Sunday, June 7, 2020

A Cosmological Proof of the Existence of G with regard to Dark Energy/Matter

In my previous demonstration of the existence of G, I included the principle of reason:

"For every fact there is a sufficient reason that it is so".

because it is this fact about reality that essentially makes science possible.   It is why bridges do not fall down when engineered correctly, and why vaccines save lives, because things in the world happen for reasons.

There is some question as to whether or not this basic reasoning applies to the world as a whole.

Some people won't extend the Principle of Reason beyond what is reproducible in a laboratory.   Never mind that as of 2020, history itself is not reproducible in a laboratory and that makes every past science experiment equally liable to the same doubt.  And while we can -imagine- a time machine that might make time-travel-observation of the faster-than-light-distance-past, we can also imagine Santa Claus and The Illuminatti (both of which may be, for all I know, real as well).

That is to say, this objection to the Principle of Reason extending beyond the science laboratory is absurd, invalidating all of mathematics and logic, poetry, etc., as modes of knowledge and is a fundamentally Limited Point of View.

That said, this position I'll call "Physicalistic Rationalism" is pervasive culturally because mostly it is asserted exactly this - that rational examination of religious issues is impossible.   I don't want to get into this debate either since, again, the Physicalist Rationalist can ignore the results of any such debate in favor of Evidence produced in a Laboratory and the commonly used "Inference to the Best Explanation" idea of "what is Dark Matter/Energy"?

Now the scientific ideas I take to be given here essentially in terms of evidence, we know that some very large percentage of the universe is composed of moving, inexplicable, undetectable, "stuff" that affects the very shape of time and space at all locations in the universe (assuming that there's as much dark matter and energy here as there is, say, in the Andromeda system - that is that time-space seems to be similarly curved as it were from the external point of view).  And this "stuff" accounts for at least 95% of all matter and energy in the Universe.

This fact about reality should be disturbing to the Physicalist Rationalist.   This is because the fundamental idea of scientific closure is simply breached.   There is no scientific laboratory explanation for the world or why the world is the way it is.

Now suppose then, that there are two hypotheses on the table for what this -other stuff- could be.

Let's call the first hypotheses the OMEGA Proposition.

OMEGA states:

Whatever the Dark Energy is, it is unfathomable (can not be understood) , inscrutable(cannot be inspected) , and inexplicable ( can not be explained) .

The second we'll call ALPHA which states:
Whatever God is, it is infinite (beyond our understanding), transcendent (beyond our investigation) and immanent (given and absolute).  (from my catechism, thanks Christian Brothers of La Salle!).

Here is why Dark Energy is so hard.  It is a kind of thing for which we only know effects, but no substance, no internal workings, no way to get to the internal workings and no way around the fact that they're there.   And it is well beyond anything we can understand or model really even.   It is therefore unfathomable - there is this mysterious stuff.   It is inscrutable, we can't inspect it, and it is inexplicable (because we can't even know what it is much less how it gets there.)

Note that it's the same as God.   God is infinite - that is God is beyond our Ken - not understandable, viz, unfathomable.   God is transcendent, that is beyond anything we can know, outside of us, and immanent, that is, simply present at all time and space, and before, and therefore inexplicable.  The question "why is there God" is simply a misunderstanding of the term "God" - not knowing to what it refers.

Now it's possible that Dark Energy -is- God.   Now I'm not actually proposing that as a truth, just as a possibility.

That is, ALPHA and OMEGA say essentially the same thing, they express an isomorphic relation between God and Dark Energy as far as competing explanation of "why the world is the way it is."

Now I want to propose something else.

Even if Dark Matter/Energy is 'nothing more than unknowable' it's still -real-.   This "unknowable real stuff that is responsible for the shape of time and space and everything in it" is effectively all-powerful as far as we are concerned as well.

But let's suppose that this stuff is really just what we call "Magic" - the effects of the spiritual world on the real world.  And suppose that the abstract things related to magic (love, hate, hope, fear, joy, etc.) are -real- as well.  And lets suppose Consciousness itself is real too.

And lets suppose that this consciousness stuff and this magic stuff are "parts of dark energy matter" = that stuff that we can't explain with physics but which is real nonetheless.

In that case we could propose a specific theory:

Dark Energy/Matter is the effects of consciousness on quantum electro-magnetic stuff.

And in that case, we know that -we ourselves- are partially dark matter/energy (which is just empirically true) but also powerful enough to change our reality (also empirically true!).   AND we also know there is A LOT MORE OF IT OUT THERE that we can't control.

In fact, we know there's so much of it that it shapes all of what we know as reality.

That stuff that is non-material conscious-like stuff that shapes all of reality as we know it is normally referred to as God.

QED.



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