Sunday, November 29, 2009

Why does Everything exist

This video is the final sequel to 'What is Gravity?' and 'What is Space?'. Dealing with these questions brought us here, to the final question of 'Why does Everything exist?'.

By asking 'What creates what?' we already extracted a core truth out of current paradigms. Space, time, matter and energy exist, but why? This creating entity is target of our search. A search that can not be done by the mind though.

Imagine a being that sees these five fingers but not the complete hand. It also never saw a hand before and doesn't understand what a hand is. Each finger is a separate entity. Now, when the fingers pick up something, like a glass of water, this perceptually restricted being will recognize a coincidental, miraculous harmony in the fingers movements. To the being it seems as if the fingers are mysterious connected but it will never be able to prove it.
Uncovering the bigger picture removes the mystery of the connected fingers and reveals the 'reality' of the fivee fingers actually being one hand.

The same thing is happening to human beings as we identify as seperate entities. Most people recognize a strange and mysterious connectedness to others. Going deeper into this recognition will reveal that our connectedness manifests in things like Coincidence, Imagination, Dreams and Empathy. Going even deeper will reveal that there is no coincidence, only misunderstood synchronicity. Also imagination and dreams are just your way of creating your every day. At this level, empathy is not just a word anymore, it is an accepted connection from you to others.
It is only through the awakening from separation that one can remove the mystery from our human beings connectedness. By knowing that there is no separate 'me' – only consciousness.
I think that a lot of people already heard words like this but it doesn't catch their interest. If you think all this is spiritual, mystical talking, let me tell you that the full understanding of these words will remove all spirituality and mystery out of your life forever.

But how do you ‘know’ what consciousness is?
You can ‘know’ consciousness only by seeing through your illusion of self.

Here is an attempt of explaining. Take a look at that car and ask: 'What is the most important thing that makes the engine work?'
Of course there are hundreds of answers, but one is 'the most important thing is fuel'. Without fuel it wouldn't work for sure. This answer is wrong. The correct answer is 'the most important thing is the emptiness inside the tank that enables the fuel to be in it'.

Now, 'What is the most important thing that makes a human being work?' The brain? The heart? No, it is consciousness, the ability of being aware.

You need to listen to these words with more than just your mind, or you will not understand it. The mind is that which covers up consciousness in the first place. And don't ask me to provide evidence for everything we went through so far. How can something be proven to an illusion, you see? I can only ask questions that make you find your own evidence...

Where do you think is your Consiousness – your felt sense of yourself? In your head? Where the brain is, the eyes and ears?
What if your eyes were in your knees – where would be your consciousness then?
We just think our consciousness is in our head but it could be everywhere else. It doesn‘t have a ‚location‘.

Every being has some kind of consciousness depending on nervous system und sense organs. Even an ant recognizes your finger it it's put in the way. Even a flower recognizes the sun.
We human beings are limited to specific ranges of perception, for example regarding light or sound. We are just looking at the world through a small, milky window. How can we think that we ever perceive reality?
What if you could see like an eagle, smell like a dog, hear like a cat?
What if your senses and brain capacity were unlimited? Then we would perceive everything everywhere. Your consciousness wouldn‘t any longer be ‚in the head‘– it would be everywhere. There wouldn‘t be any separate ‚me‘ anymore.
No difference can be made between human beings. We all would be the same.
We already are.

Everything derives from Oneness. How are different atoms created? Why do they interact or communicate in mysterious ways?
Same questions apply to large scales – our universe. How is it created? What are possibilities? What are things that haven't manifested yet?

What Creates Everything?
Do you remember the five separate fingers that were one hand?
Do you remember human beings feeling separate although being one consciousness?
The answer is the same here. Everthing is created through Oneness. In Oneness, all mysteries and questions fall away. There is no need to talk about connectedness or separation since these are only words. It is Oneness that creates itself.
And in the Creation of Oneness,
Consciousness is watching Change. That is you.

I want you to know that there is no desire in me to convince you of something. Words can't do that.
If you are willing and interested though, there might be something in between my sentences for you find to within yourself.

At this point, if you feel like missing a small link, start again at the beginning. Feel free to refresh your understanding by going back through the journey we made so far.

What is Space?

This video is a direct sequel to 'What is Gravity?'.

There we found out that Gravity is nothing but a quality of Space Warp, that Space can be warped with or without matter and that Expansion might be a reduction of space warp. Also it is created by the same entity that creates space, time, matter and energy.


Now, to dive deeper into our question of 'What is Space?', we remember the clues that our previous episode about gravity revealed.
Is space warped by default?

Imagine looking down a long alley of trees. What do you think that space is? The straight line of your gaze? Is it possible at all to see space? Why are we so certain that space is straight? What if that which creates space is warped like this?

The same question applies to our method of measuring distances. Looking at our solar system, we measure by going the straight line, although we know that the underlying space is warped by the suns gravity.

It is a bit like corrugated sheet metal where we might not be able to see the corrugation at all...

The next important question is 'What is Expansion?'.
For that we go back to our Cosmic Horizon and ask: At what distance X is the expansion equal to the speed of light?

The expansion of the universe is defined by the Hubble Constant =74.2 km/s/Mpc. There is an uncertainty to this number, so don't pin me down on a specific value.
1 Mpc = 3.26 million light years, also the Speed of Light c =299792.5 km/s.
With that we can calculate X as 13.2 billion light years.

And as long as the speed of light doesn't change, this – our – Cosmic Horizon ‘bubble’ is constant in size!

We have to go on.
If space is warped by default, the stretching or unfolding of it would make the universe seem to expand.
If space has more than (3) dimension, it could only appear to unfold itself, but in it’s own dimension, it might not change at all.

Let's blow up our Cosmic Horizon a bit. We think that space goes straight (with occasional influence of matter that creates gravity).
That what creates space is – as discussed – warped by default. Now if this space stretches itself, our 'straight/3-dimensional' space seems to have expanded – or it seems to be more space now... … although the space inside our Cosmic Horizon stayed exactly the same.
If you would fill up a glass of water until it overflows, the amount of water in the glass doesn't increase too, it is unchanged.

At this point we learned an important detail and can go back to our 'What creates What' puzzle. We said that gravity is just a quality of space warp and now we discovered that space warp is just a quality of space. If being warped is in the nature of space, there is no need for space warp to be created by something. It's already there.

Of all the things left, it is still space that is our main interest right now. So what is it for? What is space for?
It exists.
It is empty so that things can be in it.
(The fun thing about this is that space wouldn't exist without anything in it. You can try to ‘see’ that, for example by stretching out your hand in front of your eyes and then trying to 'feel' what's in between...)
It is warped.
It expands.
It can have holes.
It is infinite. Well, Is it?

I'm truly sorry but there are more questions on our way of understanding space and this next one might make you go crazy if you don't pay attention.
What do you think is Beyond our Cosmic Horizon? Is there space?

Imagine an alien planet close to our cosmic horizon. At one point, they send out a message into the universe. This message travels to us at the speed of light, but effectively it moves only with about 50% of the speed of light since it has to fight against the universes expansion. This is a bit strange: the radius of our cosmic horizon is 13.2 billion light years but light from the outer regions requires two times that long to reach Earth.
The closer the light comes towards Earth, the less the expansion and so on. Please remember that this has nothing to do with relativity. Light still travels with the speed of light, we are only looking at the effective speed here.
As a side notice, this also means that what is in a 6.6 billion light year radius now, will be on the cosmic horizon radius by the time the alien message reached us.

In this thought model, we neglect a few minor things, for example the remaining lifetime or our sun which is much shorter than 26.4 billion light years. Anyway, we pretend that one day, the message will eventually reach Earth but as we look into the direction of the alien planet we see that it is gone... There is no way of telling what happened to it anymore. It might have been destroyed, or the aliens moved on to another solar system. We don't know. And because we don't know – and will never be able to, we can say that beyond the cosmic horizon, there are only Possibilities, that which is not being observed.
This would also apply to a Big Bang if it is outside of our horizon.

So Earth may be at the center of our universe, but
There is no center for EVERYTHING.
How can there be a center of something that isn't even observed?

Everything that is not being observed, where there is no conscious observer, exists in any possible state. Only in the moment of observation, one out of all possible states is manifested.
Possibilities means non-manifested. Non-manifested ‚things‘ do not exist, until they are observed because then they manifest.
This doesn‘t mean that everything behind our cosmic horizon is empty – or full.
It means that there is simply NOTHING, no space, or time, or matter, or energy.

This can't be understood by the mind. Maybe you remember, but the mind is just an illusion. And since we believe in this illusion, how should we believe in what's beyond?

The reason why is this so hard to understand, can be called
The Phenomenon of Separated Consciousness
which is scale confusion.

Scale Confusion is a human default setting. It is the error of not understanding the same ‘reality’ from one size scale to a different size-scale. In other words, planets expanding out of our visible universe is the same thing than hanging up the phone. The moment you hung up, the other person's life is just possibilities to you.
Or imagine watching a ship taking off from a harbor. The moment the ship is out of sight, it's merely possibilities to you. It can be totally fine, or sunk, exploded, obducted by aliens, and so on. Now if a friend of yours calls you from the other side of the globe, telling you that the ship is arriving at its destination, all the possibilities collapse and manifest in one version.

The Cosmic Horizon of us on earth might be 13.2 billion light years away, but your personal Cosmic Horizon is only as far as you can see. (or listen, taste, smell, feel)

So remember, every time you turn around, what is behind you just became possibilities.

At this point, our initial question of 'What is Space?' suddenly got somewhat secondary again.
Another, more powerful question arises, which is: 'Why Does Everything Exist?'

What is Gravity?

Please join me on this journey further into the thoughts about Unity.
As with every theory, you are welcome to disprove it and save me some time.
Now, where do we start looking for gravity? Isn't it everywhere?

Our journey starts on our Blue Planet. Here we feel gravity everytime. But we want to find out what is beyond. To do so, we travel away from Earth, out of our solar system into our galaxy - the Milky Way. Here, every bright dot you see represents many solar systems. The diameter of the Milky Way is about 100,000 lightyears across. We are located approximately here - shown in this circle – which is about 1,000 light years across.
Our Galaxy then is nothing but a small bright dot on this map of Super Clusters. And now, in another step further away from Earth we see that even super clusters shrink to small dots on your screen when we're looking at our local universe. This is as far we can see.
From here, Earth is really really really small, but there is one quite special thing about it: Earth is exactly at the center of the universe.
This universe is also called our 'Cosmic Horizon' - a 'bubble' as big as far we can see.

Remember, we are still asking "What is gravity?"

In this Cosmic Horizon, two things awaken our interest:
The fist is Dark Matter: undetectable but said to exist, glueing together large scale super clusters and preventing matter from drifting apart, and the second is
Dark Energy: also undetectable but said to be the driving force for the universes expansion.

At this point I'll use the so-called Cosmic Density Pyramid as basis for my further discussion. It shows the distribution of density in the universe which is explained in the book 'The View from the Center of the Universe'. According to our 'current' paradigm, matter and also dark matter create gravity. Gravity then is the reason for space warp. On the other side, Dark Energy is said to create anti-gravity, or at least something that causes the universe to expand.

This current picture is missing two vital parts. What creates time and space? And what creates matter itself?
So let's start again, this time at the origin.
Something creates matter and energy. It also creates space and time. All these, matter, energy, space and time can't be separated. They all depend on each other.
Then we come to gravity and ask: What creates it?

As quite often, it isn't a specific answer that will help us to progress, but a better question. So we ask 'What is first? Gravity or Space Warp?'
Next to the top part of the cosmic density pyramid (which represents matter) you see a 2D model of 3D bent space. Our sun in the middle of our solar system creates the most gravity which equals the most space warp.
Now, forgetting about Dark Matter for a moment and plainly looking at the effect of it on large scales, we see a similar space warp - but without matter.

At this point, why should we assume that there is something invisible and undetectable causing this space warp? A more obvious assumption just is: Space can be warped with or without matter. That means, the statement that 'mass creates gravity' is not the whole story.

If the universe is warped even without matter, then this would explain the effects for which Dark Matter was invented for – but in a much more logical way…

It explains why matter like galaxies in a galaxy clusters stay together and do not drift off.

Imagine a Large-Scale Space Warp without matter being warped like this. Our solar system (of course a lot smaller) shows similar space warp but with matter. Completing the puzzle, our solar system might be only a dent in a dent, like this.

Same way but in another scale, galaxies might be dents in a larger dent.

If this would be true, there is no need for Dark Matter anymore.

Let's go back to the Density Pyramid, we didn't look at the bottom part of the pyramid yet. Dark Energy. The effect we're trying to explain with Dark Energy is expansion. Following our argumentation, the only thing required for expansion is a reduction of space warp.
This is like a blanket with a lot of wrinkles in it that you are straightening out.
We assume: Expansion might be a reduction of space warp.
Back to our puzzle so we can complete the remainders. Space can be warped with or without matter. So matter doesn't create gravity but something else does.
Also with this new understanding, it is much more logical that space warp is the resulting force and gravity is just a quality of it.
In the same way, the characteristics of dark energy (expansion) is just another quality of space warp.

At this point, the question of 'What is Gravity?' is not fully answered but got somewhat secondary.
Another, more powerful question arises - looking at the strong connection right here - which is: 'What is Space?'