Hypothesis about the origin of the oldest creation stories

The conjecture is that the oldest details of the creation stories have been transmitted orally from the time of the start of the last ice age.

My reason for thinking this is that the Noongar creation story tells of the sky and earth touching together at the very beginning so there was no space in between and it was very cold. Then, in summary, totem spirits confered and discussed at length about what to do after which the Ancestor spirit beings created what is now country. Each ancestor spirit performed one or more specific tasks including: raising the sky off of the land and the ocean, carving out the river valleys and establishing lakes, rivers and water sources, pushing up mountians, and then becoming the motivating incarnations which created and maintain all the living spieces as well as forming many specific locations.

There is all manner of extra detail in the story of which one of the most important to Australian indigenous peoples has been the explicitly mentioned and culturally assumed principle of looking after country: caring for the land and all the plants, creatures, and people who live on it. This is a core concept of Australian indigenous culture. It is equal to and not really separate from the absolute importance of moort (= family). Unfortunately most wadjela (= non-indigenous people living in, on, at, and near Noongar Boodja = country) simply do not understand this.

But what I am interested in here is the idea of a time when it was very cold and land appeared as the sky separated from the surface of the waters. This was the Nyidiny “Coldness” (NB “ny” is said like the “ni” in English “onion”.) I propose that this description of dry land appearing as the sky lifted away from the ocean surface at a time when it was very cold, sounds just how elders of nations living on regions of continental shelf would describe the distant past as their country became exposed by the retreat of the ocean as the last ice age came upon the world.

(Last glacial maximum (LGM).)

(Quarternary Period)

(Sahul: Greatest terrestrial extent of the Australasian continental shelf )

A very interesting question arises here: Just when did this knowledge arise and/or arrive in Australia?

NB: is it plausible that the very start of the Garden of Eden story indicates a similar “raising of the sky off the waters” to reveal a beautiful land? I believe it is.

There is little reason to doubt that the oldest suviving stories of just about every culture arose when all knowledge was passed from generation to generation through oral tradition, dance, artwork, and careful copying of behaviours. We can also accept that, apart from Australian first nations and some other indigenous peoples around the world, just about all other ancient origin stories have been affected by the stories of victorious clans who became the ruling classes of the neighbouring societies they conquered. I am implying that the Garden of Eden story and similar others have been overlayed with patriarchal rationalisations of the terrible inequalities which resulted from the accumulations and theft of moveable and portable wealth such as accrued to herders and settled farmers after the end of the last ice age.

In the case of indigenous Australian peoples, I am thinking that much of the continental shelf around Australia does not extend far out from the coast except the north where, as the Sahul link above shows there was a vast area stretching from the north west of Australia (the Kimberley) stretching northwards almost to Timor and across to New Guinea and including the whole of the current Gulf of Carpenteria.

(Sea level changes over the last 200,000 years)

There is evidence of human beings living on the Australian continent 65K years ago, which was an intermediate glacial maximum time before the colder, last glacial maximum (LGM), of about 20K years ago. Therefore it is reasonable to accept that people lived for thousands of years on continantal land that became exposed over a period of several thousand years leading up to the LGM. From the LGM to the present the graph shows that global sea level has been rising consistently and a fair bit faster than the sea level had previously fallen to the lowest level of between 120 to 130 metres below current sea level.

MOPECCA – does the nature of quarks indicate/demonstrate that it is the boundaries of PA, and their abutments which determine the properties of Qnots?

This thought was prompted by wondering how the entanglements of PA(strong|colour) with PA(electro/magneto) can produce fractional electric charges.

Well the fractional charges of quarks may only be a result of needing to allocate net positive or net neutral charge amongst the proven grouping of three quarks per stable hadron – ie proton or neutron – and a net negative charge to the electron. The MOPECCA takes protons, neutrons, and atomic nuclear coalitions of these the be Qnots of entangled PAstrong, PAelectro, PAmag, PAweak, and PAvac. Electrons are taken to be Qnots of PAelectro, PAmag, PAweak, andPAvac only.

The tripartite nature of protons and neutrons per QM are attributable to the strong colour force/s of quantum chromo dynamics (QCD). These seem to be taken as ontological variations which are given and not otherwise explained.

The MOPECCA allows that the strong(green), strong(blue), and strong(red) components are orthogonal modes of oscillation manisfested by PAstrong because it has the fastest intrinsic speed of propagation.

Keep in mind

1. the MOPECCA assertion that “nothingness” is just a concept with no actual instantiation and, that
2. each PA is its own unique manifestation of the two opposite directions of bigwards and smallwards which are motions occurring at a unique rate intrinsic to each respective PA.

These give us the basis for understanding that tubes of each PA, where constrained by being entangled/Qnotted with at least one other PA, can sustain all manner of intrinsic resonant oscillations. The strong and weak nuclear forces are described by QM as ‘short range’ forces, whereas the electromagnetic force and gravity are described as, potentially at least, reaching to infinity. The MOPECCA on the other hand describes

• PAstrong and PAweak as each being unitary but with vastly different internal speeds of propagation, whereas
• PAelectro and PAmag are everywhere entwined which enforces an intrinsic chirality to their combinations and a fundamental direction to each in relation to the other, and
• PAvac which is also unitary but slower than all the others such that its filamentery tubes are much more easily disrupted and disconnected than the others.

Note that this idea of disconnections of PAvac should not be thought of as a cutting or chopping, although that in effect is what the outcome is like. Rather it should be seen as differences of resonant ocsillation frequencies such that the faster PA’s manifest as “stronger” forces which cause PAvac to seem to shrink back from certain encounters with other PA and to reconnect with itself when the Qnot of faster PA has passed by. The paradigm for this would be the passage of an EM photon from one part of the universe to another. It is the ‘unzipping’ of PAvac in front of the photon and PAvac reconnection behind it which governs the speed of passage of the Qnot on its journey.

PA insides versus boundaries

To be parsimonious in the way advocated by William of Occam it is reasonable to assume that each different PA, as a manifestation of existence per se, need only differ from any other in one significant feature. The MOPECCA takes this to be the intrinsic speed of propagation of disturbance through the PA in question. It considers that “c” the so-called speed of light, is the relevant speed of causality of PAvac, and that each of the other PA has a different intrinsic speed. These different speeds of propogation of disturbance are taken to be the causes of the different strengths of the fundamental physical forces and that c is the slowest of them all making gravity the weakest force. Occam’s Razor also provokes the MOPECCA to assert the simplest conceivable set of fundamental attributes for PA such that for and within each and all of them there are just two ‘directions’: bigwards and smallwards. It seems feasible that bigwards might have no limit other than encountering a boundary at which the PA abuts another PA. Smallwards is what occurs then until the smallest/thinnest possible instance of the PA is reached at which, the MOPECCA assumes, some sort of ‘bounce’ occurs.

Strings, filaments, tubes

The reason for speaking of “tubes” of PA is that, in order for each different PA to remain connected with every other instance/part of itself – which is a foundation of the MOPECCA – it is necessary that instances of the very smallest possible extent of each respective PA are only transient. A way to understand this is to note that such a region of the PA is effectively a boundary in every direction except where it is immediately connected with two neighbouring regions. It is as near to being a mathematical point as is possible for that PA. As such, if it cannot bounce into bigwards, it seems that disconnection must occur.

The thinking here is somewhat similar to, and much inspired by, that proposed by Gerard t’Hooft in his essay Time, the Arrow of Time, and Quantum Mechanics. In that paper he considers the fundamental nature of space-time to be analogous to the famous _Game of Life_ computer program of John Conway, but in 3D. I must admit that I was only transiently (grin) able to understand (at least some of) Gerard t’Hooft’s reasoning about strictly deterministic Planck level quantum life histories, and how this obviates the dire paradox of the so-called “delayed choice” version of quantum non-locality. Fortunately the MOPECCA is not beholden to non-locality as such because c is taken to be the topmost speed only of changes and disturbances of the vacuum. Another deep question I would put to Gerard t’Hooft is: Why should the whole universe apparently be subject to just one “clock”?

This question is relevant because the way the Game of Life works is that each update of the situation for each cell – which is based on the number of full or empty cells immediately adjacent to it – requires that a stored memory matrix containing the whole game ‘board’is sequencially analysed and the outcome for each cell is written into a second separate memory matrix. Only when the whole of the new matrix has been filled with cell outcomes can this new arrangement be displayed. Obviously that cannot be how the real world works! (One could argue that this necessity for the running of simulations is a decisive argument against”Matrix” (the movie) type conceptions of reality.)

Of course Gerard t’Hooft’s conjecture is not a simulation but involves an intrinsic universal oscillation of space-time on the scale of the Planck length for every pointlike volume of space-time such that Game of Life type rules of absolute existence determine what happens next at each location. Thus his conception relies on the fact that non-existence entails its own negation as does the MOPECCA. He however assumes that each such point oscillates between existence and potential non-existence with the actual outcome each time rigidly determined by the limited number of possible conformations adjacent to each point. From this he argues that regular structures and patterns of evolution will occur spontaneously in 3D/4D as happens in the 2D board of Game of Life. And that is a very neat idea!

Meanwhile, for the MOPECCA, it seems to imply that each smallest possible stable region of a PA must be adjacent to at least three others and maybe the minimum number is four or even higher than that. This is needed to ensure that any boundary region is adjacent to at least one completely “internal” region of the PA. How big such an internal region must be in order to balance the contraction of adjacent boundaries could potentially be another variable attribute of PA.

Surface tension versus expansion

The challenge for the MOPECCA is to minimise untestable assumptions. Because of this, further speculation about the internal nature of PA is not wise. It does seem however that if bigwards and smallwards are to be coherent concepts then the smallest dimension of a stable and enduring region of any PA would have to be the cross section of a tube where the diameter is at least three of four times the smallest possible manifestation of “smallwards” applicable to that PA.

One simple analogy for visualising how this works is the surface tension of water. Smallwards is a much more drastic attribute for a surface than the Van de Vals and other short range interactions of the electrons, etc in water molecules but the net effect must be similar. The extent to which this surface tension