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Howard Switzer's avatar

Elisabet Sahtouris wrote:

Our intellectual heritage for thousands of years, most strongly developed in the past few hundred Our intellectual heritage for thousands of years, most strongly developed in the past few hundred years of science, has been to see ourselves as separate from the rest of nature, to convince ourselves we see it objectively -- at a distance from ourselves -- and to perceive, or at least model it, as a vast mechanism.

This objective mechanical worldview was founded in ancient Greece when philosophers divided into two schools of thought about the world. One school held that all nature, including humans, was alive and self-creative, ever making order from disorder. The other held that the `real' world could be known only through pure reason, not through direct experience, and was God's geometric creation, permanently mechanical and perfect behind our illusion of its disorder.

This mechanical/religious worldview superseded the older one of living nature to become the foundation of the whole Western worldview up to the present.

Philosophers such as Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Plato were thus the founding fathers of our mechanical worldview, though Galileo, Descartes, and other men of the Renaissance translated it into the scientific and technological enterprise that has dominated human experience ever since.

What if things had gone the other way? What if Thales, Anaximander, and Heraclitus, the organic philosophers who saw all the cosmos as alive, had won the day back in that ancient Greek debate?

What if Galileo, as he experimented with both telescope and microscope, had used the latter to seek evidence for Anaximander's theory of biological evolution here on Earth, rather than looking to the skies for confirmation of Aristarchus's celestial mechanics? In other words, what if modern science and our view of human society had evolved from organic biology rather than from mechanical physics?

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There is one simple way to explain Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Black Holes, Quantum Entanglement, and the Hot Big Bang, and that is to "think outside of the speed of light box."

An Apeiron Cycle Hypothesis

What if our Universe exists as a subset of a much larger entity called, "Apeiron," that was hypothesized by the ancient Greek philosopher, Anaximander?

A modern definition of the Apeiron:

The ultimate foundational indivisible, but differentiable, substructure substance of the Cosmos was named by the Greek philosopher Anaximander to be Apeiron.

Our Relativistic Quantum Universe is a subset of the Apeiron that came into existence when there occurred a “deceleration event” that fixed a small quantity of the Apeiron into the Bosons and Fermions where their vibration/oscillation wave frequency speed cannot exceed the speed of light. The “deceleration event” also resulted in our Universe being defined with a spacetime where Bosons and Fermions cannot travel across the Universe at speeds faster than the speed of light. The spacetime and Bosons and Fermions of our Universe are all manifestations and differentiations of the one all-encompassing Apeiron, and not divisible from the Apeiron. The Apeiron is not limited to any wave frequency speed. Entangled particles exist within the Apeiron that encompasses the entire Cosmos, and therefore when one particle is decohered and its quantum numbers are defined, then the other particle’s quantum numbers are also instantly defined.

What if Black Holes are where the wave frequency speed of Visible Matter is accelerated to faster than the speed of light transforming the Visible Matter back into the Apeiron causing the Expansion of the Universe?

An analogy would be the contraction and expansion of water when water freezes and melts.

What if some 13.8 billion years ago, two massive Black Holes from a previous Universe merged causing a "deceleration event" where the wave frequency speed of a small quantity of Apeiron was decelerated down to the speed of light transforming that small quantity of Apeiron into the Bosons and Fermions and spacetime of our current Universe?

What if during the "deceleration event" a greater quantity of Apeiron had its wave frequency speed decelerated down to a speed that was faster than the speed of light, and that Apeiron is the Dark Matter of our Universe?

The Dark Matter and Visible Matter of our Universe are still manifestations of the one indivisible Apeiron, and subsequently the Dark Matter affects the Visible Matter by clumping it into Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters.

What if the "deceleration event" was the Inflation of our Universe?

What if the Bosons and Fermions possess Wave-Particle Duality because they are just differentiated entities of the one all-encompassing indivisible Apeiron that decoheres into particles when observed/measured?

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