The CTMU overrides conventional models, placing them in meaningful context and conceptually unifying GR with QM, and these with Biology, thereby yielding a true "Theory of Everything". This doesn't presume some "Grand Unified Theory" of Physics doesn't exist, but even such a theory, without explaining Biology, wouldn't be a "ToE".
The CTMU uses a fundamental logical duality, one holding between "Endomorphic" and "Ectomorphic" systems. The model of an "Expanding Universe" is Ectomorphic, meaning motion involves objects moving outside their prior location or boundary.
"Cosmic expansion and ordinary physical motion have something in common: they are both what might be called ectomorphisms. In an ectomorphism, something is mapped to, generated or replicated in something external to it." CTMU
The logical inversion of an Ectomorphic, expanding universe is an Endomorphic system, ie, a static system with "contracting" content. In the Endomorphic semi-model, the notion of conventional "motion in (expanding) space" is replaced with "internal self reproduction", with state-changes represented as internalized "nesting", per a Venn diagram. https://ist6-3.filesor.com/pimpandhost.com/1/_/_/_/1/a/t/O/s/atOs6/di-G3XQOQ.png
A way to think of Endomorphism, ie "Conspansion", is to imagine a light bulb radiating light in a sphere into empty space. A sphere of light, or circle in a diagram, radiates at "light speed" away from the light bulb, right? If we imagine the edge of the observable universe to be "expanding" away from the bulb at the same "light speed", we can't suppose the light from the bulb is moving whatsoever relative to the edge of the expanding universe. Only by "collapsing" the bulb internally to its own image can a complete understanding of reality be derived.
Another analogy is with a video monitor. A simulated universe could be programmed, with clusters of galaxies "expanded" to the edge of the screen, however any further "increasing metric variance" would require shrinking the images once they've reached the edge of the screen. Conspansive Endomorphism is akin to a video monitor (static state) with no lower-limit on pixel size, such that objects could be "collapses" indefinitely, thereby appearing from a "global" vantage to "shrink" internally to a static system.
Because the Ectomorphic model places "effect" internally to the "causal" domain from which the effect arose, no separation between past and present is logically implied by the model. The past "ranges" over the present, as per a domain in a Venn diagram. The "present", in-turn, "collapses" into the next state, with the present-moment then becoming the overlapping domain covering the next state.
The entire universe can be mapped this way, as nested, overlapping domains, with all quantum-scale "state-transitions" mapped as a Venn-diagramatic domain covering its future. Subjecting the overlapping domains to "parallel processing" then becomes the SIMPLEST POSSIBLE MODEL/MAPPING of reality require to explain QM, GR, Biology and the rest.
I say all this because you mention that energy can't be explained, but it can by the CTMU. What we call "Forces" are the "dynamical programming" inherent in a "self contained universe capable of generating life".
"Spacetime evolution can thus be straightforwardly depicted by Venn diagrams in which the truth attribute, a high-order metapredicate of any physical predicate, corresponds to topological inclusion in a spatial domain corresponding to specific physical attributes. I.e., to be true, an effect must be not only logically but topologically contained by the cause; to inherit properties determined by an antecedent event, objects involved in consequent events must appear within its logical and spatiotemporal image. In short, logic equals spacetime topology." C.M.Langan, Physics & Metaphysics
"Originally called the Computation-Theoretic Model of the Universe, the CTMU was initially defined on a hierarchical nesting of universal computers, the Nested Simulation Tableau or NeST, which tentatively described spacetime as stratified virtual reality in order to resolve a decision-theoretic paradox put forth by Los Alamos physicist William Newcomb....
...Where physical fields of force control or program dynamical geometry, and programming is logically stratified as in NeST, fields become layered stacks of parallel distributive programming that decompose into field strata (conspansive layers) related by an intrinsic requantization function inhering in, and logically inherited from, the most primitive and connective layer of the stack. C.M.Langan, Physics & Metaphysics
I'm still at a loss of what energy is, it seems impossible to define. Perhaps because I try to see it in terms of cause and effect. We assume that energy is contained in matter, that energy manifests through the translation of mass into energy. Thus at a fundamental level all experience points to a relationship between energy and matter. In fission, there is mass lost, in fusion there is mass lost, even in combustion mass is lost. Is that mass simply the conversion to energy? Then you have to wonder, what caused mass to exist in the first place, what imbued matter with this crystalized energy? Some energy had to be expended to produce such a process.
For one thing energy is "zero sum" at the universal scale. The fundamental principles described by the CTMU are required to show how a universe can be "zero sum", resolving the problem of "something from nothing".
Briefly, "nothingness" is synonymous with "boundlessness", which (as I interpret it), is analogous to a "primordial black hole", per the standard "Big Bang" model. A black hole is mathematically defined as a "point", hence its without boundary, while "primordial" implies no external conditions. Given its self-containment, and presuming its "infinite mass", and since a static mass = "potential energy", the "boundless nothingness" has "infinite potential energy", from which an observable universe can be derived, as the required manner of "self processing" per a complex system capable of generating life as we know it.
Essentially, what the CTMU model does is describe reality as a "self simulation", whereby things like "energy" and "forces" can be reduced to a fundamental sort of "programming", one whereby "perception" is the model of the program. A model unambiguously exhibits truth-values of a theory (language) in a given domain. In the theory/domain "reality", the model is perception. We perceive regular patterns, and so we use terms like "forces" or "energy" along with math and measurments to describe regular and/or predictable patterns.
No model of "force" has been commonly adopted, outside of "materialism", which has been categorically refuted by QM. Per materialism, force is transmitted solely by direct contact between solid bodies, a notion at-least intuitive, if ultimately false at the quantum level. No other model of "force at a distance" has ever manifested prior to the CTMU.
As for "energy", it's just the transfer of "force", which as no common definition outside the CTMU. Per the CTMU "simulation" model, each quantum-level state is derived via reflexive feedback with the overall "entangled" universe. The appearance of forces and energy amounts to the regularity of state-changes, ie "syntax", of a self-processing universe where perception being the "model" (truth-revealer), some regularity and/or transformability is required were a large number of separate observers can exist.
"...the CTMU describes reality as a Self-Configuring Self-Processing Language or SCSPL, a reflexive intrinsic language characterized not only by self-reference and recursive self-definition, but full self-configuration and selfexecution (reflexive read-write functionality)." CTMU
So there is no energy per-se, it's just an expression, which translates into another expression? We are all in this loop of harvesting and expending this energy. As you state, energy is simply a measurement of a perceived but incalculable natural phenomena. Motion, translates to force, translates to work, translates to power over time. Again these are conventions for a process which appears to amount to accomplishment. If the universe is already finished and perfect, what is left to do? To what extent are we just passengers in our bodies?
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