Using everything we already know to better understand and solve BIG problems in physics.
Dec 2, 2025
Hi, I'm a metaphysicist, you can call me C. For the last twenty years, I've studied the fundamental nature of reality, knowledge, time, and space. Humanity has discovered a lot about our perceivable reality with general relativity and quantum mechanics, but no one has pieced together the big picture yet. That's what I've been doing. Having a foundation in physics will help you understand the significance of this explanation, but I'll try to explain it as simply as possible, and I use the simple concept of causality to deduce the big picture at every scale.
According to the Oxford Language online dictionary: Causality is the relationship between cause and effect; Causality implies that everything has a cause. For example, if you apply force to an unsecured ball in normal gravity, it will likely roll in the opposite direction of the applied force. That is Newtonian physics, and what you need to remember about it is, energy causes things to move. If there is no energy or force, there is no motion. Also, energy causes things to not move. A wall doesn't move when you press on it because the atoms are held together by electromagnetic forces.
The biggest problem I've discovered in current physics is the lack of understanding of how our perception moves. In other words, how does our perception work and how important is it to physics? Not knowing this has caused the foundation of quantum mechanics to be fundamentally flawed and it caused the cosmological constant problem in general relativity. My theory explains why these discrepancies happen, but first, we need to understand how our perception works and why it's important.
So, what is our perception? It is our five bodily senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell) and their connection to our brain. The Oxford Language dictionary says Perception is: the state of being (aware) or the process of becoming aware of something through the senses. What does it mean to be aware? The dictionary says awareness is: knowledge or perception of a situation or fact. Awareness is using our brain and senses to collect and understand information. Thus, our perception is the foundation of our knowledge, because our perception is the only way we receive information. That is a self-evident truth. Only a misguided and delusional mind would seriously deny that. If you're observing something, you're perceiving something. You're perceiving your reality right now. There is no separating observation from reality. Observation governs all of our knowledge.
Our perception also maintains our consciousness. What is consciousness? The dictionary says consciousness is: the state of being awake and aware of one's surroundings. Thus our consciousness is our perception because perception allows us to be aware. It's that simple. Consciousness is more complex at the atomic scale, but I'm keeping it simple for now. Okay, now that we defined our perception and consciousness, let's look at the critical process that maintains it, because that process builds our perceivable reality.
When you look across a room and see a table. You are perceiving a table with your sense of sight. That table is interacting with your brain at a distance because your perception field extends beyond your body. You can also touch the table, taste it, smell it, and even knock on it to hear sound coming from it. That is how our five senses perceive a table. Your senses are connected to your brain through your nervous system, which carries electrical signals between your brain and body to keep you conscious. Without that feedback loop of sensation, we're brain dead. Ask a neurologist if you don't believe me.
Starting in the womb, our sense of touch develops at about eight weeks of gestation, and the other senses slowly follow. These sensations begin building an energy map of our perceivable reality inside our brain using neuronal connections, and the constant feedback from our senses keeps our brain active. Without our senses, emotions, language, ideas, and concepts cannot develop, thus consciousness cannot develop. Our perception is literally the foundation of all of our knowledge, making it our primary measuring tool in science. Thus it's important to understand exactly how that tool works.
Now that we know the biologic basics of our perception, let's connect it to basic principles in physics, because they are dependent on each other.
Our perception is an energized, moving system. Remember, energy causes everything to move, and energy causes things to resist motion. That is the foundation of our consciousness and our reality; there is energy that moves, and energy that resists movement, and we experience them both in different ways. I call these two opposing forces the Engine of Reality because they exist at a primordial level, and these primordial forces are the foundation of our perceivable reality. If you're taking notes, I just pointed out two different levels of reality, one is the primordial level, and one is the perceivable level. We don't directly perceive the primordial foundation, but we know it exists because we experience its forces in our daily lives.
There is plenty of evidence that supports the Engine or Reality Theory, but keep in mind, the evidence doesn't prove or disprove the new theory. That's not how theories work, the evidence just implies the mechanism is more likely to be the actual state of things. My theory is unique because it takes into account how our perception works and it explains time better. Time and space are products of our moving perception. They emerge as our brain maps reality by entangling the energy looping through our nervous system. That is also the process that quantizes immeasurable energy into something we can comprehend. It's all an orderly flow of energy meeting resistance.
Now, a quick explanation of the word resistance. When I use it, I'm talking about energy on a primordial level, not electricity running through a conductive wire. The mechanisms are related, but not exactly the same. This is hugely important because it's easy to miss. Anything with mass is resisting disorder. Walls and rocks holds themselves together by resisting disorder, which means something is always moving. According the fundamental mechanics of resistance, if you can detect resistance, then there has to be motion that reveals the resistance. Resistance can also be thought of as order. Order resists motion.
So, motion and resistance power our perception, and our perception is a feedback loop of energy between our brain and bodily senses, and that loop highlights a map of reality in our brains using neuronal connections, and I believe those neuronal connections is where energy entanglement happens. Those entangled points keep us connected to our past and present as we move into the future, creating the phenomenon of memories and thoughts.
Now, how exactly do we experience these forces in our daily lives? We experience them as different forms of motion. Time is the first motion we experience in reality. Time is the result of the primordial moving force that activates all other motion. The flow of time keeps our consciousness moving forward even when our bodies are standing still, and we have no control over time. It's an intrinsic force.
Secondly, we detect resistance, or the orderly force that helps objects stay together. Moving energy is reduced by resistance, our nervous system greatly reduces moving energy into something we can understand. The fundamental resistance at the foundation of reality gives the moving energy something to bounce off of, thus shaping our reality. Our perception is maintained by the moving energy and the resisting energy. Thus our perception has a fundamentally dual nature because it's maintained by two different phases of the same energy. The foundation of reality reflects the same duality. At the primordial level, or as close as we can get to it with our limited perception, we can see motion and resistance in atoms. Atoms have intrinsic energy that reveals their motion and order.
Now that we know our perception is produced by two stages of energy, we need to discuss where order comes from since it shapes our reality. Order is stored in the infinite dataset of reality, which is the primordial resisting force. The resistance we experience is a tiny reflection of the perfect order that exists at the primordial level. And that resistance provides pathways for energy to follow, and our brain and nervous system is one of those pathways.
Now, let's review the evidence of our perception's dual nature and how its different energies function using the Double Slit Experiment. In the experiment, we're manipulating energy by firing electrons through double slits in a wall and measuring their final behavior. Electrons or subatomic particles appear to behave like solid objects and waves at the same time, and the simple act of observing particles changes their motion. For example, in the experiment...
-- If we fire electrons through two slits in a middle wall, instead of behaving like bullets, they surprisingly create an interference wave pattern on the final wall with dots, thus they behave like waves and particles at the same time. This is where the idea of particle duality came from, but it's actually a demonstration of how energy takes all paths available to it even when we have created a limited pathway using the double slits.
-- Now, If we observe the electrons before they enter the slits, their motion changes. They appear to shoot right through like bullets, leaving bullet patterns on the final wall. The wave form appears to collapse because our interfering senses limit the energy even further. A camera has the same effect because it is designed to record what we can see, not superposition.
Our physical observation, via our eyes or a camera, changes the particle's motion from all available paths down to one determined path.
Why does that happen? Because we're actually observing flowing energy, not objects, and our perception changes that energy into something we can understand. How does that happen? When we measure the electrons earlier on in the experiment, that action directly entangles the energy with our bodily perception, thus pulling it out of superposition, reducing it down to one path that we can comprehend. The camera does it too because it's designed to record what we can see, not superposition. Superposition or wave-form is another way of saying the energy takes all possible paths.
Energy is everywhere and it is always moving, and our senses can only detect a tiny part of it. The moving force and the resisting force work through our perception to give our reality structure. Energy moves through our nervous system in a feedback loop that quantizes it (or breaks it into measurable parts). That process creates and strengthens neuronal connections which are likely points of entangled energy. That entangled energy map gives us a 3D view of our reality. Our reality is constantly moving forward in time, but rocks and walls appear stationary thanks to the consistent energy map in our brain. It's like watching static images on a film strip. If we pull the film past our eyes fast enough, it looks like the static images are moving, but they're not. The image motion is an illusion caused by something else moving. The same thing happens to our consciousness as time pushes it through a 3D map of entangled energy. That's how we perceive motion. Our conscious energy is reading a predetermined path. The only thing moving is the energy. The story is static and waiting to be perceived. I call this effect the Stop-motion Phenomenon.
Remember, even when we're standing still, our consciousness is still moving forward. If we could step outside of our consciousness, and remove the blinders of our perception, allowing us to watch how energy flows through our brain, body, and environment, what would that look like? To understand it, you need a basic understanding of how stop-motion animation works. Imagine you're holding a flip book with a collection of images of a stick man waving at you. Each page of the cartoon depicts the stick man in a slightly different position in a storyline.
When you quickly view these images by flipping through the pages, the stick man comes to life and looks like he's waving, but in reality, all the images are static. The illusion of motion is created by our eyes speedily looking through the static images in an orderly manner. The same thing is happening with the energy map in our brain as we're pushed through time.
The feedback loop between our brain and bodily senses is constantly generating snapshots of entangled energy and saving them in our brain as neuronal connections (and all of that is predetermined). Our brain is designed to use different phases of energy to activate a complex 3D flip book using entanglement, and the process itself keeps us moving forward through the storyline, which keeps us conscious.
The storyline is already written in the infinite dataset of reality, that's the resisting force, but we need the flip book of our perception (or the quantizing mechanism) to experience it. The only thing moving is the energy as it flows between past, present, and future positions in the 3D map, thus the motion is an illusion, just like the waving stick man. The stick man's story is real and cemented in the foundation of reality, but his motion is an illusion. Our reality works in a similar way, and it took me twenty years to understand that because my perception hides the mechanism from me, so don't be disappointed if it doesn't immediately make sense to you. It is not intuitive. In summation, motion is exclusive to our perceivable reality, and it is created by looping energy through our nervous system. Thus motion is flowing energy, it's not actually objects moving, that's just how our brain interprets it.
This analysis reveals what motion really is and what generates our perceivable reality. So, for the big picture, our lifetimes are limited. Our conscious flow will eventually stop, but the energy that drives time and our consciousness forward appears to be infinite because the primordial foundation of reality doesn't gain or lose anything. Conservation of energy demonstrates how consistent the foundation is, but in our perceivable reality, we're always losing and gaining sensations as we're pushed though time, making the universe appear to expand and contract when it doesn't. That phenomenon caused the cosmological constant problem. To fix that, we have to separate the attributes of the primordial level from the perceivable level to better explain quantum mechanics and general relativity.
Our perception has duality, not the particles themselves. Subatomic particles are not objects, they're entangled energy points saved in our brain like a map, and that map generates our perceivable reality. As we scale up from atoms to our perceivable reality, those entangled energy points start to look like rocks, trees, and other objects.
In the Engine of Reality Theory, perceivable reality comes from a reaction between two opposing primordial forces; motion and resistance. They create an electromagnetic storm on an immeasurable scale. Within that storm, heat is generated as energy hits resistance. That intrinsic energy keeps our consciousness moving forward in time. Thus time cannot be explained away as a dimension. There is a mechanism driving it, time has a fundamental force behind it, and resistance reveals that force. We can stay conscious because order is predetermined. There is no life without order. We cannot step into a disorderly future because there would be no ground to step on.
Predetermined order also implies there are infinite possible realities around us, and that gives us wiggle room to make choices. Remember, we can predict the future to a degree because our perception field extends beyond our bodies. For example, if you're about to cross the road, and you see a big truck speeding down the road toward you, you can chose not to step into the road and avoid getting hit. We are literally intelligent energy flowing along predetermined paths, and that energy extends beyond our bodies, which we can test.
Another way to detect energized things is their temperature. There is no motion or energy at the temperature of absolute zero, which is a theoretical temperature that we have never observed or created in a lab but it is mathematically possible. Just like a wire heats up when electricity is flowing through it, the universe heats up because energy is flowing through it. An example of this is black holes are cold, the gravity is so dense inside a black hole the energy flow almost stops, thus the temperature drops close to absolute zero. And the temperature at the black hole's accretion disk is extremely hot because the moving energy suddenly hits high resistance there, just like electricity trying to flow through a pinched wire.
In closing, why is mass and energy equivalent? Because the energy is a product of one reaction between two opposing forces that are equivalent. On top of that, quantum entanglement works because our perception is generated by one continuous force that encompasses all of perceivable reality, keeping everything connected even across vast distances.