my work attempt to kill me has failed…
I have several thoughts moving about my mind
upon reflection, what is this thing called reality?
we have metaphysicians who attempt to find the “meaning” of it all
by some attempt to find some overall, some overarching theme or
vision that is able to link everything together… in other words,
there is one principle that links everything into one overall vision of
the universe…if we find it, all the problems of the universe go away…
so, if we find that one overarching principle be it god or the very first thing,
or Spinoza’s one substance in the universe………we have “solved” the mystery of
the universe… we have seen the “failure” of this particular path…
what one principle can we declare is the “one” principle of the universe?
what one “fact” unites the universe into a coherent viewpoint of the entire universe?
I haven’t seen that one principle or fact that seems to unite the universe into
one overall or overarching principle that unites the universe into one “binding”
proposition that includes you, me, the earth, god, science, religion, faith,
nature, life, the universe………
it seems to be all so chaotic, disorganized, scrambled, blurred…
the entire universe seems to defy description… it cannot be pin down
into one systematic and coherent principle or theory…
but why?
after 2500 years of seeking some systematic coherent
vision of the universe, perhaps we can’t find it because
it doesn’t exists, perhaps……
so let us set that aside and think about other idea’s or principles
that might allow us to explain or understand the universe/reality
we live in…….
perhaps we are thinking about this the wrong way…
what if, what if the universe is a series of events…
for example, think about your individual life…
think of it as an event, not within some continuity of life,
but one isolated event that goes from non-existence to existence
to non-existence… my life began in 1959 and will end at some point,
I cannot ever know when that point will come…but if I think of my
life as an event, like an atom that suddenly pops up and then
disappears, it makes more sense to think of my life as an atom,
that appears and then disappears then it does any other way…
if I think of my life as an temporary event, it does explain much
about my existence that doesn’t make sense any other way…
think about the house you are currently living in, I am in my dinning room,
as I don’t have a dedicated room for my computer or an office, I write on
the kitchen table… the table I write on, that my computer is on, has a temporary
existence… it too is an event… a event is something that suddenly goes from
non-existence to existence and then, at some point, to non-existence…
my table is an event…as is my computer and my books and my smartphone
and the couch I sit on to watch my sports…these events are temporary…
as is my life… I think of my condo, at one point in time, didn’t exists,
this land where my condo now sits upon, was once just empty land…
there is a nearby creek and on this land might have been tree’s and/or bushes
or maybe animals lived on this very land I now describe as my condo…
this site which now seems to be very permanent, isn’t… and at some
point in the future, this condo complex won’t exists anymore… it is an event…
once it didn’t exist, now does exists and at some point, won’t be existing…
everything we can think of the table, the computer, books, my water bottle,
the earth, the sun, ever the universe at one point didn’t exist, then it did exists
and then at some point, the universe won’t exists… I will be long, long, long dead
when that ending comes… even the earth won’t exist when the end of the universe comes…
everything is temporary, everything is an event which has its existence in time,
at one point going from non-existence to existence back to non-existence…
but then, what is thing we call reality, this series of events must occur
in some context… time/space is the context of our universe
going from non-existence to existence to non-existence…
think about it… the universe is born, we call it the “Big Bang”
it went from non-existence to existence and if it came into being,
it will at some point, go into non-being…or as they say,
nothing last forever…
the very universe is an event… but it acts and operates within
the parameters of space/time…now is space/time an independent
aspect of the universe, outside of the universe?
or is space/time encompassed within the universe
and not independent of the universe?
once again, let us return to the beginning of the universe…
we have the birth of the universe, the “Big Bang” ….
then because of the properties of the universe, we
have certain rules… in other words, forces that are created
because the universe as an event has certain properties…
the force of gravity is found within the properties of the event we call
“the universe”…gravity isn’t something separate and apart from
the universe, gravity exists because the universe has certain properties
that created the forces which are the 4 forces of the universe…
the 4 fundamental forces of nature are Gravitational force, weak
nuclear force, electromagnetic force and the strong nuclear force…
I suspect that we are missing one or more forces which is why we
don’t have a clear understanding of the universe…
all existence comes from the influence of the 4 forces…
we exist because of the 4 forces as they combine to create
the structure of the matter of the universe…
the universe is matter… helium, water, and the universe is made up
of energy… as we know from Einstein that matter and energy is the same…
energy = matter…matter/energy…
we, the planets, the stars, the TV are all simply matter/energy that
is an event that is temporary…the way we come together as
matter/energy is from the 4 forces of universe combining in some fashion
to create said matter/energy…we exist as human beings because of the
four fundamental forces combining in some fashion and combining with
the already existing matter/energy……. this existing matter/energy can
be combined into a vast, almost limitless number of different combinations…
we are basically blocks of Lagos that can be combine and recombined into
a vast number of material things… our very cells can be combined into
the couch or the table or the rubber band on my table or my computer or
any other vast possibility of matter/energy…we are simply events that
is as temporary as any other event in the universe…
some events might last longer then other events, such as the life span
of the fly is far shorter then the life span of a human being, but they are
both simply events that occur because of the influence of the four forces
of the universe acting upon the matter/energy that already exists from the
Big bang…
but what does this mean?
Kropotkin