The Way the Universe was Created has generated an ongoing discussion for more than 6000 years. In this Blog I give you a way to solve this problem with the use of Logic.
When we use Logic you will see that the concept of Creation out of Nothing leads to a Strange Contradiction.
This Contradiction looks a lot like the Zero-Point-Field of Quantum Mechanics.
The theory of Quantum Mechanics is a Statistical Theory. Statistical Theories are an approximation of a Theory.
Behind this approximation lies a hidden structure called the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is an expansion of the first Creation, the split of the Void.
Perhaps the most important conclusion of this blog is that what most people call the Spiritual World is really the Material World which can be explained by Mathematics and Physics.
The only part of our Universe that is truly Spiritual and is without any Duality lies outside our Universe. This Part, The Void, prevents Our Universe for Total Annihilation.
To describe the process of Creation out of Nothing we have to define the Void (Ø) and the Whole (○). The Void is the Empty Set. The Empty Set is a Set with Zero Members. An example is the Set of months with more than 31 days. In this case the Empty Set is the result of an impossible selection.
The Tao is like a well:
used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities.
It is hidden but always present.
I don’t know who gave birth to it.
It is older than God.
The empty set is not the same thing as nothing. It is a set with nothing inside it. In Logic there is no concept that describes “nothing”. We have to assume that there was something in the Beginning and that something is the Empty Set.
The Empty Set contains everything that is impossible.
In the Beginning an impossible selection was not possible because there was nothing to select from. This means that in the Beginning the Empty Set was the only Set in the Universe.
In the beginning the only thing that was possible was the impossible.
The Void is the Opposite of the Whole. To define the Void and the Whole we have to make use of a Distinction.
A Distinction is something that divides a Set into Two parts, X and its Opposite not-X (Yin/Yang).
A Set that is divided into Two Parts Suddenly contains Four parts A, not-A, the Division and the Set itself (the Whole): Yin, Yang, Yin AND Yang (Division), Yin OR Yang (Whole).
The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three; Three produced All things (Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching, 42).
X and not-X have only the Void in common. When we bring the two sets together they become Nothing just like the combination of Matter and Anti-Matter results in the Annihilation of Both Parts and the production of a Photon (“Light”) and Kinetic Energy (Movement). To avoid annihilation Matter and Anti-Matter have to Stay Apart.
When you Fuse the two parts X and not-X the Whole appears again. In the Beginning there was Nothing to Fuse and the commonality of the Empty Set with its Opposite, the Not-Empty Set, the Whole, was the Empty Set. In the Beginning the Whole was the Empty Set because there was only the Empty Set.
All is possible when emptiness is possible.
Nothing is possible when emptiness is impossible.
Nagarjuna, Chapter 24 verse 14 of the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
In Logic the commonality of two sets is represented by the term “and”. The fusion of two sets is represented by the term “or”. The not is represented by the symbol “~”. Using these Symbols we can write down the “laws of Logic” as follows:
Ø = ~○
X and ~X = Ø
X or ~X = ○
At the beginning of the beginning, even nothing did not exist (Chuang-tse)
At the Beginning the Universe was the Void and the Void was the Whole.
This implies the following:
Ø and ~ Ø = Ø
Ø or ~ Ø = ○
Ø = ~ Ø
Form is no other than emptiness; emptiness no other than form (Diamond Sutra)
The First Distinction in the Universe is the Choice between Distinction (~ Ø) or Non-Distinction (Ø). The Choice between the two is the Whole (Ø or ~ Ø = ○). Non-distinction is the state of Union of Every Thing in the Universe. The Union of Every Thing is No Thing at all.
There is in reality neither truth nor error, neither yes nor no, nor any distinction whatsoever, since all — including contraries — is One (Chuang-tse)
The One. . .is there before every oneness amid multiplicity, before every part and whole, before the definite and indefinite, before the limited and the unlimited. It is there defining all things that have being, defining being itself. . .It is there beyond the one itself, defining this one. (Dionysius)
The One transcends all antithesis, rises above all relation, is pure from all duality (Proclus)
Everything is of the nature of no thing (Parmenides)
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousand things. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery (Lao Tzu)
In the Beginning when the Laws of Logic, the Logos, came into existence two Empty Sets were produced, the Empty Set and its Opposite, the Not-Empty Set. In the Beginning the Void was not the Void.
In the Beginning the Void has Negated Itself. This Negation started the Proces of Creation out of Nothing.
By Negation itself the Void created a deep Passionate longing to move back to the Sea of the Nothing.
The One is a Negation of Negations (Meister Eckhart)
The not-Void has a choice (Ø or ~ Ø). One choice is to merge with the Void (Ø and ~ Ø) and return back into Emptiness. The other choice is to avoid Annihilation. In this case the not-Void, ~ Ø, has to stay apart from the Void, Ø. Therefore the Not-Void, ~Ø, has to Move Away from the Void, Ø.
When this happened The Not-Void transformed from the State of Being into the state of Becoming and started to Rotate and Expand in a Spiraling motion. The Moving Void, the Second Distinction, Expanding Space, was created. When the Second Distinction was created the Void came to Rest but to keep the Balance of the Void, Not-Expanding, Compressing Space, Ø and ~ Ø, came into Existence too.
Expansion (The Strong Force) has to be compensated by Compression (Gravity) to bring the Universe back to the Void. The amount of Time this will take is dependent on the Power, the Potential, of the not-Void when it was disconnected from the Void. When the Potential of the disconnection is small, the Void and the Non-Void will merge soon and start a new process of disconnection to solve their Eternal Contradiction.
Expanding Space (Ø or ~ Ø ) and ~ Expanding Space(Ø or ~ Ø) = Ø
Gravity and The Strong Force = Ø
Gravity or The Strong Force = ~ Ø
The whole process of logical reasoning from the Void to Space/Time is based on a Contradiction that occurs when we define what happens when Logic (Consciousness, the Two, the Self and the Observer of the Self) came into existence (“In the beginning was the Logos“) and the Void was the Whole.
When we look at the current theory of creation called the Big Bang Theory we find the same contradiction formulated in a different way.
In the theory of the Big Bang the Void that is the Whole is called a Gravitational Singularity (GS). A GS is a situation where the current laws of Physics break down because one of the variables moves to Infinity. When such a contradiction happens scientists know there is something wrong with their theory.
In the Big Bang Theory, the Universe is compressed (moved back in Time) into an extremely small space, a point, a singularity, and is therefore infinitely hot.
The Void that was the Whole, Empty Space, is extremely cold (0 degrees Kelvin). This condition is called the Zero-Point-Field. It is the State of the Universe that was there before the Big Bang.
According to Quantum Mechanics, the Zero-Point-Field, the Vacuum State, is not truly empty. It contains fleeting electromagnetic waves and particles that pop into and out of existence. It is not strange to define this popping up of No-Thing by the statement: ~ Ø = Ø (Sometimes there is nothing and sometimes there is not nothing).
The only thing we have to look for is the reason why the State of Rest of the Zero Point Field was disturbed. The answer of this question is simple: “It just happens“. A statistical fluctuation can be very small or very big.
In the Beginning the Quantum Fluctuations of the Zero Point Field, the Phoenix, generated a huge Fluctuation represented by a “Cosmic Orgasm (Shiva and Shakti made Love)” and a real particle, a Photon (“In the Beginning was the Light“), came into existence. This Single Photon, One Wave of Light, bouncing against the expanding walls of the Universe, was enough to Create the Whole Universe.
Quantum Fluctuation is a Statistical Theory. Statistal Theories don’t explain the Universe. They are an approximation of a deeper structure we still don’t know. The ancient scientists used a metaphor out of Nature to explain this deeper structure. This metaphor was called the Tree of Life.
When we use Logic, the first step in Creation generates a Trinity. This Trinity consists of Gravitation (Expansion), the Strong Force (Compression) and the Void, the Empty Set. The concept of the Trinity with different names comes back in every Ancient Religion.
The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three; Three produced All things (Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching, 42).
The first Trinity is the Top of a structure called the Tree of Life. This structure can be found in almost every Ancient Culture.
The Tree of Life consists of Nine Concepts with the Void (10=0) at the top. The Nine Concepts of the Tree of Life are created by Multiplying the Trinity by the Trinity (3×3 =9 + the Void = 10 = 0).
The duality (-1,1) is represented by two Trinities (-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3) with the Void in the Middle. In this case the Pattern of Seven appears.
The real enfolding is created when we apply the Trinity to the Trinity. In this case the sequence becomes 1, 1, 4 (1+ 3×1), 13 (1+3×4), 43 (4+3×13), the Bronze Mean.
Every number in this sequence represents an important Stage in the enfolding of our Universe and has its own Mystical Meaning (The Void, The Duality, the Four Forces, The Zodiac (with the Sun in the Center), The Sri Yantra (The Kingdom)).
The fractal patterns moves deeper and deeper into the Material World, father away from the Beginning, the Void. At this moment our Universe contains fourty-two levels.
At some point (43) the pattern of enfolding will finally reach the Kingdom and the pattern will reverse and moves back to the Void. From that moment we will move backwards in Time.
When you apply the Trinity to the Trinity you use a principle that is called Self-Reference. In modern mathematics this principle is called a Fractal and the theory associated with Fractals is called Chaos Theory. Fractals play a very important role in the new String Theories of the Universe.
It is possible to generate the many levels of the Universe out of one Fractal Pattern, the Trinity. In modern Physics one of the candidates for the Fractal Pattern of the Universe is the Sierpinski Triangel. This fractal pattern generates the well known Mystical Geometries and is based on Trinities.
Physics and Mystics show that Our Universe and every part of it (including the Human Being) are part of the first Trinity that came out of the non-Void, the negation of the Empty Set that came into Being.
If the Void and the Trinity are concepts that represents the concept of God, we are all part of the enfolding structure, God, the Not-Void.
One part of God, the “Real Void“, the Mystery (Brahman), is not part of our Universe. It stays outside to prevent total annihilation of Every Thing.
We cannot understand The Mystery because we cannot Reason, don’t have a Distinction, about the Beginning of the Beginning. It lies Outside our System of Understanding called Logic. The only thing that is left for us is to Experience and Keep Silent.
Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness, the ruler of movement (Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching, 26).
The Void is also the power that Attracts every part of our Universe. The farther away we expand from the Void the stronger the Strong Force becomes. At a certain point in Time this force will force us to Move Back. When this happens the Compression of the Universe, back to the Void, cannot be stopped. When we move Back, Time will be Reversed.
In the End the Spiral of Enfolding will be Closed in Itself and the not-Void will merge with the Void. At that moment the State of Stillness of the Zero Point Field will be restored waiting for a new Fluctuation to occur. The Universe is Breathing. It is recreated time after time until the Void and the Non-Void finally fuse into the Nothing, the Mystery.
“If we then become children, would we thus enter the kingdom?” Jesus said unto them, “When ye make the two one, and when you make the inside like unto the outside and the outside like unto the inside, and that which is above like unto that which is below, and when ye make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male no longer be male nor the female female; then will ye enter into the kingdom.”
(Gospel of Thomas, Logion 22).
When we look at the Logic of Creation we can see that the only part of Our Universe that is Truly Spiritual is the Void. The Not-Void and all its expansions are part of the Material World (Maya) that can be explained by Mathematics and Physics.
The Void, the Infinite Potential with Infinite Possibilities, lies Outside our System of Reasoning and is Nameless, Formless and not Dividable. It is truly One.
We are Nothing but a Rare Fluctuation of the One, who is the Void.
LINKS
About the Mathematics of Distinctions of Spencer Brown
About the Seven (3-1-3) and the Nine (3×3)
About the Holy Trinity in Mathematics
How to create Mathematics out of the Void
Thanks for this! It’s perfect! I’m teaching a class on Taoism. Also, I’ve always been interested in Cosmology and the Unified Field Theory — and your article/presentation seems to have a big part of the Answer! Thanks again…
I understood everything provided for consideration up to the point that shows the enfolding/universe closed in itself. When considering fractals, spirals, waves, and other such forms as we see them now, they do curl and circle/cycle, but continue movement and change into still other forms and realms. If things are contained in a closed system, where does the level of dimensionality go? Would each of these closed universes be its own dimension? Where would the cross-over to other dimensions take place? Notice I do not ask when. The universe is constantly breathing; where would the “new fluctuation” originate? To travel, means being able to navigate something that is in constant movement (cosmically). Being timeless means removing our ideas of closed systems and their limitations.
We see here on earth the limitations inherent in closed systems. It can be frustrating to think there are other realms without a means of reaching them. It makes sense to consider a closed system, certainly, as our own lungs cannot function properly if they have a hole in them. But for purposes of our larger, more cosmic breath, I think what is materially formed from the void manages a balance of expansion and contraction that keeps the forward momentum going. When the mechanism itself reaches its useful end, I can understand its return to the source…kind of like the ultimate in recycling/repurposing. I am more inclined to understand the progression/procession as what balances the return.
Thank you for sharing such helpful information. 🙂 Blessings!
I think your “problem” has to do with the concept of space. Space is not expanding in something else. Space is litterally creating Space. So outside space there is “nothing”. The big problem with our thinking is that we are unable to imagine nothing. When we imagine “nothing” we see “something”. Perhaps this helps: http://hans.wyrdweb.eu/about-static-and-dynamic/ or this http://hans.wyrdweb.eu/about-matrix/
exelent explained! enjoyed reading this, the edge, where the void becomes mystical, probably has some sort of an athmoshere around it, wonder what lies beyond that, probably surpasses extreme logic so i look right past it..
The void is a result of what you call extreme logic or meta-logic, logic about logic. If you use logic to explain logic you always encounter the paradox (or contra-diction). Instead of trying to get rid of this contradiction by creating a new theory you could also accept that life is a paradox, a tension between something and its complement.
Quote: “X and not-X have only the Void in common. When we bring the two sets together they become Nothing just like the combination of Matter and Anti-Matter results in the Annihilation of Both Parts and the production of a Photon (“Light”) and Kinetic Energy (Movement). To avoid annihilation Matter and Anti-Matter have to Stay Apart”.
Please, allow me to clarify that this is not exactly true. The intersection of x and not-x results in the void (or nothingness) (empty set) this is annihilation, agreed. However, the intersection of matter and antimatter produces energy, which is not nothing, but something. Matter and antimatter are two forms of positive matter. We need “negative matter” or “negated matter” to have annihilation when intersected with ordinary matter. This is a common misunderstanding.
My humble pranam to you ji. I am truly impressed with your Nectarine words of Highest Wisdom. <3 Love and Light <3 Shiva
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