Chronology - 2.25

back no further than the Big Bang. The reason is simple but unavoidable.

The Big Bang is not just responsible for what we call the universe. It is also responsible for all the rules that govern it. This creates a circular problem. How can we describe something with physics that existed before physics did? The inescapable answer is, we can’t. This isn’t up for debate. Physicists will all agree on this.

Now metaphysicists can at least guess as they are not constrained by physics. But how do they make an educated guess? One that has some level of truth that is self-evident. What can we base our musings on?

Noting the parallels between ourselves and the cosmos, Birnbaum reasons we can study humans themselves. This is exactly what he did. And he readily found what came before a human – their potential and the womb that caused them to become a reality.

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PUSH ( at cosmic origins )

Embryonic Quest for Potential (Q4P∞) at Cosmic Origins pushes-forth ...inexorably demanding its potential be realized

PULL (from the future)

Embryonic celestial potential eons down the road aches-for and seeks fulfillment, and incessantly beckons Q4P,...entreats Q4P to emerge - at long last - from the cosmic womb of Potential... at Eternal Origins

This constant push towards realization, as Birnbaum explains here, gives rise to an Embryonic Quest for Potential. Without the universe, it is hard to quantify Q4P, as there is nothing yet for it to act upon and push for Complexification. But like Potential itself, Q4P still exists in an embryonic state, just awaiting a place where it can begin its work. Inherent in this

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Embryonic Quest for Potential is its overwhelming demand to do… something: To be realized and start its unending journey towards a goal.

At the same time, this Embryonic Quest for Potential is experiencing a pull, from the future it is going to be. This is from, as mentioned, the pressure of the retrocausality of Potential. This ceaseless pull causes the budding Q4P to seek its fulfillment. This state builds for potentially eons, as time is no issue. Eventually though, the push and pull affecting this proto Q4P is simply too much.

Reaching this state, there is an inescapable critical mass which forces Potential to finally express itself. The push and pull is akin, as Birnbaum explains, much the same as the pains of labor humans experience. Where this endless struggle and unstoppable energy finally must create something.

At the Eternal origins, that something is the actuality of true Q4P. It eventually must emerge from the Cosmic Womb of Potential, which existed since the beginning of the Eternal Origins.

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