The Operating Principle of the Universe: This and That in a Loving Relationship Is Something Else

By Thomas M. Mandel

This writer wanted to know how all things worked so the question of how the Universe works plagued him forever. BUT he wasnt able to agree with the so-called experts there were so many of them and they didnt all agree with each other. So the question never was answered. Then, one day, while at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, a part of the answer was presented to me in a moment. But it was too simple, so I kept looking and after a few minutes it occurred to me that there are actually THREE sides of a coin, this side, that side, and the in between inside that holds all coins together..

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 6, 2010
• ISBN: 9781465316387

Thomas M. Mandel

Tom always very slow in school, but after school he joined the Navy and went to school as an electronic technician. What interested him was the idea of going to class in the morning and spending the afternoon practicing what he had learned in the morning. After the Navy Tom worked at Amphenol Borg testing connectors and earned the title of “good gumshoer.” After Amphenol Tom was employed at NOSF and tested Torpedoes. His great accomplishment was the development of a transmittal sheet for the computer that took up half the basement. Then President Nixon closed the plant and Tom went back to school. This is when Tom was surprised by the new discovery mentioned above. There are more than two sides of a coin...

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Contents

PROLOGUE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

THE BLUEPRINT OF LIFE

CONCLUSIONS

AFTERTHOUGHTS

ADDITIONAL READING

BOOK TITLES OF SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS INSIDE THIS BOOK

REFERENCES

GLOSSARY

HELPERS

"We need to discover if there are general principles

that govern the development of complexity in general

which can be applied in a variety of different situations

without becoming embroiled in their peculiarities… .

Perhaps there exist a whole set of basic rules

about the development of complexity

reduce to some of our simple laws of nature

in situations where the level of complexity is essentially nil."

The question of the existence of a "secret of the universe’

amounts to discovering whether there is some deep principle

from which all other knowledge

of the physical uni-verse follows."

John Barrow

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PROLOGUE

Below please find a series of diagrams that show overtly the major difference between Identity and Action words, between nouns and verbs. In short, horizontal lines depict identity while vertical lines depict actions. It is these identifications that seem to make a big difference between the old and the new. Look at any dictionary—what words are verbs?

What is new in fig. 1 is the emphasis on process rather that identity. Here are looking at a structure without any identifiers. It is possible to list many if not all situations in this form and therefore take the first step toward the finding the second step. Once this relationship is found it is a simple matter to find their relationship to each other.

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Here we can label the diagrams and thus show the different aspects.

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As an example of how this works let us look a drawing of the German philosopher Hegel’s drawing of his triad—Thesis>Antithesis>Synthesis. Obviously something seems to be missing. It has been said the Hegel’s model is the foundation of Western Philosophy.

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Here we can see how the diagram tells us that there is something missing from Hegel’s Triad, where is the relationship? Here then is the key to what my mathematics has discovered.

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The diagrams cam be interconnected in many ways. Here we have a literature example in which the writing found in the marks of black and white are taken as a message by the reader and thus becomes information,

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By placing the diagrams in certain ways one can map unusual occurances—for example the early Greek philosophies. Each node is the work of a particular philosopher. Thales of Melietus was the first to imagine that the earth was made of a stuff And notice How empedocleus(?) invented fire" which denotes a relationship… Here is where the four elements came to light

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Here we have two groups back to back

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We then would end up with a black box.

INTRODUCTION

This is a story about my discovery of how the universe as a whole works, presented here in the simplest, but not too simple, context/manner. It works as a minimal system. Systems theory is not new. It is unknown by the public. Most scholarly works about systems theory seem to follow the more complex explanation, yet this complex explanation has much difficulty explaining the simple results. Furthermore, if the so-called secret of the universe were complex, then any complex creation could be superceded by throwing one more stick on the pile.

What is needed and presented here is a scheme that is at once very simple, yet not too simple, It was that new context/viewpoint/simplicity that allowed me to transcend present day philosophy of science and go beyond to achieve a new and more complete picture of what the universe does and how it does it. In short, that philosophy is a philosophy of action. We have become accustomed to giving an object an identity, but that only works in our minds. It is necessary that we identify objects by what they do.

There are an infinite number of objects in our Universe, and to discover what they are has so far exceeded our capacity to learn. There are, however, only a few ways these objects can work. We will learn less and know much more…

After many years of research, I have found numerous ways of saying the same thing. I give credit to Ludwig von Bertalanffy, whom I discovered 22 years after my first discovery and four months after he passed away, as the first to approach the subject in a scientific way, and a few years later to Jonas Salk who was able to discuss the principles, in my opinion, in an more accurate way. This does not discount the previous few who also approached the subject in a meaningful way.

My inventions are those meaningful diagrams to work with this simple principle, diagrams devised by me long before I found much later the others looking for the same thing…

I cannot claim any first rights toward the claimant of any inventors right for the principle itself. It may be true that I discovered it by myself. But after all it was noticed by the Chinese five thousand years ago. It may not have been described in any great detail as far as how it might work, but the detail was found in what would happen. Because this detail did pop up throughout the history of science, it wasn’t hidden or treated as a secret. However, because the detail was almost always expressed in the language of the speaker, and because these speakers came from all corners of the world, they were always stated differently. And, later, subsequently thought of as being very different. And because there were so many different versions of this principle they were almost always thought of as being different. But if the general of each old the principles were identified and then compared to the others, the similarity of all of them could be seen.

CHAPTER ONE

A Hidden Surprise

It all started after I had an experience with a very large black box-like exhibit I bumped into at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry near lake Michigan. While a great deal of intuitive knowledge was