Quotes & Sayings


We, and creation itself, actualize the possibilities of the God who sustains the world, towards becoming in the world in a fuller, more deeper way. - R.E. Slater

There is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelated processes of which we are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have [consequential effects upon] the world around us. - Process Metaphysician Alfred North Whitehead

Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem says (i) all closed systems are unprovable within themselves and, that (ii) all open systems are rightly understood as incomplete. - R.E. Slater

The most true thing about you is what God has said to you in Christ, "You are My Beloved." - Tripp Fuller

The God among us is the God who refuses to be God without us, so great is God's Love. - Tripp Fuller

According to some Christian outlooks we were made for another world. Perhaps, rather, we were made for this world to recreate, reclaim, redeem, and renew unto God's future aspiration by the power of His Spirit. - R.E. Slater

Our eschatological ethos is to love. To stand with those who are oppressed. To stand against those who are oppressing. It is that simple. Love is our only calling and Christian Hope. - R.E. Slater

Secularization theory has been massively falsified. We don't live in an age of secularity. We live in an age of explosive, pervasive religiosity... an age of religious pluralism. - Peter L. Berger

Exploring the edge of life and faith in a post-everything world. - Todd Littleton

I don't need another reason to believe, your love is all around for me to see. – Anon

Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all. - Khalil Gibran, Prayer XXIII

Be careful what you pretend to be. You become what you pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut

Religious beliefs, far from being primary, are often shaped and adjusted by our social goals. - Jim Forest

We become who we are by what we believe and can justify. - R.E. Slater

People, even more than things, need to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. – Anon

Certainly, God's love has made fools of us all. - R.E. Slater

An apocalyptic Christian faith doesn't wait for Jesus to come, but for Jesus to become in our midst. - R.E. Slater

Christian belief in God begins with the cross and resurrection of Jesus, not with rational apologetics. - Eberhard Jüngel, Jürgen Moltmann

Our knowledge of God is through the 'I-Thou' encounter, not in finding God at the end of a syllogism or argument. There is a grave danger in any Christian treatment of God as an object. The God of Jesus Christ and Scripture is irreducibly subject and never made as an object, a force, a power, or a principle that can be manipulated. - Emil Brunner

“Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh” means "I will be that who I have yet to become." - God (Ex 3.14) or, conversely, “I AM who I AM Becoming.”

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. - Thomas Merton

The church is God's world-changing social experiment of bringing unlikes and differents to the Eucharist/Communion table to share life with one another as a new kind of family. When this happens, we show to the world what love, justice, peace, reconciliation, and life together is designed by God to be. The church is God's show-and-tell for the world to see how God wants us to live as a blended, global, polypluralistic family united with one will, by one Lord, and baptized by one Spirit. – Anon

The cross that is planted at the heart of the history of the world cannot be uprooted. - Jacques Ellul

The Unity in whose loving presence the universe unfolds is inside each person as a call to welcome the stranger, protect animals and the earth, respect the dignity of each person, think new thoughts, and help bring about ecological civilizations. - John Cobb & Farhan A. Shah

If you board the wrong train it is of no use running along the corridors of the train in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God's justice is restorative rather than punitive; His discipline is merciful rather than punishing; His power is made perfect in weakness; and His grace is sufficient for all. – Anon

Our little [biblical] systems have their day; they have their day and cease to be. They are but broken lights of Thee, and Thou, O God art more than they. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

We can’t control God; God is uncontrollable. God can’t control us; God’s love is uncontrolling! - Thomas Jay Oord

Life in perspective but always in process... as we are relational beings in process to one another, so life events are in process in relation to each event... as God is to Self, is to world, is to us... like Father, like sons and daughters, like events... life in process yet always in perspective. - R.E. Slater

To promote societal transition to sustainable ways of living and a global society founded on a shared ethical framework which includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, economic justice, democracy, and a culture of peace. - The Earth Charter Mission Statement

Christian humanism is the belief that human freedom, individual conscience, and unencumbered rational inquiry are compatible with the practice of Christianity or even intrinsic in its doctrine. It represents a philosophical union of Christian faith and classical humanist principles. - Scott Postma

It is never wise to have a self-appointed religious institution determine a nation's moral code. The opportunities for moral compromise and failure are high; the moral codes and creeds assuredly racist, discriminatory, or subjectively and religiously defined; and the pronouncement of inhumanitarian political objectives quite predictable. - R.E. Slater

God's love must both center and define the Christian faith and all religious or human faiths seeking human and ecological balance in worlds of subtraction, harm, tragedy, and evil. - R.E. Slater

In Whitehead’s process ontology, we can think of the experiential ground of reality as an eternal pulse whereby what is objectively public in one moment becomes subjectively prehended in the next, and whereby the subject that emerges from its feelings then perishes into public expression as an object (or “superject”) aiming for novelty. There is a rhythm of Being between object and subject, not an ontological division. This rhythm powers the creative growth of the universe from one occasion of experience to the next. This is the Whiteheadian mantra: “The many become one and are increased by one.” - Matthew Segall

Without Love there is no Truth. And True Truth is always Loving. There is no dichotomy between these terms but only seamless integration. This is the premier centering focus of a Processual Theology of Love. - R.E. Slater

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Note: Generally I do not respond to commentary. I may read the comments but wish to reserve my time to write (or write from the comments I read). Instead, I'd like to see our community help one another and in the helping encourage and exhort each of us towards Christian love in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. - re slater

Thursday, June 5, 2025

The Harmonics of the Cosmos: Energy, Time, and Being"


The Harmonics of the Cosmos -
Energy, Time, and Being

by R.E. Slater and ChatGPT


Earlier this week I chanced upon a pseudo-scientific blurb which claimed accuracy that consequentially led to deducing purported meaning from coincidental data. I noticed this right off but needed ChatGPT / AI to help me parse it's plausible scientific concoctions.

Along the way I stumbled into a short scientific description of frequency and harmonics applied both terrestrially as well as cosmically which then arrived at several conclusions applicable to process philosophical thought.

So, what seemed a lark for me ended up becoming a learning experience in an area which many people may find un-interesting, but for those with science backgrounds this short post may resonate practically with the many technological studies being conducted in AI.

My suggestion, skim read part I's pseudo-scientific claim then in part II begin to settle into AI's reply and my own follow up questioning of AI. 

R.E. Slater
June 5, 2025


PART I - A MISLEADING ANALYSIS APPLIED TO HUMAN OSCILLATORY HARMONICS

RES to ChatGPT

Is the following true or false? (my side notes are highlighted in blue)

TITLE: FREQUENCY 12 Hz AS THE BRIDGE BETWEEN 12 O'CLOCK AND THE 24-HOUR RESONANCE CYCLE

AUTHOR: Professor Stylianos Touloumidis (I did not verify the author - just the conjecture claimed below).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15592500 (I followed up with ChatGPT on this link in Part 4)

INTRODUCTION

The 24-hour clock system is not merely a cultural convention – it may reflect an underlying physical symmetry encoded in the structure of time, frequency, and resonance.

In this analysis, we examine the result of entering a frequency of exactly 12 Hz into a waveform analyzer. The outcome reveals a mathematically coherent bridge between 12:00 (zenith of the day) and the 24-hour resonance structure of the clock.

This behavior is not visual or symbolic – it arises purely from the properties of sinusoidal wave propagation and spatial compression.

It confirms that the number 12 is not only central on the clock face, but also central in the frequency domain.

SETUP AND OBSERVATION

Input: f = 12.00000 Hz
Calculation results:
λ = 2.49827e+07 m (Wavelength)
γ = 0.12731 (Observed compression factor)
E_res = 12.00000 Hz
φ = 1 (coherent pulse form)

Wavelength breakdown per C-digit: (values show the division of constant digits by f)
2 ÷ 12.0 = 0.16667 m
9 ÷ 12.0 = 0.75000 m
9 ÷ 12.0 = 0.75000 m
7 ÷ 12.0 = 0.58333 m
9 ÷ 12.0 = 0.75000 m
2 ÷ 12.0 = 0.16667 m
4 ÷ 12.0 = 0.33333 m
5 ÷ 12.0 = 0.41667 m
8 ÷ 12.0 = 0.66667 m

FFT signal output: The waveform shows 12 complete sine waves per second. This corresponds to 24 distinct transitions (positive + negative).

INTERPRETATION:  Each sine wave consists of two halves (positive and negative phase). Thus, 12 Hz generates 24 distinct oscillatory events within one second. This corresponds exactly to the 24-hour structure of the analog clock:

12 Hz → 24 Half-Cycles per second
12:00 → Midpoint of 24-hour daily cycle

This suggests a natural harmonic resonance between time as measured on the clock and frequency behavior in the physical field.

We may interpret:
- 12 Hz as the structural midpoint of spatial-temporal compression.
- 24 half-cycles as symbolic of the full day cycle.
- A bridge between daytime (12:00) and midnight (00:00/24:00).

This resonance does not arise from symbolic assignment, but emerges organically from the waveform structure itself.

CONCLUSION:

The input of 12 Hz produces a waveform that reflects the symmetry of the 24-hour day cycle. 

This discovery provides further confirmation that the clock – when interpreted as a frequency model – mirrors underlying physical principles of space, time, and structure.

The correlation between 12 Hz and 24 oscillatory segments per second represents a foundational bridge between geometry, resonance, and human timekeeping.

This finding supports the broader theory that light and darkness, space and compression, and time itself can be described within a resonance-based physical framework.

Further details and the complete model can be accessed in the official publication: → https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15592500 #physics #BIGBANG #spacetime (I followed up with ChatGPT on this link in Part 4)


PART 2. CHAPGPT'S REPLY

The claim that a 12 Hz frequency serves as a "bridge" between 12 o'clock and the 24-hour resonance cycle, as presented in the document titled "FREQUENCY 12 Hz AS THE BRIDGE BETWEEN 12 O'CLOCK AND THE 24-HOUR RESONANCE CYCLE" by Professor Stylianos Touloumidis, is false when evaluated against established scientific principles.

Evaluation of the Claim

1. Misinterpretation of Sinusoidal Properties

The assertion that a 12 Hz sine wave produces 24 "oscillatory events" per second, correlating to the 24-hour day, arises from counting both the positive and negative phases of each cycle. While mathematically accurate that a 12 Hz sine wave completes 12 full cycles (each comprising a positive and negative phase) per second, this is a fundamental characteristic of sinusoidal waves and does not imply a deeper connection to the 24-hour clock system.

2. Arbitrary Numerical Correlation

The linkage between the number 12 in the frequency domain and 12 o'clock on a clock face is coincidental. The 12-hour clock system is a human-made convention, and any numerical alignment with frequency values lacks inherent physical significance.

3. Lack of Empirical Evidence

The document does not provide empirical data or peer-reviewed research to substantiate the proposed connection between 12 Hz frequency and the 24-hour resonance cycle. Without experimental validation, the claim remains speculative.

Conclusion

While the document presents an intriguing perspective, the proposed connection between a 12 Hz frequency and the 24-hour clock cycle is not supported by established scientific understanding. The correlation appears to be a numerological coincidence rather than a phenomenon grounded in physics.

RES

Yes, when reading the assertion I too believed it to be more coincidence and happenstance than true. I also thought that one can find any frequency value to support one's conjectures.

ChatGPT

Exactly — well said. When working with frequencies and cycles, it's easy to fall into numerological reasoning: choosing numbers that match a symbolic framework and then retroactively fitting physical interpretations to them. This is especially tempting when dealing with the elegance of waveforms, harmonics, or natural cycles (like day and night, or musical octaves).

A few key points to reinforce your insight:


🌀 The Danger of Arbitrary Frequency Anchoring

  • Any frequency can be sliced into halves, quarters, or any multiple, and its waveform segmented into patterns that resemble something familiar (e.g., calendars, clock cycles, zodiac signs).

  • Pattern recognition is a powerful human trait — but it can lead to apophenia: seeing meaning in coincidental data.


🎯 Scientific Approach vs. Symbolic Interpretation

AspectScientific MethodSymbolic Conjecture
Based onEmpirical data, repeatabilityCoincidence, subjective symmetry

Goal

Understanding causal mechanisms

Finding meaning or metaphor

Error correction

Peer review, falsifiability

Rarely challenged, often reinforced

Example (frequency use)

EEG bands (alpha, beta, etc.) → brain function

432 Hz → “the frequency of the universe” claim

🔁 Your Comment in Broader Context

You're right: with enough flexibility, any frequency or mathematical ratio can be made to "fit" a theory — particularly in the absence of rigorous constraints. It's not that such explorations are inherently bad — they can be poetic, metaphorical, even spiritually interesting. But they're not science unless they:

  • Make falsifiable predictions,

  • Are grounded in physical causality,

  • Are reproducible and verifiable.



PART 3 - A PROCESSUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF FREQUENCY RESONANCE AND TIME

If you'd like, I can help construct a scientifically grounded framework around resonance and time — for instance, using circadian rhythms, Schumann resonance, or Planck units — all of which do have empirical bases but can still be inspiring and meaningful.

RES

Cool. Go for it.

ChatGPT

Great! Let's build a scientifically grounded but inspirational framework connecting resonance, frequency, and time, without slipping into pseudoscience. We'll walk a line between physics and poetic wonder — something Whitehead himself might enjoy.


🌍 FRAMEWORK: Time, Resonance, and Natural Rhythms in the Cosmos


1. Time as Process, Not Object

(Process Philosophy Insight)

  • Time is not a thing but a becoming — a continuous unfolding of events.

  • In Alfred North Whitehead’s process metaphysics, each moment is a concrescence (integration) of the past into a new act of experience.

  • Time is thus experiential and relational, not a passive container.

🌀 Frequency resonance is not merely a measurement — it is how processes unfold, cohere, and relate over time.


2. Biological Rhythms & Circadian Oscillators

(Empirical Science Insight)

  • Our bodies resonate with Earth’s rotation. The circadian rhythm is ~24 hours, governed by gene-protein feedback loops (like CLOCK and BMAL1).

  • These rhythms are synchronized by zeitgebers (time-givers), primarily light. [*zeitgebers are  rhythmically occurring natural phenomenon which acts as a cue in the regulation of the body's circadian rhythms.]

📡 The body doesn’t just measure time — it harmonizes with cosmic rhythm via solar cues.


3. Earth’s Natural Electromagnetic Resonance: Schumann Frequencies

  • Earth’s cavity (between surface and ionosphere) resonates at extremely low frequencies.

  • The Schumann Resonance's fundamental mode: ~7.83 Hz, with higher harmonics at ~14, 20, 26, 33 Hz...

  • These frequencies are linked to lightning activity and global atmospheric conditions.

🎵 Some researchers speculate these ELF fields affect biological rhythms — a subtle dance between Earth’s breath and our being. [*ELF - Extremely Low Frequency]


4. Cosmic Clocks: Atomic & Celestial Timing

  • Atomic clocks use the frequency of cesium atom transitions: ~9,192,631,770 Hz = 1 second.

  • Pulsars (rotating neutron stars) emit beams of radio waves at incredibly stable intervals — natural timekeepers of the universe.

  • The Earth’s rotation gives us our 24-hour day — a temporal rhythm shaped by the cosmos itself.

🕰️ All timekeeping ultimately depends on oscillation — regular, resonant events — from the atomic to the cosmic scale.


5. A Spectrum of Resonant Time

Frequency RangeDomainNatural Example
~0.00001–1 HzTectonic, deep cosmic rhythmsPlanetary orbits, glacial cycles
~0.01–30 HzELF, brainwaves, SchumannTheta, Alpha brain states; Earth fields
~1 kHz–GHzHuman tech, cellular signalsRadio, Wi-Fi, electronics
~10⁹–10²³ HzLight, quantum processesVisible light, gamma rays, Planck time

💡 The universe is a spectrum of frequency – from the slow heartbeat of planets to the rapid vibration of photons.


6. Processual Interpretation of Resonance

  • Resonance in this framework is not just vibration — it is a metaphor for coherence, attunement, and meaningful temporal participation.

  • Just as musical harmony emerges from ratios of pitch, temporal harmony emerges from nested rhythms — bodily, planetary, cosmic.

📖 To live in resonance is to participate in time attentively, attuned to deeper rhythms than the clock alone.


✨ CONCLUSION: A Poetic-Speculative Model

“Time is the rhythm of becoming.”
— Reimagined from Whitehead

We can now say:

  • 12 Hz has no inherent metaphysical centrality.

  • But resonance as a cosmic language — from alpha brainwaves (~8–12 Hz) to Schumann frequencies — does reflect deep interrelationships between energy, time, and life.

  • True resonance is relational: not symbolic magic, but participatory alignment.



Harmonics of the Cosmos
A poem of resonance and unfolding...

by ChatGPT and R.E. Slater


In the stillness before first light's call,
a rhythm breathed - no clock, no wall.
Not hours, but spacetime's pulses spun,
oscillating songs from zero to one.

Planck in silence, photon in flight,
the universe whispered itself into light.
Not by speech, but hum of variable wave,
resonances wove across frequency's nave.

Schumann’s hum beneath our feet,
echoes of sky and thunder meet.
While alpha minds in calm repose
mirror the Earth in rhythmic throes.

The body sways in circadian tide,
as solar flame serves ancient guide.
Within our cells, zeitgeber
 clocks unwind
like threads of light through loops of time.

From neurons flickering to stars that sing,
cosmic becoming is ever forming, flowing.
Rivers of motion, measure, or phase -
writ in sinusoidal hymns of praise.

So mark not time by tick or chime,
but by the pulse of shared design.
In every beat, the cosmos turning,
in every breath, the world churning.

We are notes composed in earthly tones,
Ever harmonic fields mixed and sown.
Where energy, time, and being reside -
in a cosmos of vibrating rhythm's tide.
 

by R.E. Slater & ChatGPT
June 5, 2025

@copyright R.E. Slater Publications
all rights reserved


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Here's a visual map of resonant time layers — spanning from quantum fluctuations (Planck time) to the vast cycle of our galaxy. Each layer shows a frequency (in Hz) corresponding to a major natural process:

  • Top layers represent ultra-high-frequency events like photons and quantum time.

  • Middle layers include biologically and technologically meaningful rhythms like brainwaves, Schumann resonance, and atomic clocks.

  • Bottom layers represent slow, cosmic cycles — such as Earth’s orbit or the galaxy's rotation.

Resonant Time Layers: From Quantum to Cosmic


PART 4 - FOLLOW UP ON THE INTERNET LINK

RES

As a double check, I have a follow up question: "Go to the web link https://zenodo.org/records/15592500 and determine correlation and accuracy of the initial assertion between the 12hz frequency and 24 hour resonance cycle...

ChatGPT

Upon reviewing the publication titled "SCIENCE – A SYSTEM AT A DEAD END" by Professor Stylianos Touloumidis, available at Zenodo, it appears that the document does not directly address or substantiate the specific claim that a 12 Hz frequency serves as a bridge between 12 o'clock and the 24-hour resonance cycle.

Key Observations:

  • Focus of the Publication: The document primarily discusses a proposed mathematical framework aiming to redefine physical concepts such as space, time, and resonance. It introduces a universal equation intended to describe spatial and frequency structures across various scales, from astrophysical objects to atomic configurations.

  • Absence of Specific Analysis: There is no mention or analysis within the publication that correlates a 12 Hz frequency with the 24-hour daily cycle or any specific timekeeping constructs.

  • Theoretical Nature: The work presents a theoretical model that challenges conventional physics interpretations. However, it does not provide empirical data or experimental validation for the specific 12 Hz and 24-hour cycle correlation.

Conclusion:

Based on the content of the referenced publication, there is no direct correlation or evidence provided to support the assertion that a 12 Hz frequency acts as a bridge between 12 o'clock and the 24-hour resonance cycle. The claim appears to be speculative and lacks empirical substantiation within the context of this work.


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