| Excerpt from Eternal Origin Vol. I Observation, The Way |
| PART I: THE WAY WE OBSERVE CHAPTER 1 Riddle, Anomaly, Contradiction We have a wondering about what came before A longing to know the roots of our past |
You should not exist.
Neither should I.
Nothing else should exist.
Rolling slopes carpeted with green should not exist, nor the smell of changing seasons, nor the sparkle
of sand on beaches that merge with rippling tensile, nor star laden skies seen through the bare
skeleton branches of hibernating trees, nor the rust-gold leaves blowing swift and strong , nor frosted
mountains that chill the air, snow blanket the ground and crunch under foot, nor the tranquil
completeness in a reddish-orange of sunset, nor the wake-up renewal in the yellow-bright of sunrise,
nor comforting words, nor reassuring eyes---none should be, if everything came from nothing.
Yet, that is the way it looked when the Universe began. When the engulfing dark velvet, timeless and
endless, seemed to be everything.
At the sudden flash-glare of what would be myriads of suns, at the roll of trillion-trillion drums muffled
to quiet by the airless empty.
When from invisibility, an infinitesimal dot expanded to become the largest thing there is.
When the Universe, a region smaller than the period that ends this sentence, squeezed in the clutches
of infinite force, blinked into existence.
A Universe exhaled to became a riddle, anomaly, and a contradiction.
A riddle is something puzzling, perplexing. An anomaly is something peculiar, unusual compared to
expectation. A contradiction designates opposite conditions are the same.
A MATTER OF COLLAPSE
We live in a Universe that is expanding. That is, most of the galaxies, (collections of billions of stars) are
moving away from each other. When we reverse that motion to observe the past, we have a universe
contracting. This indicates the universe was once much smaller in the past. From that reversal of
motion viewpoint, it is a large mass collapsing. If the amount material exceeds a specific value,
gravitational attraction squeezes it with infinite force. This force prevents anything including light, from
escaping.
A RIDDLE
The universe exceeds the specific value. It should not have expanded at all. Yet we’re here.
That’s puzzling, perplexing, and a riddle.
AN ANOMALY
When it was discovered that the universe was expanding, it was assumed that the expansion was at the
same rate over time. Now, science has determined that the universe is accelerating. It’s expanding at a
faster and faster rate. It has undergone a velocity faster than light. This is peculiar, unusual compared
to expectation, an anomaly.
A CONTRADICTION
Due to the mass (the amount of material) in the universe, it should be collapsed object, unable to
expand. The forces of gravity should be an infinite crushing force. Our universe should not have
expanded, yet it did expand.
The Universe had to come from some-thing or come from no-thing (not-something). If there was any
time when there was only no-thing, some-thing and no-thing (not-something) had to be the same.
Some-thing had to be no-thing (not-something). Some-thing could come from no-thing (not-something).
This says opposite conditions can be the same, a contradiction.
THE SOLUTION
Observation provides the answer. Observation is the information from senses, mental reasoning, and
the reminders from memory.
We can apply experience in a structured, orderly way to constrain observation to what is credible,
acceptable, and reliable. This is called science.
Through science, we define time, existence and reality such that they conform to normal human
experience. We then combine all of this through sense impression (the way we humans are aware of
reality), cosmogony, (the study of how the Universe came into existence), mathematics (the derivation
of numbers and the way they behave), and reasoning (the way the human mind comes to conclusions).
Observation solves the riddle, anomaly and contradiction. From observation we will discover the
necessity that some-thing always exists.
What is that some-thing?
We begin our search for the answer with Chapter 2, Where Am I?: Sense Impression. There we
discuss the five essentials required for awareness.
Neither should I.
Nothing else should exist.
Rolling slopes carpeted with green should not exist, nor the smell of changing seasons, nor the sparkle
of sand on beaches that merge with rippling tensile, nor star laden skies seen through the bare
skeleton branches of hibernating trees, nor the rust-gold leaves blowing swift and strong , nor frosted
mountains that chill the air, snow blanket the ground and crunch under foot, nor the tranquil
completeness in a reddish-orange of sunset, nor the wake-up renewal in the yellow-bright of sunrise,
nor comforting words, nor reassuring eyes---none should be, if everything came from nothing.
Yet, that is the way it looked when the Universe began. When the engulfing dark velvet, timeless and
endless, seemed to be everything.
At the sudden flash-glare of what would be myriads of suns, at the roll of trillion-trillion drums muffled
to quiet by the airless empty.
When from invisibility, an infinitesimal dot expanded to become the largest thing there is.
When the Universe, a region smaller than the period that ends this sentence, squeezed in the clutches
of infinite force, blinked into existence.
A Universe exhaled to became a riddle, anomaly, and a contradiction.
A riddle is something puzzling, perplexing. An anomaly is something peculiar, unusual compared to
expectation. A contradiction designates opposite conditions are the same.
A MATTER OF COLLAPSE
We live in a Universe that is expanding. That is, most of the galaxies, (collections of billions of stars) are
moving away from each other. When we reverse that motion to observe the past, we have a universe
contracting. This indicates the universe was once much smaller in the past. From that reversal of
motion viewpoint, it is a large mass collapsing. If the amount material exceeds a specific value,
gravitational attraction squeezes it with infinite force. This force prevents anything including light, from
escaping.
A RIDDLE
The universe exceeds the specific value. It should not have expanded at all. Yet we’re here.
That’s puzzling, perplexing, and a riddle.
AN ANOMALY
When it was discovered that the universe was expanding, it was assumed that the expansion was at the
same rate over time. Now, science has determined that the universe is accelerating. It’s expanding at a
faster and faster rate. It has undergone a velocity faster than light. This is peculiar, unusual compared
to expectation, an anomaly.
A CONTRADICTION
Due to the mass (the amount of material) in the universe, it should be collapsed object, unable to
expand. The forces of gravity should be an infinite crushing force. Our universe should not have
expanded, yet it did expand.
The Universe had to come from some-thing or come from no-thing (not-something). If there was any
time when there was only no-thing, some-thing and no-thing (not-something) had to be the same.
Some-thing had to be no-thing (not-something). Some-thing could come from no-thing (not-something).
This says opposite conditions can be the same, a contradiction.
THE SOLUTION
Observation provides the answer. Observation is the information from senses, mental reasoning, and
the reminders from memory.
We can apply experience in a structured, orderly way to constrain observation to what is credible,
acceptable, and reliable. This is called science.
Through science, we define time, existence and reality such that they conform to normal human
experience. We then combine all of this through sense impression (the way we humans are aware of
reality), cosmogony, (the study of how the Universe came into existence), mathematics (the derivation
of numbers and the way they behave), and reasoning (the way the human mind comes to conclusions).
Observation solves the riddle, anomaly and contradiction. From observation we will discover the
necessity that some-thing always exists.
What is that some-thing?
We begin our search for the answer with Chapter 2, Where Am I?: Sense Impression. There we
discuss the five essentials required for awareness.
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