In the very beginning, there was a void, a curious form of vacuum, a nothingness containing no space, no time, no matter, no light, no sound. Yet the laws of nature were in place and this curious vacuum held potential. A story logically begins at the beginning, but this story is about the universe and unfortunately there are no data for the very beginnings--none, zero. We don't know anything about the universe until it reaches the mature age of a billion of a trillionth of a second. That is, some very short time after creation in the big bang. When you read or hear anything about the birth of the universe, someone is making it up--we are in the realm of philosophy. Only God knows what happened at the very beginning.
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What is the Question? Leon M. Lederman and Dick Teresi.
Man?s innate sense of right and wrong can be accounted for only by an awareness of a code of law, the natural physics based order of the cosmos. Because it is impossible for humans to betray this law and survive, nothing that we can physically accomplish is wrong. Everything action created by man, either beautiful or reprehensible, is directly extrapolated from the world and universe we exist within. From the beginning of time and space as we understand it a form of chaotic life has existed. Even the birth of our universe is theorized to have been a violent and terrible time. Therefore humanity must not supplant its own ideology onto the universe in which we exist, but instead created a culture that more acutely resembles the natural order, so that we may not only flourish but survive to realize a deeper human experience.
The nature of the world in which we exist has proven itself to us in many different ways. Through our own perception we have witnessed the glory of all that we could see, while at the same time observing other bodies interact in the same cosmic experience, and in witnessing these events and many more, we have begun to understand the nature of the cosmos that surrounds us. With advanced techniques and technology extrapolated from the earth and stars around us we can look at the universe and our own selves in ways unimaginable to those before us. This insight can answer the questions that have driven at the very core of the human existence. One reoccurring tenant of human theistic ideology is the attempt to define humanity?s existence through the manifestation of external forces. For the purpose of unbiased understanding of our place in the universe we look not towards the source of our existence but the furthest thing from that as possible. If we can conceptualize our own state, that we exist and that the world around us is tangible and quantifiable, then we can assume that all things exist to glorify themselves, and in existing we are fulfilling the furthest promises of our incorruptible state. Existence, and conversely, Non- Existence are naturally occurring states in our cosmos, and due to the limitless unfathomable depths of nothingness, we must assume that the opposite occurs in existence. You cannot perform actions that were not already created in the beginning of all things. Just as endless nothingness fills the void of non-existence, science shows us that the opposite, existence, is finite, and is not something that can be affected. It is limited by its definition, and all actions that occur in existence are finite and follow the constraints of physical existence. Therefore, humanities ability to prosper, and perpetuate its circumstance in this environment, is the sole consideration of physical beings.
Since man first began to conceptualize his existence, he has attempted to use technology to understand his role in the world in which he lived. The unknown was to this early man a frightening and foreboding intangibility, and humans created a personification of this phenomena to help them better understand it, essentially forming the unknown into understandable mental constructs The establishment of this behavior led early human consciousness to attribute the idea that imperceptible forces were affecting humanity, and that these actions, whether perceived or imagined, shaped the destiny of all mankind. While we have countless recorded stories of gods, spirits, and other ephemeral actions shaping man's developing morality, science has little evidence to support these claims. In fact the most compelling evidence suggests that the act of creating these external bodies is an integral part of a cultures' development, and continues even in our advanced societies today. The necessity for early man to understand the world around him and to define his own significance in a terrible and unforgiving environment led to a belief that forces beyond his command were at work. To understand the behaviors of these early people we consider how the development of social order and burgeoning belief systems shaped the development of early man and the world around him. How belief in the supernatural affected the behaviors and actions of early man, how these people saw gods as intervening in their lives, and the possible determent of following religious beliefs versus common sense, all clearly illustrated in the art and writing of early people. The personification of the natural, and seemingly unnatural, occurrences faced by early man was an attempt to explain the unfamiliar and violent world around him. These revelations gave man his earliest understanding of the forces that he previously couldn't comprehend, and later formed the bases for a broader, and seemingly more accurate, and refined, understanding of his place in the universe.
This shift in thinking led man to define the unknown through the definition of himself, including a deeper understanding of morality. The development of a moral code, the first religious beliefs and the establishment of order from mans desire to impose structure onto seemingly intangible concepts governing the conduct of human affairs, allowed early people to coexist and form broader communities, facilitating the birth of the first societies. In his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond writes in regards to the development of early culture and religion, ?(Early social groups) lacked political and social mechanisms, which we take for granted, to achieve peaceful resolution of serious disputes." He describes the influence of order and law and its relationship to religion as, "The spread of government and of religion have thus been linked to each other throughout recorded history, whether the spread has been peaceful or by force," echoing the cautious and resentful beliefs of early man, despite the fact that these new ideas allowed him to not only survive, but flourish in a frightening and foreboding time. While this helped to create the first advancements in humanities understanding of our nature in the universe, it has also become extremely detrimental to our current state of existence.
The early people of our world lacked the knowledge to impartially define the forces that affected their existence. Due to necessity these early people developed their culture and belief structures devoid of concise knowledge. This created a problem: These people were forced to choose quick action over intent (actuality); they were forced to trade honor for expediency. They needed these assumed constraints to survive, instead of a code that insured all men would be governed in fairness and equality. The early leaders of man did not need compassion devoid of prevarication, anger, jealousy, spite, avarice and pride. They needed instead idolatrous ideologies to ensure psychological repression and communal indemnity.
In our current era, advances in technology may provide humanity a new way to interact with each other, and allow all people to unite under a singular society ruled by science, not ideological, regional or cultural differences. This seemingly more natural, in as much as our current math and science are more closely extrapolated from the physical universe as opposed to the arbitrary concepts of early man, may provide insight into further attempts to answer the questions that have driven at the very core of the human existence. While scientist may not have answered every facet of the unknown quantities it faces, the very fact that we do exist is enough for humanity to recognize and secure the perpetuation of circumstance that allow us to continue to exist. Therefore humanity must confront the unknown commodity of our existence not with speculation, but actual fact based theory. Regardless of the lack of advanced application of this concept, in relation to mass global socialization, it is time for scientists and theologians to establish a universal code for humanity to follow so that we as a species can continue asking questions, and continue our existence.
A code free of religious assumption can be followed by all people regardless of cultural identity. The rules for humanity can be based on logic, science, medicine, philosophy and other established human arts. While these fields have always operated under a safety net of ?theory,? essentially allowing the unknown to exist within practical application, the main purpose of this was to provide academia, at large, an amount of culpable deniability. While we too will be unable to definitively answer questions regarding the human condition, it does not mean that we cannot apply the most beneficial approximate solution to any problem.
The time for regional, religious differences dividing humanity must end, in order for humanity to grow into the future, we must unite society across the entire world. While much has been said of the negative effects of globalization, imagine a world were technology spread not homogenized oppressive western culture, but instead the physical sciences that inspired mans first and purest understanding of rule and order. Scientists must realize the new role of technology in the future of humanity and guide us all in unison through logic, and knowledge, in order to replace a decayed ideological presumptuousness that no longer serves man in its present capacity. To free ourselves of the oppressive limited understanding of our existence, as provided by organized religious ideology, we can instead look to the universe and its infinite potential, to provide us all with a possibly infinite human experience. To quote the Tao Te Ching (Tzu, 600 BCE), ?The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.? We must not replace the derisive religious beliefs of man with an equally failed system of our own, but instead create a culture in which all things are considered in their natural state, free from mans arbitration. We must allow for the unknown to peaceable exist in our global community, not from fear of the unknown, but to realize our truest human potential.
"The actual point of creation lies outside the scope of presently known laws of physics," Stephen Hawking, the Big Bang and God
?Nothing exists except atoms and space, everything else is opinion?
?Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.??
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What is the Question? Leon M. Lederman and Dick Teresi.
