Chapter 134: Fixing Physics Finds Social Engineering – the Key to Saving the World

by Darryl Penney

Abstract: compare the relativity of ‘Today’s problems cannot be solved with today’s mind’

Albert Einstein and many great thinkers …

(Fair Food, edited by Nick Rose, p 250)

with ‘“New Think” is the tool that generalists need to save the world from the specialists’ and

the relativity of ‘Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the superman – a rope over an abyss’

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

(Superhuman, Rowan Hooper, p 305)

and social engineering becomes necessary, but where does it come from?

Keywords: “New Think”; Greek-Roman Empire; relativity; the creation equation; the conservation law; quantum gravity; emotion; social engineering; Gibbon; general mathematical physics

Extended abstract: saving the world from ourselves is a top priority and must be based on the social engineering of ourselves which uses philosophy, physics, mathematics etc., but these disciplines are incomplete [being top-down] and we need a new way of thinking [“New Think, concept] and a general mathematical physics [context] derived from the creation equation. Newtonian physics uses a top-down guess at the physical [even the law of conservation of energy is wrong] without accessing the physical creation equation and is restricted in it’s appreciation of energy and ignores the energy of emotion, elegance, beauty etc. created by measuring the organisation. The creation equation allows the physical [bottom-up], the sideways [relativity] and restrictions to be added to the traditional thinking [top-down] to determine ‘truths’ derived (as an example) from the fall of the Greek-Roman Empire that could be used to help derive a social engineering that could be used in our current times. Other examples are the derivation of emotion from religion, why religion is necessary to refine society, a basis to rank religions and why certain religions need to be changed and how they can be modernised. Further, an example is given [using the British Empire] showing how politicians can scientifically choose future outcomes for their countries using social engineering outcomes that are proven to succeed, and with the universe being a fractal, micro-social engineering of ourselves is crucial and necessarily similar, but will have to be left for later.

What If?

The world is a mess because we let it become a mess. Literature says ‘it was the best of times, it was the worst of times’, and that is a ‘truth’ because it restates relativity that encompasses everything to the extent that the universe functions on relativity and its form is a lack of relativity. It is the best of times with electronics, antibiotics, cars, electricity etc. and the worst of times because we have lost control of the world and social engineering is the answer, but remains unappreciated. It is shown, below, that the conservation law in Newtonian physics is wrong, as is the law of gravity and the new conservation law allows energy to be generated from measuring organisation and ‘opens the door’ to social engineering. It was true in prehistory [survival of the fittest] and will be true when we reach Nietzsche’s superman, but we are in a transition period and have performed so badly that the planet is in danger from the effects of uncontrolled population growth. So, let’s see where we went wrong and how to fix it because they say that hindsight has 20/20 vision and we have the Greek-Roman Empire collapse as a taste of what may come. This may seem a grandiose plan, but the truths of “New Think” allow us to extrapolate and relativity requires a plan.

Our brains became larger over millions of years, presumably to think better because the organisation of thought is derived from the ‘burning’ of glucose in the brain, until thinking reached the point of producing religion and art, and then, at a number of places around the world, agriculture sprung into being with the growth of towns etc. It is strange that all of these organisations produce energy: the farmers produce crops [food energy], religions produce ecstasy [emotional energy] and similarly for art, love, elegance, golden triangle etc., that all produce feelings [energy], also, if we see [measure] organisation, such as religious parades, pyramids, marching armies etc., we have feelings generated in us that are emotional energy. Examples are that religions are based on the Golden Rule and generate emotion through their organisation, when we eat food we gain energy that enables us, as an organisation of cells to function and there is the organisation that is within the vegetable, seeds etc. that is food that goes to make the organisation of our body. So, if everything appears as energy and organisation, let’s build on that, and further, let ‘s assume that the universe began from nothing, which is much simpler than postulating that the universe rests on the back of turtles or elephants etc. So, energy and organisation must be related, and putting these three ideas into a modern format (1+(-1))=0, where ‘1’ stands for energy and ‘(-1)’ for organisation, we could guess that this equation generates a fractal that we could call the universe. The concept of a fractal is simple, but we have only known about it recently, which shows the ‘holes’ in our knowledge and also, we are supposed to believe, that our expanding universe started with a Big Bang, where all energy came from nowhere for no reason. I prefer the fractal approach where the universe expands because the equation cannot exist otherwise [a restriction] and that everything was derived from nothing (see below).

I am a generalist and think differently to a specialist because [of relativity and] a different knowledge base, but we use the same software, which is the software that the animals and ourselves evolved [top-down] over 3,000 million years. Specialists have caused the imminent destruction of our civilisation because they have spawned technology without, I believe, the context [generalists and social engineering] to control its effects on civilisation. In simple terms, we need a social engineering based on democracy, the market and governance [that which is good for civilisation] that must all be considered as basic to civilisation and were used by the ancient Greeks and by us today, but we do not understand that they come from the physical [creation equation]. Physics ignores organisation, concentrates on energy and fails to create social engineering that is relative [orthogonal] to material engineering. The market is the relativity of goods [energy] with the restriction of price, with the cheapest winning and democracy is the relativity of concepts with the restriction of the greater numbers winning and that can be written as (1+(-1))=0, where ‘1’ and ‘(-1)’ are concepts and ‘+’ is any-sort of relationship. I call this relationship the mathematics of concept-context arising out of the creation equation and the important point is that both the physical [energy] and organisation are generated by the same equation, and, I believe, generate the universe and everything in it [as a fractal].

The ancient Greeks were noted for their ‘thinking’ that led to science: Euclid and Pythagoras for the organisation of mathematics, Archimedes for the organisation of physics and Plato for the organisation of philosophy and another organisation was music [the relativity of the fractions of a mono-chord based on the non-relativity of the octave] that so impressed the ancient Greeks that they thought that the planets moved to the ‘music of the spheres’. Fast-forward over the Dark Ages to Newton and physics became based on energy and (effectively) forgot organisation. The first law of motion is an approximation [local] because the photon changes energy [colour] as it moves in a gravitational field, which is everywhere and the stated law of conservation of energy is thus wrong [that energy is neither created nor destroyed] as is obvious from the equation that generates the fractal. The creation equation says that energy plus organisation must always equal zero and if either energy or organisation changes, the other must change and is the (new) ‘conservation law’. The second law of motion is a convenience of the mind/brain and is the top-down relative to the bottom-up of the physical that is generated by the creation equation. The third law is a statement of relativity [action and reaction are equal and opposite] apart from the particles, that must be composed of energy and organisation.

It is interesting that the neutron could be the ‘condensation’ of energy into a lower form of energy-organisation and that the neutron can split into a proton and electron through quarks rearranging themselves. Could quarks be an organisational solution because they are never found alone? If they are, they are the organisational end of quantum gravity relative to the law of gravitation (see (4) below). Einstein used the analogy of ‘curved space’ to postulate the doubling of the law of gravity [as was proven by experiment], which Newton himself admitted was an ‘inspired guess’, but the creation equation is linear and organisation takes the place of ‘curved space’ [that can not exist because the creation equation is linear], also notice that the creation equation exists only if the universe is expanding, which it must do for us to be part of it, and below is a simple ratio of the dimensions that define the universe and simply generates quantum gravity.

Form of the Universe

Relativity is the functioning of the universe and a lack of relativity is the form of the universe and a lack of relativity is easily created [and our understanding of the universe] by the ratios of the dimensions [energy (E), organisation (O), time (t) and length (l)] created by expansion. The five absolutes are firstly, the sum of energy and organisation is always zero [from the creation equation (1+(-1))=0], secondly, energy and organisation [dark energy] are necessarily created to balance the necessary expansion [for the creation equation to exist] of the universe [E/t+O/t, all volume], thirdly, the constant speed of light [with respect to any measurer] is l/t (all E and O) and fourthly, gravity [so called quantum gravity] is E/l+O/l (all t). The law of gravitation is:

E(mass1)/l times (for relativity) E(mass2)/l plus O(mass1)/l times (for relativity) O(mass2)/l

Notice that the ‘inverse square law’ is inappropriate and is actually derived from the absolutes and the ‘+’ in the creation equation stands for all relationships [physical, logical, restrictive, use etc.] between two entities. Further, ‘as with the Schrodinger equation itself, we still have no fundamental way of deriving Born’s rule.’ (Beyond Weird, Phillip Ball, p 41) ‘If the amplitude of an electron wavefunction at x is 1 (in some units), and at y it is 2, then repeated experiments to determine the electron’s position will find it at y four times (2×2) more often than at x…. How did Born know this? He didn’t. Again, he “guessed”’. (p 41). In every oscillation between a wave and particle, the particle has to reappear somewhere, and it appears with a probability dependant on the square of the amplitude of the wave because, as quantum gravity [absolute (4)] varies inversely as the separation, relativity requires the inverse square law and there is obviously relativity between the wave and particle.

Fifthly, the role of Occam’s razor and the principle of least action is crucial to the understanding of the functioning of the universe and the latter asks ‘why does light travel in a straight line?’. Newton’s laws of motion say that a photon must travel in a straight line otherwise the laws do not work and so misses out on vital information and is, again, ‘up in the air’. I believe that the answer is that there has to be a unique answer and the only unique answer in every case is the minimum and the organisation that belongs to the minimum energy is the most efficient organisation. I can say this with conviction because if either energy or organisation were not at a minimum, there would be two solutions at the same time and this would cause chaos in the functioning of the universe.

Newtonian physics is a creation of the mind and has nothing to do with the physical until general mathematical physics is used and then it can be seen that additional energy is created from measuring organisation [Newtonian physics says that ‘energy cannot be created of destroyed’] and that shows that social engineering is necessarily orthogonal to material engineering and is the key to controlling our civilisation.

The Form of Social Engineering

‘Decision-making can affect the safety and survival of billions of people. The scientific theory expressed by German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies in his 1905 study The Present Problems of Social Structure, proposes that society can no longer operate successfully using outmoded methods of social management…. social engineering is a data-based scientific system used to develop a sustainable design so as to achieve the intelligent management of Earth’s resources and human capital with the highest levels of freedom, prosperity, and happiness within a population.

As a result of abuse by authoritarian regimes and other non-inclusive attempts at social engineering, the term has in cases been imbued with a negative connotation. In British and Canadian jurisprudence, changing public attitudes about a behaviour is accepted as one of the key functions of laws prohibiting the behaviour. Governments also influence behavior more subtly through incentives and disincentives built into economic policy and tax policy, for instance, and have done so for centuries. R. D. Ingthorsson states that a human being is a biological creature from birth but is from then on shaped as a person through social influences (upbringing/socialisation) and is in that sense a social construction, a product of society.’ (Wikipedia, Social Engineering (Political Science), Overview)

The above quotation suggests that social engineering is important, albeit dangerous, but has no core grounding, and the first step is to actually define a ground-work, which I have tried to do by using bottom-up organisational techniques. I believe that social engineering is necessary to save civilisation from ourselves, but throughout history social engineering has been unrecognised, unappreciated and under-used. The culprit, to a large extent, is Newtonian physics because it is incomplete, does not access the physical and completely ignores society and social organisation. The orthogonal of material engineering is social engineering as can be seen from the creation equation that shows that quantum gravity is a sliding scale [from energy to organisation] based on the hyperbolic [inverse of separation]. In a fractal, quantum gravity is carried into this material [energy] and organisational [social] spread and this is the justification for my saying that the wonders of engineering [sky-scrapers, jet aircraft, bridges etc.] can be reflected in a stable social scene, that is put forward, in a tentative way, in this paper. In other words, not the fraught, over-populated, uncontrolled civilisation of today, but a managed civilisation that lasts.

Adam Smith proposes an ‘Invisible hand’ in economics where, what was good for the person was good for the economy and this is a statement of a fractal that is derived from a simple equation where all parts use the same logical solutions. I am suggesting that the creation equation generates the universe and personal, family, state and country problems have essentially the same solution. Thus, in Economics, microeconomics [business] and macroeconomics [within the country] are the same, but are considered separately for convenience. In the same way, I am suggesting micro-social and macro-social engineering be used for convenience, knowing that they are the same in and cover a wide range of subjects: medical, governance, beauty, religion, parades, buildings etc. In other words, because they are orthogonal, what physics does not cover, bearing in mind that it it is incomplete in itself, the precursor of social engineering covers and when everything is ‘said and done’, they will both form part of “New Think” [concept] and general mathematical physics [context].

Put another way, Newtonian physics generates engineering that provides the structure of our civilisation with infrastructure and specialists generating consumer products [energy], such as phones, antibiotics, television etc., but the creation equation says that a complete physics [general mathematical physics] would generate consumer organisation to balance the effects of the infrastructure so that all Life and the environment would benefit and that would be called “New Think”. From the quotation, ‘as a result of abuse by authoritarian regimes and other non-inclusive attempts at social engineering, the term has in cases been imbued with a negative connotation’, it can be seen that this should not happen because the creation equation produces two restrictions, namely, democracy and the market, where both democracy and the market require knowledgeable participants to make decisions according to the mathematics of concept-context that is immediately obvious from the creation equation. In other words, ‘abuse by authoritarian regimes’ is because they did not understand the ramifications of the creation equation.

Examples of Macro-social Engineering

From the previous paragraph, social engineering has been handled badly in the past and some examples of its usefulness, using “New Think”, might be in order. Firstly, if we take two things and take any sameness out, if nothing is left, we can say that they are the same thing, or, that an orthogonality is left, if something is left, and this has the property that the two things are completely independent except that they are joined at the origin [of the Cartesian coordinates] due to the fractalness of the universe. This is not trivial because quantum mechanics [Heisenberg uncertainty principle] is based on trying to measure [exactly each, means between the two] two, necessarily independent things [and have to remain independent for the universe to exist], position [organisation] and momentum [energy] and should someone succeed, the universe would become chaotic. [The same could be said of energy and time, as they are dimensions that create the absolutes and are generally associated with the principle.] Orthogonality [relativity] is basic to the universe and thus, not surprisingly, to social engineering.

Secondly, the Nazi regime in Germany has a bad reputation for its treatment of ‘undesirables’ in the Second World War, and these ‘undesirables’ can be divided into social ‘misfits’ and the ‘Jewish problem’. Clearly, an orthogonality has been created in the minds of the people through propaganda that these people are ‘different’ and not part of the mainstream population. The first is a problem in micro-social engineering, whilst the second contains a ‘truth’ that a group has deliberately set out to create an orthogonality within the German society based on religion. This resulted in an extreme solution to a stalemate that should and could have been addressed by social engineering. Unifying Germany was presumably the aim and historical solutions have included ‘pogroms’ of various severity, forced conversions, partitioning or migration. Clearly, the political expediency of ‘multiculturalism’ is not stable and orthogonality tells us that in the future the only stable social structure is a number of regions of similar people that inhibit migration between the regions except for trade because the movement of illegal ‘economic’ refugees from poor countries to rich countries is destabilising. The point of this example is not so much to apportion blame but that social engineering may suggest alternative solutions.

Thirdly, consider the conduct of the Japanese soldiers in China, and elsewhere, during the second World War. ‘Many find it difficult to reconcile the barbarism of Nanking with the exquisite politeness and good manners for which the Japanese are renowned.’ (The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang, p 54) For example, ‘After almost sixty years of soul-searching, Nagatomi is a changed man. A doctor in Japan, he has built a shrine of remorse in his waiting room …. I beheaded people, starved them to death, burned them, and buried them alive, over two hundred in all.’ (p 59) Reasons are suggested for this enigma (p 54), but religion may be involved because ‘Shinto is polytheistic and revolves around the kami, supernatural entities believed to inhabit the landscape’ (Wikipedia, Shinto) and is an ancient religion, as is Judaism, above, and they may need re-examining in view of the following.

Fourthly, children in the United States are asking the government to safeguard them at school from ‘school shootings’. One solution bandied about is restrictions on guns, and Australia went down this path, pushed by an overly opportunistic Prime Minister and the country is now unduly suppressed and vulnerable to invasion, whereas, a little thought shows that it is co-workers or classmates that actually do the shootings, and it is their exclusion, bullying, ridicule etc. that is causing the problem and the extreme reaction. If everyone adhered to the Golden Rule [Do to others as you would have them do to you] and were nice to each other, problems like this would not occur. In other words, the students and workers have brought these attacks on themselves and the solution is to ‘love your neighbour’. The Golden Rule seems to be a simple solution, and is nothing more than relativity, but everything in the universe is simple and some religions are built on this simple idea. “New Think” allows us to understand how religions operate and religions are effective because they use the creation equation and the (1) absolute [energy (as emotion) must equal organisation when measured] to create a mystique [emotional energy] around the religion by using a bible of stories, hymns, teachings, rituals, vast cathedrals, churches, robes and other organisations that create energy, in the form of emotion, in their followers [when measuring by sight, sound or imagination]. This emotional energy adds organisation in the form of the Church’s teaching to their daily lives and everyone benefits because the universe is a fractal. Religion is widespread and is one of mankind’s greatest achievements in creating an orthogonality to the savagery of the time that transforms the Golden Rule into institutions that have lasted for thousands of years.

Whilst religion is an orthogonality [to governance] and has brought great benefits [it is a social engineering, as is housing, language etc.], it is necessarily top-down and has done little to help other areas, such as the environment, though there is speculation that the Holy Spirit was originally the environment, was ‘lost’ through lack of use, and forms a Trinity with God the creator [energy, atoms] and the Son as love [context, organisation] in the community. Also, to repeat, Shinto is essentially pagan and the Old Testament is essentially a history and modern civilisation needs the protection and application of social engineering and its insight into guiding and stabilising populations through a Golden Rule. Thus, if the Golden Rule is a good guide, we have firstly, a measure of each religion’s humanity and secondly, a conduit into preserving the environment through the Trinity and thirdly, the Golden Rule should underlie all religions including atheists and form the core to unifying religion world wide. I should emphasise that unifying religion has been one of humanity’s unanswered questions, and yet, in “new Think”, it appears trivial.

Examples of Micro-social Engineering

The ‘macro’ examples above, show how wide-ranging is the scope of social engineering and how religion and government use the same basis to control populations. In ‘micro’, religion and state come together to try to ‘fill the gap’ with limited success in social welfare because they use ‘band-aid’ solutions that lack planning. Just as there is a link between micro and macro social engineering, so there are always links between government, religion etc. and people [fractal] and as an example government must control food producers [to retain soil fertility] and teach people to live healthily because it impacts on future generations and we must always keep in mind that Nietzsche’s superman must be the aim [relativity] for a restarted evolution while we concentrate on day-to-day problems. In other words, social engineering is the planning and policing of society.

For example, consider the impact that today’s actions have on future generations. ‘More than 95% of young women in the United Kingdom have dietary intakes of folate and iron that are below the recommendations for healthy pregnancies’. (Brain Changer, Felice Jacka, p 77), ‘a Finnish study showed that 11-year-old children whose mothers were obese immediately before pregnancy were nearly three times more likely to have an intellectual disability.’, (p 79) considering that 60% of adults in the ‘developed world’ are overweight or obese, ‘children of obese fathers were at increased risk of developing autism and Asperger’s syndrome …. the higher the fathers’ BMI, the greater the risk.’ (p 79) And so on.

It is important that we consider, not only the plethora of individual studies, but how to put them together and mathematics can do this to a certain extent [meta-analysis], but mathematics is incomplete because it is built on the number-line, whereas, by looking at the creation equation, a mathematics of concept-context becomes apparent [based on orthogonality]. For example, looking to buy baked beans at the supermarket, the various products are considered as independent concepts and the context between your mind and the product is rated and a choice is made on the ratings. For example, is normal-salt, low-salt or no-salt better for your health, or don’t you worry? Is imported or locally produced better for the economy? Use the more economical large can, or smaller more convenient can? Perhaps dried beans and fresh tomatoes to save packaging? And so on. It will be appreciated that these concepts are foreign to mathematics because it is currently incomplete.

The Form of Civilisation

Relativity enables us to construct a new way of thinking [“New Think”] as a concept to the context of general mathematical physics that uses sideways relativity of the creation equation with the top-down and bottom-up relativity of organisation to link the mind/brain into the physical. Someone has to decide on the form of our civilisation and that must be by a vote of informed people and one purpose of this paper is to glean that information from the creation equation.

I am intrigued that this theory is so simple that it could have been formulated by the ancient Greeks, but sadly it was not, however, it is a positive that it could have been. Notice that this does not mean a single World government, because that would be unstable because of relativity, however, it does mean trading ‘blocks’ scattered across the globe that fit economically together, as is starting today. [Notice relativity is choice is competition.] Further, there would be a tendency for areas to eventually have the same religions, and populations would be similar in appearance and culture [‘home-grown’] so as to avoid multicultural problems. This is the generalisation of Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ and is applicable to all the dimensions, such as all time, all separation etc. The ancient Greeks, and their ‘successors’, the Romans, were very innovative: war machines, armies, governance etc. and the Empire lasted a long time and that longevity contains ‘truths’ pertinent to our present fraught world situation, so, History is important in that it indicates truths that can be extrapolated to fit our situation.

Firstly, ‘peer review’ is likely to be ‘the blind leading the blind’ unless they first agree on the correct ‘absolutes’, and that is what I am trying to put forward. Secondly, I have heard the question raised as to ‘why the ancient Greeks were so intellectually productive?’ and I might hazard a guess based on the above. I stressed organisation as context without centres of learning, bearing in mind that Plato started an Academy, and that it was the practice for young men to have a mentor, not formal teaching based on past teaching. In other words, there were no specialists and everyone was a generalist. Universities of today, I believe, have gone down the wrong path by not having generalists to breakdown the ‘silo’ effect of specialists. Presumably, they do not realise the effects of this and more can be found in Too Big to Walk ( Brian J. Ford, p 342). Thirdly, the result of the Michelson-Morley experiment [that the speed of light is constant to an observer irrespective of their motion] is personal as it has ‘bugged me’ for 50 years [that the speed of light reacts with the observer’s mind] and the fact that one absolute, above, is precisely that, shows that this theory has merit. Fourthly, this theory has even more merit because the relationship of energy, as emotion, and the accompanying [but orthogonal] organisation produces an explanation for art, religion, the state, governance and all the parameters that we need to manage our civilisation and are part of a general mathematical physics. Further, I suggest that they are both necessary and, through the creation equation, sufficient to organise society, stabilise population and restart evolution.

I am associated with the Pebbly Beach Anti-ageing Philosophy Centre that, in a fractal, applies the same principles to all groups from the personal to world government. The bigger picture is shown by considering history: the rise of the Greece-Roman Empire, its downfall according to Gibbon, the Dark Ages, the seeking of the remnants of the Roman Empire led to the Renaissance, the Empires that colonised the world, the European Common Market, the reason for the British breakaway [Brexit] and the possible future trade areas. The above allows us to understand the ‘big picture’ and the social forces that are needed to create it and keep it running. What if the ancient Greeks used the absolutes above instead of Earth, Fire, Water and Air and there was no Dark Age? ‘Classical elements typically refer to the concepts of earth, water, air, fire, and (later) aether, which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances. Ancient cultures in Persia, Greece, Babylonia, Japan, Tibet, and India had similar lists.’ [Internet] Unfortunately, they followed the norm.

What if the above allowed us to see where the Greek-Roman Empire went wrong and why it collapsed. The world may be in a similar situation today, and we have no ideas or answers unless we can use the above to work with, and if we can, it is social engineering and may enable us to overcome the problems of today.

The Greek-Roman Empire

Firstly, I am a generalist and know no more History than the average person, though I did learn a modicum of Latin at school. Secondly, the universe is a fractal [from the creation equation] and a property of a fractal is that the form and function are transferable at each level and this is shown by Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ in economics. Thus, the individual, family unit, city, country and empire have the same form and function and the following condensation is relevant to all:

‘The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.’ (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon, Chapter 38). These sentiments are similar to the suggestion that in the recent financial crisis, brokerage firms and banks were ‘too big to fail’, not that they were inherently unable to fail, but that it was necessary to ensure that they did not fail, for the common good. Clearly, it is to our benefit to see our civilisation continue and Rome appears to have anticipated modern cities with blocks of high-rise units.

‘Gibbon became an expert on Roman history, publishing several legendary volumes around the time of the American Revolution. His most famous work was The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon’s central thesis was that Rome didn’t fall all at once, floored by some massive imperial heart attack. Rather, it hemorrhaged to death from the cumulative effects of thousands of small sociopolitical pinpricks. These punctures ranged from collective self-centeredness (the citizens lost something he called “civic virtue”) to military weakening (the defense duties were outsourced to uncommitted mercenaries) to Christianity (the hope for a better life led to a disinterest in the present one). These cultural paper cuts, in his view, slowly bled life from one of the largest empires of its time. It then died of exhaustion.’ (Too Big to Walk, Brian J. Ford, p 210)

Firstly, ‘we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long’ shows that social engineering worked for the Romans in spite of the ‘collective self-centeredness’ imbued by modern living without the engineering controls of today. ‘The insulae were noisy …. they couldn’t keep out the constant commotion of Roman streetlife….. But worse than the noise and lack of sanitation was the fear that your building might collapse or burn down, as happened to a number of poor-quality blocks. …. Despite the discomforts, by AD 300 the majority of Rome’s population lived in insulae. There were over 45,000 such buildings, and in contrast, fewer than 2,000 single-family homes. For the first time in history, practical tall structures for hundreds of people, spread over many storeys, were built…. was the start of what would eventually become the skyscraper.’ (Built, Roma Agrawal, p 121)

Life in these insulae would have been difficult with street noise and without running water, electricity, toilets, bathrooms etc. that we take for granted today and contributed to a lack of “civic virtue” and the demise of the city, but it is the blueprint for today’s cities. However, insulae suggest the ‘island effect’ of ‘dwarfism’ and general lack of fitness that is becoming so prevalent today with poor food choices and lack of exercise contributing to the 60% of overweight and obese people, especially in cities. So, can densely populated cities produce Nietzsche’s supermen? Do we need country and suburbs for a relaxed lifestyle? Do we need controls on the size of the population? These are questions at the heart of social engineering. If I might make a generalist comment, the living conditions of Gibbon’s and the Romans’ time were similar and it would have been difficult to see [lack of relativity] the added allure of dense city living with modern bathrooms, toilets, running water and soundproofing. However, in the context of social engineering, the public servants [Fair Trading] managed to lose the right to require carpets on floors and now allows ‘doer-uppers’ to use tiles and other hard flooring that transmit noise through the sub-frame of the building. Given the desirability of city living today, I would say that the conclusion above, that Rome ‘died of exhaustion’ is not true, but that the empire died of a lack of planning [social engineering] and our civilisation is in the same danger today.

Where to?

Our civilisation, like all of those before, will conclude in chaos unless we use new techniques, such as a new way of thinking, that I call “New Think” (concept) and the associated general mathematical physics (context) and I say this because the universe is a fractal and truths repeat. Rome showed that city-living is desirable, even with the poor housing facilities that existed then, but we need assurances and something new because the Roman Empire still collapsed. If we continue with unrestrained population growth, something will break down eventually. Mankind has always felt strongly about being governed and thought deeply about being subject to justice, consequently, governance uses the creation equation’s relativity to express an orthogonality between government and the justice system, such that each is independent of the other. The police form an orthogonality with each. Physics is incomplete, but when made complete, by adding the physical, in the form of the creation equation, it becomes apparent that social engineering is orthogonal to materials engineering with “New Think” orthogonal to both and this allows the disparate studies in a modern society to be brought together into a general mathematical physics.

It is a positive that the ancient Greeks could have developed this theory, because in a fractal, the same rules apply for the individual as for the economy, but notice that this does not mean a single World government, because that would be unstable due to relativity, however, it does mean trading ‘blocks’ scattered across the globe that fit economically together, as we find today and further, there would be a tendency for areas to have the same religions and similar populations that were ‘home-grown’, so as to avoid multicultural problems with immigration. There is one truth that evolution shows consistently, and that is competition, and these distinct ‘market’ areas, required by relativity, allow competition between them and restarts evolution [choice and competition are orthogonal]. Another truth is that there is no need for huge populations because intelligence is gained by social engineering through education and personality , and by controlling population and using technology, we can finally allow the planet some peace to mend itself.

Conclusion: in all probability, our civilisation, like those before it, will ‘crash and burn’, but social engineering has promise, as shown above, to indicate the changes needed in religions to make religion and government work together [they have the same basis] and to use the historical truths and modern technology that can lead to Nietzsche’s superman, competition and world peace. “New Think” is inevitable because it is an extension that is available to our current limited way of thinking and the question is whether we can effect a ‘soft landing’ or will civilisation be reduced to a ‘core’ of survivors?

Prediction: it seems strange that I should comment on religions, and especially those that I know little about, but it shows the ‘power’ of social engineering that the suggestion that a small addition of the Golden Rule is, to humanity [as social engineering], as important as ensuring adequate foundations to buildings [in materials engineering]. This shows how social engineering has a long way to catch up to materials engineering, and when it does, there should be no more problems.

Is the above statement justified? The definition, above, of social engineering was no definition at all, just a collection of thoughts, and one that has not been addressed is ‘that a human being is a biological creature from birth but is from then on shaped as a person through social influences (upbringing/socialisation) and is in that sense a social construction, a product of society.’ Social engineering cannot currently exist because any definition requires the bottom-up, and physics ignores the energy [emotion] derived from organisation, as above. The closest that we can get, top-down, is social psychology and ‘there was no surer way of bringing an end to Sherif’s evening seminars than …. asking how one could manipulate warring classes or nations into peace.’ (The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave Experiment, Gina Perry, p 314)

The answer to ‘world peace’ is not social psychology, but social engineering by knowing how to socially construct nations, and as above, the first step is religions with a common Golden Rule. Secondly, closing borders and generating a common people in trading groups that are too big to invade [such as the Roman Empire] allows the competition necessary for evolution and agreements can be made to decrease populations through social engineering. Thirdly, a consideration of micro-social engineering and restrictions will have to wait.

Case Study – Future Prediction: What Should Britain Do?

This is a future prediction, that, for the first time, is based on a scientifically reliable extrapolation that enables leaders to accurately determine a future course for their country with respect to the rest of the world by using a new social engineering based on “New Think” [concept] and general mathematical physics [context].

Current situation: ‘In England and Wales, the share of the population that does not categorise itself as white British has risen from around 2% in the 1960s and perhaps 7% in the early 1990s to nearly 20% in 2011. In predicting how an individual voted in the British Remain-Leave EU referendum, the strongest correlate with a “leave” vote – after concern about European integration and the loss of British sovereignty – was a person’s attitude to immigration.’ (The Human Tide, Paul Morland, p 25) Also, Britain, only a hundred years ago, controlled an empire comparable to that of the ancient Romans and yet are now are losing their place in the world. What should they do?

The British Empire of a hundred years ago encircled the world and collapsed, I believe, for the same reasons as the Roman Empire collapsed, and that was because leaders did not know what they were doing, or where they should go. Britain, like the ancient Romans set up a trading empire because they had few resources of their own [after land degradation] and needed trade to prosper and feed the inhabitants. Europeans, a few hundred years ago, took advantage of the lack of resistance to ‘Old World’ diseases in the ‘New World’ and Australia to take over continents and re-stock them with European immigrants with their own religion and language. Remnants of that empire remain and social engineering, above, suggests, in an overarching sense, that a new trading ‘bloc’ should be set up based on countries with the same religion, ethnicity, disease tolerance and language that fit well with the old British Empire, but what form should it take?

This simplified example shows that social engineering affects world events in the same way that it affects countries, families and individuals, as should be expected in a fractal and further discussion will have to be left for later.

Further predictions: the universe works through relativity and its structure is formed by a lack of relativity [absolutes] and this means that the top-down thinking that has been used for 3,000 million years needs improvement [to the software] by including the bottom-up organisation of the physical, relativity and restrictions [“New Think”]. Firstly, one restriction is racism, which, top-down, is against the teachings of the Church and the laws of the government because society needs to become unified, but, on the other hand it is, bottom-up and physically, an expression of relativity [more accurately, orthogonality] that has to be there and we call it speciation and there are millions of examples of different species of animals etc. throughout time and space [fractal]. Orthogonality is the physical creation of two independent ‘things’ [such as energy and organisation] that only exist when they obey a restriction [expanding universe] and we must do the same if we wish to create a stable civilisation. Thus, each marketing empire is different racially, but within each empire, micro-social engineering is bringing a diverse population into one race in seeking an aim of a superman. Inherent in this is competition that obeys the physical [bottom-up] and civilising [top-down] requirements of a stable civilisation within Nietzsche’s transition from animal to superman.

As an example, racism on the football field should decrease with the expectation that individuals are moving [over generations] to a common norm and those who wish to keep separate racial identities should emigrate or seek a separate country. This provides, I believe, a reason for the ire generated by Adam Goodes in promoting his indigenous culture in an overt way on the football field. In the example above, the Jews apparently consider themselves ‘hard done by’ and call it the ‘holocaust’, but in a relativistic universe, blame cannot be apportioned unless it is based on an absolute [or truth] and thus, they are using ‘trial by media’ to accuse Germany, although Germany had, in a social engineering sense, a right to determine its population mix.

Secondly, it is a truth that people hate change, but change must come, because our civilisation is facing extinction if we continues as we are doing. Unrestrained population growth always causes problems of war, pestilence and famine, and anticipated population growth appears to have caused the two World Wars of the last century and we are starting to see uncontrolled and illegal population movements around the world in search of a better life. ‘The First World War had among other things been caused by fear and suspicion based on mutual dependence and competitive demography, Britain and France fearing Germany’s growth, Germany fearing Russia’s growth and its own dependence on British goodwill for food supplies. The Second World War was in turn in no small measure the result of Hitler’s obsession with population, although his views were hardly unique.’ (The Human Tide, Paul Morland, p 101)

Thirdly, the over-riding message of this paper is that everything, except the absolutes, is relative to something else, as can be seen from the creation equation and this shows that the Roman Empire is similar to our modern cities, and our cities will suffer the same fate as Rome, which is apparently the same as every other empire, unless we heed the relativity of population and food supply. Put simply, city life leads to population increases and pressure is put on farmers to produce more, so, more marginal land is used, which leads to soil depletion and erosion [see Dirt: The Erosion of Civilisations, David R. Montgomery, chapter 4, Graveyard of Empires]] and eventually the collapse of the empire. The answer, I believe, lies within the next paragraph.

Fourthly, some people believe that every embryo has a right to life, and some believe that contraception is wrong, and these attitudes will have to change if we are to control population in the future, as we must. I believe that the use of voluntary social incentives can solve this problem in an acceptable way, because the cost of having children is borne by the parent only because they believe that their offspring will have a good chance to survive in the future. That is micro-social engineering and will have to wait, but turning “New Think” onto ourselves can do as much for ourselves as technology did to our lifestyle. These are exciting times, but a lot of people do not want to see a slowdown in business, employment etc. and so, these are times fraught with problems.

References: are not given because the creation equation is the absolute and I derived it from first principles, however, if more information is required, it might be found on darrylpenney.com when required.