This note is an attempt to try our hand at comparing some of the characteristic differences between mainstream religions, especially the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), and our Dual Cosmic Singularity (DCS), which we do not consider to be a religion, but a fictional science driven theology.
To begin with, we note that the disciples of the three religions we mentioned above are ‘waiting.’ They are waiting for the world as we know it to end, and God provide and execute his judgement on each and everyone of us humans that ever lived on Earth. But before that, or simultaneously, they are waiting for someone whose arrival brings the judgement day and the end of our world: the Messiah, or the second coming of Jesus, or the Mahdi for Sunni Muslims and the twelfth Imam for the Shiite muslims. Furthermore, salvation and happiness are on a future afterlife credit card; but you must work hard and listen to what God’s intermediaries tell you.
With DCS, however, we are not waiting. We do not expect anyone to come back unless he/she is a time-traveler. With the help of pataphysics and fictional science we seek answers. Occasionally, we also include some real science, but that is only to give some spice and aroma to the taste of things.
But is it true that Cosmic Singulartarians (disciples of the DCS) are not waiting for someone or something in the future? We are not sure if the answer is as clear-cut as we would like it to be, but we will try to answer the question. Or at least to move the issue forward.
Big Bang singularity experts have been debating the end of the universe as we can imagine, based on our current understanding of its workings. Would it hit a limit in expansion and just like a pendulum, swing back to return to pre-singularity? This is a scenario called the Big Crunch.
Or will it keep expanding until the universe becomes a dark, inanimate, and cold place? There are two versions of such an outcome, called Big Rip and Big Freeze. Our current article, however, is not destined to detail these scenarios, but we just mentioned them to set the stage for our investigation into whether the cosmic singulartarians are waiting for someone or something.
It has not escaped the reader that the discussion about the fate of the cosmos is covered by discussions about the first of the dual cosmic singularities, Big Bang. Furthermore, as we postulated in one of our earlier articles (Beyond the Dark Web, with Dark Energy - March 10, 2023), in the realm of fictional science, the start of the acceleration of universe’s expansion would imply an increase in dark energy and it happened roughly (on cosmic time scale) at the same time as the creation of earth. Furthermore, life on earth started early in the planet’s birth which will also make it close to the era of the acceleration of the universe and the apparent increase in dark energy. That is why in dual cosmic singularity we postulate that the discovery of the origins and nature of dark energy will solve the enigma about our second singularity, Life. That is, as long as we do not find out that dark energy is just a hoax for something else.
Once we integrate these elements, we realize that the cosmos’ remaining life, even the shortest estimated one of 30 billions years, does not give us anything to wait for in the near future. Even if we focus more specifically on earth, we discover that barring asteroids, comets, and humans, nothing can destroy life on earth until one billion years from now, when the sun’s demise starts with an outward wind of fire that will encompass earth and will thus end human life on it.
In addition, cosmic singulartarians do not bet it all on afterlife credit benefits and would appreciate receiving some of those earthly benefits during their lifetime here. They will thus engage regularly in various stimulations of their senses and intellect, through arts, litterature and philosophy.
Consequently, the disciples of DCS are not waiting for anyone to return or anything to happen in their lifetimes, and would seek to enjoy some of the afterlife benefits during their lives. This way, they will be able to practice regularly their singulartarian skills that form the basis of our beliefs, that is, « use a heightened vision of poetry, love or science to live any imaginary solution as real and the non-realness of the phenomenon will become irrelevant. »
In a more poetic form we could say that ‘providing imaginary solutions that could be lived as real’ changes its nature pending which type is used : heightened vision of science gives simulation ; heightened vision of love becomes romanticism, and finally a heightened vision of poetry becomes mysticism.
We have thus shown that pataphysics, which is a science beyond metaphysics, has potentially a cosmic connection to mysticism and romanticism.
January 24, 2025, Cambridge,
Berta Seintan, PhD & Charlene Wardin, PhD