Chapter 123: The World’s Greatest Enigma – Why Do We Laugh?

by Darryl Penney

Abstract: the enigma of laughter is a product of speech and the ability of the mind/brain to think in concepts and contexts that arise from the energy and organisation inherent in the creation equation that formed the universe. Laughter is an expression of emotion and no different to all other forms of emotion, but becomes apparent by the unusual way that the body is forced to expend energy quickly, and when placed in the appropriate context, provides a remarkable insight into our civilisation.

The simplest concept of ‘Why Do We Laugh?’ is probably contained in the abstract because relativity [the same relativity that Einstein encountered] means that there is an associated context that links everything together and unfortunately complicates comprehension, but simplifying and ignoring context has placed our civilisation, and even the world in jeopardy through global warming etc. The reason that we laugh is the same reason that we appreciate music, beauty, architecture, parades, paintings, our flag, church services as well as learning, living and loving and so, it is literally part of everything in the universe. This is the top-down approach that we have always used and relativity says that the bottom-up approach is available and that nothing [0] has the property of forming two independent quantities [1 and (-1)] that are orthogonal, independent yet entangled that can be written as the creation equation (1+(-1))=0, where I call ‘1’ energy and ‘(-1)’ organisation,[similar to Cartesian coordinates in mathematics], but the equation is only stable in an expanding space where ‘1’ and ‘(-1)’ cannot [logically] ever meet. This logical requirement we confabulate as the Big Bang.

You might think that I am ‘pulling your leg’, but empirically, the more energy you put into housework or garden, the more that you organise it and the above is the beginning of a letter to the American Journal of Physics that derives the law of gravitation and Coulombs law of charges for the first time ever [that I know of]. [Absolutes, as ratios destroy relativity, and provide a ‘logical floor’ to determine a universe built on the conservation of energy and organisation, constant speed of light, dark energy and gravity] Physicists may be ‘tickled pink’ because it solves the dilemma of organisation that Einstein introduced [curvature of space] a hundred years ago and shut down fundamental physics because organisation is not recognised in Newtonian physics. I should add that using the orthogonality, above, an all-encompassing physics is easily derived, below.

Having shown that energy is generated when organisation is measured and organisation is generated when energy is measured, the magnitude of each is usually spread over time and dissipates without us knowing. However, a joke is constructed to lead us ‘up the garden path’ until we suddenly realise that something entirely different is the ‘punchline’ and the organisation of the joke in our mind/brain ‘falls into place’ and the associated energy is instantly generated but has no where to go but into a strange release of energy that we call laughter. So, does this explanation seem plausible? Possibly, the best negative example is ‘I don’t get it’ does not provoke laughter and it is obvious why no one laughs at a retelling of a joke.

Conclusion: this letter is a lighthearted attempt to explain the enigma of laughter in a fractal universe based on a creation equation and in the nature of a fractal we are drawn into the generator that presents an all-entangled context that invites exploration. Our civilisation is similarly based on organisation and this is examined in Saving the World – The First Step – The Mechanics of Decision that is currently with the Australian Journal of Business and Economic Studies. Perhaps this letter should have gone to a physics journal, but physics is incomplete and ignores organisation, so, interested readers should consult general mathematical physics that can be found on [darrylpenney.com].

This approach, I believe, solves the enigma of laughter and is so powerful that I have been bold enough to have written steps two and three in draft [Saving the World – The Second Step – Forecasting Chaos, Saving the World – The Third Step – The Holy Grail] where using truths and technology suggests a means of completing the move from survival of the fittest to survival of the best that would allow us to control civilisation by a democratic process using money.

Prediction: this comes about because a conclusion is usually expressed as a concept that generates a number of contexts that relativity and measurement bring into existence and in particular, the specialist/generalist divide is as fundamental as quantum mechanics and relativity and presents an enigma that must be appreciated to stop (so called) super-powers creating fiascos such as the Bay of Pigs through ignorance [The First Step]. It might come as a shock, but the universe that we live in is not the same as the one that we think that we live in! This is shown by the simple requirement of a prediction, to express the other half of relativity, and shows, in its simplicity, our lack of understanding of everything!