Emergence Theory: A Layperson's Guide

hi I'm CLE Irwin the founder of quantum gravity research we believe that there is no fundamental separation between spirit and matter and over these years we've produced about a 100 peer- Review papers in mathematics and physics and the interpretations of quantum mechanics like why it is that a conscious person measuring and observing something physical changes the physical behavior of the system and we want to keep going because we haven't fully unified spirit and matter in a way that is making predictions of physically realistic behavior and we've had to do a 40% reduction in our budget

because I have run in personally to some temporary Financial challenges and I've never asked for money because I'm not comfortable doing that actually but I'm asking now I really need your help the whole team at quantum gravity research needs your help we want to keep pushing the mission forward we want to lean into it and finish the mission and so we're asking for $1 a month month if you feel moved to help with more great but at least $1 a month from enough of our followers will help us get over the hump to keep pushing

forward with this Mission so I appreciate you even considering the request even if you can't do it and thank you for believing in the power of ideas and Consciousness to change the world please click the link in the description below to join our giving Circle I want to tell you 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 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 its 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

or a particular 8D Crystal yep that's right an eight-dimensional crystal is projected to 4D at a very particular angle which forms a 4D quasi Crystal and from this 4D quasi Crystal they derive a 3D quasi Crystal which they believe is the fundamental substructure of all of reality this 3D quasi Crystal has a fundamental building block a tetraedron 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 plank length it's 10 to the 35 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 oh look Professor Einstein you look so cute do I look pretty here no wait that's my

bad side but if I go good what if I stick out my tongue like this they're good oh uhoh our best physics theories I Stein'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 [Music] place we need a new Theory and such a theory is what 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 planks 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 [Music] constants quantum mechanics and general relativity on the other hand do make good predictions but they don't explain the fundamental constants either Professor Einstein why does the speed of light have the exact value that it does then to put it plainly [Music] security so what 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 is 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 reality is made of information mhm nope yes it is made of information no okay so what is it made of if not information energy energy is information that's stupid energy is the potential for a particle to change its position potential is information energy is information no it's information M then what is it not information then what is it not [Music] information reality is geometric

a geometric language in the form of geometric symb symbol ISM 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 it we we look at something and we match it as 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 C can we get some dramatic music [Music] here because meaning is subjective for it to even exist it needs to be perceived or measured by some form of Consciousness Einstein showed how the past and the future exist 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 mm film there are 24 frames a second there's no actual movement in a movie there's just a sequence of

Frozen frames now remember how I told you about the plank length of space which is the smallest length possible well there is also a plank 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 fro 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 [Music] movie see how all frames exist in Einstein SpaceTime 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 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 I need a drink is this even possible can me 20 years from now influence me now just as I influence her so can me 5 minutes from now influenced me 10 minutes ago just as me 10 minutes ago influences me as a baby just as me as a baby influences me on my death bed

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 we're some kind of programmed animation

or something that's what they used to believe though years ago it was popular to believe in the somewhat bummer idea of reality being a deterministic program playing itself out light is scattered by electrons that is bounced off electrons 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 free will work one of

the most surprising discoveries of quantum physics is that reality only exists when it is observed that literally particles do not exist until they are observed famous physicist 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 wilchek 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 that is a model entity

whose States corres respond to a recognizable caricature of conscious awareness an entity an observer so Frank wilch 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 that 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 I'm [Applause] [Music] conscious Consciousness relates deeply to physics in ways not yet fully understood in fact Consciousness is kind of like one

of the least understood things in 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 wner 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 plank length units just

like the two-dimensional pixels on your computer screen it's good to be made of pixels the mathematics indicated this mathematics I love mathematics your pizza professor and pizza oh I love pizza especially pixelated the pizza and interestingly there was no solid experimental evidence for smooth in other words not pixelated SpaceTime Pizza not pixelated not pixelated pixelated they are not pixelated not pixelated yes you are morons your Maza is pixelated this is smooth there is no evidence of that and the mathematics show it is pixelated so it must be pixelated oh that's interesting it must be pixelated

on the other hand most scientists agree that a length can be no shorter than the plank lengths which suggests reality is pixelated there is no length shorter than the pl length that means reality is pixelated I'm not pixelated I'm not dude you're kind of being a little like one those people who deny Evolution because they can't handle the fact their ancestors were monkeys are you a monkey huh are you a little monkey we believe that until a quantum gravity Theory a pixelated SpaceTime 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 including gravity 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 an 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 eight-dimensional shape and this Crystal is known as the E8 [Music] lattice to generate that 3D quasi Crystal the substructure at the pixelated fabric of reality we project this 8D Crystal to 4D 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 goset polytope when the gossip polytope is projected to 4D it becomes two identical shapes

shapes of different sizes the ratio of their sizes is a unique number 0.618 also known as the golden [Music] 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 celest scales ever so interestingly it appears in black holes I don't want to fly into a black hole I wish I never see eyes your [Music] existence okay let's get serious for a second here are three quick facts for you science heads the

golden ratio is the precise point where a black hole's 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 math right now

and I'll reward you with some amazing footage of John malovich getting a pie in the face there's a type of mathematics called Matrix mathematics no not that type of [Music] Matrix Matrix math 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 16 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 Egan value some Egan values are called trivial these are values like 1 2 and zero and some are called non-trivial and those are all sorts of more complex looking numbers so here's the interesting part was that interesting part oh yes here the highest probability non-trivial Egan values that show up in binary matrices are ready for this the golden ratio and minus1 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 okay good job bearing with me so here's your reward John malovich getting a pie in the face no I I don't want no no but I'm not John movich hi the golden ratio appears to start Lan accuracies in many other ways throughout the Universe and scales both large and small it is so prevalent that 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 ratio's 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

plank 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 E8 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 [Music] place a universal Collective Consciousness is one answer but that sounds new age and religious now nowadays a good number of physicists discuss 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 universe is would also supposedly be a simul 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 may be 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-organized 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

corks 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 SpaceTime ahead of us because it is possible

it is inevitable in fact according to the evidence of retrocausality time Loops that inevitable future is co-creating us right now just as we are co-creating [Music] it [Music] [Music]