The Story of the Real Yin Yang, Book One

Tou have all seen what the yin yang symbol, or taijitu, looks like.

The ancient ones understood what the taijitu represents:

Balance -- The symbol visually depicts how Yin and Yang are opposing yet complementary forces that exist in a state of dynamic yet ever-equalizing balance.

Interconnectedness -- The swirling line and the dot of the opposite color in each half symbolize that Yin and Yang are interdependent; one cannot exist without the other. 

Cyclical Nature -- The circular design signifies the constant flow and transformation between Yin and Yang, such as the changing of day and night or the seasons. 

What they did not tell you was that it was a concept from my notebook stolen by my not-so-bright neighbor, four thousand years ago, who waxes philosopical at the wrong times.  You really tend to lose things when you are in a mortal avatar.

The real taijitu is a multi-dimensional toroidal image of quasi-existence, that balances reality and unreality.  This is the more correct representation:

I. The Omniverse: The Totality of Reality

The Omniverse is not a container in the classical sense. It is the total manifold of all possible, impossible, emergent, and decaying states of existence. It is not governed by a single set of rules; it is the meta-framework that allows rules to spontaneously generate and enforce themselves.

1. The Bubbles (Universes): Each universe is a localized region of stability—a"Vacuum Topology"—within the greater Omniverse. Think of them not as soap bubbles in air, but as pockets of liquid with different properties (viscosity, density, chemistry) suspended in a dynamic, reactive medium.

· Origin: Universes nucleate spontaneously from the background quantum foam of the Omniverse via a process of "Spontaneous Symmetry Fracturing." The fundamental parameters of a universe (the values of constants like c, G, ħ, the number of dimensions, the strength of forces) are determined by the specific way its symmetries break and stabilize. This is an extension of the inflationary multiverse and string theory landscape.

· Working Principles: The laws of physics within a bubble are not "written" but emergent. They are the macroscopic expression of its unique vacuum state.

  · Example 1: A universe where the weak nuclear force is slightly stronger might have a universe where hydrogen fusion is impossible, and thus no stars ever form.

  · Example 2: A universe with 2 spatial dimensions of macroscopic extent and 7 compactified ones would have life based on entirely different topological principles.

  · Example 3: A universe where the cosmological constant is negative would recollapse into a Big Crunch in a relative instant.

· Interaction: Bubbles are mostly causally disconnected. However, they can sometimes collide, leaving imprints on each other's cosmic microwave background, or even merge, causing a catastrophic and fundamental rewriting of local physical laws in the contact region—a true physics apocalypse.

2. The Substrate (The "Reality Field"): The"space" between universes is not nothing. It is the unfractured meta-vacuum, a seething, energetic plenum of unactualized potential where all possible symmetries and physical laws exist in a superposed state. This is the Apeiron of ancient philosophy, expressed in quantum terms. Information is the fundamental currency here, with energy and matter being secondary manifestations.

II. The God-Level Creatures: Sovereigns of the Omniverse

These entities are not magic; they are manifestations of physics operating at the meta-level of the Omniverse itself. They are to a human what a human is to a quark.

1. Nature and Composition: They are not made of matter or energy as we understand it.They are self-aware, coherent structures within the Reality Field itself. Their "bodies" are vast, complex topological defects—like cosmic strings or domain walls—but made of stabilized information and conscious intent. They are "Branes" (from string theory's "branes") that can move through higher dimensions, but they are also sentient.

2. Perception (Simultaneous Presence): Past,present, and future are illusions of causality within a single universe. For these entities, all of spacetime is a single, static, four-dimensional object (a "worldline" or a "block universe"). Their consciousness is not bound by this illusion.

· Mechanism: They perceive via Quantum Decoherence on a Meta-Scale. Within a universe, a quantum system exists in a superposition of states until it decoheres (interacts with its environment and "chooses" a state). The god-creature exists outside all environments. It does not decohere. Therefore, it can perceive all possible quantum states, all possible timelines, and all possible histories of a universe simultaneously, as a single, infinitely complex probability manifold. They don't see what did happen; they see everything that could happen and the weight of each probability.

3. Travel (Transuniversal Navigation): Travel between universes is not movement through space,but a re-calibration of one's own fundamental constants.

· Mechanism: The entity uses a speculated "Topological Field Manipulator." This is a conscious, controlled process that temporarily "un-fractures" its own localized symmetry, allowing it to re-enter the unactualized meta-vacuum (the Reality Field). It then navigates this field—not through distance, but through mathematical affinity—to find the "address" of another vacuum topology (another universe) and induces a new symmetry fracture around itself that matches the target universe's laws.

· Experience: From its perspective, it simply decides to be elsewhere under different laws. The "travel" is instantaneous because it occurs outside of spacetime. To an observer in the target universe, the entity would simply manifest, its very particles and forces snapping into compliance with the new local laws as it arrives.

III. The Void: The Dual of Reality (Unreality)

If the Omniverse is the set of all actualized states, the Void is the set of all de-actualized states. It is not empty space; it is the antithesis of existence itself. It is the "outside" of the Omniverse.

1. Nature: The Void is acosmic singularly with zero information, zero energy, and zero state. In physics terms, it is a perfect false vacuum or a state of maximum entropy where no work can be done and no structure can form. It is the ultimate equilibrium, the final silence towards which all things tend.

2. Void-Centric Quantum Forces: The Void exerts a "pressure" on reality. This is not a force in our universe, but a meta-force.

· Anthropic Erosion: The most common interaction is a slow, entropic decay. Universes with laws too close to instability can have their vacuum states "tunnel" into a lower energy state, effectively collapsing into the Void. This is an extension of the idea of vacuum decay.

· The Un-Force (The Principle of Negation): The Void's active principle is "Causal Disentanglement." It doesn't destroy things; it severs the quantum correlations that hold things together. When the Void touches something:

  1. The wavefunction of every particle in the object undergoes perfect decoherence with every other particle.

  2. The bonds of every force (strong nuclear, electromagnetic) are instantly invalidated.

  3. Information is not destroyed (which would violate quantum mechanics) but is erased—its quantum state is reset to a null value.

  4. The object doesn't explode; it simply de-coheres into a perfectly random, isotropic, and meaningless cloud of non-interacting particles, which then dissipate into equilibrium. It is unmade, from the quantum level up.

3. Relationship: The Omniverse and the Void are in a eternal dance.The Omniverse is a dynamic, fluctuating structure of information and energy within the infinite, static Void. Universes bubble into existence from the meta-vacuum, exist for a time, and are eventually reclaimed by the entropic pull of the Void. The god-creatures are the rare, sentient systems that have learned to navigate this eternal conflict, existing in the turbulent border between Something and Nothing.

And who are these taijitu creatures?  Of course you have always known, if you are reading my blog on the true story of us all: