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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 and this
is another you can also have three
dimensional crystals
by the way this 3d glass is called
crystal because it's 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
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 quasi crystal a quasi crystal
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 for a particular 8
d crystal yep that's right an 8
dimensional crystal is projected 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 ten to the thirty five 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 quasi
crystal combined 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 that's
my bad said if I drop my tongue like
this 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
with the physicists and mathematicians
of quantum gravity research in Los
Angeles are working on 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 constant
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
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quantum mechanics and general relativity
on the other hand do make good
predictions but they don't explain the
fundamental constants either
well fizzle Einstein why does the speed
of light have the exact value that it
does put it plainly 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's 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 gentlemen is made of
information no ok so what is it made of
if not information energy is information
that energy is the potential for a
particle to change its position
potentially is information then what is
it not information and what is it 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 that we look at
something and we match it with 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 committed some dramatic
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because meaning is subjective for it to
even exist it needs to be perceived or
measured by some form consciousness
Einstein showed how the past and the
future exists 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 is 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 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
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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 why
can't the future influence the past but
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 hi Vanna
the drink
is this even possible can made 20 years
from now influences me now just as I
influence her
so can me five minutes from now
influence me ten minutes ago just as me
ten 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 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 were
some kind of programmed animation or
something that's what they used to
believe them years ago it was popular to
believe me somewhat bummer idea of
reality being a deterministic program
playing itself out why did scattered by
electron inbound clop electron 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 freewill work one of the
most surprising discoveries of quantum
physics is that reality only exists when
it is observed but literally particles
do not exist until they are observed
famous physicists 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 will chuck 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 will check 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 the
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
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consciousness relates deeply to physics
in ways not yet fully understood
in fact consciousness is kind of like
one of the least understood things and
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 it's good to be
made a fix with the mathematics
indicated this miss Murthy I love miss
Maddocks
and pizza
it's allegedly pixelated pizza and
interestingly there was no solid
experimental evidence for smooth in
other words not pixelated space-time
morons is smooth there's no evidence of
that enzyme asthmatics show it is
weighted so it must be pixelated that's
interesting bullshit
it must either hand no scientists agree
that a length can be no shorter than the
Planck lengths which suggests reality is
pixelated there is no length shorter
than Zeppelin length that means reality
is pixelated you're kind of being a
little like themselves people who deny
evolution because they can't handle the
fact their ancestors four monkeys are
your monkey 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 and
eight dimensional shape now this shape
forms a crystal 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 8 dimensional shape and
this crystal is known as the e8 lattice
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to generate that 3d quasicrystal the
substructure at the pixilated fabric of
reality we project this eight D crystal
to 40 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 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
ok let's get serious for a second here
are three quick facts for you science
heads the golden ratio is the precise
point or a black holes 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 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 mouths right
now and I'll reward you with some
amazing footage of John Malkovich
getting a pie in the face there's a type
of mathematics called matrix mathematics
no type of matrix
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matrix map 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 and 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 Egon
value some Egon values are called
trivial these are values like 1 2 and 0
and some are called non-trivial and
those are all sorts of more complex
looking numbers so here's the
interesting part
there's that interesting right oh yes
here the highest probability non-trivial
Egon values that show up in binary
matrices are we ready for this the
golden ratio and minus 1 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
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okay
bitch I'll bring with me so here's your
reward
john malkovich getting a pie in the face
Milkovich hi the golden ratio appears
too startling accuracies in many other
ways throughout the universe and scales
both large and small it is so prevalent
but 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
ratios 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 EA crystal
down to 3d which produces a quasi
crystal 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 now the notion of
randomness doesn't work so well when it
comes to codes because meaning starts to
break down besides there is no decent
experimental evidence for randomness in
nature in the first place
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a universal collective consciousness is
one answer but that sounds new age and
religious now nowadays a good number of
physicists discussed 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 universes
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 maybe
physically inevitable now we don't need
to anthropomorphize this idea or make it
religious or spiritual to follow why let
us start with the idea of the collective
behavior of cells in your body each a
single celled microbe living its life a
long time ago only this sort of cellular
life form existed here on earth these
little guys were not too smart but they
did choose what direction to swim and
could chase nutrients reproduce and run
from dangerous things they made choices
with their very simple systems of
environmental awareness and desire to
survive then they self organised into
colonies that were smarter as a group
and had more environmental awareness
than the individuals eventually animals
such as humans emerged sophisticated
forms of awareness and consciousness now
float on an ocean of 37 trillion living
cells self-organized as a human being it
is specifically the laws of physics that
caused electrons and quarks to
self-organize into 81 stable atoms and
from there into human consciousness and
physics places no upper limit on the
amount of energy and matter that can
self-organize into conscious systems
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
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