Aether: The Physicalists' God - Softcover

Duchesne, Laurent R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438205325 ISBN 13: 9781438205328

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2009

Synopsis

Matter is 99.9999...% empty space. Reduce yourself to the size of the smallest particle and you will still see nothing more than empty space. Matter is made of fields and fields are little more than apparitions.

Time, space, and matter start with the quantum, and quanta can exist only when in motion. Field motion, or energy, turns into matter. If we could stop the motion, matter would go back to being just flat empty space. Outside of time, quantum events are not possible. There is time and space because there is motion, and there is motion because there is energy. The gravitational aether itself does not move, matter does, the quantum does. As Einstein used to say: energy is space in motion. In this sense, aether is synonymous to energy, it is pure energy.

Matter is condensed space and energy is space in motion. Matter is the same as energy, hence E=mc^2. Whether there is an aether or not is finally answered: the aether is but does not exist until it turns into matter.

About this title

From the Author

This book represents, in a short and informal style, what I have realized after a lifelong quest for proof of wholeness in space and time as a fundamental property of the universe. It is aimed at a general audience, going from the specialist to the layman, with the hope of further popularizing these deeply philosophical issues.

From the Back Cover

How could God think or see with neither brains nor eyes? There is no all knowing Universal Consciousness, nor Mind. God can neither think nor see until it turns into brains with eyes. In this sense, we truly are God's servants.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1438205325
• ISBN 13: 9781438205328
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 137