Part 02: Seldon’s Slogans Series. My Take on Slogan 1.

 

Part 02:

 

Seldon’s Slogans Series.

 

 

My Take on Slogan 1.

 

 

GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

 

 

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an elected member of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] General Council, and as a voting member of F.E.D., to share, with you, from time to time, as they are approved for public release by the F.E.D. General Council, Encyclopedia Dialectica key themes of Seldonian Theory.

 

The 2nd text in this new such series is posted below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, by the editors of the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seldon’s Slogan #1 --

“Dialectic is the Cause of Time.”

 

M.D.: My take on this slogan is as follows.  I see it as analogous to Seldon’s point about the ‘intra-duality’ of stars.

 

A typical “main sequence” star is a complex unity of a colossal thermo-nuclear self-explosion, issuing from its Hydrogen core – i.e., from its H+, protonic core – in opposition to a colossal self-gravitational self-implosion.

 

Now I want to indulge you, for a moment, in a counter-factual supposition.  Such counter-factuals are not realistic.  They are thought experiments, imagining something which abstracts from, and omits, integral aspects of reality.  And yet, such counter-factual thought experiments can sometimes reveal real insights.

 

When a typical stars forms, self-gravitational self-implosion precedes the ignition of its, answering, core thermonuclear self-explosion.

 

Imagine a star from which the thermonuclear self-explosion side of its ‘intra-duality’ has been suspended.

 

Also imagine a star from which the self-gravitational self-implosion side of its ‘intra-duality’ has been removed.

 

In both cases, as you may well notice, the life-duration of the imagined star would be over momentaneously – probably in mere nanoseconds.

 

In the first case, a colossal, supernova-like self-explosion would instantly end the life of the star as such.

 

In the second case, a colossal and unimpeded self-implosion would instantly produce a [‘metafinite’] “singularity” – a “black hole” – as we hypothesize it, a minute ‘holonium’ core.

 

So also is it with the origin of space-and-time, per our ‘self-resurging big surge’, or ‘regenerist’, hypothesis – conjectured as an improved replacement for both the one-time-only “Big Bang” theory, and the “inflaton” cosmological “inflation” theory: our hypothesis of the epochally-recurring thermodynamic self-regeneration of our cosmos, driven by “Dark Energy”.

 

Per that – ‘regenerist’ – hypothesis, the early “inflationary” epoch of our cosmos was not due to any, hypothetical, never-yet-empirically-isolated “inflaton” field, but to “Dark Energy” itself, to the hyper-accelerated expansion of physical space in the absence of any restraint by “Dark Matter”.

 

It is, per Seldon’s view, Dark Energy’s incessant expansion of physical space that is the substance of universal, cosmological time, with increments of physical space representing also increments of time, albeit inconstantly so.

 

But he supposes that “Dark Energy” pre-exists the birth of “Dark Matter”, and, indeed, causes that birth.

 

In the absence of “Dark Matter”, he holds, “Dark Energy” would cause an unchecked, “inflationary” hyper-accelerating explosion of physical space.

 

If one believes that there must be a finite limit to the rate of spatial self-expansion – however far beyond the speed of light that finite limit might be, then, Seldon hypothesizes, that limit was reached in the form of a ‘self-damage’ to the ‘spandetron’ units that Seldon conjectures to be the ‘monads of physical space’.

 

In that ‘self-damage’, vast clouds of some of those ‘spandetrons’ lost their capability to self-replicate – the incessant self-replication capability that drives the “Dark Energy” accelerating self-expansion of physical space.  Those clouds formed the substance of “Dark Matter”, which restrained and slowed down Dark Energy’s self-expansion of space.

 

In the continued absence of “Dark Matter”, the TIME born of “Dark Energy” would last only perhaps nanoseconds, before the demise of such a “Dark Energy-only” cosmos, due to the unlimited excession of its spatial expansion acceleration, perhaps resulting in a ‘“Big Rip”’ ‘disexistentiation’ of the cosmos, long before any self-aware, cosmos-aware humanoids could come into existence within it.

 

In the presence of the “Dark Matter”, born out of the finite limit to that excession, time could stretch, instead, as it has, for billions of years, and continuing still.

 

It is thus, per hypothesis, the opposition, the ‘intra-duality’ of our cosmos as a whole, of “Dark Energy” versus “Dark Matter”, that gifts us our ‘TIME of long duration’.

 

Without the dialectical antithesis of “Dark Energy” versus “Dark Matter”, TIME would be almost instantaneously gone, ‘‘‘in no time at all’’’ – per this, yet another counter-factual thought experiment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information regarding these Seldonian insights, please see --

 

www.dialectics.info

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ – as well as dialectically-illustrated books published by the F.E.D. Press, see –

 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

¡ENJOY!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

 

 

 

Miguel Detonacciones,

 

Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];

Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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