π

This model of the universe has only one forward gear; π…

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In the very, very first femto, pico seconds of the big bang that started our universe; the heat, light and expansion generated was literally out of this universe in scale and intensity.

Our universe was born with…

  • all circular, angular momentum articulated by the ratio of the circumference to radius (π ), which was imparted to all matter; 
  • π is transcendental; it is unresolvable in any number system, using any base (denary, octal, hex, binary, etc.); and, 
  • π lives on the number scale between 3.14 and 3.15;

π appears in:

  • Quantum mechanics: the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. ΔxΔp ≥ h
    • 4π. The fundamental limit on what can be known simultaneously about position and momentum. 
    • π sits at the heart of uncertainty itself.
  • Electromagnetism: Coulomb’s law, the permeability of free space. 
    • π is in the fabric of how magnetic fields propagate.
  • General relativity: Einstein’s field equations. 
    • 8π on one side, spacetime curvature on the other.

Note: Einstein’s “no dice” rejection of quantum indeterminacy; his god doesn’t play dice. The universe is deterministic at its root.

Hoist with his own petard when his own general relativity is full of π. His god may not play dice but his god can’t stop using bloody, unknowable π…

  • Wave mechanics: every sine wave, every oscillation, every frequency.
    • 2π radians in a complete cycle.

π is the number that connects geometry to physics to information theory to quantum mechanics. 

π is Not a human abstract construct…

  • we are not the gods of π’s existence…
  • the universe is the creator of π…
    • the universe is built on rotation and periodicity,
    • π is the ratio of rotation…
    • the universe is stuck in one forward gear; π…

π isn’t just the ratio of circumference to diameter. It’s the unknowable number embedded in the description of periodicity, rotation, and propagation at every scale.

All matter is in motion, and most of that motion is rotational or orbital.

  • Stardust; of which we’re made;
  • Quarks; are defined by their spin as an intrinsic quantum property. Not like a top, but a fundamental angular momentum baked into existence;
  • Electrons; by their quantum spin, orbital angular momentum around nuclei;
  • Atoms and molecules; have their rotational and vibrational states;
  • Planets; orbiting stars, spinning on axes;
  • Stars: spinning, orbiting galactic centres;
  • Galaxies: rotating, some orbiting each other in clusters;
  • Galaxy clusters: moving, some in gravitational dance with others.

And, every single one of these motions is described by equations containing π. Angular momentum, orbital mechanics, wave functions, spin states. π is the gear ratio of rotation. 

And rotation is everywhere… thus π is omnipresent…lykw? ooeer!

The BB’s angular momentum unleashed an asymmetric explosion, which seeded rotation at every scale through gravity and conservation of angular momentum. 

Once something starts spinning, it keeps spinning, conserving angular momentum.

[Note; not everything orbits everything else, but everything has some rotational component to its motion. Linear motion and rotation are intertwined at every scale.]

π 

  • is transcendental; cannot to resolved by any number theory or counting base (denary, octal hex, binary); approximated, yes. Known certainly, never…
  • Is not imaginary (root of -1, doesn’t live on any number scale)
  • Never 1, never 0; never certain…

Isn’t there a religion somewhere sometime that saw god in π?

Yes, and it’s older and richer than most realise.

The Hebrews

In the Talmud, the value of π is implicitly given as 3 in several passages; a deliberate theological rounding, some scholars argue, not mathematical ignorance. The circle as divine, the approximation as a statement that the divine cannot be fully captured by human number.

The Kabbalistic tradition went further; in gematria, the numerical value of Hebrew letters, finds pi-adjacent relationships in the Torah. The word for “line” — קו — appears in a passage about Solomon’s temple with a deliberate textual anomaly that some Kabbalists interpret as encoding a correction toward the true value of π.


The Greeks

Pythagoras and his school treated mathematical relationships as divine. The discovery that √2 was irrational (cannot be expressed as a ratio of 2 rational numbers) allegedly caused a crisis; 

  • one account says Hippasus was drowned (shooting the messenger?) for revealing it, because it threatened the theological belief that the universe was built on rational numbers. 
  • It’s not…

The irrational as heresy.

The Hindus

Vedic mathematics had sophisticated π approximations. The circle as Brahman; the infinite, self-referential, without beginning or end. The unreachable decimal as a feature, not a limitation.

  • The thread through all of them
  • The circle as the shape of the divine; perfect, complete, self-contained. 
  • And the number, π, that describes it as fundamentally beyond human notation.

The universe doesn’t just use π.

The universe is π, repeating at every scale, in every interaction, at every moment. 

God as π; 

  • omnipresent, 
  • exact, 
  • never fully knowable, 
  • appearing in every equation that describes existence, 
  • binding everything together with a number that cannot be written down completely.

Sounds pretty god adjacent to me, 

and I haven’t a religious bone in my body…


https://physicsandfaith.org/your-gods-been-found-in-the-scripture-of-physics/

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