An algebraic formula that works as an algorithm whose many variations provide instructions for the creation, development and end of the universe, and offer a Theory of Everything.
An algebraic formula that works as an algorithm whose many variations provide instructions for the creation, development and end of the universe, and offer a Theory of Everything.
History & philosophy, Metaphysics, Social
The Algorithm of Creation is the last of Nicholas Hagger’s quartet on the unity of the universe and humankind, and follows The Universe and the Light (1993), The One and the Many (1999) and The New Philosophy of Universalism (2009). It offers an algebraic formula written out for him by Junzaburo Nishiwaki, Japan’s T.S. Eliot, in Tokyo in October 1965, that sums up the wisdom of the East: “+A + –A = 0.” Based on ancient Chinese thinking, yin (dark) + yang (light) = the Tao, it shows all opposites reconciled in the underlying unity of the One Void whose emptiness is also a fullness. During a dinner at a conference of leading scientists at Jesus College, Cambridge in September 1992, watched by Nobel physics prizewinner Roger Penrose, Hagger reversed the formula to 0 = +A + –A when he wrote down the maths for his view of the origin and creation of the universe and showed the first two particles emerging from the Void’s singularity, influenced by the 1992 discovery of ripples in the cosmic microwave background radiation and the Presocratic Anaximander of Miletus.
In this work Hagger shows how this algebraic formula has worked as a universal algorithm, 0 = +A + –A = 0. Its many variations have acted as rules that have controlled the creation and development of the expanding universe, its evolution and the rise of human history, religion and science, and its ultimate fate. The formula is behind many of Hagger’s works, and his application of this algorithm to all human knowledge of the universe and all disciplines takes him to a first-ever Theory of Everything, which is set out at the end: the algorithm of Creation containing 100 mathematical symbols (reflecting all the variations) that can be summed up in the above algorithm. This startling achievement has been made possible by his Universalist cross-disciplinary approach which focuses on the fundamental oneness of the universe and humankind, and the unitive vision.
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During his time as a professor of English literature at Tokyo’s Keio University, the cultural historian and philosopher Nicholas Hagger met the Japanese poet Junzaburo Nishiwaki and asked him: ‘What is the wisdom of the East?’ By way of reply, Nishiwaki wrote on a business card: +A + -A = 0. Nishiwaki (1894–1982) said that this algebraic formula was known to the Arab mathematician Mus al-Khwarizmi (c780–850), the founder of algebra and algorithms, and that it contained a set of rules about all the opposites in the universe: for example, +A + -A can stand for day and night, life and death, time and eternity, the finite and the Absolute. Based on ancient Chinese thinking, yin (dark) + yang (light) = the Tao, the formula can reveal all opposites reconciled in the underlying unity of the One Void whose emptiness is also a fullness. The Absolute (= 0) is where there is no difference as opposites cease to be opposites and are part of the Ultimate Reality, which is the Tao. That fateful meeting with Nishiwaki in 1965 opened up Hagger’s ‘Mystic Way’ which drew him on over nearly thirty years and involved a centre-shift from his rational, social ego to a deeper self enabling him to see cosmic unity symbolised by +A + -A = 0. It was an ‘awakening’, and Hagger sensed instinctively that a wide-ranging writing career was ahead of him and that it would be fulfilled by his ‘new powers’. Nishiwaki’s words ‘resonated in my soul,’ Hagger recalls: ‘They came as a revelation. In a flash I saw the unity in all opposites. I grasped that the wisdom of the East set out a progression, via the reconciliation of opposites, to perceiving the unity of the universe.’ And now we have the completion of an epoch-making quartet of books from Hagger about the unity of all things: The Algorithm of Creation: Universalism’s Algorithm of the Infinite and Space-Time, and a Theory of Everything (O-Books, October, 2023). An additional sub-title of the work is The Oneness of the Universe and the Harmony of the Unitive Vision. Astonishing in its scope and detail, profoundly cogitative and intriguingly autobiographical, it’s really two indispensable books in one with Hagger’s essential recapitulation of his The New Philosophy of Universalism: The Infinite and the Law of Order (2009), on which it’s largely founded. Hagger draws on this book, and other of his museful works, to explain how his omnifarious ‘algorithm of Creation’ works out in many variations, depicted by a hundred mathematical symbols, which have determined the beginning (and end) of the universe, evolution, the course of human history, religion and science. For anyone who’s interested in inquiring into the mysteries of the cosmos, of life and of existence, indeed into our very reasons for being and the structures and strictures of human civilisation, I can’t recommend Nicholas Hagger’s works highly enough............. https://medium.com/@geoffjward/the-algorithm-of-creation-that-heralds-a-theory-of-everything-0e229ba36bcf?sk=4f5ac1f7adc33e4a402b7ca27fa77be2 https://medium.com/@geoffjward/a-breakthrough-in-the-quest-for-a-theory-of-everything-3c450810a8df?sk=3a91ca85521bc464401a220e646c6d56 ~ Geoff Ward, Medium.com
Praise for King Charles the Wise: Using the framework of his world constitution and argument for a democratic state in his books reviewed in the last issue, Nicholas Hagger has written a poetic masque starting from questions arising from Brexit and Britain's potential role in a more united world. As one might expect, the author shows a broad understanding of the world situation communicated through various characters. There is no doubt that we need people of vision if we are to make the transition to a democratic world state even within the next hundred years. The masque is an intriguing way to convey this message. ~ David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer
