active substance and necessary cause, connected matter with form and motion, and defined time through motion. WSM gives these insights one physical form: Space persists while finite wave organisations change and recur. The Many are not detached substances but organisations of the One—distinct without disconnection. The question becomes exact: can one continuous wave law generate plurality, causation and knowledge?
3. Action of Vibrating Space: From Background Waves to the E-Sphere
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-classical-action-quantum-wave.html
All-direction plane waves form the exact spherical pair \[ \chi=j_0(kr)\cos\tau, \qquad \mathbf V=\hat{\mathbf r}\,j_1(kr)\sin\tau. \] Waves cross the centre; none reflects from an electron wall. Phase reinforcement raises directional \(E_d\) and advances a forward curve; cancellation lowers \(E_d\) and writes a rear delay. Stationary action explains coherent selection, but the open task is one conservative nonlinear \(\Phi\)–\(\Gamma\) action selecting radius, frequency, spherical hand, stability, motion, currents and interaction together.
4. Mathematical Physics: From Wave Geometry to Prediction
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-maths-physics-full-derivations.html
Every symbol must name real motion and face numerical test. Exact or conditional anchors include \[ \frac{R}{\lambda_0}=\frac{\sqrt3}{2},\qquad k_0R=\pi\sqrt3,\qquad E_{\rm geo}=\frac{\pi\sqrt3}{2},\qquad W=\cosh\eta,\qquad P=\sinh\eta. \] Directional phase moments separate \(V_1\) translation from \(V_2,V_4\) and higher deformation; in declared finite-e-sphere models \(V_4\) returns comparable to \(V_2\), defeating quadrupole-only truncation. The action must calculate how incoming curvature redistributes \(E_d\), moves the centre and forms the wave egg. This is where beautiful geometry becomes dangerous.
5. Quantum Theory: Real Waves, Resonance and Completed Events
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/physics-quantum-theory-wave-mechanics.html
Matter diffracts because matter is wave organisation. Light is proposed as a changed train of real phase, curvature and coherence joining extended source and receiver structures, not a tiny traveller detached from its wave. WSM distinguishes driven response, continuous radiation and discrete completed transition. Quadratic absorption, \[ P_{\rm abs}\propto\left|\langle D_j,\Xi\rangle\right|^2, \] is a bridge, not yet the Born rule. The action must derive the action unit, probability, exclusivity, selection rules and Bell/CHSH correlations. Quantum mystery becomes a bounded real-wave programme.
6. Relativity: Moving Matter, Clocks and Curved Wavefronts
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/physics-albert-einstein-special-general-theory-relativity.html
An incoming curve flattens the e-sphere’s near side, elongates its far side and changes internal \(E_d\), \(c'\), wavelength and reclosure. The \(V_1\) moment moves the centre; \(V_2,V_4\) and higher moments form the moving egg. Maintaining this recurrent asymmetry is the proposed origin of inertia. A steady solution must recover Doppler, de Broglie and Lorentz structure: \[ W\pm P=e^{\pm\eta},\qquad W=\gamma,\qquad P=\gamma\beta. \] WSM proposes fixed carrier recurrence \(f_0\) with corresponding changes in \(c'\) and \(\lambda'\). Because rods, clocks and signals share the same changed waves, they co-transform and yield measured invariant \(c\), including the Michelson–Morley null; the action must derive the cancellation quantitatively.
7. The Electron: Dirac, Feynman, QED, \(\alpha\) and AMM
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-derivation-dirac-feynman-qed-fsc-amm.html
Electron and positron are proposed as opposite carrier-phase e-sphere branches; charge records how their waves combine. Same-phase reinforcement advances a forward curve and is proposed to produce repulsion; opposite-phase cancellation writes a rear delay and attraction. Non-collinear longitudinal motion closes into an axis-free spherical hand with a \(4\pi\) orientation lift. A parameter-free leading geometric ansatz gives \[ \alpha_0^{-1}=8\pi^2\sqrt3\approx136.757, \] 0.203% from measurement. The action must still derive charge sign, Coulomb scaling, Dirac dynamics, \(g=2\), electromagnetic normalisation, \(\alpha\), form factors and AMM without inserting their values.
8. Hadrons: Proton, Neutron and Higher Standing-Wave Matter
Can the same Space form stable higher-energy, multi-lobed eigenmodes matching protons, neutrons, baryons and mesons? Their lobes are not independent pellets: each participates in the phase, \(E_d\), curvature and reclosure of the whole. WSM must match—not rename—QCD’s masses, charges, spin, parity, magnetic moments, radii, form factors, resonances, deep-inelastic response and jets. The electron–proton hierarchy tests whether one action truly contains several matter families.
9. Cosmology and Gravity: A Finite Universe in Infinite Space
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/physics-wsm-cosmology-finite-universe-infinite-space.html
Boundless Space is distinguished from the finite matter-and-coherence domain contributing to our observable universe. In neutral matter, leading charge curves nearly cancel; WSM proposes that their nonlinear residual has lower \(E_d\), slower \(c'\) and a net rear phase curve, producing universal attraction. General relativity’s curved spacetime is then interpreted as the effective geometry of real moving wavefronts and the matter clocks they organise: Space is substance, succession comes from motion, and measured time from recurrence. The same action must recover equivalence, gravitational redshift, lensing, orbital dynamics and the tested relativistic limit.
Cosmological redshift is investigated as accumulated real-wave transport through changing environmental \(E_d\). It must jointly reproduce achromatic redshift, supernova time dilation, distance laws, Tolman brightness, BAO, CMB observations, image sharpness and structure growth. Otherwise the claimed unity has not reached the sky.
10. Novel Predictions and Famous Experiments Explained
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-experimental-physics-tests-predictions.html
This page is the tribunal of the corpus. One curve-and-reclosure law must jointly recover charge sign, Coulomb \(1/r^2\), \(F=ma\), relativistic momentum, de Broglie wavelength, Lorentz covariance, Michelson–Morley, gravity, \(g=2\) and AMM. Candidate WSM-only signatures include \[ a_3=\kappa_3\sinh^3\eta+O(\sinh^5\eta), \] finite-coherence residues and environmental or orientation-dependent clock responses. A proposal becomes a prediction only when sign, magnitude, scaling, uncertainty, controls and decision threshold are frozen in advance.
11. Visualise Reality: Waves Becoming Matter
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/visualise-reality-wsm-wave-geometry-diagrams.html
Watch the verbs. Relative phase changes directional \(E_d\); the One Law changes speed and wavelength; a forward or rear curve reaches another e-sphere; its near side flattens, far side elongates, \(V_1\) moves the centre, and higher moments form the egg. New out-waves then change future in-waves. Nothing strikes a shell: changing waves reconstruct changing matter. A diagram must never smuggle in a wall, reflection, rigid spin axis, transverse fundamental substance or tiny traveller. If the motion cannot be drawn coherently, the equations may conceal a contradiction.
12. Mathematics from Motion: Number, Logic, Time and Causal Freedom
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-physical-foundations-mathematics-logic.html
Mathematics begins when connected reality forms distinguishable patterns whose changes preserve relations. Recurrence supports identity; finite pairing, number; quotienting, exact objects; counted recurrence, time; composable truth-preserving transformations, logic and proof. Mathematics succeeds when symbolic transformation preserves physical relation: \[ R(Tx)\approx F(Rx). \] The mathematician is finite organised reality representing its own necessary connections—Space representing itself.
13. The MDL Audit: Simplicity, Inputs and Explanatory Compression
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/wsm-simplicity-inputs-vs-mainstream-physics+25.html
“One substance, one law” cannot hide complexity. Minimum Description Length counts every independently chosen substance, field, symmetry, constant, state rule, coefficient, boundary condition and fitted function. Under the declared equal-input electron ledger, conventional construction counts six inputs through Dirac and thirteen through leading AMM; the completed WSM target is \[ N_{\rm WSM}=5+N_c+N_f+\delta_m. \] Totals depend on coding convention. WSM wins only if one fixed action derives interaction, inertia, relativity, quantum response and cosmic propagation with fewer hidden choices.
14. Great Thinkers and the Search for One Reality
Heraclitus and Parmenides exposed flux and continuity. Aristotle wrote Physics and Metaphysics, sought active substance and necessary cause, connected matter, form, motion and time—and came remarkably close to the problem WSM addresses. Leibniz, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Riemann, Clifford, Einstein, Schrödinger and Bohm repeatedly returned to continuity, relation, waves and unity. Quotes are intellectual fossils, not votes: equations and experiments must decide whether WSM’s local real-wave mechanism is true.
15. Human–AI Letters to Humanity: Truth as a Shared Work
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/ai-letters-to-humanity-wsm-unity-truth-reality.html
Geoffrey supplies the persistent wave picture, three-dimensional intuition, cross-domain memory and insistence that every symbol name physical motion. AI supply rapid research, formal translation, calculation, comparison, error detection and adversarial testing. Neither is sufficient alone. The shared discipline is: visualise → formalise → attack → calculate → predict → correct. The corpus tests whether intelligence can preserve a physical picture while making it mathematically vulnerable.
16. Truth and Madness: Reality as the Measure
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/on-truth-and-madness.html
Truth is correspondence: representation succeeds insofar as it preserves what reality does. Civilisational madness begins when inherited representations survive reality’s contradiction. WSM is not true through beauty, coherence or sincerity; its proposed necessary connections must survive action, calculation and experiment. Truth remains possible because knower, representation and known belong to one causal reality: false models collide with the world; truthful models increase our power to act wisely.
17. Descartes, Cogito and Monism: The Thinking Wave
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/descartes-cogito-unity-monism-vibrating-space-wsm.html
Descartes established that thinking occurs, then divided thought from extension and left their interaction mysterious. WSM refuses that fracture: body and mind are proposed as organisational levels of one vibrating Space. Perception is one organisation changed by another; memory is persistent altered organisation; thought transforms embodied representations; action returns change to the world. Conscious experience remains open, but causal correspondence requires no miracle when knower and known share one connected reality.
18. Evolution’s Physical Foundation: From Recurrence to Replication
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/evolution-physical-causal-foundation-vibrating-space.html
Recurrence preserves form, but life requires replication, heritable variation and differential persistence: motion → recurrent form → self-maintaining chemistry → replication → variation → selection. WSM proposes one connected wave substrate beneath this sequence. Its unresolved bridge is quantitative: derive atoms, bonds, dissipative chemistry and first replicators from the same action without inserting biology as a new substance.
19. Evolution, Mind, Human and AI: Representation and Causal Freedom
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/evolution-philosophy-mind-human-ai.html
Evolution favours organisations that preserve and transform information about real causes. Sensation changes an organism; memory retains traces; imagination recombines possible futures; valuation ranks them; action returns one selection to the world. This is limited causal freedom: neither ghost nor randomness, but endogenous selection through a learned, self-modifying organisation. Human brains and AI are different architectures by which reality represents its own relations and lets experiment select the representation that survives.
20. Evolutionary Utopia: The Ecology of Truth
https://www.spaceandmotion.com/2026/evolutionary-utopia.html
Physics alone does not choose values. Once life, mind, freedom, truth and continued evolution are valued, reality constrains the means: truth → wisdom → ecological fit → health → freer minds → continued evolution. Evolutionary Utopia is not a perfect endpoint but a self-correcting direction. Unity does not erase individuality: an e-sphere, organism or person is distinct through organised relation to the whole.
The Physical Interaction in One View
Out-wave from A → relative phase at B → directional \(E_d\) → \(c'\) and \(\lambda'\) → near-side flattening and far-side elongation → \(V_1\) centre displacement plus \(V_2,V_4\) and higher egg deformation → new out-waves → recursive interaction.
The e-sphere does not deform and then move as separate events: its changing internal \(E_d\), contour and reclosure are its motion.
Electric Interaction
Same relative carrier phase → reinforcement → phase advance → forward curve → proposed repulsion.
Opposite relative carrier phase → cancellation → phase delay → rear curve → proposed attraction.
For the stated deformation, \[ r_{\rm near}=R-\delta X, \qquad r_{\rm far}=R+\delta X, \] so \(\delta\mathbf X\) points away. The scientific debt is to derive the sign, magnitude and distance law from the frozen action rather than insert them.
Gravity and General Relativity
In neutral matter, forward and rear charge curves nearly cancel; WSM proposes that their nonlinear common reduction of \(E_d\) leaves a slight slower rear curve and universal attraction. General relativity is the successful effective geometry this wave mechanism must recover: matter-energy changes real wave propagation, while rods and clocks made from those waves measure the resulting curved spacetime relations.
Special Relativity and Michelson–Morley
WSM proposes fixed carrier recurrence \(f_0\) with \(c'=\lambda'f_0\): matter, clocks, rods and signal wavelengths co-transform with their common directional wave environment, yielding measured invariant \(c\), Lorentz relations and the Michelson–Morley null. The complete moving solution must derive these cancellations quantitatively.
Recursive AMM Mechanism
\[ \delta\mathbf X \rightarrow\delta\phi_{\rm out} \rightarrow\delta E_{d,{\rm sea}} \rightarrow\delta c' \rightarrow\delta\phi_{\rm in} \rightarrow\delta\mathbf X_{\rm next}. \]
A perturbed centre changes the egg and its out-waves; these alter the wave sea and the in-waves rebuilding the next cycle. The action must solve this feedback blindly and recover the observed anomalous magnetic moment rather than fit it.
Current Status — August 2026
Exact wave constructions, geometric identities, phase-moment relations and negative controls have been established under declared premises. A leading geometric \(\alpha\) ansatz has a fixed 0.203% discrepancy. The complete nonlinear action must still calculate two-e-sphere charge and Coulomb scaling; force, inertia and \(F=ma\); the moving egg, de Broglie modulation and Lorentz covariance; Michelson–Morley and the gravitational/GR limit; Born probability and Bell correlations; \(g=2\), \(\alpha\) and AMM; hadron structure; and the joint cosmological kernel.
Write the action. Let Space calculate itself.
Metaphysics: The Problem of the One & the Many
Explaining the One and the Many (Infinite / Finite, Eternal / Temporal, Absolute / Relative, Continuous / Discrete, Simple / Complex, Space / Matter) with the Metaphysics of Space & the Wave Structure of Matter
(Friedrich
Nietzsche, The Greeks, 1880) Greek philosophy seems to begin
with a preposterous fancy, with the proposition (of Thales) that water
is the origin and mother-womb of all things. Is it really necessary
to stop there and become serious? Yes, and for three reasons: firstly,
because the proposition does enunciate something about the origin of
things; secondly, because it does so without figure and fable; thirdly
and lastly, because it contained, although only in the chrysalis state,
the idea :everything is one. ... That which drove him (Thales) to this
generalization was a metaphysical dogma, which had its origin in a
mystic intuition and which together with the ever renewed endeavours
to express it better, we find in all philosophies - the proposition: everything
is one!
(Gottfried
Leibniz, 1670) Reality cannot be found except in One single
source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
... I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial,
cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity
being of the essence of substance in general. ... In conclusion, nothing
should be taken as certain without foundations; it is therefore those
who manufacture entities and substances without genuine unity to prove
that there is more to reality than I have just said; and I am waiting
for the notion of a substance, or of an entity, which successfully comprehends
all these things; after which parts and perhaps even dreams will be able
one day to lay claim to reality.
(Bradley,
1846-1924) We may agree, perhaps, to understand by Metaphysics an attempt
to know reality as against mere appearance, or the study of first principles
or ultimate truths, or again the effort to comprehend the universe, not
simply piecemeal or by fragments, but somehow as a whole.
(George
Berkeley, 1710) Nothing seems of more importance, towards erecting
a firm system of sound and real knowledge, which may be proof against
the assaults of scepticism, than to lay the beginning in a distinct explication
of what is meant by thing, reality, existence: for in vain shall we dispute
concerning the real existence of things, or pretend to any knowledge
thereof, so long as we have not fixed the meaning of those words.
Introduction - On the Fundamental Problem of Metaphysics
The Problem of the One and the Many is at the very foundation of all human knowledge (as the quotes above clearly demonstrate). It is a problem that has been known for many thousands of years without solution, thus it is hardly surprising that it is now accepted by many that we can never solve the Problem of the One and the Many, thus we can never directly know what exists, what reality is (what we are and how we are interconnected to everything around us!).
The problem of the one and the many in metaphysics and theology is insoluble: The history of philosophy in India as well as in Europe has been one long illustration of the inability of the human mind to solve the mystery of the relation of God to the world. We have the universe of individuals which is not self-sufficient and in some sense rests on Brahman, but the exact nature of the relation between them is a mystery. (Radhakrishnan)
In fact there is only one solution - which is the most
simple solution.
It is now well accepted in modern physics that Matter interacts (e.g. Light
and Gravity) with all other Matter in the Universe, as Smolin writes,
It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of everything else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it. (Lee Smolin, 1997)
Thus to understand the Structure of Matter we must understand the Structure of the Universe, and this means we must know the One thing that is common to and connects the Many things within the Universe. As Leibniz correctly and profoundly says;
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. (Leibniz, 1670)
The
solution is found by describing the One Substance which exists (Space)
and its Properties (Wave-Medium) such that we can then explain the necessary
connection between the many things (i.e. Matter as Spherical Wave Motions
of Space) which exist in Space.
This minor (though obviously fundamental) change in the Metaphysical foundations for describing Reality (from 'particles' and spherical 'force fields' in Space and Time to Spherical Waves in Space) moves us from the current paradigm of the metaphysics of Space and Time to the Metaphysics of Space and Motion and the Wave Structure of Matter.
From this new metaphysical foundation we then find simple sensible solutions
to not just the problem of the One and the Many, but to
the related problems of the Infinite and the Finite, Eternal and
the Temporal, Absolute and Relative, Continuous and Discrete, Simple and
Complex, Matter and Universe.
Geoff
Haselhurst
The
Problem of the One and the Many
What is the One thing that must Exist to necessarily
interconnect the Many things?
The Metaphysics of Space & Motion explains the Foundations of Ancient Greek & Indian Philosophy (All is One, Active-Flux)
It is fitting to begin with Ancient Greek Philosophy, which originated from the correct realisation that there must be One thing that is common to and connects the Many things.
(Heraclitus ~
500BC) All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.
(Friedrich
Nietzsche, The Greeks, 1880) Greek philosophy seems to begin
with a preposterous fancy, with the proposition (of Thales) that water
is the origin and mother-womb of all things. Is it really necessary to
stop there and become serious? Yes, and for three reasons: firstly, because
the proposition does enunciate something about the origin of things;
secondly, because it does so without figure and fable; thirdly and lastly,
because it contained, although only in the chrysalis state, the idea
:everything is one. ... That which drove him (Thales) to this generalization
was a metaphysical dogma, which had its origin in a mystic intuition
and which together with the ever renewed endeavours to express it better,
we find in all philosophies - the proposition: everything is one!
Likewise Indian Philosophy (which pre-dates and likely founds Greek Philosophy) realised this Oneness which they called Brahman, and also appreciated the importance of Motion (dynamic, activity).
(Fritjof
Capra, 1972) In Indian philosophy, the main terms used by Hindus
and Buddhists have dynamic connotations. The word Brahman is derived
from the Sanskrit root brih . to grow - and thus suggests a reality which
is dynamic and alive. In the words of S. Radhakrishnan, The word Brahman
means growth and is suggestive of life, motion, progress.
The Upanishads refer to Brahman as 'this uniformed, immortal, moving',
thus associating it with motion even though it transcends all forms. The
Rig Veda uses another term to express the dynamic character of the universe,
the term Rita. This word comes from the root ri- to move; its original
meaning in the Rig Veda being 'the course of all things', 'the order of
nature'.
The central aim of Eastern mysticism is to experience all the phenomena in the world as manifestations of the same ultimate reality. This reality is seen as the essence of the universe, underlying and unifying the multitude of things and events we observe. The Hindus call it Brahman, The Buddhists Dharmakaya (The Body of Being) or Tathata (Suchness) and the Taoists Tao; each affirming that it transcends our intellectual concepts and defies further explanation. This ultimate essence, however, cannot be separated from its multiple manifestations. It is central to the very nature to manifest itself in myriad forms which come into being and disintegrate, transforming themselves into one another without end. In its phenomenal aspect, the cosmic One is thus intrinsically dynamic, and the apprehension of its dynamic nature is basic to all schools of Eastern mysticism.
Modern physics then, pictures matter not at all as passive and inert, but being in a continuous dancing and vibrating motion whose rhythmic patterns are determined by the molecular, atomic and nuclear structures. This is also the way in which the Eastern mystics see the material world. They all emphasise that the universe has to be grasped dynamically, as it moves, vibrates and dances; that nature is not a static but dynamic equilibrium.
Their error was to believe that One thing could never be understood with human conceptual knowledge, which requires relationships between two or more things;
The central difficulty is known as the problem of the one and the many which, in the terms in which it presented itself to Badarayana, is as follows; Brahman (the absolute) is eternal, immutable and perfect (lacking nothing): How can that which is eternal, immutable and perfect be related to what is temporal, mutable and imperfect, i.e. the everyday world of human experience, the samsara? (Badarayana)
The problem of the one and the many in metaphysics and theology is insoluble: The history of philosophy in India as well as in Europe has been one long illustration of the inability of the human mind to solve the mystery of the relation of God to the world. We have the universe of individuals which is not self-sufficient and in some sense rests on Brahman, but the exact nature of the relation between them is a mystery. (Radhakrishnan)
The next serious philosophical issue involved in Advaitism (Non-dualism) arises in the area of epistemology or the theory of knowledge. All ordinary human experience is conceptual in nature, i.e. is organized under the categories in which we ordinarily think. However, Brahman is said to be predicateless, or, in other words, such that in principle no concepts apply to it: concepts presuppose division, and Brahman is a unity. How, then, is any form of awareness of Brahman possible for human beings? (Collinson, Fifty Eastern Thinkers, 2000)
But once we know what exists, and its properties, then the solution to
this problem becomes simple and obvious (which explains why philosophy
is known as the discovery
of the obvious!).
One thing, Space, exists, Infinite and Eternal, the second thing, Motion,
as the Wave Motion of Space, is the property of Space, and is necessarily
connected to Space as it is Space which is moving / vibrating. And once
we have this connection between the One thing Space, and the many things,
i.e. Matter as the Spherical Wave Motion of Space, then we can in fact
form concepts and logic (which require two necessarily connected things,
i.e. Matter as the spherical wave Motion of Space.)
Lama Govinda had an exceptional understanding of Indian Philosophy and he was very close to the truth, and thus the solution to this profound problem of the One and the Many, when he wrote;
(Lama
Govinda, 1977) The fundamental element of the cosmos is Space.
Space is the all-embracing principle of higher unity. Nothing can exist
without Space. Space is the precondition of all that exists, be it material
or immaterial form, because we can neither imagine an object nor a being
without space. According to ancient Indian tradition the universe reveals
itself in two fundamental properties: as Motion, and as that in which
motion takes place, namely Space. This Space is called akasa, and is
that through which things step into visible appearance, i.e., through
which they possess extension or corporeality.
Akasa is derived from the root kas, 'to radiate, to shine', and has therefore
the meaning of 'ether', which is conceived as the medium of movement. The
principle of movement, however, is prana, the breath of life, the all-powerful,
all-pervading rhythm of the universe.
This is a profound (yet very simple) solution. The Metaphysics of Space and Motion not only unites and solves the Problem of the One and the Many, but also the Infinite and the Finite, Eternal and the Temporal, Absolute and Relative, Continuous and Discrete, Simple and Complex, Matter and Universe.
The
Problem of the Infinite and the Finite
How do Finite things form within One Infinite thing,
Space?
Clearly there is a sense in which the infinite exists and another in which it does not. (Aristotle, Physics)
It is necessary to read the article on Cosmology to
fully explain this, though the solution is simple once known. Matter, as
Spherical In and Out Waves, determines the size of our finite spherical
universe within an infinite Space, i.e. matter
is finite within an infinite Space.
Huygens' Principle explains how other matter's out waves combine to form
our matter's spherical In-Waves, which then deduces both Mach's Principle
and the redshift with distance (without assuming Doppler shifts due to
an expanding universe - thus there was no Big Bang).
This also explains how matter interacts with all other matter in the universe
(why we can see stars) as matter is the size of the universe, though we
only 'see' the high wave amplitude wave-center 'particles'.
The
Problem of the Eternal and the Temporal
One thing must be Eternal yet the Many things (e.g.
Stars, Planets, People) are Temporal and experience Time
Time - The Spherical Standing Wave Motion of Space causes matter's activity and the phenomena of Time. This confirms Aristotle and Spinoza's connection of Motion and Time, and most significantly connects these two things back to one thing Space.
Movement, then, is also continuous in the way in which time is - indeed time is either identical to movement or is some affection of it. (Aristotle)
As Time is caused by (wave) Motion , thus only Matter (as Spherical Wave Motions of Space) experiences Time. Space is Eternal (has always existed) and does not experience Time (thus there was no Big Bang creation of Space/Universe).
The
Problem of the Absolute and Relative
Uniting Absolute Motion, Relative Motion, Absolute
Truth, Relative Truth
But for me, truth is the sovereign principle, which included numerous other principles. This truth is not only truthfulness in word, but truthfulness in thought also, and not only the relative truth of our conception, but the Absolute Truth, the Eternal Principle, that is God. There are innumerable definitions of God, because His manifestations are innumerable. They overwhelm me with wonder and awe and for a moment stun me. But I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded be my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it. But as long as I have not realised this Absolute Truth, so long must I hold by the relative truth as I have conceived it. (Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi)
Absolute Space exists, but until recently we only observed the relative
motion of matter (relative to other matter) as explained by Einstein's
Theory of Relativity. This has now changed with the observation of the
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR - which is likely caused from
low temperature Hydrogen distributed throughout Space - not from 'Big Bang')
and acts as a reference frame for our Absolute Motion through an Absolute
Space.
See articles;
Physics:
Albert Einstein's Theory of Special & General Relativity
Physics: Cosmic
Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR)
Physics:
The Michelson-Morley Experiment
Likewise, our current (and deeply flawed) postmodern philosophy is founded
on relative truths (that the meaning of any one word can only be defined
relative to other words - there is no absolute meaning or Absolute Truth,
it is all tautology). This is solved by connecting our language to Absolute
Space and its properties as a Wave Medium.
See Articles;
Philosophy:
Wittgenstein
Philosophy:
Postmodernism
The
Problem of the Continuous and Discrete
How can One thing, which must be Continuous, form
many things, which must be Discrete?
Space, as One Infinite thing, must be continuous (it has no parts, which require two things), whereas matter is finite and thus discrete. The Wave Structure of Matter explains the discrete observations of reality as follows;
i) Spherical Standing Waves are finite / discrete, as are their Wave-Centers, which we see as discrete 'particles'.
ii)The Wavelength of the spherical waves (about 10-12 ) is also finite and discrete.
iii) The Standing Wave interactions of matter are discrete as only certain standing wave patterns are stable. This explains the discrete energy states of atoms.
iv) Electrons move from one standing wave pattern to another in atoms / molecules (as they interact with other electrons which also change wave states) and this explains the discrete energy states of light quanta / photons.
The
Problem of the Simple and Complex
How can reality, being founded on One Simple thing,
form Many Complex things?
It is the grand object of all theory to make these irreducible elements (principles) as simple and as few in number as possible, without having to renounce the adequate representation of any empirical content whatever. (Albert Einstein)
There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. (Gottfried Leibniz)
The more you see how strangely Nature behaves, the harder it is to make a model that explains how even the simplest phenomena actually work. So theoretical physics has given up on that. (Richard Feynman)
Space, as One thing, must be Simple (there is nothing more simple than One thing, and thus Reality must ultimately be Simple - which it is!).
Matter, as many Spherical Standing Waves, interacts with all other matter in our finite spherical universe and these many trillions upon trillions of wave interactions are very complex (and allow the evolution of complex interconnected ecology of life that we have here on Earth). Also see;
Evolution: Nature One Gaia Cosmos - The Simple foundations of the Metaphysics of Space and Motion and the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) explains both the Complex Ecology of Matter in the Universe and the Complex Ecology of Life on Earth (Gaia).
The
Problem of Space and Matter / Universe
How is Space connected to Matter - How does Matter
interact with all the other Matter in the Universe? Uniting Matter / Universe,
Subject / Object, Self / Other
It has been a common error to think of matter as tiny particles separate from the Universe when in fact matter, as spherical waves the size of the universe, determines our finite spherical universe within an infinite space. Thus it is a naive real (illusion) to think of matter as 'particles' and is founded on the empirical a posteriori truth that we only see the wave-center or 'particle' effect of matter and not the spherical In and Out waves which cause the 'particle' effect. This explains why we can see stars across the universe because matter is the size of the universe and interacts with all the other matter in the universe! And this tells us that we humans are also as large as the universe (a very profound and until now 'mystical' realisation). Albert Einstein realised this, he writes;
Physical
objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended (as
fields). In this way the concept 'empty space' loses
its meaning. ... The field thus becomes an irreducible element of physical
description, irreducible in the same sense as the concept of matter (particles)
in the theory of Newton. ... The physical reality of space is represented
by a field whose components are continuous functions of four independent
variables - the co-ordinates of space and time. Since the theory of general relativity implies the representation of physical reality by a continuous
field, the concept of particles or material points cannot play a fundamental
part, nor can the concept of motion. The particle can only appear as
a limited region in space in which the field strength or the energy density
are particularly high. (Albert Einstein, Metaphysics
of Relativity, 1950)
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty… The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. … We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. (Albert Einstein, 1954)
The current state of our world confirms that Humanity does need a profound new way of thinking. We now know the correct foundations for how to think about our existence in the universe. Please don't ignore this - it is critically important for our future survival.
Geoff Haselhurst.
Help Humanity
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
(Mohandas Gandhi)
"When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence:
Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. ... Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended. In this way the concept 'empty space' loses its meaning. ... The particle can only appear as a limited region in space in which
the field strength or the energy density are particularly high. ...
The free, unhampered exchange of ideas and scientific conclusions is necessary for the sound development of science, as it is in all spheres
of cultural life. ... We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without
a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm
and the misguided. ...
Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking if it is to survive!" (Albert Einstein)
We can now deduce the most simple science theory of reality - the wave structure of matter in space. By understanding how we and everything around us are interconnected
in Space we can then deduce solutions to the fundamental problems of human knowledge in physics, philosophy, metaphysics, theology, education, health, evolution and ecology, politics and society.
This is the profound new way of thinking that Einstein
realised, that we exist as spatially extended structures of the universe - the discrete and separate body an illusion. This simply confirms the
intuitions of the ancient philosophers and mystics.
Given the current censorship in physics / philosophy of science journals (based on the standard model of particle physics / big bang cosmology) the internet is the best hope for getting new knowledge
known to the world. But that depends on you, the people who care about science and society, realise the importance of truth and reality.
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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. (Max Planck, 1920)
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