IF EINSTEIN WERE A TAOIST

Einstein did more than anyone in the last century to change the way our universe is commonly viewed.  Although the name 'Einstein' is associated with complexity, with theories that are difficult to grasp; his real aim was simplification.  His goal was a "unified field theory" in which everything in the physical universe could be understood as the operation of a single force, or a single set of interacting forces.  To that end he created theories (or discovered proofs for existing theories) that united electricity with magnetism, space with time, gravity with acceleration, and matter with energy.  Ultimately his goal was not reached.  He did not find the "unified field" that explained everything.  The universe had been consolidated into matter plus four forces: gravity, electromagnetism,  and two other forces within atoms: the strong force and the weak force.  So things have consolidated down to  four forces instead of one and all of this seems to be belied by the behavior of the quantum world of subatomic particles that lies within and beneath the visible world.   If Einstein were a Taoist, however, his dream of unification would have been realized.  In this post I will lay out a theoretical framework for this unified field.  Mathematical proofs of its existence can only be offered by some theoretical mathematician or physicist of Einsteinian talents whose genius is redirected toward this unified Taoist framework.

The Taoist idea, simply put, is monistic dualism.  From One comes two and from two comes everything else.  What is this One?  It is also referred to as the Infinite, the Atman, the Almighty, the subtlest of subtleties.  The One is not a thing and is, yet, the source and essence of everything (Don't worry.  Things will get a lot less escoteric as we go along!).  From One comes two and these two are forces, but unlike the Western idea of forces, these are forces that configure and interact with each other.  It is these configuring forces and the fields of attraction between them that create the illusion of the physical universe.  Forces emanate from the Infinite, not from matter.  The forces that generate and maintain the Universe come from the Cosmic Consciousness, from God.  They are generated by God's desire to provide a physical universe and physical organisms in which beings, each a fragment of the Cosmic Consciousnes, can experience, each in their own particular way,  this life and operate within it.  Matter is the illusory way that beings experience these interacting forces. Matter emanates from forces, and the fields of attraction between these configuring forces.

                                 WESTERN THINKING

Westerners believe that particles and matter are at the root of everything.  But where is this matter?  Of course I see things around me.  I even bunk into some of them.  But again, these 'solid' objects are not solid at all, according to the Taoists, but are merely fields of attraction between forces.   They may be impenetrable, at least to the forces that I can muster, but ultimately they are neither solid nor impenetrable.  Is this mystical delusional talk?  Well, how is the Western search for solid particles going so far?

Democritus, twenty-five hundred years ago, opined that what we thought was solid was really made up of much tinier particles, too tiny too be seen.  Little tiny cubes attached by hooks, in the case of solids, and little tiny balls that rolled over each other in the case of liquids.  When you separated a solid, you were breaking the hooks that attached the little cubes.  The cubes, themselves, were indivisible, which is what 'atom' meant in Democritus' tongue, Greek.  Of course Democritus was wrong.  Well, he was right in that the things we considered solid were not solid.  But he was wrong in that atoms are neither solid nor indivisible.  By the twentieth century we were under the impression that the atom was made up of a nucleus, which was discovered to be the size of a pea in relation to the race track size of the whole atom.  More precisely, in relation to a sphere whose diameter was the size of a race track.  And the electrons, which supposedly circled the nucleus were less than one thousandth the size of the nucleus.  So where is the solidity of the atom?  Where are these solid particles?

By the middle of the twentieth century,  Western science had really got going; not in destroying the myth of the solid particle, but in desperately searching for any solid particle at all on which they could plant the flag of materialism.  They discovered that the nucleus of the atom was not indivisible, but was divided into protons and neutrons and that these, in turn, were divided into other particles called quarks.  Quarks and electrons were so tiny that they were considered to be point particles, that had no real dimension.  But that is a very silly idea, when you think about it.  A point is a useful concept but it has no actual reality.  We can represent a point with a dot, but any actual dot, no matter how tiny, has to have some radius to it.  If it's radius were zero, it would no longer be an actual dot.  It would disappear.

Forces, themselves, are now considered to be conveyed by particles called bosons.  What are these particles made of?  What encapsulates these forces?  What possible material could there be, infinitesimally smaller than an atom that would encapsulate these forces and justify calling them particles?  And what is the actual force that they carry?  In our 'information' age, the force is now considered to be a message.  For instance,  positively charged particles are sending encapsulated messages to other positively charged particles that say 'stay away.'  While these very same particles send messages to negatively charged particles, also encapsulated, that bear the message 'come closer.'

In what language are these messages conveyed; how are they heard by the receiving subatomic particles and how are they composed by the sending particles?  And they are assumed to be particles,  which means they are encapsulated in some manner.  But what possible manner could that be?

In fact, what matter encapsulates atoms?  An atom of carbon is not surrounded by a sphere of carbon.  The protons and neutrons and electrons within the atom and the force fields between them is the carbon. There is no material capsule enclosing any of these 'particles' and there is no material composing or encapsulating the subatomic particles within it.    The force fields between inner and outer forces is what gives the impression - to our brains, sensory organs and nervous systems - of solidity, of matter.

Keep in mind that these particles have never been seen.  What has been detected is a certain spin, a certain charge and a certain mass emanating from discrete places within the atom. These 'particles' many of which were considered to be point particles of no dimension, are now considered to have some inner space.  Within that space there is, supposedly, a vibrating string.  In fact there are considered to be a different type of string,  for each of the different subatomic particles. (The number of subatomic particles keeps changing as new 'particles' are discovered by studying particle collisions at  huge collider facilities like CERN.) At present count there are 61 subatomic particles, which would mean 61 different types of strings made from 61 different materials.  These strings are now considered to be the rock bottom of the physical universe; the ultimate matter and solidity in a world of forces.  Each of these strings, made of a different material, is perpetually vibrating at a different rate, and in a very strange position.  These positions are due,  supposedly, to the 'dimensions' in which these strings find themselves.  In this tiny subatomic world there are supposedly ten different dimensions.  The vibrations of all these different strings, each vibrating perpetually in a very strange manner, supported by some combination of these ten dimensions, creates the discrete charges and spins and masses of all the different subatomic particles.

How big are these strings?  If an atom, which is unimaginably small to begin with (there are roughly two trillion atoms in each of our human cells and we have over 37 trillion of those); if an atom were blown up to be the size of the known universe, ninety-five billion light years in diameter, each light year being just shy of six trillion miles; so that light, which circumnavigates the globe over seven times a second; so that light, traveling at that speed would take ninety-five billion years to traverse the universe, seven times as long as the present considered age of the universe; if an atom were blown up to that utterly unfathomable size; one of these strings, blown up at the exact same ratio, would be the size.......of a small tree.

Just what kind of matter are these strings made of?  Anything that we normally consider to be solid is made of atoms containing several protons and neutrons with many electrons rotating around those, and at a distance that is utterly gargantuan in relation to one of these strings.  How are these strings held together?  Everything in the visible universe is held together by forces of attraction.  What forces of attraction hold the strings together?  Or are they of one piece?  Where do they come from?  How do they endure, eternally, the powerful forces that they are subject to?  How do they vibrate without any anchoring.  If you vibrate a string, as in a violin string or a piano string, it must be secured in two places which holds the string stable as it vibrates under some pressure.  And the pressure that piano and violin strings are under when they vibrate, and the force they exert on the mechanisms that hold them in place, is a tiny fraction of the pressure that these unfathomably minuscule strings vibrate under and the tremendous force that they must exert on whatever is holding them in place.  So what is it that could possibly be doing that?  What are these anchors made of?   Or are they being held in place by 'ten dimensions?'  Is that how dimensions work?  Are we held in place by the horizontal dimension?  Must we just float and vibrate and fidget around horizontally because there is a horizontal dimension?  What about the vertical dimension?  Must we remain vertical, because of the vertical dimension?  And does the vertical dimension sustain us in our verticality so that we can do so without any effort?  Of course not.  Dimensions are concepts, to help us understand the world.  There is no actual thing or actual compelling force that is a dimension.  The whole absurd idea of strings was postulated without any explanation as to their possible origin, or structure or method of operation, simply because matter must be, according to the Western perspective, the source of forces, and not vice-versa.  

Sub-atomic particles are supported by configuring forces.  In fact, subatomic particles are configuring forces, as are atoms, as are molecules, as is everything else, that is, or seems to be, a thing in our universe.  The 'thingness' is a function of the way our human brains and nervous and sensory systems are organized to convert this wavy, fluid, shifting world into a 'particular' (depending on our particular species, history, culture, and sets of shifting influences) and momentarily stable experience of solidity.

                  TRADITIONAL EASTERN THINKING

Taoists call these configuring forces yin and yang, although they have different names in all the monistic dualism cultures, which dominated the pre-industrial world.  Yang is the inward force, pulling everything toward the center of an object.  Yin is the outward force, pushing everything toward the perimeter of an object.  An object has dimension because of yin.  An object has contours and limits because of yang.  Remember, yin and yang are not qualites of things.  Yin and yang are the things themselves.

Yin and yang do not really attract each other.  If they did, then the negatively charged electron cloud at the periphery of an atom would collapse into the positively charged nucleus at the center of the atom.  Yin and yang capture each other.  Or, I should say, yin captures yang.  Neither yin nor yang are things.  It is their interaction that creates the illusion of things.  So yin  is the expansive, dispersive force.  It is everywhere and nowhere at the same time.  It's force can be felt, but, like all forces, it cannot be observed directly, but only as it effects 'things' (yin/yang configurations).  The Western idea is that the expansive force is a relic of the Big Bang.  But the Big Bang is not the source of yin.  It was yin bursting out from yang that created the Big Bang.  Yin preceded that explosion.  The source of yin, just like the source of yang, is the Infinite.  It is everywhere and is manifest in the growth of every living thing, that grows outward from a center (yang is also manifest in every living thing, because that growth is not limitless, but is always very specifically bounded; in fact it is the boundaries of the growing shapes of living things that identify them as the specific family and genera and species that they are.)  Growth, explosions, volcanoes, the expansion caused by heat (yang) is witness to the ubiquitousness of the expansive, yin, force.

Yang is centripedal.  It pulls in toward the center. Yin is centrifugal, it pushes  out toward the periphery (and beyond the periphery if yang were not there to hold it back.)  Yang would pull everything into it and crush it so it disappears from the physical universe.  Yin captures any liberated yang and surrounds it, pushing away from it in all directions, while the yang pulls back, preventing yin from dispersing out into the universe at infinite speed.  Yes, infinite speed.  Einstein put a speed limit on how fast a 'thing' can travel, but pure yin is not a 'thing.'  There is no yang to slow it down.

The shape and the orientation and the strength or intensity of yang will instantly determine the size and the shape and the spin and the orientation of the surrounding yin.  The smallest amount of liberated yang is within a wave.  A wave is a yin dominated configuration, just like a particle is a yang dominated configuration.  Yin spins around a center of yang.  When yin is dominant, the yang is not able to hold it in place and the yin takes off, but still with the yang at it's center.  The spherical form of the yang dominated configuration that we call a particle, becomes the spirallic form of the yin dominated configuration that we call a wave.  In the center of the particle is the yang dominated nucleus.  In the center of the wave is a tiny stream of yang.  If there were no yang, the yin would just disperse through the universe.  The fact that a wave has a spirallic shape and a wavelength, is proof that there is yang at the center creating these contours.  The more yang, the shorter the wavelength.  The smallest amount of yang is in a light wave.  Light travels at light speed, rather than infinite speed, because it is held back by the yang at the center that Western scientists call a photon.  Light waves contain both a streaming central yang that brings heat, and a surrounding spirallic wave that brings light.

Let's take, and forgive me for using this same demonstration in earlier posts,  let's take a rope, say the thickness of a clothesline, and fasten a weight to one end of it, say a small rock.  Now take the unweighted part of the rope,  hold it in your hand and start to spin it.  So the rope is spinning in, say, a clockwise direction, but in your hand, between your thumb and the fingers that are clasping the rope, you are exerting a counter-clockwise force.  If you didn't, the spinning rope would follow it's centrifugal force and fly across the room.  This countering force, twisting in the opposite direction and holding the circular movement of the rope in place, this is yang.    Now we go to three dimensions.  Instead of a spinning circle, we have a spinning sphere.  Instead of a rope connecting the center with the periphery, we have a forcefield of yang pulling in and yin pushing out.  If the center, yang, moves at all, the sphere begins to describe a spiralic path, which is a circle moving in any direction.

The force at the center of that object, holding it all together, pulling all its parts to the center and creating inertia, is not recognized in western science as yang.  It is recognized as mass.  Mass is measured by how hard it is to accelerate a particle (inertia) and how much gravitational attraction the particle has.  If the only definition of mass is in terms of the force, or the resistance to force, that it exerts, and if the search for it's solidity, which has been going on now for over two thousand years, has proved fruitless, or has led to absurd conclusions, why not consider mass a force rather than that infernally elusive thing that we call matter?  Mass is yang.  And when I say that, I don't mean that yang is a quality of mass.  I mean that yang is mass.

Also, the mass, as we read it, like in the atomic weight of various elements, is just a small fraction of the total yang.  Most of the mass, in any object, is bound, that is, neutralized by an opposing force of yin.  For instance there is a lot of mass (yang) in neutrons and protons that is not recorded, because they also contain yin which neutralizes a lot of that mass.  So when protons and neutrons are collided, at CERN for instance, particles are 'discovered' with much greater mass than either the neutron or the proton.  This is not do to an instantaneous visitation by a 'Higgs' wave, or any other wave.  It comes from within the neutron and proton itself.  The yin that neutralizes a lot of the yang is momentarily separated by the force of the collision,  so a much greater yang force becomes unbound for an instant.  The mass measurement is the amount that yang overpowers yin in a particular configuration.  If the yin were removed, for instance in some kind of very powerful explosion, the amount of  yang, of mass, would be, momentarily, much, much greater.  Then the liberated yin would find its way back to the unbounded yang and we would come back to some version of the stable place that we started from.
                                                         
                                          EINSTEIN

Getting back to Einstein:  Let's take E=MC2.  So you have here two different things, energy and mass, that can be changed, one into the other and that according to a consistent mathematical relationship (C, the speed of light, squared).  From the Taoist perspective, M and E are both yang in two different states.  M is yang in a bound state, held in place by the surrounding yin but still dominant, as in a particle.  E is yang in an unbounded state, liberated from the particle in a yin dominated wave state and travelling at the infinite speed of yin minus the drag on that infinite speed by the braking force of yang.

How is yang liberated?  In every way that we know of that creates energy.  Electrons have a negative charge and are predominantly yin.  But they are not pure yin.  Nothing in the physical universe is.  So when we liberate an electron from the bound field of opposing forces that we call an atom; this yin dominant configuration starts moving away from the atom, still carrying the tiny yang energy at the center of the electron.  This is the force of electro-magnetism.  Or take the energy that is liberated from the nuclear fusion processes happening in the sun.   Four hydrogen atoms each containing one proton fuse to create a helium atom containing two protons and two neutrons.  The difference in mass (yang) between the two protons and the two new neutrons is what is liberated, creating the tremendous light (yin) and heat (yang) and all the other radiations  from the sun.

 So the Taoist thinking would be: when yang is bound by yin in a yang dominated configuration that we call a particle, that is bound potential energy.  When some small amount of yang is liberated from this particle it is instantly surrounded by yin and forms a yin dominated configuration called a wave, which is manifest energy.  E=MC2 becomes a formula to relate the potential energy of bound yang,  in stable configurations that we call atoms, to the  manifest energy of yang in yin dominated configurations that we call waves.  The liberation of yang is always accompanied by an  explosive release of yin. Yin spirallic waves with tiny amounts of yang at their center, stream out in all directions from this explosion.  A  particular wave moves away from this explosion in one of these particular directions. And the force that carries all that heat and energy away from where the yang was liberated, is the yin that instantly surrounds it.

Yin doesn't rush to where unbounded yang is.  Yin is already there, since yin is everywhere.  Remember that yin travels at infinite speed, which means that it can traverse the universe and return to the same spot, in no time.  All of which doesn't really make any sense, because there is no matter to separate one part of unbounded yin from another.  So it is a unity, infinitely fast and absolutely still at the same time. If that seems like an  oxymoron, think of your own consciousness.  Consciousness comes close to it.  It can be infinitely fast, leaping from one topic to another, one distant place in your imagination to another, or it can be still.  And if you practice meditation or some other spiritual practice, you are probably in the process of discovering just how still your consciousness can be.  And, seemingly paradoxically, the stiller it is, the faster it is.  The more your consciousness is still, the more nimbly and accurately it can adjust from one situation to another, whether that situation is something that you are currently encountering  (the accurate assesment of a present situation being intelligence), or a situation that you are considering in your imagination (the accurate assessment of a situation that you are not presently encountered being intellect).

Yin configures in relation to yang.  In this case, these tiny amounts of liberated yang are surrounded by yin and these yin dominated forces form spirallic or wave configurations,   just as the bound yang is in a yang dominated configuration of balanced opposing energies that we call a particle.  There are some configurations that have a slight disparity of yin/yang, for instance the ions of atoms.  This disparity is utterly minuscule in relation to the enormous amount of yin and yang that are locked in balance within the total configuration. 

Now let's take the unification of space and time.  Supposedly there is a web of space-time that is woven through the entire universe.  The idea is that there is a normal way that this space-time web should be and that it is 'warped' by the 'mass' of large objects.  And we've probably scene illustrations where space-time is represented by, say,  the surface of a pool table, and the heavy weight of the sun, as represented by, say, a bowling ball,  sinking the level of the table so that the pool balls, representing planets,  roll around the depression caused by the sun.  The problem, of course, is that if there is space-time it is not two dimensional.  It would surround any object not just lie under it as in a table top.  If the sun is surrounded by space-time, then in what direction is space-time depressed?  Well, it turns out that the sun depresses space-time in the direction of the closest much more yang object, which is the black hole at the center of the Milk Way Galaxy.  So the closest larger yang object that effects the moon is the earth, and the closest larger yang object that effects the earth is the sun and the closest larger  yang object that effects the sun is the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.  That is why you get these depressions in those specific directions.  Gravity is the pull of smaller yang toward larger yang.   

Without things, there is no space and time.  Space and time are the measure of how far things are from each other and the rate at which material processes happen.  We measure space with a ruler, or some more sophisticated measuring device whose length and whose marked intervals of lengths we assume is a constant.  And we are always measuring from one point, defined by its relation to certain objects, to another point, also defined by its relation to certain objects.  And we measure time in relation to certain processes.  We use a clock to measure time.  And, like with the ruler, we assume that the processes that the clock uses, whether mechanical, electrical or atomic, are processes that take place at consistent, never changing intervals.

Imagine a world that you could bodilessly observe, in which there are no things; no objects of any kind.  There would be no anchor to begin or end your measurements of space and no processes to begin or end your measurement of time.  Space and time are contingent on objects.  Yet, from the Taoist perspective, there are no objects.  From the Taois perspective, first there was the Infinite, some of which bifurcated, split, into two components.  Actually the Infinite chose to split into two components and it is the interactions of these two components that led to the physical universe and its myriad objects, or the illusion of the physical universe with it's myriad objects.  Not only are the visible objects configurations of yin and yang, the spaces between visible objects are also configurations of yin and yang and the distances between those objects and the rate at which processes proceed within and between those objects are affected by whether the nonvisible context that they are in is either more yin or more yang.  And this can slightly change without us even knowing it.  If things become more yang, then everything becomes more contracted.  That means, not only is everything slightly smaller, including rulers, but all mechanisms are slightly slower, including the mechanisms of clocks.  As we said, without yang, there is infinite speed.   Yang is the brake on the potentially infinite speed of yin.  The yanger the atmosphere, the more energy we need to expend to do any activity.  We function against that central brake of yang and our activities slow down.  But this goes unnoticed because our clocks also expend more effort and slow down proportionally.  In a situation that is more yin, everything expands.  There is more distance between all things including between the markings on the measuring device that we are using to determine that distance.  So our measurements will be the same.  Also, although there is slightly more distance between the things that you are needing to manipulate to accomplish your activities, there is less yang.  So you are moving faster to cover that extra distance and the time of the activity also remains the same.

Now all of this takes place within a particular configuration of yin and yang.  Life exists within a very narrow range of yin and yang.  There can be no life in the crushing super yang environments at the center of stars, and there can be no life or even matter at the center of pure yang environments, as in the center of black holes.  In the same way that super yang environments crush life and matter out of existence, super yin environments  disperse matter and the materials that compose organisms out of existence.  What makes up the yin/yang environments external to objects?

As was noted earlier, yin and yang don't really attract each other so much as they entrap each other.  The real attraction is between yang and yang.  The yang at the center of the earth is attracted to the yang at the center of the sun.  The earth, in relation to the sun, is yin, and orbits the sun.  It would fly off, away from the sun with centrifugal force (yin) if it weren't held back by the centripedal force (yang) caused by the center of the earth's (yang) attraction to the center of the sun (yang).   The repulsion between two positively charged objects can be observed, when they are brought close to one another, but that is because they are both surrounded by a yin periphery, and it is those two yin peripheries, pushing outward in opposite directions, that is preventing the yang at the center of those objects from uniting.

Westerners say that the repulsion between the  protons of different hydrogen atoms, which they call Coulomb's force, is overcome by the great mass at the center of the sun, so that in the sun's core, four hydrogen atoms are fused yielding helium and some extra mass which is released, resulting in an enormous amount of energy and light.  What is that great mass at the sun's center?  Is it due to the crushing weight of all those hydrogen atoms surrounding it?  Of course not.  Hydrogen has no crushing weight, even in our terrestrial atmosphere.  Mass is not matter.  Mass is yang.  In the sun, it is the great yang force that is so exquisitely  balanced that it overcomes at a perfectly calibrated rate the strong yin resistance between the peripheries of hydrogen atoms and fuses them together, neither too quickly nor too slowly, so that we, on earth, for many billions of years, get a very long, very consistent source of heat and energy.

The resistance between four hydrogen protons is not overcome by the 'crushing weight' of all those surrounding atoms, but by the extremely powerful yang force crushing these atoms together from without.  Within black holes, the yang force if so strong that it crushes the entire atom out of existence.  Surrounding the periphery of the event horizon of a black hole is a ring of fire and exploding gases.  These are the explosions that happen when the yang force of the black hole crushes atoms out of existence, separating them into pure yin and pure yang.  The pure yang force unites with the yang force of the black hole, making it stronger and the yin force combines with tiny amounts of yang, exploding outward as gas and light and all kinds of waves, carrying tiny amounts of yang, and also as pure yin.  This separation of objects into yin and yang components makes the yang strength of black holes stronger while making the yin strength of the expansion of the universe also stronger. 

Although all measurements appear to be the same when they are measured from the same context of yin and yang, they become way off when we measure, through a telescope say, distances and rates of movements within yin/yang contexts that are very different.  That is why we have created the notion of dark matter,  which cannot be seen, but we 'know' that it is there because the rate of expansion of certain galaxies is much slower than our calculations would predict.  And we have created the notion of 'dark energy,' which also cannot be seen, because we 'know' that certain galaxies are moving a lot faster than our calculations predict.  Instead of questioning the theory when the evidence proves otherwise, we create two imaginary forces to justify the theory.

We said before that yang is the force that  holds all the elements of an object toward it's center.  That same yang force extends beyond the surface of that object and exerts a pull on the surrounding objects as well.  This pull is called gravity.  Gravity is the attraction of smaller yang to larger yang.  Yin is what prevents all those large yang configurations from fusing together.  Yang is what prevents all those configurations from diffusing and flying apart.

The yang nucleus of atoms holds in orbit the yin electron clouds that spin around it.  The large yang at the center of planets attracts and holds in orbit the moons and other smaller objects that spin around it.  The much larger yang at the center of stars holds the planets and other objects of smaller size in orbit around it.  At the center of every galaxy of stars is a black hole.  The enormously powerful yang center of each galactic black hole, holds all the stars of that galaxy in orbit around it.  And at the center of the universe is the primary black hole whose unfathomably powerful yang force holds all the galaxies of the universe in orbit around it.

What is this primary black hole at the center of the universe?  The universe is imagined to be constantly expanding like the outer edge of a balloon.   Debris radiates out from the source of an explosion, so you could determine the location of that source by tracing the lines of debris back to their common point of origin.  Put this in three dimensions and you would see that if the universe, or this iteration of the universe, began with an explosion, a Big Bang, then the source of that explosion would not trace back to the surface of the expanding balloon (the observable physical universe) but to the non-physical center of that balloon.  That is the central black hole around which the entire physical universe orbits in expanding and rotating circles (spirals).  The rate of expansion of the physical universe varies greatly depending on how close a galaxy is to the central black hole.  Although the universe is described as the expanding surface of a balloon, that surface is over fourteen billion light years deep.  In terms of relative distances, it would be more like the expanding surface of a bowling ball rather than a balloon.  The Big Bang released all the yin expansive force that was trapped by all the yang contractive force.  When that yin released, it released as pure yin, traveling at infinite speed.  It is only when the yin was beyond the event horizon of that unfathomably powerful yang at the center, many  billion of light years away, that yin was able to combine with yang and start forming the physical universe.  This is why the diameter of the known universe is ninety-five billion light years rather than the twenty-nine billion light years that it would be if, in a 14.5 billion year old universe,  everything were moving no faster than the speed of light.

So, from our perspective on earth, we are able to see billions of light years away, but we are looking at activity within yin/yang contexts very different than our own.  We make calculations about the expansion of the universe based on our assumptions about the age and power of the Big Bang.  Yet, when we measure that expansion we are surprised at how much more slowly it is occurring in galaxies closer to the center and how much faster it is moving in galaxies much farther away. The more slowly expanding galaxies are expanding against the pull of the central black hole, like swimmers trying to swim upstream just above a waterfall.  The faster expanding galaxies are much further away from that central pull and are able to expand at much faster speeds.  Faster than the speed of light?  Yes, from our perspective, but not faster than the speed of light if it could be measured within the more yin, less yang context of those remote constellations.


                               THE STANDARD MODEL

If there is any truth to what I am saying, how do I explain the standard model which is a theoretical description of the workings of atoms based on a whole and growing series of subatomic particles?  These particles are never 'seen.'  We 'know' they are there because a certain spin, a certain charge and a certain mass is detected in a discrete area within the atom. And mass, of course, is assumed to be matter.  But if mass is matter, what is that matter composed of?  What encapsulates those particles to fulfill anyone's definition of a particle?  Also, the instrumentation that is used to discover 'particles' introduces an energy which, momentarily, stops the movement of waves and collapses them from a spirallic moving, twisting formation, to a spherical, spinning formation.  As I said earlier, a wave has a central yang stream surrounded by a peripheral yin spiral.  When a 'particle' is discovered' the measuring instrument is placed close enough to the stream to collapse the stream around it and collapse the spirallic yin wave into a sphere.  Much of the 'uncertainty' principle, comes from our inability to pin point that central stream of waves.  If our instrument goes too far from the yang center of the wave, it will register as nothing.  It is still hitting the wave, just not the central part of it.  It registers that nothing is there, but the wave is there.  An atom is filled with waves and the forces between them.  It is not that there is only a tiny bit of matter in the atom.  There is no matter in the atom.  There are only forces.  The yang forces exist as spherical configurations at the center of the atom that we call particles, and the electrons are in wave formation and form clouds that we particularize as electron particles because the energy of our instruments stops the flow of those waves and they consolidate momentarily around the measuring device.  And the electron clouds are organized in successive rings around the nucleus because these yin waves repel each other for a short distance.

Supposedly we have narrowed down the physical world into the four forces of gravity, electro-magnetism, the strong force and the weak force.  Gravity is supposedly the weakest force followed by the 'weak' force present within atoms that causes, ultimately, nuclear transformations and radioactive discharges.  Electro-magnetism is considered much stronger than that and the strong force, that binds quarks together and keeps protons and neutrons in tact is considered the strongest of all.

Gravity is considered, as all forces are,  a function of matter which is called mass.  But there is no matter.  What is called mass is also a force.  Mass is yang. Understood as a force and not as matter, this yang exerts an  inward  pull on all the parts of an object (each part being, in turn, its own configuration of yin and yang),  toward the center, while all the yin elements push away, creating a dynamic tension which establishes a consistent shape or contour to this object.   This same yang force extends beyond the surface of this object and exerts a pull on the surrounding objects.  This is gravity.  Why is gravity so much weaker than, say, the strong force?  Because of where it is measured.  Gravity is measured outside of an object.  The powerful yang force at the center becomes neutered, weakened, by all the yin forces pushing outward within the object, as it travels past the surface.  The great majority of the yang force at the center of natural objects is bound by yin formations to create a stable, or fairly stable object.  This bound yang, as is found in neutrons and protons (although protons have a positive charge, most of it's yang strength is neutralizd by the yin elements within the proton and do not register for the proton as a whole.  Also, within positively charged quarks, or negatively charged quarks, there is still much more yin and yang that neutralize each other within the quark and do not register.   The yang that has not been bound within the object pulls other objects toward it beyond the surface of that object (gravity).  Yang not only pulls other, smaller, objects toward it, it also maintains, with yin,  a balanced relationship with the gravity of other objects smaller and larger that surround it at great distances, yang pulling objects toward it and yin pushing them away. Since so much of the yang force is neutralized by the yin force within the object, the residue of that force that extends beyond the perimeter of the object (gravity) is, therefore, much weaker than the force when it begins and is, therefore, considered the weakest of the four forces by Western science.

The source of yang is at the center of objects. At the center it is called the strong force.  We think it has a tiny range, but its strongest force is within the nucleus.  Again, the strong force does not emanate from protons and neutrons or from quarks.  It is a function of the yang center of the atom which preceded protons and neutrons and quarks.  Although protons register as positively charged, and neutrons as not charged, they both contain powerful yin forces within them which binds much of the powerful yang force at the center of the atom.  The yang forces do not repel each other.  The repulsion of positively charged yin/yang formations at close range, called Coulomb's force, is the repulsion of the yin peripheries of these two objects, each pushing out from the center of their respective objects.  The yang at the center of each object is actually attracted to the yang at the center of the other object and keeps it hovering just beyond the area of yin to yin repulsion.

Einstein discovered that the mass of atoms is slightly larger than the sum of the masses of protons and neutrons.  Even when you figure in the tiny mass of the electrons,  the mass of the whole atom is still slightly larger. Protons and neutrons are bound together by the mutual attraction of their yang centers and by that extra binding yang force in the nucleus that is not bound by protons and neutrons.  It seems like the strong force only exerts its force for a short distance, but that is because the center of the atom is so yang, it creates a kind of event horizon.  So nothing exists immediately surrounding the nucleus except a force field which scientists have no way of measuring.  They can only measure force as it effects objects.  In that force field between the nucleus and the first ring of electrons, there are no objects.  There is force, but no objects to register that force.  The electron cloud of yin dominated waves begins after the event horizon.  Whatever yang force has not been bound in protons and neutrons plus the extra yang force of protons exert the force on the electron cloud that keeps it in rotation around the nucleus.  Understand that there is no matter, no capsule that encloses the atom.  The electron cloud would fly off with centrifugal force if it weren't held in place by the yang force, which we called the strong force when we measured it at the center of the atom, and now we call the electro-magnetic force  when we measure it as it interacts with the electron cloud; still a strong force, but considerably weaker than it was at the nucleus.  And that amount of yang force that reaches out beyond the surface of the yin electron clouds, which neutralizes the great majority of the yang force, we call gravity.  So it's not that there are three different forces that have very different strengths.  It's the same force measured at three different locations.  The further from the central yang of the object, and the more neutralizing yin dominated configurations it passes, the weaker it becomes.

But remember there is considered to be a fourth force, the weak force, responsible for the decay of certain atoms.  But the weak force is not really a force.  It is what automatically happens when an atom gets too far out of balance.  Atoms, especially larger atoms with lots of protons and neutrons, are not perfectly in balance.  In addition to that extra yang, mass, that Einstein discovered, not bound by protons, neutrons or electrons, there is also extra yin.  Western science does not really focus on this expansive force and does not measure it, but a way of measuring it could be discovered.  For instance, prior to water boiling, there is an upward pressure on the surface of that water that is met by a downward pressure on the air above the water.  It is not the pressure of the water molecules or the molecular components of the air that are exerting that force.  From the top down it is the yang force, that we call gravity.  The atoms and molecules in the air just happen to be the medium that is being effected by this force.  The same is true for the water molecules.  It is the expansive yin force that balances the yang force from the heat source, that provides that upward pressure.  Again, the water molecules are just the medium that is effected.

We know what the boiling point of water is, at least at sea level.  So we know that prior to boiling, the pressure on the surface of the water increases until it is broken by the water boiling.  At higher atltitudes the gravitational force (yang) is less, so the water boils at a lower temperature.  At lower levels, say near thermal vents deep in the ocean, the water can be much hotter than 100 degrees Centigrade, and still not boil.  With every surface of every object there is a balance between the outward yin pressure and the downward yang pressure.  Because each atom contains a little extra yang and a little extra yin, there can be a slight imbalance within the atom.  If it is slightly too yin, it will, very gradually, and very slightly expand over time.  When the atom gets to the point where it is expanded enough so that the amount of yang can no longer maintain the integrity of the contour of the atom, then the atom will have a yin discharge, usually a beta decay, in the form of an electron plus other waves, which results in a neutron transforming into a proton.  This changes the nature of the 'matter' and  with a more yang nucleus, a new stability is achieved.  The opposite occurs if the atom is slightly too yang.  Then, over time, the atom will slightly and gradually contract until, again, the integrity of the atom can no longer be maintained, with the contour threatening to crash in; then a yang discharge, or alpha decay will happen.  The atom discharges a yang dominated helium nucleus, consisting of two protons and two neutrons.  The atom, with a less powerful nucleus, becomes a different element, but a new balance is reached.  And the discharged alpha particle (helium nucleus) combines with two electrons to form a new helium atom.

There are other forms of nuclear decay, but they all follow this basic pattern.  It is always done to achieve balance when an atom reaches too high a level of instability.  Protons, neutrons and quarks are not 'fixed' particles, that need an external force to come and 'decay' them.  They, themselves, are configured forces in balance, and when those forces become imbalanced, then either yang or yin is ejected to maintain that balance.

Gravity is always measured on the surface or beyond the surface of objects.  If there were a way to go to the center of planets or the center of suns, or the center of black holes, and measure there, all of which is impossible, because the crushing force of yang at all these centers could not be withstood by any measuring device and certainly not by any living observer;  what we would find there is the very same strong force that we see within the atom.  The center of a star is the nucleus of the star, just as the center of the atom is the nucleus of the atom.  This huge force at the center of stars is exerting pressure on the outside of the atoms and smaller yin/yang configurations found there.  Remember, that central yang force precedes atoms, precedes planets and stars.  On our planet, that strong yang force had and has the effect of pushing proton and neutron particles together, so the core of our planet is heavy metals, composed of many protons and neutrons.  Within the much stronger yang force at the center of the sun, this force was and is so strong that it pulverizes larger configurations so that only the smallest atoms remain.  And, in our sun and many stars, this strong yang force continues to push on the very smallest atoms, hydrogen atoms, forcing them to fuse together to create helium atoms and the release of some yang force in the form of the heat and light and other released energies that power life on our planet.  At the center of black holes, there are neither molecules nor atoms;  only pure yang force which is not a thing, which will not register as a thing.  It is only beyond the event horizon of this force that yin and yang can begin to configure with each other and form visible objects.  Yin exists only beyond the event horizon of the black hole, and all the yin/yang configurations that surround it, an entire galaxy of stars, are the yin elements (yin in relation to the black hole) that are held in balance by the enormous yang force, the enormous gravity of the central black hole.  The galaxy has contours and consistency because of the balance between the unfathomably powerful pulling force at the center of galaxies and the billions upon billions of yin objects (yin in relation to the black hole, but not yin in relation to the smaller objects (yin/yang configurations) found within and without them).  And in the center of all the billions of galaxies is the central black hole, which holds in place the entire universe; and the entire universe, in ever expanding spheres, circles around it.

Electro-magnetism is considered the second strongest force.  The way this is measured is not by how much force is required to accelerate an electro-magnetic wave.  Those waves are predominantly yin which naturally moves at infinite speed.  The yang force is the amount of force required to keep all the elecron waves from flying away at light speed (infinite speed minus the braking force of the small amount of yang at the center of electrons).  That would be a more accurate way of measuring the force of electro-magnetism.  Because of its velocity, electro-magnetic force is measured by impact.  But impact really combines two different things, the mass of the object (yang) and the velocity of the object (yin).  Yes, an electron, with it's tiny mass, moving at near light speed, will have a much greater impact than, say, gravity, which is not moving at all, but pulling things toward it.  Also, gravity radiates out in all directions from the center of an object. An electron moves in a particular wave in one direction.  I know it's figured this way in standard physics, but there really is a difference between the mass of an object and it's impact.

If we are all passengers on a plane, moving at 600 miles an hour relative to the surface of the earth,  the plane and each of our bodies will have a huge impact if we collide with that surface.  But if we bunk into each other while passing down the plane aisle, the force of that collision will be no different than if the plane was still on the ground.  Impact varies with the relative velocities of the objects that are impacting.  Mass, or yang, is really a stable measure, and should not be dependent on relative velocities.  On earth we are all spinning and hurtling through space, but we are still in relation to each other unless one of us has chosen to accelerate.  So our mass, or our yangness, should be measured in stillness, not dependent on the velocities of whatever it might be that we come into contact with.

So there is no matter.  And there are two forces, not four.  The unified field, that Einstein searched in vain for,  is the cosmic consciousness, which we experience as the limited consciousness that is attached to our organism, and that we refer to as 'I.'  The forces, depending on what your cultural background is, are yin and yang, in and yo, baca and fana, Heaven and Earth (The Judeo-Christian Bible begins with, "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth), Shiva and Shakti, father God and mother earth, etc.  This is the essence of monistic-dualism which was the spiritual perspective of the pre-industrial world.  We have gotten so mesmerized and so bewildered by what we have discovered through ever increasingly powerful telescopes and miscroscopes, that we have abandoned this basic understanding, for something that is random, accidental, meaningless and confusing.  There's no reason to.  With the proper perspective, everything that we have discovered fits perfectly into this ancient framework.


                                    A PERSONAL GOD

There are many religious people who object to this understanding of the cosmos, thinking that God is not just a force, but is personal.  If by personal, these people mean  that God is just like a person, except bigger and better and with a larger brain, then that understanding will find no support here.  But if, by personal, it is meant something that is felt and intended, but not necessarily embodied or bound to a distinct organism, then maybe  we can find some common ground.  I am not saying that God is forces.  I am saying that God, or the Infinite, or the Atman, bifurcated, thereby creating two forces.  God is not the forces.  God is the creator and the upholder of the forces.  We could also say, more personally, that yang is God's will, power and concentration; and yin is God's love and generosity.

In this context let's look at one of the many phenomena that are puzzling to those of a materialist persuasion. For instance, there are healers.  You can have whatever opinion you like about how they work, but you cannot be of the opinion that they do not work, or that real healers do not exist.  You can now see healers at work on television, hear countless anecdotes about the miraculous results of healing, and can even try a visit to a healer yourself.  The only way to not believe in healers is to discount massive anecdotal evidence, numerous video documentation of healings and to avoid, in your rigidity, having any contact with a healer yourself.  

Every healer thinks of herself or himself as a conduit of energy, or Divine force.  No healer thinks that they are accomplishing healings by 'themselves.'  And every patient experiences their healing as a force or a heat or a tingle, emanating from the healer.  The force that moves through healers is yang. It is a Divine yang force because God is present in it.  When God is present in yang force, that force carries God's intelligence.  In the same way, when yin force has God present in it, that yin force carries God's love.   At the center of every ailment is a misalliance of yin and yang.  There could be too much yang, so the area is too constricted; the vessels that carry the nutrients and electrical signals are too compressed so that things are stuck; or it could be too yin, so there is not enough energy to hold the peripheral areas of this biological system firmly to its center.  Things are too flaccid and the communication between parts is too sluggish.  Also, the central yang of a particular system may be misaligned, so that all the yin peripheral parts are off kilter and the connections between neurons, between nerves and muscles, between muscles and bones, lack accuracy and efficiency.  Whatever the problem, if the yang is adjusted, either in it's strength, it's exact location or it's orientation, then all the yin peripheral parts will automatically adjust to this adjustment.  This is what happens when someone receives a healing.

As I said, yin and yang are not a substitute for God.  They are the bifurcation of God.  The ultimate, subtlest level is God.  The next subtlest level is yin and yang and then comes the physical universe, the result of yin and yang configuring.  But God communicates to us through yin and yang.  We feel God's love through the medium of yin, our expanding connections to other beings and their expanding connections toward us.  And when we pray, in our expanding love connection to whatever it is we are praying about. If you are religious, your religion has certain ways of being 'touched' by God.  This touch is always in the form of a very specific experience of energy, which can be overwhelming, or can be a unique kind of tingle or throbbing.  When that happens, that energy does not carry intelligence.  That energy is intelligence and will bring renewed strength to you if you are exhausted; peace if you are overwrought, clarity if you are confused, and a renewed sense of wholeness and balance if you are off kilter.

This same Divine yang 'touch' can happen on a mental level.  You can have a sudden 'insight' about something that you have been pondering for a long time.  A sudden exceptionally clear dream gives you an understanding of a problem you have been living with.  These sudden insights and inspirations are not created by you.  You lay down the framework by accumulating the knowledge so that you can understand the insight when it comes and by the strength of your desire for the insight.  But the insight is received, not created and often comes in a moment of relaxation and openness, often during sleep.

These Divine insights allow you to get closer to the truth.  Healings, being 'touched by the Holy Spirit,' being 'slain in the spirit,'  spiritual movement, entering samadhi; all these get you closer to your center, or actually at your center.  At the center of your being is the self, which is one fragmentary aspect of God, but is really a part of God. The true essence of yourself is the same as God's essence.  Most of us spend our lives with our noses pressed against the glass of the material world. Since everything, including our material fortunes, is constantly changing, we find ourselves caught up in this roller coaster of victories and defeats, hardly aware of our center.  We are so caught up in acquiring the objects that we desire, or bemoaning the objects that we don't possess, or in planning strategies to acquire these objects.   Healings, acupuncture, shiatsu massage, prayer, meditation, yoga, tai chi, fasting; all give our overwrought systems a rest and restore to some degree balance and harmony.  And when we achieve a modicum of harmony, we get closer to this center, which is the self and is of the same changeless essence as the Divine.  In fact our self is an aspect of the Divine, which we left to have this life and to which we will return when this life is over, or when we have learned what we have needed to learn from the material world.

                                    CONCLUSION

So there is no matter.  And there are two forces, not four.  The unified field, that Einstein searched in vain for,  is the cosmic consciousness, or God, which is consciousness unattached to an organism; and the forces, depending on what your cultural background is, are yin and yang, in and yo, baca and fana, Heaven and Earth, Shiva and Shakti, father God and mother earth, etc.  This is the essence of monistic-dualism which was the spiritual perspective of the pre-industrial world.  We have gotten so mesmerized and so bewildered by what we have discovered through ever increasingly powerful telescopes and miscroscopes, that we have abandoned this basic understanding, for something that is random, accidental, meaningless and confusing.  There's no reason to.  With the proper perspective, everything that we have discovered fits perfectly into this ancient framework.




Any physicists or mathematicians in the house?  There are many experiments that could be conducted to prove this understanding in a measurable way.  Please contact me.  Thanks.

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