Feb 10, 2026
Link to video: The Engine of Reality Part 1 - Our Perception
-Hi, I'm a metaphysicist, you can call me C.
-And I'm here to ask, what caused the Cosmological Constant problem? Before answering that, I'm going to explain how our perception works, because it's the key to solving the problem. In my introductory video called The Missing Link in Physics, I explained how the double-slit experiment demonstrates the dual nature or our perception. Our perception quantizes immeasurable energy into something we can comprehend. Everything we perceive, from atoms to galaxies, is processed through our nervous system, which breaks or quantizes energy into measurable points in space and time, those points are pathways waiting to be perceived. The only thing moving is the energy. Thus object motion is a trick of our perception, and I'm going to explain the mechanism behind it.
-Our perception it is the foundation of all our knowledge, it's our primary measuring tool in science, and it's literally our interface with reality. There is no escaping the observation effect. 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. You're perceiving your reality right now. This comes back to cause and effect, if you know something, it's because you perceived it.
-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. 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. Your nervous system, which carries electrical signals between your brain and body, keeps you conscious and aware of the table. Without that electrical loop of sensation, we're brain dead. Ask a neurologist if you don't believe me.
-So, how does my sense of sight reach beyond my body to detect the table? In classical mechanics, light is always moving at a constant speed even in the vacuum of space. A photon, or a light particle, is considered an energy wave and an object at the same time and it's always moving. So photons bounce off the table and meet my eyes so I can perceive the shape of the table. In philosophy, when something claims to be two fundamentally different things at once, like an energy wave and a particle, that's called a contradiction, or something is happening that we don't understand. In my theory, the photon is not moving. Only the energy that generates the photon's coordinates is moving. What we perceive as a particle is actually a highlighted point in space at time, and it doesn't move. In my previous video, I used the double-slit experiment to explain how everything is flowing energy that follows a predetermined path, and our nervous system is designed to track flowing energy by quantizing it and mapping it in our brains. In the Engine of Reality, the photon is not moving. Only energy is moving, and the duality of our perception makes it possible.
-Our brains are designed to harness energy and use it to highlight a map that's already exists. The first phase of the energy is the uncontrollable, intrinsic phase, which we experience as the flow of time and the four fundamental forces. This unstoppable flow of energy pushes our consciousness and time forward, and the energy exists everywhere. If we could see the intrinsic energy, it would be a blinding light throughout the universe with no beginning and no end. We cannot understand energy like that, our perception-loop scales the energy down into quantized points and uses them to build an energy map inside our brains. The reduced energy is the second phase, and that is where we experience object motion. As-in, I can move my hand back and forth, but I cannot move time back and forth. They are two different phases of the same energy. What we think are atoms, are actually static energy points being highlighted by our nervous system, and it's powered by two phases of the same energy, giving our perception duality.
-So, what would the quantizing mechanism of our nervous system look like if we could step outside of our perceivable reality and observe it? I call it the Stop-motion Phenomenon. 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 to us as time pushes us through a predetermined storyline. 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. The snapshots are static, like pictures on a film strip, but as energy quickly flows through them, they start to look like they're moving, but the snapshots aren't moving. The only thing moving is the energy that reads them, and that looping energy generates a 3D flip book in our brain, and we call it our perceivable reality.
-Our perception field reaches far beyond our bodies. If you can see an exploding star through a telescope, that explosion is interacting with your brain even though it could be light-years away. How is that possible? It's not because light is moving. It's because your perception field is always moving and it's huge. Also, everything is connected by the same moving energy. Even if an object is light-years away, that object is still touching your perception field, because, at the foundation of reality, there is no space, distances, or time. Those are products of our perception. Outside of our perception, at the foundation of reality, all the information is already written and saved in one place, and that includes past, present, and future events. And all the information is instantly connected to our brains by the intrinsic energy that powers reality, but we only perceive tiny parts of the information at time, which we call our past, present, and future. So, according to my theory, quantum mechanics is a product of our perception. What we think is atomic behavior is actually the process of how our nervous system uses energy to light up a predetermined pathway. All the math still works, we're just looking at it the wrong way.
-The entire history of our universe is predetermined. Our past, present, and future are written in innumerable scenarios in the foundation, and that gives us the illusion of free will. Any choice we make is already predetermined. The choices feel random because there are so many to choose from. All possible realities are written and waiting to be perceived. If reality truly is predetermined, and the only thing moving is the energy that activates times, then that changes how we define gravity at every scale, because gravity becomes a building tool for pathways that guides the energy of our perception field. For example, we can confidently step into the future and trust the ground will be there because order is consistent and predetermined. There is no life without order because there would be no future to receive us. We cannot step into a scrambled future. Atoms keep their order. They don't randomly change and fall apart.
-The energy of our perception field encounters orderly resistance along a storyline, and that resistance shapes energy into something we can perceive, but, in some places, the resistance is so high that it repels our perception field. For example, there is extreme gravity or resistance inside the event horizon of a black hole. Black holes represent the gravitational limit of our perception. The energy of our perception field cannot function inside a black hole. We literally cannot see anything past the event horizon. If we truly are flowing energy encountering resistance, then gravity simply becomes resistance to motion, or resistance to disorder. A black hole resists the flow of our perception because there is a huge amount of resistant there, it keeps the energy of our perception field out. That doesn't mean no energy exists inside a black hole. It simply means we cannot comprehend what does exists there, and we likely cannot exist there ourselves because the laws of physics don't work there.
-Using this new perspective, let's explain the cosmological constant problem. In cosmology, the observed amount of vacuum energy in space is super tiny compared to what quantum field theory predicts. It's a massive discrepancy of about 60 orders of magnitude, and Einstein called it his greatest blunder. In 1917, Einstein added the cosmological constant to his field equations to represent energy density in the vacuum of space. He assumed empty space had to have energy in it to counteract the gravitational pull of matter, otherwise the universe would collapse in on itself. He also predicted the universe was static and not expanding. Then, in 1929, Hubble's redshift was discovered, which implied the universe was expanding. Einstein removed the constant at that point and called it his greatest blunder, but quantum field theory's prediction wasn't good either. If it were true, then the universe would have exploded because it was expanding too fast. A better explanation was needed to explain how gravity in empty space regulated object motion. In the 1990s, the constant was revived to represent an estimation of dark matter, which is assumed to regulate the accelerated expansion of the universe. Dark matter has not been directly observed, but it is logically and theoretically needed for gravity in the universe to make sense, but modern physics still hasn't reconciled a solid theory of gravity, but they are getting closer. In my theory, the missing link is found in our perception.
-Time, space, and gravity are illusions created by the mechanism of our perception. If we could step outside of our quantized reality, and observe the foundation's fundamental state, we would see past, present, and future all together at once. All possible realities exists in one place in their completion. No motion, time, or space exist in the foundation of reality, just a solid complete picture of all possible things. Thus, the space in our perceivable reality, from here to the sun or from here to the kitchen, empty space is packed to the brim with actual energy and resistance that is simply beyond our perception, in other words, it's invisible to us like dark matter. The energy of those invisible stories still touches our perception field and helps shape our perceivable reality, but we cannot directly measure invisible energy. For all we know, the energy is infinite and incomprehensible to our finite brains. That's another reason why quantum mechanics causes so many problems. We're trying to use our quantized understanding of reality to measure something that is the opposite of quantized.
-The universe is not expanding. Our perception field is gaining and losing sensations as we're pushed through time, but reality itself is not losing or gaining anything. Reality is fundamentally not moving. Our reality is a closed system where energy cannot be created or destroyed, it simply changes form to create the illusion of object motion. So what causes time dilation and the phenomenon of gravity if moving objects are a trick of our perception? When the intrinsic energy that pushes our consciousness through time hits higher resistance, it slows down. It's that simple. Again, the universe is not actually expanding, only our perception field is moving, and it can slow down and speed up depending on the resistance it encounters. What causes redshift when we look deep into outer space? It's another form of time dilation. Distant galaxies are not moving away from us, our perception is hitting higher resistance over a long distance and slowing down. That causes the red-shift in the light's wavelength. The opposite is happening with blue-shift. The objects are not actually moving, our perception field (or the feedback loop of our nervous system) is slowing down or speeding up depending on the resistance it encounters.
-This is a hard concept to understand, but Einstein suspected it all along. He knew object motion was some kind of illusion because the laws of physics tell us that reality shouldn't move. Energy and mass cannot be created or destroyed, thus nothing can be added or taken away from reality. If nothing can be added or taken away, then nothing changes. For motion to happen, something has to change. There has to be a transfer of energy, but a finished painting for examples doesn't move or change. If it did, it would no longer be considered complete. But we know something is moving in our reality, and the best explanation is, the foundation of reality doesn't move but there is energy flowing over it or through it, and that flow creates an electromagnetic reaction. Within that reaction, our nervous system quantizes energy, allowing us to gain and lose sensations as we're pushed through a predetermined storyline. we're like a ball of energy reading a hyper-realist flip book. We don't see the entire story all at once. It's fed to us one instance at a time, and we call that our first-person perspective. Once we collect a few instances, we have a past, present, and future. The entire history of the universe is already written in innumerable scenarios, they're simply waiting to be perceived.
-I hope that gives you a lot to think about, because it took me many years to develop it. In my next video, I'll explain how to visualize the Engine of Reality since we can't directly measure it. If you have questions, you can contact me at atomicbackstop@protonmail.com, or check out my blog, wildbluequantum.com. Thanks for watching.