Philosophymagazine

Philosophy and Science for the Third Millennium

The Theory of One

An Essay by Christopher Bek

Philosophymagazine

Summary—The Theory of One characterizes relativity, quantum theory and the theory that unites relativity and quantum theory—the theory of one.

Quantum theory does not hold undisputed sway, but must share dominion with that other rebel sibling—relativity.  And although these two bodies together have led to the most penetrating advances in the search for knowledge—they must remain enemies.  Their fundamental disagreement will not be resolved until both are subdued by a still more powerful theory that will sweep away our present painfully won fancies concerning such things as space, time, matter, radiation and causality.  The nature of this theory may only be surmised—but it will ultimately come down to the very same certainty as to whether our civilization as a whole survives—no more no less.

—Banesh Hoffmann

The task the artist implicitly sets for himself is to overthrow existing values and make of the chaos about him an order which is his own.  He seeks to sow strife and ferment so that by the achievement of emotional release those who are dead may be restored back to life.

—Henry Miller

Muhammad (570-632) was a merchant in Mecca who became the central prophet and founder of Islam.  The term Islam derives from slam and means peace and surrender—namely, the peace that comes from surrendering to the will of God’s sovereignty.  Before Islam the religions of the Arabic world involved the worship of many gods—Allah being one of them. Muhammad taught the worship of Allah as the only God, whom he identified as the same God worshipped by Christians and Jews.  And Muhammad also accepted the authenticity of both the Jewish prophets and Christ—as do his followers.

—Robert Solomon

You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up.  And you are here because you know something.  What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it.  You’ve felt it your entire life.  That there’s something wrong with the world.  You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad.  It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.  Like everyone you are a slave.  You were born into bondage, born into a prison you cannot smell or taste or touch—a prison for your mind.

—Morpheus

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.  That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

—President Thomas Jefferson

The Bernoulli Form elucidates the notion of Platonic Forms in describing how a motley crew of Forms—including Delphi, forecasting, integration, utility, optimization, efficiency and complementary—come together to form The Bernoulli Model.

The Method of Moments elucidates the notion of Platonic Forms in describing how a motley crew of Forms—including Delphi, forecasting, integration, utility, optimization, efficiency and complementary—come together to form The Bernoulli Model.

The Efficient Frontier examines the notions of God, option theory, portfolio theory, faith, reason and Arab math—finally arriving at the inescapable conclusion that all roads of sound decisionmaking lead to the efficient frontier.

The Unpardonable Sin charges all honourables and doctors in Canada with heresy, child abuse and the unpardonable sin that Christ spoke of—which is the deliberate refusal to follow the light when seen.

The Uncertainty Principle contrasts Einstein with Heisenberg, relativity with quantum theory, behavioralism with existentialism, certainty with uncertainty and philosophy with science—finally arriving at the inescapable Platonic conclusion that the true philosopher is always striving after Being and will not rest with those multitudinous phenomena whose existence are appearance only.

A Formal Patient congratulates Alberta Health and Wellness for insisting on the accountability of due process in declaring individuals to be formal patients—and argues that I am being considered a formal patient as the result of an absence of due process elsewhere in Canada—and that I should not be considered a formal patient but that I should be declared disabled on account of being outside the cave of behaviorism.

Singularity identifies the trigger of the looming paradigm shift from the three-dimensionally conscioused Everyman to the four-dimensionally conscioused Superman as the 1935 Schrödinger's Cat though problem—which proves that consciousness is real.

The Great Cosmic Accounting Blunder compares the two physical fixedpoints in the universe—lightspeed and Planck’s constant—and argues that we have been guilty of double counting up until now and that in fact there is but one fixedpoint—which, as it turns out, is the boundary of the universe.

The Unified Field Theory counts down the Euclidean hits from five to one in categorically nailing the vast majority of this little thing I like to call cosmic pi.  At this point in spacetime I would like to pay special tribute to my excellent wingman Albert Einstein (1879–1955).

Closing the Liars Loophole identifies the malignant cancer within the healthcare system and society as the outwardly focusing behavioural psychological model, which denies the existence of consciousness—while the inwardly focusing existential model makes consciousness and the soul primordially important. 

Evariste Galois (1811-32) was a French mathematician who founded modern group theory as well as making significant contributions to the theory of algebraic equations—although virtually nothing he did in his lifetime was understood.  Group theory is the basic structure of modern algebra consisting of a set of elements and operators—and plays a central role in both relativity and quantum theory.  In 1830 Galois was expelled from the Academy for scorning the staff and students for their lack of backbone.  Galois submitted an anonymous paper on the general solution of equations that is now called Galois theory—but at the time was described as incomprehensible.  In 1831 Galois was arrested for speaking against the king and wearing an illegal uniform—for which he received six months in prison.  Upon his release he was seduced by a police-sponsored prostitute and then challenged to a duel over the prostitute by a police agent.  Galois spent the night feverishly sketching out as many of his mathematical discoveries as he could—occasionally breaking off to scribble in the margin—I have not enough time.  At dawn he received a pistol shot in the stomach and was left where he fell.  He was buried in a common ditch eight days later at age twenty.

Classical Physics.  All indications suggested that the world of physics was on the verge of completion a hundred and eight years ago.  There were comprehensive theories in place for describing the two known universal forces—gravity and electromagnetism.  Sir Isaac Newton’s (1642-1727) laws of gravitation and motion effectively characterized the mechanics of all physical bodies.  The differential equations of James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79) served to portray the waves mechanics of visible light and other electromagnetic forces—also known as radiation.  At the time scientists believed the universe was a deterministic, clock-like machine that followed strict causality.  In support of this belief, Pierre Laplace (1749-1827) once claimed that we should be able to predict absolutely everything—given detailed knowledge of the present.  In 1897 determinism, causality and classical physics began unraveling when Sir JJ Thomson discovered the electron and the divisibility of the atom.  This discovery set in motion a sequence of cascading paradigms that culminated in the hardfought realization of quantum theory thirty-eight years later.

Relativity.  In 1881 two Americans Michelson and Morley performed a monumentally important experiment which established beyond a doubt that the speed of light is invariably fixed at c = 186,284 miles per second.  In 1905 Einstein revealed that space and time are in fact the combined concept of spacetime.  He revealed with his special relativity that spacetime dilates as a function of velocity relative to lightspeed in accordance with the Pythagorean Form—ie. h^2 + (v/c)^2 = 1^2, h = height, v/c = velocity relative to lightspeed.  According to Newtonian physics, velocities are additive so that a baseball thrown forward at seventy miles an hour from atop a train traveling at thirty miles an hour would be traveling at a hundred miles an hour.  One would incorrectly expect a particle of light or photon projected from the headlight of the train to be traveling at lightspeed plus thirty miles per hour—remembering that lightspeed is invariably fixed.  According to relativity, the train begins to dilate microscopically once in motion.  Consider an example of relativity with an astronaut traveling at 87 percent of lightspeed—time would then elapse at half his original rate, while he would appear to a terrestrial observer to be half his original height—ie. h^2 + (v/c)^2 = 1^2, v/c = .87, (v/c)^2 = .75, h^2 + .75 = 1, h^2 = .25, h = .50.  By taking the dilation of spacetime to the limit we see that astronauts traveling at lightspeed exist at the boundary of spacetime—ie. (v/c)^2 = 1, h^2 + (v/c)^2  = 1, h = 0.  Essentially what Einstein did with relativity was to encapsulate Newtonian physics into Maxwellian wave mechanics.  This enables us to understand how dimensions compress and mass increases as physical bodies accelerate towards lightspeed.  By following this line of thought through to its logical conclusion—Einstein realized that energy and matter are simply different Forms of the same substance—ie. E = mc^2—just like gravity and inertia are different Forms of the same thing.

Quantum Theory.  While the practical applications of relativity are limited to the study of the universe at large, the quantum theory of the atom is the basis for the periodic table and all electronic equipment like televisions, computers and laser disk players.  In 1900 Max Planck discovered that energy is transferred in discrete packets or quanta as defined by Planck’s constant—ie. h = 6.626 x 10^-34 joules, E = energy, v = frequency, E = hv.  Planck realized that the size restriction on escaping energy units causes a quantum traffic jam.  In 1911 Ernest Rutherford at McGill University in Montreal recognized that both the solar system and the atom have nuclei containing about 99.9 percent of the mass while occupying about one-billionth of the spherical space.  In 1925 Schrödinger proposed an atomic model based on a very simple wave equation—If one imagines dropping a pebble in the ocean, then the ripples become the valance rings of the orbiting electrons.  The unexpected surprise was that the waves represent the probability of finding an electron at any given point—with the wave crests representing the highest probabilities.  So disgusted was Schrödinger with this probabilistic interpretation of his wave equation that he formulated his classic cat-in-a-box thought problem in 1935 with the intention of demonstrating the absurdity of the probabilistic interpretation once and for all—A quantum-cat is placed in a box such that no one can know what is happening inside.  A device releases either food or poison with equal probability, and the cat meets its fate—or does it?  Schrödinger argued that for the probabilistic interpretation to be true the cat must be both alive and dead until the observer’s consciousness determines the cat’s fate.  The thought problem proves in fact that the cat is both alive and dead until observed.  Even today physicists focus exclusively on practical applications and avoid the topic of consciousness altogether.  The physicist Stephen Hawking said that every time someone mentions Schrödinger’s cat, I go for my gun.  The physicist John Polkhorne said that your average quantum mechanic is about as philosophically minded as your average garage mechanic.

The Theory of One.  According to relativity, a body traveling at lightspeed exists at the boundary of spacetime.  Werner Heisenberg captured the essence of quantum indeterminism perfectly in 1927 with his famous uncertainty principle—which states that causality breaks down at the spacetime boundary of Planck’s constant.  Causality is simply an ordering of time.  An absence of causality means an absence of time—which in turn indicates a boundary of time.  In 1915 Einstein revealed that gravity and inertia are the same thing by proving the surface of a sphere and a circle are mathematically isomorphic—ie. a one-to-one mapping—Imagine a sphere sitting atop a flat surface.  By drawing a line from the north pole through every point on the equator and below, a circle is created on the flat surface.  Then by doubling the area of the circle we can see that the sphere and circle are mathematically isomorphic.  The French scientist Blaise Pascal (1623-62) once described the universe as a sphere in which the center is everywhere and the boundary is nowhere.  Einstein made a similar claim in saying the universe is closed but unbounded.  Consider a version of Pascal’s sphere in which Planck’s constant is everywhere and lightspeed is nowhere—and the inverted sphere in which lightspeed is everywhere and Planck’s constant is nowhere.  Consider now a flat surface characterizing the universe of all universes.  Our universe occupies no more than a point in the universe of all universes.  From this we can then say that every point in our universe is both at the centre and the boundary of the universe of all universes.  It follows then that Pascal’s sphere and the inverted Pascal’s sphere are mathematically isomorphic—and thus Planck’s constant and lightspeed are the same boundary of the spacetime continuum.

Conclusion.  It is well established that the greatest scientific problem of all time is how to marry relativity with quantum theory.  Relativity is the natural law of space and time and is based on lightspeed.  It describes spacetime dilation in accordance with the Pythagorean Form.  The quantum theory of the atom is the natural law of matter and is based on both Planck’s constant and a probabilistic wave equation.  I have solved the problem of how to unite relativity and quantum theory with my theory of one by recognizing lightspeed and Planck’s constant as the very same boundary of the spacetime continuum.  I further argue that even if my theory of one is wrong, it is still effectively right because it sets forth the pathway to truth—which is the question of how to unite relativity with quantum theory.

QED

Top — The Theory of One

Home — Philosophymagazine