Asymmetry in the Big Bang Cosmology

     In the final season of The Big Bang Theory, Amy and Sheldon win the Nobel Prize in Physics for their theory of Super Asymmetry.  The theory is likened to supersymmetry, only it operates in higher dimensions.  While the theory on paper is nothing but hokum, to use one of Sheldon's favorite words, it suggests something interesting about the structure of the universe.  Bearing in mind that Super Asymmetry is not a real theory in physics, something similar may be appropriate for what I am about to describe.

     Two of the greatest mysteries in physics right now are what generates dark matter and dark energy.  Dark matter is invisible matter that compensates for variances in cosmological physics.  Dark energy is an even more mysterious force that is causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate.

    I used to think these were merely the properties of space, a symptom of the universe's shape we cannot visualize.  Thanks to Sheldon, Amy, and recently a talk show interview featuring Steven Colbert with Russell Brand, I've become open to the possibility that there is more to these dark entities than meets the eye, for lack of a better expression.  The question physicists need to ask is, what could possibly be the source of immaterial energy that operates in higher dimensions to produce such effects?  Instead of continuing to look outward, I believe they need to start looking inward.

    What they might find is that dark matter is the residue of expired life in quantum form, i.e. spirits and mental projections of the physical matter sometimes seen in altered states.  Essentially, the matter of spirit transformed into an immaterial ether than can only be measured from a distance and not in proximity by the power of our instruments.

    Secondly, that dark energy may be the exponential growth of memory itself lodged between the habitats of space-time.  We all have memories, we all dream, we all imagine places based on our memories.  Most animals do the same, and I don't see why they wouldn't on the trillions of other planets that might harbor life.  Think of how magnificently expansive dreams are, how they seem to blow a memory up like a balloon, allowing for maximum flexibility at any moment, able to grasp the far-reaches of our neurons like quantum teleportation, and you might get an idea of why the universe is accelerating.  It's the accumulated dreams and memories of the living (and especially the deceased) that are inflating the horizon by creating space inside the fabric, not outside.  Now imagine this happening on the trillions of other planets simultaneously.  Expansion started accelerating roughly 5 billion years after the Big Bang, which would have coincided with the first life forms advanced enough to create such memory-space.  Only when life ceases to exist could the memories dissipate, possibly allowing for a retraction of the universe, as predicted in the Big Crunch scenario.  Since I don't believe in the mortality of beings that have transcended the physical universe, I don't imagine that ever happening.

    The tie-in with supersymmetry is that surely there are areas of the universe that are more fertile for life to evolve, such as ours.  The more advanced the mind, the more memory-space that is created, for the energy of thoughts cannot be destroyed.  Our planet would have a relatively high index of such a measurement, since human beings are likely more advanced than 99.9% of species in the universe.  It creates an asymmetric imbalance in our portion of the galaxy, which skews it in some higher dimension I'm not able to fully understand.  But what I can imagine is each galaxy having at least one such species as ours, each with their own dream planes, heavens, hells, and etheric strata, that each galaxy is given a substantial amount of juice to accelerate away from each other.  The only ones that attract are obviously bound by gravitational forces stronger than spiritual ones, such as ours and Andromeda, set to collide in a few billion years.

    Physics has reached an impasse because these are things that cannot be measured, only inferred.  It is a philosophy, not a science.  But it is a very good one.  If energy is neither created nor destroyed, and we die with a whole body's worth, where does it all go if not the invisible space beyond?  I believe we visit that space every night in our dreams.  Thus the evidence seems irrefutable that the dark spaces of the universe are created by the accumulation of mind.

Moronic Mormonism: Polygamy and Distortions of History

     The Mormons are aggressive recruiters of a disturbed faith.  Don't ever fall victim to their great scam.  In The Book of Mormon, history is grossly rewritten.  The writer and prophet Joseph Smith, a confabulist who'd previously dabbled in black magic, went to great lengths to appeal to American ideals at the time, including manifest destiny and the racial purity of the white man.  Smith's history has a broken sect of Israelites in 600 BC migrating all the way to the Americas, where they established a new colony before anyone else- natives and 16th century explorers alike.  They did not find any natives on their journey; rather, Native Americans are merely the offspring of the settlers, and the more nefarious ones at that.  The favored settlers were white in color- also a historical inaccuracy, as the Israelites 2,500 years ago probably did not look Caucasian.

    This story appeals to so many Americans because it strikes at the heart of our imperialist manifesto as New World pioneers.  I don't know how much headway the Mormons have made outside the U.S., but it doesn't seem impressive.  That it is largely an American phenomenon suggests that it fails to capture the attention of international cultures, unlike its parent religion Christianity; and Buddhism, which didn't even need missionaries.

    The danger in succumbing to such radical beliefs is that it ensconces one in a perspective that is rigid and prejudice.  The narrow interpretation offered by Mormonism opens the door to sinful derivatives like polygamy and the hyper-patriarchy of the more fundamentalist sects, some which harvest human rights violators who are "protected" in the name of religion by their state's constitution.  Specific criminal Mormon patriarchs who are guilty of statutory rape and incest can be found in Jon Krakauer's arguably "true crime" book Under the Banner of Heaven.  It's hard to believe some state laws are defenseless against freedom of religion, particularly when it comes to violation of other basic rights, but some of these patriarchs have gotten away with them because they feel it is their divine right to do so.  They are akin to the tyrants of history who felt they had holy mandates to take whatever they wanted, without regard for anyone's feelings.  A 13 year old girl who was brought up in a Mormon fundamentalist community has no inkling about the basic civil rights she was given at birth, because they are taught to be subservient to patriarchs their whole childhood.  It's no different from a culture we would now view as savage because they sacrificed animals or even people to appease their gods.

    I want to state firmly that there is no archaeological evidence for the Mormon version of history.  Native Americans migrated from Siberia long before Europeans or anyone in the far-flung Middle East.  This was an attractive fantasy for white-centric outcasts who wanted more wives than they could handle, at a time when urban feminism was buried under the sand of new machinery that said progress was the way to heaven.  I don't think founding a religion like this would make strides in our own times.  There isn't even a new frontier for these deranged opportunists to plunder like they did in Utah and Arizona.  Best to stay away from any Mormon recruiter and not even engage.  If you must, kindly point out how uncomfortable the distorted history and polygamy makes you feel.  Even if they say they aren't fundamentalist, the association is too strong.  The stench is too great.  It wreaks of dishonesty and sin.  That will really grind their gears.

The Fablemans

Young man, child of vision, harness your dreams,

Go hard and don't quit, forgive thy mother,

Live humbly, be gracious, turn to the light,

Project your enemies as they are,

Be true among all the crass- a gentleman.

Shuffle through horizons you developed

In cuts of film littering the table

Where designs of myth darkened the flash,

Seize those events, make them omniscient.

You have stories to tell, actors to inspire,

Fleeting moments of humanity to capture,

If not for a minute then at least a second,

Until the music stops recording that fine precision

Interlaced with the visual harmonies of your world.