By Lloyd Harrison Whitling

When you leave this page, perform a search for the terms strings, string theory, m-theory, matrix theory, and time theories. You'll come to grips with a fact: The ideas expressed here are not far-fetched. They are, in fact, derived from advanced mathematical concepts, science, and cosmic theories at the cutting edge of exploration and discovery, and the resultant deepening of the pool of human knowledge. Don't despair that you lack an advanced education. All you're searching for in all that exploration, is verification of authoritative support for ideas espousing a multi-dimensional Universe, specifically of ten or fourteen potentially recognizable dimensions incorporating the presence of time as a parameter.

Let me express something else, right at the onset: I will not be describing the nature of those dimensions in a manner that scientists and mathematicians would approve. They work with the finite, with particles of matter, photons and energy waves, and define them numerically. I work with human reality, from the human practical viewpoint as expressed semantically, and with pictures wherein comparisons are drawn. They describe them as 'infolding'; I describe them as 'outfolding' because I have found that easier to explain in common language. Our aims are the same: To define reality in a vivid, verifiable, and understandable way; theirs by the way of scientists and scholars, and mine by the way of common ordinary people. What both ways hold as much as possible in common, is verifiability.

As a way of enlightening you about the reasons for the scientific way of understanding being at variance with the ‘human’ way of comprehending, let me tell you about an event I witnessed that may have affected my whole manner of looking at life. A confrontation took place in which both parties, an art and a science teacher, were correct according to their own terms. The discussion involved whether black, or white, represented a total absence of color. The science teacher became so irate with (what he called) the art teacher’s total ignorance that he stomped out of her room to stop himself from doing something regrettable.

At that point, she turned to us, her class, witnesses to what we hoped would be the science teacher’s pandemonious demise, to explain the event which had just occurred. “He,” she said, “was talking about the nature of light, and couldn’t understand that I had referred to pigments. In his classroom, he is correct. We are in my classroom now, so we will understand it according to the way of artists.” So, we learned, black is a total absence of light; and white is the color closest to an absence of pigmentation. I have, ever since that day, attempted to understand things according to the way of the scientist, and the way of the artist.

So, since black is a total absence of light (to our eyes), and white represents light carrying all the colors; and black tells us all the pigments are present (for all we care) and white seems to be the opposite (if we willingly overlook that some things are transparent), we get to learn a valuable lesson (unless we’re also willing to overlook that opportunity): “Viewpoint counts for a lot in a discussion.” Einstein, in a way,  said that; it has been said it doesn’t apply to sociological situations. Wrong! Viewpoints cause most of the arguments I’ve ever been underprivileged enough to have observed.

On the upper side of the human viewpoint, is what could be known as the “cosmic viewpoint” of the Universe, involving the relationships between all the galaxies, suns, moons, stars, planets, ad infinitum, and all the forces, energies, photons, gravitons, dark matter ad more infinitum, occupying the apparent voids between them. Beyond that, the “super-cosmic” viewpoint sees our entire Universe as one body in a vast amount of space occupied by nothing else we can presently discern.

Each of those viewpoints is built upon all of those which occupy a lower level. By ‘lower’, I mean ‘more confined’, as the bricks assembled into a house are ‘more confined’ in their individual presences than is the entire house, although they occupy the same reality viewpoint. These viewpoints are generally referred to as ‘realms’, although they intertwine and are interdependent. To further the analogy, the house (the larger ‘realm’) depends upon its components (bricks and so forth) to have an existence. Though it seems so obvious, this appears completely backward to our normal conceptions of reality, as taught by our religious enterprises.

QUESTION: What makes our reality realm so different from all the rest? Answer: Nothing, but for the fact it is where we recognize our existences to be taking place, where things seem ‘hard’ and recognizable as having unique, individual presences with consistently discernible characteristics. We can use one or more of our five accredited senses to verify to our minds what each item in our environment is and describe it to others (that some of us do that better than others is to deviate from our topic).

Our acknowledged reality seems so steadfast to our senses simply because there is so much of it. An atom, in the micro realm, seems to be made up of individual components (electrons, neutrons, protons, nucleus . . .) because it is one atom. Take trillions of atoms in much the same kind of a close relationship as we observe with our mind’s eye when we view the Universe as a body, and back up to view them. You’ll see we have a clump. Take trillions of trillions of atoms, back up mentally to look at them. You’ll see a bigger clump.

Watch the blades of a running fan, sometime. You’ll see a pattern made by the turning blades, depending on their speed. Your perception at a fairly brisk speed will be that you know something’s there, but that you can see through it. That would be sort of like looking at an individual atom, if you could somehow blow it up to match the fan’s size. To see what makes our reality realm seem so solid, imagine trillions of fans running, separated by spaces to match their sizes, but billions of fans wide, and billions of fans deep. You know, just from pondering it, that it would appear solid to your eyes. It would be a gigantic clump.

The same way we can mentally station ourselves outward to view the Universe as a solid body, so can we mentally station ourselves in that realm on the other side of micro-reality. There, we find nothing existent except time, and the energy that time induces. In all of the realms of reality, only time exists of its own ongoing accord; yet, we know time is not an actual thing as we understand things to exist. That is because time's basis is two realms removed from our own, the same as is our viewing of the Universe in its entirety as a body. Of all there is in our awareness, only time pervades the entirety of all we know to exist, so that we can observe its workings everywhere. Its one-dimensional form will always remain invisible to our perceptions, even though we can observe its results all around.

Mentally plod through all the reality realms we’ve talked about here, and you’ll see they each have their own standard three dimensions plus that dimension called ‘time’. Everything surrounding you exists in your three dimensional reality, in which you also have an awareness of time. In the micro realm, each component has its own three dimensions, and you can observe the presence of time. Just as we’ve noticed only time to exist in the sub-micro realm, only the Universe (along with time) exists in that we’ve called the super-cosmic; but the Universe will appear to be a three dimensional entity if it can be seen from a distance (even as a galaxy appears to be a single star from our earthly viewpoint).

So, we have all kinds of atomic material in a realm of its own, we have the macro realm we recognize as being ‘ours’, and we have a cosmic realm on a scale much grander than we can envision with our senses, and in the short spans of our lifetimes. Whether or not this reality viewpoint should include the entirety of the Universe, the ‘super-cosmic’, is beyond our interests in this discussion. But, if it should be included, then those who claim 14 dimensions are needed to completely measure all that exists must be correct.

If we were to describe all fourteen of those dimensions, we might do it in this manner: The first dimension is created by time, which induces energetic vibrations that result in the formation of strings, which are one-dimensional. Just as is standard procedure throughout all of existence, these strings unite to form atomic particles, the quarks, muons, and all those other things scientists love to discuss, which combine to form the three dimensions of the micro realm, which stands on its own. If you lived in the micro realm, you might never suspect anything beyond it exists, just as we may never suspect anything exists beyond the universe. You would likely learn to describe the realm in which we now exist as "The Egg" and write a poem of that title about it.

The individual entities existing in the micro realm further combine into the units which make up that segment of the various realities of which we are directly cognizant. This human realm we claim as our own is made up of all kinds of unique features which are all three-dimensional PLUS we have a concept of time derived from the sub-micro realm which pervades all of reality. It is like time plus energy equals material; and, by its interactions with energy, time has created a new realm for its own existence.

What, you’ll likely wonder, is the importance of knowing about three realms all of which have their own unique three dimensions plus time? It is all a matter of perceptions: We view the realms below ours as solid entities, even while we know they are not. Were we to elevate ourselves a level, would we not perceive the particles within our realm as being the solid materials of that new, higher realm? The answer is definitely yes. The reason is because of time. As the particles of the micro realm behave at rates much faster than does that which makes up our realm, so do we behave at rates much faster than those things which are the features of the cosmic realm. It is the continuum incorporated into the various realms (the three dimensions plus time) which gives them the concreteness of their realities.

This feature of continuum goes unnoticed by us, and yet it makes up the most of whatever there is: The past, the present, and the future. All that occurs exists as events and processes within all the intertwining continua of reality; it is the nature of those events and processes with which we should be concerned.

Any action results from or initiates an event. Events combine into processes in either constructive or destructive manners, depending on the viewpoint from which they could be observed. What could appear constructive to one person or group, might be perceived to be harmful to another. Constructive might be understood as ‘good’; destructive as ‘evil’; again, depending on one’s viewpoint, derived from the effects an event might have upon one. This idea applies to all events and their resultant processes, whether caused by an act of nature, human beings, or events internal to our psyches.

There is another aspect of our existence we must understand in order to obtain a firm grasp on all of this: We, by the nature of our mental makeup, understand reality according to three different modes: The first is according to what we could say is ‘actual’. By that, we refer to the tangible features of our environment. The intangibles we use on a daily basis in a dependable fashion, we refer to as ‘real’. Time, values we place on various things according to cultural standards (money), temperature, distance, etc., are some examples. Whatever we live by with no basis in fact that can be proven, other than that it seems useful and dependable, is ‘artificial’ reality. That which serves no real use other than cultural, is 'synthetic' reality. These generally resulted, at least originally, from a natural need to perform, or respond to a need or a threat when no knowledge or previous experience could yield a set of instructions. It is humanity’s response to the unknown.

Most of the reality we respond to is artificial and/or syntheric, our heritage from forefathers countless generations ago to explain the unknown, in their struggles to meet their needs, or to induce socially desirable behaviors in recalcitrant individuals. In the times of their introductions, they may have been deemed constructive. Those which nowadays detract from humanity’s welfare must be deemed evils in our cultures, and the task of their banishment must be undertaken by the educators and communicators who feel concerned about the real causes of all the evil rising up in our midst.

If you are an educator, you must know the human pool of knowledge is the most sacred portion of human reality. Whether or not you find my explanation of multi-dimensional existence to be cogent or acceptable, you must realize anything which threatens or detracts from the spread of knowledge among human populations must be regarded as an evil. If you are one who loves books, you will surely agree they are the best repositories for this sacred trust passed on to us, for even in the event of complete calamity that would halt our technological abilities, a book could still be opened at the entrance to a cave and teach its readers and listeners what truths survived between its covers.

This has been a long combination of a synopsis and sample of my ability to express the basic premise of The Complete Universe of Memes. This message may be deemed incomplete, especially since it mentions nothing about the important subject of Memetics, and leave its readers pondering some of the connections attempted within it. If so, please consider the quarter million words it began as, now reduced to a hundred thousand in my manuscript, and to only five pages here. If you are an agent for whom it rang true, please contact me quickly at the Email link below. I will withdraw this as soon as we’ve made an agreement.

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