Dewey B. Larson and RST

[3D Sunset]

Thanks for starting this thread. I'm interested.

Thank you, my friend. Let's start a discussion and see if others join in. I'd like to begin by sharing a link to a nicely organized set of the first of the collected works of Dewey B. Larson, the book "Nothing but Motion":

http://library.rstheory.org/books/nbm

After spending many hours pouring through these works, I'll also offer a suggestion (if you want to read it yourself) that you skim through areas where he gets on his soapbox about the problems with current theories (and his associated frustration that his elegant theory was not recognized for the genius work that it is). In short, the great Mr. Larson tends to be a bit of a windbag at times, which can make the material difficult to work through.

I'll start by condensing the first three chapters into my summary thereof and invite discussion thereto. Let me lead you first to my favorite paragraph in these chapters, the nugget of gold, which so resonated with me originally (emphasis added):

Cosmologists often begin their analyses of large-scale physical processes with a consideration of a hypothetical “empty” universe, one in which no matter exists in the postulated space-time setting. But an empty universe of motion is an impossibility. Without motion there would be no universe. The most primitive condition, the situation which prevails when the universe of motion exists, but nothing at all is happening in that universe, is a condition in which units of motion exist independently, with no interaction. In this condition all speed is unity, one unit of space per unit of time, and since all units of motion are alike—they have no property but speed, and that is unity for all—the entire universe is a featureless uniformity. In order that there may be physical phenomena that can be observed or measured there must be some deviation from this one-to-one relation, and since it is the deviation that is observable, the amount of the deviation is a measure of the magnitude of the phenomenon. Thus all physical activity, all change that occurs in the system of motions that constitutes the universe, extends from unity, not from zero.

Does this not sound like intelligent infinity? And what are deviations, than distortions away from intelligent infinity? Interestingly, this simple observation also actually resolves a paradox which has long been present, and summarily ignored in Einstein's general relativity.

The rest of the first three chapters lay out the basic foundation of RST in two postulates:

First Fundamental Postulate: The physical universe is composed entirely of one component, motion, existing in three dimensions, in discrete units, and with two reciprocal aspects, space and time.

Second Fundamental Postulate: The physical universe conforms to the relations of ordinary commutative mathematics, its primary magnitudes are absolute, and its geometry is Euclidean.

And a simple equation for motion

v=s/t

Obviously, the equation of motion, which defines motion in terms of space and time, likewise defines space and time in terms of motion. It tells us that in motion space and time are the two reciprocal aspects of that motion, and nothing else. In a universe of matter, the fact that space and time have this significance in motion would not preclude them from having some other significance in a different connection, but when it is specified that motion is the sole constituent of the physical universe, space and time cannot have any significance anywhere in that universe other than that which they have as aspects of motion. Under these circumstances, the equation of motion is a complete definition of the role of space and time in the physical universe. We thus arrive at the conclusion that space and time are simply the two reciprocal aspects of motion and have no other significance.

From this one equation, he gives us the relationship between space and time (reciprocals) and the basis for understanding of both space/time and time/space (reciprocals).

We will see later how these hypotheses, postulates and equation can give rise to the entire physical and metaphysical universe which was referenced by Don Elkins in his discussions with Ra, which are the basis of a large part of Book II of the Law of One.

Enough for now,

3D Sunset