Eternal Origin

Observation’s Solution to the Riddle of

Existence
VOLUME ONE

Observation, The Way

By:
Thomas L. Lindley, Ph.D

With select Illustrations by:

Rachel (Rae) Lindley, B.A.

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 PART I: THE WAY WE OBSERVE
CHAPTER 1
Riddle, Anomaly, Contradiction

We have a wondering about what came

before
A longing to know the roots of our past
You should not exist.

Neither should I.

Nothing else should exist.

Rolling slopes carpeted with green should not exist, nor the smell of changing
seasons, nor the sparkle of sand on beaches that merge with rippling tensile, nor
star laden skies seen through the bare skeleton branches of hibernating trees,
nor the rust-gold leaves blowing swift and strong , nor frosted mountains that
chill the air, snow blanket the ground and crunch under foot, nor the tranquil
completeness in a reddish-orange of sunset, nor the wake-up renewal in the
yellow-bright of sunrise, nor comforting words, nor reassuring eyes—none
should be, if everything came from nothing.

Yet, that is the way it looked when the Universe began. When the engulfing
dark velvet, timeless and endless, seemed to be everything.

At the sudden flash-glare of what would be myriads of suns, at the roll of

trillion-trillion drums muffled to quiet by the airless empty.

When from invisibility, an infinitesimal dot expanded to become the largest

thing there is.

When the Universe, a region smaller than the period that ends this sentence,
squeezed in the clutches of infinite force, blinked into existence.
A Universe exhaled to became a riddle, anomaly, and a contradiction.

A riddle is something puzzling, perplexing. An anomaly is something peculiar,

unusual compared to expectation. A contradiction designates opposite
conditions are the same.

A MATTER OF COLLAPSE

We live in a Universe that is expanding. That is, most of the galaxies,

(collections of billions of stars) are moving away from each other. When we
reverse that motion to observe the past, we have a universe contracting. This
indicates the universe was once much smaller in the past. From that reversal of
motion viewpoint, it is a large mass collapsing. If the amount material exceeds
a specific value, gravitational attraction squeezes it with infinite force. This
force prevents anything including light, from escaping.

A RIDDLE

The universe exceeds the specific value. It should not have expanded at all. Yet
we’re here.

That’s puzzling, perplexing, and a riddle.

AN ANOMALY

When it was discovered that the universe was expanding, it was assumed that
the expansion was at the same rate over time. Now, science has determined that
the universe is accelerating. It’s expanding at a faster and faster rate. It has
undergone a velocity faster than light. This is peculiar, unusual compared to
expectation, an anomaly.

A CONTRADICTION

Due to the mass (the amount of material) in the universe, it should be a

collapsed object, unable to expand. The forces of gravity should be an infinite
crushing force. Our universe should not have expanded, yet it did expand.

The Universe had to come from some-thing or come from no-thing (not-
something). If there was any time when there was only no-thing, some-thing
and no-thing (not-something) had to be the same. Some-thing had to be no-
thing (not-something). Some-thing could come from no-thing (not-something).
This says opposite conditions can be the same, a contradiction.

THE SOLUTION

Observation provides the answer. Observation is the information from senses,

mental reasoning, and the reminders from memory.

We can apply experience in a structured, orderly way to constrain observation

to what is credible, acceptable, and reliable. This is called science.

Through science, we define time, existence and reality such that they conform
to normal human experience. We then combine all of this through sense
impression (the way we humans are aware of reality), cosmogony, (the study of
how the Universe came into existence), mathematics (the derivation of numbers
and the way they behave), and reasoning (the way the human mind comes to
conclusions).

Observation solves the riddle, anomaly and contradiction. From observation we

will discover the necessity that some-thing always exists.

What is that some-thing?

We begin our search for the answer with Chapter 2, Where Am I? : Sense
Impression. There we discuss the five essentials required for awareness.
 SUMMARY OF CHAPTER 1
When the Universe, a region smaller than the period that ends this sentence,
squeezed in the clutches of infinite force, blinked into existence it became a
riddle, anomaly, and a contradiction.

A riddle is something puzzling, perplexing. An anomaly is something peculiar,

unusual compared to expectation. A contradiction implies opposite conditions
are the same.

We live in a Universe that is expanding. That is, most of its largest objects are
moving away from each other. These objects are galaxies, collections of
billions of stars. When we reverse that motion to observe the past, we have a
universe contracting. This indicates the universe was once much smaller in the
past. It is a large mass collapsing. Its behavior is the same as the gravitational
collapse of massive stars. That means gravity had the same influence on the
universe as it has on collapsing stars.

The universe was originally an infinite mass. It should never have come into
existence. The universe is accelerating. It’s expanding at a faster and faster
rate. It has undergone a velocity faster than light. This is peculiar, unusual
compared to expectation, an anomaly.

The Universe had to come from some-thing or come from no-thing (not-
something). If there was any time when there was only no-thing, some-thing
and no-thing (not-something) had to be the same. Some-thing could come from
no-thing (not-something). This says opposite conditions can be the same, a
contradiction.

Through science, we define time, existence and reality such that they conform
to normal experience. We then combine all of this through Cosmogony, (the
study of how the Universe came into existence), mathematics (the derivation of
numbers and the way behave), and reasoning (the way the human mind comes
to conclusions).

Through cosmogony, we prove that at one time, the today’s universe did not
exist. Evidence from physics shows the Universe came it existence suddenly.
We learn why gravity should have prevented the Universe from coming into
existence.

Observation solves the riddle, anomaly and contradiction. From observation we

will discover the necessity that some-thing always exists.
 REFERENCES FOR CHAPTER 1

Isbell, Billy J. (1977) Riddle Games among Quechua Speakers, Journal of Latin
American Lore 3:1, 19-49

Barrow, John D. (1994) The Origin of The Universe, Basic Books, New York

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