This weightless zero energy universe

[Mellowmarsh]

 

 

Imagine a man wants to build a hill on a flat piece of land. The hill will represent the universe. To make this hill he digs a hole in the ground and uses that soil to dig his hill. But of course he's not just making a hill—he's also making a hole, in effect a negative version of the hill. The stuff that was in the hole has now become the hill, so it all perfectly balances out. This is the principle behind what happened at the beginning of the universe. When the Big Bang produced a massive amount of positive energy, it simultaneously produced the same amount of negative energy. In this way, the positive and the negative add up to zero, always. It's another law of nature. So where is all this negative energy today? It's in the third ingredient in our cosmic cookbook: it's in space. This may sound odd, but according to the laws of nature concerning gravity and motion—laws that are among the oldest in science—space itself is a vast store of negative energy. Enough to ensure that everything adds up to zero.

 

[LastThursday]

This is a profound insight. Not so much the positive/negative energy thing, but that symmetry can be broken, and the pieces of the breakage come together to make a whole - a balance if you like. 

In fact here is a proof of Pythagoras' Theorem by exactly the same principle. The diagram speaks for itself (eventually):

It's the same principle behind consciousness itself. There are no gaps in consciousness precisely because the parts fits together exactly to make the whole - consciousness is perfectly balanced. 

It's the same metaphor for the Yin Yang symbol (太極圖).