What is Matter and Energy made of?

What is matter made of? Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity says that E=mc-squared. It’s commonly known that energy cannot be created or destroyed but only converted to something else. Namely, energy can create matter and matter can be made into energy. Let’s talk about the meaning of matter. Matter has energy and energy is always around mass. We are in a physical universe full of matter and energy.

I have a degree in physics so I’m interested in science and always reading about research on stuff that is new. When I started to blog about science I had to go and learn what I didn’t know.

These posts are my way of sharing my knowledge and hopefully helping others with their own quest.  I already took the time to learn this stuff so you can get the benefit of my help without going through the time and pain of research. Happy to teach what I learn!

Classical Matter

Ordinary stuff is made up of any particle that has mass and takes up space by having a size.  All everyday objects that you can touch are ultimately composed of atoms, electrons and molecules, which are made up of interacting subatomic particles.

In everyday use “matter” generally includes atoms and anything made up of them, and any particles that act as if they have both rest mass and volume.

However matter in the classical sense does not include so called “massless” particles such as photons, or other energy waves such as sound or vibrations.

Phase States

Matter exists in various states or phases. These include classical everyday phases such as solid, liquid and gas.

For example, water exists as ice, liquid water, and gaseous vapour – but other states are possible, including plasma which is a high frequency form of matter.

An interesting point is that a single molecule of water doesn’t have any of the qualities that water has.

Non Classical matter

Science is moving quickly into understanding other forms of matter that were previously thought to be massless and present only as radiation such as neutrinos, gluons and normal sunlight.

One of the problems is rest mass. Einstein assumed that photons of light and neutrinos are massless because they are always moving and never at rest.

This led mathematicians to say the rest mass was zero and hence photons are massless. But with new advances in science and with new tools this is all changing.

My ultimate goal is to show proof that photons have mass and that the universe was created from a  high energy source. That is one of my main reasons that got me interested in new science.

Examples of Matter and Energy

First, let’s talk about some other types of particles that were considered as energy. Some kinds of point particles such as electrons and protons take up a very small amount of space and have a very small mass but what about neutrinos?

Neutrinos are  strange particles. They were considered to be massless just like photons. Then in 2015 the Nobel prize in physics was given due to the work that was done in my hometown Sudbury in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory SNOLAB, where  they found  that neutrinos come in 3 different flavors. That was enough proof to show that they must have a small mass.

This was amazing, because these small particles come from the sun and change into different types as they are travelling to Earth. Another awesome fact is they travel at the speed of light and go right through the entire Earth without slowing down.

We have a lot to learn about these tiny particles that have mass and that are passing through us at the rate of 65 billion per square centimeter per second.

These are strange particles and I am asking why do they change into other shapes in mid flight? Almost like a communication system!

Gluons and Quarks are Matter

One other particle that is inside atoms was considered as energy without mass. The gluon particle.

A proton has 2 up quarks and a down quark held together by 3 gluons, the spring like energy.

Gluons are the exchange particles for the color force between the U and D quarks as in this picture and they are responsible for binding quarks together by the strong nuclear force to form protons and neutrons. This is a picture of a proton.

The gluon can be considered to be the fundamental exchange particle of the the strong nuclear force interaction between protons and neutrons in a nucleus.

Previously they were assumed to have no mass but it has been calculated that gluons have a very small mass however, they only exist inside atoms with quarks.

The Mass of Matter comes from Energy

Finally the particles that make atoms are quarks and they have mass but the mass of quarks and gluons doesn’t add up to the mass of the atom’s particles. Where is the real mass?

This is hard to believe but the mass of particles comes from the Energy that the gluons are using to hold quarks together. In quantum mechanics Energy equals mass. Only 1% comes from the mass of the physical  particles! Wow!

Mass or no mass

I have to wonder if every particle in the universe has some mass. My question is why do scientists say that the photon particle of light is massless? It doesn’t make any sense that electromagnetic particles have no mass but everything else does.

I have found about 20 or more reasons why photons have mass verses the one reason that it is massless. Remember that Einstein assumed it had zero mass because it was never at rest and since the classical definition of mass was that it had to have rest mass.

Consider this that neutrinos are never at rest and the same goes for quarks and gluons which are inside atoms and vibrating constantly, yet they have a small mass. Einstein didn’t have this knowledge of the atom.

Why not say that photons have a very small mass that is too small to measure? Then we can give up the unproven theory that gravity curves space time.

What is the mass of Light?

The relationship of mass and energy is a special one that is apparent in the famous equation E=mc^squared. In Einstein’s thesis it was written as m=E/c^squared. This states that the mass of a particle is equal to the Energy it has divided by the speed of light squared.

Light definitely has energy so in Einstein’s equation the mass of a photon is the energy of the photon radiation divided by its speed c squared. Correct? Well, sort of…

There are 2 or more things wrong with this approach. First, light is made up of many different frequencies with different energies and it would be too complicated if each frequency or quanta of light had a different mass at each individual amplitude and frequency of Energy.

It would mean that white light which is  made of many colors would have different masses for each color and each strength of intensity.

Secondly, the photon cannot be used in this equation because a photon is never at rest but also because its speed ‘c’ is being used in the equation already making the photon an exception to the rule.

Thirdly, quanta come in separate distinct packets of energy and not in a continuous assortment. So my theory is that since all photons have the same speed then possibly they have the same mass that is directly related to the Planck Constant.

The various forms of quanta or photons are separated by frequencies like musical notes and the power of each group of photons depends on the amplitude of the frequency. The mass is very small  maybe the smallest mass of all particles.

The key Takeaways

This was a small talk about classical matter which have gluons and also have mass and gravity.

The nonclassical matter such as neutrinos and photons also have mass but no gravity because they don’t have gluons.

My last thoughts today are that mass does not equal gravity. Small particles like electrons, neutrinos and photons have no gravity fields but have mass.

So if gravity has a wave function called the graviton which Einstein was trying to find, then it comes directly from the strong nuclear force produced by gluons.

At any rate, this energy field of gravity comes from atoms and molecules as an additive force. The bigger the mass the stronger the gravity field.

Any particle that has gluons such as protons and neutrons has a gravity field and mass. Photons have mass but no gravity field so they are not attracted to more photons. But, as always gravity attracts mass!

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Did this help you in any small way to think about matter, mass and energy?

The Fabric of Space time

The fabric of space time was proposed by Albert Einstein in 1916 in his theory of General Relativity. He postulated that gravity distorts space so that objects including light from stars must follow a curved path around large bodies of gravity such as stars and black holes. Albert was trying to understand why light which was assumed to have no mass would curve towards large gravity fields that surround stars.

                                This image shows how a gravity field curves around stars.

During 1919 a total solar eclipse occurred on May 29, 1919. The duration of the eclipse allowed scientists to note that the sun did bend light from a star to curve around the sun.

It was the success of this experiment that led scientists to believe in the theory of curvature of space by large fields of gravity. Little by little this assumption that space is distorted grew into a theory that created the rule (fabric of spacetime exists) which is blocking any consideration of other theories.

My goal is to show that gravity is only an attractive force that occurs between matter. Since space has almost no matter it would be impossible to curve space.

Yes, the Higgs Field adds some mass to particles but gravity waves or gravitational waves are from a theory not yet proven to exist. My suspicion is that gravity  comes from the quantum particles of gluons inside of matter not inside the Higgs Field.

Furthermore, any kind of field around a large star would simply be the gravity field of the star and not space time curvature. Is there another reason why light bends around stars?

What if  light has mass then that would explain why light curves around gravity fields and also why light can’t escape the pull of gravity in a black hole.

Did Einstein get this wrong?

Einstein made an assumption that light is massless because his General Theory of Relativity says that no particle can travel at the speed of light because mass gets larger and larger the closer any mass travels to the speed of light.

According to this law (or rule) light wouldn’t be able to travel at light speed if it had mass.

However, we aren’t talking about particles that are bigger or more massive or even close to that of an electron. We are talking about light which is special because it doesn’t exist until it is created by electrons and only travels at the speed of light.

Yes I agree that the mass of light is very small and the quanta of light is the photon which is possibly the smallest and lightest particle in the visible universe.

My Thoughts about Fabric

First of all, any energy field somehow distorts the space that it’s inside of.  For instance the magnetic field around Earth or around a magnet creates a field. A radioactive substance creates a field of radioactive photons and a large mass creates a gravity field but none of these fields distort space so that space is curved.  

To come up with bending the emptiness of space is far fetched. Two oxymorons exist in this idea: that space and time is curved (curving of massless things) and that a photon is a massless particle (particles have mass).

Second of all, light curves when it goes into another substance such as air or water but in the vacuum of space there aren’t any layers of substance to curve around.  

And third, we have satellites orbiting the Earth in perfect orbits. If the space was curved around Earth you might need different energy mathematics to counteract the curved space. But, satellite orbits are based only on Newton’s law of gravity and don’t need  curved space to orbit around the Earth.

The only evidence that space is curved is because light is assumed to be massless. Yet, show me a proof that light has no mass. And, not a mathematical formula that somehow works out to zero mass.

The popular examples are that photons have no rest mass, which is ridiculous since photons don’t exist at rest. This is like saying unicorns have no mass.

My theory of light will show that light and all photons have a mass and that is why light is attracted to gravity, therefore dispelling the theory of curving space and time.

Look for my post about Light and reasons why it has mass.

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What is Time in the Universe? 

What is Time to us when we talk about time as something that happened to us or something we are doing in this moment? We store our past as memories and books write about the past as history. We plan our desires as something that will happen in the future. This future is a mystery that often never happens. We need to learn how to live in the now and accept this now moment as a present, a gift actually. That gift comes to us from the Universe each moment as the Present.

Our present time is our moment to be. We can only do things in the now moment. But we can prepare our mind so we are ready for action in the next moment. We can make a plan now and when the now time is the right time we are ready to use our plan. Just like on a movie set, lights, camera, action!

The Now Time 

When you do things it is always in the present, the now time. When you did it in the past it was your now time, when you want to do something later it only gets done in the now time and whatever you are doing or thinking right this moment is in the Now Time. This is all there is! When it comes to time, Now is all there is.

This means the now moment is the only moment you will ever have! So make the best of yourself in every moment. Be happy, be strong, be humble, have integrity, use wisdom, smile, laugh, cry, dance, taste, feel, love, imagine, and even dream in the now…

This is the Universal time, a constant time everywhere even if you are in another galaxy or travelling at light speed the only time you have is your Now Time.

The magic happens when you use the How to Think way and the Law of Attraction in your now time.

Act as if you already have your desire, be grateful for it now and it manifests in your now time like a present that you sent yourself.

Hold that thought in your mental vision or vision board every moment and the universe has no choice except to fulfill your desire. In your mind you already have it so it is in the process of manifesting.

Allow the universe to prepare it and to bring it into your now time when it’s the right now time.

In the now moment, time slows down to focus on your thought. Time almost seems to stop and in this stillness there is a movement or a flow of consciousness.

This flow is the evolution of life. There are tools for us to use in order to evolve consciousness. The tools are our thoughts, feelings and actions in this flowing movement of now time.

Why Are We Born Here?

The reason for life is using these tools to learn, experience and evolve. In life we use these tools as part of the law of life. Yet behind this law of life there is the real reason for living. The law of love! Let me explain.

We are here learning about love and the power of love. Using the law of love, we explore who we are, we learn, experience and evolve our understanding of love.

Remember it was the power of love that created us and the Universe. Now we are inside of our Creation examining it closely and slowly within this Now Time. Thus we are here to understand love and evolve love into a finer and greater power.

It is the soul that is learning and evolving. The soul is the one who uses our mind and the one who is the driver of our vehicle. Wouldn’t it be nice if we were involved in this law of love by being conscious of it?

We are born lifetime after lifetime to experience things again and again in order to fully understand some aspect of a part that we failed to understand.

Maybe it is learning everything about music that is your reason to live. You desire to blend your love of music into your meaning of love. You go deeper and deeper into that one area until you have mastered each note and each feeling of sound.

Yet how can you evolve love with music? You keep trying and learning each lifetime something new yet you are not fully conscious of this reason, this passion for music, because it’s the soul that is learning and evolving.

So the question is how can we be conscious of our desire and be at one with our soul? I wonder, because each soul has a different interest and each person has different interests. Often these interests are not the same and there is a conflict of interest.

One idea is to listen to your mind in a way that reveals the passions and feelings inside. This can be as easy as being mindful or it might take months and years of meditation.

Since we have free will we have the ability to override our soul’s purpose and say this is my life and I’m going to do whatever I want… It’s simple but certainly not easy.

How to Live

Be patient, appreciate and focus on life. Learn an aspect that resonates with you and then integrate each knowing into your vision.

Slowly move into your next evolutionary stage of becoming more. More of life, more of love and more of the I Am Presence. As you study and learn and integrate, you become part of the movement of evolution that flows into the Now Time.

You are the I Am presence, you are a part of the whole and the whole is a part of you. Thus “you are that you are”, is more commonly said as, I Am That. I Am the I Am Presence. To be or not to be, that is the question.

Allow time to heal any painful thoughts you have and be gentle with yourself. Remember that the only constant in the universe is change… And time stands still for nobody.

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What is the shape of the universe or the space that contains our visible universe? Our meaning of space is usually the area inside of a container or our living quarters but sometimes we refer to our personal space, namely, my body needs room to breathe and move without something in the way. Kind of like get out of my face, give me room. 

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What kind of space existed before the Big Bang? It’s impossible to imagine nothing and nothingness but let’s say such a condition is non-physical and it must exist without parameters, no size, volume or mass amounts.

I will name it Absolute Space and it exists somewhere outside of our Universe. A non-physical void and dimension outside of our visible universe.

When the Big Bang happened Energy from a non-physical space or dimension pushed energy into a physical reality.

This became our Universe and this Universe formed a physical Space that contained our physical world, kind of like a floating balloon drifting in a non-physical space.

Scientists have noticed that our balloon is expanding into this non-physical Absolute Space.

At the Big Bang moment, energy moved from a non-physical dimension outside of our universe to our physical universe.

Energy and matter exist together and are not independent of one another. The quantity of matter is measured by the mass and the relationship is according to the famous Einstein’s equation E= mc2. But, what shape did the universe make?

All small particles appear as round balls of energy and all large bodies of mass are round such as our planets and the sun. Why wouldn’t the universe be round?

Matter also exists as antimatter as an example of an electron and the antimatter positron. Bring them together and they destroy each other releasing energy.

During the Big Bang energy changed into matter and antimatter but into their own dimensions. See my blog on Dimensions- What are dimensions? And the 3rd Dimension.

Dimensions are tools needed to create a Universe. (erik lovin)

 We already mentioned that a non-physical dimension was the Source of Energy that came into our physical universe. Various dimensions that exist are therefore separated by the frequency of the dimensions. More about that in my blog on Multiple Dimensions.

What that means is that some frequencies are so high or so powerful that the dimension is non-physical because matter can only exist as a physical thing if the frequency allows it to be physical. An everyday analogy is when the water dries it disappears into vapour during a phase transition.

Also, we have to account for the anti-matter dimension that was created. Kind of like a parallel universe within the one Universe but they are in separate dimensions.

A two for one system.

An opposite energy system happened because in duality everything exists as 2 versions of the same thing. Like hot and cold are opposites of the same energy called heat. Big and small are the opposites of size. Up and down are the opposites of direction and matter and antimatter are the opposites of energy, such as electrons and positrons.

What is the shape of the Universe?

Blow a soap bubble or a balloon and it forms a sphere or round shape. Why would the universe be any other shape? It doesn’t make sense that it’s like a flat plane or a horse’s saddle?

Yet that is what cosmologists and Stephen Hawking suggest because when they add up the angles of distant stars they add up to 180 degrees like all triangle measurements,  which means the universe is flat. Or is it?

They say if the universe is round like the Earth the angles would add up to more than 180 degrees and the horse saddle shape makes angles of less than 180 degrees.

I agree that the measured angles should be 180 degrees but not because the universe is flat like the Flat Earth theory but because the universe is round like the Earth.

It seems that scientists have forgotten that light travels in straight lines unless acted on by an external force.

Why would light travel in the shape of the universe instead of in straight lines?

View the drawing below showing that light from far away stars travels in straight lines and even light from the other side of the universe arrives here on Earth in straight lines. This triangle of geometry is always 180 degrees.

Notice that light might even reach us from the other side of the universe while passing through the empty space in the center of our balloon-shaped universe.

Note, that we will never see this light because it is too far away for light to travel to get here, also the expanding universe means it will never reach our galaxy.

Light from distant stars travel in straight lines to Earth making a 180-degree triangle

The expanding universe evolves into the 4th, 5th and 6th higher frequency-lower density dimensions as the matter and energy continue on a journey back to the 7th non-physical dimension and beyond.

In the brief instant that the Big Bang happened, the plasma energy soup didn’t have enough time to get mass or gravity.

This allowed the energy with only a small amount of mass to spread into a vast void of nothingness that didn’t prevent speeds faster than the speed of light. As a matter of fact, normal light didn’t exist yet.

The Higgs field showed up shortly after the plasma cooled when quarks, as well as electrons, took on some mass.

The point energy of the Big Bang inflation spread evenly in all directions much like a fireworks explosion, making the universe into a round shape like an expanding balloon. With all the matter and energy along the surface of that balloon.

The full step by step sequence will be revealed in my post about Multi Dimensions.

I hope you are enjoying this new information. Please leave a comment.

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What is Falsifiability in Science

In a world where scientific theories often sound bizarre and counter to everyday intuition, and where a wide variety of nonsense aspires to be recognized as “scientific,” it’s important to be able to separate science from non-science, what philosophers call “the demarcation problem.” Karl Popper famously suggested the criterion of “falsifiability” a theory is scientific if it makes clear predictions that can be easily falsified or proved false.

 

Sean Carroll: Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, The Big Picture

It’s a well-meaning idea, but far from the complete story. Popper was concerned with theories such as Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxist economics, which he considered non-scientific.

No matter what actually happens to people or societies, Popper claimed, theories like these will always be able to tell a story in which the data are compatible with the theoretical framework.

He contrasted this with Einstein’s relativity, which made specific quantitative predictions ahead of time. One prediction of general relativity was that the universe should be expanding or contracting, leading Einstein to modify the theory with his Cosmological Constant, because he thought the universe was actually static.  So even in this example the falsifiability criterion is not as unambiguous as it seems.

Modern physics stretches into realms far removed from everyday experience, and sometimes the connection to experiment becomes weak at best, especially with new theories of quantum particles.

String theory and other approaches to quantum gravity involve phenomena that are likely to manifest themselves only at energies enormously higher than anything we have access to here on Earth.

The cosmological multiverse and the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics offer other realms that are impossible for us to access directly.

Some scientists, leaning on Popper, have suggested that these theories are non-scientific because they are not falsifiable.

The truth is the opposite. Whether or not we can observe them directly, the entities involved in these theories are either real or they are not. Refusing to contemplate their possible existence on the grounds of some a priori principle, even though they might play a crucial role in how the world works, is as non-scientific as it gets.

The falsifiability criterion gestures toward something true and important about science, but it is a blunt instrument in a situation that calls for subtlety and precision.

It is better to emphasize two more central features of good scientific theories: they are definite, and they are empirical.

By “definite” we simply mean that they say something clear and unambiguous about how reality functions.

String theory says that, in certain regions of parameter space, ordinary particles behave as loops or segments of one-dimensional strings.

The relevant parameter space might be inaccessible to us, but it is part of the theory that cannot be avoided.

In the cosmological multiverse, regions unlike our own are unambiguously there, even if we can’t reach them.

This is what distinguishes these theories from the approaches Popper was trying to classify as non-scientific. (Popper himself understood that theories should be falsifiable “in principle,” but that modifier is often forgotten in contemporary discussions.)

It’s the “empirical” criterion that requires some care. At face value it might be mistaken for “makes falsifiable predictions.”

But in the real world, the interplay between theory and experiment isn’t so cut and dried. A scientific theory is ultimately judged by its ability to account for the data—but the steps along the way to that accounting can be quite indirect.

Consider the multiverse. It is often invoked as a potential solution to some of the fine-tuning problems of contemporary cosmology.

 For example, we believe there is a small but non zero vacuum energy inherent in empty space itself. This is the leading theory to explain the observed acceleration of the universe, for which the 2011 Nobel Prize was awarded.

The problem for theorists is not that vacuum energy is hard to explain; it’s that the predicted value is enormously larger than what we observe.

If the universe we see around us is the only one there is, the vacuum energy is a unique constant of nature, and we are faced with the problem of explaining it.

If, on the other hand, we live in a multiverse, the vacuum energy could be completely different in different regions, and an explanation suggests itself immediately: in regions where the vacuum energy is much larger, conditions are inhospitable to the existence of life.

There is therefore a selection effect, and we should predict a small value of the vacuum energy. Indeed, using this precise reasoning, Steven Weinberg did predict the value of the vacuum energy, long before the acceleration of the universe was discovered.

We can’t observe other parts of the multiverse directly. But their existence has a dramatic effect on how we account for the data in the part of the multiverse we do observe. Such as the strong force of gravity.

It’s in that sense that the success or failure of the idea is ultimately empirical: its virtue is not that it’s a neat idea or fulfills some nebulous principle of reasoning, it’s that it helps us account for the data. Even if we will never visit those other dimensions.

Science is not merely armchair theorizing; it’s about explaining the world we see, developing models that fit the data.

But fitting models to data is a complex and multifaceted process, involving a give-and-take between theory and experiment, as well as the gradual development of theoretical understanding in its own right.

In complicated situations, fortune-cookie-sized mottos like “theories should be falsifiable” are no substitute for careful thinking about how science works.

Fortunately, science marches on, largely heedless of amateur philosophizing. If string theory and multiverse theories help us understand the world, they will grow in acceptance.

If they prove ultimately too nebulous, or better theories come along, they will be discarded. The process might be messy, but nature is the ultimate guide.

I hope this falsifiable stuff was understandable and relevant to you. Personally I like to rely on common sense and observation.

Science consists of a body of knowledge and the process of how that knowledge is developed. The process of science involves asking questions and generating testable explanations and methods to prove the results which are shared publicly so they can be evaluated by the scientific community.

 Scientific knowledge is always evolving as new and better methods and tools gather more and more data.

However, knowledge is only a step towards understanding something, the next step is using that knowledge to actually knowing it by the How to Think method and then gaining wisdom.

This step in the evolving process of knowledge is what I call The Science of Knowledge.

The Science of Knowledge should be a new science. It is almost unknown in the scientific world of facts and data. Not to be confused with the book written in 1794 by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte with the same title.

Science without wisdom, we might say, is a problem. The quest for wisdom has become a new goal besides that of knowledge. It is important to gain wisdom from science for the future of the world.

Wisdom is taken to be the capacity to realize what is of value in life, for oneself and others. It includes knowledge, understanding and technological know-how, converted into a knowing to live a certain way.

However, the science of today is, a kind of method devoted only to the pursuit of knowledge.

Think about taking a book off the ledge of the bookshelf. You don’t know that book yet, but you have the intention of learning some new knowledge.

This process of learning something new and how to learn it into an absolute knowing is part of the Science of Knowledge.

One of the ways that helps science evolve is when the inquisitive mind thinks of new possibilities and comes up with a new idea or a new method that hasn’t been used or thought of before.

Knowledge can only stretch the mind slightly but adding imagination goes much farther.

That inquisitive mind that stretched beyond the facts and data that exists in scientific knowledge is using this process.

In this example it was the imagination of the mind that thought beyond the data to come up with a new idea. This is called thinking outside the box.

We can think of this process as a science of the mind, an invisible force that uses Imagination. It was Einstein that said “imagination is the greatest power in the universe”.

Using your imagination is the first step in creating new knowledge. The next step is describing a new process or theory using your ideas and diagrams and then offering it to the scientific method to test and prove the new idea or theory.

When it has been accepted, then adding that theory into the knowledge of science.

The final step is knowing the new idea by using it and getting wisdom by thinking the right way. The Science of Knowledge uses the principal of How to Think, not what to think.

 

How to Think uses your discernment about all information. It means you don’t blindly follow someone else’s thinking or beliefs.

It doesn’t matter if it’s your teacher, your parents or a religious figure. You will still question all information and knowledge and run that past your internal filters. Does it make sense, to be true? Is it testable? Is it based on fear principles or on empowering principles?

If the knowledge passes this test of discernment you are ready to accept the knowledge as being true, or at least for the time being. The scientific method uses falsification to prove a theory.           

The Science of Knowledge then is an examination of the thinking process and the ways that could be used to make that process better.

When we understand the How to Think method we gain knowledge faster and that leads to knowing and converting knowledge into wisdom.

The How to Think method can also be used with the Law of Attraction to allow you to manifest what your mind desires. This way of thinking is described in my book Attracting Abundance.

A new method to test a theory

Karl Popper the philosopher of science argued that science cannot verify theories but can only refute them, and this is how science makes progress.

Scientists are forced to think up something better, and it is this, according to Popper, that drives science forward.

Karl Popper, 1902-1994, is best-known for the principle of falsification, a means of distinguishing pseudo-scientific theories, like astrology and Freudian psychoanalysis, from genuine ones, like quantum mechanics and general relativity.

 Popper pointed out that theories make predictions that can be empirically tested.

But scientists can never prove a theory to be true, Popper insisted, because the next test might contradict all that preceded it. Observations can only disprove a theory, or falsify it.

One can sum this all up by saying that the criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability’

But falsification is a mere guideline, a rule of thumb, sometimes helpful, sometimes not. Now, some physicists and philosophers think it is time to reconsider the notion of falsifiability.

Could a theory that provides an elegant and accurate account of the world around us even if its predictions can’t be tested by today’s experiments, still “count” as science?

As theory pulls further and further ahead of the capabilities of experiment, physicists are taking this question seriously. The new Science of Knowledge and the how to Think method provides some insight…

“We are in various ways hitting the limits of what will ever be testable, unless we have misunderstood some essential point about the nature of reality,” says theoretical cosmologist George Ellis.  “We have now seen all the visible universe (i.e. back to the visual horizon) and only gravitational waves remain to be tested further.

 We are approaching the limits of what particle colliders will do or if they can ever be feasible to build, for economic and technical reasons.”

For instance, infinity and zero is needed to complete mathematics, but it occurs nowhere in the physical Universe.

Mathematics has been used as support for theories instead of using it as a tool to prove testable evidence.

Scientists are rethinking the fundamental principle that scientific theories must make testable predictions. Maybe a new method of gaining knowledge is needed?

Nicholas Maxwell wrote Karl Popper held the view, that science proceeds by assessing theories impartially in the light of evidence, no permanent assumption being accepted by science about the universe independently of evidence. 

But this standard empiricist view is unrealistic. If taken literally, it would instantly bring science to a standstill. Science would be drowned in an ocean of empirically successful rival theories but in practice, these rivals are excluded because they are disastrously disunified.

Two considerations govern acceptance of theories in science. Introduction to empirical success and unity.

But in persistently accepting unified theories, to the extent of rejecting disunified rivals that are just as, or even more, empirically successful, science makes a big persistent assumption about the universe that the universe is such that all disunified theories are false.

The assumption is that the universe has some kind of unified dynamic structure and it is physically understandable in the sense that explanations for phenomena exist to be discovered.

But this untestable (and thus metaphysical) assumption that the universe is understandable is seriously problematic.

Science is obliged to assume, but does not know, that the universe is understandable.

 Much less does it know that the universe is this way or that way. What came before the Big Bang? What exists outside of the Universe and where is the hidden dark matter of the universe?

Science needs a new criterion in order to think outside the box and catch up with scientific data. We will stay stuck in a 3rd dimension reality of science instead of moving into a 4th and 5th dimensional thinking.

I feel that science is at a crossroad where it must make a new decision. How they think about gaining wisdom and thinking outside the box, will or will not bring in a new era of science?

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What is the best way to Think?

Knowing how to think helps the evolution of consciousness in the world. In order to explain the nature and the purpose of life I am going to explain How to Think and not what to think. My purpose in life is to bring awareness to science and all people that things are not as they seem to the eye.

I have uncovered some false beliefs and false assumptions that are preventing us from understanding who we are, where we came from and why we are here.

In order to teach my new ideas, I am thrilled to get your interest and to get you excited about this method for yourself. I want you to think with your mind and realize the power of thought.

In the past and present we have been taught What to think but not How to think!

Thoughts are like water and they flow into your mind from mass consciousness like a river flowing into the ocean.

You can grab a thought and hold onto it, look at it and decide if it is worthwhile to keep it or to let it flow away. Eventually, you have built your belief system.

The hardest job in the world is to teach someone a new belief.

I’ll give you a story as an awareness about your beliefs.

Imagine, water is like a river that flows to the ocean and at each moment the water has changed.

You realize that the only constant in this flow is change.

Nothing stands still, the only constant in the universe is change.

Rivers flow into the ocean, the Earth spins around once a day as the Earth travels billions of miles around the sun each year and we are also moving around our Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy is moving around the universe. Wow, that is a lot of movement.

Your body goes through the same kind of motion and your mind is constantly working and changing. Isn’t it strange that we humans like to resist change? We seem to think that change will always be for the worse?

You have to want to change for a better life and then you will use this new awareness because you desire more. You desire more in life, you desire more happiness, more health, more excitement more energy and more love.

These are the benefits of an abundant life and they are coming to you when you know How to Think.

 

When we learn How to Think, we cooperate with universal laws that govern everything. One of these laws is the Law of Attraction.

The mind creates each person’s reality but it doesn’t know how it works. It doesn’t know that there are laws that govern how to think. In this regard the mind is unaware!

What we need is awareness of this law… Our beliefs and our belief system has been created by this LOA (Law of Attraction) but we didn’t know how it was working.

We didn’t even know it was working. We are unaware of it and we need awareness of it to get what we desire.

The LOA creates the result that the mind thinks.

At the quantum level of physics, the mind creates the action that the mind thinks. That means the mind can control matter!

This is a scientific fact that has been proved in laboratory experiments. One scientist does an experiment to prove that the electron always moves in a certain way. Another scientist says no way, when I do that experiment the electron moves in the opposite way.

After many experiments it has been decided that the outcome depends on the view of the scientist. The conclusion is, what you expect is what you get!

Thoughts are things! Wow, we have proof that the mind controls how we see the world. Which way is the right way, your way or my way?

The answer is what do you want? Do you want more pain and suffering or do you want more happiness and abundance?

We live in duality where each emotion and sense that we experience or feel has its opposite.

For instance, up and down, hot and cold, yin and yang, love and fear, happy and sad, etc… The only constant is change. Nothing exists without change.

I change the way I think and that changes the way my world looks and reacts to me and then it changes the way the Earth evolves and that changes consciousness all the way up to our Source!

The mind is a wonderful tool that we are not using properly. If you have a thought such as ‘Money is hard to come by’ Then the world will always give you examples of that to prove to you that your thoughts are correct. This becomes your belief and you live with this as your belief system.

If you see other people earning a large income you tend to put that into the exception to the rule. Because that isn’t where I live or what I do, or some other excuse.

Take Climate Change for instance. Scientists and most people believe that Global Warming is caused by humans using carbon based fuels. They see the obvious evidence and think the obvious thoughts.

It has been said that when popular belief thinks in the same manner it’s time to re-evaluate your thoughts and use your discernment.

There are other ways to explain global warming, and more on that subject later. You can see that the sun moves around our planet, it’s obvious right?

The LOA creates the result that the mind thinks. Should I remind you that the Earth moves and not the sun!

To think according to appearances is easy, to think truth regardless of appearance is difficult and requires more thought.

The power of thought is hard work, most of us just take the easy way and follow the crowd.

When you accept appearances as the truth you create more of that to see as your truth. You are giving this truth power and accepting it as part of your belief system.

In the same way we see poverty, sickness and war and when we focus our thoughts on that kind of negative thinking we give it power and in return it gives you more of it.

What a paradox!! The more you bring your awareness to help fight poverty and stop wars, the more you help to create more of it.

The insanity is clear if you consider, should we study poverty in order to get rid of poverty, or should we study abundance to get more abundance?

Should we study how to fight wars or should we study how to get peace? We always take the obvious way and put those thoughts into our belief system. Well, what are we going to do to get rid of false beliefs?

What is the right way to think? The answers are clear to me but the process requires a lot of thinking.

We have become lazy and most people will work hard and sweat long hours rather than use their mind and think the right way. Lazy minds create hardships in life and follow the crowd mentality.

Everyone is created equal in the eyes of the Universe. But our faulty belief system shows us that we are not equal and that life is a struggle.

Each one of us has our own journey, our own goals and desires but our poor way of thinking is creating the opposite of what we desire.

Some are overwhelmed at the fast pace of evolution. Some fight against change, some might take violent methods to make changes or exit this lifetime in violent ways when they can’t cope with the world that they created in their mind.

This is a real crisis in the world and in our society. We must teach the Science of Knowledge in school.

Teach the ability to cope with the higher vibrations of thought needed during our evolution of consciousness. If you desire more abundance you can use your mind to manifest it into your life.

If you keep thinking the wrong way you will keep manifesting all the things you don’t want into your life. How can you think the right way?

There are a lot of negative words that you must remove from your self-talk. Some words even seem good, such as, I want…., I hope…., I pray…., but these words keep you stuck wanting, needing and praying.

The reason why the LOA and methods like the ‘Secret’ haven’t worked are because of the self-talk and negative thoughts and words in our belief system and then we live by these thoughts.

In every situation your mind will always give you examples to prove that you are right. If you think life is a struggle you get examples that show you are right and if you think life is beautiful you will get all kinds of examples showing you that you are right.

The saying goes like this, if you think you can you are right, if you think you can’t you are right…

My purpose was to get you to consider my new theories about our Universe. I understand that the hard part for me is finding how to offer my theories so that you pause and consider the value and validity of them.

These theories might cause serious problems for many because they are kind of strange and sound unreal. I always say the more real life becomes the more unreal it seems. It requires you to think outside appearances and outside the web of known science.

Of course I am not against science and not against religion, I am for the Truth, the whole Truth… My goal is to help you see this Truth and consider if it makes more sense than doing things the way they were always done before…

I have outlined the cause of having a less than abundant life and given hints on how to improve your life and create what you desire.

For instance, you can demonstrate abundance by living abundantly. Stop worrying about not having enough time because there is always enough time to create what you desire by the process of having it mentally and emotionally and then letting go of how it will manifest and allowing the creation to appear in the right way.

We don’t have control of the thoughts that enter our heads but we have discernment to choose what thoughts stay in our head. Our job is to be the master of our own thoughts.

We are only responsible for our own enlightenment and others must choose their own path. To learn more about how to manifest abundance please download my free book Attracting Abundance.

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The Marriage of Art and Science

Truth is stranger than fiction. (Lord Byron)

Artists such as me are usually interested in the unseen and how to express that energy of a higher world in stories, paintings, poems, photographs and songs.

We are not all religious people yet we find our creativity within this idea of a god, and of a heaven.

In a negative way artists use hell and fire as their medium but this is just the duality of our world where the opposite of everything exists.

I would classify us, especially me, as spiritual but not religious. A religious person is called aTheist who believes in a personal God. They go to a specific church and use prayer and symbols of that church during religious practices.

An atheist is someone who doesn’t believe in a God. They are very stubborn in this belief that a God doesn’t exist.

An agnostic is a person who is sitting on the fence. They aren’t sure but they feel that God doesn’t exist yet they are open to the possibility of a higher power.

There seems to be another kind of New Age person who is in love with everything spiritual, kind of like a hippie, a cool artist or a Buddhist… But maybe they can be classified with the Spiritual person, with a slight flavor or smell of grass roots.

We certainly are a group of humans who are at odds with each other. Maybe that’s why they say don’t talk about religion or politics because of the various and usually fierce opinions.

I don’t want to offend any group but as a spiritual person I am for the Truth. I will shine a light on any idea and on any belief to see the truth that is in it.

No one and nothing should be afraid of shining a light to find the truth within. Well, maybe bats and vampires?

One way to think outside the box and penetrate into this subject further is by using two common things between all of us, art and science.

Art is in the eye of the beholder yet it is a feeling in the heart. It has a sweet sensation that often takes your breath away.

That feeling is common to all of us and the reason for that is because we all have a connection to the source of love. Everyone doesn’t react the same way to the same art and that’s what makes it interesting.

The value of art for each person goes beyond the five senses to the unseen higher levels of the Universe where an energy touches us deeply.

This feeling has a lot of power in it and it’s not logical, it’s more of a spiritual nature and a universal energy. I’m explaining this emotional feeling that art gives us in order to show an important aspect we all share, love…

Science on the other hand has used a rather cut and dry approach to explain universal truths. Formulate a theory, collect data, test the theory with experiments, make a conclusion. Publish the theory.

Seems a bit stale, no emotion and no love but within the idea and the work there is the same passion and love that the artist has.

The common feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction is rolled up in the creative aspect within all artists and scientists. Creativity is a quality that blends our common passion in life.

Why do people get married? Love! A common bond or blend of feelings.

What if we could marry art and science into a new way of being passionate about life? Is there a way that we can use emotions, passion and love to accomplish our goals in life?

Just imagine for a moment that we take the Law of Attraction and use this new power of creativity by blending our emotions and passion into our thoughts.

Our thoughts have a unique frequency based on our belief system and this power can be used by us. We can use this power to upgrade our prayers into affirmations and understand that thoughts are creative.

These thoughts are things and the mind will bring them into existence. It doesn’t matter if you are an atheist or agnostic, artist, theist, spiritual or scientific.

We can all use this same power or law.

I leave you with the words of Buddha Gautama, ” What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life for tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.”

Let’s begin the journey!

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What are Dimensions?

My goal is to help a tribe of students by answering their questions about the universe and today we are talking about this question. What are dimensions?

I want to be the best source of knowledge and wisdom that helps lead us into a new understanding of the universe.

Within this Journey there is a purpose and an evolution of consciousness. I hope it’s fun and entertaining in a way that brings new awareness and knowing into people’s lives.

I have an idea and maybe you have your idea so why don’t we take this trip together into understanding the universe and explore this territory that we live in? We might solve the reason for being here and other dark matters or at the very least enjoy the ride.

Have you given much thought about dimensions? How big is the Universe? Is the visible universe all there is or is it only one dimension of the Big Bang?

I have been thinking about dimensions for a while and I don’t mean the dimensions of your house or property. I mean the dimensions of the universe, not just the size but the qualities of space.

It seems to me that science has proved that the universe has many different dimensions because the Big Bang that created the visible universe came from another place.

Then we have the dark matter that isn’t visible and can’t be found in our dimension of the universe. My idea is that dark matter must be inside another dimension of the universe.

Science always wants proof before understanding something. As science gets more

complicated scientists run out of ideas because ideas use imagination instead of physical proof.

Sometimes we need to suspend our disbelief and think outside our box of ideas.

Extra Dimensions

What if the universe has many dimensions? This would answer all the questions that scientists are asking, such as where is the dark energy, where is all the antimatter and where did the Big Bang come from?

We need another definition of dimensions! Instead of only using the 3 spatial directions to measure a dimension let’s imagine that space has a frequency.

Then each dimension would be separated by a frequency difference just like radio stations are all on different frequencies. They are all in the same space but in different frequencies.

The entire electromagnetic spectrum is separated by frequencies so why not have dimensions that are separated by frequencies?

How can scientists prove this instead of listening to logic which points to the obvious that different dimensions exist?

Well one way might be to apply a high enough energy or heat to a particle and watch it disappear. Where did it go?

Maybe measure the frequency or mass of a black hole over a set period of time and see the obvious answer.

Stephen Hawking did the math to show that black holes radiate energy and disappear. Where did the energy go?

Ok, that’s all for now. Did it get you thinking outside the box? As always Keep active in your mind and body. Nothing stays the same since change is the only constant in the universe.

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