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From a revised section of the Unities Model
<http://unities.bahaifaith.info/> book:
Imaginatively, I would add that The Unities Model of Existence might be
visualized as a unified field, or a field of unity, with
nineteen-dimensional unities or essences. If this playful idea, or
thought experiment, has any merit, one could then make a further
speculation. The unities within unities within unities within unities in
the Badi-? Calendar, when mathematically expressed as 194, result in
130,321 (where 1+3+0+3+2+1=10 and, as a reduced ordinal, 1+0=1).
Perhaps, therefore, Kulla S(ay? (All Things) consists of 130,321
nineteen-dimensional enfolded unities and their individualized
attributes (beings and things).
Those embedded or stratified dimensions might, I suggest, be
conceptualized as the attributes of unities (unifying essences) or,
metaphorically, as the attributes of existential strings:
1. Attributes of the Kulla S(ay? Cycle:
* A, B, Father, D, Gate, V, Eternity, Generosity, Splendor, Love,
Delightful, Answer, Single, Bountiful, Affection, Beginning,
Luminous, Most Luminous, Unity
2. Attributes of the Wa-h.id Cycle (same as above):
* A, B, Father, D, Gate, V, Eternity, Generosity, Splendor, Love,
Delightful, Answer, Single, Bountiful, Affection, Beginning,
Luminous, Most Luminous, Unity
3. Attributes of the Monthly Cycle:
* Splendor, Glory, Beauty, Grandeur, Light, Mercy, Words,
Perfection, Names, Will, Knowledge, Power, Speech, Questions,
Honor, Sovereignty, Dominion, Loftiness
4. Attributes of the Nineteen-Day Cycle (same as above):
* Splendor, Glory, Beauty, Grandeur, Light, Mercy, Words,
Perfection, Names, Will, Knowledge, Power, Speech, Questions,
Honor, Sovereignty, Dominion, Loftiness
*
* In the 1990's the subject formerly known as "string theory"
evolved into something else, which has now become known as
"M-theory." M-theory is a circle of ideas connecting strings,
quantum gravity, unification of forces, duality, Kaluza-Klein
theory, Yang-Mills theory, and supersymmetry. While the
fundamental principles of M-theory are still unclear, our
picture of the subject has evolved rapidly in recent years.
M-theory has the distinction of being the only approach to
quantum gravity which has succeeded both in tying itself firmly
to our classical understanding of gravity (albeit in 10 or 11
dimensions) and in addressing non-perturbative quantum issues
such as the entropy of black holes.... To some researchers
M-theory is a candidate for a "theory of everything" which would
underlie all of the structures in our universe.
* Stephen Hawking, Strings and M-Theory
<http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/m-theory2.pdf>.
*
* Particle physics theories ... [include] string theory and
M-theory .... While it has been suggested that ... the extra
dimensions are "curled up" on the subatomic scale (possibly at
the quark/string level of scale or below), not a single physical
experiment has confirmed the existence of spatial dimensions
beyond 3.
* Michael Taylor, How many dimensions is your world?
<http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/m-theory.pdf>
*
* In essence, is string theory a logical outcome of a globalized,
networked society?
* I, for one, believe it is only a matter of time before we start
speaking in terms of "social string theory" (aka "the
connections between us" aka "the ties that bind").
* Just extend the work of [Albert-László] Barabási [Center for
Complex Network Research <http://www.nd.edu/%7Ealb/> at
University of Notre Dame <http://www.nd.edu/>] ....
* Raphie Frank, "Updating Voltaire For The 21st Century, If string
theory didn't exist...
<http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/social_string_theory.pdf>."
PsyForum Science: Physics and Technology Discussion Forums
<http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=20251>. Retrieved
on January 18, 2012.
The Pythagorean musical harmony of the spheres has, it seems, gone back
to the future. Although the harp-like vibrating strings of M-theory (an
eleven-dimensional string theory) are believed by many physicists to
produce the particles and fundamental forces (events) of nature, neither
the strings nor the dimensions have been, or likely ever will be,
observed in a laboratory. Similarly, perhaps, ?Abdu?l-Bahá may have
prophecied the eventual development of a superunified theory in physics.
According to Him, heat, light, and electricity result from the
vibrations of an invisible ether:
... the nature of ether is unknown, but that it existeth is certain by
the effects it produceth, heat, light and electricity being the waves
thereof. By these waves the existence of ether is thus proven....
... in the world of being there exist forces unseen of the eye, such as
the force of ether previously mentioned, that cannot be sensed, that
cannot be seen. However, from the effects it produceth, that is from its
waves and vibrations, light, heat, electricity appear and are made evident.
?Abdu?l-Bahá, Tablet to August Forel
<http://www.bahaistudies.net/ab/Tablet_to_August_Forel.pdf>. Pages 16
and 19-20.
... ethereal matter is not sensible, though it has an undoubted
existence. The power of attraction is not sensible, though it certainly
exists. From what do we affirm these existences? From their signs. Thus
this light is the vibration of that ethereal matter, and from this
vibration we infer the existence of ether.
?Abdu?l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions
<http://www.bahaistudies.net/ab/saq.html>. Page 190.
Formulating quantum field theories of each of the four fundamental
forces was an obvious goal, and remains so to this day. Three of the
forces -- the strong, the weak and the electromagnetic -- have been
treated with great success; and have been combined to form a so-called
standard model of fundamental forces. However, gravity has resisted all
attempts to fit it into the same kind of theoretical strait-jacket and
seems to require very special treatment if it is to be treated as a
quantum field theory at all. If it were not for the problem of gravity
we would be able to say that the physicist's current world-view is that
the Universe consists of a set of mutually interacting quantum fields
that fill the space-time described by special relativity. But it seems
that this will not do.
A way forward may be indicated by the standard model itself. The
standard model is actually something more than a description of three of
the four fundamental forces: it is also to some extent a prototype for
their union. Within the standard model, the electromagnetic and weak
forces appear as a unified electroweak force. The exact meaning of
unification in this context is too technical to go into here, but
suffice it to say that, under unification, the quantum fields
responsible for the weak and electromagnetic forces combine in a way
that is slightly reminiscent of Einstein's fusion of space and time to
form space-time.
The success of electroweak unification has been one of the motivations
for suggesting that all three of the forces that appear in the standard
model might be unified within a grand unified theory, and that a further
step of unification might also incorporate gravity, thus bringing all
four fundamental forces within a single superunified theory. The form
that such a superunified theory might take is far from clear. Would it
involve quantum fields in a curved space-time, or would something
altogether more radical be required?
"Learning Space: Richard Feynman
<http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/feynman.pdf>." The Open University.
Retrieved on April 24, 2012.
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Mark A. Foster, Ph.D., sociology of religion, theory, and clinical sociology
Portal: www.markfoster.net * Critical realism: www.structurization.com
Two books: www.bahaifaith.info * Clinical: www.fosterservices.com
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