Reference: Postulate Mechanics (PM)
Substantiality means something exists and it can be sensed. The knowable universe exists and it can be sensed.
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Substance
If SUBSTANCE is anything that is substantial enough to be sensed, then he knowable universe is made of substance.
Substance would then refer not only to matter, but also to thought. A perception of rose is substantial; but a mental image of rose created by imagination is substantial too, because both exist and can be sensed. Postulate Mechanics recognizes both matter and thought as substance.
Substance has two fundamental characteristic: (1) Thickness, (2) Motion (energy).
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Thickness
Thickness is a degree of substantiality. It is visible as density, firmness, viscosity, etc. It is an inherent characteristic of substance.
Matter has extremely high thickness called mass. The thickness of radiation is so small that it cannot be measured as mass. So, it is measured in terms of “frequency.” The thickness decreases from matter to radiation on a gradient.
Thought has a very different kind of thickness that is sensed mentally. It is measured as “fixity.” The fixity (thickness) of thought decreases on a gradient from extremely high fixity of belief in God to free-flowing visualizations of poets. Thought is considered to be a spiritual substance that adds to the physical substance of matter to radiation.
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Motion (Energy)
Motion, or energy, is the cyclic movement of substance within its spherical extents. It is also an inherent characteristic of substance.
Motion is a characteristic opposite to thickness. For example, in an atom, as thickness decreases from the central nucleus to distant periphery, the motion of substance increases. Similarly, in a galaxy, the central black hole is highly dense. As thickness decreases away from the black hole, the motion of the galactic bodies increases around the black hole. In short, As thickness decreases, motion increases.
In case of thought, a postulate seems to have the least motion. More flexible considerations seem to revolve around the postulate. The range of motion is very small for matter, compared to the range of motion for thought.
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Considerations
The major concepts introduced in Chapter 3 are SUBSTANCE, MATTER, THOUGHT, THICKNESS and MOTION. These concepts are defined in Glossary: Postulate Mechanics.
- Substantiality manifests as the substance of Universe.
- The substance ranges from matter to thought.
- Matter has the most thickness and thought has the least.
- Matter has the least motion and thought has the most.
- Matter is physical; thought is spiritual (mental).
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Comments
Very interesting. I’d never thought of light as substance or a type of ‘matter’.
BTW although I don’t comment often, I want you to know that I read every post. I very much appreciate what you do.
Thank you very much, Anonymous.
Regarding Light. Light is photons, massless “particles” that always travel with a fixed upper ‘speed’ limit = c (186,000 miles per second). Our universe, our reality, adjusts space and time so as to ensure light speed never exceeds c. You see, space-time has a geometry, a structure and this structure of space-time prevents the light speed from exceeding c. The minds of all sentient beings created and create this structure and keep it in place. Rich K
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Regarding light:
The inherent speed of a particle is inversely proportional to its inherent inertia.
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As a rocket launches and speeds up, its inertia decreases proportional to it, but that decrease is so small that it would be very difficult to measure.