The Structure of Existence
The Structure of Existence
The Structure of Existence
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Table of Contents
The Structure of Existence.............................................................................. 4
Introduction.............................................................................................. 4
Where the reader is familiarized with the background, nature, and origins of
this book................................................................................................... 4
Formidability test................................................................................... 4
Difficulty................................................................................................ 4
Self evident........................................................................................... 5
No Math................................................................................................ 5
Science................................................................................................. 5
Read in order......................................................................................... 6
No histories........................................................................................... 6
The universe as a wave.............................................................................. 7
Big bang................................................................................................ 7
An opposite reality................................................................................ 10
Divisions.............................................................................................. 11
Local density fluctuation........................................................................ 12
Particles are waves............................................................................... 14
Waves are surfaces.............................................................................. 14
Particles are surfaces............................................................................ 15
Waves on a wire................................................................................... 15
A wave is a wave is a wave................................................................... 16
Properties of waves.............................................................................. 16
Standing waves.................................................................................... 17
Resonance........................................................................................... 18
Standing wave resonance..................................................................... 20
A standing wave is an entity.................................................................. 20
Interacting waveforms are all that there is............................................. 21
Process omnipresence.............................................................................. 23
A fish is unaware of water..................................................................... 23
Facets of the whole.............................................................................. 24
The seamless universe.......................................................................... 24
Being................................................................................................... 25
Congruous imagery.............................................................................. 25
Irrelevance of scale.............................................................................. 26
A closing Hindu quote........................................................................... 26
Models and abstractness........................................................................... 27
No one model...................................................................................... 27
Introduction
Where the reader is familiarized with the background,
nature, and origins of this book.
Formidability test
Understanding the structure of existence can seem an impossible task until the
understanding of that structure is achieved. The transition to such
understanding cannot be forced. There is no logical path or deductive process to
this higher perspective of reality. Glimpses of this higher perspective can,
however, be induced indirectly.
Difficulty
This enlightened understanding does not come directly. All truths are
commingled and conventional logic alone simply does not complete the job.
Apparent contradictions abound. Zen truths of illusion are real, direct
explanation is impossible. The deeper the truth, the more indirectly that truth
must be shown.
Very little in this book is new, but familiar models on the nature of reality are
seen anew from a higher perspective. The language already exists to describe
the nature of things. A deeper understanding of reality comes from seeing the
subtler embedded message in the words and images that describe things. Each
precept is part of a greater idea that unfolds gradually. Comprehensive reexamination of understood concepts from this higher perspective leads to new
understanding.
Although explicit model descriptions are necessarily of one topic at a time, the
implicit information addresses all topics at once.
Early chapters will introduce topics that will later receive more attention. As the
foundation of ideas is built, new courses will return and build on the old, with
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The points on the surface that carries the wave go through a change during the
transmission of the wave. The surface moves through the wave just as much as
the wave moves through the surface. Motion along with the wave is motion
across the surface. The waves general motion is linear. The propagation of
energy within the wave is circular (or lateral).
Any bang can and does create a local density fluctuation wave front, a place of
constant change. This wave is seen in any ripple on the water caused by the
bang of a tossed in rock. The straight nature of a wave travels straight out the
radials from the source point of the wave. The circular nature of the wave
processes the wave laterally across the direction of motion.
Such an entitys progress could be influenced alternately by the two waves that it
follows.
What is along a direction of motion from one perspective is across that same
direction of motion from another perspective. There is stillness relative the body
of water, and stillness relative to a wave upon the surface. These are just
differing perspectives of the same thing. Each perspective is a particular local
view of reality, like space and time each being a local perspective of the greater
field of space-time.
Although we perceive space and time as separate, existence actually occurs in
space and time together. Existence processes through both space and time
simultaneously. We objectively experience one axis of time and three axes of
space. Every action or event of existence occurs at a particular time and place.
Space-time is a continuum of potential being, expressing the unification of two
opposing perspectives of potential change; change in time and change in space.
An opposite reality
To stretch the mind, consider the following. It is commonly agreed that the
universe is expanding. That is a valid perspective, but there is another. Rarely
entertained is the notion that instead of space-time expanding, mass and energy
are contracting. Consider a finite circle. From outside of the circle, space
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The kind of divisions of the whole depends upon the number of divisions of the
whole. Quality is related to quantity. Every entity is in itself a whole with
divisions. Every division is in itself a whole. Two-dimensional divisions have twodimensional interactions, like along and across. Three-dimensional divisions have
three dimensional interactions, etc. (A dimension is an axis of potential or actual
extension)
Every member of any divided set (both of two or all three of three) each can
itself be divided by any number, again showing the kind of division based upon
the number of parts in the division. This is a fractal relationship between the
entities of existence.
Even though objective separations between all things now appear to exist, a
subjective connection exists between all things as well. Although all things are
separate, all things are also connected in this abstract relationship between
quantity and quality.
Quantum reality is expressed mathematically in both matrix mechanics and wave
mechanics. Matrix mechanics is a system of mathematical expression similar to
that of equations except that changing the sequence of operations can yield
differing results. In matrix mechanics, AB does not equal BA. The direction of
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In describing this expanding wave pulse, the linear motion is projected straight
outward through the field and away from the relatively motionless source. The
circular dimension curves back around onto itself, supporting the perpendicular
dynamics of wave precession.
As example, the water ripple, moving straight out from the origin, sends that
surface stretching up away from its stable energy position between water and air
(increasing the density of the fluid below), then dips down below the stable level
of the surface (decreasing in the density of the fluid below). The density
fluctuates across every wave point on that surface. The wave moves out along
the surface in one direction expressing linear momentum, and around across the
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This wave, propagating in a straight line past a point, moves none of the fluid
along with the wave, but moves all of the supporting fluid below the wave (and
supported fluid above) through a full circle during the passage of the wave.
The linear motion of the wave is straight. The lateral motion of the wave is
circular. Any mini wave upon that expanding pond wave must also have straight
and circular properties. Since we (all things) exist on the wavefront of the
universal here and now, we all possess linear and circular aspects on all levels of
being.
A function that plots circular motion against straight-line motion is the sine curve.
Trigonometry has no scale. The nature of waves interactions is not determined
by size, but by one waves size and resonant complexity relative to another
wave. No matter the size of the wave, its complexity, or the number of
dimensions in the wave, any wave is still similar to all other waves. All waves
carry energy and follow similar structures of interaction and processes of
exchange. All particles contain the properties of mass, inertia, and spin.
In this deeply abstract sense, all things have a fundamental similarity to all other
things. No one model describes the whole of existence any more than one facet
of a crystal describes the whole gem. Each model describes only a facet of
existence indirectly and only tangentially the whole.
Just as similar facets may describe similar crystals, similar numbers of dimensions
in various models may be abstractly paralleled for symbolically similar
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From one perspective, particles interact through wave exchanges. From another
perspective, waves interact through particle exchanges. The breeze waves in the
flag just as the flag waves in the breeze. Particles and waves exist through
exchanges with each other. Particles exchange waves, and waves exchange
particles.
Waves are surfaces
Normally, a surface and a wave would not be thought of as the same thing, yet
they are. The surface that carries the wave is everywhere static and still, while
the wave that moves upon a surface is moving and dynamic, first one place,
then another, yet one can be seen to be the same as the other.
As example that a wave is a surface, imagine a craft that can surf along on
ocean waves. It is possible to see the ocean wave act like a surface while the
solid craft acts like a wave. The craft may interact with the wave in the same
ways that a light wave can interact with the surface of a pane of glass. The craft
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A standing wave can also be thought of as a circular wave, curving back on itself
and being projected through a transparent surface at the same point on each
cycle.
Resonance
All entities are standing waves that resonate against all other standing wave
entities and continuously feed back actions creating the continuing exchanges of
existence. As particles and waves each interact through the other, self and notself both emit and absorb waves and particles. Resonant groups of standing
waves can create a single higher standing wave. Syntropic forces can crystallize
energy resonances into higher beings through all dimensions. Higher structures
exist exactly as the lower structures that comprise it, but from a differing
perspective.
There are differing perspectives of stillness and motion. A standing wave can
appear to vibrate in one place, or to move along at the speed of the wave in
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It is not so much that the universe has intention toward the creation and
observation of truth and beauty, but that the conditions of existence provide
contrary linear and lateral extensions for propagation. We created observers
define the pre-existing extensions by our own perception of their meanings. The
game, the action, of existence is to create more truth and beauty. These are the
yin and yang of subjective quality.
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Belief, the objective upshot of subjective reality is required for truth. Knowledge,
the subjective measure of objective reality, is required for factuality. Feelings, an
emotional resolution of experience and reality are required. What is important is
not just what the facts are, but also how they are related to each other.
Relationships exist as cases of agreement and disagreement. The world is seen
in cases of similarity and difference. Everything is compared to everything else.
In some ways everything is the same as everything else, (along the objectively
unchanging subjective axis), and in other ways (along the subjectively
unchanging objective axis) everything is different from everything else. All
things are both the same and different from all other things.
The organization of forces and objects needed for life to exist are inherently
parallel in structure to the organizations that create all levels of existence. It is
through their similarities and differences that forces of attraction and repulsion
are expressed on different levels.
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Process omnipresence
A fish is unaware of water
We pay little attention to the air we breathe. It is just there. We are too busy
looking at trees to see the forest. It is just there. We are too preoccupied
dealing with the parts of reality to become aware of the whole of it. We are so
close to our reality that we lose our detached external objectivity relative to
things, and just become a part of it. It is just there.
Atoms emit and absorb photons that propagate in a self-perpetuating Electromagnetic induction field that potentially fills all of space. The photon emitted by
one atom may be absorbed by another atom at any distance. At the speed of a
photon, Rest mass would be infinite. The photon has no rest mass and exists
only in motion. A photon has no stillness in space and instead is still with
respect to time. From the photons point of view, no time passes during the
exchange, and everything is all at one time. To a photon, all things are
immediately connected to all other things.
Every individual entitys existence must have context. A particle alone in a
universe would have no motion or inertia. An entity exists by the relationship
between itself and the rest of the universe. The existence of every entity
proceeds through being harmoniously resonantly reflective and projective. The
existence of an entity is in the I and the not I both reflecting and projecting
upon their mutual opposites as real.
Every particle has the potential ability to have exchanges of photons at any
distance and occupies virtually all of space. Each particle in the universe is as
completely a part of each of us as our own bodies are. Propagation of a photon
is across a constructive interference pattern between two atoms infinite energy
shells. All atoms interfere with all other atoms gravitationally and electromagnetically. The interference potential between all things binds all things
together. All things are one. Still we perceive separation.
In this mortal existence, we are not directly aware of our connection to the
whole of all things. The entities of concurrent local existence exist directly as
themselves and indirectly as the universe around them. Positive and negative
feedback create resonant structures, each perspective through the other. Each
entitys existence is in its interactions with itself and the universe. Each entity
has its own level of attention that it pays to the universe, and the collection of all
other things as a single entity has its level of attention it pays to the entity. We
do not see our connection as part of the whole. Our attention is on ourselves
and not ourselves. We seem disconnected from the nameless whole, and are
only aware of our connection with the parts. We have all disconnected from
ourselves and become lost in a book, a play, or a movie. The greatest
athleticism occurs when a player forgets the self, and becomes the game.
Disconnecting from the whole world is natural. Being disconnected from the
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The same proportional array shows how subjective concepts are modeled by
relation.
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Each term of reality is defined by the others, and is a term used to define the
others. This array is a difinative study on the relationships between matter,
energy, space, and time.
Objects have facets
A difinative study will encompass all the parts that make up that whole. Each
part is a term in the display of relationships within tht whole. Each term of a
definative set describes a facet of that object. Facets are not only abstractly
descriptive of models, but are objectively descriptive of physical objects as well.
Atoms accumulate into groups by bonding and linking to other atoms in regular
geometric patterns. The patterns involved create defined ends and edges to the
real physical extensions of the object. Even the attributes of sub-atomic particles
are arrayed as polyhedrons when their measurable properties are quantitatively
extended along the three mutually perpendicular axes of the Cartesian
coordinate system. Facets bound the extension of space used for an objects
representation.
A facetss boundaries are the edges of the polyhedron where the facets of
the object intersect. The area of the facet is functionally proportional (as with
the cube/ square law) to the volume of the object, and is inversely proportional
to the number of facets of a polygon with a constant amount of surface area.
An object may have only a few facets and be some simple polyhedron, or the
object may be full of many tiny facets that are so smoothly angled as to
resemble a perfect sphere. Infinitely many small flat facets on a polyhedron
make it indistinguishable from the smooth curved surface of a sphere, yet always
the object is a polyhedron with facets.
In any regular polyhedron, every facet is perpendicular to the objects center and
will reflect that center point back to itself. As the number of facets grows toward
infinity, the object nears spherical perfection, having every point on the sphere
reflect the center point back to itself.
Objective facets (surfaces) and subjective facets (surfaces) both reflect and
project waves.
The medium is the message
The whole can be divided into any number of parts. Parts are indirect
descriptions of the whole. Since each model is a qualitative representation of
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Awareness
Deductive reasoning goes from the general cause to the specific effect.
Deduction determines the various reasonable effects concurrent with a set of
causal facts, and is an objective perspective. As example, we know that running
heats the body and makes one sweat. Also, running consumes oxygen, leaving
the body starved for air. Now, if a running person covers a distance of two miles
in less than nine minutes, we can predict that the runner will be hot, sweaty and
breathing hard, even if the race is unseen. This process is of logical linear
reasoning that projects inevitable effects from accepted premises. This is formal
logic.
Inductive reasoning goes indirectly from the specific effects to the general cause.
Induction looks for the most common causes for a concurrent set of facts and is
subjective. (When an African hears hoofbeats, the thought is less likely of
horses than of zebras.) As example, One enters a stadium to see people dressed
for running and standing on the track beyond the finish line. They are bent
over, breathing hard, and sweating profusely. Inductive reasoning concludes
this to be the end of a race where the participants were running at a furious
pace. This is lateral, non-linear reasoning and reflects a probable cause for the
case at hand.
Our level of consciousness is a function of our ability to compare similarities
between different things, and contrast differences in similar things.
Consciousness reflects upon current events and resonates the relevant harmonics
significant to events of the past. We analyze for patterns, and project a realistic
probable perspective of futures events. Our brains are designed to make sense
of conflicting information. In fact, the two hemispheres of the brain view things
in two different ways and presume a conflict. One half of the brain compares
different events of the past and present for similarities that might have some
common cause, while the other hemisphere contrasts similar events of the past
and present for differences that might create some expected effect. These are
the two reasoning systems: induction and deduction.
Linear deductive thought is direct problem solving. It is A to B, and as such,
finite. Deductive reasoning works only as well as the considered propositions
agree with reality.
Lateral inductive thought is indirect feeling about the problem. There are
innumerable paths of thought around a problem, and as such is infinite.
Inductive reasoning (deciding how one state was brought on by another) accepts
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The points on the polygon that the circular line passes through all at the same
time are acausally connected. The passage of the line through acausally
connected points happens all at the same time.
Causal connection across a polygon is seen in two expanding polygons expanding
through each other from beginning to the end of the process of expansive
inteaction..
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From the point of unity, all things happen at once and all of time and space is an
unmoving higher-dimensional crystal. Through the geodesics of this fourdimensional crystal passes a three-dimensional plane of dynamic action.
In a two-dimensional universe, the axis of time and the axis of space may be
seen as separate dimensions for the diagonal process of both at once as twodimensional space-time. On the diagonal, passage through space also means
passage through time.
A photon passes through space but does not pass through time.
On the higher crystal of unity, all points are but one point, and what is
happening to any one thing is happening to all other things at the same time.
We all exist in one higher dimensional place, experiencing the same acausal
connection of a single moment. All things exist simply in the here and now. All
things started out together, and are still together. There is no division. In this
universe of action, all entities are doing the same thing. In this universe, all
things exist through a common set of actions necessary for persistence, the
objective and subjective propagation through space and time.
Disunity
Our everyday experience is of disunity and does not directly reflect the abstract
unity of existence. Our discrete experiences process a linear flow through time.
One basic division of the whole of all things into parts is the dynamic division of
before and after. This is another perspective of cause and effect, the subject
acting on the object, the interaction of the observer and the observed. Each
event observed (physically recorded) is similar to, and different from, other
events observed.
The observer is not separate from the observed. Each one changes the
other during the mutual act of observation. In unity, the concept of distinction,
as in similar or different, does not exist. There is no exchange; there are no
things. The distinction of differentiation does not exist. In this place things
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LATERAL
CURVED
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Representation
The described parts of the whole are like the described facets of a crystal.
They are tangential to the central object, and are only indirectly representative
of the whole. A crystals facets reflect some objective waves back out to interact
with the outer world, and the same facets also reflect some subjective waves
from the object back to itself.
The surface that is the facet is the interface between the outside and the
inside of an entity. Facets are bordering structures for the whole of threedimensional space, just as lines are the boundaries of two-dimensional space.
Surface facets reflect and project objective and the subjective projections,
reflections, absorptions, and emissions. Just as polygons reflect around inside a
circle, creating differing reflecting reinforcing circular resonant structures, the
facets of a solid are reflecting reinforcing two-dimensional structures of resonant
symmetry within a sphere.
The universe is expanding. Waves can expand as they propagate. If the
surface and the wave both expand at the same rate, the resonant symmetry
between them remains constant. If the wave expands faster than the surface,
each wave will transition the origin of other waves and two waves are grouped
as one. If the surface expands faster than the waves, overlaps dissociate and
associations decay. Between integration and disintegration lies the structures of
stillness.
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In this passage of waves through each other, interferences, (both positive and
negative) come into being and mark the expanding node points in space that
show the geometry of the changing yet unchanging relationship between waves.
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The rates of expansion and spin create specific distances and frequencies
between earlier and later parallel reflecting facet positions. Different distances
between an expanding crystals reflecting surfaces allow specific wavelengths to
feed back and resonate harmonically with the parts of itself over time. Differing
spin rates permit differing rates of propagation to be timed into self-reflective
feedback.
Past wave pattern engrams can remain in existence and resonate against
new wave patterns, creating interference pattern projections that predict and
support the probabilities of future outcomes.
We compare and contrast the patterns projected. Similarities and
differences lie within the particular local patterns focused on for comparison.
Imagine a triangle, a two dimensional crystal. There are three points.
There are also three lines. There are three axes of symmetry, two different
ways. These two ways to show symmetry both divide the object into three equal
parts. The triangle is either three lines, each with two end points, or three
points, each between two lines.
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Tangentiality
In the sense that all things are perpendicular to the unity, they are similarly
parallel to each other.
Indirectness
All attempted descriptions of the model of existence are tangential yet
parallel to the higher description of the meta-model. All that exists is the
universe of all things. This is a logically contradictory concept. Any universe
that contains all things must contain all things that are not in the universe of all
things, for they too are things.
All experience is of the universe, in all its forms, experiencing itself
through being dynamically interactive with the rest of its universe self. Each
entity experiences being as both itself directly, and as not-itself indirectly. The
universes experiences of the self and the not-self are through its interactions
and relationships, every part with every other.
The part(s) of the universe that is (are) the self is (are) in all things and
interact(s) with the part(s) of the universe that is (are) not the self and is (are)
also in all things. All things are both the self of the universe and the not-self of
the universe, depending upon the perspective of that thing. All interactions are
of the universe experiencing existence as itself and as not itself. The separate
experience(s) of the entities of existence is (are) both direct and indirect forms
of self-experience.
Every entity exists as both a particle and a wave. The higher perspective sees
existence as both and neither the particle and the wave.
Not only is this universe one of both and neither, it is actually both and
neither both and neither particle and wave.
Objective and subjective dimensions both have the tendency to persist and
expand. Each separate dimension has an interest in its own benefit and
increase. Objectively, energy flows downhill in entropy during an exchange.
Subjective information flows uphill during an exchange. Objective and subjective
flows are in opposite directions, and the flow of exchange is each through the
other.
On one level, increase or benefit to one group may reduce or reverse
benefit to the other group. On another level, benefit or loss is shared by all
members of the group. These distinctions create the basis for cooperation and
competition. The dynamics of persistence are of hierarchical feedback from level
to level as precipitated into existence. The game is to persist and propagate. All
paths are explored.
The opposition of cooperative and competitive intents in an exchange
system can create tensions of expansion or contraction. There is plenty of space
for expansion and contraction. An attractive exchange moves objects together,
and repulsive exchange moves objects apart.
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The line of thought reflects upon some point. From the perspective of the
point that might actually be implied, a reflection from a line can come from any
direction.
All models of reality are tangential to the unity and therefor can be seen as
abstractly parallel to each other from a higher perspective. The direct and the
indirect are perpendicular to each other from the lower perspective. Indirect lines
are tangential to the point not directly made. Two related indirect lines miss the
point less vaguely than one line.
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X and Y coordinates
A wave in a two-dimensional field (a flat surface) has two axes, X and Y.
The two components are one wave.
The hypotenuse of Pythagorus is the mirror image of the unit circle length of
Trigonometry. Both are indirect expressions of the two original axes, both and
neither.
No matter what the angle of the unit circle around the point, the radial
line always points away from the center.
No matter what angle the hypotenuse, there is always a point on the line
that reflects the center back to itself.
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Planks constant
Space and time are linked components of the continuum of the universe.
They can be seen as similar to (and different from) each other. They can also be
seen as a single higher dimensional meta-object of space-time.
The hypotenuse of X and Y is a meta-object for both X and Y separately
and is thus both consistent and contradictory with itself from the perspectives of
X and Y. A fixed length hypotenuse of space-time is the fundamental unit of
measure for the opposing forces linear and lateral, (or angular) propagation, and
is called Planks constant after its discoverer, Maxwell Plank.
With the hypotenuse length remaining constant, the values for X and Y
may vary. As X grows longer and closer to the length of the hypotenuse, Y
grows shorter.
Heisenberg showed that in complementary sets of information, X and Y,
knowledge of the two kinds of information (like position and momentum) are
mutually exclusive. The kind of knowledge available is based on whether the
hypotenuse is more nearly parallel with X or Y. The greater the certainty of
having one kind of information, the greater the certainty of a having a lack of
the other kind of information. A hypotenuse yields two opposing perspectives on
reality from one ambiguous tangent.
Three from four
One hypotenuse traverses one quadrant of the X, Y graph. Left / right
symmetry and top / bottom symmetry provide three more hypotenuses
surrounding the graph origin with an infinite set of parallelograms of fixed length
diagonal hypotenuses, one side for each quadrant of the graph. Two sets of
reflecting parallel lines exist regardless of the quantities in the relationship.
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In trigonometry, the unit radius line of the circle changes direction around the
origin. The reflective hypotenuse for each potential radial has its center
collocated with the center of that radius line. The center of the hypotenuse
moves in the same direction as the center of the radial, but the angular changes
of the two lines are in opposite directions.
As the center of the trigonometric pair (the radius and hypotenuse) moves
around in a circle in one direction, The reflection back to the center from the
hypotenuse line moves around the center in the opposite direction. While one
perspective shows a constant angular motion in one direction, the reflection of
the center (from the hypotenuse) moves around the circle in the opposite
direction through each of the four quadrants.
The natural motion of the fixed length hypotenuse though a full four
quadrant circle traces out a hypocycloid.
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The co-located midpoint of the hypocycloid hypotenuse and the unit circle
radius both trace a circle with a radius of half the length of the original unit. The
area inside the inner circle is one quarter of the total area, leaving three quarters
of the area on the outside of the inner circle.
The relationship of X, Y space across two dimensions, (across and along),
creates the basis for a third dimension, around. The range of a new dimension
is all of the perspectives from the original lower domain. A circle needs a twodimensional field to exist in.
There is the unit circle, and collocated within the unit circle is the midpoint of
coexistence circle halfway out from the center. The inner circle can have a
tangent to it. When the inner diameter is half the outer diameter, the tangent
line reflects around inside of the outer circle exactly three times making exactly
three tangents around the origin.
The area of the outer ring half of the unit circle is three fourths of the total
internal area. Three fourths of the area is in the outer ring. This tangent
reflects around within the circle three times creating a three dimensional radial
division of space.
The ratio of straight space to curved space in angular divisions of the circle
depends on the number of harmonic divisions created around the circle.
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Halving the area of circle twice with a square is equivalent to halving the
length of the hypotenuse once with a triangle.
Convergence
As shown above, self-reflection from the center origin of a graph occurs
with each of the four hypotenuses at any slope around a point. Every
perpendicular line pair rational position on the grid acts as a direct reflector for
every radial from that point.
Self-reflection within a grid square occurs from four directions from any
position within the square. The four 90 degree corners are natural direct
reflectors.
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Divisions of the whole circle other than four 90-degree radials can also mark out
equal angles of radial sweep around a point. 60, 90, and 120-degree rotations
allow unit length extensions into space to continue self-similar patterning on the
plane.
Any number of radials around a point can divide the circle. The orientations and
extensions of dimension in being, in space-time, are at a stable balance when
opposing forces receive equal uniform resistance.
The more radials around a point, the less the angle of sweep exists around a
circle between radial lines. The occupation of space can occur with any polygon.
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Every point in space has an infinite number of radials through it. Every point in
space also has an infinite number of circles surrounding the point.
All expressions of space are perpendicular to all expressions of time. Every point
on the tangent line (where the circle and radial meet) is at a given distance
from, and at a given angle to the central point. At specific ratios of uniform
lengths and angles, a plane is covered with three self-perpetuating, resonant,
geometric organizations of space and time. These arraingements are seen as
the triangle, square, and hexagon. The intersections for each of these repeating
patterns of extension into space are motionless node points. Flat planar space
can be seen as a grid with uniform divisions or patterns of potential running
across it.
Three dimensions of space are more complicated than two dimensions. A
three dimensional dual has the number of corners of one polyhedron matching
the number of facets of the other polyhedron. The cube and the octahedron are
duals of each other. Only the tetrahedron is its own dual.
There are at least four ways to describe the point location of an object in twodimensional space; the Cartesian X, Y two-distance coordinate system, the two
radial coordinate system, the single radial-distance coordinate system, and the
three-distance coordinate system, where the intersection of only two circles
would leave uncertainty.
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Lines can be reflected and projected by other lines. Radial lines come
from a point. Lines are of reflections and projections from one point to another.
Tangent lines miss the point. Tangent lines reflect and project relative to
the circles radius around a point. A radial line from one perspective can be a
tangent line from another perspective.
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This trace is a sequence of points patterning specific times and spaces. Pattern
sequences from one point to another can occur along an infinite number of paths
through an infinite number of points, but the most direct route is the
renormalized general description. From one point on an X, Y graph to another,
motion can be in either direction.
A line can be a tangent to a circle around a point or a radial away from a point.
The tangent line is perpendicular to the radial line, and one is the same as the
other. Angular motion of the tangent line is the same as linear motion away
from the radial point. Slope change in the tangent line is only a consideration
when the origin of the tangent line is local.
Sequential motion of a point strictly in a radial direction will have tangent lines to
that point that are all parallel to each other, never crossing, with a given linear
quantity between any pair of points on the line of motion. Motion of a line
strictly around a single point will have radial lines that all meet at a single point,
with a given angular quantity between any two lines.
No line is just a tangent or just a radial. Every line is both a tangent and a
radial. Perspective allows a line to be seen as one or the other.
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All flows are not just X or Y, but X and Y. The line of flow will be at some
diagonal slope to the X, Y coordinate system.
A two to one slope has a waves line of travel going twice as far along one axis
as the other axis while the line moves but the slope is still. This straight-line flow
of slope can be in flat space or in curved space. Curved space comes back
around to repeat a flow across the same space. If the curvature is just X or just
Y, the resulting objects are cylinders. If both X and Y curve around to allow
angular flow along both axes, the resulting shape is a torus.
If the line of flow along a curved space appears to be nearly exclusively along
one axis, it can be seen to curve back around and be parallel to itself on its next
cycle, and the next. The line itself is always at some diagonal, but may appear
to move almost exclusively along one dimension. If the cycle is observed for
may similar passes of adjacent parallel lines along one dimension, a timed point
along that cycle will show fixed a set of points at the same place in the cycle to
all describe a single line nearly lateral to the original flow. The marked repetition
of an explicit linear line of thought along one direction of motion will yield a
lateral line of implicit inference in the across that same direction of motion. A
true perpendicular to the rotating spiral is a spiral in the other direction around
the closed surface. The closer one direction gets to being completely across the
flow in one direction, the closer the perpendicular gets to being completely along
that same direction of flow.
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This same lateral direction of patterned flow exists even when the linear slope
across the grid is greater and the lateral line is less obvious. Every rational
harmonic of X and Y has a related lateral structure existing along with and
against the objective structure.
When a straight line passes across the plane, the repeating change in
quantities of X and Y define the slope ratio for that rational pattern. There exists
within the parts of the ratio, dimensional extensions where a standing wave
might develop. Such a repeating pattern of X and Y is an object. A given slope
is of a particular object. The more subtle the ratio between X and Y the more
complex the object created. A two-dimensional pattern may appear to repeat
over and over on a flat surface, or the two-dimensional surface can be reflected
back to the origin within a single grid square.
The facets on a high order polyhedron (one that looks like a sphere) when
viewed locally appear to be a grid on a flat surface. Exchanges across the high
order polyhedrons surface then appear to be motion from node points to node
points on the grid. Quantum exchanges along node points can be between
individual nodes or groups of nodes that are collectively a single node, or groups
of groups of nodes, etc
Geometry is the study of angles and distances on surfaces. Topology is the
study of the curvature of surfaces. The relationship between geometry and
topology is that a topological object, like a sphere, is a high order geodesic and a
geometric object, like a cube, is a low order geodesic shape. Both sphere and
tetrahedron possess qualities of topology and geometry. The different
attributes, though the same, have differing influences on differing scales.
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If the wave, starting at a point, travels completely across the polyhedron, the
energy of that wave will meet again on the other side of the polyhedron at a
point. This processes is time invariant. Sub microscopically, it happens
continuously. Quantum particles are completely time invariant. In the
macroscopic world, however, a wave will lose or transfer its energy before
reaching the other side of the geodesic, and time-flow cause and effect becomes
directional.
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With these three polygons, points at the corners of the tiles define the planes
nodal geodesic surface. Intersecting planes describe edges. Edges describe
boundaries. The new points in the tiling infer new points of resonance for more
tiling of the plane. From each extension of a tile, more tiling extensions of space
can be described. Waves travel along a surface through its potential divisions of
that surface. The potential node points pass energy as slope exchange in both
directions at once. Old to new, and new to old; the tile node points are
terminals of harmonic exchange.
To gain curvature on the tiled surface, affecting the topology through
geometry, the number of polygons around a point can be reduced. Four squares
around a point are flat, but three squares around a point make the corner of a
cube.
Angling and reducing the number of facets around a point can create objects
that are (in the simplest regular form) the five platonic solids.
The lines connecting corner points on the polyhedron carry wave exchanges
around the object in three dimensions instead of two. More dimensions allow for
more complicated exchanges. The shape of the polyhedron shows the wave sets
it will carry.
The cube and octahedron are a pair of expressions for one symmetry of space.
They are each platonic solids and duals of each other. Polyhedron pairs that are
duals of each other have the corners of one object radially collocated spatially
with the facets of the other object.
The cube has eight corners and six facets, while the octahedron has six
corners and eight facets. Both objects have twelve edge lines. An edge line on
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A tetrahedron shows the symmetries that tile the plane: From one
perspective, perpendicular to two opposing edges, a tetrahedron has the
silhouette of a square. From another perspective, perpendicular to a facet, a
tetrahedron has the silhouette of a triangle. Crossing diagonals on the facets of
a cube are made of two crossing tetrahedrons, and the diagonal silhouette of the
cube as a whole is a hexagon when seen perpendicular to any of the cubes four
three dimensional opposing corner diagonals.
The passage of a plane through a geodesic plots not just the parts, but also the
perspective of organization. For that pattern to exist, its parts must each have
an exchange in sequence discovered by the passing planes perspective.
Exchanges between the parts can be seen from different perspectives.
A plane, passing through a tetrahedron perpendicular to its square perspective,
maintains a constant length perimeter as the ratio of height and width exchange
quantities. A plane passing through a tetrahedron perpendicular to its triangular
perspective maintains a constant ratio of area to height as the volume changes.
These are different resonance structures in the tetrahedron.
Four spheres pack into a tetrahedron. By the two symmetrical ways to pass a
plane across the tetrahedron of spheres, four is counted two plus two, and also
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Circumference
Every point in space is surrounded by an infinite set of circles, radials, and
tangents to circles. Every radial has an infinite number of perpendiculars from as
infinite number of directions.
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If the inner circle diameter is near zero, the length of the inner circle tangent
line that is a chord to the outer circle approaches the diameter of just the outer
circle.
If the center circle expands relative to a fixed outer circle, the chord between
the two circles grows shorter. As the inner circle approaches the outer circle, the
tangent approaches zero.
Now, if these two circles both expand at a rate that leaves a constant length
tangent chord between them, then the area between the two circles remains
constant. The area between any pair of concentric circles is a function of the
tangent chord length between those two circles.
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This fixed length tangent of a circle pair is the fixed length hypotenuse unit of
quantum measurement. We see the universe as expanding. We see both
circles as expanding. If the tangent length stays the same between the circles
then the area between the circles stays the same. What we see is a fixed length
tangent, the basic quantum of measurement and exchange. A fixed twodimensional area also represents this fixed one-dimensional length. The area
that is the square of the hypotenuse remains constant and equal to the sum of
the squares of the X and Y quantities that describe that hypotenuse, and pi is
the factor of rotational extension around a point. This relationship between
length and area aids in understanding the relationship between rolled up
membrane surfaces and unit length strings in superstring theories.
What changes, along with ratio of radii to chord lengths, during the expansion of
a circle pair, is the number of tangents that reflect around the circle. At specific
ratios of radial length to tangent length the reflections around a point are
reinforced by whole number harmonics. This allows for a set of circularly
reflected standing waves.
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Entities are standing waves with any and all number of divisions of the whole.
Entities different numbers of divisions resonate against each other by one facet
from each of the two entities being a single composite pulse that is some fraction
of one entity and some other fraction of the other entity. The ratios of one to
the other can vary vastly. Changing the ratio between interacting circle-pairs
changes the resonance of the interactions between them.
Common resonance structures for standing waves include the circle diameter,
inscribed triangle, square, pentagon, pentagram; all self-reinforcing inscribed
patterns. All regular polygonal structural lines of flow can be reflected around by
the outer circle back onto itself, as long as the inner circle does not interfere. As
the circle-pair expand, first the simplest geometries are blocked, then higher
resonances. At great expansions, only the highest resonances endure. A wave
traveling around inside the outer circle interferes with itself for feedback and
persistence.
All possible ratios of radius to tangent occur in the fixed area of an expanding
circle pair. When the inner circle starts at zero radius, the internal fixed area of
the circle pair is the same as the area of the whole outer circle. The tangent
between the circle pair is then equal to the diameter of a single circle with the
same radius. The tangent equals one and the outer radius equals one half. The
inner radius is zero. The ratio of radii to tangent is one half to one for the outer
circle, and zero to one for the inner circle.
As the circle pair expands, the radii of the two circles successively become
larger than the tangent chord length. With enough time, the radii become so
large that the unit length of the tangent becomes virtually zero in relation to
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A Point
All lines of discourse on the nature of things are at a tangent to the true
point of unitys singularity and will miss the mark. In Olde Englands archery, to
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Each reflected image has the same quantity of information as the object
of reflection, but the quality of the information has reversed. The images are
different yet the same. A reflected image of an object usually appears to be
located in a virtually projected place; not where the actual self is, but on the
other side of the reflecting surface, where it appears with a reversal of
handedness.
The surface of a flat reflector gives an undistorted image of self-reflection.
The image of the self is on the other side of the reflecting surface from the self,
and at equal and opposite distance from the surface of reflection. The
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If instead of central selfs eyes looking out at larger or smaller reflections, the
self were the smallest eye, then the central eye that was the self before is now a
concave reflection. This relationship of size, distance, and curvature exists from
level to level regardless of which perspective is that of the self. The greater is
the same as the lesser.
A two-dimensional reflector has a two perpendicular dimensions to curve
through, X and Y. The two axes may be flat or may curve independently into
the third dimension either toward or away from the object being reflected. The
two axes can each curve in separate and opposite directions. The flat surface is
one example of the class of reflectors that places the virtual image on the other
side of the reflector from the object.
There are three possible positions for the reflected image of the self,
depending on the class of curvature observed in the reflectors surface. The flat
reflector is an open or hyperbolically curved (like a saddle) reflecting surface. In
a reflector that is hyperbolic, the observer sees the image of the self on the
other side of the reflector, in at least one dimension. The closed reflector (like a
circle) is an elliptical curve, and the reflected image is focused inside the same
ellipse (or circle) as the object being reflected.
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A reflecting surface can have any number of dimensions. When a surface curves
away from the observer with one axis and toward the observer with the other
axis, the curvature of the two-dimensional surface is hyperbolic. Euclidean
surfaces are flat and open in at least one dimension. A surface curved the same
way in both dimensions is closed elliptically.
When the observer is very close to any reflective curved surface, the image is so
nearly flat that its reflection appears to be off of a Euclidean surface. The
apparent amount of curvature can change with distance. Increasing curvature
indicates greater distance from the reflector. Local surfaces are flat while more
distant global surfaces are curved, either towards the hyperbolic, or the elliptical.
If the reflecting surface curves away from the self, then ones reflection
will seem, from any distance, to appear smaller and smaller as the surfaces
curvature increases. Although the reflected image looks farther away (is smaller)
on such a convex surface, the reflected image will actually focus closer to the
reflecting surface as its curvature away from the reflected object increases. A
curved surface might also curve toward the self being reflected, making the
concave reflection look larger and causing the image to focus farther and farther
away with increasing curvature. As long as the image of the self appears to be
on the other side of the surface, this concave reflector is in the same class of
reflectors (relative to an observer) as the flat and convex curved reflectors.
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This reflecting surface curves back on itself into a closed loop called
an ellipse. Inside the ellipse are both the object being reflected and the image
of its reflection. Planets orbit the sun in an ellipse, with the sun at one focal
point, and no object at the reflection point. A special case of the ellipse is the
circle, which alone has the object and the focus of reflection in the same spot in
space at the center of the reflecting circle.
These three types of curves; Hyperbolic, parabolic, and elliptical,
are the kinds of curves that can occur when a plane is passed through a cone.
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In actuality, the suddenly appearing ghosts are below the ridegoer, on the same side of a large glass surface as the ride-goer. The ghosts are
reflected on the large glass surface that the mechanical dancing men were seen
through. The men are projected to the observer and the ghosts are reflected to
the observer. The reflected images of the ghosts seem co-located with the
projected image of the men when a light is shined on the ghosts making them
visible and reflecting their image up and back to seemingly merge with the men.
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The triangular image of the Koch curve shows finer and finer detail
as one looks closer and closer. In a fractal, scale is irrelevant.
Fractals dimensions exist between whole number dimensions like a
one-dimensional line or a two-dimensional plane. Instead Fractals exist in
2.45536 dimensions, or whatever portion of dimension is defined by the initial
parameters and particular equation of feedback that defines that fractal
structure.
A fractal image is self-referential in that it uses its own value on
one scale to compute the value for its modified image on a closer scale.
Feynman diagrams
Feynman diagrams show the explicit observed relationship between interacting
particles. They also show the unobserved, infinitely complex self-similar potential
internal matrix of relationships that are implicit in any observed relationship
between particles. The infinite complex of unobserved interactions that equate
to the simple observed interaction are of the same type, but at a shorter scale of
time.
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Interference patterns
When two or more waves interfere, opposing constructive and destructive
conditions can form a standing wave higher order interference pattern. Place
two flat combs together and the interference pattern will be straight lines
because the combs teeth are straight. A pattern can even interfere with its own
projected shadow or reflection.
An interference wave pattern is formed from two or more similar patterns
on another scale and orientation., and is similar to the lesser resonant structures
An interference pattern contains properties of scale larger than any of the
contributors, singly.
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Reproduction
Life reproducing life is an example of self-similar patterning. Each new
generation is the same as the old one, yet different. As a dynamic structure, life
flows on the diagonal, with levels of stillness and columns of motion interacting
to create the rational slope of change. Any life flow that fails to propagate
through change like its predecessors will go out of existence. New life recreates
the potential for new changes that keeps life continuing to exist. Simpler life
reproduces simpler relations. The more complex the relationship for compared
potential states, the greater the range of options between the entities of
exchange.
Even non-life objects continuously reproduce themselves at lower levels of
similar kinds of action. The atomic particles themselves recreate their own
opportunities and conditions for continued existence. Mass creates the space for
the mass to exist in.
The abstract process of existence is one of continuing self-reproduction,
or continued propagation as a wave. It is the process of allowing of a continued
being by continuing to be.
Summary
Exchange and feedback are parts of awareness, being, and consciousness.
Each entity operates in a relationship with all entities, including itself.
There are four types of relation between the self and the not-self. The
self and the not-self can each interact with the other directly and indirectly. The
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A newborn child is not aware of the self and the not-self, there is just
being. Everything is a part of the experience, which is being. Soon the infant
has learned many new things and compares each new thing to those things that
have been previously learned. Each new thing is compared to all other things in
a process of pattern recognition. Each new thing learned is similar to things
learned in some way or ways, and different from things learned in some other
way or ways. This every increasing ability to make distinctions gives the child an
awareness of the self and the not-self. The grouping of things as similar to self
and not similar to self is analogous to grouping them as similar to each other
and different from each other, or parallel and perpendicular.
Contradictory perspectives are processed diagonally as both and neither both
and neither. Objective and subjective awareness creates a potential slope of
opposing tensions and flows.
Time and space flow through each other with regularity of repetition.
There are two beats to keep, a time axis beat, and a space axis beat. The
diagonal flow of reality goes through both axes. A change in slope changes the
ratio of the two beats on the lines perpendicular passage across the X and Y
axes.
The objective feedback of the world is the physical universe, including the body.
This is a description of the outside of the self. Subjective feedback of the world
is the non-physical universe, the spirit. This is a description of the inside of the
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The smoke ring travels slower than the natural speed of a wave in its
medium. It is also seen in two dimensions as the twin vortices of an oarstroke
on the surface of the water.
The difference between two dimensions and three in all these examples is
one additional axis of rotation perpendicular to the direction of motion.
While the sphere and the cone expand over time, the torus does not. Instead,
the torus propagates only along one dimension. While the waveform of the
expanding sphere (expressing position) and cone (expressing momentum) will
eventually pass across and transition all observers, the torus, exhibiting both
angular and linear momentum, expresses a direct exchange from one point to
another.
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Plane passage through the cone and torus are more complex.
A plane will intersect a cone in an ellipse, as long as the plane crosses the
rotational centerline of the cone and does not become parallel to the edge of the
cone.
If the sectioning plane does become parallel to the edge of the cone, then
the curve described is the parabola. Of the two reflecting points, one is now
infinitely far away from the closed side of the curve, and the open ends of the
curved line eventually approach straight and parallel to each other at infinity.
If the sectioning plane cuts the cone at an angle beyond the parallel of
the cones edge, then the two open ends of the sectioning curve will be straight
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There are two axes that a flat surface can curve through, X and Y.
Either axis alone leaves the surface flat if it is unchanged. For a surface to be
closed, both axes must be curved.
A surface closed along one axis and flat along the other axis is a
cylinder. The torus, curving along two axes at once, is a surface closed in two
different directions.
In sectioning a cylinder with a plane, only an ellipse or a circle can
be described, depending on the angle of the sectioning plane.
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If all the common factors are reduced out of the equations for their
volumes, the basic relationship between the height and radius of these solids is
exposed. H=2R
Conic sections
A fuller description of conic sections needs additional comment. For the
sections of a cone that are the ellipse and the parabola, nothing more is needed,
but the hyperbola includes another cone for a full description. In a sectioning
plane that is angled beyond parallel to the edge of the cone, the plane will
intersect a second cone that is inverted, relative to the first cone and extends up,
tip down, from above the first cone. The two cones meet at their points.
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Both sections are more curved when closer to the apex, and more nearly
straight when away from the apex. As the curved closer part of the section
reaches the apex, the section curve can only appear to be two diverging straight
lines going directly away from the apex point.
When the intersecting plane actually crosses the apex of the cones, the
three varieties of curve define either an elliptical (or circular) point, a parabolic
pair of straight lines running down the edge of one cone infinitely close together
and up the other cone similarly, or a hyperbolic pair of lines diverging from the
apex of each cone in opposite directions and at similar angles.
When the section of a cone is visibly away from the apex, the view is a
local one of the curvature of the section. When the sectioning plane is infinitely
close to the apex of the cone, the view is then one of a more distant global
perspective. The sectioning plane being close to the apex is the same as an
observer being far from the apex. Local and global differentiates between two
straight lines moving away from a point and two curved lines that tangent the
point. One thing can be seen as two different things, and two different things
can be seen as the same thing.
Ant Colony
Existence as a single thing on one scale does not preclude existence as
part of a greater whole on a more global scale.
An ant is an animal by all counts, doing ant-like activities. A more global
view sees the ant as just a part of a larger entity, the ant colony. On this larger
scale, the ant is just a part of a greater living entity that exists independently of
the existence of any particular ant member. The goals of the ant colony are
similar yet different from the goals of any individual ant.
Gaia, a name for the living mother Earth, is seen this way. We current
living species are only a temporary part of the greater global creature.
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I and not-I
This chapter deals with different views of the same thing.
Experience
We each experience the world alone in our own personal universe of the
internal I and the external not-I. All of ones personal experience of self, and
ones personal experience of the not-self are together one duality perspective of
all things. This experience is part of the universe of experience of all things.
Each entity experiences one part of the totality of all experience. Self and notself both occur in, by, with, and for that higher level of mutual reality we all
share, the common reality of both and neither .
All things exist in terms of the self, the not self, and both and neither
both and neither. These paths of existence are static perspectives on a dynamic
merging of the three into one interaction terminal. This can be seen with the
subjective right brain as the same as me, the objective left brain as the same as
not me, and the integration of the two different views by the corpus callosum
into both perspectives of the same thing. Awareness processes similarities and
differences.
Being is an active process that integrates opposing internal and external flows of
imagery, each feeding back to the other. Doing is the action of controlling
motion and stillness. Having growth is completing the cycle or moving on to the
next node in an expanding pattern.
Perspective
To see things as different and similar at the same time is to see how
contradictories can actually be in agreement; a significant step towards an
enlightened perspective.
The hypotenuse is a representation of both X and Y. In one way, the
hypotenuse is the same length as the X value, and in another way, the
hypotenuse is the same length as the Y value.
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It is obvious that locally, the hypotenuse is neither parallel nor the same length
as either the X axis or the Y axis.
The place from which to view the length of the X axis (and one view of
the hypotenuse) is from some great distance along the Y axis. By extending the
distance along the Y axis that the X value and the hypotenuse are viewed from,
the X value and hypotenuse can reasonably be seen to be the same length and
parallel to each other.
From a point an infinite distance along the Y axis, there is no angular
difference between the hypotenuse and the X dimensional value, so they seem
to be the same length.
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Rules of being
Topology
All causes and effects feed back in a continuing resonant reflection of the
harmonic progressions of existence. As form follows function, structure follows
process. A particular group of structures coincides with a particular group of
processes or actions Each action or entity could again be divided onto groups.
Groupings of such abstractions of entities can be sorted topologically. The
actions of an entity place that entity into a group of things with some particular
dynamic feature. All the members of that group are doing some common action.
To be so grouped by that action is to be topologically placed into that group. An
entity comes into existence and goes out of existence. Existence, the process
of being, is a common process for all things grouped as existing.
Change in change
New things are created or brought into existence by an entity making
changes in other things that already are going through many changes to be
what they already are before they are changed again. All entities continue to
make the changes that continue to contribute to their remaining in existence.
Being is change. Change is inevitable in existence. Change is constant.
There is changing change and there is unchanging change. Once a new
unstable changing change has established itself into a pattern of change, it
becomes stable and changes to an unchanging change. An entity will
continuously require new new changes that themselves will get old and
established. This need for continuing newness itself changes from a new need
to an old need being needed anew. So changing change in change becomes
unchanging change in change. Even an entity that had been changing and then
stops changing, changes.
Every level of changing change can be metaed to another level of
unchanging change. With the needs of change to go ever further, a continuing
metaing of meta change makes the whole cycle virtually endless. Change and
no change simply exist together in harmonious contradiction; motion and
stillness, yin and yang.
Similar and different
Each thing changes like all other things change, and all things change,
each in their own way. The whole is all those changes and not those changes.
Change is existence, existence is change. The question is whether the
perspective is one of similarities that are different or differences that are the
same, or both and neither.
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Action
Recap
All that exists is waves in action, a wavefront of change where there is
exchange. Change is in incriments of objective change along the wave and
subjective change across the wave. Each direction of change (quantitivly and
qualitativly) indirctly influences the other. Smaller wavefronts may become
unified into a larger more complex wavefront with properties contained and not
contained in the smaller waves alone; a coherent supposition, where a higher
level of indirct influences may resonate and persist. Each wave, whether
standing or moving, large or small, is still a wave and is abstractly the same as
all other waves. The rules of existence are the same on all levels. As above, so
below. In the two-dimensional division of existence, the two perpendicular axes
of reality, (objective and subjective), together create a diagonal unified
expression that is neither yet both X and Y. The actions of existence all
propagate a continuing possibility for further action and thus are the same, yet
each wave front culminates in a separate and distinct event in space-time and
thus each wave is different.
Nodes
A one dimensional surface, (a wire), can hold the waves of any number
of dimensions. The wire has two unmoving endpoint nodes and a geodesic of
node points between the ends. Node points on the wire do not move as a
standing wave passes across the wire. Standing waves on the line have a
wavelength that is an integral division of the distance between the nodes. The
wave oscillating on the line may absorb and emit energy . Resonant energy
exchanges may be transmitted as change in amplitude or frequency. A change
in amplitude or frequency can each be exchanged for the other. As the
frequency of a segments waving increases, new nodes of stillness and motion
come into existence between the endpoint nodes. All nodes in a line segment
are evenly divided between the endpoints of the line. The ratio of distances
from a node to its two endpoints is always a rational fraction. Wavelength,
frequency, and nodal spacings are in the realm of harmonic rationalities and
resonant energy exchanges within an entity. While the node points do not
move, they do change angular orientation back and forth. Midway between any
two node points is a part of the line that moves but does not change its angle.
Between these extremes lies a continuum of exchange between the concepts of
distance and angle.
The numbers of geodesics in a polygon or a polyhedron represent the
number of combinations between a given number of reflective endpoints. One
endpoint holds no describable geodesic lines. Two endpoints hold one geodesic.
Three endpoints will support three geodesics. Four endpoints will have six
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Cycles of being
Recap
Being is existing is surviving is continuing to continue. An entity
continues to exist by the continued existence of its parts and the continued
standing wave resonant exchange feedback among those parts. Each part itself
persists by its own parts also persisting. External feedback and internal feedback
both are needed for persistence. Feedback is against a reflected changeable
resonance state between interacting outputs and inputs.
Expansion
The spherical bomb blast explosion creates an actual universe. The
wave front expands uniformly until the entropy drag of molecular observations
(exchanges) reduces and consumes the existence and observability of the wave.
Other smaller waves may exist and expand across the larger wave surface. In
an expanding wave universe, only an expanding wave entity will persist.
Expansion is motion into more space. Different wave groups, each in their own
hierarchy of interaction, interfere constructively or destructively in the process of
cooperation and competition. Each wave group feeds back reflections and
projections to other wave groups seeking resonant support. This cosmic natural
selection determines the persistence of groups that will persist and expand.
Having
Even among expanding survivors there is gain and loss. To gain is to
have greater expansion and have more space. The process of being is to have
more expansion. More having means more being.
Actions of existence
The specific divisions of a two-dimensional field can be viewed in many
ways; Left and right, X and Y, yin and yang, information and energy, position
and momentum, distance and angle, etc. One tremendously powerful division of
duality is into the objective and the subjective. This parallels the external and
the internal, the physical and the non-physical. Objectivity and subjectivity
together describe a definitive two-dimensional division of the whole of reality.
Each axis, both objective and subjective, is a partial contributing factor
to the diagonal flow of the meta-wave that is both and neither. Each
contributing axis is one of the actions of that particular division (and axis) of the
whole. Even though the two are part of the same thing, they are different from
each other.
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Unity
Recap
Our local perspective of global unity (or any higher level meta-system),
will be tangential, indirect, and self-contradictory.
Godel proved that any finite consistent system is incomplete, and it
therefor follows that any finite complete system must be inconsistent, meaning
self-contradictory.
Numerical relationships
The only thing that can be said about the unity is that nothing can be
said about it, but that is saying something about it. It is a self-contradictory
something, but still something.
Observations of the unity are of the parts and only indirectly reflect upon
the whole. A description of the whole of anything is a description of the parts of
that thing.
The simplest division for descriptive observations is a division of the
whole into two parts. This could be the objective and the subjective, the left and
the right brain, etc. This divided pair is linked by the relationship between them.
The relationship between X and Y is itself a third division with distinct separate
links to each of the other two parts. A fourth division would be the common link
between itself and the first three parts, etc. Unity has no links.
Many answers
Great philosophers have long debated whether the universe is correctly
described as one thing (great unity), or two things (great duality). Both answers
are correct., Higher numbers of division are also applicable to the nature of
things. Just because one answer is right doesnt mean another answer is wrong,
just different.
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Duality
Heaven and Earth
The Judeo-Christian bible opens with an enlightened symbolic description of
duality;
In the Beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. The Earth
was without form, and void; and darkness was on the surface of the
deep. And the face of God moved upon the surface of the waters. The
heavens are the subjective reality (the kingdom of heaven is within you),
and the Earth is the objective reality. The formless objective universe (the
Earth) was void of interaction. The surface of interaction was only stillness.
Gods face upon the waters surface allowed for self-reflection, and Gods motion
upon the surface of the water created waves of interaction.
Alignment
Duality is easily the most commonly understood and agreed upon metaphysical
distinction, and is quite well represented with meaningful examples. Dualistic
pairs match their two parts easily to one specific side of division or the other.
Some pairs obviously complement each other, but there may be confusion as to
which side each member belongs, be it the objective or subjective. Often,
members of such pairs can be seen as properly belonging to one side or the
other depending upon the particular perspective taken. What is more important
is that the alignments can be seen at all. As Einstein said, The most
incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is so comprehensible.
Both and neither
Wave/particle duality is quite telling. When experiments are performed on an
electron, the test will detect either a particle or a wave, depending on what is
being looked for. If a particle is being looked for, a particle is found. If a wave
is being looked for, a wave is found. The electron, and every other entity, is
both and neither a wave and a particle. When observed, the entity is either one
or the other. When unobserved a particle is both and neither.
Branching of Objectivity and Subjectivity
When an entity is divided into its subjective and objective components, each of
the two parts may still be divided into further objective and subjective parts. As
example, speech may be divided into objective words and subjective meaning of
the words.
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Trinity
the nature of three
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Quaternity
Nature of four
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Phive
Nature of five
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