math is 1:1 map of human mind, more specifically rational part of it.
everything that does not conform to it is utter bullshit.
regarding the text: i didn't read past "Lurianic Kabbalah, Sri Aurobindo, and the New Physics"
"New Physics" reads like "New Age" (like there is old physics!? physics is ever changing, fgt!) which is bullshit.
(I don't know about Luranic Kabbalah and Sri Aurobindo)
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Anonymous2008-03-27 14:26
>> I don't know about Luranic Kabbalah and Sri Aurobindo)
>> I don't know about Luranic Kabbalah
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Thanks for sharing your ignorace like the AIDS it is
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ok, so I didn't give the website a close inspection. It does mention string theory, but it still doesn't mention manifolds, specifically Calabi Yau manifolds.
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Anonymous2008-03-28 22:40
Maybe this will help convince you:
The Origin Of The Universe According To Modern Physics
Now, some of this doctrine actually relates quite well to modern scientific speculation regarding unified field theory. According to this, the original vacuum state from which the universe emerged consisted of ten dimensions, in which all the disparate forces of nature were united in a single "supersymmetric" state.
Now, the existence of ten, eleven, or even twenty-six dimensions of space, or of space-time, is required by various forms of Unified Field Theory, such as "Supersymmetry" and "Superstring Theory". Later some physicists, including Michael Green, one of the original founders of the theory, had second thoughts about this, and suggested that these higher dimensions "were not really dimensions at all", and that "dimensions" as we understand them only pertain to the ordinary macroscopic world, and not to the micro-quantum world of superstrings [Peat, pp.320-321]. Other physicists however, such as superstring theorist Michio Kaku, retain the idea of actual higher physical dimensions. So the jury is still out on this one. But, in view of the curious parallels between the Lurianic and the ten-dimensional Unified Physics cosmology, I have decided to opt for an interpretation that these hyperspace dimensions are real rather than imaginary.
So, this original ten-dimensional vacuum state may have been unstable, or what physicists call a false vacuum. If so, it would inevitably make a "quantum leap" to a more stable, but less symmetrical [5], vacuum energy state. Current Unification Physics however gives no explanation is given as to why the original vacuum was unstable to begin with, or what preceded this unstable state.
According to Kaku and Trainer [p.158], the result of the collapse of the false vacuum would have been a violent rupture in the ten dimensional fabric of space-time - a truly Lurianic scenario! - which rapidly reformed into two lower energy states or universes. One of these is made up of six of the space-time dimensions, which had become contracted or curled up into sub-atomic size. The other consists of the remaining four dimensions - three of space and one of time - that define our mundane or ordinary reality.
However, F.D. Peat simply refers to the contraction of these higher dimensions - the term used in physics is compactification - which then coexist in and as part of our own universe, on a sub-atomic level, and are responsible for the number of families of elementary particles, and the existence of the forces of nature. Hence the six hidden dimensions are necessary to fully explain phenomena in our four obvious dimensions [Peat, p.161].
Apart from compactification, another result of the original "symmetry breaking" would be that the original "E(8) x E(8)" supersymmetric state would have broken into two lesser symmetry "E(8)" states, each representing a different universe. (The notation E(8) x E(8) refers to a particular mathematical symmetry group, used in modern Superstring Theory. E(8) is a subset of this. There may well be a connection here with the 8 x 8 geometry of the I Ching, with its 8 trigrams and 64 hexagrams, but I am not knowledgable enough in this area to say).
Of these two "E(8)" universes, one is our own, the other is a parallel "shadow universe." Both these universes coexist, but because the only force they share is gravity, it is difficult for them to interact. Hence, we cannot really know anything about what physical forces developed in the "shadow universe" [Peat, pp.147-151]. Meanwhile, in our universe, further "symmetry breaking" generates the strong and weak nuclear and the electromagnetic forces, and the various subatomic particles [Peat, p.151].
The Cause Of Imperfection
If we assume the standpoint of the Lurianic gnosis, that this world is the result of a pre-creation crisis, it may be asked why this whole situation came about in the first place. Why wasn't the cosmos created or emanated in an original pure state? The answer given is that the first sefirot were of the nature of nefesh alone [Luzzatto, p.20], this being, as we have seen, the lowest of the grades of soul in Kabbalistic theory.
This statement by itself is still meaningless. Why should the first sefirot consist of nefesh? However, modern Astrophysics offers as one possible theory an oscillating universe in which each successive cycle develops from the accumulated radiation of the preceding one [Barrow & Silk, pp.70-71]. So perhaps the "nefesh" in question is energy, or, to give a more esoteric interpretation, the karmic energy residue - the Sanskrit term karma literally means work, action or activity, hence the connection with "energy" - of the preceding universe. So if the "karma" of the preceding universe wasn't perfect, that of the present universe won't be either. Hence the original "fall" or "symmetry breaking".