Part 1: The Multidimensional Universe

In this debut episode, I begin with a brief introduction before launching into a rapid yet fascinating tour of the universe — as seen through the lens of mathematics, theoretical physics, and cosmology. If science is your thing, you’ll definitely want to tune in. Along the way, I share two extraordinary personal encounters with Doctor Dahesh — stories that may challenge your assumptions or spark deeper questions. You might agree with my conclusions, or you might not — I’ve wrestled with them myself. But one thing’s for sure — by the time it’s over, this will have been one of the most educational podcasts you’ve ever listened to.

Episode Transcript

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The delicious theory of reincarnation, Partone, the multi dimensional Universe. In

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his book The Forerunner, published innineteen twenty, Khalil Jebron wrote a short
parable called Other Seas. The fishsaid to another fish, above the sea
of ours, there is another seawith creatures swimming in it, and they

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live there even as we live here. The fish replied, pure fancy,
Pure fancy. When you know thateverything that leaves our sea by even an
inch and stays out of it dies, what proof have you of other lives
in other seas? There are those, including the brightest luminaries of physics,

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who believe the universe to be arbitraryin nature and not the result of some
grand design. With fierce determination,they cling to the notion that there was
no time before the Big Bang forany sort of intelligent designer, let alone
a divine creator to exist in asfar as logical conclusions go, I might

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have agreed with them, had Inot come in contact with Selim musa Ashi,
also known as Doctor Dahsh, founderof the Dahish Museum in New York
City, prolific author, and mostimportantly, founder of the Daishist faith,
which he proclaimed on March twenty three, nineteen forty two. The physical manifestations

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that occurred when he was present werenothing short of miracles to many of those
who came in contact with him,including Missus Marie Haddad, noted Lebanese scholar
and pain, news and urban legendsabout him spread like wildfire to such an
extent that the government of Lebanon,incited by the clergy and led by President

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Bishar al Kuri, brother in lawto Marie Haddad, would enact an elaborate
scheme to eliminate him by the endof nineteen forty four. That scheme included
buying off the newspapers, assassination,attempts, incarceration without due process of law,

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the illegal removal of his citizenship,torture and exile to Aleppo then Azaz,
Syria. It would all culminate inhis being abandoned on a deserted road
under cover of darkness, without food, money, or identification papers in Turkish
territory as World War II was stillraging on. But the following presentation is

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not about how doctor Dash would clawhis way back to Beirut from certain doom
and hide in the Henani Palace,which is located right across from the presidential
Palace, home of his sworn enemy. However, and for the record,
from inside the Henani Palace, DoctorDash would launch an underground magazine called the

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Black Books. There were in totalsixty six Black Books, whose publication ran
from nineteen forty five until nineteen fiftytwo. Missus Marie Hadad would bravely put
her name to every issue as theauthor in them. Using words and photographs,

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Doctor Dash would systematically expose the corruptpresident and his wife lor Kouri,
sister of Marie and chief architect behindthe campaign to eradicate doctor Deahesh, ultimately
fueling public outcry and massive demonstrations thatforced the president to resign on September eighteenth,
nineteen fifty two. President Camille Shamunwould subsequently restore doctor Dash's citizenship.

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But, as I said, thatstory is for another day. This is
about a much bigger picture that involvesall of us on this planet and why
we are here. Therefore, pleasethink of the following as being as much
a testimonial on behalf of theoretical physicsas it is a testimony to the role
doctor Desh played in showing me tangibleproof of the divine Power's existence. Given

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the fantastic nature of the events Ihave witnessed and some of their implications I
was privy to, it is bothmy privilege and duty to act as a
guide through a road perhaps not taken, one that has personally provided me an
impetus to embark on a lifelong questfor knowledge about the wondrous nature that is
our existence. Anything less, andI will have this avowed. All I

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have seen and believed and forfeited mysoul, and I am fully aware of
the reality that there is no tangible, physical proof that God exists, at
least not the kind that will satisfya mind trained to follow the scientific method,

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notwithstanding some of its limitations, whichis a complex process that can take
many directions and starting points on thatfront. Because the scientific method requires completely
controlled experiments to test the hypothesis anyhypothesis, science cannot prove everything. That
is why, for example, claimsabout God and the world of the spirits

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can never be confirmed or falsified.Given that no experiment currently exists that could
test their presence, and given thatI personally do not believe in nor wish
to promote pseudoscience, I will notattempt to misrepresent my beliefs as being scientific.

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Whether I like it or not,there is a line in the sand.
Somehow, countless witnesses, including me, have found themselves in a position
that is a proverbial no man's landbetween science and faith. For the record,
I understand that the scientific method isa road meant to lead us to
a better understanding of the mysteries ofthe natural world by refuting previous hypotheses.

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Thus, any discussion about the existenceof supernatural beings automatically lies outside the realm
of science altogether. Another limitation,or perhaps virtue wired into the scientific method
is that it is strictly objective.Science alone cannot tell us whether certain natural

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phenomena are good or bad for theworld, as it can only address and
study the objective causes and consequences.Lastly, science cannot tell us what is
moral or otherwise, because scientific resultslie outside the scope of cultural, religious,

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and social influences. Be that asit may, and for the sake
of clarity, I will borrow someterms from science, such as frequency,
wave, and particle in order tobetter construct a picture of the universe according
to the Dashist faith and speaking offaith, or rather mathematical faith. There

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are many noted and celebrated theoretical physicistswho believe our cosmos did not randomly spring
out of nothingness. On the contrary, they present strong mathematical evidence that our
universe might have been born from thesplitting or union of other universes, much
like soap bubbles behave. When twosoap bubbles collide, they can form one

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whole soap bubble. Conversely, onewhole soap bubble can split into two perfectly
whole soap bubbles. In a Februarynine, two thousand and three article called
Theories of the Brain and by theway, that's brain br A and E
as in membrane, Harvard physics professorand acclaimed author Lisa Randall Wrights quote,

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additional space dimensions may seem like awild and crazy idea at first, but
there are powerful reasons to believe thatthere really are extra dimensions of space end
quote. Then she cites string theory, in which it is postulated that what
we think of as fundamental particles areoscillation modes or expressions, if you will,

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of something called a fundamental string.And we will be looking more at
that a little later as to whywe should trust mathematics in the first place.
First and foremost, without mathematics,namely calculus, physics, starting with
classical Newtonian physics, which is stillused today for example, from designing and
erecting skyscrapers to shooting a rocket intoouter space and landing a probe on planet

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Mars, would not exist. Physicsuses mathematical equations elegantly and sometimes not so
elegantly, describe the way the fourfundamental forces that govern all matter in the
universe behave those forces being grabvity,electromagnetism, the weak, and the strong
nuclear forces. Gravity, which keepsour feet firmly rooted on the ground,

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is what happens when objects that havemass bend and distort space and time.
Electromagnetism, which is responsible for theelectrical and magnetic fields, gives us light.
The weak nuclear force acts on thesubatomic level and plays a crucial role
empowering stars and creating elements. Itis also responsible for much of the natural

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radiation present in the universe. Last, but not least, the strong nuclear
force is responsible for binding together thefundamental particles of matter to form larger particles.
With this short review of the fourfundamental forces that govern our universe.
Out of the way, I willtell you a little story illustrating the importance

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of mathematics. On July twenty four, twenty fourteen, two years after CERN
announced the discovery of what was thoughtto be the Higgs Boson particle, the
scientists at the Large Hadron Collider confirmedthat they had indeed detected the Higgs Boson
particle and that it behaved according tothe standard model of particle physics. Now,

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why is the discovery of this particlesignificant? Better yet, why should
the discovery of any new particle beexciting as science? Especially that physicists had
always been complaining of having too manyparticles to deal with. As a matter
of fact, every time scientists smashedparticles into each other, they got more

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particles, and when in turn theysmashed those new particles, they got even
more particles. As early as thenineteen fifties, physicists were inundated with particles.
It got so bad that J.Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the
atomic bomb, once declared that theNobel Prize in physics could go to the

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physicist who did not discover a newparticle that year. Still, they were
able to fit all these particles togetherin a sort of a jigsaw puzzle,
they called the standard model of subatomicparticles. There was one missing piece,
though, called the Higgs boson,a particle that gives mass to all the

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other particles. But what is massin the first place? Noted string physicist
Brian Green in a World Science Festivalvideo segment, explained that when we push
on a wall or any object,we feel resistance. Logic says it is
due to the constituents of the objectthat is the mass. So a piece

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of concrete has mass because cement,sand, and gravel each have mass.
But what gives mass to the constituentsof the constituents themselves? What is the
thing that gives mass to everything?To answer that question, physicists paint the
image of space itself filled with aninvisible substance called the Higgs field. Particles

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such as electrons, attempting to movethrough space interact with this field and become
imbued with mass. How were theyable to confirm this hypothesis through experiment?
Brian Green explained that they did soby taking particles and slamming them at near
the speed of light, over andover until finally the Higgs field reacted and

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flicked off a tiny speck of itself, in essence, the Higgs boson particle.
It took hundreds of trillions of collisionsfor the Higgs field to flick off
a Higgs particle. Therefore, itis very hard, indeed to find one.
Furthermore, the Higgs boson, whichis unlike any particle found to date,

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arguably an alien species of particles,given that it does not spin around,
brings us one step closer to solvingone of the fundamental questions in physics,
which is where did the elementary particlesget their mass from. Lastly,
and as regards the importance of mathematics, the Higgs boson began as a mathematical

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formula and a paper purportedly forty yearsof technological development, billions of dollars and
twenty Nobel prizes had already gone intothe creation of the Standard model, and
unlike the otherwise beautiful equations of Einstein'sgeneral relativity, it is not a pretty
theory as far as physicists are concerned, but according to them, it works.

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The Higgs boson shows us that evenin the vacuum of space, the
lowest state of energy in which thereare no particles around, there might be
a background feel of some sort whichpermeates the universe. This background feel can
be, for lack of a betteraction, verb whacked in such a way
as to give rise to the Higgsboson, which will ultimately help us gain

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understanding about two mysterious entities, onecalled dark matter and the other dark energy.
Dark energy makes up seventy three percentof our universe. Michio Kaku,
a leading theoretical physicist credited with cofounding the string field theory, calls it

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quote the energy of nothing end quote. As he puts it, dark energy
is what's blowing the galaxies farther andfarther apart. He describes it as quote
the energy of the Big Bang itselfend quote. Dark matter, on the
other hand, which is invisible matter, makes up twenty three percent of the

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universe, and it is pretty mindboggling in the sense that, although you
can certainly call it matter, youwould not be able to hold it in
the palm of your hand aside frombeing invisible matter, hence the name dark
matter, it would go right throughit. Yet it is what holds our
galaxy together. More than that,it holds other galaxies, as well as

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other galaxy clusters together. But whydoes any galaxy or galaxy cluster for that
matter, need any special cosmic glueas it were? After all, the
velocity of stars orbiting the central massof a galaxy depends on how far they
are positioned away from that central mass. That's classical Newtonian physics. The closer

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the stars are to the central orinner mass, the faster they should orbit.
Conversely, the farther they are,the slower their orbiting velocity should be.
Otherwise they would fly out of orbit. So, for all intents and
purposes, as long as the lawsof physics are respected and barring any cataclysmic

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event, why even bring it up. Well. In the nineteen thirties,
astronomer Fritz Zuwiki, who coined theterm dark matter, detected a paradox.
So did Vera Ruben, who inthe nineteen seventies was studying the rotational curves
of galaxies that are similar to ourown Milky Way. By analyzing a large

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number of different galaxies, Vera Rubenproduced measurements showing strangely enough, that as
we got farther and farther away fromthe center of a galaxy, the velocity
of the orbiting gas and dust remainedconstant. In other words, she unexpectedly
discovered that the stars rotating around thegalactic center did not, as it were,

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just their speed in order to remainin orbit around that galactic center.
What Ruben observed, therefore, wasthat the outer parts of a galaxy were
rotating at speeds that suggested the presenceof more mass than was actually visible.
And the only way to resolve thatparadox of galaxies whose outer parts spin ten

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times too fast is to imagine andaccept the presence of a halo of invisible
matter that surrounds a galaxy and keepsit whole. Ruben found that there must
be five or six times as muchinvisible material as there is visible material in

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galaxies. While we certainly cannot directlysee dark matter, it can be detected
through gravitational lensing by observing how itsmass affects the path of light coming from
distant galaxies as it makes its waythrough this dark matter that envelops galaxy clusters.
Moreover, it does interact with normalmatter through gravity by affecting how galaxies

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rotate and form clusters. And herewe realize the importance of dark matter.
You see, the prevailing thought asregards how the universe was formed goes as
follows. First stars were formed,then galaxies, then the galaxy clusters.
Great, except that there is aninherent problem or paradox within this model,

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being that stars are technically speaking,violent explosive fusion reactors, blasting out energy
with such force that any notion ofthem merely clumping together the form galaxies,
let alone clusters, is not onlycounterintuitive but unthinkable. The inclusion of dark

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matter and the physics, however,makes all that possible, and it should.
Considering that the stars, which areessentially hydrogen and helium, make up
only four percent of the universe.And what about us, human beings,
where do we fit in? Forstarters, ninety eight point five percent of
the human body, as well asthat of most living organisms, is composed

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of six elements, which are oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium,
and phosphorus. The remaining one anda half percent consists of very small
amounts of trace elements. In all, we make up point zero three percent
of the universe. Speaking to futuregenerations of physicists, Michio Kaku said,

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quote, we are the exception theuniverse is mainly made out of dark energy.
The universe is mainly made out ofdark matter, overwhelming the stars,
overwhelming the galaxies in fact, andwe only make up point zero three percent
of the universe. Sure of physics? Is you? End quote? Still

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dark energy? Dark matter? Itall sounds like science fiction, doesn't it?
And that brings us back to thewhole issue of God and the controversial
notion that our universe was fine tunedfor life and mind, an idea that
has generated much energy and controversy amongscientists, philosophers, and theologians. During

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an on camera conversation with Robert LawrenceKewne, Leonard Suskind, one of the
fathers of string theory, best knownfor having proven Stephen Hawking wrong with regard
to what happens when something falls intoa black hole, suggested that it does
look as though the laws of physics, of cosmology and how the universe evolved

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seem to be special in a waythat is unexpected, special in a way
that is quote very very conducive toour own existence end quote. On that
episode of Closer to Truth, LeonardSuskind invites us to imagine a world without
electrons. We learned that if electronsdid not exist, there would be no

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atoms, no chemistry, no biology, or people for that matter, in
short life as we know it.What about gravity? While from our everyday
human perspective, it does appear asif gravity were strong compared to the other
forces in nature, it is not. In fact, if you were to

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compare the gravitational force between the electronsand the protons inside an atom, it
is negligible compared to the electrical force. While it is not known why gravity
is so much weaker than the otherforces, one thing for sure is this,
if gravity had been even a tinybit stronger than it currently is,

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stars such as our own sun,would burn out too quickly for any life
to evolve. Instead of stars andgalaxies, space would be littered with black
holes, and the universe would expandand contract too rapidly. As Professor Suskin
put it, quote, everything seemsto be almost on a knife edge that

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if you were to change the rulesof physics, the laws of physics even
a little bit, the world aswe know it wouldn't exist end quote.
There is a debate about how manylaws or constants of physics there are that
fit into this category. Of finetuning, or description of being on a

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knife edge. As it stands,the universe would not look as it does
today if a couple of dozen constantsof nature were to undergo some degree of
alteration that ends beyond a few percent. Therefore, it is safe to infer
that the state of our universe andthe fact we exist, is the result

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of a highly precise recipe, abalancing act, if you will, between
all the various constants of nature.There is one constant, however, called
the cosmological constant, that is unlikeany other. Professor Suskin describes it as

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the one that is really on aknife edge. He describes it as being
on such a narrow knife edge thatit is almost inconceivable. In other words,
if we were to change the cosmologicalconstant the tiniest bit, none of
us would be here. Remember thatthing I briefly mentioned earlier called dark energy,

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which is blowing galaxies farther and fartheraway. Well. Dark energy can
be be thought of as a sortof an anti gravity, where gravity brings
things together. Anti gravity is repulsiveand causes them to move away from one
another. It is implicit in AlbertEinstein's equations for general relativity that energy could

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be there. Physicists, according toSuskan, have every theoretical not experimental reason
to think the world should have thiskind of anti gravity, which would cause
everything to separate at an enormous rate, historically speaking. In nineteen seventeen,
as Albert Einstein was analyzing his equationsfor general relativity, he found that his

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mathematics was wrong, or so hethought. According to his math, he
found that the universe could either beexpanding or contracting. Given that Einstein and
the rest of the world at thetime believed the universe was eternal, unchanging,
he came to the erroneous conclusion thathis equations were incompatible with the idea

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of a static universe. So inorder to rectify the situation, he introduced
the cosmological constant, denoted by theGreek capital letter Lambda, into his theory
of general relativity to artificially forced astatic universe. But when in nineteen twenty
nine Edwin Hubble discovered the universe wasexpanding, Einstein abandoned Lambda, calling it

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his biggest blunder. Now, there'snothing particularly impressive in the concept of an
expanding universe, which began with anexplosion of epic proportions known as the Big
Bang. Please humor me everyday.Logic dictates that all the stuff that was
projected out of that initial bang,just like shrapnel fifteen billion years ago,

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would be decelerating due to gravity.In fact, there is a theory called
the Big Crunch that is one ofthe scenarios predicted by scientists in which the
universe may end. Also based onEinstein's theory of general relativity, the Big
Crunch describes how the universe will endas a result of the Big Bang.

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In a nutshell, the universe willstop expanding and collapse onto itself, creating
the mother of all black holes.Ever, simply stated the idea that the
gravitational forces will end up winning inthe end seemed like the only logical conclusion.
When we throw something up in theair, it will eventually come back

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down as long as no other forcekeeps pushing it up. This makes perfect
sense, or does it. Innineteen ninety eight, scientists discovered that the
universe was actually increasing its rate ofexpansion at regions farthest from us, Hence

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the expansion was accelerating. To explainthat unexpected phenomenon, they assume the presence
of some unknown entity dubbed dark energy, this cosmological constant that is pushing all
galaxies farther apart by quite literally creatingspace. And under the current scientific model

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where dark energy is a cosmological constant, the universe will keep on expanding exponentially
with time, with all evidence ofthe Big Bang disappearing. In fact,
and in a hundred billion years,future scientists, if there are any to
be found, will derive a pictureof the observable universe as being one galaxy

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surrounded by empty space. That is, the universe that is static and eternal.
Eventually, and according to the heatdeath of the Universe hypothesis also known
as the Big Chill or the BigFreeze, the Union will turn utterly dark.
Now here's the really mind boggling part. The actual magnitude of this cosmological

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constant is so incredibly small, sotiny, that its effects are only felt
on the largest possible scales of theuniverse. In other words, it takes
a gigantically large expanse of space andtime for the cosmological constant to create any
repulsion. And in deference to mathematics, it is not because the equations tell

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us it has to be so.There is no mathematically logical reason things are
this way. Instead, and accordingto Professor Suskind, it is because quote
whatever made the universe made it withan incredibly small, tiny cosmological constant,

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and no one knows why end quote. One thing we you do know is
the following. Had the cosmological constantbeen a little bit stronger, it would
have blasted galaxies apart. It wouldhave prevented stars from forming, all of
which formed because gravity pulled them togetherin the very early universe. Therefore,

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any sort of premature counteracting anti gravitywould have surely prevented the formation of the
stars, planets, galaxies, andour existence. So like it or not,
this is a prime example of finetuning. Physicists have no way to
determine why the cosmological constant is sosmall. Suskan offers three possible solutions.

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One and I believe he said thatin jest, that God did it.
Two it happened totally by accident,that it is a pure accident it turned
out just that way, and thatit works perfectly. However, given that
we are dealing with a hundred andtwenty three decimal places, then zero he

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said, and I quote not likelyto be an accident. The third and
last solution is one which, accordingto him, physicists do not like because
it quote runs against their ambitions endquote. That is the ambition to explain
every number, every constant, inshort, everything about the universe. So

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that third solution assumes that the universeis far, far bigger than we can
see, that it is diverse,that in different places it has different properties.
Hence, in some places there areno electrons, in other places gravity
is stronger, and in others thiscosmological constant may in fact be bigger as

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it stands. Suskin said, quote. The picture is that there is a
very small fraction of the universe wherethe conditions just happen to be right for
the existence of life end quote.He explained that the very early rapid expansion
of the universe created a lot ofquantum fluctuation, which in turn created patches

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of space possessing different properties. Thosepatches of space are sometimes called pocket universes
or bubble universes. We happen tolive in one of them. According to
Suskan, that's the picture. Thereis mathematics that goes with it. He
and others believe in this particular pictureof a tremendously diverse universe often called a

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multiverse. Yet no physicist, noteven one who has accepted the universe is
fine tuned, has concluded that behindall of this fine tuning there exists a
fine tuner. As I have mentionedbefore, and as far as logical conclusions
go, that one is expected.After all, even the biggest machine of

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science ever created, the Large HadronCollider, has yet to detect evidence of
the world of the spirits, letalone that of an almighty god parallel to
that, and nearly a century afterKalisia Bron's inspired words, some of today's
greatest scientific minds believe in the existenceof something they referred to as hyperspace.

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To describe what hyperspace is, MichioKaku employs the simple analogy of a fish
pond, where we are the fishswimming about in our three dimensional aquatic space,
unaware of hyperspace that lies beyond thewater lilies, a dimension governed by

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different laws of physics and biology.Interestingly enough, these scientists, who might
have once been considered to be lunaticsor at the very least very strange,
are championing the theory you've already heardme mention named string theory, which has
evolved over the years, and whichshows that beyond the three dimensions we're familiar

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with sideways, up and across,and the dimension of time, the universe
may comprise nine, ten, eveneleven dimensions. They believe these extra dimensions
are there even though they have notyet been detected, not surprising considering the
stipulation they reside outside our three dimensionaluniverse. Therefore, it would be fair

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to say that string theory offers aradical way of viewing our universe because it
describes the entire universe, including space, time, and even gravity, as
consisting of tiny string like objects orrubber bands that supposedly only appear to us
as different particles because of the differentways they oscillate or vibrate. Therefore,

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string theory suggests that our world isa vibrating mesh of strings. And the
reason string theory is relevant is becauseit brings together two conflicting theories, the
theory of relativity and quantum theory.String theory, along with supersymmetry and m

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theory, provides a framework for developinga unified theory of all of the fundamental
forces of nature. The theory ofeverything one that Albert Einstein tried to solve
during the last thirty years of hislife. Leading up to that, he
had successfully unified time and space,energy and matter. Even more than that,

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Einstein fused the idea of space withthat of time in such a way
that we now accept the idea ofa four dimensional structure called space time.
And the most the mind bending implicationof all is that the contrast between the
past, the present, and thefuture may well be the greatest illusion of

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all our universe has ever concocted.And if you believe the laws of physics,
the past has not vanished, andthe future is anything but nonexistent.
In any case. That is asmall example of the beauty that is Einstein's
theory of relativity. Still, hecould not merge relativity with quantum theory,

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which he thought was at best incomplete, and he even rejected some of its
aspects. Therefore, the solusive theoryof everything will have been one that reconciles
the theory of relativity, the theoryof the very large, and quantum theory
the theory of the very small,and so with string theory and m theory.

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Scientists now feel they have solved theequation, except that they would still
need to prove the existence of hyperspace, which is an important component in solving
the puzzle, and which, amongothers, would mean that time travel is
possible and not just the stuff ofscience fiction. And who knows, we

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might solve life's ultimate mystery, whyare we here? And where did we
come from? On that front,physicists postulate that the universe, and that
includes time and space and all theforces that govern it, started from a
single point smaller than an electron.They believe that a thing called supersymmetry,

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a super force that would have governedour universe when it was still as tiny
as a dot, suddenly and inexplicablycracked and unleashed the galaxies, stars,
and planets, along with time andspace. In essence, before the Big
Bang, the universe was a perfectThen, for some reason, may be

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due to the collision of universes predictedin m theory, unraveled and became other
than the sum of its parts.Thus, a side effect of this cataclysmic
event is materialization in of itself andthe formation of space. Time. Along
with the four forces governing the universe, electromagnetism, gravity, the strong force,

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and the weak force. Another mindbending notion that physicists and cosmologists are
now open to consider as being possibleis the notion that the universe is a
kind of a hologram. Simply put, a holographic image, something we have
all seen on credit cards, givesthe illusion of a three dimensional object by

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way of casting a sculptural impression insidea thin sheet of high resolution film.
Although to the naked eye that thinsheet of high resolution film is two dimensional,
it nevertheless has a thickness of tenmicrons. Therefore, it is within
that ten micron depth that a sculpturalimpression of the pattern of information from light

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waves is cast, and so throughinterfering light waves furnished by lasers, an
imprint is created physically speaking, withinthe depth of the sheet of film,
which is, for all intents andpurposes, are flat to dimensional surface.
And that is why we can saythe holographic illusion of the three dimensional shape

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is stored as information on a twodimensional surface. In any case, Today
scientists are open to the idea thateverything is a kind of a hologram,
and that everything we see and experience, or deemed to be a familiar reality,
may in fact be nothing more thana projection of information that is stored

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on a relatively thin and distant twodimensional surface. Now where did this otherwise
crazy idea and potentially most drastic proposedrevision to the notion of reality come from
black holes? It turns out thatmodern ideas emanating from the study of black

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holes, those formidable regions of spaceso dense that nothing can escape from them,
not even light itself, point toa reality that is two dimensional in
nature, and that the three dimensionalworld is a kind of an image of
a hologram plastered, if you will, on the boundary of space. Originally,
Stephen Hawking, representing the principles ofgeneral relativity, made the claim that

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any material that fell into a blackhole would disappear forever. Hence, the
prevailing thought was that anything thrown intoa black hole would be lost forever,
unable to be retrieved or reconstituted,and that notion, from an everyday logical
perspective is the one most people wouldbe comfortable with. However, Leonard Suskan,

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representing the principles of quantum mechanics,among which is arguably the deepest principle
in physics, which says information isnever lost, did not agree, and
that is how the infamous black HoleWar began in nineteen eighty one, which
lasted for decades and culminated in Suscan'stwo thousand and eight book titled black Hole

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War, My Battle with Stephen Hawkingto make the World Safe for quantum Mechanics.
In the end, Suskan managed toprove that the information sucked into a
black hole is indeed conserved. Thatdebate led to the holographic principle, originally
proposed by Girard at Hooft and refinedby Suscan. By exploring the mathematics describing

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black holes, an unexpected and curiousdiscovery was made. According to the calculus,
even if the object were to disappearinto a black hole, a duplicate
copy of all the information it containsseems spread out and embedded on the surface
of the black hole, the sameway information is stored in a computer on

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a flat disc. Therefore, andbased on the math, everything has a
three dimensional version and a two dimensionalversion that persists as information. Furthermore,
and in theory at least, wecould use this information to reconstruct it,
and if that were not enough,we end up with a real, mind

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boggling revelation that space within a blackhole follows the same rules of physics that
exist outside the black hole, oranywhere else for that matter. Therefore,
if an object inside a black holecan be described and reconstituted by way of
information that is stored on the surfaceof that same black hole, then it

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might be that everything in the universe, from galaxies, stars, even space
itself, is nothing more than aprojection of information stored on a distant surface
that surrounds us. In other words, what we experience as reality may be
something like a hologram, and thereforethe three dimensional aspect of reality is an

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illusion, and the ultimate precise realityis whatever exists on this distant two dimensional
surface of the universe. A mindboggling concept, indeed. And yet none
of that, if you ask therational scientist, has anything to do with
suggesting the presence of a creator.As it stands, the scientists are of

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the opinion that the universe began fromnothing and has not existed forever, that
it arose spontaneously, and that itwill go on expanding forever without the benefit
of a creator. Arguably, talkingabout miracles or divine intervention has no place
in this debate, because although noone has yet traveled near or faster than

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the speed of light, or betterstill, back in time, there is
the hope that one day we mightunlock and harness the many mysteries that remain
hidden from us. In other words, what may seem like a miracle today
may one day feel commonplace. Furthermore, unless it can be detected, observed,
quantified, and replicated, or canfit a particular mathematical framework, it

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is not admissible as evidence, henceirrelevant. Still, I cannot deny what
I saw, even though I knowthere are no current scientific tools or way
to process what I've experienced into atheory of sorts, one that Einstein himself
might reject as quote unquote spooky actionfrom a distance, the exact words he

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used when refuting the idea of quantumentanglement, that in divisible nature of the
quantum world, in which two particleswould communicate instantaneously regardless of the distance between
them, thus requiring speeds higher thanthe speed of light, something that would
be proven true through a series ofexperiments conducted by ala Aspee and his colleagues

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in nineteen eighty two. Also innineteen eighty two, a seventy two year
old doctor Dahesh, who by thenhad suffered a series of painful and often
debilitating injuries, was getting ready toleave my New York City apartment located on
the corner of thirty fourth Street andSecond Avenue. I was slated to drive

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him to his dental appointment in Queen'sand as is customary, I had spoken
to one of our building parking garageattendants in order for him to get my
car ready. Doctor Dash and Iwere in the bedroom, which had large
sliding windows overlooking thirty fourth Street witha stunning view of the New York City
skyline. The Chrysler building was glisteninga few blocks up north. I remember

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being a sunny, crisp autumn dayand time seemed to stand still. Doctor
Desh had just finished shaving and Iwas helping him get ready. You see,
his chronic pain had severely limited hismovement. As a result, he
often required assistance in order to performcertain mundane tasks, such as getting in

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and out of bed, walking,getting dressed, or putting his socks and
shoes on. But being who hewas, he tried to be as self
reliant as possible. Therefore, andas far as putting his pants on,
he had perfected a technique whereby withone hand, he would use the desk
as support while lowering the pair ofpants down to the floor as low as

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his back could allow him to archforward. Then, ever so carefully,
he would hoist one knee and maneuverhis foot into one of the pant legs,
then proceed to lift it up toabout upper thigh level, pause for
a moment, then repeat the procedurewith the other leg. Once securely around

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his waist, he would button hisfly and buckle his belt. On average,
the procedure took at least a coupleof minutes, and I would stand
guard, ready to jump in wheneverneeded. In any case, you could
imagine how long it would take himto put a pair of pants on.
Well, not that long, apparently. You see, on that fateful day

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in nineteen eighty two, something amazingtook place. Doctor Dash went from quite
literally holding the pair of pants Ihad just handed him to buckling his belt
in a flash, and all Idid was blink. Here's what happened.
In more detail, I handed himhis pants He took them from me and
stood there getting ready for the delicateoperation. I walked a few paces to

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the other side of the room whilestill eyeing him, and his stance had
not changed. I turned my heada fraction of a second to wards the
dresser, mainly because I didn't wantto bump into it. Then back to
a doctor Dahesh, who not onlyhad his pants on, but was buckling
his belt and trying very hard notto grin or look like the cat who

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just ate the canary? Did Iand the whole of Manhattan freeze while Doctor
Dehesh put his pants on. Therefore, and looking back on this amazing experience,
I believe I witnessed evidence of hyperspaceand of time travel or something in
between. As I said, Ido not wish to engage in pseudo science,

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but this is what I witnessed,and I have no other way to
describe it. On another occasion,and this time I had been visiting him
at his Greenwich, Connecticut residence,he instructed me to write and burn the
dashest spiritual symbol, which is ourdashest prayer, written on a small yellow
sheet of paper that is folded thenburned. I did as he asked.

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I drew the familiar Dahishist star withall the necessary inscriptions, and I added
a personal questioned the footer, foldedthe prayer, burned it, and recited
the incantation, requesting that our creatorgrant me spiritual assistance. No sooner had
I placed the ashes in my handin order to disperse them in the garden

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than Doctor d Ash rushed towards mein an attempt to stop me. What's
wrong, I asked, you forgotto sign the prayer? He replied,
Are you sure? I asked,in total disbelief. What occurred next would,
in my opinion, provide tangible proofthat nothing is destroyed, anything can
be reconstituted, and that reincarnation isreal. Doctor d Ash uttered the following

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words, by God's right and thatof the beloved guiding Prophet, let Marios
symbol reappear, and gently had brisklytapped my clenched fist, which, as
far as I knew, contained theashes of the prayer I had just burned.
I opened my hand, and rightthere in my palm the ashes had
disappeared, and in their place aneatly sheet of yellow paper which looked like

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it had writing on it. Doctoredash instructed me to unfold the paper that
had just appeared in my hand,replacing the ashes I was about to throw
into the breeze. I simply couldn'tbelieve it. The intricate prayer I had
written with my personal thoughts and wishesreappeared after I had just lit a match
and burned it down to ashes,and lone, behold, he was right.

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I did, in fact forget tosign my name, and so I
rectified the situation and burned the prayeragain, this time in its completed form,
and spread the ashes in the gardenas planned. For what it's worth,
Nils Bore, one of the fathersof quantum mechanics, and with regard
to the unbelievable manifestations of the subatomicworld, encouraged us to look, among

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other things, to early thinkers likethe Buddha and Laudza, who sought to
harmonize our position as spectators and actorsin the great drama of exis distance.
In February twenty seven, twenty fourteen, article published by the Telegraph, Leonard
Suskin, who purportedly has no beliefin a higher being of any sort,

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said quote. If you ask me, is it possible that the world was
created by an intelligent being? Iwould ask, is that intelligent being made
of atoms? Does it satisfy quantummechanics? And I realize it doesn't help
at all. End quote true ifone believes in an anthropomorphic higher power.
But what if such things as consciousnessand intelligence, just like the force of

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gravity, extend from other dimensions,thus spilling or rather vibrating into our own
dimension? And on that last notewe come to the end of the Dashist
Theory of Reincarnation Part one. Fortranscript, please visit doctor Dahesh dot com.

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This is Mario Henry Shakour saying goodbyeuntil next time.