The Theory of Everything: A Book About Something Vol 1

By Kyle Lam

A brief journey on the start of a long road through everything. From the origins of life to magic and myth, even politics and sex. This book takes a look into each subject and how we treat them, some of which how we could improve. Each subject is laced with humorous undertones to keep it easy and fun to read. These concepts and opinions are presented in a way to entice one to challenge their current beliefs and think in new and diverse ways. Not everything we know is as it seems, and everything starts somewhere.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781365005787

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The Theory of Everything: A Book About Something Vol 1

The Theory of Everything: A Book About Something Vol.1

The Theory of Everything

A Book about Something:

Vol. I

Written by: Kyle Lam

Edited by: H.B. Minter

<2016>

Copyright © <2016> by

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

First Printing: <2016>

ISBN <978-1-365-00578-7>

Preface

This book is in no way a legitimate Theory of Everything that there ever was. One could say this book is more the ramblings of a semi-insane mind, or possibly one of the more sound minds to exist today. All I can tell you is that, this book as it is written is what came to my mind at that point in time. It is put into context exactly how my ADHD mind works. I have never taken meds for it and never will, I suffer with this madness and rambling thoughts daily, now you get to enjoy the fruits of that madness. These things may not seem like they're tied together in these chapters to some people, but every chapter ties in with another somewhere in this book. To those of you who figure this out, I applaud you.

-Kyle L.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

-Edgar Allan Poe

Chapter 1

Origins

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

-Leonardo Da Vinci

As per this is the start of this book, and as this book as the start of hopefully more books to come, everything has an origin. Everything. Thus with that being said let us start at the origin of everything. According to widely popular belief, it all started with a Big Bang and then expanded out greatly and here we are. In other words, before there was anything there was something, and something slammed into something with such force that it exploded and grew infinitely. Now I know this is not wholly correct but you know, it's like a gift, it's the thought that counts.

So scientifically, everything was created by lucky chance from infinitely dense particles before there was anything else. As for the origin of that, we can't say, but it is science! As they say, science is facts of the now and is subject to change. This also seems to spill down the entire tree for science, everything constantly happens at chance to create what there is today. Whether we have observed it yet or not, the cosmic RNG (Random Number Generator) decided everything. Which is great, we exist, glory glory hallelujah for particles and atoms and all that jazz.

Now let's take a look at the more religious side of things, in most religious beliefs there is an all mighty being(s) that exists before anything else just as the infinitely dense particles existed supposedly, and one day this being(s) decides they're going to up and create everything. In the bible, I was taught as a child God created the heavens and the earth... and it goes on and on until finally And on the seventh day God said Fuck this shit I'm done." I'm paraphrasing that but I'm sure you get my point. This was also the supposed religious origin of the seven day week, who knew right?

With all of this being said I have a slight personal issue with all this. Well personal is probably not the correct term but let me elaborate. I believe that everything has to come from something, chicken from an egg, egg from a chicken and so on. Thus my reasoning is Who created God? Or Where did the particles at the beginning of time come from?" Everything in existence comes from somewhere, I don't care who you are or what you do, everything comes from something. There has to be an origin to the origin right? Of course maybe I'm just thinking too deep into things but it makes sense doesn't it? Something can't come from nothing, at least that's what we're taught.

Alright lets follow along this religious tree for origins. We covered the origin of existence lets go on with knowledge. Since I was raised Christian and know that whole story fairly well, to a point I can explain it simply and relate it to other things, that is what I shall do. We all know, or have an understanding that God or a being(s) created man in a biblical sense. Then man (I say this because it's so much simpler than Adam and Eve, or Adam and Steve, Or Eve and Whats-her-face) was tempted by a serpent to partake of the fruit of knowledge. This is interesting here, because in most origin stories running back in multiple cultures be it in a biblical sense or not, we were given knowledge by a serpent. There are the Mayans which were brought this knowledge by a feathered serpent, in Norse mythology they were given the secret of the runes, or writing, by a dragon I believe? Not to mention multiple Asiatic myths about monks and holy men being taught to speak and such from dragons or serpents of some kind.

My proposed question to this would be, how is it that cultures separated by such distance, and even time, all come up with roughly the same origin for knowledge? It is almost so mind boggling to the point that I'm not entirely sure why nobody has ever looked into this? Maybe there is something to it, granted the stories all differ slightly based off the culture and the area but it can be boiled down to this. A serpent of some sort, be it a dragon, snake, or humanoid, brought the human race as a whole some form of knowledge and further forms of technology and communication.

Now I'm all for magic and such, but when I read the part in the bible Partake of the fruit of knowledge. It sounds like it's saying that they would benefit from knowledge. Or like the snake drops out of the tree and says Hey, you guys want to stop dickin' around and you know, get things in excess with a ton less work? Or something along those lines. Same as to where, for example, a tribe of people cut off from the world could partake of the fruit of knowledge by say, learning how to use a tractor to cultivate land. The fruit of knowing how to make and operate a tractor is less time spent with more work done. Anyways I believe I make my point here.

However if we follow a more scientific origin for knowledge it comes down to quite a few points which I do believe I should be able to summarize here for you. Evolution, Necessity, and Chance. Those three things determined how and what everything is, which is rather interesting and mind boggling as well to think about. We as the prevailing species of humans, as we like to perceive ourselves, are all mere chance. There were at one point, I believe, upwards of six species of early humans. These included Homo-neanderthalensis, Homo-heidelbergensis,  Homo-habilis, Homo-floresiensis, Homo-rudolfensis, and Homo-erectus. For the sake of time and my insanity I didn't include all of early man, just the ones which we directly fall from as Homo-sapiens. Now if you were to look at these, they could fall any number of ways to what we are now. There was interbreeding abound, along with tool creation to solve needs and such, which furthered our knowledge and we, more or less, began a slow crawl towards what we have become.

This is great, however we make technological leaps and bounds, albeit in certain areas it could be considered almost asinine because it went from solving problems to becoming lazy. Thus is our progression in most things. Now at some point from tool creation and rudimentary communication we actually began to create words or languages. I find this fascinating, could you imagine being the first being ever to think Maybe I can make sounds that mean things. Then again how would they even know how to think in words, it's like if someone is deaf from birth what voice do they think in? I personally believe it would fall more to imaging and word connections in the deaf aspect but for early man, he didn't have a written language before there was a language to be had.

Alright back to our first ancestor to begin this speaking process. The fact would lie in that he or possibly she, or maybe it, I'm not sure the gender label on a hermaphrodite that can't tell me what they prefer to be known as should be called. Anyways imagine, if you would, taking a rock and with no previous language of any kind, starting from