From the Block Universe and the Multiverse to the XYZ-Origin
: A New Ontology of Reality
By Sungchul Ji, Ph.D.
Theoretical Cell Biologist & Originator of the Geometry of Reality
Introduction
In contemporary physics and cosmology, two grand frameworks vie for explanatory supremacy: the Block Universe, rooted in the deterministic spacetime of relativity, and the Multiverse, born from quantum mechanics and cosmic inflation. While often treated as mutually exclusive, I propose a new view based on the Geometry of Reality (GOR): both are tokens of a common type, namely the XYZ-axis origin, the metaphysical point where all dimensions of existence converge.
This new ontological perspective not only dissolves the false dichotomy between these two cosmologies but also opens a pathway to unify physics, metaphysics, and semiotics under a single generative principle.
Block Universe and Multiverse: What’s the Difference?
While the Block Universe sees the cosmos as a frozen, eternal object, the Multiverse imagines a seething field of possibilities, each realized in its own causal domain.
From Tokens to Type: Introducing the XYZ-Origin
In the Geometry of Reality (GOR), Reality is represented as a triadic space defined by three orthogonal dimensions:
X-axis: Matter (Variation)
Y-axis: Mind (Selection)
Z-axis: Spirit (Environment / Potential)
The XYZ-origin, where these three axes meet, is the generative core of Reality—a point of absolute potentiality, from which all projections (actualities and possibilities) emerge. In this framework, we propose the following:
Type = The XYZ-origin of GOR
→ the Reality Generator, also conceptualized as IRVSE, the Shillongator [1], or the Gnergitonic Source.Token 1 = The Block Universe
→ a fixed projection of the XYZ-origin onto the X–Y plane, producing a deterministic 4D spacetime.Token 2 = The Multiverse
→ a family of projections from the XYZ-origin through different angular or modal slices, governed by variation in IRVSE mechanisms.
Peircean Semiotics and GOR Integration
This triadic mapping resonates with Charles Sanders Peirce’s semiotic categories:
This alignment suggests that both BU and MV are signs referring back to a deeper generative substrate, a metacosmic type embedded in the triadic origin of the universe.
Philosophical Implications
This framework has powerful implications:
Reconciliation: It reconciles two competing models—BU and MV—as complementary expressions of the same foundational reality.
Triadic Ontology: It reasserts the primacy of triadic structures in metaphysics, in contrast to the binary reductions of conventional science.
Unified Cosmogenesis: It places the ultimate source of all reality, not in any specific physical entity, but in a logical, geometric, and spiritual origin, the XYZ-origin.
Conclusion
The Block Universe and the Multiverse are not rivals. They are ontological siblings; tokens projected from a shared Type, the XYZ-origin of the Geometry of Reality. In this view, GOR is not just a metaphysical model—it is a new theology of emergence, a scientific cosmogram of how Reality knows itself.
If the Multiverse is the space of all possibilities, and the Block Universe is the crystallized actuality we inhabit, then the XYZ-origin is the cosmic womb from which both arise.
Reference:
[1] Ji, S. (1991). A Biological Model of the Universe: The Shillongator. In: Molecular Theories of Cell Life and Death (S. Ji, ed.), Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J. Pp. 152-163, 230-237.
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