I still see the cyclops all over your writing, John. My apologies if it becomes a broken record.
I do like your manner of thinking, and your article about money is a good read. You point very clearly to the reality of money originally being tied to something and then later floating toward a sky-high position without a tie to something actual anymore.
But you don't acknowledge that money was a fake to begin with already, and that the financial wizards simply learned how to squeeze as much out of this fake commodity.
When bartering got improved, that's where the exchange mechanism had its beginning. Salt was a good commodity to exchange other goods in, and we still have our word 'Sale' to prove that, it derived from the word salt.
The Greeks coined the first actual money and used metals that, very smart of them, were in big demand by themselves.
But what makes money fascinating is that at its top level, there is no real entity, as you said. We find very specific currencies, and these currencies compete with one another, while strongly based in their own realm. I cannot go to Europe and pay in dollars; I have to exchange a currency into another currency first, and there is therefore a specific layer in between currencies. One can be considered the strongest, but none of the currencies sits in the ultimate position. All currencies 'hang' in their own domains, none is real inside the other domains.
I have been surprised that not more governments took stronger action against the bitcoins, but ultimately they are the epitome of value floating without a solid base other than the specific demand for them. At one point, more backlash against bitcoins may be forthcoming from governments, I am not sure.
Without the demand, money has no value. When a person says, Nay, I don't want that, then that's the end of that value. The thing has then become nothing but the thing again.
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Infinity is a word that can only be applied to space. Nothing else in the universe is infinite. As soon as there is something, it is finite.
To say that space is equilibrium is like saying that space is eternal or that space is God. There is no meaning there, John, so let's not go there. What does absolute zero even mean? Space is space. It is real, and yet it is not something.
I did recognize in your writings that you do not see a clear origin to matter. If you do, please, express.
For me, the origin of matter is rather clear because I cannot have matter exist unless it came forth from a smaller section of a prior energized state. Matter is then just that energy that got damaged somehow at the end of the prior state.
As such, I do support the expansion noted, but that does not mean the expansion is occurring linearly or all that strong today.
One alternate view for the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation that I find plausible as well (next to the prevailing explanation) is that each galaxy may be engulfed inside a cocoon of non-damaged energy, otherwise not visible. As such, our Milky Way shows us the material reality, while the original energy (which was also torn apart during the materialization process) is found within and among this material energy.
So, when we look out and away, we may be seeing the CMBR and yet it is nothing but our seeing through the colored glasses that we are wearing. If we wear pink glasses, then the entire world will have a pink tinge. If the Milky Way has a cocoon of undamaged energy then the CMBR shows us a background glow that is actually ours. We project it into deep space, but it may be much closer by.
I only give that a moderate amount of points. I think the whisper of the materialization process is so far the best explanation for the CMBR.
Also, the red-shifting does not deny that all derived from one single process in which fundamental separation occurred at the end of the prior state of the universe.
Here is my personal view, declared as Big Whisper.
Taking the outbound motion seen among matter as the resulting outcome, the trigger for the formation of matter is then the opposite, an inward motion among energy that caused some of that energy to get damaged.
