@Alessandra Turati Thanks for your question, Alessandra. This world is full of morons and charlatans who claim — as I do — to have found the TOE. It’s like how to identify the holy grail scene in one of the Indiana Jones movies — the fakes are many, and most people just don’t have the ability to choose the right one. Look at this Tom Campbell: you just need to read a few sentences on his website to know how ridiculous his “TOE” is (eg “Tom was able to develop a scientific model of reality explaining how and why the physical world only exists in our minds”). Most humanity-related questions are automatically answered if you can get hold of the one and only TOE — the true account of the nature of matter, what the universe is, and how it exists. Only after we have seen the whole picture can we start to understand and appreciate our place and roles in it. In other words, the most important skill for a human being to develop is to know the truth, to learn how to tell what’s fantasy, what’s bullshit, and what’s the plain fact. It’s not an easy job in this world where ignorance has ruled for thousands of years — first in the form of religion, and now increasingly in the form of science. There’s nothing more paranormal than our own stupidity as evidenced by these Campbells, hawkings and Penroses.

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@Sean Kelly Thanks for your question, Sean. I posted the following a few months ago to reply to the question “what is god”. Picking up the stone to kill the second bird: In the context of all existing theistic religions, god is merely humanity’s projection of an all powerful being who serves as a strong black garbage bag into which all mysteries are dumped. The best account of this explanation was provided by Feuerbach’s writings. In the context of philosophy, the only logical way for god to exist is Spinoza’s “god or nature” — namely identifying nature as god (in essence as good as denying god). In the context of science, whatever exists is but a form of energy — there’s no god whatsoever, just energy in its myriad forms

@Tiffany Chantelle Thanks for your question. Physics can’t become rigorous if its conceptual framework isn’t sound — the latter equals philosophical answers to “our biggest philosophical questions about the universe”. The issue of scientific evidence doesn’t emerge until we have addressed the conceptual problems first. In other words, the logical order is as follows: 1) get the conceptual framework right first, which is philosophical in nature; 2) build physics upon that framework, resulting in rigorous physics; 3) scientific evidence follows, verifying that physics is rigorous and conceptual framework is sound. It’s not about bridging and sacrificing: it’s about getting every essential piece in order and seeing the whole picture in a comprehensive, coherent manner. The job has been done for decades now. The current mess: the conceptual framework is fatally flawed (all mainstream theories assume a non-rotating universe); consequently the so-called “rigorous physics” isn’t rigorous at all, but filled with loopholes, placeholders, darkness, and snowballing “mysteries”. Most of the so-called “scientific evidence” are nonsense dressed up in esoteric mathematics that has no physical meaning whatsoever: there are absolutely no quarks, gluons and Higgs Field despite sensational claims made by CERN and others.

@Matteo Romano Thanks for your question, Matteo. To ask such a question is to assume that there’s a beginning — it’s a huge assumption, isn’t it? As we investigate everything, one must also take into consideration the option that there’s no beginning at all. Our analytical and empirical work then is to comb through all evidence to see which assumption, which option, fits with the reality. The notion of beginning and ending is intrinsically linked to the notion of time, and if you investigate further, you will find that the so-called time merely reflects the periodic changes of that which exists in myriad forms — pure rotational energy. A particular form may have a beginning or ending, but taken as a whole, it’s simply a beginningless and endless process of self transformation of pure rotational energy. That’s why energy is neither created nor destroyed: it’s eternal. As you face the seemingly complex processes — all the changes, all the “uncertainties”, “entanglements”, or “mysteries” — all you have to do to reach the conclusion, to see the absolute truth, is to follow the basic principle of the conservation of angular momentum. The spatially finite universe spins forever — it’s what it is — within an infinite space of non-rotating energy. Together, that’s what you call the “cosmos”.