E8 COSMOLOGY | PERCEPTION | INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL UNIVERSES

E8 COSMOLOGY | PERCEPTION | INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL UNIVERSES 

by Jeffrey Thayer (August 2024)

Time to read: 20 minutes

KEYWORDS:  space time, sexagisimal time, 60, 72, fibbonacci numbers, polymath, hildegard von bingen, lingua ignota, litterae ignota, invented language, constructed language, eight dimensions, E8, shadows, quasicrystals, consciousness, cosmology, individual personal universes, IPUs, neuroscience, reality, pixelated

ATTRIBUTIONS, GRAPHICS, COMMENTS AND ANNOTATIONS:  Some readers of this article are visual learners; and others are aural learners.  Our article below is compiled from video we have linked.  We created a transcript and graphics for illustrating some of the core concepts in this video; which relate our KEYWORDS, as well as to address the rapidly increasing interest YouTube viewers have in the following questions; about which public, scientific, religious debates and discussions continue.

• Do we live in a simulated universe?
• Is that an individual personal universe IPU?
• Are we an avatar simulated human being and the simulator?
• Do our perceptions (thoughts) create our personal reality?
• Do we have free choice?
• Can and does my future affect my past and present?
• And many more …

LINK TO VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/w0ztlIAYTCU?feature=shared

VIDEO

FIRST TRANSCRIPT BEGINS:

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“I want to tell you about the universe. What it is, how it came to be, what its building blocks are. I want to tell you how the future creates the past, which then creates the future. But first, I want to tell you about crystals. 

“You might be surprised to know that a crystal isn't an expensive piece of glass or a chandelier in some fancy dining room. The word crystal simply means a pattern that is periodic. Look at this checkerboard pattern. See how it continues to spread out infinitely in each direction? That means it's a periodic pattern. So that's a two-dimensional crystal. This is another two-dimensional crystal. This is another. You can also have

three-dimensional crystals. By the way, this 3D glass is called crystal because its atoms are actually arranged in a crystalline pattern. So, see how I'm projecting this three-dimensional crystal to a two-dimensional image on the sand? See how the 2D projection looks distorted because of the angle of the projection?”

[COMMENT AND ANNOTATION:  In 1881, Edwin Abbott wrote his famous book entitled: “Flatland”, where he described 2D geometric shapes within an entire storyline of those shapes; living with one another, as if they were three dimensional human beings. Not only is it humorous, but it is a satire on the nature of human existence; whether that be in two dimensions or three. From a point of view of the readers perspective, it is a short book and it is available as a free audiobook at this link: https://youtu.be/pivnpMohki0?feature=shared

“… That 2D image also has a pattern but it isn't periodic

so it's not a crystal. But there's a deep connection

between the 2D object on the sand and the 3D mother crystal. This distorted 2D pattern is called a quasicrystal. A quasicrystal in a certain dimension, in this case, 2D, is a projection of a crystal in a higher dimension, in this case, 3D. 

“A group of physicists in Los Angeles is working on a new physics theory where a particular 8D crystal, yep, that's right, an eight-dimensional crystal, is projecting to 4D at a very particular angle which forms a 4D quasicrystal and from this 4D quasicrystal, they derive a 3D quasicrystal, which they believe is the fundamental substructure of all of reality.”

“This 3D quasicrystal has a fundamental building block, a tetrahedron, which is a three-dimensional equilateral triangle. The size of each edge on this shape is the smallest possible length that can exist. This is called the Planck length. It's 10 to the 35 times smaller than a meter. So you know how your TV screen is broken down into building blocks called pixels? A pixel is the smallest possible indivisible unit of the 2D screen, so think of reality as your TV screen but in 3D and think of the tetrahedron as a 3D pixel, the smallest possible indivisible unit of reality. The tetrahedra in the quasicrystal combine with other tetrahedra using complex mathematical rules to fill up all of the space in the universe. Each tetrahedron only has a few specific states in which it can exist at any given moment. 

“And because of the rules of how these pixels connect to each other, if one tetrahedron is in a certain state, this dictates the states of many other tetrahedra throughout all of space. But here's the weird thing. If a certain tetrahedron can be in any one of just a few possible states in a given moment, who or what chooses the state it should be in at any given moment? Well, for such a choice to be made, we need to scientifically, mathematically, and logically bring in a new element into physics. And that element is consciousness. 

“If you're not a scientist, you might be surprised to learn that nobody actually knows the exact value of the speed of light. We have a close approximation, but not the exact value. The closest we can get to measuring it has to do with the precision of our machines, but no matter how precise our machines get, we will never be able to measure the exact speed of light without a theory that tells us what it is and why it is, and none of the current physics theories do that.

“Our best physics theories, Einstein's Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics both use the speed of light as a starting point. In other words, they use an inexact measurement of the speed of light without explaining why it is, what it is, or why the universe even has a speed limit in the first place. We need a new theory. And such a theory is what the physicists and mathematicians of Quantum Gravity Research in Los Angeles are working on.  LINK:  https://quantumgravityresearch.org/portfolio/all-papers/

“They call it emergence theory and it will, really for the first time ever, provide an explanation for the speed of light and the other constants, such as Planck's constant and the fine structure content. Basically what is needed is a theory of everything, a theory that explains the very fundamental aspects of reality. String theory, which once held a lot of promise for possibly being a successful theory of everything, has not made any successful predictions and regardless of predictions, the theory

itself isn't actually a theory of everything, it's just not, because it can't explain the speed of light or the other constants. Quantum mechanics and general

relativity, on the other hand, do make good predictions, but they don't explain the fundamental constants either.

“So what clues does nature offer us for what a theory of

everything should look like?” 

“We've identified seven. Information, causality loops, non-determinism, consciousness, pixelation, E8 crystal, and the golden ratio. A growing number of physicists are saying reality is made of information. What does that even mean? Well, information is meaning in the form of symbolism. A language or code provide this kind of information conveying symbolism. A very different type of symbol is one that represents itself.”

“Geometric symbols can do that. A cube can represent love,if we say it does, or it can represent, really, with minimal subjectivity, itself. 

“Could there be a language or code made out of geometry? What type of information would such a language express? Quantum physics theory and classical physics indicate that reality is made of information and there is no evidence that reality is made of anything other than information. Many physicists agree with this and many don't. But those that don't agree that reality is made of information have no explanation for what reality is … if it's not information.”

“Reality is geometric. A geometric language in the

form of geometric symbolism, the type of symbols that

represent themselves, might explain how a geometric reality can be made of pure information. Information implies meaning, but what is meaning? Meaning is a comparison, that's what we do, but we do it so fast, we

don't realize we're doing it, we look at something and

we match it to something from our database, we say, that is a crosswalk, that is a building, not a crosswalk, that is a window, not a building, so meaning is the perception of something relative to something else, so therefore meaning is subjective and requires choice. 

“Because meaning is subjective, for it to even exist, it needs to be perceived or measured by some form of consciousness.”

“Einstein showed how the past and the future exist simultaneously in one geometric object. So all time exists all the time. Let me say that again, all time exists all the time. I know that sounds kind of weird and unintuitive but we have to kind of suspend our common sense and accept that mathematically, and according to the best physics formulas we have, that actually makes sense. 

“So, let's visualize the geometric object that Einstein spoke about as a block. Remember the tetrahedra,

the building block pixels of reality I told you about? Now imagine the entire universe, everything, everywhere, in one frozen moment in time. Like a single frame in a

movie, in this one frame, all of reality everywhere appears frozen in this one position. Let me give you an analogy. In a movie shot on 35 millimeter film, there are 24 frames a second. There's no actual movement in a movie, there is just a sequence of frozen frames. Now remember how I told you about the Planck length of space, which is the smallest length possible? Well there is also a Planck length of time and it is much shorter

than 24 frames a second. In fact, it's 10 to the 44

times shorter than a second. Okay, so back to our

frozen frame of reality.” 

WHEN DID OUR ANCESTORS BECOME AWARE IF THE SIMULATED NATURE OF REALITY?

“The entire universe in one frozen moment, one frame, but instead of a frame in a movie, it's a frame in all of reality. Now, imagine the next frame. Each frame is different from the previous one, just like in a movie. See how all frames exist in Einstein's space-time all at once? Okay, now here's where things get really really weird. We assume that the past influences the future. That's how we appear to experience reality. But when you look at this block, why would one side be the past and one side be the future? Why go left to right

and not right to left?”

RETROCAUSALITY

“Why can't the future influence the past? Take away the names past and future if that helps you think of this concept. So what if the past influences the future and the future influences the past in an endless feedback loop? So then the question is, which part of the past is influencing which part of the future and vice versa, and the answer is all time is affecting all time all the time.

“Is this even possible? Can me 20 years from now influence me now just as I influence her? So can me five minutes from now influence me 10 minutes ago, just as me 10 minutes ago influences me as a baby, just as me as a baby influences me on my deathbed? This is too weird to even grasp. But everything we know says this is the way it is. Am I stoned? Okay, so if every moment is co-creating every other moment, both forward and backward in time, then reality would be this massive neural network spanning space and time.” 

NEURAL NETWORK = SPACE TIME | FREE CHOICE | NOT DETERMINED | NOT PREDESTINED

“This type of network would have one even way stranger quality than anything we've talked about so far, it would be its own creator. But the fact that all time exists all the time does not mean that the future is written in stone and we're some kind of programmed animation or something. That's what they used to believe, though. Years ago, it was popular to believe in the somewhat bummer idea of reality being a deterministic program playing itself out. The famous double slit experiment ruled out determinism.” 

“Look it up if you've never heard of it, it's wild and is one of the cornerstones of modern physics. But for now, take my word for it, it ruled out determinism and ushered in a new era of non-determinism, or basically, free will. So how does free will work? One of the most surprising

discoveries of quantum physics is that reality only

exists when it is observed, that literally particles do not exist until they are observed. Famous physicist John Wheeler, he's the guy who came up with the term black

hole, says that reality is made of information, which

is created by observation. The observation must be made, he says, by something conscious. And Nobel prize winner Frank Wilczek said that quantum theory is

contentious and obscure, and that it will remain that

way until someone constructs, within the formalism of

quantum mechanics, an observer, a model entity whose states correspond to a recognizable caricature

of conscious awareness. An entity, an observer, so

Frank Wilczek is basically talking about an entity, not

necessarily a human being or an animal that is capable of generating information by observing and measuring. But what would that conscious entity be? Well we definitely know that consciousness exists in the universe, I mean, at least in us humans, right? I mean, I'm conscious, you're conscious, he's conscious, I think.”

“Consciousness relates deeply to physics in ways not yet fully understood. In fact, consciousness is kind of like one of the least understood things in all of science. Nobody knows exactly what it is. Weird, right? So if reality is pure information, if everything, energy, matter, thought, if it’s all information, then it becomes clear that reality deeply ties into consciousness in some way, as if the fundamental stuff of reality is somehow consciousness. Did consciousness and information somehow emerge in a causality feedback loop? German physicist Werner Heisenberg developed the first equations of quantum mechanics using a type of math called matrix theory. He deduced that space and time were pixelated into indivisible three-dimensional Planck-length units just like the two-dimensional pixels on your computer screen.”

“And interestingly, there was no solid experimental evidence for smooth, in other words, not pixelated, space-time.

“We believe that until a quantum gravity theory of pixelated space-time is discovered, the issue will remain

confusing for everyone. What type of geometric code would describe a pixelated reality? 80 years of smashing particles together in particle accelerators such as the famous large Hadron collider in Geneva have given us a strange clue, that all the fundamental

particles and forces convert into one another, like they literally transform from one to the other according to a process called gauge symmetry transformation, and all of these conversions

correspond to a shape, and not just any shape, an

eight-dimensional shape. Now this shape forms a crystal.”

EIGHTH DIMENSION | E8

“Now remember crystals are periodic patterns of a certain shape, like that checkerboard is a 2D crystal made up of squares, so this crystal is of a particular eight-dimensional shape and this crystal is known as the E8 Lattice. To generate that 3D quasicrystal, the substructure at the pixelated fabric of reality, we project this 8D crystal to 4D. And then we convert that to 3D.” 

“Now, just like the basic cell shape of the 3D cubic lattice is the cube, the cell shape of the E8 lattice is an 8D shape with 240 vertices. We call it the gosset polytope.  When the gosset polytope is projected to 4D, it becomes two identical shapes of different sizes. The ratio of their sizes is a unique number, 0.618, also known as the golden ratio. (explosion)”

“The golden ratio may be the fundamental constant of nature. It is a ratio that is fundamental to circumscribed equilateral triangles and it's weirdly ubiquitous in the universe, appearing everywhere from the quantum to celestial scales. 

“Ever so interestingly, it appears in black holes. Here are three quick facts for you science heads. The golden ratio is the precise point where a black hole's modified specific heat changes from positive to negative and it is part of the equation for the lower bound on black hole entropy. The golden ratio even relates the loop quantum gravity parameter to black hole entropy.”

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING | MATRIX MATHEMATICS

“Why does this support the claim that the golden ratio is the fundamental constant of nature? Because a theory of everything must unite general relativity with quantum mechanics and a black hole is where these two theories converge at their limits. Okay, so bear with me through some really weird math right now. There's a type of mathematics called matrix mathematics. No, not that type of matrix. 

“Matrix math is the type of math that quantum physics uses in its formulas. Without getting too technical, this is an example of a matrix. A matrix is just a group of numbers that are arranged in columns in rows. And there's a certain amount of combinations for these numbers inside the matrix, like if a matrix has four numbers inside it, there are 24 different possible combinations for those four numbers. Quantum mechanics uses matrices that are binary, so they only contain various combinations of two numbers. Each of these combinations of numbers has a value. It's called an eigenvalue. Some eigenvalues are called trivial. These are values like one, two, and zero. And some are called non-trivial, and those are all sorts of more complex-looking numbers, so here's the interesting part. Where's that interesting part? Oh yes, here, the highest

probability non-trivial eigenvalues that show up

in binary matrices are, ready for this? The golden ratio and minus one over the golden ratio. So we now see a deep link between black holes and quantum mechanics

because the golden ratio appears deeply in both black hole physics and in quantum mechanics.”

NOT RANDOM | NOT COINCIDENTAL | INTELLIGENT DESIGN

“The golden ratio appears to startling accuracies in many other ways throughout the universe in scales both large and small. It is so prevalent that its existence simply cannot be looked at as coincidental. In the past, the appearance of this ratio has usually been ignored by scientists because they had no way to explain it, so interest in it was considered the stuff of amateur scientists. But now, for the first time, a rigorous quantum gravity theory is being developed which predicts the golden ratio's existence literally everywhere. So what would a theory of everything look like that answers these seven clues we just presented?”

“Information, causality loops, non-determinism, consciousness, pixelation, E8 crystal, and the golden ratio.  So we think reality is a mosaic-like code or language at the smallest scale of reality possible which is called the Planck length. 

“Particle accelerator data tells us that all particles and forces relate to one another according to a higher-dimensional crystal called the E8 lattice. But reality appears to be 3D, so we project a slice of this E8 crystal down to 3D, which produces a quasicrystal code or language and that allows these geometric symbols to build up to the ordinary world of particles and forces that we see around us. Now this geometric language has rules but it also has syntactical freedom like any language and that requires some notion of a chooser to choose the free steps in the language.”

[COMMENT AND ANNOTATION:  To this “free steps” of “choice” in language, my article posted August 16, 2024 was published entitled:  Hacking the Simulation 2.0 | Lingua Ignota 2.0 | Hildegard von Bingen | Did She Discover a Method to Hack Reality?” by Jeffrey Thayer (Aug. 2024). https://changethethoughtsnh.blogspot.com/2024/08/hacking-simulation-20-lingua-ignota-20.html?m=1

In that article the Lingua Ignota (i.e., “unknown language”) and Litterae Ignotae of Hildegard von Bingen were featured and discussed at some length.  During her lifespan in the 12th century Hildegard, by free choice, invented her own, private language to describe all objects she perceived in her daily life.  The article addresses why and how she invested over 8 years inventing over 1000 words she created to describe every object of her perception.  Hildegard never revealed to another soul the meaning of her private language.  Scholars to this day continue to conjecture about it.  She invented 23 letters with sounds to which she assigned her own meanings within words.  By analogy, her process was if she had a scrabble game set of tiles and arranged them like a code to form a series of letters (unknown words) with no reference to the vernacular languages of her time (i.e., Latin, Greek, German and French of the 12th century).]

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TRANSCRIPT CONTINUES:

“… Now, the notion of randomness doesn't work so well when it comes to codes because meaning starts to break down. Besides, there's no decent experimental evidence for randomness in nature in the first place. 

“A universal collective consciousness is one answer, but that sounds new age and religious. 

“Nowadays, a good number of physicists discuss the idea that our whole universe is actually a code-based simulation in some fantastically powerful quantum computer in another universe. Now, if true, then by the same logic, that other universe, where the computer running the simulation of our universe is would also supposedly be a simulation in another universe, so the idea is a little shaky but it's being discussed seriously by a lot of credible people. But it turns out that a

universal collective-like consciousness of some sort

may be physically inevitable. Now we don't need to

anthropomorphize this idea or make it religious or spiritual.”

“… Physics allows the possibility of all the energy in the universe to eventually convert into a single conscious system that is itself a network of other conscious systems, a massive, technologically-based collective consciousness. 

“Given enough time, anything that can happen will eventually happen. By this axiom, this system

of universal consciousness has already emerged

somewhere in the frames of space-time ahead of us. Because it is possible, it is inevitable. In fact, according to the evidence of retro-causality time loops, that inevitable future is co-creating us right now, just as we are co-creating it. When humanity discovers

the theory of everything, it will usher in a new age of prosperity. For example, clean, cheap energy leading to the eventual elimination of poverty.” [TRANSCRIPT ENDS]

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