“A little learning

is a dangerous thing

…”

 Alexander Pope

I’m not here, and perhaps I wouldn’t have been able, to explain the word “symbol” linguistically. It is a word of a certain age and comes from the ancient Greek and means “identity card”, (Wikipedia). I use it, in this article, as an idea, interpretation, concept, knowledge, culture and, above all, I use it as our second nature: the first is natural, the second cultural. We’ll deal with it in this article.

I repeat the title: “Everything is a symbol, therefore everything is culture”, therefore human. Outside of the human, everything is nature, a phenomenon whose origins and substance are and remain a question mark, and a question mark is even the one who is writing here. Instead, if nature is seen in human terms, then everything becomes personal interpretation, subjectivity, sense and nonsense. Instinct, honesty, falsehood, arrogance, beauty, science, killing, on the other hand, are culture, therefore symbol, therefore human.

As far as we know, no other species on Earth except homo-species has ever expressed his thoughts in written or spoken words. Only the homo-species did it. The world and the universe are his story, his biography.

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Learn to live in such a way

That allows you to make

Of a second an eternity

And live eternity as if it

Were made of one second.

A cosmic sensibility and knowledge

gives a healthy and full idea

how the universe is and functions

and how we ought to live

And to die in it.

With this post, I would like to make a present of “the whole universe” to my friends on Facebook, on Twitter, on the Web and in the whole world. And, since today I feel particularly generous and well disposed, I would like also to demonstrate that exists an immortality, a “virtual immortality”, and anyone who desires it, could easily conquer it. This is my second gift of the day.

Of course, “virtual immortality” has nothing to do with “digital immortality”. Digital immortality stinks of brain factories, of mechanical device, and our universe everything is, except a mechanical device.

These two words, “digital” and “virtual”, have nothing to do with one another. The first means artificial intelligence, mechanical gadgets, programmed machines, thinking robots, computers; the second, the virtual, means implicit characteristics, spontaneous, natural, logical, instinctive, potential inner powers. The first, therefore, the “digital”, means object created by man, by homo species; the second, “virtual”, means full of inborn potentialities intrinsically owned by matter, by nature, by the cosmos.

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Science, do you mean real science?

The one that says the end was

Already in the beginning

That’s what I mean.

This is yet to be discovered.

“Einstein published, in 1905, his famous articles in the scientific journal ‘Annalen der Physik’, where only a few scientists and with difficulties could understand something”; I publish my articles on the Web, on Facebook, on Twitter and anyone, given their scientific simplicity and reality, can read and understand them in the whole world.

The soul doesn’t exist, neither does the spirit, they are concepts like Zeus and Brahma; the memory, instead, exists, I identify it with the mind.

The soul, has anyone seen it? The spirit, has anyone seen it? The memory? This is a physical part of a physical experience. So, even if you can’t see it, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

I remember when my sister got married; I remember the never-ending stair as I went up the Eiffel Tower; I remember when I climbed le Petit Ferret, near Mont Blanc, in Val d’Aosta. The memory is physical, therefore mental. The memory has deep roots. This kind of roots can sleep forever or be awakened at any moment and in any place by conscious matter. But, my sister’s wedding, the stairway of the Eiffel Tower, the ascent of le Petit Ferret, if compared to the deep memory of the mind, they are very recent.

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“The father of science, Democritus, when the Greeks asked him to show them what an atom was, he took a piece of cheese, put it on a table, took a knife and then in front of them started cutting the cheese into two pieces. He went on cutting each piece into two pieces until he couldn’t cut the last piece anymore. Then Democritus stopped cutting, looked at the people who were watching him carefully and said: ‘Here is your atom, the piece that I no longer can divide into two pieces’. This is not theory, this is science. Science can exist without theory, but not theory without science”.

Bart Kosko*, in his book “The Fuzzy-Thought”, defines logical truths and factual truths as follows: “The difference between logical truth and factual truth founds two vast theories, the theory of coherence and the theory of correspondence. Logical truth is part of the theory of coherence or truth as coherence. The statement 1 + 1 = 2 is true because we have consistently applied the rules of mathematics. The fairy tale ‘the little mermaid’is true in the sense that it is coherent, that is internally consistent, but doesn’t correspond to any real fact.” In fact, in nature, ‘the little mermaid’doesn’t exist.

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The so-called science – quantum physics, entanglement, mathematics, spacetime – for what concerns the base and the meaning of the universe, cannot help us. It is only a mental artifice, an Everest of artificial symbols and thoughts… Our interest, in this field, is associated with “the most reliable facts”. The lack of these is the lack of a true dialogue both with the universe and among ourselves.

The science that Immanuel Kant called, not synthetic knowledge, but analytical knowledge, is also my science. In fact, it is precisely what I apply in the construction of the cosmic evolution. In other words, synthetic science has to do with facts, experience, empirical studies, etc.; analytical science has to do with logical, reasoning, concepts, etc. It is important to emphasize that synthetic knowledge can change over time, but this doesn’t happen with analytical knowledge: man is mortal, synthetic knowledge; nothingness of the nothingness is immortal, analytical knowledge.

In this sense, my science is a science that goes beyond ordinary science. Ordinary scientists are “the laborers of science”, without wanting to offend them. They, with some exceptions, don’t go beyond the microscope and telescope. Moreover, they belong to the System and, therefore, aren’t free thinkers. Kantian analytical science, begins right here, beyond the microscope and telescope, particularly when we are talking about nothingness of  nothingness and the history of the universe.

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The universe is supported by four fundamental pillars. Here they are:

1         nothingness of nothingness

2         the proto-element

3         space

4         time

Let’s look at them one by one.

The first: nothingness of nothingness

Why we define it as “nothingness of nothingness”? Because in “nothing”, as it is seen by science, there are particles, atoms, molecules and therefore it is not correct to define it as nothing, but it is not so in nothingness of nothingness. In nothingness of nothingness there is nothing, nonexistence, zero, nullity, just an endless void and nothing else. Nothingness of nothingness is unique, is singular and nobody and nothing inhabits it. This is the first pillar of our cosmic edifice.

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Einstein, a pillar of modern physics made of Papier-mâché *

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Sometimes I would have liked to be lazy and spend the rest of my days peacefully and in anonymity. Instead it’s impossible. In this last time I also have nightmares. I see myself sucked into a cosmic crater, in one of those craters that Einstein theorized about in his special or perhaps in his general relativity. Of course, he doesn’t call them cosmic craters, but objects trapped in the curvature of space-time. I can understand a bit about curvatures, but I don’t understand anything about space-time.

If you don’t understand anything about space-time, where’s the problem?

It’s not exactly so. I don’t understand anything in the way Einstein intends them, not in the way I understand space and time.

Well, demonstrate that Einstein’s theory is wrong.

It’s not easy.

There’s no other way.

I wonder, since, honestly, nowadays everybody knows that neither time nor space exists, now, if so, how could he create the theory of special or general relativity based in the existence of space-time? A real block. I can’t follow him.

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Most scientists

They always start their studies

From the existing universe

But they never wondered

What happened there

Before the existing universe

Since the universe

Surely

Didn’t start with the big bang.

“Einstein published, in 1905, his famous articles in the scientific journal ‘Annalen der Physik’ , where only a few scientists and with difficulties could understand something; I publish my articles on the Web, on Facebook, on Twitter and anyone, given their scientific simplicity and reality, can read and understand them in the whole world”.

A short announcement 

I diluted 4 pages written on “The universe in the pocket” in 10 posts. I hope, if my forces allow me, to publish them on Facebook, every other day a post in Italian and a post in English.

In these 10 posts I would like to sketch the history of the universe from its origins to its end. The knowledge of our origins, since man became aware of his life, has never stopped searching for them. Throughout history the best heads have spoken and written of cooked and raw in this subject, they have made bloodbaths fighting for this and for that origin and, even today, this idea sows deaths and mental confusions in every corner of the Earth.

I don’t know how to say it without being taken for a fool or an arrogant, but I do know that we, the homo species, cannot live in a world we don’t know, not in serenity, however. I know this. My endeavor in this work is this: since the old science couldn’t give an answer to this important question and not even the new one, but, someone, sooner or later, must do it. I did it myself.

My intention on what I am about to write is to make my concept of the universe easier to understand. I would start by describing it in an evolutionary way. Not in a biological way like the Darwinian one, but in a physical way starting from Nothingness of Nothingness, then with the first particle, then with all the other metamorphoses that took place along evolution up to the Big Bang, then, after the Big Bang, with the first star, the first galaxy, the first supernova, the Solar System, the Earth, the seas, life, species and, finally, the human creature. After all, we are what we think and what we think is not ours, it belongs to the universe that created the elements for us to be.

We are, in short, a miniature of the universe, a physical, conscious, human universe. All the elements that make up our body are found in the universe. And what does this mean? It means that we can understand it as we understand our mother: we come into the world from its womb. In short, the universe is just a little bigger than us physically, that’s all!

Here is the demonstration. Thinking with our mind, we can, in a matter of seconds, travel to the Big Bang, to the First Particle, to Nothingness of Nothingness. Why? Because our roots are there and we remain in contact with everything that has proceeded us in an abstract, physical and biological way.

In short, the lord universe is just a little bigger than us physically, that’s all!

Jacques Monod’s theory of “Chance and Necessity”, which fits perfectly with Darwinian evolutionary theory, could also be applied to the theory of the universe starting from the Nothingness of Nothingness and reaching us. Here, however, in this theory, it is not the biological species that arrive on the terrestrial screen by chance and affirm themselves by necessity, here we are dealing with physical phenomena that are realized in the universe by chance and affirm themselves by necessity starting from their relative mass.

My theory on the evolution of the universe cannot be falsified. Here I recall the concept of Karl Popper. To falsify it, it would be necessary to demonstrate that another concept such as, the All of the All is opposed to Nothingness of Nothingness, only this could falsify it, but until we find that at the beginning there was the All of the All we cannot falsify it and, therefore, it will remain a full-fledged science, just as until a white raven is found, the concept of the black raven will remain so. Of course, one could always say: “Before there was the previous universe, therefore, the All of the All”. Well, then another might say: “Before the black crow there was the white crow”, and so on. It would never end.

In Darwin’s theory, chance and necessity guide the winning species; in the Big Bang theory, the physical phenomena scattered throughout the universe born from the Big Bang. In my theory of the beginning of the universe, starting from Nothingness of Nothingness and arriving at the Big Bang, it is all an abstract, logical reasoning and can only be denied with another abstract, logical and more truthful reasoning than mine. Before the Big Bang, however, there is no place for science as we know it today. It is a hermetically sealed world. To enter it, first you need to have a good knowledge of the universe born from the Big Bang and then, and only then, with induction, deduction, reason, abstract but actually concrete science have free entry into the world born from the first particle and reaching the Big Bang event. Those who lack these prerogatives, will remain outside.

And then, we can also put it like this, who could ever go beyond the Big Bang and then to the Nothingness of Nothingness? The chances of falsifying the concept of Nothingness of Nothingness, both logically and scientifically, are almost non-existent. They can be falsified from the first to the last mythological concept, but the Nothingness of Nothingness can’t be falsified. This, the Nothingness of Nothingness, can be considered in good hands and also considered the indispensable basis of the universe.

The article you are reading is divided in 10 posts. With this article I give to the whole of humanity, and I don’t want to sound arrogant, the beginning and the end of the universe, not fantastically, not mythologically, not for how the science manuals describe it and not even for how the eaters of numbers and equations want it ( it is not my intention to offend these gentlemen, but I leave them the interpretation they want to give to my words ), but with a real start and a real end. The life of mankind and of every other species on Earth and in the Great Whole, is played out on this landscape, others are but don’t exist.

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There are three more posts to come

Extreme sports (1)

Have you ever wondered what extreme sports are for? Have you ever wondered why no other animal on Earth, not only doesn’t do any extreme sports, but doesn’t do any sport at all? Why has no other monkey ever tried to climb the Everest for the fun of it? Why have I never seen a herd of hippos line up and then race for who from them gets to the nearest lake first and just for the pleasure of the victory? Why does no eagle fly into a dark cave and then communicate to his fellow creatures “I did this”? Why has no wildebeest ever tried to cross a river on a tightrope for the fun of it? Why dive in a shark-infested sea? Why, in short, why jump from the sky from an airplane without a parachute?

According to Aristotle, man is a rational animal. Pascal did not see it this way when he wrote: “All the unhappiness of men has only one source, that is, not knowing how to remain quiet in a room”. Here, thanks to Pascal, are some reasons why we do extreme sport, a sport we know in advance that it can cost us our life, yet we do it!

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In this chat, has man a sense in the world in which he lives?, I will talk about cosmic reality, cosmic reality as it is and not how we want it to be. Forgive me if I insist in these two ways of seeing the world: one objective and one subjective. I divide the world into real and not real. Particles, atoms, molecules, all physical things are real; ideas, theories, concepts, are unreal in the sense that they are not physical, they exist thanks to the physical world. This last one is totally independent from the human world. Sure, we can have a brief, a very brief influence on it, a local influence, of course, this yes, but, in the long run, the world will be always the old world. Life and harmony are a temporary phenomenon in our universe; chaos and disasters, instead, are its real stabilized nature: entropy and the second law of thermodynamics require it.

Next post: first image of the universe (already published)

I read the Bible, almost from top to bottom, in French, English and Italian. When I read it in English, I was in Australia, in Melbourne, and I remember very well that I found the reading full of things that I didn’t find them mentally digestible, reasonable, human. Anyone who has read this book, perhaps understands me. In short, its reading is absurd when compared with real life.

In other words: Can we believe that a few millennia ago God created the world from nothing and in 7 days? Can we believe that the kangaroos were in Noah’s Ark and then swam to Australia? Can we believe, after seeing it from the sky, that the Earth is flat? I must continue? Thank you.

One time, instinctively and with all my strength, I threw the Bible I was reading against the window of my flat and broke the glass. Why read it, you may say, if you found it illegible? Because I wanted to understand, before having my own opinions on a book written by God himself!, and so at times I forced myself to read other books, not that I liked them, but because I wanted to know their content personally and to know it, I had first to read them.

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“Germany should be bombed regularly

every 50 years even for no reason “.

Cit. Sir Winston Churchill

It’s time to make some comparisons between these two historical figures: Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill. I will be very brief and I hope not to say stupid things, I who am not a historian.

Art and politics, Adolf Hitler and Winston Churchill, had them in their blood and more precisely, the first, Adolf Hitler, had them in his heart; the second, Winston Churchill, had them in his brain. Of the first it is said that he was a monster, with a heart I would add; of the second it is said that he was a great man, with the brain I would add. Let’s start with the latter.

Sir Winston Churchill, thanks to his brain, he would have sent 400,000 soldiers, mostly British, to the slaughterhouse on the beach of Dunkirk if it would have been up to him, and perhaps the Second World War could have ended there; the Führer Adolf Hitler, thanks to his heart, didn’t bomb those 400,000 thousand soldiers stranded in Dunkirk either from the air or from the ground; Sir Winston Churchill, thanks to his brain, in the Operation Catapult 1940, shot French ships, his allies, for fear that the Germans could seize them and then use the ships against the British; the Führer Adolf Hitler, thanks to his heart, spared Paris and its monuments despite the negative behavior of the French against the Germans, particularly in the Versailles negotiations at the end of the First World War; Sir Winston Churchill, thanks to his brain, in 1940 many Londoners wanted peace, he wanted war and he got it; the Führer Adolf Hitler, thanks to his heart, delayed his attack on Russia for three months (and it was fatal for him and Germany, some experts said, due to the change of season) to go to help the poor Italian soldiers who ended up under the fire of the Greeks; Sir Winston Churchill, while the war raged in the desert of El Alamein, he painted quietly and happily in a palace in Marrakech; the Führer Adolf Hitler, thanks to his heart, had begun to understand at a certain moment of the war that his generals no longer obeyed him; Sir Winston Churchill, thanks to his brain, at the end of the Second World War, when Germany was now just a pile of debris, had Dresden and other German cities that still breathed razed to the ground; the Führer Adolf Hitler, thanks to his heart, in the last days of his life married his partner, Eva Braun, and then committed suicide together with his wife in order not to end, both he and she, neither alive nor dead in the hands of the enemy.

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Mr. Priestly Williams writes on Facebook after reading my “The cosmic foundations and the discovery that God is = to Nothingness of Nothingness” and some other titles of my books that I have published:“The Trilogy”, namely “Flash about man and the universe”, “From nothingness of nothingness to virtual immortality”, and “Son of the elements and the big bang, the cosmic autobiography of a human being”, plus “The 4 pillars that support the universe and the before and the afterlife of the Big Bang”, published by Contro Corrente (Print MnM Edizions), plus the article I published on my blog: “Einstein, a pillar of modern physics made of papier mache or my Singapore speech”.

Here are his words:

“Are you over burdened by assignments? We can help you out. We have highly qualified and experienced expert in each field. Our fee is pocket friendly. We offer discounts to our clients with many orders. Kindly message us in case you need help. Thank you.

My reply:

Thank you so much Sir. I am very pleased and honored by your invitation to talk about my work in the prestigious University of Oxford. No Italian university has ever invited me or just considered my work. *

Still many thanks and greetings.

Francis Sgambelluri

*   P. S.    I don’t exclude the fact that to present my work, the University of Oxford would ask me for a fee. Anyhow, I’m sure that Mr. Priestly Williams will give me more details about it.

Today, and we must admit it, even if the managers and masters of these means of communication worldwide, may turn out to be on the wrong social side, but in fact, are they? Indeed, thanks to these media – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Web, Wikipedia, etc. – thanks to them, the people of the whole world, the one for whom education is not always at hand, are becoming aware of how physically and politically this rock that turns and turns around the Sun is really made and ruled. Conscious or unconscious, it is a real Revolution without bloodshed. And not only. It is also instructive, educational, cultural and a human revolution, never done it before. Such a Revolution (with a capital R) on a planetary level could bring about social changes that we don’t realize it yet.

I have taught in different countries and in my classrooms there were sometimes 20 students and sometimes more and others less, but today when I publish an article on Facebook, Twitter, etc., it could be seen and read by thousands of people. A big difference, isn’t it? Thanks to all those who deserve them!

A cosmic awareness

gives us a healthy and full idea

how the universe is concretely made

and not as we want it to be”!

With this post, friends of Facebook, of Twitter and of the Web, I will give you the whole universe and forever. Do you think, maybe, that I’m crazy telling you this? At all! Read this article first and then decide if I am crazy or you, perhaps, a bit surprised by this argument!

Let’s begin:

This post could make some chattering, not noises created by numbers, equations, particles, quants, none of this stuff, but real chattering or, if you want, noises of species, of planets, of the solar system, of galaxies and, finally, cosmic noises, noises never heard before and much less will be heard in the future, they are, putting all of them together, a unique murmuring universal sound in the background.

Our universe, finally!, has become transparent, all crystal clear, there are no more mysteries about it, a single and universal mirror. In fact, once we know that our universe has a metaphysical background, that it has a beginning and an end, and from its first particle to the last of which it is composed, scientifically speaking, is pure irrationality. In short, once we have taken consciously a realistic picture of our universe, then we can say that we understand who we are and the world and the universe in which we live.

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“Death will come

And it will have your eyes”, Pavese says

“Not mine, I say

Because I’ll have them before her.”

In the meantime, I would like to say that, despite all the adversities I had to face in life, I have achieved what I wanted to achieve: to understand my fellow men, the universe and the world in which I was born and lived. In my way I understood them.

Sure, I could have committed suicide without saying a word, as most suicides do. Instead, I do the opposite, I write the reasons that led me to this act and I say that for me suicide was one of the most convenient things of my life: I could get rid of it when and how I wanted.

My death, therefore. In fact, I had already decided on this act towards the end of the Sixties, in Paris. Then it didn’t happen. Then, the “then” of this time, became the then of today and between these two “thens” passed more than 50 years. I reasoned like this in those past times and I still think like this:

Being born from nothing and then returning to another nothing without a “but” and without a “why”, is not fun for a mind that thinks and from any point of view one sees it.

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It’s true, “the years pass quickly”, but the youth, paradoxically, can remain because it depends, not on the years, but on our brain. Old age, in reality, has nothing to do with age; old age, as we understand it, doesn’t exist. Life, understood in a natural way, is a single cycle, it starts from birth and ends with death. This is not how the mental, cultural, historical and philosophical age works. A 25 year young man and an 80 year old man may be older, culturally speaking, the young man and not the 80 year old man. Old age is not in the body, but in the head. We are culture not flesh. One is born flesh, but becomes culture. Old age weighs itself with intelligence. Be clever and you’ll stay young even when you are 100 years old; be young but an idiot and you are already old!

Einstein published, in 1905, his famous articles in the scientific journal “Annalen der Physik” where only a few scientists and with difficulties could understand something; I publish my articles on the Web, on Facebook, on Twitter and anyone, given their scientific simplicity and reality, can read and understand them in the whole world.

The only tolerable immortality is the virtual one and he who knows the universe  will conquest it. That’s what I propose in this post to the readers of the Web.

In these 12 images of the universe, starting with homo sapiens sapiens and ending with the immortal virtuality, each of us should be able to understand his own casualty and the meaning of his life in this  world of ours. I would like to start by saying that quantum mechanics and general relativity * represent the micro and the macro. In other words, the former belongs to the micro-world, the latter to the macro-world; the first appeared from nothingness of nothingness, the second emerged from the phenomena (i. e. the force of attraction is relative to the magnitude of each phenomenon in question); the first imposes a metaphysical question, the second a physical one; the first has to do with chance, the second with the end: big crunch or big chill; the second without the first wouldn’t exist, the first without nothingness of nothingness either. All this is logical as 2 + 2 = 4, and this helps us nearly to touch with our own hands the origins of the universe, but it doesn’t help us to make sense of our lives, this no or maybe yes? We’ll see.

Let’s start with the first image. Personally, of all the species on this planet, the one that most terrifies and amazes me, is the homo sapiens sapiens.

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Einstein published, in 1905, his famous articles in the scientific journal “Annalen der Physik” where only a few scientists and with many difficulties could understand something; I publish my articles on my blog, on Facebook, on Twitter and anyone, given their reality, simplicity and meaning, can read and understand them in the whole world.

“And what about the content between Einstein’s articles and yours?”, a reader asked me once.

“It depends on our point of view,” I replied. The same could be said for the post you’re going to read now.

Our world-universe moves in the middle of an infinite space. Before it, there was nothingness of nothingness,

that is to say nothing, total zero, not even a particle. The “nothing” as science understands it, doesn’t exist. For science, “nothing” is full of particles. So if “nothing” is full of particles, it can’t be nothing. In nothingness of nothingness there are not even the particles.

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If the Christian religion were true, I would be the first to embrace it. It is not. It is false. It is unnatural and anti-human.

God doesn’t exist, and all believers and non-believers know it.

Christ is fiction, like Don Quixote and Madame Bovary.

The Madonna is a ridiculous invention.

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