Theory of the Awareness of Nothing
There is no place to begin other than at the beginning. My beginning starts at the beginning of everything, whether you believe that there is one Universe or an infinite number of Universes, three dimensions or millions of dimensions. Everything must have a beginning. The only logical assumption to make is that in the beginning there was nothing. It was the absolute absence of anything, no space, no time and no Universe. How, one might ask, is a Universe created from nothing? Words fail here and can only be used to help understand the concept. The absence of nothing (no thing) is something (some thing) the same as the absence of darkness is light. It is the answer to that question makes all the difference .
The video below is Dr. Michio Kaku speaking about the present theory on the creation of the Universe. While our theories agree that the Universe was created from nothing, one such current scientific theory is that the nothing was unstable and that created bubbles or quantum particles in the nothingness that led to the Big Bang and the creation of the Universe. Also current theory is that the innermost particles of atoms are made up of vibrating lines of energy called "strings" and the strings are the foundation of everything which makes up the Universe. My theory begins with the assumption that the first thing to come out of absolute nothing was a most vague and slight Awareness of Nothing. Please note that the videos that follow should be watched to appreciate the similarities and differences in the theories that follow.
The video below is Dr. Michio Kaku speaking about the present theory on the creation of the Universe. While our theories agree that the Universe was created from nothing, one such current scientific theory is that the nothing was unstable and that created bubbles or quantum particles in the nothingness that led to the Big Bang and the creation of the Universe. Also current theory is that the innermost particles of atoms are made up of vibrating lines of energy called "strings" and the strings are the foundation of everything which makes up the Universe. My theory begins with the assumption that the first thing to come out of absolute nothing was a most vague and slight Awareness of Nothing. Please note that the videos that follow should be watched to appreciate the similarities and differences in the theories that follow.
There are many other theories as to how everything was created from nothing, but most assume that "something" was there at the start (where did that something come from, i.e. quantum particles and bubbles, vibrating strings of energy?) and require several giant leaps of faith to tie the theory together. Also the theories make no attempt to account for consciousness in the Universe, including the consciousness of the authors of those theories.
Whenever a scientist says that everything in the Universe is made up of "vibrating strings of energy" just ask " Where do the strings of energy come from and what makes them vibrate? ". The "Theory of the Awareness of Nothing " easily answers that question and in doing so resolves a conflict between science, religion and philosophy and accounts for consciousness in the Universe and gives it purpose.
Could the equation that Dr.Kaku seeks be so simple as E=N+A , where E stands for Everything, N stands for Nothing and A stands for Awareness?
Perhaps not, that may be far too simple.
Whenever a scientist says that everything in the Universe is made up of "vibrating strings of energy" just ask " Where do the strings of energy come from and what makes them vibrate? ". The "Theory of the Awareness of Nothing " easily answers that question and in doing so resolves a conflict between science, religion and philosophy and accounts for consciousness in the Universe and gives it purpose.
Could the equation that Dr.Kaku seeks be so simple as E=N+A , where E stands for Everything, N stands for Nothing and A stands for Awareness?
Perhaps not, that may be far too simple.
One of the basic characteristics that we see in our Universe is that two or more things can combine together to create something new which is different from the things used to create it. However, the thing created retains certain of the elements and characteristics of the things used to create it.
When the “awareness of nothing” occurred the Universe was born, some might refer to it as the “Big Bang.”I choose to place no label on it and just refer to it as the birth of the Universe or Cosmos , as those two terms will be used interchangeably herein. However, for the sake of making this easier to understand I will mostly use the common name of the"Big Bang" to refer to the moment of the creation of the Universe. As I will discuss later I do not think that there was ever a "Big Bang" in the traditional sense. It is clear that we live in evolving Universe and that our knowledge of it likewise continues to evolve.
When the “awareness of nothing” occurred the Universe was born, some might refer to it as the “Big Bang.”I choose to place no label on it and just refer to it as the birth of the Universe or Cosmos , as those two terms will be used interchangeably herein. However, for the sake of making this easier to understand I will mostly use the common name of the"Big Bang" to refer to the moment of the creation of the Universe. As I will discuss later I do not think that there was ever a "Big Bang" in the traditional sense. It is clear that we live in evolving Universe and that our knowledge of it likewise continues to evolve.
We have to understand that everything, our entire Universe, was created from nothing. It is like a man wanting to build a hill in a flat field. In order to build the hill, he takes dirt out of the ground and stacks it on the flat surface. Eventually, he builds his hill but at the same time he has created a hole in the ground. In reality, he has created nothing because if the dirt from the hill were pushed back into the hole, there would be nothing but the flat surface with which he started.
In order for the “awareness of nothing” to create something out of nothing the opposite (“anti”) of whatever was created must also exist. Add the something and the anti-thing together and you have nothing. People sometime question how there could be such great evil and pain allowed to exist in the world? It is often put in terms of “How could a good and loving God allow this to happen?”. The answer is that in order to have great goodness and righteousness the antithesis of it must also exist. How would we be able to determine what is good if there was no bad to judge it against? For anything to be created from nothing the opposite of it must also be created, and that applies to everything.
The creation of the Universe is similar to that man trying to create that hill. The “nothing” interacted with the “awareness of nothing” to create something which was an energy. Next, the “awareness of nothing” was able to interact with the energy to create atomic and subatomic particles which could further combine together to form matter , but each time something was created the opposite of it was also created.
To elaborate somewhat, I believe it began somewhat like this:
Out of the nothingness there came to be the slightest awareness that nothing existed, it was, to borrow a common term, an awareness that was “next to nothing” itself. Eventually, that slightest awareness became minutely aware of its own awareness, which was itself the dawn of consciousness, which in turn, created the primordial thought .The act of creating that primordial thought was an act that created energy as a byproduct of the thought itself.To put it another way, the act of creating a thought is an act of creating energy. Once energy and consciousness existed it was a small step for consciousness and the energy created by it to form matter (which is simply several forms of energy bound together by something, that something being consciousness). When that occurred the material Universe was born.
Because a thought has a cycle then everything created by a thought also has a cycle. Cycles are a material law of the Universe and are found everywhere and in everything.
If then, the Universe can combine two or more things that can interact with one another to form something separate and distinct from the elements that created it , but retain the properties of the things used to create it, then there must be something else (a third thing in addition to matter and energy) in the material Universe that has the ability to combine with matter and energy and make something different . Like matter and energy it must be found in the simplest to the most complex of forms.
Also, like matter and energy, that thing must be able to combine with matter and energy to create something different, but which retains the characteristics of those things used to create it. There must then be a finite and measurable amount of it which exists in the Universe and which can neither be created nor destroyed but which, like matter and energy, can change form. Theoretical Physicist refer to it as the Higgs Bozon or Higgs Energy Field, however they are looking in vain for that and , despite what may have recently published, it has not been found and never will be , with the exception of science eventually admitting that consciousness is the Higgs Bozon/Field that science has so desperately sought.
Rather than using a particle collider like the Large Hadron Collider in Cern ,Switzerland a scientist might be better server by looking at himself in a mirror. Watch the video below as this distinguished gentleman, Dr. Peter Ware Higgs, a British Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, describes consciousness without ever realizing what he is describing.
By virtue of the fact that I can write these words which you can read and understand , we know the identity of the third basic element of the Universe. We just need to look inward. It has been here all along. We just have not been able to recognize it. The third basic element of the universe is “consciousness”(a/k/a "us"). Consciousness can interact with matter and energy and when it does we call the thing created in the material world “life.” We find that life (like matter and energy) exists in all forms from the simplest to the most complex. Like matter and energy, there must be a definite and finite amount of it in the Universe which can exist on its own separate from matter and energy or in combination with it (them) and like matter and energy it cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change form. Life is temporary. Consciousness is eternal.
Like matter and energy consciousness must exist everywhere in the Universe. It is the glue that binds the Universe together. It is the Higgs Bozon, the God particle, the string material in a proton, a gluon; it is the unpredictability in quantum mechanics. It is the ultimate building material of everything.
If “life”(consciousness) is truly an essential element of the Universe then like matter and energy it should be found throughout the Universe and like matter and energy it should be found to exist in many different forms from the simplest to the most complex, some of which might be barely recognizable to us as life. Life is not limited to a biological body but may also exist in a mechanical or technological body . Two or more consciousnesses may occupy the same physical body at the same time.
Life may exist also with matter alone or energy alone. The proof of this theory is that if the first thing to exit out of nothingness was an “Awareness of Nothing” then it should be the thing that is at the origin of everything and ultimately will be the last thing to exist . As will be demonstrated herein, that is what appears that science and logic are telling us to in fact be true.
DNA may be the building block of life on Earth, but it does not necessarily follow that is true elsewhere in the Universe. Consciousness can exist in bodies of living things that do not have DNA as their basis of reproduction.
Like matter and energy consciousness must exist everywhere in the Universe. It is the glue that binds the Universe together. It is the Higgs Bozon, the God particle, the string material in a proton, a gluon; it is the unpredictability in quantum mechanics. It is the ultimate building material of everything.
If “life”(consciousness) is truly an essential element of the Universe then like matter and energy it should be found throughout the Universe and like matter and energy it should be found to exist in many different forms from the simplest to the most complex, some of which might be barely recognizable to us as life. Life is not limited to a biological body but may also exist in a mechanical or technological body . Two or more consciousnesses may occupy the same physical body at the same time.
Life may exist also with matter alone or energy alone. The proof of this theory is that if the first thing to exit out of nothingness was an “Awareness of Nothing” then it should be the thing that is at the origin of everything and ultimately will be the last thing to exist . As will be demonstrated herein, that is what appears that science and logic are telling us to in fact be true.
DNA may be the building block of life on Earth, but it does not necessarily follow that is true elsewhere in the Universe. Consciousness can exist in bodies of living things that do not have DNA as their basis of reproduction.
My theory is that the three basic elements or building blocks of the material Universe are matter, energy and the “awareness of nothing”, ( which can also be called “consciousness ”). Some may say that the third element in the material Universe is “Space”, but to my way of thinking space is simply a property of matter and energy, not a basic element of the material Universe.
There are detractors, there are always detractors, (as this theory would predict if there were none, because in order to have believers there must be non-believers) . They will ask "Where did the Awareness come from in the first place?". But it is obvious that something must have come out of nothing in order for something to exist now. If it is proper to consider that "consciousness" really exist, then this theory fits nicely into the development of the Universe as the first thing to come out of nothing and explains how the entire Universe was created.The first thing that created "strings of energy" was "thought" from "consciousness"( a/k/a Awareness) which causes them to vibrate at different wavelengths to create everything the we consider "material". This theory also accounts for the "consciousness" that does exist within and without what we call "life".
In summary, our consciousness is the essential element of the Universe.
It is the thing that created it and it is the glue that now holds it together. Consciousness is not a product of the Universe, conversely the Universe is a product of consciousness. Everywhere in the Universe that life can exist it will be found. Without it the Universe would have no meaning or purpose for existing . Consciousness can be found everywhere and in everything in the Universe because it is consciousness that created the Universe.
Scott Ramsey
August 23, 2012
There are detractors, there are always detractors, (as this theory would predict if there were none, because in order to have believers there must be non-believers) . They will ask "Where did the Awareness come from in the first place?". But it is obvious that something must have come out of nothing in order for something to exist now. If it is proper to consider that "consciousness" really exist, then this theory fits nicely into the development of the Universe as the first thing to come out of nothing and explains how the entire Universe was created.The first thing that created "strings of energy" was "thought" from "consciousness"( a/k/a Awareness) which causes them to vibrate at different wavelengths to create everything the we consider "material". This theory also accounts for the "consciousness" that does exist within and without what we call "life".
In summary, our consciousness is the essential element of the Universe.
It is the thing that created it and it is the glue that now holds it together. Consciousness is not a product of the Universe, conversely the Universe is a product of consciousness. Everywhere in the Universe that life can exist it will be found. Without it the Universe would have no meaning or purpose for existing . Consciousness can be found everywhere and in everything in the Universe because it is consciousness that created the Universe.
Scott Ramsey
August 23, 2012
Could the proof of this theory be demonstrated by something as elementary as the following simple video?
POSTSCRIPT
Today our society is very proud of the accomplishments made in science in the last 125 years . The 20th Century started with horses and buggies. We have come from a species that could not fly , to airplanes, rockets, landing men on the Moon, sending unmanned craft to other planets and so much more. At the same time the human population of the planet doubled- twice. However, in so boastfully displaying our ego we should take a moment to consider that we have just barely begun. Someone reading this 100 years from now will smirk and say how foolish we were because there was so much more to learn and discover.
We must finally accept in our time what the ancients knew, that is: that science, religion and philosophy are nor separate, independent disciplines, rather they are interrelated doctrines of the whole and must be studied, researched, learned and applied together. When that is finally done the march towards the true progress of humanity as a whole may finally be realized.
A thought is a cycle and the cycle of a thought is repeated and reflected everywhere we look in the Universe. Today the human cycle is primarily to promote and advance science. Almost nothing has been done to promote and advance philosophy and religion. However, we must promote ethics, humanity and the compassion of philosophy and religion for the progress in science to achieve its full effect upon society as a whole. We must begin a cycle which simultaneously addresses all three disciplines equally and applies them together as one.
Everything is relative. We judge our goodness against what we know to be evil. However, another advanced society may look at the best among us as the most evil when compared to them. No matter how much we consider ourselves and our society to be good , we must raise the relative level of both the goodness and evilness of man. Science without ethics is ultimately doomed to failure. Society without philosophy and religion is not a society which can ever come close to achieving its true potential.
Today our society is very proud of the accomplishments made in science in the last 125 years . The 20th Century started with horses and buggies. We have come from a species that could not fly , to airplanes, rockets, landing men on the Moon, sending unmanned craft to other planets and so much more. At the same time the human population of the planet doubled- twice. However, in so boastfully displaying our ego we should take a moment to consider that we have just barely begun. Someone reading this 100 years from now will smirk and say how foolish we were because there was so much more to learn and discover.
We must finally accept in our time what the ancients knew, that is: that science, religion and philosophy are nor separate, independent disciplines, rather they are interrelated doctrines of the whole and must be studied, researched, learned and applied together. When that is finally done the march towards the true progress of humanity as a whole may finally be realized.
A thought is a cycle and the cycle of a thought is repeated and reflected everywhere we look in the Universe. Today the human cycle is primarily to promote and advance science. Almost nothing has been done to promote and advance philosophy and religion. However, we must promote ethics, humanity and the compassion of philosophy and religion for the progress in science to achieve its full effect upon society as a whole. We must begin a cycle which simultaneously addresses all three disciplines equally and applies them together as one.
Everything is relative. We judge our goodness against what we know to be evil. However, another advanced society may look at the best among us as the most evil when compared to them. No matter how much we consider ourselves and our society to be good , we must raise the relative level of both the goodness and evilness of man. Science without ethics is ultimately doomed to failure. Society without philosophy and religion is not a society which can ever come close to achieving its true potential.