Reflecting on E=MC2
Energy is made up of mass that is moving at the speed of light squared. This is a definite speed. Any rate of decrease means that the energy has dissipated into matter and waves, where matter is self-contained energy and waves are the wake of that matter in time. The only way for the energy to lose speed is by collision, but energy can only collide with another energy. All that separates energy from other energy is space.
There are three levels to any energy. The first level — in the sense of importance — is itself. It is formalized in the sphere, but the form is an illusion created by the second level, which is primordial to the first level. The movement of the energy of the second level coalesce to form the energy of the first level. The energy of the third level is the coalescence of the first level energy into another energy’s second level. All three levels operate distinctively from one another, but they describe every single energy.
Three questions arise. The first is a definition of time as the substance of energy. The second is a resource for the movement of energy through time. The third is the sense of importance that defines the first level.
The third level of energy — its coalescence into the primordial level of another energy — forms the substance of time. Imagine the ocean, and remember that it is made up of the coalescence of water molecules. This is a crude analogy, but it is helpful because it allows an improvement on the orbital formalization perhaps originally descried. The movement is fractal, its interaction with the other third level energies forming the primordial level of another single energy.
The interaction of third level energies is the energy moving through its own time and colliding with other energies at ever decreasing levels. The dissipation of energy into matter (which is self-contained energy) that results from collision increases infinitely down through the levels as the matter interacts with other energy, and the wake of this matter leaves waves in time, waves that have their own effect on the movement of energy.
The only proper reflection here is an ever-decreasing drop, accompanied by ever-soaring exhilaration and an ever-shrinking sense of the one, as if a man were to jump out of an airplane fully grown, and as he bulleted towards another man on the ground, he shrank and shrank and shrank, shrank so much, in fact, that by the time he would have hit the other man, he was so small as to fall into one of the man’s skin cells, and to keep falling and falling and shrinking and shrinking, until he fell through the space between the proton and electron, and to keep falling, and to keep shrinking, until finally, he falls into himself in the next moment of his life.
The unbelievable surprise of that collision with the self gives rise to the first level of energy, and it’s accompanied by the experience of sensation, of the awareness that I’ve been here before. It is this type of movement that forms the fractal nature of self-contained energy. The fractal is not the flat fractals as seen in some of the better music-visualizers on a computer; the fractal nature of self-contained energy has depth as well as breadth. It connects one level to another in time, but the time is relative to each aspect of the level separation. It is this sense of depth that makes the self-contained energy feel time, for time slows as it moves down — it slows down.
The slower that time moves, the more time energy has to itself, time apart from interacting with other energies. The more time energy has to itself, the more it will develop a sense of consciousness. This needs to be squared with biology, of course, as well as with theories of intelligence. The biological explanation would go a long way toward the acknowledgement of the modern human consciousness developing with the rise of technology, first and foremost, the technology of language — this, of course, privileges language as a rise in consciousness, but this privilege would be the same that allows for the conception of a first, primordial, and third level of energy. The rise in consciousness is always limited to the first level. It is not to privilege consciousness above anything other than the subconscious level of cellular biology. The consciousness of the modern human is distinct from what can be called the consciousness of a rabbit, but it is not privileged as such — which is obviously a bunch of baloney, but we have no hope of understanding the consciousness of a rabbit, whereas there is at least the hope of understanding the consciousness of the modern human. This is an attempt to understand the rise of consciousness.
The first level of energy is privileged because it is the level where consciousness can distinguish its own energy from another’s. The horizon of this level, however, means that the first level of energy can never fully coalesce into the third level of energy, which is complete transcendence. This is not to say that it cannot transcend, but the movement of transcendence never extinguishes the presence of a horizon for consciousness, which is to say that while every energy does coalesce into another’s primordial level, thereby transcending, the first level of that energy will never fully understand itself as being a part of another’s first level, despite the fact that, with its interaction with others, it actually forms that first level.
Some thing must be determined here. The first is that the matter under discussion is energy. This is to be distinguished from matter, which is dissipated energy. The landscape of the discussion, however, is infinity. The structure of energy enumerated here is the structure of infinity, from its infinite height to its infinite depth, its infinite east to its infinite west. It is the swooping view of the universe through time, where the universe is but one aspect of the movement of a single energy. It’s analogous to the thought of a universe existing within your fingernail. You know, the fun stuff to think about.
And it all amounts to this.
You ain’t nothing but energy slowed down and folded back on itself.
A refolduction of energy.
Energy with enough time to itself to remember that it has been here before.
None of this is true, of course.