postulates

POSTULATE OF UNIVERSAL ESSENCE

The true essence of the universe was not created; and cannot increase in amount

The Postulate of Universal Essence has many corollaries. A corollary is "a proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little or no proof."

Since one cannot make something from nothing then it stands to reason that one cannot make something go to nothing. If in your universe you have a steel ball then where can the material of the ball go to? The ball can be separated into very small particles and the particles can be spread out into space forever, but within your totality of existence you still have all the material that made up the steel ball. This leads us to conclude that the amount of true essence of the universe is finite.

COROLLARY OF FINITE ESSENCE

Since the true essence of the universe was not created and cannot increase or decrease in amount, then it must be finite in amount. The true essence of the universe may be inconceivable in volume but is finite within the infinite universe of space.

Since the true essence of the universe could not have been created then of course it must have always existed. Or, there was not a beginning to its existence. Since it cannot decrease in amount then it will always exist. Thus we have the corollary of eternal essence.

COROLLARY OF ETERNAL ESSENCE

The finite amount of true essence within the universe has always existed and will always exist.

Could the finite amount of true essence consist as one particle? If it is one particle then it must be manifesting itself as you and me, my desk, and everything; all seemingly simultaneously. This would mean that one particle is madly flying about making up an entire universe which is full of separate entities. We know that some of the separate entities are very small -- this proposed single particle would have to be them all. To do this it would have to be cycling through a path at an incomprehensible speed -- changing its path to appear as each seemingly separate entity there is. But, this proposed single particle could not bump into itself because it could not truly be in two places at the same instant. If the universe only consisted of one particle then I could poke my finger through my desk (for instance). When I try, particles must be bumping into one another, and more importantly the true essence of the universe must exist as many particles.