Tao, meta-Tao and meta-meta-Tao

René Magritte, The Two Mysteries, 1966

the Teh of Tao

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The Tao is infinite, eternal.
Why is it eternal?
It was never born;
thus it can never die.
Why is it infinite?
It has no desires for itself;
thus it is present for all beings.

The Master stays behind;
that is why she is ahead.
She is detached from all things;
that is why she is one with them.
Because she has let go of herself,
she is perfectly fulfilled.

Traveling (8 of Wands)

The tiny figure moving on the path through this beautiful landscape is not concerned about the goal. He or she knows that the journey is the goal, the pilgrimage itself is the sacred place. Each step on the path is important in itself. When this card appears in a reading, it indicates a time of movement and change. It may be a physical movement from one place to the next, or an inner movement from one way of being to another. But whatever the case, this card promises that the going will be easy and will bring a sense of adventure and growth; there is no need to struggle or plan too much. The Traveling card also reminds us to accept and embrace the new, just as when we travel to another country with a different culture and environment than the one we are accustomed to. This attitude of openness and acceptance invites new friends and experiences into our lives.

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Life is a continuity always and always. There is no final destination it is going towards. Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life, not reaching to some point, no goal--just dancing and being in pilgrimage, moving joyously, without bothering about any destination. What will you do by getting to a destination? Nobody has asked this, because everybody is trying to have some destination in life. But the implications... If you really reach the destination of life, then what? Then you will look very embarrassed. Nowhere to go...you have reached to the final destination--and in the journey you have lost everything. You had to lose everything. So standing naked at the final destination, you will look all around like an idiot: what was the point? You were hurrying so hard, and you were worrying so hard, and this is the outcome.

the Signature of Tao

In the novel "Contact" Carl Sagan, astronomer, astrophysicist, astrochemist, great science writer and author, a founder of SETI Project, imagine a possible real "Signature of God".

In the story of Ellie (Jodie Foster in the movie) after a trip through a wormhole to get to meet an extraterrestrial intelligence that appears in the imagine of her father. At the end of the interview he is suggested to calculate pi much more thoroughly in the extension of digits than ever before, because it could be "very interesting".

Mosaic at entrance to math building, Technische Universität Berlin

pi is a number which is both irrational and transcendental, with infinite  decimal places after the point, that means that in base N the probability that in a certain position would appear any number between 0 and N is 1/N. Any statistical discrepancy from 1/N, for example a specific number repeated many times or a sequence of numbers repeated is a fact definitely worthy of note.

The calculation of decimal places of pi it's easy numerically through several series that approximate pi as much as desired, for example:

In computing the digits of pi several months later Ellie is warned by a statistical correlation that controls the figures calculated of a statistical anomaly that appears after several tens of billions of digits after the decimal point. Let us assume that the figures calculated are represented in binary mode with the 1 and 0, what appears is:

that is, arranging the 0s and 1s in a square shows a statistical anomaly of 0s and 1s that represents a circle. Deeply hidden after billions of digits of the number that represents, by definition, the circle there is a circle.

Since a circle is a circle everywhere (apart from very particular places where the geometry of the space-time is not  euclidean), and is an intrinsic property of our Universe, this means to Sagan that this sign has been placed before the creation of the Universe, in its very structure, a true "Signature of God."

out of Tao into Tao

Earth - Moon - Mars - Asteroid Belt - Europe - Jupiter - Saturn -
limits of the Solar System - triple system of Alpha Centauri -
the local area of the galaxy - the Milky Way - Andromeda -
the Local Supercluster - the Universe

Tao is the common heritage of mankind

Abdus Salam

(Jhang, january 29, 1926 – Oxford, november 21, 1996)

Tao level 0: All about Tao and Tao about All

The dream, or myth, of theoretical physics is Unified Field Theory , a quantum-relativistic theory that unifies the four forces of gravity, electromagnetic and nuclear weak/strong and provides all the entities of the standard model.

A theory of this scale would bring back the level 0 to the 800'successes of classical physics, when it seemed that everything in the physical universe were known or knowable, and possibly formally describable.

To date the best result in this direction was achieved in 1967-68 by Nobel Laureates in Physics 1979 Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam e Steven Weinberg integrating the weak nuclear force with electromagnetism in the electroweak theory.

Many problems do believe that a unification of this kind is almost impossible:

• the fact that gravity seems essentially non-quantistic and therefore not integrable with other quantum field equations. The research of the quantum of gravity, the graviton, is currently only a hypothesis.
• the fact that there are at least two models of particles, the standard one and the cosmological, not compatible each other.
• the fact that the most advanced theories of integration such as string theory, superstrings and M-theory, though with significant theoretical results seem more some sophisticated mathematical artifices, whose conclusions are not provable by experiment.
• at a more fundamental level the Gödel's incompleteness theorems, show that the validity of a formal theory is not deductible from the theory itself but only from a wider theory, or meta-theory.

The dream of some authors about the Unified Theory is to find the "signature of God", a particular formal sign indicating the basic structure of our Universe.