Abstract
A requirement of a ‘theory of everything’ could be that it should explain, in terms of cause and effect, how the universe is of a certain form as radiant energy, atoms and molecules of the elements and compounds of matter, the species of living organisms, the galaxies of stars and planetary systems, and groups, clusters and walls of galaxies around cosmic voids. Also, given that the universe has expanded over some 13.7 billion years from a very small and dense ‘Big Bang’ origin, the theory should account for how this expansion and its measured acceleration occurred, and how the universe evolved into its presently observed form.
An experimentally testable self-styled theory of everything that assumes just the action of the known forces, and that would include a unified account of the four fundamental interactions, has yet to be developed. While from the experimental evidence of quantum behaviour we find reasons to ask: to explain how matter can be and remain in all its various forms as atoms and molecules, would not a distinct additional cause need to be described in enough detail to explain quantum wave, spin and entanglement behaviour? And if so, could there not also be such a further cause, rather than dark matter, that would explain the rotation of galaxies and their spiral forms, as well as their collective behaviour on larger scales? Then also, might not problems of mind and consciousness be solved by considering that and how the experiencing subject could result from an invisible cause acting in addition to the forces? But, when considered alone, only by interpreting the quantum evidence in a certain way can a further distinct cause be thought to act universally; although as so interpreted, the quantum wave property could be regarded as behaviour of matter and energy that is of a certain universal form.
Here we find available evidence to suggest that a general theory can be developed of a cause that acts universally in addition to the known forces. This theoretical account requires consideration of radiant energy, atoms and molecules and their subatomic components, living organisms and much that has been discovered by astronomical observation and research. So that only by examining all this evidence together could details be found and sufficiently justified of the additional cause to definitely show both that and how it acts upon matter and energy. Like the four fundamental interactions, this cause would act invisibly and so could only be described from its effects. But here we justify and develop a quantum hypothesis that introduces means of describing and visually representing unique properties of a cause, and where it would act with no measurable strength and without surrounding object. Then we find reasons to consider that these causal properties apply universally to all the evidence examined.
