Chapter 126: A New Way of Thinking Applied to the Greatest Enigmas – Why Do We Laugh, What is the Universe and God?

by Darryl Penney

Abstract: the creation, the form and the working of the universe is usually considered to be the work of God and laughter as a ‘gift of the gods’ and the solution of all this has (literally) been ‘under our noses’ in the guise of ‘why do we laugh’. 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 defines the universe because an orthogonality includes a probability space that is true for all concepts. Laughter is an expression of emotion and is no different to all other forms of energy, 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 surprising insight into our civilisation because no one has seriously considered the question of ‘what sort of universe do we live in?’. This question is of the utmost importance to a parasite like us because we need to become symbiotic with our host, the environment, for us to survive in the long-term. The time, and opportunity has come to bring an improvement to the ‘way we think’ by using a more appropriate organisational ‘software’ to bring the ‘way we think’ into line with the mind/brain’s physical potential by using a general mathematical physics structure that will give us the tools for ‘saving the world’.

For millions of years the hominid brain has been getting larger and consuming more energy and from 50,000 years ago it passed a boundary that allowed art [energy] and organisation in the form of cave paintings, stone tools, burial rituals, carvings, kingdoms, religions, technology etc. We should be proud of our accomplishments, even if there are a few problems occurring that we cannot overcome, such a excess population that is threatening the world with global warming, destroying the environment, international travel that leaves us open to epidemics etc. but what if we are using an inferior version of software in our mind/brain? After all, evolutionary truths produced our mind/brain and it is the best possible [given the limitations of evolution], but science is software that was designed by us and we may have produced a inept product because we did not understand our universe. This is a scary though, that might be true!

There is no simple concept to ‘why do we laugh?’ because the answer requires exposing the inner workings of the universe. Relativity [the same relativity that Einstein encountered] means that there is an associated context that links everything together and unfortunately that 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.

Starting at the beginning, two independent things [(+1) energy and (-1) organisation] can be created from nothing and this situation is stable forever if they are kept apart [the universe is expanding] and the form [fractal] that is produced is (1+(-1))=0 and it functions according to true, false, true and false at different times and chaos (true and false at the same time) [logic of the half-truth]. This shows that everything (+1) is relative to something else (-1) and the only absolutes are the ratios of the dimensions that are created from an expanding space [energy, organisation, length and time] and these absolutes produce the universe: total energy (+1) plus total organisation (-1) always equal zero for all time (the conservation of (total) energy), distance divided by time is constant for all energy and organisation (the speed of light is constant to the measurer [measurer is due to relativity that explains the Michelson Morley experiment and Einstein’s postulate]), energy and organisation divided by volume (dark energy creation to create continuity as the universe expands, for all time) and energy and organisation divided by distance (gravity) for all time.

This organisation/energy solution with logical restrictions and the absolutes force a relationship called Euler’s equation that determine the form of the universe [(e to the power i times pi +1) = 0 can be written (e to the power i times pi + e to the power 0) = 0, which is an expression of orthogonality and describes an expanding [e, simple interest expansion] sphere [pi] from 0 symmetrical [i] through the centre. A sphere [of energy and organisation] can only expand if energy and organisation appear as dark energy/organisation [per unit of volume] to produce continuity. The law of gravity and Coulomb’s law of charges show relativity as the product of the two absolutes (energy of one mass/separation times the other mass/separation and the organisation/separation times the other organisation/separation) that are then summed to give double the Newtonian effect as Einstein predicted [twice (because of curved space, surely a guess) the product of the masses divided by the square of the separation (Newton’s guess)]. The universe becomes a dynamic organisational system defined by choice as evidenced by the ‘shimmer’ of the wave/particle duality required by relativity as the (constant) sum of two varying terms [energy and organisation].

Neanderthals … diverged genetically at least 800,000 to 400,000 years ago. Although there was a modicum of interbreeding between the two species … they were skilled and intelligent hunters … buried their dead simply, and left almost no traces of symbolic behavior such as art.’ (The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman, p 105) The Neanderthal’s brain was as large or larger than modern humans and from the above, an increase in complexity [and energy consumption] occurred that produced art, religion, farming etc. and success at life in general. The indented above shows that the simplest bottom-up organisation [context] determines the construction and working of the universe and thus defines the handiwork of God [concept]. Further, there can only be one God because the universe uses the lowest energy [principle of least action] and least organisation [Occam’s razor]. In other words, the plethora of religions are based on tradition and dogma and the emotion that they produce is no different to that produced by the state’s monumental buildings and infrastructure.

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 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 [explicitly] in Newtonian physics. [Other reasons are the Michelson-Morley finding that the speed of light is relative to the measurer that Einstein used in his Special Theory etc.] 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 [this is contrary to the (current) law of conservation of energy that is incomplete]. 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 examples are ‘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. However, it is no laughing matter that the above shows that Newtonian physics is incomplete and that Einstein, in introducing ‘curved space’, shut down fundamental physics a hundred years ago [http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-philosophy-religion/tim-maudlin-defeat-reason], along with the example referred to above and diffraction, which Newton studied unsuccessfully, is simply the effect of gravity, after all, the law of gravitation, as above, with organisation explicit, is obviously quantum gravity.

Prediction: this comes about because a conclusion is usually expressed as concepts that generates a number of contexts that relativity and measurement bring into existence and in particular, the specialist/generalist divide is a fundamental enigma (as current thinking has made quantum mechanics and relativity etc.), yet macroscopic and part of our normal world and presents an enigma that must be appreciated to stop (so called) super-powers creating fiascos such as the Bay of Pigs through ignorance. This specialist/generalist divide is also the reason that universities cannot solve the world’s problems and it might come as a shock, but again, no laughing matter, that the universe that we live in is not the same as the one that we think that we live in!

Science and religion have played top-down ‘mind games’ for 2,500 years and it is time to ‘change horses’ and consider ‘saving the world’ [see Facebook] from the mess that we have created. Consider that we have evolved through countless generations over 3,000 million years and we have only (probably) a couple of generations in which to fix the population problem. Unfortunately, we face the truth from evolution that the established continue on, and the new generation competes, so, be warned that the establishment will obstruct change [specialist/generalist divide].

Overview: everything is entangled and I believe that this letter shows a better way of thinking and whilst science is constructed on concepts [Euclid’s geometry] that give answers and is useful, they are not necessarily correct [caused the shutdown of fundamental physics] and the shortcomings [of current organisation] have caused the world’s problems. To ‘save the world’ requires the above in the form of general mathematical physics [two orthogonalities, conclusion/prediction (concept/context) and bottom-up/top-down] and this new way of thinking finally uses the orthogonality that the universe is built on.

Finally, no references are cited because everything can be derived simply from the first principles and the examples given above. However, it is pointless ‘reinventing the wheel’ and most of it will be on my website darrylpenney.com when required.