John Brodix Merryman Jr.
3 min readAug 11, 2024

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Thanks for the response. Sorry if I seem rude.

I admit to having serious questions about the directions modern physics has taken and find my various observations dismissed but not refuted.

The problem I tend to see, is the mysteries arise because our initial assumptions are flawed and there is far too much cultural inertia to change them.

The main problem I try bringing up is our concept of time.

As mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our sense of time is as the present going past to future. It is the basis of culture and civilization, as narrative and history, so is beyond question in any academic setting, yet the evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism. That culture is about synchronizing our behaviors as a larger social super organism, based on the same languages, rules, measures, etc, it might seem there should be some universal flow of time, but it's rabbit time and turtle time and the turtle is still plodding along, long after the rabbit has died.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, but we don't confuse them with space, even though they are as foundational to our emotions and bodily functions, as sequence is to thought.

Energy is conserved, because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound, as frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

The energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated come and go, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Suggesting consciousness manifests as an energy.

Science has a similar problem with energy, as with consciousness, in that it can only be defined by the forms it manifests, so tends to be dismissed. Such that information/math rules.

The digestive system processes the energy, feeding the flame, the nervous system sorts the information, signals from the noise, with the circulation system as feedback in the middle.

So you might begin to see why I tend to think our mental mapping is inherently subjective, not to mention prejudicial, anyway and that any sense of reality has to be similarly subjective to our point of view. An objective point of view is an oxymoron.

The future is not pre-determeined, because the act of determination can only occur as the present. There is no universal map, model, frame in which all this occurs and can be predicted, because they are inherently subjective.

The map can't come close to including all the information from the territory , or any signal it presumes to extract would be quickly lost back into the noise. Whiteout.

The models break down over infinities and disappear at zero. Everything in-between is relational.

This applies in much of current society, given the premise of monotheism is of an omniscient omniscience. Basically it confuses the ideal with the absolute. So you might also see how there are other walls I bang my head against.

In fact, I've been blocked on Substack, since two days after making that particular point;

https://johnmerryman.substack.com/p/gods-problems

I'll leave my ranting there.

As for more hours in the day, my mother used to say that and I would tell her she would just find that many more things to do and be equally behind.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in...

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Having an affair with life. It's complicated.

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