The God Equation by Mike Hockney Published by Hyperreality Books Copyright © Mike Hockney 2012 The right of Mike Hockney to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author, except in the case of a reviewer, who may quote brief passages embodied in critical articles or in a review. Quotations “Physical Laws should have mathematical beauty.” – Paul Dirac “Whatever may be the truth about the universe, it is bound to be astonishing.” – Bertrand Russell “The connection between mathematics and reality is a miracle, but it works.” – Professor Frank Wilczek “It’s actually unreasonable how well mathematics works. Why should the world behave according to mathematical laws?” – Professor Anton Zeilinger “It’s not only that it becomes easier to describe with mathematics, as you go deeper and deeper into reality; mathematics becomes the only way to describe reality.” – Professor Leonard Susskind “Euler’s equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.” – Keith Devlin Table of Contents The God Equation Quotations Table of Contents The Illuminati Did an Angel Create the Earth? The Infinity Multiplier The Love Boat Rock Concert Particles The Singularity The Divine Equation Mathematicians – the Most Disappointing People in the World The Horror Euler’s Divine Joke Madness Euler’s Magic Formula The Ultimate Question Quantum Madness Soul Science = Soul Mathematics Who Needs Science? The Vanishing Point The Riemann Sphere – the Soul? The Riemann Sphere The Universal Computer? Creation The Gold Standard The Eternal City The Illuminati Hyperrational Religion Dawn The Leap The Illuminati THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF BOOKS outlining the cosmology, philosophy, politics and religion of the ancient and controversial secret society known as the Illuminati, of which the Greek polymath Pythagoras was the first official Grand Master. The society exists to this day. Introduction This is the incredible story of how mathematics’ most beautiful, elegant, economic and powerful equation controls the entire universe. If there were such a thing as a Creator, he would be a mathematician, and the “God Equation” would be the equation he invoked to make the world. He would in fact have no choice because this is the only equation that can do the job. When, according to the Bible, God declared, “Let there be light!”, all he was doing was unleashing the God Equation in all of its transcendent, soulful glory. The God Equation is also the Soul Equation. As above, so below. The universe is the “World Soul” – the collection of all souls – and the individual soul is the microcosm of that glittering, living macrocosm. The individual soul and the collective soul are united mathematically via a single, divine equation. One Equation to rule them all, One Equation to find them, One Equation to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Beginning “God” – the cosmic mathematical mind – gazed upon an infinite collection of dimensionless points (“monads”), each modelled by the number zero. An infinity of zeros is nothing. God did indeed make the world out of “nothing”, but a very special type of nothing. Each monad contains infinite energy, but this energy is perfectly balanced between negative and positive energy, so that everything cancels perfectly to zero. Initially, all monads were perfectly symmetrical; indistinguishable from each other. To make anything happen, symmetry must be broken and “individuation” must take place i.e. things have to become unique. The first act of God was to break symmetry and apply an “Exclusion Principle” to all monads – which amounted to giving each monad a “fingerprint” (a unique set of mathematical coordinates). An infinite collection of mathematical points with unique coordinates is nothing other than a perfect Cartesian arena, except this is cosmological and ontological rather than an abstract set of Cartesian axes drawn on a piece of paper in a school exercise book. God looked upon the Cartesian grid – extending infinitely in all directions – and saw that it was good. He now had the ideal mathematical framework in which to work. He allowed the monads to release the energy locked inside them, and instantaneously it flooded out into the Cartesian arena – in the Creation event known as the Big Bang! Every single point in infinite space exploded. The Big Bang wasn’t about the explosion of one point; it was about the explosion of ALL points. Yet the energy didn’t flood out in any old way. All of it obeyed a single cosmic Law – the God Equation. And thus the universe of our experience was mathematically brought into being. Simple, really! By the end of this book, we hope to convince you that this is exactly what happened, although there was no Creator involved in the process. Or, rather, mathematics itself was the Creator. Mathematics is eternal, perfect, necessary, immutable, infallible, necessary, analytic, complete and Platonic. It has all the qualities you would expect of “God”, but it does not expect anyone to get on their knees to worship it, and, unlike the God of the Jews, Christians and Muslims, it does not order fathers to make human sacrifices of their own children to show how loyal and obedient they are. Humanity made a catastrophic mistake, born of irrationality and ignorance, when it failed to recognise mathematics as the True Creator and instead invented an anthropomorphic, supernatural exaggeration of a narcissistic human being as the “Creator”. The highest truth of all – understood by only a tiny number of people – is that mathematics itself is the source of life. Mathematics is ALIVE. We are living beings precisely because our soul is one of the dimensionless mathematical monads that comprise existence. We are all immortal and indestructible. We have infinite energy that can never run down. We are perpetual motion machines, and we all have the capacity to become mathematically perfect – to BECOME GODS! Did an Angel Create the Earth? A central teaching of the ancient religion of Gnosticism was that Satan created, or controls, the world we inhabit. In this day and age, this seems an absurd assertion, yet scientists have started to take seriously the notion that super-intelligent, angelic beings may be our creators. In an article entitled Children of an Alien God, science writer Marcus Chown presented a picture that lends credence to the Gnostic vision of Creation. Chown analysed the hypothesis that superior beings in another universe created this universe. Albert Einstein was intrigued by the fact that our universe is comprehensible (he thought that was the most incomprehensible thing about it), but there would be no mystery if it were designed by other intelligences according to rational design principles that we ourselves might eventually discern. Of course, the question would remain of how the prototype universe first came into existence and gave birth to the first superior beings (gods). It’s well known scientifically that the fundamental constants of nature are astoundingly fine-tuned for the emergence of life. The universe where everything is just right for our existence is labelled the “Goldilocks” universe. Is it just right by chance or design? Your answer to that question will shape your approach to life. Did we get here randomly or by conscious or (unconscious) design? Edward Harrison of the University of Massachusetts cited the example of the gravitational constant, which governs the strength of gravity: “If it were slightly smaller, stars like the sun would not shine. However, if it were slightly stronger, stars would burn their fuel and go out before there was time for biological evolution on any planets. ... Conventional physics completely fails to explain this example of fine-tuning or many other such examples. However, it’s possible to explain them if the universe has actually been designed at a fundamental level for the benefit of life.” Harrison speculated that each universe evolves superior beings (of the type that the ancients might have labelled “angels” or “gods”) who then use their intelligence and creative powers to generate bespoke universes according to their particular design tastes. Conditions are, by definition, always just right for life. In these offspring universes, intelligent life eventually evolves to a state where the inhabitants are themselves now angels or gods and can create their own worlds. Thus, intelligent life spreads through the universe in the fashion of a virus. The universe keeps becoming more intelligent. Just as entropy increases, so does intelligence. The universe as a whole is always becoming more alive, more intelligent, more angelic and divine. “We already have a mathematical blueprint for how to make new universes,” Harrison observed; that blueprint being our own universe. Marcus Chown wrote in his article, “According to grand unified theories, which attempt to show that the fundamental forces of nature are merely facets of a single ‘superforce’, the universe was created when a super-dense ‘seed’ of matter triggered a runaway expansion of space. During this split-second phase of ‘inflation’, the matter to make countless stars and galaxies was conjured out of the empty vacuum itself. The universe, as proponents of inflation are fond of saying, was ‘the ultimate free lunch’.” If we could recreate the precise conditions that triggered inflation, why should we not be able to spawn a new universe? Chown wrote, “Alan Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has suggested a way to do it using a 10kg mini black hole. Its super-dense interior would be the seed that would immediately inflate, not in our universe, but in a space-time connected to our own by the ‘umbilical cord’ of the black hole.