In-depth consideration of fundamental aspects of the physical realm

A New View
of Reality

We know what makes the universe tick. Or do we?
If you think we still have much to learn, you're not alone. And Transfinite Mind is a great place to start.

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Transfinite Mind,

where radical 21st Century science unwraps eternal truths.

In his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn draws a distinction between normal science and extraordinary science. Transfinite Mind offers insights into scientific breakthroughs which constitute a step change in our understanding of the nature of our reality and of our own being.

For over 100 years normal science has made incremental advances in the complementary disciplines of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. These advances have made possible many remarkable achievements and beneficial innovations, from space exploration to medicine to a wide range of applications in materials technology and microelectronics.
That science has not, though, come any closer to identifying the underlying mechanisms which underpin the outworkings of these two disciplines. They have effectively been regarded as cosmic principles for which no knowledge of deeper causation is either possible or necessary. Given this limited view, it's understandable that there has been little success in reconciling these two perspectives on reality.

Transfinite Mind  shines a light - quite literally - on the proven findings of Special and General Relativity, identifying a clear causal reason for those findings backed up with journal-published peer-reviewed scientific analysis. In doing so, it also provides a new perspective on Quantum Mechanics, offering a way forward in the search for a unifying principle to combine these two foundations of 20th Century science - effectively showing them to be two sides of the same coin.

Transfinite Mind is for you if:

  • You'd like to know more about what makes the universe tick, but you're not a scientist;   or
  • You know a bit about science (maybe you're a science student) and you think there's room for a slightly different take on things;   or
  • You're an experienced scientist and you feel that there are a few things about the Standard Model that need a bit of explaining;   or
  • You're any of these, and you think we may be missing important aspects of cosmic reality that could be crucial to our future.
Transfinite Concepts

"The map is not the territory."

Alfred Korzybski

"Relativity has provided an excellent map. Now we need to understand the territory."

Grahame Blackwell

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Reality

is an integrated system, not simply a collection of parts.

Kuhn tells us that scientific breakthroughs typically come from those relatively new to the field. Transfinite Mind's author has a pedigree of high-level research in other disciplines, coming to particle physics via an unorthodox route. This systems-based approach has allowed analysis free from various conventional assumptions - thinking outside the box comes naturally for one whose education didn't come packaged in that highly specialist box.

Here you have access to that systems thinking, in a variety of easy-to-understand forms. Transfinite Mind  offers a wealth of free resources, from presentations to illustrated articles to videos. Also a variety of books, ranging from a non-technical overview of the basic concepts (with a separate book covering the maths) to a technical & non-technical compendium of 'work so far' - plus the very first and only picture poetry book on quantum physics ("beautifully designed": SMN Director) with accompanying study guide.  Check out the Books

Crucially, here at Transfinite Mind we don't rely on a WYSIWYG ("What you see is what you get") approach to our understanding of the physical realm. Rather, we recognise that our own senses, right down to our perception of space and time, have been sculpted by the evolutionary process to give us the information we need in exactly the form we need it. Reality is multilayered, with the reality of our experience being just the 'presentation' layer (to borrow a term from computer networking); quantum reality is the next layer down, with clear hints of yet deeper levels at which time and space have no meaning. The Resources page on this site includes presentations on this theme.

The ultimate reality, as recognised by Schrödinger and Planck, is consciousness. In conventional scientific circles today it's common practice to regard consciousness as an emergent property of life, i.e. a physical phenomenon. But, as observed by these two founders of Quantum Theory, consciousness can't be neatly pigeonholed in this way: it doesn't fit in the reductionist materialist paradigm. Rather, it should be seen, as it is here at Transfinite Mind, as an exciting challenge for the advancement of science beyond the confines of space, time and matter.

Light is the key to this issue

Everything in the physical realm is formed from electromagnetic energy - light and its non-visible counterparts. This one simple insight dispels the mystery of every aspect of Special Relativity - no mystical properties of light required.
Gravitation is also arguably fully explained by this understanding - "matter curving space" and "space directing matter" are given the causal explanations they've been lacking for a century.
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As if that's not enough . . .

The light-flow understanding of matter offers a clear explanation for matter/antimatter (CP) asymmetry - made even more compelling by showing why inclusion of time reversal gives full CPT symmetry (long known of but unexplained). In addition it provides a rationale for apparent acausal randomness of quantum outcomes.

"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental."

Erwin Schrödinger

"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness"

Max Planck