Devoid § 8

‘Beyond’ existence

As we have come this far into the Devoid hypothesis, we reach the maximum and minimum limits of what is possible electro-mechanically. Those limits are absolute zero and the speed of massless particles. 

For us, that is existence. Beyond that, it all becomes a bit fussy, as the smaller you go, the more entangled everything is. 

There is a region so small where the interaction of energy with itself instantly creates a black hole that immediately evaporates into energy again. Even time and space are very different at that infinitesimally tiny scale, as they didn’t get enough ‘time’ to emerge properly there yet. And all the interactions at that scale are so massively entangled that when it reaches the scales we can detect, all particles appear to be the same to us.

That is the underlying mechanism that led to the groupings of fundamental particles (in particle physics) and how it is that every particle per group is identical. 

As everything mentioned above causes multiple levels of confinement, there are certain regions that are stable. These stable confinement levels are caused when the sizes and masses are divided, causing lighter versions of the heavier forms of relatively stable confinement. The most stable of these are the building blocks of matter as we know it today. Every heavy form will decay into more stable, lighter forms as long as they are stable enough.

That is the underlying mechanism that led to the apparent repetition in sizes and masses of some fundamental particles. 

So beyond existence, weird things can happen that are currently a bit harder to figure out scientifically. It’s a fussy region where a massive amount of energy exists that is still beyond space and time just before it gets to interact. 

And then this interacting energy causes everything described in previous Devoid chapters to happen at an unbelievable scale. This means that a large amount of energy confinement already takes place way below Planck scale. The interactions amongst those causes a lot of different particles and other emergent phenomena. 

Because of the complexity that emergence can bring, there is a whole separate body of work for that, as it starts to become even less probe-able scientifically. So to continue, we need to leave Devoid and enter Elute. Visit elute.me to explore that part. That may be a doorway to the realm of the emergence of life, consciousness and even spirituality, and these may someday also become a region we can probe scientifically.

(Big) Closing statement

As we have seen through Devoid, everything in existence has the same origin. Everything originated from energy. Energy does only one thing. It interacts. That is very simplistic. 

So, from multiple iterations of energy’s simplicity, a large range of complexity emerges. Most of that emergent complexity is not stable (from our point of view), but it all maintains the stable forms of complexity we are familiar with. Then, from multiple iterations of all of that simplicity and complexity, other types of simple and complex interactions emerge. 

The multiple iterations of that interaction and confinement lead to large networks of interactions and confinement (at multiple scales). 

And again, multiple iterations of simplistic networks become complex. Some of those emerging networks can create novel networks as long as the underlying energy keeps on being fueled. That’s a simple form of replication. 

From all of the above, more complex forms of all of the above emerges, including more complex forms of replication. Eventually, those in turn cause novel kinds of interactions and confinement, until at some point it all seems very ethereal. The emergence of life is one of those points. There, multiple iterations of the earlier mentioned more complex self replicating networks became even more complex. Those are the simple forms that became the building blocks for the complex forms. As that complexity went through multiple iterations, even more ethereal forms of complexity emerged. And once again, multiple iterations of that eventually let to consciousness. Multiple iterations of all of the above let to self awareness.

Now that this is going beyond what we can currently come up with, what is barely known, or currently barely knowable, we reach a point where most would slow down and end with the following famous words: “God only knows.”

I prefer to end with quoting Newton so we can continue on this journey together: “I leave it to the consideration of the reader.”

What we can know for sure is that the next generation of great thinkers will continue where the previous generation gets a bit stuck. And they often end up working together.

I don’t consider myself a great thinker. I just found a great stack of cards that was already placed there from great thinkers throughout history and continues to be added to. 

All I did here is reshuffle the deck a bit to trigger new viewpoints for it all.