COSMOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND PHYSICS -ALEXIS KARPOUZOS
The universe is not a world of separate things and events but is a cosmos that is connected, coherent, and bears a profound resemblance to the visions held in the earliest spiritual traditions in which the physical world and spiritual experience were both aspects of the same reality and man and the universe were one. The findings that justify this new vision of the underlying logic of the universe come from almost all of the empirical sciences: physics, cosmology, the life sciences, and consciousness research. They explain how interactions lead to interconnections that produce instantaneous and multifaceted coherence–what happens to one part also happens to the other parts, and hence to the system as a whole. The sense of sacred oneness experienced by our ancestors that was displaced by the unyielding material presumptions of modern science can be restored, and humanity can once again feel at home in the universe.
The universe is not a world of separate things and events but is a cosmos that is connected, coherent, and bears a profound resemblance to the visions held in the earliest spiritual traditions in which the physical world and spiritual experience were both aspects of the same reality and man and the universe were one. The findings that justify this new vision of the underlying logic of the universe come from almost all of the empirical sciences: physics, cosmology, the life sciences, and consciousness research. They explain how interactions lead to interconnections that produce instantaneous and multifaceted coherence–what happens to one part also happens to the other parts, and hence to the system as a whole. The sense of sacred oneness experienced by our ancestors that was displaced by the unyielding material presumptions of modern science can be restored, and humanity can once again feel at home in the universe.
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and forces. A body on the move and a force empowered have an effect in space and<br />
time and this transforms their curvature. This works vice versa as well, the curvature<br />
of space and time affects the way in which the bodies move and the way in which the<br />
forces act. Space and time not only affect, but are also affected by whatever takes<br />
place in the universe. The curvature of space - time leads to the perception of a<br />
universe finite and infinite at the same time.<br />
Well, since time is relative and depends equally on the gravity field where the<br />
observation is taking place and on the speed of the body being observed, the only<br />
stable meaning that we can attribute to it, is its flexibility. But, in fact this flexibility is<br />
nothing else than the strain of space. Besides, when one part of a double (and<br />
reversible) being becomes relative as a size, the same thing happens directly versa<br />
to the size of the other part. Namely, as one part, time, becomes relative, the other<br />
one, space, becomes absolute. This is the condition or requirement in order the<br />
space - time can be a piece of information. Space is the piece of information, while<br />
time is its entropy when the symmetry of information is broken. We, as human<br />
creatures, move in its space - time.<br />
Time, Entropy, Brain<br />
In the frame of the universalspace-time continuum, time is relative and as a<br />
consequence space is absolute. How does this reverse ratio lie in the eyes of an<br />
observer? The answer can be divided into two parts:<br />
a) The reverse ratio, in the eyes of an outer observer would seem like an expansion<br />
of space. b) On the other hand, a participatory observer would experience this<br />
expansion of space through the growing of his own age. Consequently, a conscious<br />
and self-aware observer would observe the expansion of the universe on the one<br />
hand, and on the other he would measure the decrease of his own time.<br />
These parallel processes, if examined on the basis of their phenomenological<br />
intuition, are presented as relational: increase of the disorder (or uncertainty) degree,<br />
which is an entropy increase, both as a behavior of the universe (expansion) and as<br />
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