The Ultimate Reality

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THE PREFACE

The Western world, a testament to unparalleled success, has outshone other parts of the planet with a culture that can be said to be that of progress based on logical thinking. However, we are witnessing a rupture from our traditions and culture, which could lead us back to a state reminiscent of ancient times when myths and superstitions held sway. With the WOKE movement, we now face the resurgence of another set of myths in the form of fantasies that are equally divorced from reality. Both myths and fantasies can lead us astray and, consequently, to utter failure. We must be alert against a change that may be presented as progress, which, in reality, is an undoing of our achievements hardly earned over the past centuries. To protect our culture, comprehending its foundations is of utmost urgency. This is not just a matter of intellectual curiosity but also a necessity to safeguard our values and traditions. This will empower us to identify any potential dangers that may threaten it. The reason our culture is currently under a systematic attack is to undermine our values and traditions in the first phase and abrogate and supersede them entirely in the second phase.

This book can help us understand the peculiarity of our Western civilization. It starts by pinpointing the foundation of our Western culture and how it was able to break away from the archaic beliefs that had paralyzed the Eastern part of the world and left it in stagnation. Then, the book will expose the ultimate reality of the world, that is, the reality of SPACE, by building upon the same logic that allowed our society to thrive and succeed, that of the Greek philosophers. We must bear in mind that success in the West did not happen by coincidence; it was the fruit of having acquired the right knowledge paradigm and directing unwavering hard work in the right direction. The secret of our knowledge paradigm is that it is deeply rooted in rationalism. It is the product of Greek philosophy, which originated in ancient Greece and flourished in Christian Europe; thus, it has been impregnated with Christian values over the centuries.

In the late twentieth Century, a culture of ‘anti-realism’ seeped into our society, driven by the misguided belief that nothing is real and our existence is merely a product of our sensory perceptions. This is a stark departure from the Greek view, which posits a fundamental invisible metaphysical abstract that underpins our physical world. Since then, Science, which was once known for producing pure laws, e.g., Newton’s laws, has transformed into a realm of mere theories, e.g., the theory of evolution, the theory of the greenhouse effect, and the theory of the Big Bang... The distinction between a law and a theory is that the former conveys certainty while the latter promotes speculation. One speculation begets another, and we find ourselves entangled in a web of speculative theories with no escape. As a result, we are compelled to revere them as heralds of universal truth.

Our breakthrough into progress and knowledge is the result of a long endeavor to seek knowledge about the nature of the world and its reality. These efforts, which had started in ancient Greece, were crowned with a supernatural revelation at a time that was auspicious- in the “fullness of time,” as the Bible puts it. The ‘Truth’ showed up in the likeness of a Man who declared He was the world's light, and modern history had then taken its head start. That Man, of course, was Jesus Christ. During His trial, the judge was Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of the fifth prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, Samaria, and Idumea. He represented the Roman Emperor, the devoted guardian of the “Pax Romana,” Latin for Roman peace. Saint John, the Evangelist, recorded Pilate's question to Jesus. As you will notice in the following verse, Pilate asked the question about the truth and walked out of the room immediately without hearing Jesus’ answer, as if the truth were an impossible riddle to crack. We read in John 18:38 (NIV): “‘What is truth?’ retorted Pilate. With this, he went out again...” Jesus, nevertheless, did not leave the question unanswered. In John 14:6, He declares, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

This situation is common in our daily life, where we turn our back to the “truth” and convince ourselves that the truth is what we have been told it is, and oftentimes, forced down on us to accept. “Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross as it was accustomed showing the crime of the convict. It read: Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews” (John 19: 19 NIV). (This is usually seen on the Crucifix in the abbreviated form of INRI, Latin for Iesvs Nazarenvs Rex Ivdaeorvm). In Pilate’s mind, the truth is what he was raised to know; the world is Rome, the king is Cezar, and the truth is what Rome says it is.

Isn’t the case still today, subjecting the truth to be what it suits us to be? This happens sometimes in science?! This wasn’t the case with Greek philosophers who pioneered the Western culture, where the truth has always been sought for what it really is; however, I am afraid this principle, which has reigned supreme, is now wavering little by little. It might surprise you that this book presents a scientific way to validate the truth, and it turned out to agree with what the Holy Bible orates by using number theory and geometry. Be prepared to be amazed as we delve into the profound significance of numbers and of a few of the numerous images in the Holy Bible. In a manner similar to where a simple number, like three, the number of the Holy Trinity, can be linked to another larger number, such as 153, and another like 666, the cosmogony presented in this book sketches how the design of the world could have started and developed through multiple stages, depicting how its initial form could expand, and evolve into a more complex form. This scientific approach opens up new avenues of reasoning and understanding.

Chapter One

BEHOLD A COSMOGONY

The purpose of cosmogony is to depict how the world is designed: It illustrates its first originating form, growth stages, and prospects. Simply put, cosmogony is a geometrical depiction of how a would-be world like ours could have taken rise, particularly its (2-D) two-dimensional space, all outlined on a piece of paper such as the one you are looking at. However, our cosmogony model is peculiar. Its peculiarity is that it uses the 2-D cosmogony to substantiate the (3-D) three-dimensional form of space — our world is surely not a 2-D but a 3-D world.

In this context, we must consider the bottom line of a 3-D world, and when we do, we ought to realize that it must be the geometric configuration of SPACE within which we exist and see the light.

In the realm of cosmogony, the interplay of space and light is a fundamental concept. Imagine being in a dark place where space seems to be non-existent. But once you turn on a flashlight, the light rays illuminate the space before your eyes, making the space inside your room apparent. This simple scenario illustrates the inseparable relationship between space and light. If hypothetically speaking, there was no space for the light to permeate, then the light would have been of no use because it would be blocked and have no room to fill. Space and light, for that matter, are instilled one in the other in the sense that there could be no light if there were no space first to permeate through.

According to the saying, "First things first," the first step in creating a world like ours is to create space itself. Only when space has existed would it allow planets, stars, and all other things and living creatures to exist within it. Cosmogony starts first with the two-dimensional geometric form describing how space was conceived and what the design model on which it must have been based could be. Therefore, it must be considered the first step in developing a comprehensive spatial model that could, in a second stage, substantiate how a three-dimensional space could have originated (from that two-dimensional model), how it evolved, and what it will ultimately be disposed to become once ‘Time’ is fulfilled and reaches the end. At this point, I must mention that, in the end, time will stand still because its ultimate purpose is to pinpoint the beginning of an event and to determine its end, i.e., the beginning and the end of the Big Bang, the Great Cause of our physical reality.

Physicists have theorized that the Big Bang was the “energy-matter event” that produced all the existing matter; however, they overlooked explaining what medium the matter had taken place within. The assumption that space was readily available to grant a place for the new primordial matter/ plasma to settle down and synthesize into the different elements is lamentable, according to the book's author. Although the assumption is that space is empty or void, such an assumption can only be a travesty of logic; space must exist before it can remain empty and available so as to host the matter in its midst. We cannot rightly say that, for instance, a particular apartment is vacant if the building in which the apartment is supposed to be does not exist. Based on the above, the first challenge that cosmology must address is to present a feasible theory on how the universe’s space actually came to be, recognizing two fundamental premises about the Big Bang. The first premise is that the Big Bang was the singular event that eventually produced the primordial matter from which all the existing forms of matter derived. The second premise is that the primordial matter was all that existed in the would-be world (our 3-D world), so it could not have instantly found a space to occupy or a place to make its own because, simply, such space did not exist!

In our understanding, the primordial matter/plasma was initially opaque to radiation, and it took 380,000 years after the Big Bang to make the universe transparent. The radiation released during this transition is still observable as the cosmic microwave background. The author argues that the universe would not have been opaque and non-transparent to light if not for the absence of space that would allow light to travel. He reasoned that the period that elapsed from the Big Bang to when the radiation had started to be traced was the period space took to be self-erected. Therefore, he sensed the need for a cosmogony model that begins with a conjecture about how space first came to be in terms of its possible formative design, on the one hand, and the triggering force that caused its implementation as such as to become the physical realm, on the other hand. As he intends to illustrate in this book, both terms must be interrelated.

Meanwhile, although such exploration can prove captivating, it would initially seem impossible, considering that if the primordial matter had no place to “go,” the lack of space would render it useless, and consequently, the thesis about the formation of the world as presented would fall apart and the case ought then to be dismissed. However, this is not the case at all!

When exploring the Great First Cause of our world, we must recognize that it is peculiar as a case study since it happened only once upon a time, for real and not as a fairy story. Nevertheless, what seems to us like a problem was the problem and the solution simultaneously. Mind that the argument was posed by Thales when he inquired about the ARCHE, which led to (1)  acknowledging, a priori, Number One as abstract and (2) opening the inquiry about the Single Underlying Substance that needed to be determined, a posteriori in a persisting manner as long as it takes.

It has taken long, indeed, and now this book settles that argument. It explores first (1) the ever-intriguing nature of the “abstract object” of which Thales’ view of the arche had conjectured its metaphysical existence (of the abstract number one). This book provides the blueprint design charting how abstract number one’s own existence could be substantiated. Such substantiation serves, on the other hand, as the substantiation of our world’s own existence, which is primarily a spatial existence. The blueprint design of space will be discussed gradually throughout the book, starting from this chapter.

In Chapter Five, the second aspect of Thales' arche will be addressed, where a conjecture will be provided about (2) the Single Underlying Substance of the world. This substance, the author believes, has not only contributed to the physical reality of space, but it was the inherent force and the intrinsic energy that triggered the formation process of space, igniting the realization of the blueprint plan and bringing it into fulfillment. This process is still ongoing, and the space of the universe is still expanding, and it will continue until a certain threshold is reached!

 The comprehensive and complete model described in this book emphasizes the natural structure of space as self-evident. It answers what the human intellect has sought since Thales' time. Amazingly, it has always been out there, sitting in plain sight: Space itself.