Axiom # 6 – All science & all forms of matter are finite

Science may be defined as that branch of human endeavour whereby he discovers the laws of nature and then creatively employs them to his own ends. Science pre-exists our discovery of it. We can only discover what already exists and our discovery can never be construed as the cause of that which we have discovered.

If it obeys the laws of nature then it is inherently finite for ‘laws must precede the forces and matter that obey them’ and laws are the creation of something other than themselves.

Theory is nothing more than an intellectual model constructed by a finite mind to account for limited data and the laws that derive therefrom. All theories are subject to revision and modification as more data is compiled and new laws are discovered.

The ‘Big Bang’ expanding universe theory presupposes a ‘lump of matter’ having infinite mass, infinite density, infinite gravitation, and surrounded by infinite space into which it can infinitely expand and which by reason of irresistible obedience to inherent laws of physics to which all matter is subject and from which the ‘lump of matter’ is incapable of extricating itself, and for which it can take no credit, suddenly exploded and the world was born and time began.

Time is an element of a physical world and cannot operate outside its restraints. Each event, each moment, and every phenomena has a beginning and an end, the date and order of which are unalterably fixed. The end cannot precede the beginning and the same event cannot occur twice, at two different times, or in two different locations. Time moves inexorably forward without hesitation and without a backward glance and, despite the fact that we can examine traces of time that have occurred in the past, nonetheless, we cannot examine what has yet to occur in the future. The laws of physics dictate that in a world of physical phenomena that the future is beyond reach of our examination in the present and will ever be so. Laws of probability and statistical likelihood are, at best, speculative and do not in any way alter this incontrovertible truth.

And yet, there are those who have detailed dreams, who are subject to visions, who experience premonitions and undergo precognitive revelations of events which have yet to occur and which days, weeks, months, and even years later are recreated exactly as they foresaw them. This is in complete defiance of all known laws of physics and is a repudiation of the concept of time as we know it. Too many documented incidents are on record and too many witnessed examples of the knowledge of events prior to their occurrence have been corroborated for them to be dismissed as the ravings of the weak-minded or as the fantasies and hallucinations of the impressionable mind. Although we may not understand either the mechanism involved or the parameters within which it operates, nonetheless, we can hardly deny the evidence that attests to its existence.

Time itself is finite, is a characteristic of a physical universe and, because its existence depends on matter by which it is measured and without which it cannot be detected and, equally, because the instruments with which time is measured and the person performing the measurements are both products of matter and subject to the limitation imposed thereby, we are led to the inescapable conclusion that time can only exist within the framework of a physical and, hence, finite universe.

It further follows that all of our knowledge, all our science, all our theories, all our beliefs, all our talents and abilities, and all our convictions whether religious, moral or ethical, are also finite, are gradually unfolding and are shaped by the finite circumstances to which they are subject.