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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.
Yin Yang Philosophy
Discussion on the Metaphysics / Philosophy of Yin Yang
The Metaphysics of Space and Motion & the Wave Structure of Matter
On the Harmony of Opposites in the One Universe (Space)
Yin Yang Pictures
The Great One produces the two poles (Heaven and Earth), which in turn give rise to the energies of the dark (yin) and the light (yang). These two energies then transform themselves, one rising upwards, and the other descending downwards; they merge again and give rise to form. (Lu-sih ch'un-ch'iu - Spring and Autumn Annals)
The created universe carries the yin at its back and the yang in front; Through the union of the pervading principles it reaches harmony. (Lao tzu, Tao-te ching)
(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.
Transformation
contains both change and stability, plurality and unity, movement and constancy.
It has the nature of life, namely, to connect organically the polar opposites,
the stumbling blocks of logic, and to unite them in an all embracing rhythm.
(Lama Govinda)
The
world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject
and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken
down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier
does not exist.
(Erwin Schrodinger)
Introduction to Metaphysics of Yin & Yang
The idea of opposites (Yin Yang, the union and harmony of opposites) has existed in both Eastern and Western philosophy since ancient times. Of the Ancient Greek Philosophers, Heraclitus and Parmenides both understood that the Universe was One and Dynamic. As Bertrand Russell writes on Heraclitus;
For Heraclitus the unity of things was to be found in their essential structure or arrangement rather than their material. This common structure or Logos, which was not superficially apparent, was chiefly embodied in a Single kinetic material, Fire. It was responsible both for the regularity of natural changes and for the essential connexion of opposites - Heraclitus adopted this traditional analysis of differentiation - through balanced interaction. The regularity underlying change was for Heraclitus the significant thing .. (Bertrand Russell on Heraclitus, The History of Western Philosophy)
It is also interesting to read the original fragments of Heraclitus' own writing;
Listening to the Logos rather than to me, it is wise to agree that all things are in reality one thing and one thing only. (Heraclitus)
Things which are put together are both whole and not whole, brought together and taken apart, in harmony and out of harmony; one thing arises from all things, and all things arise from one thing. (Heraclitus)
As a single, unified thing there exists in us both life and death, waking and sleeping, youth and old age, because the former things having changed are now the latter, and when those latter things change, they become the former. (Heraclitus)
Parmenides viewed this Oneness in a different manner to Heraclitus;
The One is infinite and indivisible. It is not, as Heraclitus, a union of opposites, since there are no opposites. Parmenides apparently thought, for instance, that 'cold' means only 'not hot' and 'dark' means only 'not light'. ... Parmenides seems to think of it (the One) as material and extended, for he speaks of it as a sphere. But it cannot be divided, because of the whole of it is present everywhere. (Russell, 1946)
However, it is clear that both Philosophy and Metaphysics are founded on this Dynamic Unity and Order / Harmony of Reality, as Nietzsche (rather grandly) states,
(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!
This understanding of the Unity of the Universe is also shared by many Eastern philosophers (in fact one could say that this the foundation of the Eastern world view - All is One and Dynamic).
Though One, Brahman is the cause of the many. .. Brahman is
the unborn (aja) in whom all existing things abide. The One manifests as the
many, the formless putting on forms. (Rig Veda)
The word Brahman means growth and is suggestive of life, motion, progress. (Radhakrishnan)
While this webpage is on Yin Yang, it is primarily concerned with the metaphysics of Yin Yang, and what this knowledge is telling us about physical 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.
In particular, it is now quite easy to show that the Metaphysics of Space and Motion and the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) provides a simple explanation of these ancient ideas of the universe (All is One, Interconnected, Dynamic). From this perspective of describing reality in terms of One Dynamic Thing, Space, and its properties as a Wave-Medium (rather than 'particles and fields in space-time) we find simple sensible solutions to many of the current problems of modern Physics, Philosophy and Metaphysics.
The Wave Structure of Matter
Describing Reality from the Most Simple Science Foundation
From 'Particles' & Spherical 'Field's in 'Space-Time', to Spherical Waves
in Space.
Please see links on the side of this page for the main articles which explain and solve many of the problems of postmodern Metaphysics, Physics and Philosophy from the new foundation of the Metaphysics of Space and Motion and the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM).
The Ancient Greek Philosophers were
often very close to the truth, as reflected in Parmenides realisation that the
One existent is material (substance), extended (Space) and a Sphere (caused
by matter as Spherical Waves in Space). Further, the Wave-Center of the Spherical
Waves, which causes the discrete particle effect, is not a division, but rather,
a production from the One Unity, the Focal-Point of Spherical Standing Waves
that determine the size of our finite spherical Universe within an Infinite
Space.
The Spherical In and Out Waves of the Wave Structure of Matter explains the
change and harmony of opposites in the One Universe.
We greatly appreciate any comments
on how we can improve this website and its content. So please feel free to write
to us.
Geoff
Haselhurst
Yin Yang Philosophy Quotes
Quotations on (the union of) Opposites, One, Transformation & Diversity
There is a good principle, which has created order, light and man; and a bad principle, which has created chaos, darkness and woman. (Pythagoras).
(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.
(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.
Transiency is as necessary to immortality (or to
the experience of eternity), as the body is to the soul, or as matter is to
mind. And in saying so, we might note that these are not irreconcilable or totally
exclusive opposites, but rather the extreme points in the amplitude of the swinging
pendulum, i.e. parts of the same movement. By becoming conscious of the inner
direction and relationship of our transient life, we discover the eternity in
time, immortality in transiency- and thus we transform the fleeting shapes of
phenomena into timeless symbols of reality.
Liberation is not escapism, but consists in the conscious transformation of
the elements that constitute our world and our existence. This is the great
secret of the Tantras and of the mystics of all time. (Lama Govinda,
Creative Meditation)
Transformation contains both change and stability, plurality and unity, movement and constancy. It has the nature of life, namely, to connect organically the polar opposites, the stumbling blocks of logic, and to unite them in an all embracing rhythm. (Lama Govinda, Creative Meditation, p184)
The perfect mutual interpenetration of forms, processes, things,
beings, etc., and the presence of the experiencing subject in all of them -
in other words, the simultaneity of differentiation and oneness, of individuality
and universality, of form and emptiness - is the main thesis of the great Buddhist
philosopher Nagarjuna, who lived in the second century of our era.
His philosophy of the “Middle Way” consists in a new orientation
of thought, freed from the rigidity of the concept of “substance”
or that of a static universe, in which things and beings were thought of as
more or less independent units, so that concepts like “identity”
and “non-identity” could be applied to them and form the basis of
discursive thought.
Where, however, everything is in flux, such concepts - and a logic derived from
them - cannot be adequate and, therefore, the relationship of form to emptiness
and vice-versa cannot be conceived as a mutually exclusive nature of as absolute
opposites, but only as two aspects of the same reality, co-existing in continuous
co-operation. Because “form” (rupa) must not be confused with “thingness”
or materiality, since each form is the expression of a creative actor or process
in a beginningless and endless movement, whose precondition, according to Nagarjuna
is precisely that mysterious “emptiness” (or “Plenum-void,”
as it has been aptly called) expressed in the term Sunyata.
In this experience of timeless reality beyond the realm of opposites, the relative
is not annihilated in favour of the absolute nor is the manifoldness of life
sacrificed to an abstract unity, but the individual and the universal
penetrate and condition each other so completely that the one cannot be separated
from the other. They are as inseparable as time and space, and like
these they represent two aspects of the same reality: time is the dynamic aspect
of individual (and therefore incomplete) action and experience; space is the
sum total of all activity in its ever-complete and therefore timeless aspect.
(Lama Govinda, Creative Meditation, p286-7)
(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.
The
world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject
and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken
down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier
does not exist.
(Erwin Schrodinger)
Links / Yin Yang Philosophy
Govinda,
Lama - Tantric Buddhist Lama Govinda correctly realised
the importance of Space (Akasa) and Motion (Prana)
as the Foundations of Eastern Philosophy and Dynamic Interconnection of Brahman.
Eastern
Philosophy: Buddha: Buddhism Religion: Nirvana - 'All
phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network.'
The Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) explains Nirvana (Truth)
Karma (Interconnection).
Eastern
Philosophy: Chakras - On Resonance, Harmonics and the Seven Chakras.
Pictures, Quotations, Chakra Information.
Eastern Philosophy: Kundalini
- Discussion of the Philosophy and Metaphysics of Kundalini,
the divine / cosmic energy that lies within every human being.
When Kundalini is awakened we experience our true nature, Self as Universe.
Eastern Philosophy: Taoism - Ancient Chinese Philosophy correctly realised
that One Thing (Tao) must Exist to Connect the Many Things.
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
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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
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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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