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Reference: Essays on Substance

Substance and Time

The classical understanding of Time is as follows:

Time is the eternally durable, unchanging background of the universe. Against that background all things in the universe are changing in a cyclic fashion This generates the idea of past present and future. Time moves in a continuous, irreversible succession from the past through the present and into the future. This gives us a dimension of time that is absolute and universal. Events can be considered to occur simultaneously across all of space. There is a natural measure of temporal duration between any two instants. In short, time provides a framework for understanding and measuring the duration and sequence of events.

In light of The Spectrum of Substance, the time of substance can be measured in terms of the cycles associated with the substance. We can visualize one long cycle of aether, simultaneous to which there are many cycles of energy. Furthermore, simultaneous to each cycle of energy there are many cycles of matter. The higher is the frequency, the more enduring is the substance at a location in space. This gives us an actual “spectrum of time” in terms of the endurance of substance. Thus, matter persists for a long time, and energy is fleeting in comparison. 

In short, the consistency of substance, which is higher for higher frequency, is also a measure of the endurance of substance. If the consistency decreases, increasing its motion, the substance becomes less enduring in terms of time. The greater is the consistency, the lesser is the motion, and the more enduring is the substance in space. The consistency provides an index of how condensed and enduring a substance is.

Newtonian physics assumes instantaneous awareness across the universe in which matter is enduring indefinitely; whereas space has no existence.

Einsteinian physics assumes awareness to be constrained by the speed of light. This results in simultaneous events across the universe being perceived with delays depending on the position of a material observer in space. The endurance of matter now becomes dependent on the relative motion of the material observer.

But substance has its own spectrum of endurance (time) in the universe, which is independent of the localized and limited (subjective) awareness of the observer.

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Reference: Essays on Substance

In the book, One Hundred Authors Against Einstein, Einstein was criticized for not providing the philosophic foundations for his work on General Relativity. The philosophic foundation for the Theory of Substance rests on the following statements:

1. We can know only what we can sense. We then interpret that sensation.
2. Any interpretation of what we sense is real to the degree that it is continuous, consistent and harmonious with the rest of reality.
3. All reality is continuous, consistent and harmonious in its nature. This property is called ONENESS.
4. ONENESS is part of the very derivation of the word UNIVERSE.
5. Even God is characterized as ONE.

From this foundation flows all logic and the concept of truth and the scientific method.

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ONENESS

Oneness comes about as substantiality is assimilated in awareness. With assimilation comes about harmony of awareness. With increasing harmony comes about consistency. And, with increasing consistency comes about continuity. Oneness lies in the harmony of relations, consistency of realities, and continuity of dimensions. Oneness underlies the very concept of the Universe. It is the key to Scientific Method. Oneness is not a monotone canvas; but it is a beautiful painting full of colors and forms that are harmonious, consistent and continuous.

Oneness is erroneously identified with sameness. From the cosmic scale down to the atomic scale, everything is one.

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LOGIC

Oneness gives us the ideal scene for logic.

The violation of oneness gives us anomalies, such as, discontinuity (missing data), inconsistency (contradictory data), and disharmony (arbitrary data).

This is infinity-valued logic as compared to binary or multi-valued logic.

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TRUTH

Oneness also provides the criterion for truth.

The relative truth depends on the absence of anomalies.

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THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

The core of the Scientific Method is the CONSISTENCY of experimental results with the actual reality that we observe. This consistency appears as CONTINUITY at very small atomic scales, and as HARMONY at very large cosmic scales. The Scientific Method insists on establishing continuity, consistency and harmony among all elements of a physical phenomena, but this is equally applicable to metaphysical phenomenon.

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Reference: Essays on Substance

Inertia versus Motion

Neither Newton nor Einstein related inertia to motion directly; but they did so indirectly.

In Newton’s frame of reference, the background of the universe is totally still against which all rates of change in the position of planets are measured. This is the basis of Newton’s concept of “absolute time,” which flows constantly at the same speed anywhere and at any time throughout the universe. The total stillness of the background equates to infinite inertia assumed for the background. Therefore, in Newton’s frame of reference: INFINITE INERTIA = ZERO MOTION.

In Einstein’s frame of reference, the speed of light ‘c’ is the maximum speed possible for the universe. A photon is assumed to have zero mass and zero inertia. The “finiteness” of ‘c’ is explained away as a “property of spacetime.” Therefore, in Einstein’s frame of reference, “ZERO” INERTIA = MAXIMUM OR “INFINITE” MOTION (postulated as the speed of light).

The theory of relativity, then indirectly extrapolates between these two points, to address the anomaly of motion as in the case of the precession of Mercury’s orbit. This is quite workable for inertial frames of reference, but in the range of matter only.

The truth is that the mass of matter changes with motion by an unmeasurable amount in the range of matter, and the theory of relativity presents a workaround for this problem.

The theory of Substance, on the other hand, points directly to the inverse relationship between inertia and motion, in terms of the relationship between consistency (RIM) of substance, and its de Broglie’s wavelength. According to the theory of Substance:

A particle has constant velocity in free space because its acceleration is exactly balanced by its inertia. This equilibrium is maintained even under the influence of external forces, which may change the consistency and wavelength of the particle, but only in a consistent manner.

The theory of Substance thus takes away the arbitrary postulates of infinite inertia for material background, and the universally maximum speed for light.

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