model owing to mathematics being a formal system that is in the end
self-referential. There would be then an infinite number of possible
models that work, but they don’t say what reality is, only how you are
modeling it as a tool. So, a good example of this is we say space is
x=vt. If we want to say what distance x is we have to say velocity is
x/t, so we have x=(x/t)t=x. So in this formulation of reality, space
is space. So mathematics is a formal system and self-referential at
some point, so it can’t explain itself, thus preventing us from saying
what reality is. But models being tools, you use the one that opens
more doors for the given problem.
I think this infinite regress is connected to the problem of the
universe exists, but shouldn’t because you can’t have an uncaused
cause, or unmoved mover, but you need it to break out of the infinite
regress, but it is impossible, because you then have no cause and
effect. My point is that it may be counter productive to argue over
whose theory is right in an infinite regress.
But I feel the meaning to be had in reality will be found in
infinitely, self-similar recursion through scales, like I am
presenting here as findings in the 1-second invariant at the level of
protons, to atoms, to the solar system. It may be that this regression
is infinite going on to galaxies, and clusters of galaxies, and
clusters of clusters. We really don’t know for sure whether the
universe is infinite in extent, or finite with an infinite number of
them, and so on. But in the end, something strange has to be going on
that we are missing in that we seem to have a universe that is either
an uncaused cause, or has always existed, yet is a particular way. It
seems to be so, but the human mind cannot understand such a thing with
any form of reason.
With exoarchaeology I offer-up a platform that escapes the problem of
stopping moving forward when can’t explain something from first
principles by introducing the idea of an “artifact”. I find we find if
we accept something momentarily and move on, other discoveries arrive
and a coherent picture starts to form. This is much in the school of
abstract algebra. For instance we might find something takes the form
as an oscillator, but we don’t say whether it is due to springs, or
fields, we explain that after arriving at the form, and even then, the
explanation is only collapsing the infinite regress into a finite
closure that is self-referential. There could be an infinite number of
models that do the same thing. However, in exoarchaeology we can
arrive at something from first principles as well, as I have outlined
here with some my explanations for inertia. I am beginning to think
people shouldn’t be arguing over whose theory is right when really
there is no right in an infinite regress, which is what reality seems
to be. I don’t know if other people will like this approach, but I
find the archaeological approach is exciting because it finds exciting
models that point us in the right direction. Thus, I think don’t argue