The First Unified Theory
The governing theory -
dictator of our level of happiness and fulfillment
RebelsFAQ - its purpose
Scientific theories are usually considered to be complicated, boring, and have nothing to do with how much happiness we experience.
For partial theories, that’s often the case, but when it comes to master theories, it’s about as far from the truth as one can get.
A master theory is like a locomotive and the tracks it’s on. Everything we believe about the world is the locomotive. The tracks take us into a world where much of reality is predetermined, including the amount of joy. Our lives are the train it pulls. Once we get on board, there’s nothing we can do to change things. Except get off and take a different train.
Looking back to the era before modern science, the connection is easy to see. The locomotive was there, it was just expressed differently.
At that time, people lived among a gallery of good and evil powers. If they believed there were many of the bad and few of the good, they lived every day in a world full of danger and anxiety. The level of joy was low. If they thought the wicked were few and weak and the good many and strong, the level of joy was higher. Once they had a basic belief, they’d effectively boarded one of these trains and there was nothing more to be done about it. The level of joy followed along as life’s background music.
When we come to the age of theories, most are so-called partial, or subtheories. These theories deal with certain sections of reality; i.e. the theory of relativity, planetary theory, the theory of continental drift, etc. Partial theories have little impact on the level of joy; they are not locomotives.
The locomotive in the world of science is called a master theory, here it is called a governing theory. It’s the type of theory that attempts to provide a basic explanation of all of reality. Science places little emphasis on what this reality is like to live in. People quickly figure out the inherent dangers in that world and how afraid we should be if we are to survive in it.
The master theory modern science is founded upon saw the light of day 2300 years ago and is often called the material theory. The short description of this locomotive is: The world is made of meaningless and lifeless material particles, blind physical laws and coincidence. The universe is unimaginably vast, death is eternal annihilation, and we are powerless.
The maximum level of happiness on this train is rock-bottom minimal.
If the world is actually as brutal and threatening as the material governing theory says, there’s not a lot we can do about it. In that case, the smartest thing we can do is to learn how to grab as much as we can of the few pleasures there are. Or so we think.
An even smarter thing would be to see whether the current governing theory is correct. Is everything as cut and dried as we’re told? To check things out so we don’t board the train that offers only trinkets just because we don’t know there’s another train that offers something so much greater.
The RebelsFAQ website was made because someone already did the checking and ended up discovering a theory that’s not only much more solid scientifically, it’s bursting with joy.
Here, under The First Unified Theory pages, you can become acquainted with the new governing theory.
Operating trains is serious business. Accidents can happen. It’s best to take it slow.
“Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!”
H.G. Wells
For 99% of people with no scientific background, it may be a good idea to repeat the scientific definition of a theory. After five years of experience at university, I’d guess the corresponding figure for those with a scientific background plummets to as low as 98%. I once personally belonged to the group that needs more repetition, but don’t know they need it. The definition in condensed format is here. Read More
What is a scientific theory?
Every theory begins as a hypothesis and consists of a set of characteristic assumptions. A theory’s purpose is to explain how all or parts of reality are structured and work. The assumptions are the tools in the theory’s toolbox. Together, they form a theory’s characteristic form of logic. To explain the various phenomena in reality, explanations must be based on the theory’s tools, its characteristic logic, and none other. To graduate from hypothesis to scientific theory, two requirements must be met.
First requirement: The validity of the assumptions in a specific theory must be verifiable: 1) by examining whether the assumptions are suitable for explaining what the theory is designed to explain. Alternatively 2) through experiments that confirm the characteristic assumptions.
Second requirement: A set of assumptions is not called a scientific theory until one or both of these verification methods have been performed with positive results.
So, someone else is deciding which train I get on?
You guessed it! And this time, the train was designed and made in a private garage by someone who can’t be trusted. Take your seat! The doors are closing!
However. There is an alternative. Read More
Why let someone else decide? Why not take on the role of scientific auditor and run a basic verification of the two theories? The chances of successfully filling the role are actually better if you don’t have a background in science.
If this sounds interesting, you’ll find four helpful tips below. Each tip takes only a few seconds to read. Four points that constitute a lightning course on how to do the job, and do it right.
True, it’s only a lightning course. But for this particular topic, the 89-second course is miles ahead of the knowledge gained from an average 5-year university course. And it’s free. Here are the four tips:
1) Inexplicable phenomena (4 seconds read)
When examining a theory, look for unexplainable phenomena.
2) The crowbar (25 seconds)
A theory consists of a set of characteristic assumptions. As long as the theory is considered correct, it dictates what is logical. It determines reason and becomes the basis of our worldview.
Logical rules and reason are not constant. When we convert from an old theory to a new one, the logical rules change. Thus, we also change our understanding and how we reason.
Ideally, sub-theories experiencing persistent problems explaining many of the phenomena they were designed to explain are replaced. But before replacing these theories, it’s normal for scientists to attempt to solve the problems using normal science. This may take quite some time.
Normal science is tufted on the idea that it (science) already knows how the world works.
History shows us how difficult it is to perform science under this attitude. Established science has fought tooth and nail against just about every new theory-candidate. The problems of phenomena that can’t be explained using the established theory weren’t solved. Instead, the phenomena were given acrobatic explanations, were regarded as acceptable exceptions, as flaws in sensual organs, explained away, or simply went unnoticed.
This type of situation gave rise to revolutionary science.
Revolutionary science is a crowbar, made for breaking and entering. It regards unexplainable phenomena as a requirement that science must break into the world beyond accepted reason to look for a set of assumptions (a different kind of logic) that can solve the problems.
Every new theory has been the result of practicing revolutionary science and was found beyond established reason.
3) Take the lead (25 seconds)
The ingenious thing about revolutionary science is that it forces us to relate differently to our own resistance.
Practitioners of normal science perceive their emotional and intellectual resistance as an order to defend established truths. They comply and become deaf and blind to unexplained phenomena. Traditionally, normal science complies and will not look for solutions that lie outside established reason.
Revolutionary science works differently. It’s like a crowbar. Its practitioners regard resistance as a natural part of the landscape when looking for new and more sound insights. They becomes acutely sensitive to unexplained phenomena and collect as many as possible. Once they’ve found enough of them, revolutionary science deems it science’s duty to break into the uncharted territories beyond established bounds of reason.
Because established/normal science refuses to use this crowbar while you agree to use it, you gain a head start in doing the job normal science can never catch up with.
4) How to eliminate doubt and cross the finish line (15 seconds)
What we think or feel doesn’t matter. If it’s science we want to perform we can’t behave as though science is a religion:
- In science, theories are not judged by employing the logic of one theory to judge the logic of another. A theory is judged by how well its own characteristic form of logical can explain phenomena.
What we think or feel is irrelevant. If we want to practice science, there is only one thing that determines whether one theory is better or worse than another:
The theory that explains the most phenomena using its own form of logic is the more solid. The more solid theory automatically gains the right to dictate what constitutes logic and reason.