My meditation on it all…

Learning with Daddy

“…it’s not growing up, it’s change, we change. No one ever really grows up babygirl. ”

I love looking at the sky and I love looking at the stars, but in no way do I think we’re ever going to find the origins of Cosmos by looking out into space only. What you’ll find when you look out into infinite creations is… infinite creation. What we find is what we keep finding and will keep finding, the infinite possibilities of creation. It’s far more likely that things are more different in the cosmos than they are the same. While the entirety of the Cosmos is made up of the same things, the variations in the mix of any given one of them could vary wildly or slightly. But vary enough to make them different, even identical twins aren’t the same person.

The search is a fruitless pursuit and becomes more so the longer it goes on. Or rather the way it goes on. The origins of anything such as Big Bang cannot be found by looking out into the Cosmos, looking “back in time” as it’s described. The cosmos is eternal, meaning it always was and will be no matter which direction in time we look. We’re just simply not going to discover the beginning of eternity that way. 

To fully grasp the origins of the cosmos we must fully grasp the concept of eternity in its entirety. What eternity itself is and what it means to be eternal. Eternity is time that is without beginning nor end. Not to be confused with Infinity which is time that has a point of origin somewhere within eternity. Eternity is the father or progenitor of infinity, its highest unachievable achievement. Infinity is the attribute to Eternity’s principle. That’s also the overall nature of the Universe itself, Principle and Attribute, but I’ll write about that eventually.

Time

Now for time itself. Time is nothing more but a measure of change, the rate of change within infinity and thus eternity. The general understanding of time sees it as a progression of events, one to the next. I say different. I say there is nothing that can be pointed to in nature or the cosmos, that can be decisively called “time.” Time should be regarded as a Pygmy thing, “it’s a glorified ruler.” There is no tangible essence about time except our conceptualization, which isn’t enough to make it real. Time is more illusion than reality. If time were not simply a measure of the rate of change, then ask yourself this: without change, would there be time?

Our understanding and conceptualization of time is a byproduct of the nature of what we’re trying to wrap our minds around, the scope of it. We’ve broken down a realm of reality to one we can conceptualize, infinity. Taken further to one we can understand, time. We’ve brought Eternity down to our level. Otherwise it would be too big, too much and overwhelm us. We’ve mistaken our ways and means for the real thing, for reality.

When looking for the origins of the cosmos all we will observe is change, eternal change. Looking for a source to how this all came to be is fruitless because even if one were found, the search would continue for the birthplace of that and so on. All we will ever continue to find, the way we’ve been exploring, is whatever things were before. They’re last state of being.

The scope of the search is too great, Eternity. It’s why we’ve broken it down to our realm of understanding; Infinity and Time. So then how is the origin to be determined? Was it Big Bang or some other cosmic event or phenomena? The answer is simply no. The very nature of the search, the evidence exhibited by the whole, makes clear that there is no point of origin in the cosmos. The origins of the cosmos are not a place, point, or event that can or could ever be found. The cosmos is in and of itself. There has only ever been change, both as an act and as a state of being. From nonexistence to existence is only a change from one state to another; If such a thing as nonexistence were possible. 

Theories such as the Big Bang are conclusions we’ve set off to needlessly find and prove. The look itself hasn’t been fruitless, the philosophy currently guiding it however are. There are infinite answers to the questions “what came before and what comes after.” The simplest answer to both is; something. 

If the pursuit, its guiding principles, and the understanding surrounding those principles are bunk. Doesn’t that mean our ways of perception and understanding are bunk too? Such as our understanding of concepts like time. If it is nothing but a measure and not a progression of events, what does that say about our application of such a concept to other areas of understanding the universe? The foundation of our understanding, conceptualization, and perception of reality has to be called into question. 

If the search for the cosmos' origin is endless, we also find that certain phenomena, such as black holes, challenge our very concepts of time and change.

We don’t fully understand black holes, but if time is a progression of events, it makes sense that within a black hole, no events seem to occur because there is nothing occurring within them. There is nothing happening, nothing changing within a black hole. All the events we observe of them related to “time” all happen outside of them. So in a sense, within a black hole we can only observe the absence of change aka time.

The only thing certainty wen can rely on is that change is real, everything else must be illusory. What does this say or mean for other areas of science or inquiry? If our understanding and thus our perception of reality is flawed, how does that impact our understanding of the universe, its very nature, even ourselves? If all there is, or ever will be, is change, what does that tell us about the nature of being? What does it mean for something to exist? What something is? What is the quality lost or gained that differentiates one state from another? Is a Star not a nebula or is still a nebula but… of a different quality? 

Time is a self-imposed limitation. It is a tool, a ways and means to grasp and understand greater cosmic principles. It is thee measure by which we observe the movement, of an aspect of the cosmos, an aspect of reality. What time is not is reality. We make time. We make it up to understand the changing nature of reality. Time is a lens through which to observe, but cannot be and is not what is. Our limitation has become a limitation. Time is beneficial but not necessary to true wisdom and understanding.

The Cosmos can only be understood wholly. Neither it’s nature or origin is something that can ever be observed found. It is an understanding that can only be reached. The understanding is change and the things that facilitate it.

What is under appreciated is the observer, their perception, and their understanding of that perception. Because that perception is what makes reality.

Shakespeare asked, “what is a name?” 

I ask, “what’s in a form?”

What else do we think we know?